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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
FROM THE WORLD ELECTRIC.

An electric machine has been per.
fected which sorts. counts and wraps
coins at the rate OF 1900 minute.
The machine Is very accurate and
throws out all mutilated coins.
A 3O,0o0-horse power hydro-electric
plant at Parr Shoals, South Carolina,
has recently been opened to supply
cheap electricity to the manufacturing
plants Of Columbia.
The largest submarine power cable
is being laid across San Francisco
bay. The diameter OF the cable Is
inches and it extends along the bot
tom of the bay for 20,7ss feet. The
cable was made in sixteen parts each
weighing Is tons.
If all the water power OF this coun-
try was developed electrically it would
save the handling Of 2s5,oo0,000 tons
OF coal year.
1t is expected that electric trans
mission will be improved an6, perfect
ed until electrical enegry can be eco
nomically transmitted for at least 500
miles.
Recently over 5000 Mazda lamps
were installed in one hotel In New
York Many Of these lamps were for
decorative purposes.
New York CITY spent 81. 900 for or,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
LIVING ON THE PORCH.

With electricity it is entirely pos
sibIe to keep house outdoors on the
cool porch during the hot days OF
summer. The washing and ironing
may be done on the back porch, with
the aid OF the electric motor and the
electric iron. The motor will do all
the hard work and the electric iron
eliminates the hot stove entirely. The
meals can be cooked and served on
the side porch.
Many family would enjoy eating
on the porch during the summer, but
It is such a bother to prepare the
edibles in the kitchen and then have
to carry them all out on the porch
and back again when the meal is over.
BY using the electric grill, the cleo
trio chatting dish and the electric cof-
fee percolator or tea samovar very
substantial and appetizing meal can
be prepared right on the porch table.
In fact one housewife arranged a
neat little cabinet on the porch, In
which she kept the electric cooking
devices. utensils and the essentials OF
cooking, as well as few dishes, etc.
This made the preparation OF summer
meals light and enjoyable task and
was a welcome change from the regu-
lar routine Of kitchen homework.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
Y.W.C.A. NOTES
A "spoony" GIFT.

A "spoony" gift to the Y. w. c. A
OF St. Louis Is interesting and thus
recorded in a local paper OF that city
this morning.
"A donor who confessed himself a.
'sToony' sent eight dozen silver tea
spoons to the East st. Louis Young
Woman's Christian Association yester.
day with the following letter:
Being one OF your great admirers
and appreciative Of your work.. such
good work, in supplying the inner
man, I am going to prove 1t by the
contents of this package. When you
open 1t you will find that am 'spoony'
on the girls.
Compliments Of one Of your eat.
ers.''
ME- Lydia Mesloh, lunchroom d.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
namental park lighting on the Fourth

namental park lighting on the Fourth
OF July.
Worcester. Mass, recently opened q
white way illuminated by 500 orna-
mental luminous arc lamps.
Over 2.400 electric fiatirons were
sold In ono day In st. Louis.
The largest electric sign in London
was recently erected for the Evening
News 1t contains about 1000 mean
descent lamps.
The Transatlantic wireless station
at New Brunswick, N. j., has been
completed and messages have been
sent to the station in Wales.
The Saxony State Railway has de-
cided to begin work on the electrifica-
ton OF it's system The first section
to be converted will be that between
Klingenthal and Untersachenberg.
after which the Pirna-Dresd en-Neissen
line may be taken in hand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
IN THE KITCHEN.

The fact that thing has always
been done in a certain way-the mere
precedent limits originality and
hats progress. For example: In a re-
cent issue of the Survey the question
why kitchen sinks have been made
so low was discussed. No one seemed
able to explain. Finally a certain
maker discovered that the original
sinks were made when the washing OF
dishes and other sink-work was done
in wooden tubs with high sides. Such
a tub when used in high sink came
up too far, SO the sink was made low.
Furthermore, as running water and
fixed faucets had not long been made,
the tub had to be lifted out of the sink
and the lower the sink, the lighter the
lift Though Improvements in fau-
Gets, dish-pans, and other accessories
of kitchen sinks have been made, no
one seemed to realize that the sink
could be improved by raising. So
women were-and are-compelled to
endure discomfort when doing their
ordinary house work. There may be a
certain percentage OF Inconvenience
to be reached before the human mind
grasps the fact that something must
be altered. The wise inventor says
The Journal Of the American Medical
attains reputation for
brilliancy by making his invention be-
fore the need becomes obvious to
others.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
JOYS OF VILLAGE LEE.

