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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
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Ora Stevens of Fort Madison was
a Charleston caller Monday.
Earl Trump and Casper Fett spent
Sunday at the Peter Trump horne. q
Mrs. Peter Trump and song Henry
and Roy were Donnellson callers Wed
nesday.
Joe Wahrer was a Donnellson call
er Friday.
Mrs. Fanny Hitler spent Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Fred Roth.
Adam Hopp and daughter, Dorothy
were Donnellson callers Wednesday.
Rev. Harry Burns was a Charles
ton caller Tuesday.
Thomas Dresser of Montrose pass
ed through town Friday.
Arlie and Harry Barnes and Ralph
Berthold attended the show at Mont
rose Thursday evening.
Mrs. Adam Hopp is visiting rela
tives in Pennington.
Miss Emma Heisel who has been
visiting in Montrose has returned
home.
Mrs. Abe Berthold of New Boston
was Charleston caller Wednesday
Morgan Barnes and wife spent Sun
day with James Barnes and family.
Mrs. Edith Lamb and son, Harold
spent few days in Keokuk.
Carl Trump spent Sunday at home
Mr.. French and Lester McMillen OF
Athens, Mo. were callers at the James
Barnes home Saturday.
Rev. Harold Singer, Ed. Lamb. Rob
.ert Lamb and Rufus Junkins were
Pennington callers Sunday
Miss Kate Barnes spent Sunday al
the M. T. Kerns home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

7 NOBODY kNoWs-BuT MOTHER.
Nobody knows of the work 1t makes
To keep the home together,
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but mother.
Nobody listens to childish woes.
Which kisses only smother;
Nobodys panied by naughty blows,
Nobody-onl mother.
Nobody knows of the sleepless care
Bestowed on baby brother,
Nobody knows of the tender prayer.
Nobody-only mother.
Nobody knows of the lessons taught
OF loving one another;
Nobody knows of the patience sought,
Nobody-only mother.
Nobody knows of the anxious fears,
Lest darling may not weather
The storm of life in after years,
Nobody knows-but mother.
Nobody kneels at the throne above
To thank the heavenly father
For that sweetest gift-a mothers
love;
Nobody can-but mother.
The Fireside.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
National Highway.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. May 20.
IAN ocean to ocean highway along
the old Midland Trail soon will be
reality If plans suggested today at a
meeting of delegates from California.
Nevada, Colorado and Utah go
through. At the earliest moment the
legislatures OF those states will be
asked to take action toward consum.
nation OF the plan. Legislatures OF
other states as well as congress will
likewise be petitioned to act on the
plans made today. An interesting
feature OF today's session were re-
ports on conditions of the roads in
the four states represented by dele.
gateH who came to the meeting in an.
tomobiles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
a Pertinent inquiry.

Fairfield Ledger: Senator Cummins
is still marching at the head of the
procession which proposes to reor.
ganize and rehabilitate the repubIi-
can party. Shouldn't this work OF re-
organization and rehabilitation be
lodged in the hands of men who have
stood by the party and not In the
hands of those who have placed them
selves above 1t and bolted its plat,
forms and candidates when they saw
fit to do SO? There are a good many
republicans in Iowa who would rath.
er follow men of this kind to defeat
than one of the Cummins kind TO
victory.
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impossible condition when she says:

.
impossible condition when she says;
When the time comes that the
marriage of the unfit shall cease,
when man and woman must show
that they can and will care for their
progeny, that they are capable ment-
ally, morally and physically, then
shall we have we'll organized homes,
healthy parents, healthy children
born under wholesome conditions and
good home atmosphere When chill
cren are welcomed into this world oy
parents who are not weak themselves
but who are willing and will provide
tor and protect their offspring, parents
who will not be delinquent in their
home duties, then shall we begin to
solve the great problem OF the Dc,
3linquent girl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
wanted-Busines. Enciency.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The state
house employees at Des Moines are
learning the age-old lesson that ''un-
easy lies the head tina. wears a
crown What Iowa needs in this con-
nection is righteous civil, service
law which employs men on their
merit, discharges them for inefl-
cheney, and makes them independent
of politics and politicians. Also,
Iowa needs in the state house tho
same kind of efficient business man
agement that characterizes well man.
aged commercial enterprises.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

