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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
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Still very dry and dusty, but I
little cooler. - II
Quite a number from here took II
the fair at Mt. Pleasant last week.
Rev, w. w. sniff who has been Wis
ting his mother here, left for hi
home at New Castle, Pa. last week
Mrs. Sniff has a granddaughter from
Kansas visiting her.
Mrs. Hertzler Of Kansas City, Mo.
who has been visiting the parenta
D. r. Arnold home, left for her home
last Sunday.
Mrs. Clara Campbell OF Tombstone
Ariz., and two children left last Tues
day for home after attending the fun
eral of the mother and grandmother
here last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adon Segier and chile
of Keokuk, Ia, have returned to their
home after attending the funeral OF
her sister, little Miss Margaret Ben
nett here last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Clara Van Tuyle and sons are
home from a visit with relatives and
friends at Nauvoo, III.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Fader and chill
dren of Keokuk left for their home
last Sunday after a pleasant visit at
the Fred Hem home. They were &C
companied home by the little Misses
Louise and Olive Hem who will visit
relatives and friends In Keokuk and
Charleston, Iowa.
Friends and relatives in Lee county
received invitations to attend the eel
ebration of the Goth birthday Of Mrs.
Geo. Martin of Sioux Falls, 8. D.
Mrs. Martin is an old P. & o. s. OF
Lee county and will be remembered
by many of the P. & o. S., having
come from Indiana and settled near
Warren. Iowa, in an early day. She
and her husband both were born in
Kentucky and to this day Mrs. Mar
tin has all Of the blue grass states
love for pretty horses n her late
husband was known as a man who
never allowed a horse to be abused.
Mrs. Martin loves her church and
since falling eye sight makes getting
around a difficult matter she has her
teie phone from her room to the pull.
nit of the NJ. 2. church where Rev.
Potter is pastor and SO enjoys all the
church services. She much enjoys
hearing from old Lee county friends.
Mary Margaret Bennett was born
at Denmark. Iowa, May z, 1905, and
died at st. Joseph's hospital at Keo.
kuk, Iowa, Aug. IS, 1914, at 1000 p.
M, of complications following an
operation for appendicitis. She was
visiting her sister Mrs. Adon Sieger
in Keokuk when she vas taken sick.
Her mother hurried to her and the
other members Of the family went as
soon as it was known how serious
her condition was. The little sufferer
was taken to ST. Joseph's hospital
where all that human skill could do
was done, but death claimed her.
Those left to mourn her death are
her father and mother, and sisters
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Y.W.C.A.N NOTES
Perfectly Quiet.

Absolute quiet seems to reign just
now at the Young Women's Christian
association building. The routine work
in the Office and elsewhere about the
place require attention and receive it
promptly, but the busy-time activities
appear at a %standstill until the fall
season appears and the classes, the
camp fire girls, clubs and other auxil-
larry organizations resume their active
work, which promise to be as interest.
ing and attractive as at former sea
sons. Notwithstanding the coming sea
O will begin its work with a COM
paratively new office force.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
BEHIND WALL
HIS FATHER BUILT
Peculiar Case Of Irony Of Fate is
Found in Kansas When Arthur
Schmidt 10 Placed Behind
Grim Barrier.
SUCCESS FOR FATHER
Was His First Big Job and He Was
Proud Of His H~andiwork-
Son Recalls It
SUCCESS FOR rArHE