| One can appreciate the feelings OF
the pioneer settler who, when another
settler built cabin q mile north Of
him, and third settler located 8
quarter section of land half mile south
OF him. said that he was going to move
for the neighborhood was getting toe
crowded. He was not consoled when
told that these neighborhood improve.
ments would make his own land more
valuable. He said that he did not
want 1t to be more valuable. for that
would increase the amount of taxes
he would have to pay. That one of the
new settlers was fine violinist and
the other a landscape artist did not
reconcile him to being crowded" He
said that the voice Of the wind signing
through the trees, the song of the
birds, the hum OF the bees, and even
the warbling OF the bullfrogs in the
swamp was sweeter music than any
catgut scraper could make, and there
was no painted landscape that could
compare with the bloom Of the flowers,
the sparkle Of the stars and the fret
work glories OF color that the setting
sun wrought upon the clouds. As for
the society Of neighbors, he did not
covet it, says the Los Angeles Times.
He had better society in the few books
in his cabin. He did not have to dress
up and walk mile to hear Reade and
Dickens and stevenson and Macaulay
and Emerson and Shakespeare and
Moses and solomon and Saint Paul
Hyc1 ~ fv,N ~ xx,l.s- =
weary OF them he could lay down his
book and dismiss them without dis
courtesy, while, II one Of the new
neighbors called on him and bored
him with his driyel, he could not be
so tmpolite as to open the door and
kick him out. Companionship? He
had afrectionate, loyal and truthful
companions who never lied to him
When hen cried "cut-cut-kedwaket"
he knew that she had laid an egg for
his breakfast. When his horse whin-
MED he knew that the animal was
glad to see him. No COW ever lied
to him. and there was not money
enough to bride his dog nor to wag
his tail at the sight of his master
or to silence HIS growl at the ap-
proach Of an ill-smelling stranger.
The old hermit was wrong. One
does not need to fly to the solitude of
the prairie or the forest to escape the
din OF the city, for there is the cheer
Of village life, which many consider
as the very best form OF life. Concern
ing this the Higginsville Jeffersonian
says: Life is pleasantest in a coun-
try town, and nefghbors are most
We can sit on our porckes
in the cool Of the eenving and visit,
we can exchange greetings with all
who pass, and all the summer long we
live in a pleasant atmosphere Of hui
man FELLOWSHIP >,
Then there Is the coming Of q |
neighbor bearing a vessel filed with I
new potatoes, string beans, beets or
some other honest Joy OF life plucked |,
from that kind neighbor's garden.
And on the morrow the good wife re-
Turns the vessel laden with cherries
from our trees. And each time the |
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

II bought q box Of complexion cream and
used it but without effect also bought
some and complexion cream but
with the same poor result One day heard
of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and do
cided to give them trial. So got cake
Of Cuticura Soap and box of Cuticura
Ointment, washed my face with the Soap
and applied the Ointment and In two weeks
l was completely WELL" (Signed) Chas. e.
AicGinn, May 5, 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

special training to child for the pur,
pose OF fastening him to q machine
On which he shall do purely mechan,
ical labor for life. Business says.
Here are the jobs; what kind OF
children have You to ~fer?' We must
reverse the inquiry and say to bus,.
ness: Here are our children; what
kind of industry have you to offer? =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
Samples Free by Mail

In the care Of baby's skin and hair. Cutf-
cura Soap is the mothers favorite. Not
only is it unrivaled in purity and refreshing
fragrance, but its gentle eYnollient proper
ties are usually sufficient to allay minor irri-
tations remove redness. roughness ard
Chatting, soothe sensitive conditions, and
promote skin and hair health generally.
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment ara
sold throughout the world. Liberal sampled
each mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book Adj
dress postcard 'Cuticura, Dept. 7. Boston"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

William F. Trowbrfdge, at FELTON,
vile, now a part OF Marlborough,
Mass, applied horse power to the
shoemaking machinery Of 1855. Steam
and water rover came later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

burned so badly that I had
to scratch them and that
only made them worse.
About . week Later my face
was SO badly covered with
pimples and blackheads
that ! was ashamed. My
complexion wasruined. The
pimples would sometimes
bleed and tester.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

The coasts OF Great Britain will be
surrounded with towers on which will
be mounted guns designed for rapid
firing at air craft
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

The poet Whittier was shoemaker
in his youth. Henry Wilson. eigh-
teenth vice president of the United
States, was the Natick cobbIer," and
was always proud of his shoemaking
days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

There is plant growing on noun
tains in central Europe that develops
enough heat to push it's flower stalks
through snow and produce blossoms.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

John Brooks Nichols OF Lynn adapt
&c the Howe sewing machine to sew
the uppers of shoes in 1851. and this
was the first important step in the
application Of machinery to shoemak-
ing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

