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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
THE TRAMP NUISANCE.

A writer in the Christian Science
Monitor estimates that there are any
where from 100000 to 100000 tramps
In this country and that they cost the
railroads about s2000o,000 annually.
The total annual loss on this account
including handouts" charity socie-
ties, missions, municipal lodgins
houses, police stations soup kitchens,
bread lines, aims houses, Industrial
homes. hospitals, and for clothing,
medical attention, transportation.
special city and state police, con-
stables and justices fees, expenses
OF courts, sheriffs and jails in dealing
with the petty and serious crimes,
and the loss in unapplied labor power
lis put at the enormous figure or
$500 o00.0 900 every year. The surest
way of decreasing the mobility of the
tramp is to stop his beating his way
on trains Surprise is expressed that
the railroads do not unite in com.
mon policy for this purpose. As mat
tiers now stand certain roads are
strict, others easy" The illinois
i
Central has the reputation of being
zone OF the easiest, the Burlington of
being the most comfortable. The
writer admits that there is no pam
acea for the tramp nuisance. One of
the most noted Migrants In history
recommended the suppression of two
thirds of the low lodginghouses If we
lever hoped to do away with tramps.
In America we are going through that
process now. 1t is suggested that il
we check beating railroads, abstain
from feeding at the back door and
establish state or district work col
cnies the tramp will disappear With
him will vanish also a considerable
part OF our annual bill for charity and
correction.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
A Reminder.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat August
Belmont, apropos OF the revival OF
horse racing in New York. said the
other day:
There's good deal OF cant and
nonsense talked against horse racing
1t all makes me think OF little
Hernstead lad.
This little lads teacher set him
the following problem:
If one horse can run two miles In
three minutes and ten seconds, and
another can run two miles In -four
minutes and eight seconds, by how
much would the first horse beat the
second In a six-mile racer
The little boy returned this prob
lem unsolved, with the following ex.
planatory note:
Pa says that must never have
nothing to do with horse racing"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01


A survey of the sources of water
supply in Iowa and investigation of
river pollution is on the program for
the immediate future. The legisla-
ture provided that the state board of
health should cooperate with the
federal geological survey in this
work Dr.. Herman Stabler Of Wash
ington, D. c., will probably be the
man in charge. He performed similar
service for Ohio and for Connecticut,
two years in each state. He appear
ed recently before the state conven-
ton of women's clubs and discussed
this subject in its relation to the
home and to good health, and the wo-
men Of the state became much inter
ested.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
ROAD DRAG DAY.

The state highway commission has
officially designated Saturday. June
Il. as road dragging day for Iowa
This is regarded as the most patriotic
means of observing flag day, which
falls on that date.
Every farmer in Iowa is asked to
decorate his team with an American
flag and drive it to the nearest mar
ket place hitched to an old-fashioned
king drag. The universal display of
the flag and the drag should make the
jubilee a great success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

Senator Owen has introduced in
congress a bill for new banking and
currency system, the main features of
which are government control, mobil-
ization of all bank reserves in special
banks incorporated for that purpose
issuance of emergency notes redeem
able in gold at the reserve banks and
based on commercial securities, and
the reserve banks to be government
repositories. The system would be
ruled by federai board of directors
responsible to the government, and it
would be the purpose to benefit legiti-
mate business. The measure is UNI
derstood to have the support of the
national administration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

so far as / am informed, none OF
the gentlemen who are now issuing
prociamations, exerted himself in any
degree for the success OF the republi-
can party alst November, and some
OF them allied themselves openly with
those who avowedly sought to destroy
the party.
The amendments of the repubii-
can partys bylaws which the con
ferees advocate, may be desirable.
The conferees are not, however. the
discoveries OF their desirability. Some
iof the proposed amendments have
| been debated in party conventions
and at least that one of them which
demands reduction OF southern rep.
resentation would have been adopted
In 1905 except for the domineering in
reference of the present overload OF
Armageddon.
The desirability OF such OF the
proposed amendments as are desir.
able, has doubtless occurred to the
national committee, the party's law.
fully constituted board OF managers.
They are gentlemen Of some perspic.
acity, political and otherwise.
I'VE may expect that in due season
and in the proper manner, the nation.
al committee will do what is neces
say in order properly to change the
laws of the party And when that
occurs / hardly think that the con.
ferees will have much to do with OF
get much credit for bringing the
change about
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
ton of a department OF public works
to take charge of such reclamation
work.
GROWTH or PARCEL POST.

