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Evening journal., 1915-12-10
WAR ODDITIES.

PARIS-Probably the worlds
family war record is held by Ber-
nard Guilchard. laborer OF Saone
ct Loire Department, whose sew
enteen sons are fighting and
whose eighteenth will be. shortly.
. LONDON-Three cigars, pre-
sented to the captain Of the White
Star liner, Teutonic. by King Ed
ward, the Duke Of Edinburgh and
the Kaiser, sold for S110 for the
Red Cross at Henley.
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Evening journal., 1915-12-10

PECULIAR FACTS. ABOUT
WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE.

BERLIN. Nov. 15.-(By MaiD-
During the Lusitania note dis
cussions Ambassador Gerard al
ways wore a red necktie when he
went to the German Foreign Of
fee. Asked one day why he did"
this, he replied: Fire red, you
know. shows that you mean busi- =
ness"
Evening journal., 1915-12-10
DUPONTS BUY ion ACRES.

PAULSBORO, n. j.. Dec. lot is
reported here that the duPonts have
purchased the Jesse Casperson farm
Of 100 acres as site for an acid fac
tory and research laboratory. The
farm, which adioins the Green farm
Evening journal., 1915-12-10
POLICEMAN TO BECOME A CARUsO

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. lO.-Because
Saint Patrick was an Italian and CO
mented a bond between Italy and Ire
land" and because Edward J. McNa-
mara Of the Paterson. n. j.. police
force is Irish and sings rather well.
Evening journal., 1915-12-10
APPRECIATE sTREET MORN.

Members OF the Delaware Horse
Show Association are much pleased
that the Street and Sewer Department
is taking Off the ugly hump on Penn
sylvania avenue at a point beyond the
B. and o. Railroad bridge
Evening journal., 1915-12-10
SUNSHINE MEETING.

A special meeting Of the Washing-
ton Heights Sunshine Society will be
held at the residence of Mrs. Frank
Sparks. No. Ga West Twentieth street
on next Monday evening.
Evening journal., 1915-12-10

which was recently purchased by the
powder company, is being surveyed
by the new owners. It is along the
main road between here and Gibbs
town.
Evening journal., 1915-12-10

Europe and the world will know am
other great singer"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
FORTUNES THAT VANISH.

Under this head a writer in World
Work for May reviews the retirement
of the Gould family from the control
of the Missouri Pacific railway He
points out that this retirement sig
mites the end of the Gould dynasty.
The Goulds surrendered the control OF
the Western Union Telegraph conf
pany to the American Telephone com
pany half a dozen years ago; in 1903
they gave up the Manhattan elevated
lines in New York City TO the Inter
borough railroad. Jay Gould died in
.1S92-orly twenty-three years ago:
and thus. in less than generation
his children have lost all control "i
their inheritance.
The experience of the Could family
is not an isolated one. Going back
thirty years the Worlds Work writer
finds certain personal "dynasties
dominating nearly all great American
railroad systems. The Vanderbilts
controlled the New York Central an1
what are still known, by courtesy. as
the Vanderbilt lines: the CARROTS OF
Baltimore dominated the Baltimore
and Ohio; the Goulds, the great rail
road property which has just passed.
out of their hands: the Huntingtons
the Southern Pacific and its accessor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

les; a group of important families III
Boston controlled the Burlington sys-
tenn. Certain glacier-like economic
forces have compelled all these FAM
flies to surrender properties.
Whatever lessons the financial
moralists may draw from these hap
penings," says the writer, from a
social point OF view the phenomenon
is significantly reassuring. 1t seems
to imply that an aristocracy, on the
European plan, cannot take root un-
der American economic conditions.
Aristocracies, of course, under all
civilization, ancient and modern, are
always based upon wealth Families
of large consideration that lose their
properties quickly return to their ma
tive soil The European aristocracies
in past centuries have owed their
prestige to the ownership of land.
the most available and stable form OF
wealth. There is one great difference
between social distinction based on
land and social distinction based upon
more complicated forms of wealth.
such as railroads. One family, undar
feudal conditions. could easily hold
possession of land for generation after
generation. Land is easily held, it re-
quires no particular skill in manage
ment. and demands little personal
oversight"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

