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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
pEcElvlhe The FARMER.

Results of an inquiry which Repre-
sentative Charles H. Sloan, Of Ne
braska, has been making into the price
| of farm implements was announced
today. Mr.. Sloan's statement shows
That there has been an advance Of
price to the retailer during the
twelve months preceding June 1 in
farm wagons, plows, discs, harrows
and grain drills, and a tendency to
advance in windmills, pumps and
similar farm appliances. The prices
quoted are those Of the international
Harvester company, based +. o. b. cars
Chicago. These quotations show there
has been a marked increase in the
prices of rakes, tedders and wagons.
The more important result Of this
investigation, however, is the state
ment that binding Irvine has increased
in price. He shows that pure Manila
Irvine has gone from nine and three
lights cents in 1912 to thirteen and
three-quarter cents in 1914, and that
Manila Irvine has gone from eight and
lone-quarter cents to eleven cents, and
other brands from seven and one
quarter cents to nine cents.
Mr. Sloan makes this statement in
connection with an answer to Repre-
sentative Cullop (dem.) of Indiana,
whom he charges with having contra
dicted every market Of the United
States" in a statement he made on
! the floor of the house, June 4. to the
effect that wheat now is better
price under democratic times than it
was in 1912, under republican rule"
Mr.. Sloan shows that there has been
an average decrease in the five prin-
! cipal wheat markets of the United
States Of eighteen cents a bushel, talk
ling wheat prices this year and COM
pairing them with prices Of two years
ago. He says that these figures were
available when Mr.. Cullop made his
statement and that he (Cullop) had
no excuse in making his erroneous
statement and no object, apparently,
Except to deceive the farmers who
have been the most harshly used OF
all the people of the United States in
TIE tariff reafjustnent of this con-
| gress."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
The Forgotten Road.

know little lonely country road,
Grass grown and shady, and a little
sad,
Unused and lost in an enchanted
wood
Though once, it seems, twas high.
way, broad and glad.
Now very few its secret entrance find,
It Is so hidden from the world of
men,
On foot found it and on foot return
To feel its wistful mystery again.
There are so few such roads left US
today.
And yet we need them sorely-for
with wings
Agleam, and bird notes, my road lures
me on,
To the hushed country of forgotten
things.
Louise Morey Bowman.
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Mrs Emma Weber is visiting rela-
tives in Keokuk.
Master Jesse Branson is visiting at
the home of his aunt Mrs. 0. A Nc
kibben near Keokuk.
The Kirksville district conference
met In this city last Tuesday and
held conference until Thursday even
ing, after which there were special
meetings held until Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. David Dimblazer and little
children are visiting at the home OF
her sister Mrs. Fred Johnson.
There was an attendance OF 1s5 at
the NJ. e. Sunday school. the Fair
mont and Luray Sunday schools being
present ALSO After Sunday school
there was preaching by the presiding
elder Rev. Ben F. Jones, after which
they raised enough money to clear
the church OF all debt, the sum raised
being s7s3. The debt on the church
was 1914. After that they all went
to the city park and ate dinner.
Mrs. Chas. Hale is reported in very
poor health this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. v. Backett and Mrs.
Fred Gerth visited In Labelle last
Tuesday.
Master Eugene Morgan is visiting
his friend Emmert Roberts OF Mercer,
Mo.
Little Miss Lucille Carman OF Har-
n.ony Grove is visiting her aunt Mrs.
Geo. Leps and other relatives.
Mrs Claud Damma has returned
home after pleasant visit with her
sister near st. Louis.
Mrs. Amanda Dalton and little
daughter visited Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Dalton the frs. of the week.
Noah Branson, the telephone expert
was called to CORN to work on the
switch board.
Rev. ]. H. Spindler, wife and little
daughter will leave soon for Roches-
ter, N. Y, where Mr.. Spindler goes to
study.
In runaway last Saturday. Mr.. Al
len Walker was thrown from buggy.
He was not seriously hurt and soon
recovered from the shock. The buggy
was somewhat smashed up.
Miss Verna Dochterman is visiting
relatives in Moberly, Mo-, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Merfen and DR..
A. C. Crunzby left for FIT. Madison
Tuesday where Mrs. Merfen goes to
receive treatment at hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Lafrenz and little
daughter Of Chicago visited few
days with Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Star.
Married yesterday at the home OF
the officiating minister Rev. ]. H.
Spindler, Mr. Roseman Hume and
Miss Druzilla Brookhart, both Of
Union township. This worthy couple
comes of the best families in the
county. They will make their home
In Harlowton, Mont.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
SENATOR ROOT Will RETIRE.

