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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-07-11

81 hid in barn when discovered
that Confederates had arrived in town,
but | left it when 1t was peppered by
infantry fire and concealed myself at
the mouth of an alley" said Lansber-
~. while l remained in the alley
two of my comrades attempted to dart
across the street to another alley
with hope OF escaping from town,
They got to the middle Of the street
when guns of Confederates stationed
at street intersections cracked and
they fell In heap. was soon found
and d:aarmed."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Governor Eoss, Mistake.

New York Evening Post. Can't.
Road Amundsen, the explorer who
beat the unfortunate Capt. Robert F.
Scott to the south pole, was lecturing
in Boston recently, and received a
notification that Gov. Eos, would like
to see him. So Amundsen and his
party went up to the sta.ehouse and
sent in their names. Presently the
governor hustled out. My, he was
glad to see them! He said so over
and over again, and ne grabbed
Amundsen's hand and pumped it up
and down.
1T Is most particular pleasure to
meet you, Capt. Amundsen,'' he de.
clared. Il have always had ire
mendous admiration for your nation
They are wonderful race. Many a
time my trusty Swede constituents
have rallied to my assistance. and al
ways with effect. To my way of think
ing Sweden is the greatest of all coun
tries. Think of it, that little narrow
strip of land in the far north of Eu
rope, and yet the birthplace of sc
many men who have advanced the
worlds progress"
The governor went on, WAKING
more and more eloquent with every
minute, animadverting to such topics
as Gustavus Adolphus. Charles XII.
Herr Nobel and his peace prizes, ant
smiling cheerfully into the glowerins
face of the explorer Amundsen stood
it for twenty minutes, and then ap
parently, his gorge rose uncomfort
ably high.
Excuse me, your excellency," h,
cut in, stifly, tbut am not Sweda
t l am a Norwegian"
And he turned on his heel ant
walked out Of the roor1.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Wilson's Inherited Problems.

New York Evening Post: It is not
merely the responsibilities Of new
administration that Governor Wilson
must prepare himself for. He is due
to inherit a heavy budget OF problems
from Mr.. Taft. The question of Mex.
leo will be surely there to occupy the
new president from the start. The
question of Panama tolls will be left
over for settlement after March 4. II
Mr.. Taft vetoes the immigration bill,
as seems not improbable, the restric-
tons will undoubtedly resume the
fight with little loss OF time. Today
it is reported that Mr.. Taft is likely
TO veto the liquor traffic bill passed
by both houses of congress. Putting
this last measure aside, it will be
seen that the most exacting questions
which Governor Wilson must take
over are concerned with foreign at
fairs. 1t is rather ironical situa-
ton. With the country waiting for
the new president to enter upon the
solution of those grave domestic prob
lens on which the minds of the pee
pie have been fixed So long, the first
pressure upon the new administration
will come in the field of international
relations. The office of secretary of
state in Mr.. Wilson's cabinet looms
up more important than ever.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
The overbearIns Husband.

Des Moines Tribune: The case oil
Father Coffin is typica. one.
Father Coffin and his wife shaved
and toiled out on the frontier and al
middle age had secured a competence
But Father Coffin, like so many 9th.
er self made men, orgot that Mrs
Coffin had had any part in it.
He forgot that his talented daugh
ter had any claim on him.
He took it .or granted that Father
Coffin was the anly member of the
family.
Those who have known the family
through all these years have hesitated
to say anything, for Father Coffin, In
his way. has done great deal OF
good and has been moved by real
desire to help the world
But he has been man who could
absorb all the ambitions and hard
work and helpfulness of his family,
without realizing that anybody had
done anything but himself.
1t has been such husbands and faith
ers- and the woods are full of them
that are at the bottom of the wo-
man movement.
When Father Coffin married his
second wife he expected her 10 do
as his first wife had done But he
caught tartar. The second wife was
discredited in the divorce trial. But
those who know realized Just what
she had married into
Father Coffin is type of the wrong
sort Of family head Some will re
gret that he should have been made
an example. but we cannot see why
he should not serve as well as any
body.
His daughter has done exactly right
in at least taking steps to protect
her rights.
Her mother should have fought
the battle out years before.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
The True Yellow Peril.