fine evening on the best and most ex-
elusive streets in the residence dis
tricts of Chicago groups and ccuples
of girls from IS to % may be seen
gliding along over the smooth surface
OF the walks. The fad has struck many
of the smaller places in different
parts OF the country and already the
village kiIl-ioys are protesting and
calling for laws to prohibit skating on
the sidewalks. 1t was ever thus. No
sooner does youth find new way OF
amusing itseIf-no matter how limo
cent-than some long-faced, vinegar
blooded reforrner is out with protest
and a demand that the young peopte
be presented with the alternative OF
abandoning their fun or becoming
criminals by the infraction of pro-
hfbjtorv ordinance. There was at one
time a we'll grounded prejudice against
skating Kinks. These places nowadays
arc usually SO well conducted that
thev are comparatively safe. But the e
can he no just objection to the young
girls bringing the bloom of health to
their cheeks by such beneficial exer-
else as roller skating on the SIDE
walks Of their own home town and in
company with the same girls with
whom they associate at other times.
Let the reformers purchase roller
skates and use them, says the Peori
Star. It will work off some Of the
bile and give them a brighter outlook
on life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
seIasco,s Tribute.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, May S.-Dayid Belasco
tonight dictated the following state
ment when he learned beyond Ques-
ton that ohas. Frohman, play pro-
Queer, was among the Lusitania vic
tins: IL am broken hearted. My
dear old friend! My nearest and dear
est friend! 1t is horrible to think that
a man who was held in universal es-
TEEN and affection, who had the warm
open heart Of child, who gave en-
ployment to hundreds, should have
been done to death by such sheer bru.
tally. There was and is only one
&c. F. He did more for the theatre
than any other man. He was in touch
with the authors of the universe. He
took America over to England and
brought England back to us. He filed
a unique position in all countries and
belonged to the whole world which
will grieve for him as I do now. My
heart goes out to his brothers and
sisters, and to Miss Maude Adams and
all those associated with him, because
his place can never be taken and they
must forever mourn his loss.
eff a long nights vigil and tear-
could bring him back, Charlie woul1
be with US now.
IF this be war, to needlessly take
a life SO useful and SO precious, then
I would like the chance to put a mus
ket to my shoulder and shoot down
the mad fiend who conceived the vile
idea.
(Sigened) DAVID BELASCO."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

The difficulty with the secretary OF
commerce is that he cannot see that
the trouble is not with the manage.
ment, but is with the difference in the
cost of labor. American management
and machinery and general facilities
are at least as good as and IN mos.
respects better than those abroad, but
labor costs more; under the protec.
tive policies OF the republican party
the American wage Garner has been
paid more than those employed abroad
in similar industries, and he has had
steady employment Until protection
is provided at least to the extent OF
this difference in the cost Of labor
and it is not provided in the Wilson
Underwood tarif-no kind of manage
ment will enable the American manu-
facturer to compete successfully with
the foreign manufacturer in the same
line
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
Barnes VS.. Roosevelt.

SYRACUSE. y. Y, May S.-Justice
Andrews rulings on Monday practic
ally will decide whether Colonel
Roosevelt or VIM. Barnes, Jr., wins
the famous libel suit. both sides ad
mitted tonight
Barnes counsel was confident that
all the testimony about state printing
would b., ruled out and that the judge
would direct a verdict for Barnes
leaving the jury to fix the amount OF
damages. The Roosevelt camp insist
ed tonight that Justice Andrews will
permit the printing evidence to stay
in, supporting the charges against the
republican leader.
Roosevelts counsel called attention
to an apparently significant statement
from the judge. asking If Barnes would
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

The site of the first Iowa state
fair, at Fairfield, is to be marked by
a monument. This has been talked OF
for a number OF years but no money
was available to provide for it. At
the recent session of the legislature,
however. Hon. George w. Ball OF Fair.
field, member OF the house of repre-
sentatives, secured an appropriation
OF $500 for the purpose OF erecting
suitable markers of historical points
in Iowa. This fund, provided for in
the omnibus bill, has been placed in
the hands OF Edgar R. Harlan, cura-
tor OF the state historical building. and
he has promised that the first money
to be paid out will go TO Fairfield for
the erection of a monument to mark
the site of the holding Of the first
state fair.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
Could Have Saved Ship.