The growing popularity of the par
Gel post system is reflected In a
statement issued by the post office de-
partment which showes that approxi-
mately 5s,500,000 packages were sent
through parcel post during April, or
about 54 percent more than in Janu-
ary,7the month when the system was
first inaugurated. Chicago stands at
the head as regards the volume of
business. that city having mailed g.
s97,692 packages during the month,
closely followed by New York with
6,2O2,S7S packages, while Boston was
third. Philadelphia fourth, Cleveland
fifth and ST. Louis sixth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

Steamship companies are spending
millions in marine monsters that con
tain every possible luxury for the
Traveller and the railways are building
steel cars that seem to be the fina
word en- rails. On land and water we
have safety and comfort advanced al
most to perfection. 1t means the in.
crease of travel. There will be
more people moving around this sum
mer than ever before, and they will
have better times than were ever en-
joyed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
GzzSEs ssssI sssasalD
>kfnKIIYIh
keokuk, Iowa, Sunday, June /, 1918.
KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM.

KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM.
knowledge and wisdom. far from be-
Ing one,
Have oftentimes no connection.
knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of
other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive In their
Knowledge rude Improbable
The mere materials with which wis
dom builds,
Till smoothed, and squared. and fit
ted to place
Does but cucumber whom it seems to
enrich.
knowledge is proud that he has
learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows NO
more
William Cowper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

Governor Tener of Pennsylvania
has signed a bill that provides that
the Bible must be read every day in
the public schools. At least ten
verses must be read, or caused to be
read by the teacher at the beginning
OF the school day, and without COM
ment. Any teacher who refuses to
read, or cause to be read. the verses
OF the Bible shall be discharged upon
the preferring of charges before the
governing board of the school dis
trict.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
"Little Mildred Is Dead"

| Here is lesson from st. Joseph
| that Keckuk automobilists may well
ponder over. The article is from the
St Joseph Observer:
! Little Mildred, toddler-a two
iyear-old tot-the life of her parents
the pet of a neighborhood-on Sun
day evening went cut with her mother
and father for a walk. The parents
| walked on a street that was not
traffic center-that had but few We
fhicles on its pavement--where there
should and really could be no dan
/ ge.
Little Mildred and her parents
reached the corner of Twenty-fifth
and Jones. There was no danger in
| sight-not vehicle-not horse
hardly a pedestrian. The little ono,
joyful in the gladness of the day, ran
ahead of her parents, who like She
were unconscious of danger but
there was-and it came-Little Mil
/ dred is dead-crushed by the cruel
wheels OF a pleasure automobile.
When the little one ran into the
street, throwing her tiny hands hap.
: PLY upward in her joy of the day, an
automobile driven by Mrs o. A.
Wuerfele, came around the corner of
/ Twenty-fifth and Jones. Mrs. Wuer-
fele was driving In the back seat
were her son and George Collins IN
one brief moment the car which
was running at low speed, passed
over the frclicking child and the
cruei wheels crushed out the innocent
little life--the life that none but its
Maker could return.
| .'Of course Mrs Wuerfele is over
come with grief-how could she be
otferwise-of course 1t is not neces-
/ sary to mention that the parents of
the little tot are in the same condi-
ton. It is seldom that any one ex-
cept a black-hearted murdered re
jcices over the death Of child
"But what does that grief avail? It
does not bring back that wheel.
crushed little life-it does not bring
back to the agcnized parents that
/ happy, prattling little one-it does
not restore that which is gone forever.
4 Coroner Thomas j. Lynch conduct
ed an inquest. He looked at the case
carefully, calmly and without preiu-
dice or favor After the evidence OF
the witnesses was in, he instructed
the jury and they said in their ver-
dict that Mrs Wuerfele was guilty of
criminal negligence In causing the
death OF the little one There was
not dissenting vote, It is said.
+ Or. Lynch did his duty--the jury
did its duty-now the law can, or
should do the rest.
1T should put stop to careless or
indifferent driving by those who
possess automobiles. The fact that a
person owns an automobile does not
i give him undisputed or entire con-
troll of public highwaysit does not
make him superior to the lowly citt.
zen who from lack of dollars or credit
i is unable to secure control of ma
chine and thereby forget that he
owes a duty to mankind and society.
The fact that one owns OF controls an
automobiles does not signify that he
or she can recklessly and carelessly
and negligently crush out the lives Of
babes or adults, Weeping and wall
ing and self-abnegation after the
horror has occurred does not remedy
it-does not bring back the life that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
The colorado legislature hag enact-

The Colorado legislature has enact
ed a new highway law which means
the expenditure of more than $500.
COO by the state alone for improving
the mountain and plain roads during
the coming summer This money
given by the state to various counties
is allotted to those counties which
will spend an equal amount on their
roads, The expenditure of this sum
by the state therefore means that al
most $1,5oo,ooo will be expended for
good roads in colorado this year. Par
ticular attention will be paid to those
roads leading into the state from
Kansas, Nebraska. Oklahoma and
states on the east. The roads leading
across the mountains will also be i'm.
proved
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

