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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
Australia is warm member. A
December heat wave scored 122 de-
grees In the shade, which is going
some IN Santa Claus time.

One man says he can drive an auto
mobile across the state in eight hours.
Give him an ideal road with good
weather and a high-power car and he
will make the distance in astonishing
ly short time His claim suggests
the thought that the people of Iowa
are invited to convert the roads into
speedways for crazy auto drivers, who
will tear across the country, regard
less of how many teams will be fright
ened, how many runaways caused,
how many people are killed and how
much property damaged. says the Ce-
dar Rapids Gazette. or course some
of the fends will break their fool
necks while they are trying to set a
new speed record, but in the doing
of that they will probably kill lot of
other people. Il would be a good
thing If each state would construct a
two-mile track, and sentence lot of
speed maniacs to perpetual racing on
the course, with hanging as the pen
atty II any driver failed to go at less
than sixty miles an hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
CHILD LABOR DAY.

The 5000 clergymen who last year
observed Child Labor Day are today
being asked to speak on that subject
Sunday, January 2sth or Saturday,
January 18th. For seven years the
national child labor committee has
issued such an appeal, and the inter-
est aroused by the LAST child labor
day resulted in general demand for
the passing of the federal children's
bureau bill, in improved child labor
laws In 10 of the II states holding
Legislative sessions, and an increasing
use of lecture slides and exhibits
about child labor.
The day has never been used as an
appeal for funds and this year special
attention is called to child labor in
tenement-house manufacturing. The
national child labor committee also
reminds clergymen that child labor
ers become unskilled adult workers.
and the Chicago vice commission
gives as the second greatest cause
why 10000 girls are sacrificed annu-
ally TO an immoral life, the eco
nomic stress of industrial life on I'M
skilled workers, with the enfeebling
influences on the will power" This
cause the commission gives as sec
ond only to the lack of ethical train
ing and religious instruction.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
SHE HAD VICTIMS
BY THE SCORE
Iowa Woman Inserted Advertisement
Asking for Husband Although
Married.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. /
DIES MONIES, Jan. Mrs. Flor
ence Gamble, thirty-two, and not a
eeauty, was bound over by United
states Commissioner Macarthur today
to await the action of the grand Jury
for the charge of mis-using the mails,
in victimizing scores of men in dl,.
ferent states who were hunting for a
WIFE. She is married and has two
children and her husband posed as
her nrother-in-law to help along the
alleged swindles. The arrest was
made at Boone by Postoffice Inspector
Cane upon complaint of ]. l.. Prater
oil Arlington, Texas, who sent her s25
for railroad fare to join him and never
heard from her again. Other victims
located by the authorities are.
n, A. Carnahan OF Bunch. Iowa
Bert Gates, of Coggswell, N. d.:
Adolph Blessing, vic,c., Montana
orvilie R. Wilson. Minneapolis. r. 4
Randolph, Niagara Falls, N. Y; n q
Rumsorn, Blythe, Cal: N. A. Weaver
Colorado City. Colo.
Mrs. Gamble pleaded. guilty to ad.
yertising for husbands in Cupid's Col.
umns, published by Henry Johns al
ST. Paul, and the Marriage Bell. pub
iished in Bridgeport. Conn, aud said
she received hundreds OF letters. &c
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
a TIMELY RESOLUTION.

The discouraging thing about New
/ Years resolutions is the fact that
they are likely to fade away with
the ringing of the bells and the sen.
timent which the passing of the old
year occasions. They are inclined to
be superla.iyely moral and unhuman-
" allembracing. So they are ambi-
ttous and promising. but OF short dura-
ton. But there are certain resolu.
tons which are always In order, says
the Register and Leader. They may
be renewed Just as well on the Fourth
of July or Thanksgiving or the first
of January, and one OF this sort is the
resolution to write home often, il one
Is fortunate enough to have a home
and has reached the place where one
must choose between 1t and the in
terests of the world.
BY giving an aged mother space
| in your paper, asking him to return
TO my present address before it is
too late, you will oblige poor blind
mother This sentence from a let
ter to the editor of household week
" concerns son who left home four
years ago and has not been heard of
since. His case may be an exception
In IFS extreme neglect but illustrates
the same sort of carelessness which
too many other sons and daughters
as well might plead guilty to. BE
fore 1t is too late" is pathetic APP
peal coming from the heart of for
saken mother.
So even if there is not the extreme
need in many homes which this
message implies, there may be just
the same sort OF longing. Behind
proud reserve, or pitiful subterfuges
many fond parents excuse the care
lessness of their children. Neighbors
and friends inquire after the sue
cessful or promising son, the happy,
energetic daughter, and sometimes
father and mother are likely to admit
that the children are too busy to
write home very often. They are
likely to be proudly important over
The fact but the heartache is there
just the same. It's a good thing to
remember this and write to or visit
the home folks before it is too late
And one doesn't have to wait till
New Years eve to make the resolu-
ton, or to renew 1t after 1t has been
long broken. 1t is one of the good
resolutions which is always in sea
son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
FARMERS CAN GAIN 100000 900.