Harper's Weekly: 1t is significant
that all these gentlemen who have
been to Japan and made such COM
forting reports agree as to one factor
in the situation which Is really dis
lquieting. They agree that there is a
real yellow peril" But they do not
find it in Japan. They find it here in
America, where 1t is known as the
yellow press. Like all other students
of the Japanese people, they find
them high-spirited lot and accord
ingly view with some apprehension
the possible effect on them of sensa-
ticnal articles about them and us in
American newspapers of a certain
class. Quite apart from any question
iof fighting, the goodwill of Japan for
America, based on historical relation
ships and which we are assured still
exists, is a thing very decidedly worth
keeping. So is the goodwill of
Americans for Japan. Any one who
recalls the behavior CT our more con-
iscienceless papers on the eve of the
Spanish war will hardly wonder that
both President Eliot and DR.. Mabie,
as advocates of peace, should have
found yellow journalism a pertinent
theme in their discourses to japanese
audiences. We trust they persuaded
the Japanese net to be influenced by
4 it If they did, then by all means
let US have those discourscs repeated
here at home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
WORKING UP A WAR

New York Globe: How much would
it cost to raise Old Glory once more
over the battlements of Chapultepec
there until there is permanent peace
in Mexico?
Opinions and estimates differ. One
of the most plausible is that it would
cost us something more in blood and
treasure than it cost Great Britain to
carry the Union Jack to Pretoria. II
this guess is anywhere near correct
100000 American lives would be sacri-
feed and billion of dollars added to
the national debt to increase the cost
of living.
/ Mexico has 100000 people, a
large percentage of them turbulent
and with a strong sense of national
pride. They inhabit country noun.
famous in part of its area and tropi.
cal in the rest. Defended by heights
and jungles the Mexicans would not
be easy to subdue. The war would
be no picnic. We could send an army
to Vera Cruz and to Mexico City. and
could seize and hold few places.
i The remainder of the country would
4 be in chaos. Millions Of American
money now invested would lose its
value. How long the guerrilla strug-
gle would go on no one can guess
perhaps for FIVE years. Perhaps for
ten, perhaps for twenty 1t took us
three years to beat the Filipinos into
subsection This experience would
suggest that generation would pass
before peace was restored in Mexico.
/ What good it would do this country
to plunge into Mexico our LIMOGES do
net stop to point out. They viii be
safe in their sanctums while thoug.
ands of young men viii be perishing
from fever Why should they care or
restrain their rhetoric? One day
deploring the horrors of war and the
next day seeking to incite one-the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
.wlHY9

/ What Is there about kilowatt
that SO mystifies the average citizen,
or about kilowatt-hoar that reduces
him to a state Of indifference? The
| gas meter has long been an object of
suspicion, but In spite of Its innate
| deprayity men assume to understand
1t and occasionally dispute Its YER
/ diets. But wattmeter. How often
have you heard one of the hundreds
of thousands of users of electric cur
rent casually tell another how much
each kilowatt-hour is costing him? He
knows in New York that a cubic foot
of gas costs him eighty cents. He
knows how much a week he pays his
maid. But he doesn'. know how much
an hour he is paying that other serY-
ant electricity, ind he doesn't know
how he can check up the question,
whether he is getting what he pays
for. At best he knows that his cleo
trio bills are about so much a month.
Electricity has often been called
the universal servant. 1t is more than
that. 1t is the tabloid of energy. 1t
Is the most refined and condensed
form Of energy, and therefore is avail
able to be applied to more different
things than any other form of energy.
1t is the best disciplined energy be-
cause 1t moves In an orderly fashion
and with lightning-like rapidly. DIR.
Schuyler Skaats Wheeler president
OF the Crocker-Wheeler company has
said that the difference in the motion
OF thoese two first cousins, heat and
electricity, is the difference between
a panic stricken mob In fire, and
the fire drill in public school By
means of which building is emptied
OF hundreds of students in less than
five minutes. DR.. Wheeler is rsspon-
sible too for the expression: "Electri-
city is the tabloid Of energy Ii is
as easy to handle he says, as extract
OF beef. Just add hot water and serve
in the first case Just turn a switch
and be served in the second. It is
the only form OF energy that can he
stored in practical quantity and used
when wanted. Heat, for instance, Is
rapidly dissipated You can't get
horsepower without starting an en-
CINE, or horse but you can keep
kilowatts in storage battery by con-
verting them into chemical energy
and hold them in a glass Jar for a
long period of time with little deter
ioration. Why is the public, which
spends s3o0,v00.oo0 a year. directly
and indirectly. on electric machinery
and like amount on current, so de-
vastatingly ignorant OF the most
simple fundamental f4cts in regard
to it?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
GOOD EFFECT
ON OTHER TRUSTS
Department OF Justice Officials Well
Pleased With Cash Regis
ter Case.