The announcement Of United States
Senator Elihu Root that the end of
his present term will mark his return
to private life is bringing forth ex-
pressions of sincere regret. These
are not confined to any partisan press.
The New York Evening Post, quite
uniformly arrayed against Senator
Root along the lines of general politi-
cal activity, reviews his splendid rec
ord and pays tribute to his recog-
nized ability in the following para.
graph:
Mr.. Roots unqualified determination
to retire from the senate upon the
close of his term next March will be
received with sincere and profound
regret in all parts of the country. and
among men of all shades of political
opinion. Ability such as his, devoted
as it has been for the past fifteen
years to the highest tasks of national
government, is too rare and too valu-
able to the country to permit the ap-
probation of it to be limited either by
sectional Or by party lines. AS sec
rotary of war under President McKin-
ley, he did great work in the re-
organization of army methods, as sec
rotary Of state under President Roose-
Welt, he was directly and personally
instrumental in bringing about great
advance in our relations with the
South American republics; in the sem
ate, he has done more than any other
man during the term of his service to
maintain the high traditions Of that
body. His retirement will be heavy
loss to the public life of our country,
nor does there seem to be on the
horizon anybody who will fill place
resembling that which he has occu-
pied. For his successor in the senate,
we can only hope that some man will
be found whose qualifications indicate
at least an attempt on the part Of
the people of New York to maintain
the standard he exemplifies. And we
cannot forbear to express the hope
that, though he withdraws from the
labors of the senate at the age of
three score and ten, his services may
be secured by the people of New York
as a delegate-atlarge to the approach
ing constitutional convention-an Of
fee which he filled in the convention
of twenty years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

preached a sermon Of unusual excel
lence at the NJ. E. church Sunday
morning at II o'clock.
Car loads of wheat are being ship
ped from this place to Chicago mar
kets at u cents per bushel.
Pete Hatton is walking on clutches
as result of a fall from a motor
cycle.
Stony Hollow has been widened on
the middle road.
While William Cooper was crossing
the street Tuesday he killed blue
racer.
The plum harvest is now on and
the plums are being shipped to Chi
cago at the nominal price of 75c per
crate.
A bed of mussel shells has been
found in Lake Cooper in front OF
Main street that affords about twenty
men employment. The clam boats are
dotted all along the scope of the
find.
A much needed rain reached here
Tuesday that did considerable good
to vegetation.
Section Foreman Geo. Varnsdoll
and family are pleasantly domiciled
in the John Thomas property.
C. W. Sullivan has been suffering
from an liberated tooth that has
caused him considerable trouble.
Civic club was held at the resi-
dence OF Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Duty
Tuesday evening.
Lon Peckham Of FIT. Madison was a
guest at the home of his grandmother
Mrs Eliza Rudd, Monday.
Louis wahrer and family autoed to
Fl. Madison, Mt. Pleasant and Bur.
lington Sunday. They enjoyed the
trip immensely.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
WOULD BAR GIRLS
FROM CIGAR COUNTER
Iowa Welfare League is FathersngI
Some Restrictive Measures for
State.