Just fifty a ago this month
Charles Schmidt, then a young con-
tractor, newly married, folded his
arms n looked up smilingly at the
massive stone walls of the Lansing,
Kans., penitentiary and whispered to
himself: well DONE"
He said well done" because he
had been awarded the contract and
had successfully carried the work
through. 1t was a good job and 9TH
ers had told him SO. He smiled be.
cause he remembered the girl wife at
home-for they were yet in their
honeymoon, and the money he would
receive for that piece Of work would
go far toward making them happy in
a home Of their own.
Work came without solicitation
then. Charles schmidt's name had
gone out over the state as the "kid
contractor" and men Of longer e
perience envied him. The excellent
piece of work on the prison walls
made him popular. Always when talk.
ing of the work he referred to It al
the "job that gave him his start" 1t
had started him on the road to sue
cess, he said.
Then a baby boy came to the
Schmidt home.
Two years later a little pleasure
trip was made down to Lansing, that
the wife might see for the first time
the sob that brought success" The
baby-Arthur they had named him
clapped his hands and muttered baby
talk when they returned home and
tried to tell him Of what they had
seen. The father and mother i'm
agined it to be words OF praise for
the great. strong walls his father had
built.
Arthur gre into manhood. Ali his
life his father had asked him to some
day go to Lansing and see the walls.
He explained what they had meant
to himself and Mrs. Schmidt when
they were married.
II Brought to Prison.
A few days ago a tall, sunburned
young man stepped from a train to
the depot PLATFORM at Leavenworth.
Kansas. Around one wrist was a
hanGcuff. At his side walked a stern
looking man with a black sombrero.
Cit in here" said the big man,
and they rode away.
At the gates of Lansing prison the
young man looked up at the walls.
His eye were red. His shoulders
shook and he said:
"They had always wanted me to
see It, but they never thought it
would be like this"
The sheriff pushed him on. He
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30

walked, trembling, into the warden's
office. AS q guard began measuring
him for his prison suit, the youth
moved toward q barred window n
gazed down past the massive stone
prison walls.
What is he in for. grumbled the
prison secretary.
"Sellin' liquor in Winfield return
ed the sheriff. /,
.How long'd he get" asked the
secretary.
"Say, you kid" growled the sec
Rotary again. while the boy still STOOD
looking past the monster walls
whats yer name?"
Arthur Schmidt" said the boy.
Then he was led away Down a cor
ridor, far from the places where the
real light Of day gets in, to pay for
his sin behind stone walls-the ones
that his father had built and which
mad sent him on the road to success
just fifty years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
Dear Madam

Dear Madam:
Do you know that
nearly every one Of the
$4,000 grown people and
rs 900 babies, who die
every year with Diarrhoea,
Cholera Infantum, ETC.,
could be saved by Wake
fields Blackberry Balsam7
In 50 years, 1t has cured
millions of cases, many
after the doctors had
given up. Protect your
self--your family from
sudden attacks. A 35c
bottle bought today may
save q life.
Your Druggist.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
WHAT $40 DID
FOR THIS WOMAN
The Price She Paid for Lydia
E.Pinkham'sVe Com
pound Which Brought
Good Health.
Danville, va--"Ihave only spent ten
dollars on YOUR medicine and l feel SO

mucn DeCCeT ttldfl
did when the doctor
was treating me. I
don't suffer any
bearing down pains
at all now and sleep
well. l cannot say
enough for Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE. Compound and
Liver Pills as they
have done 50 much
for me. / am enjoy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
Mich; Mrs. Samuel Campbell of

Mich; Mrs. Samuel Campbell Of
Tombstone, .Ariz.; Marcus E. Riddle
and Mrs. Harry Houston OF Denmark,
and Mrs. Chas. Burton Of FIT. Madison.
Two sisters also survive. n sister
Mrs. Wilson Of Des Monies. and all
Of her living children and some Of her
grandchildren were able to attend the
last services. Mrs. Riddle was a good
neighbor. To live in the hearts we
leave behind is not to die.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
Visiting at Home.

Miss Emile Pence, Office secretary
of the Y. w. C. A., went to her home
in Illinois yesterday to spend Sunday
with home folks. She will return to
her desk Monday morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30

much stress on the account In the
savings bank. He advised them to
buy land for a home as soon as pos.
sloie n escape the tendency towards
greed that a bank account is almost
sure to encourage. He found men
sacrificing their family's welfare and
their own peace Of mind to save mon
ey and he opposed that.
w cannot be charged with in.
terfering with a mans individual
rights" he said, when we ask him
to live better and at the same time
see that he has the means.
The idea of being a despot, or OF
interfering with a mans individual
rights is repugnant to him. He wants
every man to desire liberty and in.
dependence. Not one cent for char
ity or philanthropy, but millions for
developing the social conscience, the
social organization and freedom of the
individual, is his philosophy con
densed.
Plan in Condensed Form.
4 EWlotc OuI ~ SOuNOASCo - 1
plans for his great and beautiful
shop, after our talks and read it 10
him al follows:
For every Ford worker sufficient
for health and happiness, in health
and in sickness and in old age, from
birth to death, for father. mother and
children"
That is Just the plan," he sand.
II have been in hundreds of fac
some of them owned by the
greatest philanthropists. In every one
OF them fear was the rule. The owner
was afraid and appeared always to
fear that some one would find out the
secret he had to conceal. The man
ayers were afraid the dividends would
not be large enough to -rassify. the
owners and keep him in his job. The
foremen were afraid and drove the
men, the men were afraid of the rent
collector. the grocery keeper, and
afraid of their little jobs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
She Had Tried.

