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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
By Geo. v. Hobart

Charles Pepperface, the janitor.
Three thousand" he an
sWered without tremor.
What for?", l inquired bland
ly.
For this apartment" he
cross-countered.
"Three thousand dollars a
year-each month in advance
no dogs-no children-no tur-
key-trot parties-no piano play
ing after II p. m.-you must
deal with the grocer, butcher,
laundry and haberdasher that
suggest, and no"
| turned to look at Peaches.
She was in the elevator, gasping
for breath.
| joined her III the elevator
and in the gasping.
We gasped all the way back to
the hotel.
Maybe sgd D'Brie was right
about that Rube proposition.
| Peaches and sat down by the
window and with the roar of
Broadway in our ears we closed
our eyes and pictured a cozy
cottage with it's green shutters
and ivy climbing up the porch;
with bit of lawn where roses
struggled with the honeysuckle
for our admiration:
Tush! the real Rube has all the
best of it. :.
Surest thing you know! =
! Copyright, 1913. by the Mcclure News
| paper Syndicate)
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19

worth Of enjoyment out of it in
a year? Nix, old squills. You
may be slightly bucolic in tenn
permanent, but you're no Rube;
so take my tip and beat it from
this district where every lighted
window is a sign that money is
burning furiously within"
| take back all l said about sgd
D'Brie. He's a busy boy with
the CAB, but there's something
in what he says. And if his
face is like a cow it's an Ayr
shire.
Bidding sgd All affectionate
farewell we tip-toed out of the
Rube's Retreat and went forth
into the jungle alone.
Peaches soon discovered an
assortment Of sandstone and
mortar which wagged it's tail
when you called it Gladiolus
Court; so we went in to take a
look around.
Gladiolus Court was very Sc
lect, the janitor told us. Then
he showed us through a collec-
tion of five horse stalls on the
sixth floor. When | asked him
if he knew any place around
there large enough to hold a
table and two chairs, he had a
blowout in a perfectly good tire.
The janitor told us there were
only three dark rooms and when
| told him that three out of five
took the record away from Eng
land, | thought he'd bite me.
Our next guess was a tall,
blonde building with fricassee
of iron around the front of it.
1t was called The Gushworth
Arms by those who cared to
mention it at all.
The janitor was made up to
look like a sea lion, but he had
the softest voice / ever heard. 1t
sounded like the rattle of pull
verized sugar falling in a bowl
of oatmeal.
He offered us seven rooms
and a bath on the fifth floor,
but when we got up there some
body had mislaid three of the
rooms, and the bath, after hear
ing the janitor say so many
times what he charged for the
apartment, had shrunk to a foot
tub; so we went sadly away
from there.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19

"How would $4,000 strike
you?" sgd inquired.
"1t would strike me below the
belt," | told him. 'T said we
wanted something reasonable"
"Well," sgd chuckled, "six
thousand a year is reasonable
nowadays. We have apartments
ranging all the way from $4,000
up to $4,000 year."
"You may keep all of them
with my compliments, Syd," l
Informed him. SWhat I'm look
ing for is a place to live in, not
a hand-painted cabaret in which
to entertain the Sheriff. don't
wish to pry loose any trade Sc
crets, but tell me, Sgd, how do
you manage to rent an apart
ment when the formula is the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
a krabbi dinner
same as buying an issue of City

same as buying an issue of City
Bonds %
"Cinch!" sgd gurgled BROTH
ly. "You can sell anything to
the Rubes in New York"
"Rubes in New York y
Peaches and I echoed.
"Surest thing you know" /"
sgd beefed Oh; "there are more
Rubes in New York than in all
the rural districts tied together.
Who is it rides up town on the
subway in the evening with a
strange man standing on each
one of his insteps-the Rube
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19

has relieved
your feet.
TIZ softens
the hardened
skin that forms
corns. bunlons
and caluses, re-
lieYes at once
and. finally,
does away with
them.
Sore feet. tir-
ed fcet-feet
chafed, swollen
and snarting,
are quickly cur
ed by TIZ. no
matter In how
bad shape. The
smelly feet of
summer the
cllilblained feet
OF winter, are
unknown TO the
man or woman
who faithfully
uses TIT for
tp,1icr foot
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19

TIZ acts right off--1s unlike all other
foot remedies Price 20 cents at drug and
department stores. II your dealer won't
supply you with TIZ, we WILL by mall,
on receipt OF price.
ASK for Tiz-get TIZ-and take no
substitute. Walter Luther Dodge SS Co,
1928 So. Wabash Ave. Chicago.
(Advertsemont)
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
Henry ON the Rubes of
New York.

