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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09
LATE NEWS FROM THE FOREIGN FIELDS

camera than J.. Pierpont Morgan had,
and only once has he sat for his por-
trait. But II he were the most easily
recognized man In Dublin he would
still have taken his usual route to the
office. A strong man with the Irish
mans natural love for fight, he
would have no police guards, and al
though one Of the busiest men In
Dublin he is always one OF the most
accessible.
Murphy has announced that he will
spend his entire fortune rather than
submit to Larkinism.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09
HOLDEN
AND FARM LECTURE
Former Well Known Iowan and Seed
Corn Apostle Spreading Farm
Gospel.
rspecia1 to The Gate City.J

Especial to The Gate City.I
SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. S.--What
Professor Perry G.. Holden, the cele-
brated Iowa agricultural scientist, de-
clares is the biggest and most COM
prehensive farming campaign ever
conducted in the United States has
lust been concluded in the 100000
square miles of territory tributary to
Spokane.
With special train of five coaches
at his disposal continuously for thirty
six days, Professor Holden and a
score of assisting experts and prac-
lical farmers travelled over four rail-
roads in Washington, Oregon, and
Idaho for distance of 2,700 miles.
From each Of 1873 towns where the
train stopped the Holden party radiat-
led to the neighboring community
Icenters, covering in automobiles 5000
miles.
In the thirty-six day campaign more
than 10000 people heard the lectures
on the advantages of growing corn
alfalfa and live stock. From fifteen
to twenty-five meetings were held
each day.
ITO my knowledge this is the most
comprehensive campaign or its kint
ever engaged in" states Professor
Holden. who himself has conducted
many such movements on q smallel
scale in various parts of the country
4 I'VE found the people of the Spe
kane country ready for just the thing
1--we advocate. We found them read.
to forsake the one-crop system Q
farming for the more profitable
scheme of diversified farming.
1 Il have been asked by the Spokan'
Chamber of Commerce, under who's
direction have been working, to com
back a year from now to prosecute
supplementary or follow-up campaign
/ can not say now what my plans ma
be, but I can say that believe thi
campaign we have just gone throug
marks the dawn of new era in tn
agricultural life Of the Pacific north
. west. Your farmers are making goo
money now, but 1t is small compare
with the maximum of their possibi
tiles"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09
Long Hat Pins.

HAMBURG, Nov. S.-The new police
law requiring conductors of street
cars, under pain of heavy penalty and
revocation of their licenses, to keep all
women wearing long hatpins with
points uncovered off the cars, went in
to effect today. Policemen are requir-
ed to take the names of women with
projecting hatpins. All yiolators of the
rule will be fined from SIS to SO.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09
Missionary Meeting.

NEW YORK, Nov. S.-To discuss
better methods of enlistment of mis-.
sionaries, the Women's Nome and For
eign Missionary Society of the eastern
conference of the synod of New York,
convened here. Delegates We're pres
ent from every section of the state.
Speakers included invited guests from
a score Of western, middle western
and southern states.
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Appendicitis.

PARIS, Nov. 8.-Don't be a teetotal-
er if you would avoid appendicitis.
This is the advice given by DR. Gagey
and Professor Sabrazes, in an article
on the subject, published today in the
current issue of La Presse Medicale.
They cite family of sixteen persons,
among whom six, who were total abb
stainers, had to be operated on for
appendicitis. None of the others, all
of whom were wine-drinkers, have
ever shown any symptoms of the dis,
ease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09

never marry rich man because she
lacked the necessary dot" When
marriage demanded ney-for-money,
poor girl, in France, has no chance.
The best she could do. in spite of &C
complishmen and beauty. was to
marry laborer, for even the small
shop keepers demanded girl with
money to match their money, and
poor young professional men, girls
with money to balance with the said
profession. In America only love
counted.
Of course it was all done In the
most delicate fashion. The American
lady would bring her son in to make
a purchase; Germaine might look him
over and talk to him; later on the
could discuss matters further.
The woman came in with the young
and handsome son. Son took quite
shine to Germaine and Germaina
couldn't help showing she liked the
rich young American.
Needless to string the story out.
Just as Germaine was about to leave
her position in the Reu de la Paix
and sail for America where she was
to be the rich Mrs. Somebody, bang!
| The rooms at the fashionable hotel,
where the elegantly dressed Ameri-
can woman and her "son" were stay
ing, were suddenly vacated. The po
lice had gotten wind of a white slave
roundup, on de luxe scale, and the
couple, smelling mouse, had van
ished!
The "Futurist Band" is the latest
One has been organized here for thu
purpose OF giving concerts at the Fut
urists salons 1t will also be seen
4 and heard-in operation at the cub
lists exhibition. The organization i
called "noiser" instead Of an OF
chestra and is made up of flfteel
pieces. They are:
Three buzzers, two exploders, on
thunderer, three whistlers, one roar
: er, two gurgles, one shatterer, on
screecher and one shorter.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01

