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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-21
Ponplna Corn.

Washington Post: When the depart
ment Of agriculture advocates popcorn
as national food, with a view Incl
dentally to lowering the high cost of
living, it makes move to take out OF
its place among the arts an edible
whose function as mere filler can
never atone for the loss which the
change will occasion.
True, popcorn is filling, If not alto
gether satisfying. Have we not all reat
I in our youthdom, of the savage red
skin, who rode for days across the
plains, with nothing but his bag OF
parched corn for substance? Even
then, however, pop corn still maintain
ed its place in the realms OF romance
gliding adventure, and lending to Dor
der strife an added interest.
However, the chosen habitat of pol
corn is admist rural surroundings
where curls the smoke of peace and
plenty. Like quitting bees and corr
shocking and barn raising, popping corr
belongs to departed period. Imagine
any one attempting the feat over ga
| log, The very thought brings the
| laughter of merited scorn, followed by
gulp at the remembrance of better
days.
! OF the old time pleasures. popping
corn alone was not gregariously pur
sued. 1t took two to pop, the duet be-
ing made UP OF both sexes in equal pro-
portions The little wire basket was
filled with the flinty grains, held over
the glowing Goals of the big wood fire
by one hand, while the other shaded a
| fair cheek, which colored gloriously
Under the wooing of an ardent flame
and for other reasons possibly attrihut
ed to the presence of the ardent swain
who helped hold the handle. But those
We're Goals In which could be seen
ships sailing to strange lands. and
many castles in Spain. And when the
corn was popped the two ate musing-
lily, talking of many things Of trans.
cendant interest to them, and then for
getting to eat
| The agricultural department may be
right. Pop corn may solve the food
problem. We don't know. But it didn't
| then. On the contrary it led by insen-
sibly though delectable graduations
from counting to love, and from love to
marriage, and then, OF course, there
were more little mouths to feed than
ever before There was a lure about
1t more irresistible than baseball.
more fatal than the governorship OF
New York Fit could be brought back
psychological students wouldn't have to
! fret about the 100000 young mar.
riageable folks in the United States
that are not married. Maybe that is
what Secretary Houston has in mind.
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SUFFER-.

Sulzer was Democrat and lead
ing Democrat In congress. He was
chairman of q committee which prac.
tically controls our foreign relations.
Rejecting uron this fact. the Mar
shalltown Times Republican is moved
to say:
Still, this man who kept no records,
who had no business except politics
In the CHEAPEST sense the term .'pol-
iticss is used, who had neither busi.
ness training nor understanding and
lacked even the quasi honesty Of the
professional politician to "be on the
square with his own friends" held one
Of the most inlrortant committee
chairmanships and was leader in his
rarity. Incidents like that in which
Sulzer has been involved are not re,
assuring as to government by poll
ticians and not by statesmen. An af
fable man may be both an incompetent
and crook. And on the other hand
the man whose popularity seems to be
his slightest care may be an honest
and useful person in Office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-21
a SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

alcohol. crime. disease, degenera
ton" This is the headline of an in
vitation recently issued in Vienna for
a meeting at which 1t was propos en
to form societies IN. all parts of the
empire for the education of the peo-
pie as to the moral and physical
havoc caused by the use of alcoholic
drink One of the results of the
meeting is an alcohol "educa tiona1 ex-
hihition." The statistical charts
which show the connection of crime
and disease with alcohol will be plac-
ed in schools, factories, railway sta
items. public buildings and churches.
THE movement is certainly a goon
one says Berlin letter, and the
most remarkable thing about it is
that It should origirate in the gay
Kaiserstadt, where a similar step a
few Years ago would have been ridf-
culed out of existence"
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Populism Revived.