An oil burning steamship recently
arrived at Philadelphia from Hawaii,
having made the record-breaking run
OF 1890 miles without stop.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

cent lamp between each pair. Energy
is supplied by small electric motor
which operates the mechanism that
rings the gong and waves the disk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

A recently patented parachute
launching device for aeroplanes
shoots parachute clear of entangle-
ments by gas or compressed air.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

A recently patented sea anchor to
hold boat head-on to waves is equip
ped with tank from which oil flows
to smooth the water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Shears with one blade saw-edged
and the other knife-edged have been
invented to enable even an inexperi-
ence person to carve poultry neatly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

layer OF sawdust spread on a
floor before oilcloth is laid, will in
crease the Iatter's lasting quality and
provides a soft tread.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16
Paris has made vaccination against
typhoid fever obligatory for all mem
bers Of its hospital staffs

A chain of wireless stations extends
around the entire coast of Australia,
So that vessel never is out Of touch
with the shore.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

A new air rifle of high power is
equipped with a safety device to pre-
vent the trigger being pulled until its
user wishes to do so.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Farmers in one region of Queenland
feed their horses on chopped banana
stalks taken just after the fruit has
been harvested.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

A kitchen table the height Of which
Is adjustable, has been invented to
facilitate various kinds of work for
which it may be needed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

| An attachment has been invented
for telephone receivers to enable
stenographers to take both sides Of
conversations over wires.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

When not in use in warm weather
rubber hot water bottles should be
filed and tightly capped to prevent
their sides adhering
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Brief and repeated treatments with
air superheated to 120 degrees, ac-
cording to an English expert, will cure
cancer in its early stages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

For sprfnkling clothes a Pennsyl
vania woman has invented a device to
be attached to a kitchen sink faucet
by rubber tubing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

An Illinois man has patented clamps
to hold paint brushes on the ends of
poles at any angle to save painters the
need of ladders
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

One of the newer motor-driven
lawn mowers uses the power only to
revolve the knives being propelled by
the hands in the usual manner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

In new headlight for automobiles
and carriages there is an arrangement
by which beam Of light can be
turned back upon the step of a
vehicle
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Christiania's present telephone sys.
tenn is to be transformed into an auto
matte one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

It has bee nestimated that every
square mile Of the ocean is inhabited
by 1000, 900 living beings
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

France has granted a patent for a
process of. bleaching and dry sea-
weeds for packing purposes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Tunis yearly dtstills 100000 pounds
of orange flowers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

British imports in May aggregate
s2S7, 1894 in value
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Horses sleep but three or four hours
In each twenty-four.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

United States Osteopathic associa
ton has 1000 members
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

A clip to hold a pen or pencil in a
pocket has been combined with an
eraser in recent invention.
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COMPLEXION ruined
BY P|MP[ES
ltched and Burned Badly. Also Had
Blackheads. Used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. In Two Weeks
Completely Well.

724 E. N. Ave-. Olney. Iu-"when my
trouble first began noticed little ptmpIes
coming on my face. They itched and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Ceylon rickshaws now use Ameri-
can wire wheels.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Turkeys 1912 exports were valued
at nearly 100000 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

bearer of gifts fingers for q pleasant
chat. Do not small town folks come
nearer than do most city folks to
loving our neighbors as ourselves?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16


THE WORD.
Oh, word Is a gem, or stone, or a
song,
Or a flame, or a two-edged sword;
Or rose in bloom, or a sweet per-
fume,
Or drop of gall is sword.
You may choose your word like con-
noisseur,
And polish it up with art,
But the word that sways, and Etirs,
and stays,
Is the word that comes from the
heart.
You may work on your word thous-
and weeks,
But it viii not glow like one
That all unsought, leaps forth white
When the fountains of feeling run.
of thought,
And fashion your word with care,
But unless you are stirred to the
depths, that word
Shall die on the empty air.
For the word that comes from the
brain alone.
Alone to the brain will speed;
But the word that sways, and stirs,
and stays,
Oh. that is the word men heed
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Nautilus
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-16

Sweden claims population of s.
6S8, 5S3 persons
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Pennsylvania has 112,400 licensed
automobiles.
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The United States mines five tons
Of coal year for every inhabitant
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Spain deyotes 3,5s4,720 acres TO
olive growing.
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Belgium has four artificial silk fac
tories.
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Saskatchewan VIII protect antelope
by law.
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Italian demand for fuel oils is grow
ing.
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rector. who was delighted Win -
gift. has no idea who sent II
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-09
Child Welfare Conference
2 in Summit Ends Tonight
Especial to the Evening star.I

