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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
DEFECTIVE RAILS.

Some people may be so constituted
that they enjoy travelling sixty miles
an hour over curving railroad track
with the plunging OF the cars enough
to throw passenger from his seat.
Whsn the many tons of railroad
car ara the leverage forced against a
brittle track, it is no wonder that SO
many accidents come from detective
rails. The last report to the cam
mercs commission shows that Is per
cent of disasters from defective
equipment come from this cause.
Heavier traffic, it is estimated, has
doubled the strain on rails in recent
years. The steel mills have been so
rushed, that it Is said they have not
cut out enough imperfect portions o.
their ingots. Foreign critics assert
that too little pains is taken to apply
faithfully ever known means of
turning out perfect rail.
The Dubuque Times-Journal in an
article on this subject calls attention
to the fact that many a steel rail.
previously subjected to all known
tests, breaks suddenly when thousands
of other rails subjected to the same
strain hold good. A prominent cause
is what is called segregation" The
constituents of rail material in cool
ing tend to separate, SO that certain
portions fail to contain elements
necessary to resist strain.
There are evidently two causes for
these frequent breakages, the first,
defective manufacture which the rail
roads are making some effort to have
remedied, the other the tendency to
run at high speed along curved tracks
Formerly great many people were
aggrieved If they spent fifteen mo
ments more time than usual on a
| journey Of three or four hours. Fiji
teen minutes pass quickly at home
| But to impatient travellers they seem
/ uncomfortable. There are a GROWING
number Of people who would not
4 mind few additional moments spsn1
In slowing up around curves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
ing his position on the front platform
Mr.. Grover set his brake and signalled

Ing his position on the front platform
Mr.. Grover set his brake and signalled
the horses to start. The descent was
made in perfect order, and, upon
reaching City Hall, the car was sent
back to the Myrtle street stables,
from which place it was first sent out.
On Wednesday, September s, the
day on which the first regular trips
were commenced on the Highlands,
an article under the heading of Load
ed Cars appeared in the Daily Even
ing Item, as follows: "The Highland
circuit horse cars carried large loads
this noon, and there is no question
but what large traffic will reward
the enterprise of the l.. & B. R. r.
On this same evening display OF
fireworks was given at the summit OF
Rockaway street incline, in celebra-
ton of the opening of this line. A
committee headed by Daniel Cheever
and Edward Miller. old residents of
the hill" raised sufficient funds with
which to Offset the expenses Of fire.
works and upon each trip of the car
over Rockaway street rockets were
shot into the air
John Owens, deceased, was the first
motorman to run the Highland cir
cult car over the Highlands under its
own power
Hundreds of interested citizens turn
ed out to watch the car ascend and
descend the hills over which its course
was laid. 1t was put on Commute
schedule and this running time has
been maintained up to the present
time. The cars Of today are of about
the same size as the first cars run
over this route.
Wonderful improvements have been
made in the line Of electrical convey
|ances for tourists and travellers since
the Highland circuit electric car was
first put into operation. Prominent
electrical experts from various parts
of the country and the world came
to Lynn shortly after the first electric
car was put into service to observe
its operation. From this Invention of
1888 vast improvements have come in
electric conveyances. Previous to the
operating of the first electric car on
the Highlands that year, there was no
such thing as an electric passenger
car in operation in any part of the
world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
If YOU MUST FLIRT.