Buffalo News: Senator Aldrich at
lacks the currency bill pending in
congress on the just ground that it
embodies the theories OF MIR. Bryan.
Every student Of the measure agrees
that it has some excellent points, but
the banking and business world pro-
tests against 1t because of the strong
ly socialistic features which it has and
Iecause it is essentially an imitation
measure
Mr.. Aldrich declares. with truth,
that Mr.. Bryan has been able to get
into the bill the principle that he has
advocated for the last twenty years.
President Wilson can be quoted over
and over again against the underlying
plan of the Glass BILL but Mr.. Bryan
can be quoted from the beginning of
his public life in favor of just such
revolutionary scheme as the bill In
wolves.
that Mr.. Bryan has apparently cap
tured President Wilson Some might
be uneenerous enough to infer that
since he was once made President by
Mr.. BRYAN he can be made President
again by the same party leader, and
that it Is good policy to follow Mr..
Eryan's trail. even though the Balti.
more platform OF last year expressly
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Myra and MISS Inez no.c. arrived
Thursday from Des Moines for vs.
it with their aunt, Mrs. VIM Goodin.
Albert Ftchtenmue'le of San Fran
cisco, who has been visiting his moth
er and brother for the past two weeks
returned home Monday.
Ad Bowers and family Of Wau-
komas, Okla, were recent guests OF
Mrs Bowers mother, Mrs. Adj Foe
grave.
Mrs. G. p Franks, Mrs. H. H. Turn
er and Mrs. j. P. Brady are attending
the O. e. S. convention in session at
Council Bluffs.
]. F. Breitepstein of Burlington was
recent Pennington visitor.
B. F. Ketcham aid wife, g. L Nesk,.
and wife, Mrs. Myra Hasler. Mrs. l..
l.. Bickmole. Miss June Chrl..y, Miss
Inez Goodin Il Miss Helen * t,haIn
were among ti,cse who saw "isTery
Woman" at ut. Madison ON --hurs tssy
evening
Mrs. F. c. Knapp has gore TO Watrr.
loo to attend the Iowa Baptl.I. state
convention.
Miss Else Pv,Lstein ana Mr.. Pay
Bryson were married Sunday even
ing at the VI. f. parsonage by Iev.
IT. K. Holiday. This happy young
couple expect to make their home IN
Ottumwa where Mr.. Bryscn has en-
ployment.
Mrs. Chas. Won seggen has gone to
Lone Pine, Mont. for visit with her
son w. W. Won Seggen and family
Mrs. S. A. Sage of Eugene, Ore,
was recent guest Of Mrs. May
Knapp.
Mrs. Mabel Bennett and children OF
Iacon, H., are visiting her parents
I. R. Strope and wife.
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MORE SINGING NEEDED.

One night at Rochester. n. y, DR..
Samuel Crothers, who breaches across
the road from Harvard and writes the
best essays now coming from an
American pen, listened for thirty min
Iutes while 200 folks in social cen
ter-Jew and Gentle. master and
slave, but for that occasion all FREQ
and equal-poured out their souls in
songs of democracy. Then he said:
do you realize what you have
done? You have found substitute
for war. We peace fellows have had
all the arguments but one; and that
enc has been unanswerable The mill
tary fellows say It takes a war to
make people really feel together, to
know common interest, to own a
common country. And how do they
prove It? They tell US that from 81
to '65 we were singing nation, and
that's true Those were the days when
we learned Marching Through Georgia
--Tenting Toniaht-Mine Eyes Have
Seen the Glory-Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp When Johnny Comes March
ing Home.
81 was boy in those days and
never expected to hear such singing
again. But / have heard it here to-
night You sang in that spirit What
does It mean 1t means that, down
underneath, you have been gripped by
that same, throbbing common reality:
-
You know a common interest. YOU
own common country. You've found
what the military fellows say We can't
get without fighting. You've spoiled
the only argument for war.
THE spiritual vibration which
comes from fellowship on a leye
can't be Understood until it is felt. II
is the best thing in every enterprise
in which men and women engage ii
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pledged the party to single term for
a President. "A little thing like that
will apparently have no more influ-
ence with Mr. Wilson than 1t has had
with man who was formerly the
most distinguished Republican in the
country.
The objection stated by Mr. Aldrich,
and one that has been raised by the
bankers great and small in all parts
CT the republic. is that the government
would make currency out of mere
promises to pay And 1t is equally
true that while protesting with all his
might against the idea Of a central
bank, the author Of the bill, and the
principal advocate of it also, submit
q plan which creates In fact the very
thing which they denounce in prin-
clple.
Certainly nothing is more populistic
than to issue currency in the form OF
promises to pay. which is expressly
the idea that the populists advocated
before Mr.. Bryan became a con-
spicuous Democrat, bringing with him
a bundle Of populistic notions most
of which have been long since ex-
rloded and nearly all Of them rejected
repeatedly by the people.
Here. however. is a flank attack and
!. is sought to gain by strategy and
under false claim what the people
have uniformly refused to accept when
they knew precisely what 1t was.
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APpI = nav