"papa. mamma says that one-half
tba world doesn't know how the other
half lives" well she shouldn't
blame herself, dear. 1t isn't her fauit.
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Greed is Menace.

Greed to him is a positive menace
10 every man bringing with 1t disease
and unhappiness. He discovered tina
men in his employe to teach the So
a day laborers how to spend more
money for living, were laying toe
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
whv He's Common Man.

..The most significant words I heard
Ford utter were these:
There is not much difference be-
tween men. They are all about alike,
when you get right down to the bot
tom of the matter
..Tbis explains why he still is a
common man, without p%retepse or de-
sire for personal agrandizement' De
voted to his fellows and humble. he
feels that he has a position which any
other man might have achieved a
circumstances been favorable.
Like Lincoln he misses the frank
expressions of good will from those
no meets. He forgets that he Is now
q world figure, but other people can
not and his shout to one Of his friends
of other days, is mo- returned in the
same manner and he grows more
lonely. ,
.But Ford to me is the new Lincoln
the emancipation Of the workers, inc
herald Of the dawn of the day of in
dustriai peace"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30
J.doe Henry Neil, Father Of Mothers'
Psnslons, Here Yesterday and
Discusses Unique Figure
In Commences.
PHILOSOPHY ANALYzED
ehicaooan spent Day In Keokuk,
Coming Here From Muscatine
BY Boat, With Two
Sons.

Judge Henry Nell, father Of the
mothers pension system, arrived in
keokuk yesterday. He was two days
behind his schedule. dus TO the fac,
that he vas accompanied by his two
small sons, aged nine aud eleven.
and they made q boat trip from Mus,
catine. Judge Neil was waiting for
! boat Thursday at Muscatine and
not shaking hands with his friends in
keokuk as one evening paper an
nounced.
Judge Nell spent Saturday in the
city. He expected to look at the
hydro-electric power plant while in
the city. He had no program for the
day, and made no speeches while
here.
When asked by a Gate City report
er, who discovered that Judge Neil
had spent fve days with Henry Ford,
to tell about the m%illionaire's idea of
giving away $10.000.0 900, Judge Neil
suggested talking about Ford's phil
osophy. His interview amounts to an
analysis OF the mind that produced
the S. a day plan for improving man
kind.
kings and nobles, capitalists and
statesmen have always been ready to
help the weaker people In every way,
except one," says Judge Neil. "They
have always refused to get of the
backs OF the masses. Henry Ford,
who's name II carried everywhere in
the civilized world by automobiles,
has riches and power. He is unique
In the world. He Is determined to
help those who are weaker, even to
the extent OF getting of their backs.
Would Utilize His Visions.
After . series OF conferences with
him l believe I understand his phil
osophy. He thinks in mechanical
terms and sees in the gasoline engine
theSpower that Is to be the slave of
humanity, provide leisure for all of
us and abolish for ever all poverty,
the fear OF poverty and solving the
sordid problem OF making a living,
make way for q meyer and higher
Always in talking with him I pre-
caived that he is struggling to devise
ways and means to utilize his wealth
and power, his mind and purposes, to
help men and women to work out
their own salvation.S He is M of
Americas greatest capitalists and
has the social conscience developed to
q higher state than any other man |
know or have heardyOf
Speech is not easy for him, prob
ably because he listens and thinks so
much. ] was not able to puncture his
philosophy at any point.
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Beauty Is In Thought.