Kew YORK, May S.-Aeroplane
patrols would have saved the Lnsi-
tania. Henry Wcodhouse. governor 81
the Aero Club OF America, declared
tonight Two aeroplanes. Wool
house said, scouting in the path of
the giant liner. would have disccv-
cred the German submarines and
driven them away by dropping bombs.
woodhouse said aeroplanes guided
British transports safely across the
channel and would have been equal
ly successful in conveying liners liz
to port
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
CoDDLING THE STOMACH
The so-calIed Scientific" Feeding.

In this goth century OF advance
ment, people are too apt to listen to
new theories and put into practice
new-fangled notions of feeding. Not
only do adults follow so-called
scientific systems but they cram
down the mouths of their children
such scientific soft foods that require
no exercise of the digestive organs.
and the children are apt to become
fragile and their stomachs too weak
to take in strengthening food and
be able to assimilate 1t. This is 4
hothdnse condition that no man, wom-
an or child should permit. The mus
Giles Of the stomach require exercise
lust as any other muscles of the
body; neglect them with too much
ease and inaction and you raise dys-
peptic Use a tonic made Of medi-
cinal herbs which will stimulate the
stomach to greater activity-a rem
edy which will do this is one which
has stood the test Of public approval
for over forty years, containing no
alcohol or narcotic. We refer to DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
1t arouses the little muscular fibres
into activity and causes the gastric
Juices to thoroughly mix with the
food you eat, simply because it sup
plies the stomach with pure, rich
blood. It's weak, impure blood that
causes stomach weakness. Get good
blood through the use of DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and you
win have no more indigestion.
Sick people are invited to consult
DR.. Pierce by letter, free. All cor
respondence Is held as strictly private
and sacredly confidential.
KNOW THYSELF
Read all about yourself, your sys.
TEN, the physiology OF life, anatomy,
hygiene, simple home cures, ETC., in
the Common Sense Medical Adviser"
a book of zoos pages Send to Dr..
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, dimes Tor
stamps) for cloth-bound copy.-Adv
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

"The Two Blondes" novel by AL
bert Scott Hickman, is good story
about a bad man who is outwitted by
his maltreated wife. There Is mining
and rough western life contrasted with
the glare and glamour of eastern so
ciety life. All this, OF course, is a
mere setting for the fascinating pie.
ture of the two blondes, whose a6ven-
lures will thrill the reader from first
page to last. Although this is the
first novel from the pen of Albert
Scott Hickman it bids fair to be one
of long list of highly popular books
The novel is from the Richard G. Bad
ger company, Boston, and the price is
SIPS net
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
Increase the Navy.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
SACRAMENTO. Calf, May s.
Recommendation that the strength OF
the United States navy be increased,
was contained in a joint resolution IN
troduced in the house and senate OF
California this afternoon regarding
the sinking of the Lusitania. 1t is un
certain whether the measure would
be adopted. The text of the lesolu-
ton follows: Resolved that the legis-
lature convey to President Wilson the
message that the people will endorse
whatever action, no matter how Sc
we're. he might deem warranted and
the legislature recommends imale-
date steps to increase the strength
of the navy for adequate protection
of the honor of the nation and the
lives Of its citizens"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

A boss painter of Bath. Me-. said
that one of his workmen was sighting
his work and on investigation the boss
found that the man had neglected to
put on his spectacles. He was told 10
mount them, and an Improvement was
noticed at once in his work, which
from that time on for the entire day
was perfectly satisfactory When
knocking off" time arrived the man
found both lenses of his spectacles
were in the case and he had been do
ing fine work with just the frames to
improve his eyesight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
a coMRADE SONG.