Today is the national apple day
It is the ninth anniversary Of the event
haugurated by the International APP
Ile Shippers Association. On national
apple day it is supposed that every
person should eat at least three ap-
pies.
The value Of the apple crop OF the
United States is great In single sec
tons as high as s7.5oO,oo0 will be paid
into the hands of producers. For the
whole United States the value of the
total crop is probably not far short of
s1o0,000,0oO.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-21
October 81, 1918
THANkFULNESS.

Keep little time for lovin,' keep a
little time to do
Little kindnesses that sort of keep the
old world runnin' true;
Keep little time for dancin', helps
the old world rock along;
Keep little time for restin' with
your baby at your breast;
For Gods best gifts is the babies. and
the next best gift is rest.
Keep a little time for bein' thankful
for the things you've got,
For the sun that helped the haydn In
the big old medder lot,
For the clouds that let the rain down
for to make the blossoms grow,
For the trees that made shadder
when the days was all aglow,
For the blossoms noddin' to you when
the wind was in the south,
For the babies tippytoein in for to kiss
you on the mouth
II you can, keep time fer dozin' in the
middle afternoon,
When the honeybees are boomin' off
across the fields O. June;
Time to do a little readin' in the latest
magazine,
Settin' on the porch an lookin time to
time across the green
or the meadows to the distance where
the cool cloud shadows fly,
An where you'll be out a-romping with
Tho ohi1drpr nv ny
But for thankfulness-you ought to
keep lot o. time for that!
If you've got to, leave the dozin' in the
shadow to the cat
An take that time to be thankful, for
your loves an laughs an
friends,
For the rain an clouds an sunshine
that the Lord in heaven sends,
For the little bits O babies buildin
blocks upon the floor,
Till you're just so doggone thankful
that you can't hold any more!
Judd Mortimer Lewis.
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There is great rejoicing in England
over the signing of the tariff It'll
When foreign nations are plsasec
with our tariff legislation it Is time
for American citizens to put on their
thinking caps.
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The traditional bull in china shop
Isn't a circumstance to the woman
with grievance who, on her own mo
ton, butts in in a contest between
Democrats who are contending for q
place at the pie counter.
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Gross railroad earnings showed a
gain OF "a per cent for the first week
in October as compared with the
earnings OF the same roaos for he
corresponding week a ysar ago, AMI
an increase of ga per sent as con.
trastsi with thu first week Il Octooer
1911.
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Two musicians for Polish dance
at Benton, H., were murdered after
the dance, and the police can't find out
why. 1t might lead to something If
they would inquire into the quality or
the music that was furnished.
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The gross operating revenue OF Am
erican railroads for the fiscal year
ending June 80. last, according to the
bureau Of Railway News and Stats.
tics Of Chicago amounte to So, III, 445,-
0oo. an increase OF approximately
s295ioOo,ooO, or 10 per. cent, as com
pared with the preceding year The
figures also show that the total
trackage has increased from 327O75
miles to about $4,000 miles, raa e.
sentins an expenditure of nearly 50
0oo,o00,o00 and calling for an ado
ticnal annual interest pawn mt o
s10o,o0o.Qoo. This partially accounts
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FARMINGToN.
. . . . . . . . = . = . =

The home recently owned by T. S.
Robson on the hill east OF town was
burned to the ground this noon. The
fire was caused by a defective flue.
Owing to the strong W nd the fire vas
beyond control when discovered Most
of the household goods W re saved
Mrs w II. Knott left Thursday for
visit with relatiyes at La Harpe.
Kansas.
Miss Anna Masmar and niece Edua
Nay visited over Sunday with ,.ay
Masniar at FIT. Mai,s5t.
Mrs. NJ. p. Collins aaa tagsl,ter
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Democratic newspapers are busy
telling what must not be expected
from the new tariff law. If their Ut
terances are any criterion ito Writ es
will be chiefly negative ones.
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Governor sulzer Will go down in his.
tory as one of the few men who were
punished not so much for doing
wrong, which he did, undoubtedly, as
for trying to do right. That was Tam.
many's real grievance against him.
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A Marvellous Escape.