SUMMIT, May 9.-The Child We'll
fare Conference, which opened
Thursday night In the public library,
will be brought to a close tonight.
An educational session of the con-
ference was held this afternoon. The
influence of the library on children
was presented by Miss Anne Car
roll Moore in an address on Chill
dren's Reading" and Miss Anna c..
Tyler, who lectured on story telling.
A third speaker was Miss Janet Sal
ter Townsend, who spoke on the
Montessori method, which was illus
trated by lantern slides. School Su-
perintendent Clinton L. Marsh pre-
sided.
This evening a medical session will
be held, at which DR.. Thomas p.
Prout, of the local Board of Health;
School Physician William S. Lam
son and DIR. F. Tweddell will give
addresses on subjects of Importance
to the physical welfare of children.
At the conference there is displayed
an interesting child labor exhibit,
which was loaned by the State Fed
Grafton of Womans Clubs There is
also shown q series of photographs
portraying the use of Libraries in
lSe~ YORK by children and which
were loaned for the conference by
the New York public library. Pho
tographs and notebooks of the work
performed by the children on the
and in the chiidren's gar
den here last summer are also dts
Dlaysdp
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-09
EXPRESS COMPANY
:MUSTPUT IN PHONE
Utility Commission Refuses to
Make Wells Fargo Install De-
livery Service at Allendale.
Especial to the Evening star.l

TRF TON, May 9.-The Board of
Public Utility Commissioners today
ordered Wells Fargo & Company to
install and maintain telephone at
its Allendale, Bergen county, office.
rhe commission refused to order the
company to maintain a pickup and
delivery service in connection with
he Allendale office.
George Cook, and other residents
,f the borough, complained to the
commission that the absence of the
telephone and pickup service render
ID the company's service inadequate
and improper.
In refusing to order the company to
install a pickup and delivery sys-
en-. the utility commission found
hat the earnings on the capital stock
If the company are shown to be 12.71
,er cent. The board also found that
,f the total income, little more than
,ne-half was derived from the ex-
oress business The gross receipts
or 1912 compared with those of 1918,
show a decrease of 1896, ,247.91. In view
If the decrease in receipts the COM
mission says that the rule of the COM
'1anv under which the delivery sys.
EN- is not provided in connection
With the Allendale office is not un-
,aasonable nor is it such as to con-
,titute improper service.
-ir. Cook charged that the lack of
..sah serv.ce constituted an unrea-
,oaap,o !sia,rs,nins tion because such
,eryico Is provided 90 several COM
,,,,,,itles. ,ccAte6 on the Erie railroad,
ssej,az short ekztanos OF Allendals.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-09
Dozen Villages Destroyed
in Vicinity of Catania
by Horror Resembling
That of MeSsina.
SCORES ARE KILLED, But
NO ESTIMATE Is MADE
Damage Is Known to Have Been
Enormous-Fifty Killed in liz
nera-Consentini, Zafferana,
Ammalati, CaricO, Guardia
and Other Towns in Ruins.

CATANIA, Sicily. May "A vio-
lent earthquake greatly resembling
that at NJ Messina in 1905, late last night
destroyed about dozen villages In
this vicinity. While many are known
to have been killed no estimate of the
number of casualties has yet been
made. 1t is known that the damage
was enormous.
The great gravity of the disaster
was not realized until this morning,
when reports came in from the sur
rounding country
The villages of Liners and Consen-
TIM were transformed into heaps of
ruins.
At zafferana every house was de-
stroyed. Enormous damage was
caused at Santa Venerina,
Fifty Die In One Village.
Roofs fell in and walls collapsed
in the hamlets of Santa Maria, Am
malati, Carico, Guardia, Mangano,
Santa Tecla an6 Bongiardo.
The village of Santa Maria Vergine
Catena was razed to the ground.
Fifty persons are known to have
been killed in the village of Linera,
which was destroyed. Among the
ruins of Passopomo, Bongiardo and
Malati twenty bodies had been found
this morning.
Project Minervtni. of Catania, and
all the officials under his superintend-
ence were called together befor day
break this morning and received or
ders to do their utmost to aid the af-
hicted inhabitants. They have since
been working indefatigably.
The soldiers in the district are aid
ing in the endeaVor to rescue thoEa
stfli>adiVe beneath the ruins and to
extricate the dead from the debris
All available nurses were mobilized
today and are assisting in gathering
the homeless and the children who
have lost their parents. Temporary
shelter is being provided here for the
refugees.
Heartrending Scenes.
Along the principal highways in
the stricken district, the scene of
desolation was heartrending this
morning. Groups of refugees were
encountered. Many of
these were burdened with improvised
litters made of branches of trees and
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