The Z. S. department of agricul.
lures report on the sugar industry oil
/ the country, which has Just been is
sued By Secretary Wilson, shows that
the average American consumes 50
pounds of sugar each year, or a total
consumption of over seven and a half
billion pounds for the entire country.
OF this amount only little over 10
pounds per capita. or one-eighth of the
nations total requirements. is pro-
duced by the various states OF the
union while nearly four billion pounds
costing American consumers over
s2oo,ooo,ooo are imported from foreign
countries. The farmers of the coun-
try should keep that money at home.
in other words put it in their own
pockets says the report just issued
by Secretary Wilson. and the depart
ment of agriculture has been trying
for sixteen years to show them how
and to induce them to do So"
The way in which American farm
ers can add to their own incomes
this princely sum now sent abroad to
pay for foreign-grown sugar is simple
enough. As the report points out. 1t
can be done by growing more sugar
beets, crop that brings highly salts.
factory returns and benefits the land
as does nothing else that can be
grown on It, The sugar beet indns-
try has increased wonderfully in the
past dozen years, the output Of sugar
from this source advancing from So
/ 600 tons in 1899 to 100000 tons in
1912 when 473,s77 acres were devoted
I TO this crop. According to the agri-
cultural departments report nearly
100000 acres additional should b.
planted to sugar beets or total OF
100000 in order to supply all the
sugar now bought from foreign pro.
ducers.
At the present time sixteen states
have beet sugar factories and are
4 growing sugar beets on a larger or
smaller scale. These states are Ohio
Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
iowa, Minnesota, Kansas. Nebraska
Montana, Idaho, Colorado. Utah, Ne.
gada, Arizona and California. mum.
Der OF other states are well adanteo
70 sugar beet growing but, as the do.
partment of agriculture points or.
i II one farmer in four in these states
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
The Delivery Wagon Horse.

4 r
Louisville Courier Journal. IJnwept
unhonored and unsung. the hard-driy-
en-. "stoye-up." splint afflicted, deliv-
cry wagon horse tolls toward the
lhoneyard doing more work for his
board and keep than falls to the lot of
other beasts of burden. The news
that the motor wagon is supplanting
the delivery wagon horse is very good
news indeed to persons who are hu.
name, and especially to those who
love horses.
Inc street car mules had many adj
1 yocates. But his hardships were not
SO grueiling as those OF the delivery
horse. And then, being mule. he
! had great resisting power and GER
tain sort Of philosophy that expressed
itself in his faculty for not overex-
erting himself. Tough as the proverz-
iai pine knot and great trencherman
the street car mule led life that was
not enyiable. And he hadn't seen
better days, and was not in a humiI-
iating position.
7 The delivery wagon horse is often
an aristocrat who has been reduced to
common labor as result of having
observed his usefulness in other
fields of endeayor Having grown old
and lost some of his spirit and dash.
i or having become "nnsound," he is
sold into bondage and required to
surmount Inheard of difficulties day
by day. The unyielding granite blocks
and cobblestones are not a primrose
path to horse who has drawn a
carriage In the park. A delivery wag-
on chock-a-block with packages.
bound for everywhere and expected
( to make hundred points upon A
schedule, is q car of Juggernaut to a
horse of gentle birth and sensitive ma.
Eture. Its wheels never actually go
over his body and crush him, but they
would be merciful if they should do
/ so. His knees stiffen under him. His
once high action" becomes a shamlb-
ling, stumbling gait. His flank knows
the knife like cuts OF the whip, and
grows used to it as a part of the
4 1ardels borne by one who grunts and
sweats under a weary life. When the
dead animal contractors cart con
veys him, hoof skyward, to the place
at which the horse that has been driv-
en- to death is still useful because he
can be ground into fertilizer, there is
no funeral His loyalty and intellig.
tence may have deserved a monument.
But the owner who was once proud
of his qualities forgot him after sell.
ing him to Simon Legree. His
identity was lost when he reached the
shafts of the delivery wagon, where
1 his pedigree counts for nothing, and
where drivers know little about
horses and have little sympathy with
them. But 1t is better to die unknown
{ and unnoticed and become fertilizer
: than to continue to deliver packages
to persons who insist upon their de
livery on time, no matter how many
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
TWO GOVERNORS
FOR COLORADO
Ammons VIII do the Work While
shafroth is Drawing the
Salary.


UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. i
DENVER. Colo, Jan. al Colorado
has two governors. Both Governor
Ammons and Governor Shafroth are
on the job. Ammons will do the work
and Shafroth will draw the salary.
Ammons took over the reins OF the
state government today instead OF
waiting until January IA, inaugura-
tion day This action was determined
en- by Amrnons and Shafroth at a con.
ference.
The regular inaugural ceremonies
VIII take place as per the original
schedule, and all other state officers.
elect will officially enter upon their
duties January IA.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

This promises to be a great indus
trial year for Burlington, says the
Hawk-Eye. The big electric power
will be ready for delivery before the
year is one-half gone, and already the
Mississippi River Power Co. has nut
an Industrial commissioner in the
field, whose special work will be to
induce manufacturers elsewhere to
remove their plants to some point
within the power zone, or start new
ones. The commissioner will maintain
an impartial attitude toward every
competing city. Burlington has the
best railway facilities within the pow
er zone and by diligence ought to gel
her full quota of the new enterprises
attracted to the valley by the chear
power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
Hungarian Duel.

i United Press Leased Wire Service
BUDAPEST, Jan. 3 Stephen Tisza
president of the lower house OF the
hungarian parliament, and Count
Michael Karolyi leader of the opposi.
tionists, fought duel with sabres
ioiiowing q political quarrel, and
Count Karolyi was dangerously wound.
led.
There was a deadlock in the parlia.
ment, arising out of military matters
dealing with the mobilization of Aus.
tria-Hungarian military reservists The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

Samuel and William Muncy of
Babylon, L. l., twins born on Deem.
Der Is, celebrated their ninety-fourth
birthday last week. II there is a pair
able to match this auspicious com
bination of date and age, trot EN- out.
P S.-The twins are total abstainers
from booze and tobacco.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

many she could not remember their
contents. She advertised herself as
a single woman, nineteen years OF age,
Iheiress to $4,000, and 100 acre Iowa
farm. Before going to Boone, she was
ia nurse at Burlington, Iowa, and be-
fore that lived in Fort Madison, Iowa,
where she was married.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

San Francisco cut loose with the
Christmas spirit around huge bon
hre which consumed an allegorical
hammer and knocker. The town will
keep things warm and warmer until
the Panama show is over.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

With sob smothering every word
Of his plea, H. B. Kirkland Of Pitts.
burgh, salary $4,000 a year, told the
court he could not afford to increase
the SIS week alimony allowance
made to his wife and child. When
kirkland admitted that he paid sS5
month for suite of rooms for him,
self, the court sat up and handed
greed a punch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

other persons may make the same de-
mand.
Motor vehicles will never cause
the passing of the horse" But they
viii relieve horses of some of their
most undesirable work. In the proper
ton that they do they should be com
mended.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

Mrs. stocker, who receives s11,5oo,-
600 from the Lucky" Baldwin estate,
has spent 100000 in six months and
says she has started to have a good
time" The cost of living undouoted-
~ is too high.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

The widow OF that gay young sport
OF other days, Fred Gebhardt, pro.
poses to attack the will which gives
all the property to Gebhardt's sister.
Mrs. Gebhardt is one of the notorious
"Florodora" sextette, and circulates
some of the fighting blood of the
bunch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03
NEVER MIND.