MY little boy had marvellous es.
cape writes P. F. Bastiams OF prince
Albert, Cape OF Good Hope. at oc.
CURED In the middle of the night. He
got q very severe attack of Group. AS
luck would have 1t, had large
Itottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem.
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Nixon Waterman lays 1t down as
outside the realm of doUb. that the
"ultimate consumer" would if he
could, be glad to amend the currency
bill so as to make a dollar 20 further
and return with more than It does at
present.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-21

A contemporary comedies that the
world may be growing better but +.
insists that there are too many 3-cent
men riding around n $4,000 autos.
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for the fact that net income has not
expanded in the same ratio as the
gross revenue, the gain in net amount
ing to 100000
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
We can never see the sun rise
looking into the west Selected.
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The Teacher.

The Teacher.
All that is patient, true and wise,
All that is courteous, apt and good;
Daily, however dark the skies,
Watching with care her little brood
In some great classroom of the town
At a green crossroads far away,
Earning by patient worth the crown
OF conquest in the bloodless fray.
Real citizen OF these her times,
Friend Of the parent as the child,
Teaching the antidote of crimes
In ancient lessons indebted.
As splendid in her worth, indeed,
AS those with more resplendent
place
And filling day by day need
With all sufficient gifts of grace.
All hail her, where she takes her
throne
In the great city, or is found
In waysides quiet Of her own,
Still faithful to the daily round
Baltimore Sun.
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edy in the house. After following tn,
directions for an hour and twenty
minutes he was through all danger
Sold by all Dealers Advertisement

Average life Of Dog
The average life Of dog Is from
ten to twelve cars.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
SIX CHILDREN COMMITTED TO
 COUNTY HOME

Six little tots of tender years were made state charges by Judge HaI1en in the Probate court this morning af- ter it had been shown that they were both neglected and dependent
 Three children of Joseph and Julia Jacobs, Julia, aged II, J ohm, aged 10, and Peter, aged 4, were first before the court The children have been living at Lakeview home for some time because their parents have not taken care of them. The father, Jo- seph Jacobs has been arrested several times for non-support and the mother although a hard working woman is unable to earn enough to support her self and her children M. Horwftz, a West End druggist, has agreed to care for the eldest girl, Julia. The other children were taken to the County Home by Charities Investigator Nor rissey.
 Three other children before the court were Stephen, aged 10, Wilma, aged 8, and zo1a, aged 6, children of Louis and Helen Pelikan- The father has deserted both the mother and children. The mother is a consunp- tive and is to be taken to the state hospital for the treatment of tuber- culOSiS at Shelton.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
been received of MT. McLennan's safe
DEADLY RECORD OF NEW HAVEN.

Yesterdays wreck on the New Ha- ven was the fourteenth to occur on the railroad in twenty-seven months This is the roads record:
 June 8, 1911, Bridgeport, Conn.-F'ed- era1 express. 12 killed, 100 injured
 August 2s, 1911, Nfdd1etown. Conn Passenger train, 60 injured
 October 15. 1911, Berlin Junction, Conn.-Passenger train, ? dead, in 1ured.
 June Il, 1912, Clinton, Mass.-Paesen- ger train. 8 injured
 July 15, 1912, Stonington Junction, Conn,-Passenger train. 3 killed, in jured
 August 8, 1912, Dorchester, Mass Passenger train, killed, Is injured.
 August g, 1912. South Boston, Mass Passenger train, 2 dead, 40 injured
 October 3, 1912, Westport, Conn Springfield express, killed, 50 1njllr- ed
 November Is, 1912, Greens Farms, Limited, 85 injur- ed.
 November 1T, 1912, Putnam. conn Freight train, 1 killed, 2 injured.
 February 22, 1913, Waterbury, Conn Passenger train, 21 injured.
 June 12, 1913, Stamford, Conn--Bos- ton express by way of Springfield, 5 killed and about a score injured.
 September ?, 1913, north of New EIa- ven-Bar Harbor express, 21 killed, IT injured.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
Billy" M'LeIIan Was Passenger On
 Bar Harbor Express
Fortunately He Left Doomed Train At Boston Returning
 Home Later