/ [United Press Leased Wire Service. l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Imposi-
ton of Jail sentences on convicted
trust heads in the National Cash Reg.
lister company case was heralded with
pleasure by department of justice om-
cials today 1t was stated that out
of total of forty-one criminal anti
trust cases SO far prosecuted under
the Taft administrator, jail senten-
ces had been secured In only two
the turpentine trust, and the Cash
Register combine,
Sentencing to jail of cash register
officials should have splendid effect
on would-be violators of the Sherman
law said Assistant Attorney General
Fowler, the Official trust-buster" of
the government.
The jail sentences imposed on
! cash register officials are a demon
stration that the Sherman law is and
of itself without any amendment, a
powerful and effective instrumen. to
reach any sort of combination in re.
straint OF trade said Solicitor Cen
eral Bullitt. 1t has taken years to
get is full meaning understood. Jail
sentences will make powerful per.
sons much more careful hereafter"
Public opinion has great influ-
ence that impresses itself even upon
our life tenure courts, observed Sen
4 ator Owen who has introduced reso
lutions calling for the election of fed
/ eral judges by the people The ten
million progressive votes of the last
! election are an admonition.
/ Il fully approve Of Jail sentences
! in these cases. said Senator Poindex
ter Il think it is quite encouraging
to see the same treatment dealt out
to convicted trust conspirators and
managers as is dealt out to common
thief
/ Said Senator Thomas of Colorado:
When the Sherman act is enforced
generally by imposing sentences Of
prison upon those violating its provs
! sions, we shall see a more general en-
forcement of It's requirements. When
we make guilt personal. the courts
will not have to Try so m ny Of these
trust cases..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
TRAGEDY OF THE ANTARTlc,

Chicago Post: Captain Robert F..
Scott, in dying, gives to the world one
more of those simple stories of hero
ism that have made the search for the
poles the last survival Of knight-er-
rantry in an age of placid material
ism.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: Taking the
list of polar disasters from Sir John
Franklin to Captain Scott, it amounts
to long roll of gallant and in many
cases valuable lives sacrificed. And
sacrificed to what? Was there a
definite good to be gained for humani-
ty, or was it mere sacrifice to the
hunger for fame?
Denver Republican: The toll OF
life in polar exploration has been
heavy, but none of the heroic scien-
fists who have met death in striving
to add to the worlds knowledge will
be more sincerely mourned than the
young Englishman who achieved the
South pole only to find another's
footprints there.
/ Chicago Inter Ocean: Presumabl,
there will be many results of scien
tific value from Captain Scott's lons
stay in the Antarctic. Robert F
Scott and his companions died the
death of heroes and as such will BIZ
remembered by the world. To hi:
family and those of his companions
goes out the sincere sympathy o
everyone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
In the March ST. Nicholas.

There will begin in the March St
Nicholas series of instructive ara
icles on with Men Who Do Things
by A. Russell Bond, author of "The
Scientific American Boy" and Handy
mans WORKSHOP and Laboratory !
The series will tell entertainingly the
experience OF two bright lads who
saw under unusually favorable cir
cumstances many details of the great
engineering enterprises under way in
and around New York. There will be
many illustrations from photographs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
The March OUTING.