He spoke Of the affair as an In
nocent little Irritation.
Let's hope it was.
But the married man who had
been meeting the other mans wife
now lies beneath six feet of earth,
the other man is in Jail charged witt.
murder and two homes are shattered,
says an exchange.
What business has married man
to be indulging in flirtations, inno-
cent or otherwise?
What right has married woman
to be meeting in secret a man not
her husband?
Fools who play with fire must ex-
pect to be singed
There's an easy way to avert such
heartrending tragedies. 1t is to "avoid
the appearance of evil"
We live in an age when women
rightly seek freedom. Their lives
have been narrowed They wish,
many of them, to take part in the
great activities outside the home.
More and more they are forced to
earn their living by work in competi-
ton with men. Whether we like this
or whether we do not, the fact itself
cannot be blinked and il Is q read
justment of many standards.
But some truths are fundamental
and unchanging throughout changing
human circumstances. One of them is
that no Irritation between married
persons of opposite sex can remain
innocent. Though it be free of the
guilt which excites appeal to the I'M
written law, it still is in hazard of
the basic sanctities of society; it
spreads the suspicion of evil though
it be in itself not utterly impure.
There ought to be a lesson for
many in that Kansas City tragedy. II
you must fiirt, fiirt with your own
wife or don't marry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
Reavy Meat Eaters
Have { low Kidneys
Eat Less Meat II You Feel ssokaehy
or Have Bladder Trouble.


No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make mistake BY flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
we'll known authority Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys.
they become over-worked from the
strain, get sluggish and fall to filter
the waste and poisens from the blood,
then we get sick. Nearly all rheuma-
tism, headaches. liver trouble, nerv-
BUSINESS, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
Kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts or If
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full Of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, stol
eating meat and get about four ounces
of lad Salts from any pharmacy:
take a tablespoonful in glass Of
water before breakfast and In few
days your kidneys will act fine. This
famous salts Is made from the acid
Of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
kidneys. also to neutralize the acids
/ in urine so 1t no longer cauaes irrita-
ton. thus ending bladder weakness.
4 Jad Salts is inexpensive and can.
not iniure; makes delightful effer
iyescent Whitewater drink which every
one should take now and then to keer
the kidneys clean and active and the
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious
kidney complications.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

Liberty of the child is another very
fundamental thing. In my school the
little ones are free to pursue their
own best natural inclinations. The
fostering of spontaneity in the child
is another great factor which must
be recogned with.
The normal child who grows to
he the normal man or woman Is tn.
individual who in this world has had
the least attention. Science has done
much for the sick in body and mind.
Science has borne within it great
truth. great force, and society has
responded by honoring science. On
the other hand, the common schoos,
which should have long ago received
the attention of modern science has
done nothing for normal life and con-
sequently society does not honor the
teacher nor give close attention to
the preparation of teachers
ut was through the deficient and
abnormal children that first learned
my great lessons about the teaching
of childhood. l taught my poor I'M
fortunate little ones and found that
liberty. opportunities for spontaneous
activity and freedom from the re-
straint of ignorant elders were work
ing wonders. My deficient children
were advancing along the road to
knowledge faster than the normal
childr en- in the ordinary schools. Why
not set free the normal by the same
method, l thought?
Since then have studied the nor
NAL child with results which have
surprised me. took simple mems,
! offered stimuli from the outside ma
terial to quicken their selection OF
things which they studied Of their own
child, left alone and untrammeled up
on by the limiting surroundings and
the modern paraphernalia Of public
schools would soon teach himself to
do things which he would not learn
In four times the number OF weeks
in the ordinary school.
Our scientists have never had the
attitde OF humility toward the normal
child which they have displayed to-
ward the smallest germs on their
microscope slides. The greatest doc
tor goes humbly to the bedside of
the sick child but not to the side Of
It's normal brother. This Is why we
have not succeeded in pen atrating
scientifically into the knowledge of
the normal man. Christ, when he
taught the science of life. the way of
life, taught humility as its first prin-
cipal, and said, He who would ba
master of all must be servant OF all,
and he who would be master must
serve
TT was thus that tried to APP
proach the task which / had set for
myself ! found that teachers In the
public schools often pour a food o.
words presenting various phases or
the subject on the confused pupil. 1t
was my belief that. with simplicity,
children would learn the same thinqs
more clearly and with less effort and
less loss. 1t was my intention to
/ analyze in order that the child might
receive his perceptions clearly ana
/ eoncisely.
My attitude was to be that Of a
/ scientist I was not coming to teach
them. came with the order OF the
scientist who desires to come upon
4 the spontaneous manifestation OF life
and to assign to them their proper
value.
80 in the children's houses the
teacher serves and waits upon life
She does not teach
"And SO the time came. with my
self, when arrived at the poin
where | lost all desire to carry OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