Prom the Chicago Tribune.
Some time ago statistics were made
public in this country showing that in
dustry is making men old at forty Now.
France goes the United States one bet
ter. In that country statistics show old
az is totally denied to a great portion
of the population.
DR.. Jacques Bertillion, of the Paris
municipal statistical department, has Just
made public figures which show the ter
rife effects that industry. with its dis
eases and accidents, exercises over a
large part of the working people of
France. The number of workingmen
who live to "a good old age in that
country is growing fewer year by year.
Industrial diseases break most toilers
in their prime.
These wholesale sacrifices can no long
er be excused on the ground that they
are the inevitable risks of industry. a
generation or two ago death and disease
might still have been claimed as intrinsic
accessories to industrial progress. But not
today. Science has shown the way to
combat many industrial diseases and in
sure reasonable safety even in danger
Gus occupations. A host of technical
safeguards have been put out to prevent
killing and manning by machinery.
What is needed to deprive the shop,
ing attributes is closer union be-
tween science and government, between
laboratory and legislative hall.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Comparative Liquor Statistics.

Per capita consumption of spirits
and malt liquors has declined notably
in England during the last ten years,
while in the United States it has in
creased. These figures are most as
founding. Formerly there. was sup
posed to be an intimate relationship be-
tween the amount of drink consumed
and the state of the labor market-the
more wages the more drink. British
statistics prior to 1875 tended to bear
this out; but since then wages, meas
ured by their purchasing power, have
risen, though drink has decreased.
The last two annual reports of the
United States Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue contain the statement
that production of spirits in the Unit
ed States has broken all previous rec
ords. From 1911 the consumption of
spirits for each person rose by fifteen
hundredths of gallon, and Of beer
nearly FIVE gallons.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
THUNDER
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author Of cat Good Old Siwash.~

Thunder is natures favorite and great
est bluff
1t is the most tremendous and impress
can be heard for twenty miles, and can
sour the milk in 10000 refrigerators. Few
things inspire man with more awe than
peal of thunder, rolling majestically
from cloud to cloud, and grumbling
slowly out of hearing like titanic lion
who has had a.mass meeting for break
fast and isn't satisfied. Many times a
year thunder fills the closets of this
country with frightened women, but 1t
has never hurt any one. No one can be
blamed for paying attention to a dogs
bark, because In that case the noise pre-
cedes the danger, but it is foolish to. flee
from thunder. BY the time an adult
thunder clap has crashed into the con-
versation and has Jared the chande-
Iiers, the lightning, of which it pretends
to be a warning. has already messed up
the vicinity and retired to parts I'M
known Thunder is the great II told you
so" Of the elements. and Is as useful as
q whistle on the rear end of train
Thunder is very impressive, like GAM
paign oratory, and Is the only thing
which exceeds 1t in grandeur Thunder
is produced by vast quantities of! air
rushing into a vacuum while campaign
oratory is usually produced in exactly
the opposite manner. There are many
points of similarity between natures
greatest noise and mans foudest re-
mark, however. The man who c4n I'LL
an auditorium with ponderous rev&rber-
ating phrases, which do not meant any .
thing. even ,whan they can b beard
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
California Persists.