Railroad gross earnings for March
make a fairly satisfactory compari,
son with those of a year ago, the total
of all United states railroads, which
includes returns from over 5000
miles of road, or about two-thirds n
the country's mileage. amounting 10
s1S5,492,265, a gain of So per cent as
compared with the earnings of the
same roads last year. A very salts.
factory exhibit is made by the Gran,
ger roads and those in the south,
west and the Pacific coast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

Mayor Gaynor OF New York City
has come TO the conclusion that it is
not so much Votes for Women" that
the militant suffragettes In England
want as it is husbands. He goes on
to say that the English men have left
that country in such large numbers
for Australia and Canada and vandie-
mans Land that there is left in Eng
land fully one million and half wo-
men who cannot find husbands If
they could find husbands, the New
York executive believes that they
would become very peaceful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

The article in another column in
reference TO Henry Clay Dean calls to
mind an incident that occurred when
Dean was resident of Mt Pleasant.
The Burlington Hawk Eye, then edit
ed by Clark Durham. contained in one
of its issues a severe criticism OF
some Of Deans views on some sub
ject An acquaintance meeting Dean
said TO him: You've seen this morn
ing's Hawk-Eye, / suppose? You will
answer him?" Yes, replied Dean,
I'm going to boil hill down to
teaspoonful and give it TO him at one
dose!"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
a Gentleman.

Life: kindly heart quiet voice.
polite words and manners, hano
open to help, attention to little things
for the comfort Of others. freedom
from anger boasting. and patroniz'
Ing; toward the weak, chivairy; tow.
ard all men, fairness Few men ever
see one in mirror
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
"Look UP, sInq on.'

A little laugh between the tears,
The golden, quiet Joy that cheers.
A little song between the signs,
Forgetting shadows Il the skies.
A little hope between the care
The love of God is everywhere.
A little faith, amid the dust,
That life and time and love are
just,
That somewhere we will find our own,
That life is more than toll alone,
And more than grief and care and
loss
Look up, sing on, and bear the
cross.
baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

DR.. Booker t. Washington, the dis
tinguished leader of the colored race.
congratulates his people on the fact
that they own 2OO00.oo0 acres of
land and 100000 houses. 10000
stores, 900 pharmacies and fifty-seven
banking institutions in this country.
The exhibit is highly creditable to
his race,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
Lest We Ecrnet

Perry Chief: Many man would
like to forget the past but he can't
do IT SO long as his wife digs UP the
photographs he had taken during the
days Of his callow youth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald ex-
plains that the Democratic majority
got so much that's sweet "a the No
vember election that it lost its fond
ness for sugar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
Why THE GIRL is DELINQUENT