Henry ON the Rubes OF
New York.
AY! did you ever put or
your things and go out
\ hunting for an apartment
xttle old Manhattan Isle? It's
nile Pastime-take it from
ie Hank. It's an exercise
brings into play all the hith-
unused muscles of the pock-
k.
you grow more familiar
The Mysteries Of the Game
@see what a fatal mistake
made in not being born rich,
zhs your faltering feet take
Mrom one Palatial Bungalow
Aother you berate the Des-
(which failed to make you
lei clerk in Sharon, Pa, or
Ha water operator in Daw-
aW. Va,
aches, having tired Of hotel
began to murmur incoher-
from time to time about
rect little nest Of our own. "
NEST, indeed! | had a
"a once who built a nest in
s5town apartment house and
= months later a strange
511ew in and eloped with his
a So nix on the nest.
lend wife was insistent,
yer, so finally we set forth
est of a haven of rest where
hould no longer be at the
of tip-sodden walters and
y-mad bell hops.
ting go of the life line, we
4 out into the upper reaches
oadway in search Of a Rent
Agency, and were soon be-
hope of rescue.
ss.sr there on our port bow
id largely the fascinating
Thce to Webb & Spiders, and
q million other flies we fell
3uming that air of Ianguid
9erence which is popularity
NIsed to indicate excessive
w interests, We gave the
bign to a gold-braided func-
,ky at the entrance and
" ourselves into the silver
"a cavern where they take
measure for an apartment.
{ : Renting Agency of Webb
aader was the velvet goods
lit from an eagle-eyed on
: ! &! Adjoining the walls were
lslngs the like Of which Rem
MI or Corot would have been
Il off sufficiently intoxi-
ii Mahogany and plate
s5did team work all over the
u ! land the soft mur1nur of
bh throated typewriters
he an atmosphere of refine
p ? befitting a place where
s v is painlessly extracted.
= 3 were wading through a
'l,t with plush up to our an
) ryhen suddenly appeared in
8 Is Athway one Sydney D'Brie,
"a with a map like a COW
lhiginal Brother of the Ok
Mi ~ doubt you know lots of
lSI .!as who always smile and
III pnscious when accused OF
j Mf Bovine Eyes, but did you
d, d atch the fellow with q
3 nface like a COW?
re apey D'Brie is the answer
rs time Sgd looked at me
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19
Don't Suffer
from Sore Feet
Use TIz, for Tender Feet, and Be Free
From Foot Troubles.

TIZ, for tender iest. ends all foot tor
lures In soothing. comforting foot bath,
Shoes feel as easy as slippers once TIZ
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
Amending the Constitution.