scientific research or to compile the
reports of my experiments 1t was
as If | had found secret garden, a
palace of peace. in which only
wanted to live with these children
and to enjoy their development.
Scientific language became revolt
ing to me. 1t seemed inadequate when
wished to describe the manifesto
tons which were taking place about
me. wished to speak OF it In terms
OF religion"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
The Jew.

Leslie's Weekly: A Jewish boy
came to this country fifty years ago
with little in his purse, but bound
less ambition In his heart. He had
determination. courage and physical
strength He was honest and trust
worthy. He had been taught by vir-
tuous parents and he brought their
benediction with him when he land.
ed, stranger In a strange land
Beginning as an humble Grand boy
in shop, he rose to a place behind
the counter, and speedily to the own
ership of little establishment. Small
it was, but 1t was the day Of oppor-
tunity and he made the most of his.
Fifty years have passed. The mon.
ument to his zeal and integrity is a
magnificent business block, one OF
the largest of its kind on the most
fashionable thoroughfares of trade in
the greatest city of the land Here
the little Jewish boy reached the cul.
mination of his aspirations.
His goal had been success. He
achieved 1t beyond his wildes,
dreams. Wellth poured in upon him
in a ceasaless and increasing stream
He devoted much OF IT to the care
and comfort Of an army of employees
He became fascinated with the love
of art. For a bit of porcelain $1,000
was a common price, $4,000 for {
rare vase and s250,00o for a besuti
full painting Thus he enjoyed tn,
fruits OF his labor.
The surging crowd on the city,
royal highway on weekday mornin,
| saw with surprise every iron shuttle
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
Mrs. Stevenson Dead.

BLOOMINGTON, H., Dec. 26.-Ar-
rangements had not been completed
today for the funeral of Mrs. Adlai e.
Stevenson, wife of the former vice
president who died last night after
an illness of several months. Mrs.
Stevenson was 70 years of age.
She served four terms as president
general of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
Modernized Beds.

Modernized Beds.
Come. let's drop tear for the old
fashioned bed
That stood on its legs. stout and
able,
And was what 1t seemed. We now
have convertible table"
There's also the door that is not a
door,
Nor yet is "a jar" (see Joe Miller)
But when it's let down is a bed, moth
ing more
Unless it's mantrap and killer!
That innocent-looking and tutfted d.
van,
Go nigh it and heaven protect you!
II you touch the right spring in its in
tricate plan,
Through the ceiling the thing may
project you!
'Tis bed! And a bed is yon seeming
bookcase,
And also that counterfeit closet
There is scarcely a thing in the whole
blooming place
That has not bed on deposit!
With horror ! view every night in the
flat.
The Victim. Asleep Presses Button"
(Thus the headline may ready, IS
Trapped Like Rat!"
And SO should my sheep become
mutton
! shall sleep on the floor and of freak
things beware
So long as flat must keep in.
There are beds here and there-yes,
beds everywhere.
But never bed fit to sleep in.
Chicago Daily News
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

ical men to deal with acute mani,
Some fourteen ingredients are men
toned as the formula for an ointmen,
designed to weaken a husky suferel
who evidently proved too strong 70,
his medical advisers, and the patien
had to be Amounted fifteen times
day until he was sufficiently Gained i
be treated with the usual medicine
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
The First Prescription.