The Knoxville Express is strong
for Woodrow and the new adminis
tration-but 1t feels free to voice the
complaint that those eastern men
don't really understand the kind of
weather the Iowa corn crop needs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
Professor Graham Taylor of Oh

Professor Graham Taylor of Chi
cago Commons says low wages are re-
sponsible for only twelve percent of
the immortality among girls. He
bases his statement upon STUDY o,
conditions affecting 2,42o women and
girls. a recent report of the Bureau
of Social Hygiene of New York also
gave twelve per cent as the proper
ton Of 1,1o6 women and girls whose
immortality was traced to -ow wages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

Gross earnings of all United States
railroads SO far reporting for the first
two weeks of May show further i'm
provement and make quite satisfac
tory comparison with year ago. The
total aggregated s15,50S,S3o, an in
crease of So per cent as compared
with the earnings of the same roads
for the corresponding period last
year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
was SO carelessly DESTROYED.


Every day that the sun shines on
this glorious earth, witnesses chill
dren, not yet out of their knicker.
bockers women who at the first In.
stance of danger forget where they
are and lose control men who have
lost their sense of responsibility from
unneeded rotations driving great
cars through the streets of st. 10
seph-o Obvious to the fact that each
second they may crush ont a life. 1t
is time that there should be some
regulation-some method adopted
some remedy found that will prevent
the useless and uncalled-for-
.cruel-taking Of human life by care
less drivers"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

Practical eugenics continues to
make progress. The diocesan conven-
ton Of the Protestant Episcopal
church of Pittsburgh adopted rule
requiring that rectors refuse to per-
form marriage ceremonies unless the
parties to the contract should present
health certificates from reputable
physicians.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

The sweet girl graduate and the
lovely June bride will soon hold the
center of the stage, the admiration Of
all beholders. May their number
never decrease nor their attractive
ness become less!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

The frequent rains this spring have
had at least one good effect. They
have kept down the dust, and in con
sequence Iowa has escaped the
scourge of infantile paralysis so far
this season. That is no small gain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

A Cornell professor advises stu
dents to borrow rather than earn
money for their course but it is not
ed that he did not advise any one to
lend to them. Supplementary advice
to this effect is clearly needed to
make his counsel practical
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

The department of agriculture is
considering ways and means for the
disposition of condemned milk. why
not feed it to the men who try to
sell it? That would make the punish
ment fit the crime.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
.THouGHT FOR THE pAY.

Happiness is fruit that grows
low along the ground; little children
and wise men pick it. Fools are look
Ing up at the trees.-Rev. Frank
Crane.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

A Chicago hotel clerk was knocked
down at his desk and robbed Of s125.
Even a hotel guest VIII turn some
times
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

A Russian scientist says that ex-
cessive talking is a dangerous dis
ease. Worse than that. 1t is incur
able.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

Time to take EN- off! Let the
weather bureau invalidate this dictum
at its peril,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

A cynic is defined By George Fitch
as man who is rom Missouri. but
cant be shown
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01

A new gown has been christened,
stop, look and listen!" Train COM
ing?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
PokEs FUN AT RE-oReANlzERs
Chicago Conference Called Reformed
Version Of ProdigaI
Son.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 31.-John May.
nard Harlan. when asked for his
views on the conference held in Chi.
cago for the reorganization Of the Re.
publican party, declared that the pro.
lceedings struck him as a reformed
and progressive version of the return
Of the prodigal SON."
Further discussing the conference,
Mr. Harlan said:
There are some points of close
similarity between the less obscure
of the conferees and the young son in
T the parable of the prodigal SON The
Republican party gave them all they
ever had made them all they ever
were, in political sense. They took
a journey into a far country. into the
Ineighborhood of notorious place
called Armageddon, and there wasted
their political substance with riotous
living. They began to be in want.
Now they wish to return to the faith
er's house.
Instead, however, Of returning as
they becomingiy might, with the
words of the prodigal, and saying to
the republican party, We are no
more worthy to he called thy sons /;
make US as the hired servants they
come with officious advice to the old
party as to how 1t may set its house
in order But do not believe the re-
publican party is going to bring out
the fatted calf and kill it.
Objects TO Deserters as Leaders.
IF the conferees have come to
themselves and see the error OF their
ways, the Republican party will, be-
lieve welcome them back. But it is
not ready, in my opinion, to make
them, or any Of them, its leaders.
Giving the enemy aid and comfort
either by open desertion to him or by
skulking in time OF stress and dan.
ger, does not commend man for
leadership.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
SkeptIcaI.