Within three minutes after the con-
erence was ended at Sacramento be-
ween Mr.. BRYAN and the leading Cali
ornia legislators, the State Senate was
convened near the midnight hour and
ne amended land bill passed by viva
oce vote. Ii is stated that Gov. John
"a will sign the measure. which st1p-
iates that no alien who is ineligible to
itizenship in the United States be
lowod to own land in that State.
The sovereign powers of California
an be exercised on matters interna-
ional only in an irritating way. That
State has a perfect right to enact as
many laws as il chooses in contraven-
ior of treaties, but it has not the
power to make single one of them
ffective. The California State courts,
other State tribunals. and the Federal
'ourts, including the Supreme bench,
ave expressly sustained the Federal
treaty power. While the treaty with
Japan of 1911 has not been attacked,
he uniform views of courts and legal
experts have upheld its supremacy I'M
icr the Constitution.
With all due consideration for the
very pronounced feelings of the Cali
iornians in a delicate issue, such re-
gard must not go to the length of be-
coming a waiver of the vital and all
protecting Federal power under the
Constitution. For it is to Washing
ton-not To California-that Japan
must look if she claims her treaty
right, are denied her.
The administration should rest its
ease on the Federal Constitution The
Tacksoman spirit, the law of the
United State will be enforced" should
he applied to the present situation.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Court Gossip of Interesting
EpentS on Two Continent

| to them by waiter who looks as thou
once in his career he had been valet ia
| bishop.
There are also to be found in Paris Rs
sian tea shops with samovars suggesog
the Russian literature with it's heises I'd
heroines so talentfully described ~ rr-
genieff or Tolstoy. These and stii otsr
tea shops are mostly frequented b. EG-
lishmen of the type who never spek
French there, even if they understndit.
Fashionable confectioners. too, have
their tea-rooms; but these are coiron-
place, the tea is fiavorless, and mos;
as poor as that served at table dbte.
1t is not only the smart set and u pro-
fessional classes who are now dnking
tea in Paris. Humber folk are bennipg
TO appreciate it. and in some smalshops
a little iron table and two garden hairs
are provided for such customers are
wealthy enough to demand this xpen-
sive refreshment. When by cham this
rich customer arrives and order 'un
the the whole establishment j. con-
vulsed. The three Mattresses inwhite
aprons tear wildly about, the ladyat the
cash desk tinkles furiously a lite bell
which sounds just like the bell desratins
white rabbits in a toyshop The roprie-
his sleeves tucked up, as If he we wres-
Ting with a dinner for thirty. Finally.
after much coming and goir, 1t IL
brought and placed slowly on he table
Then, when the cup is empty. vi should
see the satisfied air with whickhe man.
agrees from her desk calls Ct: We'll,
ladies. what have you to reort? And
then all three Mattresses CT together!
"Uu the
And yet the habit of tea linking has
not been acquired completed In the best
circles of the French me opolis- The
fact is that a smart renchwoman,
whenever she believes hersf unooserved.
still will order her choccte instead OF
tea. Often one hears ie question IN
Paris. why do the Englis' drink tea, any
way? They may ask = well, why do
Englishmen breathe? Sc
The late Lord Pemroke. IN his early
Parliamentary days. aad the reputation
of being the handsonbst man in the House
of Commons. But ,e also knew how to
behave handsomely for when the Wilton
carpet industry VS. threatened with ex-
tinction. few yers ago. he proved him.
self to be a eaf"carpet' knight, saving
the livelihood o 200 workers of the Wilt
shire town. Fr three centuries the AK
minister and wilton pile carpets have been
MANUFACTURED there, as those who can
afford to by $50 a square yard ought to
know. TIE weavers there fondly be-
Iieve thu in color and material these car
pets are indestructible. but practical per-
sons place upon them a limit of 100 years
wesr and tear, which ought to satisfy
most of us. FLANEUR.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
SMEN-REAL AND NEAR
Rp FRED c. KELLY

venture leading him to the far West. He
got as far West as Philadelphia when
he discovered. while sitting in his board
ing-house room, that he had just 5 cents
to his name. In order to make the slate
clean. Bartholdt walked to the window
and threw away the scent piece. Then
he started to hunt for job. Within a
few days he I'd landed a place as proof
reader for concern that published mag
azines in nine different languages. Bar
tholdt knew smattering of one or two
Languages and when he came to the
others he had to read proof letter at
a time instead OF " words or sentences.
However, it was a comparatively lucra-
tive position. and at the end of a few
months he had saved up almost s..
Though an approachable person, Sena-
tor Culberson of Texas has a quiet dig
nifty about him that extends even to his
less important acts. Nearly every day
he rises in his seat in the Senate and
SAYS:
Il move that the reading of the jour-
nal be dispensed with" And he does
so in much the manner that he might
assume if he were about to make an ex-
elusive announcement Of the second COM
ing of the Messiah.
Copyright. 1915. by Fred c. Kelly. All rights re-
served
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Chance for Cheaper Meat.