New York Evening Post: The rati-
fication of the income tax amendment
by the requisite three-fourths Of the
states puts an end to the notion that
the constitution of the United States
is virtually unamendable. Even the
circumstance that it has taken four
years to secure that ratification loses
most of whatever significance it
might otherwise have had when ws
recall that leading factor in bring
ing about this delay was the objection
raised by Governor Hughes-an OBJ
lection having no relation to the act
Ial purpose Of the amendment, but
tended consequences which, in Mr.
Hughes Judgment might flow from the
particular wording of the amendment
as passed by congress. The amend
ment providing for popular election of
senators is having a much smoother
course through the state legislatures,
and will in all probability become a
part of the constitution in the very
near future The truth about the
procuring of amendments to the con
stitution OF the United States is that
1T is hard to do 1t unless the settled
sentiment of the country is very clear
ly and earnestly in favor of the change
proposed, but that when this condi-
ton is satisfied there is no peculiar
difficulty in the matter. In other
words, there is Just that difference
between the amending of the consti-
tuticn and the passing of an ordinary
statute that there ought to be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
Treasury Order No. 8.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. i
WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.-Exemp-
ton of national banks from paying in.
terest on federal deposits, as allowed
In treasury order number Ave-. crit
1cfsed by Rudolph Spreckels, the san
francisco banker, was defended to-
day by Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh before house committee.
MacVeagh's reason for issuing the
order. however. were not inquired In
to. =
Importance of an adequate reserve
far transcends that of getting 4 little
Interest" Macveagh declared. "The
treasury is in the banking business
and, while l wish it was not, we must
be careful Of our responsibilities,
MacVeagh vigorously opposed the
plan of compelling interest payments
on government funds by the banks.
He said the treasury is now in splen-
did condition, with an actual surplus
OF $S5,ooO,Oo0 created by the sale OF
s5O,Ooo,oo0 in Panama canal bonds
two years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20

Of Macomb, Ill. win be the speaker
of the evening.
Mrs. A. w. Teel and Miss Dovie
Teel have joined the formers hus-
band in Jefferson City.
Hon. ]. A. Whiteside is holding a
term OF court for Judge Stewart at
Edna
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. McHugh have re.
turned from visit in Arkansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Wilson and
daughter are the guests of Kansas
City relatives.
Mrs. John Puder and son Lowell
left Tuesday for q visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Hull, OF Alexis. III.
Mesdames F. H. Thompson, Guy
Duke, James Woodruff, Maud Jordan,
F. H. Warne, Lucy White and Misses
Myrtle Callison and Olive Montgomery
attended an Eastern Star school Of
instruction at Wyaconda Tuesday.
Miss Goldie Brotherton, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Brotherton, OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
MESSENGER
BECAME BANDIT
Attempted to Rob Old Man Of His
Money and Lands at tho
Police Station.

United Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Feb 20. An 1S-year
old messenger boy turned bandit here
and attempted to beat his former
manager. an elderly man, insensible
and rob him Of wallet containing
$3.50. The boy, who had left his job
az messenger. drove up to the Fulton
market branch of the Postal Tele-
graph Co. In limousine car and swag-
gered inside to greet his former com.
rades on. the messengers bench.
He Dragged about his fine new Job
and pointed to the car outside say
ing his employer let him use 1t when.
ever he wanted to. He then turned
to Warren Michner, the elderly man
ager. and said:
III you're going up to the main
office with your money. I'll give you
a ride
The driver. hearing one Of his win.
dows smash, stopped short. Police.
men ran up and found the boy and
the old man in q desperate struggle.
The boy hit Michner over the head
several times with an iron bar.
When arrested the boy asked news.
papermen If they wanted his photo.
graph.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
Illinois Farmers, Instltute.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. i
STERLING, ILL.,, Feb. 20. Delega.
lions from four cities today pushed
their claims to the 1914 convention Of
the Illinois Farmers Institute. which
opened Its second session today.
Galesburg. Carbondale. Jacksonville
and Lincoln each want next years
meeting.
Or. Cyril Hopkins of the University
OF Illinois. and Frank T. Mann Of GIL
man, Ill. made addresses today on
soil fertility. William Osborn OF
Morris, ILL.,, spoke on poultry prob.
lens and Wayne Dinsmore OF Chi.
cago, secretary OF the American
Percheron Association, urged the
breeding Of better horses in Illinois.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
IMPROVING THE
COLUMBIA RIVER
Attention Of the United States Gov.
eminent Called and Officers Of En-
gineering Department Investigate,
Especial to The Gate CITY I

Especial to The Gate City.1
SPOKANE, Wash, FEB. 2o.-Im.
provement of the upper Columbia
river to permit navigation is receI,
ing the attention of the United States
government, which has sent Major j.
3. Cavanaugh and Captain Ernhbeck
OF the army engineer corps west to
make an investigation. At meeting
with business men of Kettle Falls
north OF Spokane, the officers said
the plan adopted by the war depart.
ment Is to improve the river from
Wenatchee north to Kettle Falls an
rapidly as possible The state steam.
er Yakima and three barges are now
removing distractions at various
places in the river, from 100 to $50
miles south of Kettle Falls, and CON
gress has been urged to provide funds
for extending the work to, the north
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
Responsibility Of offcers.