Among the Brdgeporters whom it was feared were on the ill fated Bar Harbor Express, the second section of which was run into and wrecked at North Haven yesterday, was William McLennan, superintend dent of con structfon at the Bryant Electric Go. MT. McI1ennan had been in Maine and was known to be on his way home. He had also signified his intention to make the homeward Journey on the train that was wrecked. He did make part of the journey on th1s train but stopped off at Boston.
 When news of the wreck reached this city yesterday officials of the Bryant Electric Go. at once made ef- forts to get in touch with MT Mo Lennan but without success As there were a number of unidentified bodies at the scene of the wreck, John Fay Tor, assistant secretary and treasurer of the company drove to New Haven in his automobile, visited the scene of the wreck and. viewed the remains of the victims.
 The confusion resulting from the distr1 button of the dead among var ious New Haven undertakers and the injured in the New Haven hospitals, made MT. Taylor's task a, difficult one. To add to the uncertainty concerning the safety of Mir McLennan, a Daniel Neal McQuiIlan of Philadelphia, had been identified in the wreck. The similarity in pronunciation of the two names at first indicated that MT. Mo Lennan had met death.
 After visiting several undertaking establishments which had been turn ed into temporary morgues Mr. Tay- Tor discovered the error and later tele- phoned from the Hotel Taft to his factory in Bridgeport where word had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
Star Chamber Probe Into
 F ataI Wreck Resumed Today

l gency brake, realizing that he could ! not avoid a crash.
 Engine 1887, which headed the 1 White Mountain Express, was twin to l the big Superheated Pacific type loco motive which hauled the second sec ton of the Springfield Express into | the first as the first was standing at 1 Stamford, last June. Investigators 1 testing the brakes on the engine in the Stamford wreck, found that such 1 an engine, pulling a train at 8 miles an hour, required at least 1,500 feet to stop.
 Why Murray, the fagman, was only 460 feet back of his train when 1,5OO feet or more is necessary as a, margin of safety for the 1900 type 1ocomo- tive was a point which the investiga- tors hoped to make clear, today.
 Whatever reaches the public from today's hearing bids fair to be sifted through the New Haven's publicity de- pertinent. What method, if any, will be used to acquaint the public with testimony to be given at the inquest, tomorrow, is known only to Coroner Mix, who will preside. He has an nounced that the inquest will be held behind closed doors
 The interstate commerce commits sions investigators, on their arrival, today, found practically no vestige of the wreck along the New Haven right
  orders from the commission that the wreckage lie undfsturbed, officials of the road set gangs of men clearing up the roadbed after the crash. The two rear PuIlmans of the Bar Harbor Elk press, where nearly all the loss of life occurred. were splintered by the crash. What few portions remained in sizalble form were made match wood by sledges and axes of the New Haven workmen. Every bit of wood and wreckage that could burn did burn in half a. dozen or more bon fires kndled close to the right of way by the wreck1ng gangs. The damaged locom olive was hauled away with the less damaged than the other two.
 During the cleaning of the roadbed and the lighting of the bonAres Gen. erai Superintendent Woodward and perintendenf Droege, of the Shore Line Division, were on the ground supervising the work.
 DR AND MRS MARVIN. pie who were listed among the uni 1 dentif1ed dead of the North Haven l wreck are Dr. J. B. Marvin of Louis 1 vile, Ky, and his wife, who left Kineo | with their daughter, Miss Martha H. | on the ilI-fated Bar Harbor 1 Monday afternoon. Dr. and Mrs. Marvin, with their 1 daughter, had only one other fellow | passenger from Kineo, Harry Arvner, of New York.