II referred to the Ford factory as q
beautiful shop. This beauty is no in
its great. sun-parlor machine rooms
the magnificent oriental rugs upon
which the poorest laborer stands to
apply for, a job The real beauty is
in the thought coming up from each
individual and adding to the sunlight.
The air In the shop vibrates with
hope and ambition and love as pos.
itively as 1t vibrates to the move
ment of the wonderful machinery.
we walked through this shop,
Thousands Of eyes we're turned to
ward the boss Against his erect
and 1.-THE figure many shafts were
thrown-shafts Of fellowship in which
there was no fear. / thought of other
bosses who go through their shops
and of kings who ride through crowds
of their people. They too are struck
by shafts but not shafts of fellowship.
I'm the radiance Of good will, Henry
Ford grows. He is without fear and
nothing can hurt him. His philosophy
has made him humble. 1 have written
hooks about Lincoln and studied the
emancipation and ~preserver OF the
union from many books and under
men who knew him. Ford reminded
me of Lincoln every day I was with
him.
..Lincoln was a common man who
gained great power and was a com
mon man to the end. That is why he
appears so great. Henry Ford has
gained great power and still is a com
mon man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30

Hair Ribbons, in plain Or fancy
colors, per yard -. Toe up to 4oc
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30

IN" Knit Waists, two rows OF
buttons, fo- boys or girls, IS & 25c
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-30

Skeleton waists with hose sup
porters; also the Wilson Hose
Supporters 25c
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20
How to place Your Rugs.

To preserve harmony in a room, the
rugs, whether one or more, must be
laid on the floor with the edges par
allel with the edges Of the floor; not
thrown on, creating all sorts of ugly
spots by the rugs and by the floor
spots left around them. If one rug
is used 1t should conform as nearly
as possible to the room proportions,
particularly when the room is pleas
ing in it's proportions. When the room
is not so the rug may help to make 1t
so. For example, IL the room Is too
long for the width, select a rug which
will nearly cover the room In width
and will leave a considerable area OF
floor exposed at either end. This will
tend to shorten the appearance OIL
the room and to shorten II In length
by opposition of direction. II room
is TO be distinctly period room. an
Oriental rug can seldom be used tc
advantage.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20

could do, the enormous enlargement
Of Servia, due to the unfair partition
of Macedonia, has been achieved. On
the other hand, Balkan alliance,
with the point directed against Aus
tria-Hungary, is not likely to be form
ed for many years to come, and this
was the greatest danger this mon
archy had to face before. With Rus
sia, too, her relations are now decid-
edly better; In ST. Petersburg they
have become convinced that Austria
Hungary has no ulterior purposes at
heart, and seeks only lasting peace on
the Balkan.
Striking a sort OF balance. then
the author arrives at the conclusion
that Austria Hungary issues out OF the
fiery furnace OF the last year with no
diminished prestige as great power
with no loss of friends, but certainly
with some economic losses and with
more cares for the future.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20

THE summer girl should take to
j heart that good old adage which
advises that in times OF peace we
should prepare for war. Now that
days are cold. evenings long and
spring styles already fairly well set
tied, she should get ready for the sum-
mer season. All of her dainty linge-
rie-so much more worthwhile when
made at home-and several OF her
pretty gowns will make the last OF
winter fly away. The work is so in
teresting and its constant suggestion
of springtime so inspiring!
II one knows how to embroider
even a little bit, the smartest of white
voile gowns made up with laces,
should be got under way. Fashionable
embroidery for gowns will not try any
ones eyes, for II Is done in bold
stitches, like the strokes Of paint
brush.
Flounced gowns and draped skirts
are to be with us this spring. Print
ed voiles and cotton crepes will be
popular, and taffeta silk has an as
sured triumph before 1t.
White voile and lace may be com
bined to make dress like that pic
tured here. There Is a plain founda-
tion skirt OF net or a very thin fabric,
with fiounce OF lace about the bot
tom. Over this are three plated
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20
Ouaintness In Black Satin.

The picture illustrates dancing or
party frock in black satin Oriental.
with an old world fichu and cuhs OF
finest white muslin. edged with frill
and scallops of pin spot muslin
The sash is of black ribbon velvet,
relieved with the palest pink rose
White shoes and stockings are worn
the shoes being laced with narrow
black satin ribbon. The simplicity OF
this gown will appeal 10 many, who
also appreciate the contrast OF beauti'
full somtyer black and the piquant bril-
liant coloring we expect TO find asso
ciated with extreme youth. Such an
idea must only be thought of where
the individual child possesses enough
of that color and general attractive
ness to make the contrast sufficiently
striking Daily Telegraph. London.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20
AUSTRIA PROBLEMS
Eagerness to Revise Peace oi
Bukarest Has SubSided.
Vienna Paper Publishes Some Inter
esting Facts on What Monarchy
Has Accomplished in Course
Of War on the Balkan.

