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The Tupelo journal., 1913-01-17
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

The railway commission of Iowa has
recently taken hand In a movement
to prevent accidents at railroad cross
ings. In communication addressed
to the state highway commission at.
tention is called to the changed meth
DDS of travel and the constantly-in.
creasing use of highways. This means
an enormous traffic over railroad
crossings and hence the necessity for
enlisting the support of the county SUI
perv1sors in order that they may CO.
operate in making crossings less dan.
gerous. One of the great railway sys-
TENS has for its slogan, safety first"
and it is believed by the Iowa Rail
way Commission that this slogan can
be extended to cover and promote the
safety Of travellers on public roads as
we'll as those on railroads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
HOW FARMERS CAN MAKE MORE
MONEY.

Farm and Fireside, the national
farm paper published at Springfield,
Ohio, contains in it's current issue an
article entitled "A Big Work the
Farmer Has to Do by Wilhelmina j.
Fulton. Mrs. Fulton understands the
retail handling Of farm produce She
has been dealing with the middle man
and the farmer through her market
under greensboro Bridge in New York
City for over year Her market was
started after an investigation of food
prices had been made by a committee
of which she was chairmon She be.
lieves that consumers prices NAV no
made lower and producers prices
higher If we get our products started
to the market in the right way.
She says that the first and greatest
necessity Is for the farmer TO come
to more complete realization of the
fact that he himself is the merchant
supplying household needs. and that
his commodities must be ARRANGED
and adapted to those needs. The fol.
lowing is an extract:
There are number of WAYS in
which the farmer might helo to i'm.
prove existing conditions. The first
point is the great beneft that would
accrue to the farmer from more uni
form packing ! mean uniformity of
both size and quality. For example
take barrel of apples The commits
sion men complain that in the ma
tority of cases the apples in any one
barrel will ru about sixty per cent
the size that first appears on open
ing the barrel and the remaining
| forty per cent will be of inferior
grade and size. Naturally, the pr
chaser, wholesaler or jobber, know
4 ing from experience tina. such is the
| case, takes care that the price which
he pays is low enough to more than
cover this inequality, or. in other
words, to be on the safe side, assumes
that the contents are only forty or
fifty per cent as they appear on sur.
face inspection. In a comparatively
few cases only, where the farmer has
established reputation for absolute.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
DEATH RATE AND MARRIAGE.

commissioner Rittenhouse of the
Equitable Life comes back at replies
to his mortality statistics and infer.
ences relating to married as compared
with unmarried persons, with two
questions which he discusses to the
extent Of a column in the New York
Times: why are thirty-nine out OF
every 100 male adults without wfves?"
end why is the death rate of the I'M
married SO much higher than that Of
married men and women"
There are 100000 unmarried per
sons of manageable age in the Unit.
ed States, a proportion of the total
population entirely out of reason. as
Mr.. Rittenhouse looks at 1t. We do
not know that It concerns life insur.
ance any more than other interests.
In fact, it does not But the point is
that while medical authorities com
plain more or less Of the results of
the marriage OF the unfit. there are
millions of fit men and women who
remain single, to the country's loss
every way So, according to Mr. Rit-
tenhouse mot only would our declin-
ing birth rate be checked, without
necessarily increasing the size of
families, but the proportion Of the
physically and mentally fit among the
new lives that are being brought into
the world would he increased"
In spite of the high cost OF living
and the fashion of high living the
average age at which marriage is con.
itracted in this country has not risen
out has actually declined There is
1 a greater proportion of males between
fifteen and nineteen married than
ten or twenty yeats ago. Willie the
percentage of men between twenty
and twenty-four who are married in
creased from 1890 to 1900 by Is pei
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
MIR. Bryan Has His Innine-Joker In
Currency Bill,