Across Unknown Ranges to Mt. Nc.
Kinley is the title of the second part
of Belmore Brownies thrilling story of
the conquest CT Mt Mckinley, be-
gun in the February Outing. Follow
ing this tale of arctic hardship comes
the yarn of cruise through the
West indies in sailing canoe dur.
ing which Frederic Fenger, the auth
or, Went whaling with the natives of
Isle de Caille in their open sailing
coats.
Horace Kephart's Southern High.
lander is continued in this number,
and Kirk Alexander winds UP his
story OF fishing exploits On the north
shore Of Lake Superior with a real
FISH story" about the Enchanted
Rock of Lake Andre.
There are number OF technical
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Eaeter PUDDING

Yolks of three eggs, 1-3 cup OF
sugar, grated rind CT " lemon, 2
tablespconfuls of lemon Juice. 9.
tablespocnfuls of gelatine, Q table.
spoonfuls of cold water, 9 tablespoon
fuls of boiling water. whites of Z
eggs.
Soften the gelatine in cold water
then add the boiling water; stir until
the gelatine is dissolved. Beat the
yolks OF the eggs and add the sugar
gradually. beating constantly mean
while; then add a few gratings from
the outside Of the lemons. Lemons
should be previously washed thorough
ly. Next add the lemon juice: Their
the dissolved gelatine. Blend thor
oughly and set aside to cool. When
1T begins to thicken, fold in the whites
.cf the eggs, which have been beaten
stiff. 20 not beat the mixture, or the
air cells in the beaten eggs will DC
broken up and the pudding spoiled
simply blend thoroughly.
Put in any mold desired and serve
with whipped cream. An effective
way to serve is to mold the puddins
in ring mold and pile the whipped
cream in the center. ring mols
may be improvised with round veg
etabie dish and bowl. Place thu
BOWL IN the center of the larger disl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

Joseph Conrad, the novelist, writes
no dction stranger than his own life.
Born in Poland in 1857. he was only
six years cid when his mother was
driven from home and nearly slain
by Russia's vengeance in the Polish
uprising of 1863. At nine he sudden.
~ determined to explore that part OF
Africa unknown at the time, and
never forgetting the determination
was at Stanley Falls exactly twenty
five years later. At fifteen he decided
to go TO sea and eleven years later
was master in the British merchant
marine
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

Former United States Senator
Warner Miller of New York Is dead
broke. An assignment fled in court
schedules his assets at s2O,12e and
liabilities s1s6,16S. Senator miller
amassed fortune as a paper manu-
facturer but bad investments ate it
up. In the schedule of assets are
stock certificates having a face value
of s954,O0O.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
yellow editor himself never takes
ATHLETICS AND HEAITH

University athletics and the con
duct of intercollegiate contests should
receive more serious consideration
from those who assume Responsibilities
for these features Of American col
iege life. Too often any criticism OF
long established practices is resented
Ior ignored because it would abolish
Or modify some firmly implanted Gus
toms. Only after years of patient un-
remitting effort has the plea for q
safe and sane Fourth OF July led to
q reform which will soon evolve into
a nation Wide plan of rational celebra-
ton. Persistent exposure of the dan
gers of reckless football contests with
their attendant fatalities cannot fail
to bring welcome changes sooner or
later This is most timely moment
in which to inaugurate campaign
against athletic recklessness. Con
servation is the keynote In campaigns
of progress in all departments of ma
Stional activity Propaganda for the
conservation of health and life Is
directly furthered by this more gen
eral spirit of the times. II college
athletics of today are a menace to
health. they cannot escape the attack
of those who are alert for every evil
dence of human extravaganza and
waste. The enthusiasts for physical
education have hitherto failed to en-
rhasize the important distinction be-
tween those strenuous performances
which tax the capacities of the body
to its utmost tcomprehended in the
term "athletics''), and that exercise
of the bodily functions more appro-
priately included under the designa-
ton physical education Europeans
have far happier expression for the
employment of their bodily activities
in the word sport which implies
the combination of healthy spirit of
pleasure and satisfaction with what
we call exercise. Such an attitude is
almost unknown here Instead, there
exists form OF OVERRIDING that finds
its chief reward in the applause OF
the multitude rather than in the JOY
of the performance Athletics have
long been under the dominance of So
called trainers" frequently men of
keen Judgment and technical SKILL,
but usually persons without any sys-
tematic acquaintance with physiologic
truths. Their sole concern is to turn
out winning team or a victorious
athletic giant. The best intellectual
feature of rival contests-the encour-
agement for each man to put forth
the best that is in him and to exer-
else his own ingenuity in the develop
ment and maintenance of an efficient,
superior bcdy-is suppressed by the
advent of that guardian saint, the
trainer. 1t can be freely admitted,
says The Journal Of the American
Medical Association, that the cultiva-
ton of physical intelligence furnishes
valuable asset to man In develop
ing coordination and promoting
health and happiness. But when the
results Of vigorous sports or exhaust
ing struggles are involved, something
more than a "pardonable pride in an
expanding chest and swelling biceps'
should furnish the guiding motive
The obvious abuses of athletic must
be threshed out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Plan Your Shopping
Tour At Home