A coMRADE SONG.
Down Iife's way we'll journey,
Rough or smooth the road;
Shoulders shall be ready e'er
To share the others load.
Wen take the road of morning,
Pass the valleys by,
Follow upward where the hills
Rise TO meet the sky.
Height on height shall lure us on
To joyous quest;
Mountain winds shall sing at dusk
Hymns above our rest.
Sorrow we shall meet with song,
Jog shall be our mate.
Nor shall We stoop with failure near
To bargaining with fate.
Down Iife's way Well journey,
Bright or gray the sky,
comrade heart with comradc heart
While the years go by
Arthur Wallace Peach in the
Springfield, Mass. Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
eEFoRmERs AND SKATES.

The roller skate is coming back. y
1t never really went cut. as far as
the children are concerned. Now,
however. young ladies have taken it
up-not in skating Kinks, by the way,
but in the open air-ior exercise and
fun on the sidewalks and smooth
pavements OF the city streets. On any
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

A romance of millions forfeited 70
wed ended in Boston's divorce court
the other day. Mrs. Marie Tudor Gar
land, a noted society widow who was
left the income of S10,000,OO0 on con-
dition OF remaining a widow, threw the
money to the winds of Cupids COM
mand and married Francis c. Green.
her financial adviser. That was three
years ago. Now she is widow by the
divorce route.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

Eugene Maxwell. OF the Mississippi
River Power Co, is quoted In a Fort
Madison paper as making the predic-
ton that that city will have $4,000
inha bitants by the close OF 1916. We
haven't heard any ". r. P. Co. Of
ficials make such prediction for
Keol-uk Perhaps a $4,000 Judgment
against the company would bring out
such prophecy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

There seems to be some disposition
on the part OF few politicians to
eliminate Clifford Thorne from the
gubernatorial race. Perhaps Mr..
Thorne will have something to sag
about il. The fact that there exists
some desire to keep him out OF the
race is an indication that he would
make q strong candidate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

Keokuk wants factories but wants
factories that are substantial and
possess promise OF being permanent.
There are strong indications that such
industries are coming to the city and
coming this year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

Five men who occupied an automo'
bile which ran down and killed WON
an in washington, ID. c., have been IN
dicted for murder in the second de-
gree. The authorities Insist 1t is lot
a jury to decide how far and under
what conditions presence in death
causing automobile involves a person
in responsibility for the tragedy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
Claim is Denied.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
LONDON. May S.-The admiralty
tonight issued denial of the German
claim that British submarine had
been sunk by a German airship. The
statement says that on the contrary
the submarine was unchanged and
returned to the anchorage after seri-
ously damaging the airship.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

i did learn in Sunday school; it was all
/ committed to memory at home. u
/ was not possible that / should forget
/ this task; those who had the care o.
me made sure that my lesson was
\ ready every Sunday morning.
/ Family worship, also. in those o'd
times, was not universally, but was
quite generally, practiced; morning
and evening, the whole family as
sembIed and chapter was read, usual
| iy verse about each child with 4
Bible taking his turn in the reading.
The reading was always In course, ana
in this way the entire Bible was read
through several times during my boy
hood Ordinarily we skipped the lists
of names in the Chronicles. but once
we labored through most of them. with
some uncertainties of pronunciat1on-
perhaps for the reason which friend
of mine once gave me: IF | should
happen to meet one of those old duff
fers In heaven, 1t would be rather
awkward to have to confess that
had never heard of him."
The Home Influence.
1t is true that various social disturb
6uSeS anu uuoIdl az
some times pointed to as evidence that
society is decadent, and this decad-
ence is laid at the doors of our system
of public education. But in the first
place it is by no means clear that on
the whole the world is growing worse;
and in the second place it is far less
evident that whatever failure exists
is to be charged mainly to defects in
our public schools. Other and deeper
causes are in plain sight. The troll
Bile is IN the homes far more than ID
the schools. The school are not doing
all that they might do to give us bet
ter citizens, but they are doing much,
and their service must not be under
valued. My own belief is that saying
nothing about the intellectual gains
which the pupil make in the public
schools, they come forth. as rule,
from their pupilage with higher ideals,
better principles, and greater fitness
for the duties of citizenship than they
would have had if they had spent all
those years il the society of their
own parents This is far from being
true Of some of them, but believe
that it is true Of the great majority.
Our Teachers. !
1t may be safely said that many
schools in which morals are never
taught from text books, or by formal
exercises, furnish a most stimulating
drill in the higher and finer moralities
every day. Many OF us know teachers,
VINO, without much preaching. convey,
in all their intercourse with their pu-
nils, the Influences and qualities which
purify and invigorate character.
acquaintance with teach
ers impresses me with the belief that
the feeling of their responsibility for
the moral welfare Of their pupils, and
their appreciation of the values OF
character, are steadily deepening
among them. No profession is so
sacred that shallow and self-seeking
persons do not find g place. in it; but
I believe that as much seriousness and
devotion may be found among the
teachers of our common schools az
among any other class of persons--tho
clergy not excepted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
In Those Days.