A law requiring all drivers OF pri-
vate or public automobiles or hacks
to hold state licenses subject to re-
fusa1 or cancellation for conviction
of intoxication is one Of the ten laws
proposed for adoption by the next
general assembly by the Iowa Public
Welfare League.
To bring about better enforcement
of state laws, the league has prepared
list of bills which are notifications
of old laws or drafts of new ones for
the suppression of vice and crime.
The league will ask that the pres
ent probation court law be so changed
as to make some provision for proba-
ton officers in all counties less than
$4,000 as is now made in counties of
more than $4,000. The league believes
the Juvenile court, law should be oper-
alive In all counties. Another pre-
posed measure provides for the fire.
proof construction Of all school build
ings Of more than one story.
The league will ask for state cen
sorship Of moving picture films and
advertising cards and calendar and
bill boards, law prohibiting the en-
p1oyment OF women cigar walkers
and clerks in cigar stores or stands,
law establishing a tramp colony and
empowering peace officers to arrest
all tramps and take them to the col
| only for detention and work; law re-
quiring pool hall owners and oper-
ators to secure state license, which
| shall be revoked for violation o; STATE
| or city ordinance; law making 1t .
criminal offense for man to take a
woman to a rooming house or hotel
| and falsely represent her as his wife;
halls under state regulation; a law
providing for the revocation Of a
| state license held by public or private
automobiles or hacks and a law pro-
viding in case of convicts kept at
hard labor that one-half of their earn
ings shall be paid to those dependent
upon them, one-fourth placed on de-
post as a fund for convict when dis
charged and one-fourth retained by
state to apply on the expense for care
and keep Of convict.
The league has been securing tie
opinion of candidates for legislative
Offices upon these new and other re-
form laws and is quietly working to
elect those men who are known to
be supporters OF reform measures.
Five federal laws have been pro-
posed by the league to congress, The
I list includes laws to exclude cigarettes
from the mails, to exclude gamblin :
devices from the mails and pamphlets
and circulars advertising such de-
vices, to make tobacco, cigars and
cigarettes when doped with habit
forming drugs subject to the pure
drug act, to make cigarettes and
cigarette wrappers when transferred
from one state to another, on de.iv.
cry, subject to the laws of the state
in which they are consigned and to
make serious criminal offense the
/ use of the mails for correspondence
for immoral purposes.
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Bernard Darham went to Chicago
ard Grand Rapids, Mich, the past
week to buy furniture for his new
store.
Leon Chevillon has secured the serv-
ices Of DR.. w. e. Taylor, OF Moline.
for a lecture and as a judge on corn
at the exhibit at our fall celebration
September Is.
Misses Susie White and Katherine
Bolts, of st. Marys, visited at the J.
r. Shreeve home the past week, 60
ing on to Dallas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Stockton and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Egbers, motored
to Quincy in the formers car Mon
day, to attend the circus.
Miss Helen Sweeney, who attended
the c. e. convention at Peoria, went
from there to Vermont, Illinois, to
visit friends, returning home oatur-
day. Miss Dena Thompson. who at
tended the convention, Joined Miss
Sweeney in Vermont.
Miss Alice Wood, OF New York, who
has been visiting Mrs. J. A. Baird,
departed Tuesday for Denver, Colo.
Mrs. L. B. Brown and baby departed
Wednesday for their home at Wichita.
Kas. Miss Leona McAnulty accomp-
anied them home.
Paul O'Harra, of Rapid City, 8. D.,
is visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. B. Marve' Mrs. Ella Myer. of
Quincy, is also visiting at the Marvel
home
Miss Colleen Garard and Mrs. Glen
Garard. Of Basco, spent Tuesday with
Mrs. Robt. Munsell The former ex-
poets to go to Chicago soon to make
her home.
Miss Mary Hyde OF Ottumwa, Iowa.
who had been visiting her sister at
Prairie City, arrived here Saturday to
visit friends
Mrs. Sarah Kee of Parsons, Kas.,
arrived Monday to make her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Belle
Vile
Mrs. c. A. Clark and son, George,
departed Tuesday for Macon, Miss,
ito visit her son, Gervis.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Klinert and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

garage and is offered at an absurdly
low price. The dealer may have his
suspicious. but in nine cases out OF
ten doesn't take the trouble to ask
questions. He is glad to strike good
bargain. The auto stealing matter is
becoming a serious problem through
out the United States, and drastic
measures must be adopted to check
the evil"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