WHY The GIRL is DELINQUENT.
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Sickels, superintend-
ent OF the industrial school for girls
at Mitchellville, sowa, in the current
puiietln OF Iowa state institutions.
makes some searching observations
ON the cause of delinquency in girls.
Mrs. Sickels turns the searchlieht
hrst upon the home If the girl has
no mother, that alone is enough to
expose her to the danger of downfall.
VT II the mother Is widowed. is oblig.
ed to work unduly hard and econo.
mlze severely, she is too likely to he.
come nervous, peevish tempered and
. maze OF home a place of discom-
lott ana desolation. The mother re.
turns some night to find no sumner
ready and no daughter at home saws
the writer. She has fled to find .
place where she will not be molasted
a. every move and turn she makes
AGAIN father and mother ara
quarTeilng. Breakfast begins and
ends In quarrel. The father
shatches his hat and with an oath
leayes the house. The mother con.
ilnues the scolding and ends by vent
ing her wrath upon the children. The
girl goes of to school with the in.
fiuence CT the morning obscuring all
sunshine Of the soul. Her heart aches.
Dinner time is a repetition of the
breakfast table, and supper a con-
tlnuatlon of the wrangle begun In the
morning. She sneaks off to bed
without goodnight from either pa
rent. Her pillow is often wet with
her tears.
This is but one day. There are
many of them all bitterness. all sad
gress. Can a child thrive mentsny,
morally, physically or spiritually in
such atmosphere Finally the end
comes. The big ogre Divorce, stalks
in, breaks up the home, sends the
father in one direction, the mother in
another, and the girl. after few
L: onths Of unhappiness, drifts into
the streets. Many times has a girl
said to me. I would go to my mother
and she would say, / can not sup
port you. Co to your father And
the father and stepnother In turn
send her to her mother. Finally the
street is her only home
Mrs. Sickels, in order to show who
are really the delinquent parties to
/ the trouble, then goes through a list
of twenty-five of her wards, designat
ing each by number. and setting forth
4 the causes contributing to the com.
mitlnent OF each in public institu.
ition of correction. It is long and
monotonous story of quarseling in the
home, divorce and drunkenness on
the part of the parents. The writer
remarks of the record:
You may readily gather from these
statistics that these We're not of the
| vicious sort and that the parent
We're net degenerates. but rather that
the characters OF the girls were due
Ito negligence, incompetency, lack ct
tact and judgment, etc, on the part
4 of the parents. Defects in the home
SURROUNDINGS have always been and
are now the cause of very much de
sllinquency in the youth of our land
But Mrs. Sicisels' conclusions upon
the Delinquency problem should be q
subject for grave consideration in
every home and in the minds of that
grand group of people who unselfish
lily devote time and attention to the
solution of our social problems. The
superintendent of the Mitchollyille
girls points to q milieniaI but moi
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
TEACHERS. SALARIES REpucEp.

TEACHERS SALARIES REDUCED.
Most of the teachers in the United
States have in effect had their sala-
ries reduced since 1897. Despite an
apparent increase in mo.ey received,
the high cost OF living has cut into
their salaries just as definitely as If
a school board had sliced them. A
teaching position which paid $500
salary in 1897 is paying in purchas,
ing power the equivalent of about
SAILS today, If measured by 1897
prices; the teacher on the $1,000 sal
airy gets no more for his money today
than he would have procured Is years
ago for ss93. This is what the high
cost of living has done to teachers
and others on fixed salary schedule,
according to a report on teachers sal
aries and cost of living distributed
by the United States bureau of edu.
cation.
DR.. Robert C. Brooks, executive sec
rotary for the N. Z. A. committee.
which prepared the report. shows by
bureau of labor figures that wholesale
prices in 1911 were AL per cent high
er than in 1907; that retail prices had
increased 51.2 per cent in the same
period; while in June, 1912, retail
food prices were 61.7 per cent higher
than in 1896. With these figures as
basis he analyses teachers salaries
IN five cities in different parts of the
United States and demonstrates the
plight of the teachers in the problem
OF increased cost of living.
According to the Brooks report,
teachers do not receive enough sal.
airy, even in the cities, to save money
or to proceed with further profession.
al training. Out of the 1000 teachers
investigated, onls, thirteen were found
VINO possessed property over $4,000,
and practically every one of these
thirteen owed their good fortune to
sources other than their salaries Of
teachers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

DR.. Sargent of Harvard says that
physical training and exercise would
cure women's unrest. The broom.
and washtub, for instance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
norEs AND COMMENT.