DES MONIES, Ia, Feb. Re
sponsibility of officers to find and
prosecute men who commit crimes
promptly still rests on their shoulders
for the House yesterday voted down
the Eggleston bill which provided an
amendment to the present law to the
effect that the time spent outside of
the state by man who committed a
crime, should be subtracted from the
time fixed as the limitation for prose
cution. The law was left as it is and
it is UP to sheriffs and other officers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20

Kahoka, was united IL marriage !.
the home Of her parents TUESDAY -
Mr.. Roland McNally, Rev. Harris i.
Rotating. The newly weds deuartsa
Immediately for Oklahoma where thew
will reside.
J. H. Reed, aged about sixty wear,
died Saturday at his home near Win.
chester. Funeral services were con.
Quoted by Rev. Holowell. Interment
tn the Day cemetery.
A large business mems meeting va,
held at the K. P. hall ..onday night
Several matters Of Importance was m
for discussion.
G. 3. King Of Keokuk was with Old
Kahoka friends Monday.
George Sanford, Of Keokuk, was
the guestsof Kahoka friends last Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Laugh return
ed Tuesday to their home in Center
Vile, after a few days visit with Ks
hoka relatives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
DOINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 20.-Repre
sentative Shankland. OF Polk comfy
will today introduce his bill providing
for securing consent to operate mulct
| saloons by ballot instead OF by petit
ton as at present, and purposes to
throw bomb into the alleged dry
forces opposing it by citing that E
s. Root, secretary Of Des Moines Citi
zens League, which has been fighy
Ing the Des Moines petition. Is In
favor of his measure. He has figures
! from the secretary of the Des Monies
dry" organization to show that in
fighting the Des Moines saloon petit
ton which is now In the supreme
court they have spent $4,000. Had
there have been secret ballot no
such expensive contest could have
been waged. Waterloo and Ottumwa,
which are torn up In business way
as a result Of the fierce contention
over the public petitions. will also
be cited by Representative Shank
land as examples why his bill should
pass.
The Shankland measure will pro-
vide that the question Of granting a
saloon permit shall be submitted to
a vote Of the people in cities having
a population Of 5000 or more when
twenty-five per cent OF the electors at
the last general election shall sign
petition to the mayor to call such
an election. And the mayor is to call
no such election until the liquor in
terests desiring the mulct operation
file with the mayor or city council an
approved bond for sufficient money to
cover the expense of the special cleo
ton which shall be paid for by the
liquor interests. Mr.. Shankland
makes the special election provision
to keep the issue entirely divorced
from other questions that might be
submitted at general election. At
this special election, his measure
provides, only those may vote who
have registered and voted at the pre-
ceding election, and judges are to
check in and out the voters from the
precinct poll books.
want to say said Mr.. Shank
land today, that this is not a wet
measure. There are as many 'drys'
favoring this method as there are
vets ] make 1t applicable at this
time to cities of 5000 or over that 1t
may have a thorough trial. That is
where the chief trouble now lies is
in the cities"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
THE IOWA BOYS ACRE CORN