NEVER MIND.
Don't Care is no friend OF mine:
don't care" for him.
s When he comes it is a sign
Sense is growing dim.
He is not the thing OF pride
Some folks seem to think;
Folly is his friend and guide,
Bread. and meat, and drink.
Not TO care when things go wrong
Not 10 care when iii
I Rises up to check your song
And your heart to chill
That were feoIishness indeed
OF an arrant sort;
Neihing is too slight TO heed
On tie way 10 port.
But the sunny Never Mind.
He's a different wight,
Helps Us when the days inclined
Not to treat us right!
Softens every bitter Hast,
Warns US when we're cold:
When orr troubles como toc fast.
Keeps us blithe and bold.
Bids all sorrow go its way,
Helps us stay our tears;
And when life seems drear and gray
Quiet all our fears.
When it comes to share and share,
shall be resigned;
II some other takes Don't Care
Eli take Never Mind
John Kendrick Bangs in the House
keeper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

Christian Schultze of Russia landed
in Philadelphia last week with a
sturdy family of seven and s4s,soo.
schultze is levelheaded person. He
is bound for western farm.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

Without seriously relaxing the
waist-band Of his purse, Policeman
Feter E, Johnson of Chicago present
ed Christmas touring car to Mrs.
Johnson. The machine is equipped
with collapsible seats for twelve kids.
just the number of the johnson fam.
liz. Great is Johnson; may his tribe
increase another carful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

controversy waxed bitter and Presi.
aent ilsza and Count Karolyi became
in a personal argument.
There was q challenge. 1t was ac.
cepted Seconds were chosen and with
physicians the men repaired r. q
thicket on the outskirts Of Budapest
and fought 1t out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

selected the Rogers estate at Upper
Aiton as the site for the new million
dollar hospital which the state is to
ouiid. There are 1.051 acres in the
tract. It Is understood the owners
want s225,ooo. If the board and the
owners cannot agree, the property
WIZ be secured by condemnation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

woman loves clear, rosy complex
ION. Burdock Blood Bitters purifes
the blood, clears the skin. restores
rudy, sound health. advertisement
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

! United Press Leased Wire Service. i
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. s.The
state board of administration today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-03

WE HAVE all been waiting for the
w Northern Light to rise, and now it
is here. You can have it for break
fast tomorrow a dish Of pancakes, free Of
all expense. Just take this coupon to your
grocer, and ask him for a Trial package Of
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-06
Controversy stlrs London.

London, Oct. 25.-Owing to import
ant business" Walter H. Page, the
United States ambassador last night
excused himself from keeping an en-
gagement to preside over the lecture
OF an American professor whose sub
ject was Great Britain and the Unit
ed States" The ambassadors import
ant business is believed here to have
been connected with the Mexican sit
uation. The British press is now COM
pletely alive to the gravity Of the Mex
lean situation. The Daily Graphic,
which finds it significant that one Of
the secretaries to Foreign Secretary,
Sir William G. Tyrell, is being sent to
Washington and in an EDITORIAL today
denounces President Huerta whose
statement of Thursday proves his I'M
fitness for any responsible office and
abundantly justifies President Will
sons refusal to accord recognition to
his government"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-06
WHAT CAUSED THE AGONY
VoIuminous Telegram From Wife
Worse to Merchant Than Break
in the Market.

The merchant uttered sharp ex-
clamation and sank back into his
shair. A telegram fell from his shak-
ing hand. His eyes were wide, his
face white, beads of Precipitation stood
on his brow.
The men in the outer office whis'
pered among themselves.
Touch of heart disease?" asked one
mo; the old man can't take up q
note" said another
'Tve heard rumors of that kind. We
fellows will have to be looking FOL
another place"
Get to work; he's coming to again.
The merchant wiped his brow
fetched despairing sigh, picked VI
the paper from the floor, frowned and
stamped his foot, as If to summon all
his resolution, placed the telegram on
his desk and forced himself to read
the bitter message. This was it,
Dearest James: Please send the
waist for my gros grain suit at once
You will remember the one, as 1t has
revers on the frontage and chained
stitched bases on the back. 1t is in
the lower trunk in the closet beside
the hall room, under your winter over
coat. If not there, it must be in the
sealed box on the third shelf in the
front room closet. II you don't find
it there, it much be somewhere else
The trunk keys are in the second bu-
reau drawer unless they were put in
the chiffonier, and l think the closet
keys are in vase on one of the man.
tells. Pack the waist SO as not to
wrinkle it, and, oh! James, please do
not swear!
your loving wife"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-06
Exact Copy Of Wrapper.
OH From Trees.