According to consular reports the
day is not far off when meat prices
should drop Relief is i'll sight, not
from Argentina, upon which great cat
tle-raising country all eyes are focused
for the future but from Australia We
read that within a few months the
products of that part of the world
are expected to reach our Pacific
Coast, when il will be only a question
of days. or weeks at most. to have
all sections of this country share in
the benefit derived.
If this be so. we cannot see how
the American producers or packers can
do otherwise than reduce their prices,
to meet the competition or go out of
business. not To speak of the Demo
cratic tariff, which places meat on the
free list and thus should prove also
an important factor downward
One of the largest slaughtering,
freezing, and packing plants is being
erected at a North Australian seaport,
where cattle, sheep. and hogs arc to be
handled in enormous daily quantities
for the markets of the world.
Millions OF acres have been acquired
on the continent. a virgin grazing
country, where millions of sheep and
cattle will be raised and the Union
Steamship Company has placed an or
der with an English shipyard Tor the
construction of four mammoth refrig-
orator carriers, to be used for trans
porting frozen meat from Australia 10
San Francisco in record time, where
leading (independent) meat house
already has contracted for all available
refrigerating space on three of these
new liners.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
A Bureau of Markets.

Secretary of Agriculture Houston
will ask Congress to sanction the es
Enlistment Of a Bureau of Markets
which has been urged upon him by
Prof. Carver, OF Harvard. recently ap.
pointed director OF a new division OF
the Department of Agriculture, to be
known as the "Rhral Organization
Service" One of the first things to
be studied by this new service will be
the economics of the marketing OF
farm products
Secretary Houston. above all things,
Is an economist and so i the professor,
and their conferences have shown that
the administration particularly is
anxious to do all in its power to re-
ducc the cost of living by eliminat-
ing inefficient and unbusinesslike meth
DDS in marketing farm produce. The
stati,tician Of the department. Dr.
Holmes, has found that the consumer
pays for his vegetables. fruit poultry,
and dairy products. as a ruic, twice as
much as the farmer receives.
DR. Holmes. after surveying the
methods of marketing farm products.
says that the farmers will have to COM
bine for the purpose of assembling
their individual contributions to con-
slider means OF shipping in carload lots ::
to obtain reliable market reports
from shipping centerS: to sell in differ
ent markets. and to secure other eco
nomic benefits OF associate selling.
A Division of Markets" could per-
form excellent service in helping
farmers to help themselves" by or
ganizing marketing societies" The
work of the Rural Organization Serv-
ice is to be carried on along these
lines. Ultimately the plans will involve
also consideration of highway and rail-
road transportation problems. and rural
communities will be urged to cooper
ate in selling III as large quantities as
practicable.
The service, in the end, is designed
to go farther than marketing, because
the economic development of any farm
ing community is so bound up with its
social life and progress, that it will be
difficult TO touch upon one without en-
croaching on the other.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Pellagra Among Women.

Official figures compiled by the Fed
eral government show that pellagra is
more deadly to women than to men.
The reason is not explained by the
experts who are studying the rapid
spread and ravageS of the disease in
this country. There was large in
crease in the mortality from the dis
ease in 1911. when $50 deaths were re-
ported in the registration area Dur
ing the early part OF the decade 1000
to 1900 the mortality reported from
this disease was insignificant, two
deaths being returned for 1900, two
for 1908, and one for 1904 In 1908
there occurred twenty-three deaths. all
in Southern cities A large increase
was shown for 1909. during which II6
deaths were reported and a still greater
increase for 1910, when there were ,36S
deaths. The mortality of 65o for 1911,
as compared with 1903 for 1910. indi-
Gates an increase of 70 per cent. 1t
is questionable, however, if this should
be considered representative of the
actual increase in the mortality As
in previous years the excess of women
victims was very large, 464, or 7o.4 per
cent, being females.
Federal, State, and municipal health
officials are exercised over the spread
of the disease and are doing what they
can to combat it. The difficulty is
that they have reached no agreement
as to either cause or cure for the
malady. The fight against it is still in
an experimental stage.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01