DR.. Manuel de Cespe6as, the new
Cuban minister to the United States.
has arrived in Washington. DR.. Ces-
pedes is the son Of former president
OF Cuba. He was educated in this
country and Europe and ranks high
as lawyer and author.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

Captain Edward v. eager, mem
Der Of the crew of the monitor in its
fight with the Merrimac, died at New
ark, N. j., last week, aged 81 years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

MOTHER LOVE.
Mother love; mother love
Dearest of ties!
Binding mems souls to the
Stars in the skies.
life has no victories,
Earth has no charms
Blessed as the rest
In a mothers fond arms!
Babe on the bosom,
Or bird on the nest,
Thine is security
Refuge and rest!
Mother love-mother love
Blessing most free;-
Wide as the world is, and
Deep as the sea-
Love of a sweetheart may
Sparkle like wine;
Love of a mother is
Something divine!
Earth has none other Joy
Equal to this;
All earth's good will condensed
In one sweet kiss.
Wifehood and motherhood
Turns anxious eyes;
Scanning the futures face
With shy surmise.
Babe on the bosom,
Or bird on the nest,
Time can no more bestow-
Thou hast the best!
Arthur Goodenough in the Sprint
field, Mass, Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

In 1855 it took 274 minutes of labor
to care for and raise a bushel Of corn.
In the year 1894 the average time re-
quireG had been brought down to
about forty-one minutes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

Bills OF reinstate Captain Templin
NJ. Potts, recently '.plucked" with
other naval officers, are now before
both houses of congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

Screened by hills on either hand
From winter storms and summer
heat,
There lies a SILLY little land
The country of conceit.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

Mr.. Mellen has earned considerably
more than $4,000 this year by telling
ell he knows. But there is no talk of
paying him even that much.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

The duqe of Connaught, governor
general of Canada, arrived at st.
Johns, Newfoundland, On board the
cruiser Essex.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

Heinrich Oelrich, German aviator,
created a new altitude record by as
cending $4,000 feet in a biplane at
Leipsic
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

Over $4,000 children under 16 years
of age are employed in Philadelphia
stores and factories.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

United States annually consumes
$50 pounds of wheat and wheat f1oul
per capita.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

United States last year imported
2T,562,3 61 pounds of black and white
pepper, valued at S2,S52,665.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

daughter, Marie, of Ottumwa, low"
have been visiting her sister, MIS-
Homer Wisehart
Miss Bessie Witt, who has pee
visiting Miss Okle Mosley, depa'''N
for her home in Augusta MONDAY.
Mrs. j. B. Risse is visiting ne
daughters, Mesdames Nina Rneinoe''
er and A. J. Berger, In Nauvoo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

New York has 1,04S skyscrapers.
one over fifty stories.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

United tSates last year imported
from France s137,465 worth of candied
fruits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27

The Pennsylvania railway system
is spending 100000 for new rails.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIAN.

PHYSICIAN.
Or. w. p. SHERLOCK,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
once. Is North Fifth stree: in tbs
Howell building.
once Hours-10 to IL a. M. to
3 D. M; evenings. I to 8; Sundays
II to .. m. United States civil ser
vice examiner.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-20

Washington, May lG.-The real
value OF the mediation conference be-
tween Mexico and the United States
now hinges on the instructions to the
Huerta delegates. Unless the medi-
atOrs learn that Gen. Huerta has given
his representatives full power to act
there is likely to be another post
ponement." In fact the negotiations
will probably be called off.
The rebels may now obtain arms
and ammunition through Tampico
according to Secretary Of the Navy
Daniels, who said that the order es-
tablishing an embargo on munitions
Of war had reference to the border
only and did not include the seaports
American warships are trailing the
Mexican gunboats to prevent any at
tempt to injure American transports
OF merchant vessels or put out coast
wise lights.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-20
VILLA MARCHES ON,
REBEL LEADER GOES FROM VIC
TORY TO VICTORY.
lie is Now Closing in on Saltillo Driv-
ING Fcderals Before Him-Eive
Hundred FctlcraIS Defeated with
Great Slaughtcr-Hucrta Circulat
ing Anti-American Reports.
Headquarters,
COnStitutiOnalist