Atchison Globe: 1t is hard to con.
vince a man toiling at a desk on a
nice day that this is a free country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
rtart on Hail Columbia

rtart on Hail Columbia
And get to "heav'n born band,'
And there strike an upward grade
With neither steam nor sand;
Star Spangled Banner downs me
Right in my widest screaming,
/ start all right, but dumbly come
To voiceless wreck at cleaning"
So when sing the old songs
Don't mnrmur or complain
II Tt diddy ah da, tum dunn
Should fill the sweetest strain.
| love "Tolly UNI dunn di do"
And the "Trilla-la yeep da' birds,
But Il cannot sing the old songs
do not know the words.
Robert j. Burdette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
II Cannot sinq the old sonss.,

l cannot sing the old songs
Though well know the tune,
Familiar as cradle song
With sleep-compelling Groom;
Yet though I'm filed with music
As choirs of summer birds,
Il cannot sing the old songs
1 do not know the words.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-05
DO YOUR CHRISTMAS
BUYING CHEERFULLY;
IT'S GOOD EXERCISE
s;is ,;i.sAs 1,.a;i1ss SO. ss;;iss sA;kssS;

NH HR1STMAS shopping is filled
with hustle. excitement, pleas
~ ure and good exercise. Who
ever has not tasted these things
has yet to experience all of the joys of
Christmas
1t is true every shopper, once arriv-
ed home vows Christmas is a nui-
have it only once year: that next
Christmas some younger member of
the family must take upon herself the
onerous. fatiguing. brain wrecking.
nerve straining work, But no one who
hears this declaration takes 1t for more
than it's vaue-which is in6nitesimal-
for when the next Christmas puts in
its appearance and shops and stores
and streets are once more alive with
hurrying humanity and good natured
crowds the shopper who voted 1t "kill-
b z" this year will plunge into the ex-
ltement as of old. with greater enjoy
nent than ever.
1t is true the elbowing of ones way
through crowds. the long waits in the
stores. the standing in cars almost
bursting with their load of human be-
ings and the despairing delays of
these sclfsame cars are apt to leave
very little balance on ones accaunt Of
cheerfunesS In spite of these hin
drances however. lies the true salts
faction. if not real pleasure. of having
purchased for this one or that some
little surprise which has been longed
for, but never expected
For mental attitude and for hint
from the athletic teachers the wise
woman will so into the work of Christ
mas shopping with the exhilarated
feeling rightfully attached to any form
of pleasant and exciting exercise. The
cultivation of this spirit will make the
crowds. the discomforts and the inev
table disappointments of the annual
gift purchasing experience no more
worth fretting over or noticing than
the varied experiences of the athletic
field or gymnasium, and it will bring
the aforementioned wise woman up to
Christmas day in the most enviable
and desirable physical condition she
could fancy or imagine for every.
thing depends upon the manner in
which the feminine shopper attacks
the Christmas situation. and well
conducted round of Christmas shop
ping provides as much fun as the mer-
riest game of basketball or tennis and
stirs up and strengthens neglected
muscles just as well.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-05
HOW WE GOT OUR
CHRISTMAS HYMNS.

Many popular Christmas hymns
have a most interesting history. Those
who have heard the waits and CAROL
ers sing "Hark. the Herald Angels
Singr' on Christmas eve will be aston
ished to know that many years ago 1t
was rendered "Hark. How All the
Welkin Rings!' and was sung to the
tune of "See, the Conquering Hero
Comes" When this former wording
was adopted in the new hymn book of
the Hymns Ancient and Modern"
there was great storm Of criticism
from those who prefer the modern YER
sion The hymn was written by
Charles Wesley.
The author of "Christians, Awake;
Salute the Happy Norm was John
Byron. Manchester's famous man Of
letters. who was born at Kersal in 1851.
Byron had several children. but. like
many another father. there was fa-
vorite. This child was little girl
named Dolly. A few days previous to
Christmas Mr. Byron. after having
a romp with the favorite. Dolly.
promised to write her something nice
for Christmas morning On the morn
ing of the great day. when she sat
down to breakfast, she found on her
plate an envelope, addressed to her in
her fathers handwriting. 1t was the
first thing she opened. and, to her
great delight 1t proved to be a Christ
mas carol addressed to her. and to her
alone.
Another very popular Christmas
hymn is that entitled "As With Glad
ness Men of Old" 1t Is remarkable
that this cheerful hymn was written
at a time of great depression. The
author, William Chatterton Dix, who
died in 1900. had been seriously Ill for
long time, and he was feeling dis
consulate and miserable.
One evening, after he had been some
weeks in bed, he felt a great deal
better, and while in this improved state
he conceived the idea of writing q
Christmas hymn. and as result of
this we get "As With Gladness Men of
Old"
"Once In Royal David's City" is the
most popular Christmas hymn for chill
dren. 1t was written by Mrs. Aler-
ander, who also wrote those famous
hymns. There Is Green Hill Far
Away" and 1--WE Are but Little Chill
dren Weak"