j The acre corn club work this year
will be carried out under the cooper.
alive arrangements made by the ex-
TENSION department of the Iowa state
college of agriculture with the U. s.
department of agriculture. The Iowa
club members thus become members
/ OF the National Corn club and will be
entitled to all the accompanying priv
ileges. The following conditions APP
ply:
Age OF members: 10 to Is years,
| inclusive.
Acreage: One acre.
Basis of award
2. Showing of profit o invest
ment and work ............ 80
3. Exhibit of tan best ears OF corn
at county or state fair or con
test ..........s......... 20
4. Written history on: How l
grew my corn crop" ......... 20
Total score .5..s..... 100
Enrollments may be made through
the county superintendent, the teach
err, or other club leader, or directly
with the state agent Enrolment
blanks and enrolment cards will be
furnished by the county superinten-
dent in counties where the county
superintendent has a county organi-
zation Of the corn club. In counties
not organized, application for sup
plies should be made to the state
agent.
Supplies furnished by the state and
by the government are sent free.
Members may compete for national
and state prizes as well as for county
and district prizes offered Those en-
rolling will receive full instructions
as to procedure.
The first duties are these:
1. Enroll as a member of the
Iowa Boys Corn club.
2. Secure the use Of desirable
piece of good corn land-a little more
than one acre in size If possible to
allow for turning rows and provide
protection for the prize corn.
8. Secure pure bred seed corn OF
the best producing variety for the
community.
4. Carefully select and test every |
ear of seed corn.
Members of the corn club should
consult their local club leader or the
county superintendent on all ques-
lions relative to their work, except i
where there is no local or county {
In such cases, address
the state agent.
E. C. BISHOP,
State Agent in Charge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
Camp Lost His Job.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.--P President
Taft today named Ben E. Allen to be
postmaster at Beebe, Arkansas, sue
ceeding T. J. Camp, who recently
swore before senate investigating
committee that a republican state
committee attempted to force him to
contribute to the republican campaign
fund. At the white house it was said
that Camps postof1ice affairs have
Leen investigated and found irregular.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-20
sEMi-INDusTRIAL WORK
MODERN SCHOOL

The old-fashioned set course with
cultural aims has caused many fa1I-
ures, produced hundreds of misfits,
and driven innumerable boys ana
girls to leave school as soon as the
law will permit" declares Edwin i.
Canine, superintendent of schools IN
east Chicago, in a statement address
ed to the United States commissions
of education.
East Chicago is city of cosmopol-
itan character and strong democratic
tendencies, according to Superinten-
dent Canine. There is no wealthy
nor especially cultured class, and ex-
IRENE poverty is unknown His prob
lem, therefore, was probably some
what different from that of other
school men. In his efforts to solve
it he emphasizes certain special fea-
lures, among which "sem.-industria al
work." q "maximum-m minimum" plan
of assigning school lessons, and a
method of reducing the number of
daily recitations, are conspicuous.
Semtindustrial classes were form
ed when it was found that some CHI,
dren, especially in grades five, six
and seven, appeared unable 10 carry
the regular work, even after repeat
ed trials. Special attention was CIV,
en- to these pupils. One-third or one
fourth of their time was spent in the
manual training or domestic science
department, where the work was
made as practical as possible. Thel,
the special teacher took them for
about the same amount of time and
coached them In the subjects of the
grade in which they had failed. I'm
der these conditions, superintendent
Canine reports, some of the boys pass
ed not only the grade in which they
had failed but the next grade as wei
! These semi-industrial classes are
open also to children over fourteen
years Of age who have lefs school and
are unemployed, and to those already
at work who are permitted by fore.
1 sighted employers to attend school
( part of the time.
/ The maximum minimum" plan OF
lesson assignment adopted In Super.
intendent CANNES system is an In
genious application of the principle
from each according to mas abili.
/ ties The pupils do not all have the
same amount to do. If the avera ge
pupils Of the class are assigned fit.
teen problems in arithmetic, for in.
stance, the slower pupils are assigned
eight, ten, or twelve TYPICAL problems
while the brightest are asked to do
twenty or more. The same principe
is applied to geography and history
and to some extent 10 English.
Believing that the esergies of the
pupils are unnecessarily divided and
: dissipated by the constantly increas
ing number of school subjects, Super
lntendent Canine has devised plan
OF reducing the number of studies
In the four lower grades literature
history. and nature study, instead O.
forming separate subjects in the cur
rleuium, are combined in "languag,
: work. Other similar combination.
}, are made throughout the course.
AS m many American cities, tn.
school work in East Chicago is by M
means confined to the period Of tho