COnStitutiOnalist Headouarters.
Paredon, Mex May 15.-Fighting
has begun in the campaign against
SaltillO. The first clash being won by
Gen. Villas troops Tn. rebels sur
prised five hundred federals near
Reita Junction and routed them with
heavy slaughter. The Huerta troops
fled, leaving fifty dead on the field.
There is wild rejoicing here over
the capture OF Tampico. Many small
bands of fedcrals are deserting and
joining the cOnstitutionalists.
The investment of Saltillo will be
completed by night. Gen. Villa has
thirty thousand men in the vicinity of
Saltille.
Gen. Huerta is spreading reports
that the constitutionalists army is real
ly composed mostly of Americans,
alleging that two thousand United
States regulars are in the army in
vesting Saltillo, hoping thereby to in
cite the patriotism Of MeXicans
against the American invasion"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-20
COuIncu for rhrr,

II am a rOver of your gOdsend to
humanity ana science Your medicine.
Dr. Kings New Disro> cry, cured my
cough Of three years standing" says
Jennie Flemming oC New Dover,
Ono. Have you an annoying cough?
Is ii stubborn and voni' yield to treat
ment? Get a soc bottle Of DR.. Kings
New Discovery today. What it did for
'ennc Flemming it VIII do for you, no
matter how stubborn or chronic a
cough may be. 1t stops a cough and
stops throat and lung trouble. Re
lleA or money back. soc and $1.00, at
your druggist.
Bucklen'e Arnica Salve for pimples.
-Advt
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-05-20
REBELS. CLOSING IN,
GORDON AROUND
MEXICO CITY.
kcfuSrcs Report Terrible Conditions
In tlucrta'S Capital-WOunded Fed
erals Shamcfully Neglected and
Many Die from Starvation and
Thirst-Zapata Hammcring at the
outskirts of the City.

Vera Cruz May 15.-Tighter daily
Squeezing the life out OF Huerta's po-
litical existence. The federal troops
at Piedada barracks, only short
distance from the center Of the city
have mutinied and Zapatas rebels
ae vigorously attacking the federals
at Talalpam. within twelve miles of
the national palace.
The indications are that the dicta-
tor may fall even before the cOnsti-
tutiOnalists bring their artillery into
action against the capital. A Zapata
victory would bring anarchy in Mex
leo and result in wholesale massacres
Of foreigners.
Refugees arriving .Oday from Mex
leo City tell of most terrible condi-
tiOns. Three thousand wounded fed
erals from the fields Of defeat arriv
ed in cattle cars and were dumped
like cattle on mouldy straw bedding.
They received no medical attention en-
route and little when they arrived
Many died from lack of attention,
starvation or thirst. The rotten
straw on which they were dumped is
soggy with blood. The Mexican gen
erals treat the wounded with absolute
indifference.
Gen. Huerta, who is often filled
with handy urges dynamiting Of the
houses Of foreigners, but cooler
heads prevent this outrage.
Many believe that the Huerta gov.
ernment will be ended within. a week.
The constitutionalists are trying to
make good impression on foreigners,
especially the United States by main
tanning order at TampicO.
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furnish cause for other demands.

furnish cause for other demands.
The case Of William s. Berton, the
British subject killed at JuarcZ. also
looms thcrateningly on the constitu-
uonal horizon, Great iritain having
announce that it will exact adequate
reparatiOn for this event as soon aS
responsibility can he liked upon au-
thorltic& from whom such reparatiun
can he demanded.
Though much interested here i'm
the sudden displacement of Gen.
Maas. who commanded the federal
forces outside Of Vera cruz the war
department has been unable to pro-
cure any adequate explanation and
Mexican officials themselves are I'm =
able to give any inofrmation.