LONDON. Dec. 26.--Professor Ell
lott Smith, famous Psychologist, to-
day formally announced the discovery
of what he believes to be the first pre-
scription ever written by doctor.
The date is about 1900 B. c., and the
prescription, which is written on
Egyptian papyrus, throws an amusing
light on the efforts of the ancient med
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

will be built for this purpose by one
company. This company mas approx
mately 400 miles of high tension lines
in southern Idaho, all Of which are
situated in progressive, rapidly
growing agricultural community.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

There is said to be enough gold in
the teeth of the living and dead peo-
pie Of this country to fill the largest
freight ship afloat. Prospectors ten
thousand years hence will find rich
pickings in what constitute our GENE
teries of today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

on the great building OF the merchant
prince drawn to the sidewalk. The
rich display of priceless goods In the
show windows was hidden from sight.
Upon the door the passing throng
eagerly read the little white placard:
CLOSED on account Of death of pro-
prietor.n
Fifty million dollars in fifty years
million year! Shall we be-
grudge it to the Garner? Shall we DE-
nounce him for his success? Shall we
spurn his money as tainted" Shall
we revile the Jew for his riches?
The immigrant boy became mer-
chant prince, lover OF mankind and
a generous dispenser of help for the
needy. It is not tale of one great
city in our favored land. 1t is an
oft-told tale in many American cities
and of many a noble-minded Jew.
This is the land of opportunity for
all. Let envy rest!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

Our old friend, Diogones, once said
a remarkably good thing. When ask
ed by love-stricken youth when was
the proper time to marry. he answer
ed: IF you are young, not yet; if
You are old, never
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

During the year just past more than
FIVE hundred million dollars were
spent by the American people for can
dies and weetmeats-e enough to build
hundred battleships or erect half
million fine homes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

A little tragedy. Mother tells child
that an angel is beautiful, has wings
and flies. Child tells mother that
father called the hired girl an angel.
The hired girl at once few.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

1t seems that just as soon as some
men succeed in gaining residence
on Easy street, some other fellow
comes along and attempts to shove
him in the gutter. Such is life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

There are still few people in this
crazy modern world who are in ia
vor of short courtships and long
marriages, but their number appears
to be growing rapidly less.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

The president of the American
Butchers association says that much
Of the yirile force of the American
people is derived from rich, red, juicy
beef The American people of the
immediate future will be minus the
9yirile force, with round steak at &c
cents a pound
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

Fashion authorities are still trying
to locate the waist line in women.
They'd better place husky young
man on the job-he and the girl will
do the locating without delay or trou-
BILE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

The farmers of the west lead all
other sections o. the country in adopt
ing new and better m9thods. The
rapidity with which southern Idaho
farmers are adopting electricity for
light and power on the farm has
compelled the building of many mil IS
OF new transmission lines extending
from the central power stltions far
out into the country districts. Prac-
tirally rs miles of additional new
'-@s are now being constructed or
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

queen bee lays from two to three
thousand eggs in twenty-four hours.
The man who will discover how to
cross queen bee with a hen will
soon have money enough to buy an
automobile for himself and all his poor
relatives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

Some men will eat a good meal at
home, Of their wives cooking. and
arise from the table without a word
Of praise for the patient little woman
who did the cooking, yet when the
same fellows get burnt meal with
cold slop called coffee at restaurant
they pay the bill cheerfully and tiy
the waiter (femaleo handsomely, and
smiling at the time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
keokuk Iowa December &c, 1918

The first trackless trolley in Wis
consin has been installed at Merrill.
The bus will hold eighteen passen-
gers and is used as a feeder" for the
trolley system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

Most of the murderous instruments
OF war are manufactured by a gentle
hearted woman, who was formerly
Miss Bertha Krupp. The terrible guns
he machinery turns out have caused
many thousands Of widows and or
phans. And she rolls in the wealth
secured by means of her death deal
ing devices
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26

Now the critics are trying to prove
that Paul Revere never took that his
torical ride, and that Maud Muller
never raked hay; that she didn't ever
have any hay to rake, and had never
net Judge, unless 1t was a Judge of
good whiskey Next thing these smart
fellows win try to have us believe
that Lady Godiva did not ride through
the streets of Coventry. arrayed in a
wealth q golden hair and scared
smile
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-26
Only One aeRoMo olllNiNE"