ow often you 20 through the at
tentive clerks reply Just looking
you looking. takes OF
valuable time. becomes very
Why looking home, during
that anything particular.
Look the advertisements in GATE CITY They will
get fabrics,
that the fashionable and the favored
by the
Every of the merchants advertise GATE
something YOU Read
in THE GATE closely constantly every
night and all time downtown buying
Copyright, 1913, by j. P Fallon)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

the fiber of Capt Scott do not bo.,
tate to play against nature, although spb
they know she stacks the cards ana
throws against them with loaded dies
Doubtless they are buoyed up by tba
sense that TO lose against such heavy
odds is nobler than to win in a NOR.
even contest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
John F. Bauer Of wilkes-Barre. Pa.

John F. Bauer of Wilkes Barre, Pa,
who has celebrated his forty-ffth
birthday anniversary, has the distinc-
ton of being the first white child
born at Hays City Kan. Hays City
was one Of the most important trad
ing posts for the Indians, and it
afterwards became the leading ship
ping point for cattle in the entire
Panhandle section, Mr.. Bauer came
to Wilkes-Barre thirty years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
One Man Who Knew.

Chicago Tribune: More than year
ago distinguished gentleman named
Porfirio Diaz could have told you, If
you had asked him, what would hap
pen sooner or later to distinguished
gentleman named Madero.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

]. F. Hughes, dead In Newman, Ga,
willed his entire estate, valued at s1O,-
600, to Mrs. William Atkinson, widow
of former governor of Georgia He
wanted to marry her thirty years ago,
but had to content himself with her
sisterly relation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

Senator Stephenson Of Wisconsin
waved before the eyes Of his asso-
ciates a draft for s1,5Oo,Ooo, the pro-
ceeds of a lumber deal. Back home
the boys are wondering if the old man
will run again and give prosperity a
boost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

Rev. DIR. Robert Stuart Macarthur
has resigned his pastorate at the At.
lanta Baptist Tabernacle, which has
been stormy for months through diff
ferences between himself and the
congregation, and will return to New
York to resume his duties as president
of the Worlds Baptist Alliance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

A nameless patriot In New York
wants to borrow the cork leg OF Santa
Ala, now is the Illinois memorial hall,
and wave 1t at the head of regiment
hashing across the Rio Grande.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Conditional.

Chicago Inter Ocean: We read
that the next installment OF fashion
able skirts viii be six inches narrow
er. Maybe; 1t all depends upon the
woman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Constantly Exercised

Topeka Capital; man may be a
little soft physically, but his opin-
ions nearly always sre wei develop
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

sporting articles and couple of snap
py short stories.T The Outing Mag
azine. all newsstands. 25 cents: sub
scription. $500 a year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

and pour the pudding around the
bowl When "set," remove the bowl
and turn upside down. Woman s
World for March.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
DREAMING BY THE FIREsIDE.

F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
l
The new times are with 'em-they
meet 'em brave and strong,
But In the chimney corner l sing the
old time song;
That's all that's left me; life's fires
burnin' low
Am thinkin' Of my children who left
me long ago.
When the evenin's come an the winds
begin to moan,
An I'm settin by the fire alone
alone-alone,
The little ones ont there at play come
home to me to rest,
An I dream their arms are round me
an they're sleepin' on my breast
III.
Some, Twin in the country, an some
across the sea
But not one of all of 'em has gone
away from met
don't mind that they left me birds
from the nest'n roam
But in dreams I'm in the doorway, an
| call my children home.