To the Editor of The Gate City:
When w. J. Bryan was so signally
defeated for the presidency in 1896 on
fiat money platform it was thought
that this was the end Of the cheap
money idea in his country and that
our government was firmly grounded
on the gold standard. The congress
concurrent resolution declaring It
to be the purpose of the government
to maintain all our various kinds Of
money on parity with gold. The
debate on the currency bill in the
house brought out some strange
things. When the bill was first intro
duced it provided that all redemp-
tions should be in gold or its equiv
alent When the bill was reported
from the committee 1t had the words,
'in gold or lawful money" Now all
government money is lawful money
and when one democratic represen a
tive admitted that the change had
been made at the request of the eX-
ecutive department the cat was out
of the bag. The bill IL passed in It's
present form, In the opinion Of some
Of the best lawyers in the house, VII
repeal the gold standard. will accom-
plish all that Bryan contended for in
the 1896 campaign.
Mr. Bryan has never forgiven the
bankers OF the country for the part
they took In that campaign. He has
always been opposed to national
banks and sees now chance to even
up with them. The bill in its present
form compells all national banks to
surrender up one-fifth of their assets
to the reserve banks to be controlled
by crowd OF politicians appointed
bs the president or surrender their
charters as national banks. Mr.. Bryan
knows that very few, If any, will sur
render control of their business to
persons not directly interested and
for that reaosn the administration an
nounces that under no circumstances
will 1t agree that the associated bank
ers may select part of the beard which
/ Will control the action Of the res srve
bands. With the national banks going
out and their circulation Withdrawn
from use as money great opportun-
! ity will be offered to the fiat money
men who now undoubtedly control
! roth houses of congress. Some scheme
will have to be devised to supply the
shortage made by the withdrawal
/ from circulation of the 800. 900 900
of national bank notes and thus pre-.
vent contraction of the currency.
Bryan's claim in 1896 was that there
was not money enough. II free s liver
would make more money then why
not now?
The country seems TO be as'eep on
| the currency issue. Bryan, defeated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
CONVENTION TO
BE HELD SOON
Iowa Conference of Charities and Cor.
rectIon at Sioux City on No
vember is, II, 1S.
Especial to The Gate citY.l

Especial to The Gate City.]
DIES MONIES, Oct. 13.-The Iowa
Conference of Charities and Correc.
ton to be held at Sioux City. Novem.
Der 18th to 18th is regarded as one of
the most important conventions In
Iowa.
The health section OF the confer.
ence is In charge of A. e. Kepford
state lecturer on tuberculosis. and a
very strong program is being prepared
The general subject for discussion is
Public Health and Productive Power
with the emphasis placed upon the co
ordination of social forces, vital sta
tistics regarded as state bookkeeping
and tuberculosis. Or. B. l.. Eiker. for
mer president of the State Board OF
Medical Examiners and for years n
member of the State BOARD of I;salth. .
and DR.. Walter /. Behring. president
of the State Board OF Health. have
prominent places In the discussion OF
these subjects. Judge C. 3. Robbins OF
Cedar Rapids will probably discuss
the control of tuberculosis and It's
hospital care. A symposium on gener
al health problems will be conducted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

cent. The number of married all told
declined, while the number under
twenty four who are married increas-
ed. Mr.. Rittenhouse closes his re-
marks on the question of promoting
marriage. especially early marriage.
with the sober reflection:
With declining birth rate and an
increasing death rate from violence
and from diseases of degeneration,
such as those of the heart, arteries
kidneys. which tend to shorten the
extreme span of life, and with an in
creasing number OF insane and mental
detectives. the American people have
every reason to be keenly interested
In the study and application of the
vital problems involved in the two
questions referred to above, and es-
pecially In the science OF eugenics.'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List of let RS remaining in the
<eokuk postoftice. uncalleu for. for
he week ending October II. 1913:
Ladies'.
Miss Ida Ruth Andrews
Mrs. Anton Becks
Vergie Bandy
Mrs. L. G. Corkhill
Mrs. George Blent.
Miss Gertrude Garrison
Mrs. A. Wieise
Mrs. w. C. Preston
Mrs. C. R. Peters
Mrs. w. F. Price
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Shames and family
Mrs. Hazel Smith
Miss Margaret WEIGH
Mrs. Sarah C. Wells
Mrs. Whitfield
Mrs. Ferdinand Zeberjahu.
Gentlemen.
DR.. C. c. Aidken
John Andrews
F. F. Baker
L. e. Carlin
Mr. Roy Clark
Mr. W. C. Craford
Mr.. Ermmies Davies
Rev. ]. B. Dysart
Mr.. Jimmie Harlin
Mr.. Clarence Hicks
Mr.. John w. Hoffman
Mr.. John Jesk
Mr. Paul Leonard
Pasquale D. Loreto
Mr.. Frank Morley.
Mr.. Otto Nilsson
Mr.. Joe Nicholson.
Mr.. Edward Perrigo
Charley Reyerd
Mr.. G. Shanklin
Mr.. w. E. Thornton
Mr.. Ora Wheelock
Williams & Elka
John Zentel
Persons calling for letters In abovs
list will please say they are adve,
tised.
s. W. MooREHEAD.
Postmaster
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
ioWA's GREATEST FAIR.