I committed to memory and recited
in Sunday school. between my seventh
year and my sixteenth, the whole OF
the four gospels, the Acts of the
Apostles, portions of the Epistles, the
story of Joseph from the thirty-sey-
enth chapter of Genesis to the close
of the book, emitting the thirty-eighth
chapter, with quite number of the
Psalms; and not one verse of all this
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

The Iowa state fair and exposition
dates are August 25th to September
3d.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.

Injustice. swift, erect and unconfined
Sweeps the wide earth and tramples
DER mankind.
Homer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
Iowa Lost Game.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Servtcel
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May S.
ICY" Young, Minnesota hurler hao
the best of pitchers battle hcre
this afternoon when Minnesota de-
feated Iowa at baseball, 8 to D.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

Dollar Day was success. The
merchants say The Gate City helped
make 1t so.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

have his witnesses ready to proceed
on Monday. They believed this indi-
Gated the court will override Barnes
motions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09
Our Ignorance of the Bible.

One thing Is undeniabie; knowledge
OF the Bible is far less general now
than it was in the days OF my child
hood. That amazing familiarity with
the sacred Book with which John
Richard Green credits the people OF
Ergland in the days OF the common
wealth, had persisted until my boy
hood among the sons OF the Puritans
and the Scotch Irish in New England
and in New York state. 1t was not
universal, but it was general. The
kind of tests Dy which college students
and students in secondary schools are
frequently, in these days, made to dis
play an ignorance OF the Bible which
is astounding. could have been passed
with credit by the majority of country
boys and girls sixty or seventy years
ago. But this thorough acquaintance
OF earlier generations with the Bible
was not due, to any considerable ex-
tent, to the public school. All that we
learned about the Bible in school
would have added very little to our
store OF religious knowledge. 1t was
in our churches and our Sunday
schools, but chiefly in our homes. that
most of US learned what we knew
about the Bible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-09

The ignorance of the Bible is TO De
depiored for other than religious rea-
sons. It's cultural value is very great.
We have been learning during the
last half century that knowledge %
English literature is an indispensable
element in public education: that IN
getting to know" as Mathew Arnoii
commended. 1.-THE best that has been
said and thought in the world, we
broaden our horizon and purify our
ideals, and thus prepare ourselves tor
the duties of citizenship. Oar col
leses and universities have been en-
forcing this truth upon us by their re-
quirements for admission.
But if knowledge of literature is
indispensable to the education or a
citizen, acquaintance with the English
Bible is surely fundamental for that
knowledge all our best English ut
erature Is shot through and through
with Biblical quotations, maxlms
metaphors, characters, illusions; the
one book with which reader needs
to have familiar acquaintance is the
English Bible 1t is ridiculous for any
one to undertake to teach English
literature who does not know his Bible
at least as well as he knows ms
Shakespeare. On the page he is I'M
dertaking to elucidate he will meet
the Bible FIVE times where he will
meet Shakespeare once. For purposes
of critical exposition. it is certainly
quite as necessary for him to under
stand Jacob as to understand Shy !
lock: familiarity with Job is of great |
er practical value than familiarity
with paradise Lost"