The burlington Gazette observes
that il is not always the man with
the most lead pencils in his vest
pocket who is getting the biggest sal
ary in the Office.
The Manson Journal says the ques-
tion naturally arises whether Senator
Cummins is more anxious to save
himself or the republican party by
this reorganization talk.
The Dubuque Teiegraph-Herald sug-
gests that those militant British SUI
fraaettes could better demonstrate
their sincerity by refusing new sprins
hats until they get the ballot.
The Davenport Democrat says the
English suffragettes seem to have
overlooked the fact that woman never
had any trouble in getting man to do
what she wanted if she went about
it in the right way.
To the Fairfield Ledger, 1t seems
funny that the people who are so
much afraid OF 10000 Japanese in
California are not afraid to take down
tariff barriers and admit the labor Of
5o,ooo,ooo japanese to competition
with American labor.
John Fl. Billings, aged seventy-fonr,
of Brooksv.lle, Me-, has cut in the
woods thirty-two cords Of cordwood.
fifteen cords of firewood. hauled with
his horse out OF the woods sixty cords
ready for the stove, besides caring
for a COW. heifer. horse and six sheep,
since the first of November.
"A meeting for republican reorgsn
cation, participated In only by men
who failed TO support their republican
ticket last year, quite naturally sees
the only hope in surrender to the
third party says the Iowa City Re-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

publican. No party can be reorgan.
lied with only one faction participant
ing in the reorganization, and no re-
organization can be accomplished on
a surrender basis"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

Speaking of music and singing, a
California paper has department OF
baseball and athletics.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

We are all like Josh Billings. We
don't care how much man talks II
he only says it in few words.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

1t has been suggested that most
girls who use paint on their faces
may need something OF the kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20
What's in a Name

Newton News While there's moth
ing in q name people study quite a
while before they name the baby.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

A university professor says the
best way to deal with profanity is to
remove its cause including certain
university professors?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-20

naval use, but that the cruiser Mary.
land was now making complete ex.
periments.
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
A battleship in time saves nine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
Does Personality Exist After Death?
By GARRETT P. sERVIss.

THE most remarkable state
ment that has yet been
made of the present atti-
tude of science in its effort to
comprehend the world around us
is the recent address Of Sir Oliver
Lodge as president of the British
Association for the Advancement
of Science.
The facts and theories that he
mentions are not new to those
who have closely followed the
progress of scientific thought, but
it is his grouping of them that
makes his statement valuable.
And, then, he has thrown out sug-
gestions about things as yet but
dimly seen which are full of in
spiration for all who use their
brains for some higher purpose
than merely getting money or
contriving idle amusements to
fritter away their brief time on
earth.
The topic of Sir Oliver Lodges
address is Continuity" The most
continuous, or uninterrupted, ma
terial thing OF which we have
any conception is the ether The
ether, which we can neither see,
nor feel, nor in any way appre-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14

bend directly by any of our senses,
lis the one all-permeating sub
stance that binds the whole of the
particles of matter together 1t is
the uniting and binding medium
without which, if matter could
exist at all, it could exist only as
chaotic and in isolated fragments;
and it is the universal medium Of
communication between worlds
and particles. And yet it is pos
sible for people to deny it's ex-
istence because it is unrelated to
any of our senses except sight
and to that only in an indirect
and not easily regarded fashion"
His opinion about the exist
ence Of non planetary, imma-
terial dwellers" in the space
around us is clearly expressed. in
the following swords:
In justice to myself and my
co-workers' (this refers to his
associates in the Society for
Psychical Research) Il must risk
annoying my present hearers, not
only by leaving on record our con-
viCtion that occurrences now re-
garded as occult can be examined
and reduced to order by the meth
DDS of science carefully and per-
sistently applied but by going
further and saying, with the ut
most brevity that already the
facts so examined have convinced
me that memory and affection are
not limited to that association
with matter by which alone they
can manifest themselves here and
now, and that personality persists
beyond bodily death.
THE evidence, to my mind,
goes to prove that discarnate in
telligence under certain conditions
may interact with US on the ma
terial side, thus indirectly COM
ing within our scientific ken, and
that gradually we may hope to
attain some understanding of a
larger, perhaps ethereal, existence
and Of the conditions regulating
intercourse across the chasm. A
body Of responsible investigators
has even now landed on the
treacherous but promising shores
of a new continent"
Considering the acknowledged
standing and the known acquire
ments of Sir oliver Lodge in the
world Of science, these expressions
of his are worth a great deal of
thinking about.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
The Need of a New Boys High School