Icwa's fifty-ninth annual state fair
was in truth the greatest fair which
Iowa has ever held In comparison
with the other fairs and expositions
of the country in value of exhibits
and as an exposition 1t is accorded
first place and the general verdict OF
the best informed visitors this year
was that Iowa has the greatest live
stock and agricultural exposition In
the world.
This is big claim, but when it is
remembered that Iowa is in the heart
of the worlds greatest agricultural
region, that all of the best states and
herds of this country come to the
Iowa state fair and that the superior
ity of the fair and its splendid rec
ords attract all of the big exhibitors,
the truth of this statement can be
comprehended.
Minnesota, whose attendance ex.
ceeds that of Iowa and other state
fairs, does not have the live stock
show that Iowa has. Because of the
two large cities Of st. Paul and Mimi.
eapolis, with 100000 people, and both
cities very loyal to the fair, the at
tendance at the Minnesota fair is an
nually much larger than at the Iowa
fair.
But in value of exhibits and in
their numbers and quality, the Iowa
fair is unsurpassed. This year the
attendance and the receipts We're the
largest in the fairs history.
But in value of exhibits and in their
numbers and quality, the Iowa fair is
unsurpassed. This year the attend
ance and the receipts were the larges,
in the fairs history,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
Judge McPherson's PertInen. Reply.

Judge McPherson's Pertinent Reply.
Mt. Ayr RecordNews: IN answer.
Ing the threatening impeachment
proceedings by one J. O'Brien, an at
Etorney of Rochester, N. Y, Judge
Smith Mcpherson Of Red Oak, Iowa,
appears as master mind in contro-
versial matters and as one who knows
what he is doing and can take care OF
himself. Quoting the threat, the Judge
simply adds: That statement is not
persuasive to me-" 1t seems almost
as good as Caesars, IT came, saw,
j conquered" It was all that was
needed and nothing more It contains
as much in it as many others would
convey in using several columns.
Most men. in a position like that OF
Judge Mcpherson, would have made
long answer, used harsh words, tore
the hair and in the end fallen fiat BY
one sentence of seven words the judge
puts the whole matter to rest 1t Is
much in little. 1t IS worth reading,
Judge Mcpherson says: II note the
recital in your letter that if fail or
refuse to make and enforce an order
on Mr.. Loomis, once the receiver of
my court, to pay the New York state
receiver s572.5s, you will present the
matter to the Judiciary committee OF
the house Of representatives, asking
for my impeachment and removal
That statement is not persuasive to
me-"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

and it is expected that a better under
standing Of health administration and
public health work will be established
by this conference.
Great preparations are being made
for this conference by the Sioux CITY
committee and 1t is expected that a
large number of delegates engaged In
social work will be in attendance. Ii
Is known that more remedial and bepe.
hcial legislation has emanated from
the Conference of Charities and Cor.
rection than from any source In tie
state. The conference is composed OF
members of the Board of Control of
state Institutions, the Board Of Parole
heads OF institutions both state and
private, probation officers, overseers
OF poor, and those engaged in charity
and social work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM is

MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM is.
My mind to me kingdom is;
Such present joys therein l find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind !;
Though much / want that most would
have,
Yet still my mind forbidA to crave.
No princely pomp, no wealthy store,
No force to win the victory,
No willy wit to salve sore,
No shape to feed loving eye;
To none of these | yield thrall;
For why? my mind doth serve for all.
j see how plenty surfeits oft,
And hasty climbers soon do fall;
see that those which are aloft
Mishap doth threaten most of all:
They get with toll, they keep with
fear;
Such cares my mind could never bear
Content live, this is my stay
! seek no more than may suffice;
press to bear no naughty sway;
Look, what lack my mind supplies
10, thus / triumph like king,
Content with that my mind doth bring
Some have too much yet still do
crave;
i little have and seek no more,
They are but poor, though much they
have,
And 1 am rich with little store;
They poor, rich; they beg, / give;
They lack, l leave; they pine, live.
I laugh not at another's loss,
grudge not at another's gain;
No worldly waves my mind can toss:
My state at one doth still remain;
j fear no foe, fawn no friend;
loathe not life, nor dread my end.
Some weigh their pleasure By thei
lust,
Their wisdom by their range of will
Their treasure is their only trust,
A cloaked craft their store of skill;
But all the pleasure that find
Is to maintain a quiet mind.
My wealth is health and perfect ease
My conscience clear my chief de
fence;
neither seek by brides to please,
Nor by deceit to breed offense;
Thus do live; thus will die;
Would all did so as well as l?
Sir Edward Dyer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
WORLD GRAIN CROPS SHORT.

Serious shortage exists in the
worlds crop of grain for 1913. The
supply is nearly 10 per cent less than
last year The total deficiency ag-
1gregates 1,250,0O0,000 bushels OF the
five grain staples. This shortage is
not made up by potatoes. the world 5
supply of which is no greater than
last year, and 3Oo,0o0,O00 bushels less
than the worlds normal potato crop
of 1910
These conclusions are indicated by
the preliminary report upon worlds
crops and the future prices prepared
by Orange Judd Farmer. This journal
Emphasizes that the four breadstuffs
wheat, oats. rye and harley-prob-
ABLY VII be 500,00O,o00 bushels less
lyear than two years ago, only 4 per
cent more than the 1910 crop.
Unless Russia and Argentina con-
clude the year with much greater
yields than now seems possible, the
magazine says, the worlds wheat
production will be only about 100000
900 bushels more than last year This
will be an increase of only 3 per cent
over the supply of wheat produced
throughout the world In 1912.
OF this increase 5o,00O,0oO bushels
is due to the extent TO which the bon
ANA wheat crop of the United States
and Canada exceeds last years cut.
turn
Preliminary returns give the Rus
sian crop as 7o0,00o,0O0 bushels, which
is confirmed by the Russian rovern-
ment's official pronunciamento of $780,
100000 bushels.
OF grave Importance also is the
European shortage in rye. Because
even more than wheat is rye the
breadstuffs of the teeming millions of
Europe. Europe may have only l.
7oo,000,000 bushels of rye of the 1918
crop or 1so,Ooo,Ooo bushels less than
last year. The deficit may be still
larger II cabled advices from Russia
are reliable.
The shortage In the worlds supply
of oats bids fair to be greater than
vas CApCSlSd. w I'LL d Smaller CTOD
in North America than last wear by
more than 3o0,00o,00o bushels, and
with another 1Oo.0Oo,o0o deficit else
where, the worlds crop may be 10
per cent less than last year, de-
crease of 40o,0o0,ooO bushels.
Barley is much less than usual in
North America, but the worlds total
yield may come up to the normal
amount.
It appears from official returns OF
the actual movement of grain that
only about 16 per cent of the worlds
total wheat crop is consumed outside
of the countries of production.
Therefore it is only necessary to dis
tribute and market the supply of
grains gradually and evenly through
out the coming six to ten months to
supply the demand without artiflcially
reducing prices.
In view of the increasing population
and general resumption of industrial
prosperity throughout the world the
demand for these crops should be
even better In the coming months than
usual.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
Chronic pYapepala.

The following unsolicited teGtimon
ial should certainly be suficient g
give hope and courage to persons
afflicted with chronic dyspepsia; !
have been chronic r. speptic foE
Years, and of all the medicine ! have
taken, Charberlain's Tablets haYe
done me more good than anything
else says W. G. Mattison, No :
Sherman st. Horne,ls7ille. n. Y. Fof
sale by all dealers. Advertisement
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
Nothing to Print.