The Chinese wood-oil tree is the
subject Of a circular by David Fair
child, recently published by the U. s,
bureau Of plant industry, the purpose
of the publication being to advocate
an extensive cultivation Of the tree
in this country, where 1t has been
grown In small way since 1906.
The Importance Of this recommend
alton is shown by the fact that Ave
million gallons of wood oil (alsc
known as tung oil), made from the
seeds of this plant, was imported from
China last year, and the product is
said to have had a revolutionary eff
feet on the varnish industry of the
United States.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-06
READY TO DEMAND THAT NO MA
TloN INTERFERE IN MEXICAN ,
TANeLE.
ENGLAND INCLUDED WITH THE OTHERS
"UncIe Sam" Will Reassert His stand
Against Huerta RuIe-Is Slap Back
at Ensland-Any Interference VIII
Be Regarded As Unfrlehdly to This
Government.

Washington, Oct. 25.-The United
States government is preparing to no.
tify the nations of the world generally
hat any interference in Mexican af-
fairs will be regarded as unfriendly
to this government.
President Wilson, SecretarySBryan
and Counsellor John Bassett Moore
of the state department, have ex-
changed ideas on what the proclama-
ton to the world should express. 1t
will be communicated to foreign gov
lernments everywhere in line with the
policy established earlier of keeping
other nations informed of every step
taken in it's handling of the Mexican
problem.
The proclamation or note also will
serve, it is understood, as explicit def
milton of the policy of the United
States, toward the de facto authori-
ties in Mexico, reiterating the princi-
pie that recognition can only be given
to governments on this hemisphere
founded on law and order.
"If England does not oppose the ex-
pansionist policy of the North Ameri-
cans she will lose the commerce she
has with Mexico and Central Ameri-
ca 1t is certain that the efforts of
the Americans are directed to secure
a rich oil field and if possible the con-
troll of the traffic Of the Tehuantepec
railway, the victorious rival of the
Panama Canal"
The Mexican government gave Mel
son O'Shaughnessy, the American
charge d'affaires, assurance in regard
to the proper treatment OF the two
brothers of Francisco Madero, who
we're arrested at Monterey and
brought to the federal capital on a
charge of conspiring against the ad-
ministration.
Charge O'Shaughnessy took the mat
ter up on instructions from Washing,
ton.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy also said that he
had received assurances that no harm
will come to Rodolfo Reyes, former
minister of justice, and Jorge Vera Es-
tanol, former minister of public in
struction. The rumors that they had
disappeared and were no longer in the
penitentiary are without foundation.
In addition to hearing read the
lengthy statement wherein President
Huerta set forth the policies of his
administration, the members of the
diplomatic corps who gathered at the
palace upon his invitation yesterday,
heard him give his personal word that
he was positively not candidate for
the presidency. Further they heard
him say that should the elections next
Sunday show him to have majority
of the votes he would consider 1t his
duty to instruct congress to declare
all such ballots void.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-11-06
How to Work MhlIe You PLAY.

A French collaboration of Thomas
Edison has just invented sewing
machine which is also piano. Its
mechanism is so arranged that every
time the operator strikes a note on
the keyboard, she completes one
stitch A single waltz will hem three
handkerchiefs-Bee symphony
will sew an entire trousseau. Thus,
the dressmaker can work and play at
one and the same time, and the more
they play, the more they work. To
bring the invention into the vogue 1t
SO fully merits, schools will be es-
tablished in many parts of France
for the training of young women for
the degree of NJ. P. M.--"master piano
machinists." Music with its charms
will thus be given an undoubted utili-
tartan value, and all the roundabout
societies for the furtherance Of mu-
steal appreciation" will be left in the
shade by a simple mechanical con-
trivance.