THERE comes to The Geor-
gian every month NIB es-
teemed contemporary more
genuinely welcome than the Boys
High School Tattler, published in
Atlanta
The Tattler is the official or
gan Of that splendid institution of
learning from which it takes it's
name, is edited entirely by the
boys, and is in every way a cred
table and worthy publication.
It serves, primarily, of course,
a fine purpose in bringing into
closer communion the student
body of the high school, abound
ing as it does in personal refer
ences, pleasantries and school
gossip. 1t is designed to enter
tain first of all-it does enter
tain, delightfully."-!
The Tattler, however, serves
another purpose-and to that ex-
tent, at least, should commend it
self most seriously to older heads
in that it sets forth, from the
standpoint Of the students, the
genuine and insistent needs and
desires of the school as an insti-
tuition for the training of Allan
ta's brightest and best young
manhood.
The following excerpt from an
article in the current issue of The
Tattler serves to illustrate the
point:
The City Council is guilty
of a singular inconsistency in
not supplying the young men
Of Atlanta with a suitable
building. They expect the
students of this school to be-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
:. DIVINA COMEDIA y
BY CONSTANCE CLARKE.

WIZ II EN- man is born spark of life divine
Wv Is given him to do with as he will
1t makes for all things great and true and fine
1t whispers and the brute in him is still
But man, unconscious that the spark is there
Denies belief in God and mocks all creeds-
Content and conscious that the world is fair
Asking no recompense for earthly deeds.
Content TO idly say 81 do not know"
Looking further than a world Of care
That fretful spins Its life out here below
While such an abstract thing as prayer
And so It IS till Fates ayeuging fire
Glares on the Paradise where we have trod
And man, awakened to a new desire
Drops on his knees and, trembling ialteys Cod"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14

TINE Supreme Court of an
other State has decided that
any kind of a misrepresen-
tation goes in courtship, and that
If a young man tells young
woman, as an inducement for
marrying, that he has plenty Of
money in the bank, a lucrative
job and a good home ready fur
nished to take her to that the said
young woman has no recourse in
law if she finds out that none of
these things is true, but that
they are merely the pipe dreams
of some modern Claude Lorraine.
In handing down the opinion
the justice said:
1T is a well-recognized princi-
pie that, in the state Of mental
eXaltation accompanying court
ship, statements made as to the
mental, moral or financial condi-
ton of the parties shall not be too
closely scrutinized, nor shall they
be held to q strict accountability
therefor"
This is not only the law, but it
is the commonly accepted view
Of the matter. Men and women
who are otherwise honest and
who would scorn to gamble with
loaded dice or marked cards do
not hesitate to play the love game
crooked.
Men who would not inveigle an
other man into a business under
false pretenses do not scruple to
entice a woman into matrimony
by means of glittering falsehoods
and Misrepresentation
Women whose cOnsciences
would not allow them to deduct a
year from the age of horse they
were trying to sell take off ten or
a dozen years from their own
ages when they are trying to
catch a husband and hear never
a whimper from the still, small
voice.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
ITO BE READ BETWEEN
LINES"

(From the st. Louis G1obe-Dem-
ocrat)
President Wilson knows what
he wants when he wants it; also
he knows why he wants it. 1t is
growing upon the public intelli-
gence that he wants the curren-
CIV and banking bill to prop up
declining industrial exhibits I'M
der a flood OF importations in
many lines under new tariff reg
ulations. More and more is II
coming to be conceded, by the
supporters as we'll as the oppo-
nents. or the questioners, OF the
Glass owen bill that. in It's prac-
Jical operation. it would work to-
ward currency imitation.