Vienna.-The eagerness TO have the
peace OF Bucharest revised has now
subsided. In iact. 1t may be stated
with some degree OF assurance that
Austria-Hungary has abandoned all
idea Of altering that instrument IL
Bulgaria herself. the party chiefly In
jured. is accepting her fate with
equanimity, why should we at more or
less risk and cost attempt to inter
fere? Thus runs now the argument or
Austria-Hungary. And this argument
was clinched. SO to speak, when Bull
garia began direct negotiations with
Turkey.
This line OF action, however. does
not mean that the recently-concluded
treaty at the Roumanian capital Is
here looked upon as likely to last. 1t
which may possibly endure twelve
month or more, but whose inherent
weakness, together with the dissonant
elements making a part OF 1t, fore
shadow beyond doubt another bloody
and venomous war. Yet even this
certitude for the future Is here held
as better than the immediate break
ing out OF another continued chapter
of hostilities.
In a political review Of the present
situation on the Balkan, inspired by
the foreign Office in Vienna, the Tag
blatt of this city publishes some In
teresting facts; mainly as to what this
hnn nvlli i1h nh q
what it has failed to accomplish In
the course OF the late unpleasantness
on the Balkan. The article points
out that the creation of Albania has
been the work OF Austria Hungary;
that the withdrawal OF Montenegro
from Scutari was due to her likewise;
that Servia was kept from the Adria-
tic! but that, more important, the
Dreibund has been knit more closely
together, and that the relations with
Italy particularly were never such In
innate and friendly once before-all
due to common interests in the un-
raveling Of the Balkan problem; last
ly, 1t Is mentioned that the relations
between England and Austria-Hun-
gary have vastly improved, being nev.
er so good as now since England join
ed France and Russia as a political
partner, and that England has all
along appreciated the peculiar inter
ests OF Austria Hungary in the Balkan
settlement. owing to her geographical
position.
But with so much to the right side
Of the ledger, the article goes on to
state that the final outcome Of the Bal
kan war has been entirely against
the interests OF the dual monarchy.
In spite OF all that Austria Hungary
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flounces of voile, draped as shown In
the illustration.
The bodice Is a drapery OF lace over
a baby waist OF voile. For the more
practical American girl this French
design is likely to be changed little.
The voile underwaist Is to be made
with round Dutch neck and elbow
sleeves, over which the same simple
drapery OF lace will fall. This makes
dress that is appropriate for both
afternoon and evening, and Is one OF
several styles for gowns OF the same
character.
The summer girl must provide her
self with sashes and girdles. With
them she can ring changes on her
pretty clothes. Beads, too, must not
be neglected in her summer equip
ment. And 1t is not a matter ot
quality so much as OF color that
counts in beads.
Winter days and evenings will not
be dull for the young woman who Is
enterprising enough to engage In the
most absorbing OF occupations, and
that Is. getting together and making
ready the new wardrobe. II Is a pity
to leave this work to some one else
and not to put into each pretty gown
and accessory something OF ones per
sonality.
JULIA BoTToMLEY.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20
White GRAPE,
Combined WITH
BLACK, FAVORED

- HE small round turbans and hats
j which are so popular in our new
styles are particularly adaptable to
hats Of Grape.
For hats OF this kind the shapes
chosen are those that set squarely on
the head, with average-size crowns
and narrow brims.
The model shown can hardly be eX-
celled as an example Of beautiful mil
linery made of Grape. The compost
tion of the hat is simple and the work
manship and materials flawless-as
they must be in millinery OF this
character.
The dropping brim is covered with
a fold 6f black Grape and over this
second fold is placed. These Grape
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-02-20
Rebuttlnq q Libel.

John d. Rockefeller, talking to .
Cleveland clergyman. said one day
with q whimsical but rather sad
smile:
From the stories that are told
about my love for money and my dis
regard for humanity. you'd think was
some such monster as the criminal Of
the anecdote.
"A Judge once said to terrible
criminal
land you actually had the heart to
murder this poor man for SO cents'
"'Well. your honor said the crimf
nal, with an injured innocence air.
well, your honor. what do you expectS
Fifty cents here-and so cents there
It soon mounts up!' Washington
Star.