nal strife as result of the signing OF
the fve-power loan, which has aroused
the antagonism of the dominant (Kwo-
Ming Tang) party All that saves the
present status there is the fact that
President Yuan Shih Kai has the entire
army under his control Even so; but
for Sun Yet-Sen a sudden coup d'etat
is not among the impossibilities.
In Europe all the great nations con-
tinue on the "qui-vive," armed to the
teeth and crying for more soldiers and
armament Unless Austria gives in
for the sake of universal peace, the
ruler of the smallest kingdom, Mon
tenegro, may be the cause of lighting a
general confagration. France and Ger
many forever remind the oqlooker of
two leashed dogs, trying to break their
letters to get at the same bone AS
to Mexico. there is no need of giving
any more details than all of us
know. AS to Japan, the dove seems
to be hesitating just now, as a result
Of the California land agitation.
But when all has been said, the
clouds are not too dark nor too low
and there is the proverbial silver lining
which still may clear the political hori-
zon of the whole world The people
no lopoar 1ool- on ou;atly ,,biIo r,o,,
ernments rush into war. They demand
arbitration They insist that the CO.
lossal sums expended for being pre-
pared" should in reality be a pre-
ventive, as promised by their rulers
If the peace societies have nothing
else to their credit, they have greatly
aided in formulating this humane pub
lie opinion.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01

From Life.


Surely there must be something the
matter with the vocabulary of our young
people when they have to depend so
exclusively upon such words as ''Sure!'
Dandy" and WONDERFUL to express
their principal emotions. What is most
extraordinary about all this is that the
vocabulary of young women does not
seem to be improved by a college
career One would think that 1t would
be quite impossible to study Latin and
French and German, literature and phil
osophy for a number of years (even
though studied in the most superficial
manner) without acquiring enough vari-
ETY. of words to carry, one through any
common experience. The method of
studying English in our schools is en-
tirely swrong. There should be classes
in adjectives.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
The St. Louis Peace Conference.

Nineteen countries of this henri
sphere are represented at the fourth
American Peace Congress, which as
sembles this week at St. Louis, and
which will attempt to influence the
work laid out for the next Hague con-
ference (IoI5), unless VIZ should have
set all peace efforts to nought before
that time.
This seems strange period for the
holding of peace congress. There
have been wars in the near East; with
The torch still smoldering, and there
are persistent rumors of unrest in the
fas East. China faces renewed inter-
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Builds Hfmself Asbestos Coffin.
From the New York World


Joseph Lakowski, of Perth Amboy, n.
j., is preparing his own coffin. Joe, who
is fifty-one, Is hearty-far, indeed. from
being dead one. but he says he wants
to know that he is resting as COM
fortably in the hereafter as he has rested
in the past A year ago Joe started his
task. and the building of the comm has
been his hobby.
The oblong box will be completed as
soon as the gold handles arrive from
Chicago. 1t is made of quartered oak
imported from Poland. and rests on four
metal lion heads. The wood is highly
and the sides are embellished.
The coffin is feet inches in length.
and Joe declares he has lain in it many
times and that it Is most comfortable.
Lakowski weight rs pounds and is a
six-footer. The top of the coffin is all
glass. The iside Is heavily padded with
asbestos, but Joe refutes the reason for
this advanced by facetious folk.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-01
Weight of Royal Plate.
ON the Pail Mall Gazette

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Before the big semi-official dinners
which the king gives at Buckingham
Palace the table in the state dining
room is always inspected by the palace
''upholsterers." whose duty it is to see
that this splendid. piece of furniture is
fit to bear its burden.
The enormous weight of the royal
plate renders this precautton necessary.
1t is said, to have been instituted after
a supper table collapsed at rout giv-
en- by George III, although one would
scarcely have imagined that the frugal
his guests could possibly have brought
a1put a3nh . catastrophe.