That is Laxative Bromo Quinine.
Look for the signature Of E. w.
Grove. Cures cold in one day. cures
grip in two days. 2sc.-Adv
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-17
NsY P60bG THE TRADE
INVOLVING Hal Chase
Cl'iN,L CLAIMS THAT GALA
HAN WORRIED \ "SkIN
GAME" ON HIM,

NEW YORK. july lit was
scmi-officiaily announced here today
hat the .eceut trade between the
NV Yorl, and Chicago American
League clubs involving lial Chase.
Eomc Zcijer end Rorton. will be in
vosugatcd BY league authorities.
Manager Frank Chance has requested d
his club office 90 carry the case 10
TIC baseball court on the grounds
that he was deliberately deceived re-
lprdlng the condition IL horton and
~ ider whom NJ accepted in exchange
fer Chase
Chance claims he was assured by
Manager callahan of tho White Sox,
that Zeider and Borton we're physi-
o3lly capable of playing big league
ball. This claim, Chance declares.
Vas untrue s,nce Zelder had been
spiked by "I'y' Cobb in Detroit two
weeks before the trade and was un-
dci tho care Of the club trainer and
a physician.
New York club officials say II may
take weeks before Zeider is able 10
ilay and that Borton proved FAR from
Leipg the player he was alleged to be.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-17
MRS. DICKINSON WAS
BURIED YESTERDAY
WIZ on PROMINENT TIISN\ II
NlNI TO FINAL RESTING
PLACE.

Mrs i. B. Dickcnsuu was buried
ycst"rduy in the catholic cemetery.
southeast OF the city. The funeral
services were held at the Holy Family
catholic church nt 10 o'clock. A
large number of friends Of the family
wrr, I'm Attendance.
Rev. John q. Herring omciatcd at
tho hurch ana Father Won Gastcl
pronounced tho final rites at IN,
cemetery.
Mrs. Dickcusou. who died at th,
Tulsa hospital last Sunday. following
Ia lunW Illness, WAS educated in %
convent Ut Lyons, France. Her maid
cn name WAS Rcgau. At tho ngo OF
- she went to New York and WAS
living there with an uncle. "a wealthy
pump manuiUcturcr. At the uCC oi
p sh, met ana married Mr.. D,pkcn-
gou, Who WAS NJ that tiuc prnm
u'ut operator In Wall street. rcputcd
to have been worth several million
dollars. Those who knew him iu
those days declare he lost about SO
0o0,o in The panic II 1898.
Mis. pickenson wag a woman ui
rare intellectual attHlnmcuts and a
iiuguist of exceptional ability. she
leaves Uu only hrotht. who Is said tU
Dee o. Catholic priest I'm New York
whose delicate health would mot per
NIT of his trip to the funeral Tn,
dauVhtcr Nlss Ethel. is talented
young badly ~ rs. and popular with
her numerous friends i'm Tulsu
Miss plyh,uSou will continue tU
m.I,, hrr home 10 Iuls4.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-07-17
ARREST NEGRO FOR
A DARING HOLD UP
SApULpAN WAS SLIGGED AND
BELIEVED OF MI HIS MONEY
MONDAY NIGHT.

When James Marshall, negro, ar
rested by the police was yesterday
turned over to the county on charge
of conjoInt robbery 1t became known
that a daring holdup was successfully
pulled off IN the north side last Sat
urday night. w. y. Richards of Sa-
pl'pa was me victim losing his
watch $l15 IN money and several
valuable papers. There were two
ho'dup men but only one has been
captured.
richards got of a Frisco train
saturday nIEht and seAjng two ne
gloes standing near the depot asked
them whore judge Oliphant lived.
The negroes volunteered to show him
and an three started off After going
two or three Hooks to quiet place.
the 1ogrons ElugRed Richards and
cured all tho money he had.