1SolulHS udppeueU Ioody
Not single item,
And how's one to write 'em
When things just stay that way?
1t is awful pokey
And dull here, by hockey!
Mighty poor place to try
To print a paper in;
Was foolish to begin
Good town to come to die;
Awfully humdrum place
Just spared by Gods great grace.
Deacon Jones broke an arm,
Grandma Smith Is Gead
Old Jim Browns sick-a-bed,
Struck oil on the Bolts farm,
Jed Kelley's red-head girl
Run off with Willie Earl,
One OF the King twins drowned.
John Smiths been notified
He's P M since Bob died,
And today they nosed round
And found Bob was a crook.
Ed White says what he took
Would ADULT new road
Across the Old South Fork
Where SNORING Charley York
Went through and lost his load
And both his horses, too.
Had rained SO hard the new
Dirt caved in and Charley
Fell right off one side
When Badly kind o. SHE'D
nno' now, p,r1nxy
Red Gasoline broncho.
The scary thing, you know,
That caught Elsie Mays new dress
And pulled it off up town
Slick and clean from waist down
Fore noon and made one less
Resource for Doc to draw
On-that's Elsie Mays Pa.
Hello! Hotels ablaze!
Expect Pap Burton hired
The old rat trap fired;
Know he'd like to raise
The funds to buy off free
From the suit Ellen Lee
Brought cause he failed to live
To his word and carry
Out promise to marry.
He, Hum! Guess I'll seek
The old print shop to tell
The boys they might as we'll
Not print the Star this week,
Because there amt no news.
Gee whiz. I've got the blues,
But think folks will excuse
Delay and patient wait Z,
Until news strikes Its gait
And happens. What's that? Use
The stuff Just told you?
Why, none of it is new
They know tits not news.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
ly uniform packing, is this reduction

~ unIform packing, is this reductlon
not made.
In the matter Of reduction OF po-
tatoes, in the early fall, when the
greatest inequalities are possible, |
have seen sack after sack opened,
containing potatoes varying in size
from three inches to one inch in diam
leter. All had to be sorted out and
graded before they were at for ordin-
airy retail sale, and a great deal could
not be sold at all Do you wonder
that the wholesaler or jobbe- paid as
little as possible for these sacks,
knowing the contents from expert
ence?'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

and Inundated in 1896 seems to be
in the saddle at the present time and
should the bill pass in its present
form we may look out for crash.
No national banker who has his wits
about him is going to put large part
of the assets OF the bank outside Of
his control His depositors have in
trusted their funds to him because
they have faith in his capacity as a
manager. II some other person is to
manage their business they will
pick the new manager themselves
and not have some one else do it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
An eastern lawyer declares that I'll

An eastern lawyer declares that III
it's necessary to feed the young PEG
pie pickle in order to get them tc
church, j favor feeding it." The Ce.
dar Rapids Gazette suggests that he
overlooks the inference that such 6
price of attendance may about repre-.
sent its true value. DR.. Gunsalus OF
Chicago. who breaches to $500 people
each Sunday morning at the Chicago
auditorium. declares per contra Il
have long since ceased to believe that
there was anything in the plan of Civ
ing away a chrome to get man to
come to church"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
Very Wise Suggestion.

UNITED Press Leased Wire serTice.,I
NEW YORK. Oct. 10. Jonas J Golo'
stein, settlement worker, says tns
only way to rid New York Of gun
men is to herd them in one stree.
with orders to go to IT. as soon =
pedeEtrians are out of sight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

An increase OF 7,04O,S31 gallons In
whiskey consumption and 97000,000
gallons in the beer consumption dur
ing the fiscal year is appalling. Some
body must have got more than his
rightful share.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

The Rock Island lines, are engaged
in the moving picture business as a
means of instructing employees in the
safety first" movement. Men who
posed for the pictures went through
very dangerous stunts showing the
every day experiences of trainmen.
The safety first" movement is based
on the assumption that the safe way
pays even if it takes little more time
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

A prize was offered at fair at
Guthrie, Okla, for the best plate of
fried chicken, with a committee OF
Guthrie ministers as judges. No appeal
from such a tribunal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

Massachusetts now has candidate
for governor who rejects his party
platform and a governor who bids for
allegiance from three parties. And
politics is not much more mixed in
Massachusetts than elsewhere, either.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13

Speaking of music and singing, and
the like, a want ad in the kewanee
Call asks for the return of package
left in the postoffice containing "a
pair of oxfords and pair of shoes"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
THOUGHT FOB THE DAY.

He is always the severest censor on
the merits of others who has the
least worth of his own.-E. L. Ma
COON.