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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
vINcENNEs.
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The Sunday school classes Nos. 3
and gave an entertainment Satur.
day night which was a success and was
we'll attended Quite few from Sug-
ar creek and Dumas attended.
John Freeman is loading car of
wheat.
Robert Deere and wife Of Belfast,
Frank Deere and family of Sugar
Creek, called on NJ. F. Deere Satur-
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Johnson and
daughter, Maymie. G. P. Johnson and
". j. Wyrick went to Keo,zuk Sunday
morning to attend the home coming of
the Baptist Sunday school and church.
The Anti Horse Thief association Of
Vincennes will give q free entertain
ment and oyster supper on Friday
night, November 10. to Brother Arts
and family.
Misses Rena Bailey and Jennie
herr of Keokuk, spent Sunday with
their parents.
Miss Marie Harch called on home
folks Sunday afternoon.
Lou Williams and family Of Mis-
souri,, are spending the week with
,Chas Pence.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
Pians for the Army.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: The out
lined plans for strengthening the
army will meet greater obstacles than
the naval program. General senti-
ment is not enthusiastic for large
army. The tradition OF the efficiency
of volunteers with squirrel rifles en-
dures, although war on land has been
SO revolutionized within the last fifty
years that unframed volunteers would
be shot down like rabbits. Except for
lack Of artillery and artillery am
munition. the unnecessary distribu-
ton of the soldiers at numerous posts
and the neglect OF military aero
,,nautics. our present army is as fine
as any in the world for Its size. But
after the forces have been disposed OF
as needed in the Philippines. In the
Hawaiian Islands, and In the Panama
canal zone, the United States would
have but 1850 coast artillery troops
and 24,602 OF the mobile army, the
latter. as Secretary Garrison pointed
out in his last annual report being
not much more than twice the size OF
the police force of New York City.
At last reports, the reserve consisted
lof sixteen men, Only those who ex-
meet providential aid could look upon
such a Gideon band as an army ade-
Iouate for country like this. 1t Is
easy to say that we should always
fight on the defensive. This country
would not rush into a war OF agrees.
sion. But If once attacked, II would
try to whip the enemy, prepared or
unprepared. We might as well re-
member our own disposition and pre-
mare ourselves accordingly.
This country does not desire ana
will not pay for large standing
army. But It should provide for train
ed officers and trained men. the
mans meagerly described in the dis
matches are probably the most feas.
ible that could be proposed. 1t shout
he easy TO get them through CONGRESS.
But It will require an organized anu
permanent public sentiment TO induce
employers to agree to the inconVen.
fence to their business absence or
employees for two months year VIII
entail n they consen. grudginsiy, IL
will be difficult to get the requisite
number OF volunteers. Employers
must feel that their military services
are cordially approved by employers
or they will not risk their future ad-
vancement by enlistment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS.

ne greatest crime IN the United
States is the wholesale manufacture
Of criminals says Henry B. Hyde in
the Chicago Tribune, writing of the
great number of useless laws passed.
by state legislatures and city coun
ellis each year. And to support his in
Idictment Mr.. Hyde narshals an ar
ray Of facts which fiction cannO.
match.
Commenting editorially on Mr..
iHyde's charges. the Tribune says:
i"Ohviously, what Mr.. Hyde calls the
wholesale manufacture of criminals"
is one Of the unexpected results of
our unc-itical reliance upon legisla-
ltion as cure-all When the Ameri-
can sees anything he doesn't like, his
first impulse is tospass law agafns.
it If there are no statutes against
lgravitation enacted at the vociferous
behest of Americans who have slipped
up on winters day. 1t is an over
sight which will be corrected in due
time.
There is an American failing
which is often commented on. Less
often do we ponder the moral phase
Of the American habit OF passing laws.
Undoubtedly we have been passing
through a period OF acute social self
consciousness. Many things which
were ignored by our fathers we un-
derstand or think we understand the
evil of, and in attempting to express
our new sense of responsibility and
correct the newly discovered faults
by our favorite method OF law-making
we have not only far out stripped our
capacity for the more difficult task of
administration, but we have developed
a taste for correcting what seem to
be our nefghbors' errors which bids
fair in turn to include everything frorl
his choice of neckties to his religious
creed
This taste for censorship is not
discriminating. What seems to the
great mass Of given community as
at worst harmless or uncomfortable
seems to some moral specialists helm
Gus and deeply demoralizing. In no
country of the world today, we believe,
are there SO many good people who
happen to be passionately energized
over some particular act Of our fall
fble human nature. The United States
is one huge example of Herbert
Spencer's smile on reform. 1t is a
titanic sheet OF metal on which the
dinges are being furiously beaten
down with the inevitable result that
with almost every blow Of our blund-
erfng hammers new dinge is made
as the old one disappears.
'Tn this period Of an awakened
social conscience we show collective
ly tendency to neurasthenia in re.
form, and individually a supersensi-
tiveness as to other peoples errors.
II a good many OF our efforts at bet
tering the world over night could be
treated with a dose OF humor and
sense OF proportion, a deal of unneces-
sary suffering could be avoided and
some very serious social reactions
e=ca ned
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
Council Bluffs, Iowa.

medicines to be wonderfully good and
recommend them highly Mrs. BERT
PUTNAM, 1913 Ave. B, Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
Get good blood through the use of
DR.. Pisrce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry, the worlds proved blood pun-
fer. It's not q secret remedy for its
ingredients are printed on the wrap
per. Start to take 1t to-day and before
another day has passed, the impurities
of the blood will begin to leave your
body through the liver, kidneys, bowels
and skin, and in a few days you will
know by your steadier nerves, frmer
step, keene- mind, brighter eyes and
clearer skin that the bad blood is pass
ing ont and new, rich, pure blood is
filling your arteries.
The same good blood will cause PIN
pies, acne, eczema and all skin erup-
lions to dry up and disappear. It's
tonic and body builder.
Dr. Piercc's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little Liver Pills. These tiny,
sugar-coated, anti-bilious granules-the
smallest and the easiest to take. One
little Pellet for a laxative-three for
q cathartic. Sick Headache, Bilious
Headache, Constipation, Indigestion,
Bilious Attacks, and all arrangements
of the liver, stomach and bowels are
relieved and prevented.
Put up in sealed walls - perfect
vest-pocket remedy, always convenient,
fresh, and reliable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

The young folks in Nauvoo surely en-.
joyed Themselves
Our merchants will be getting in
considerable poultry from now until
Just before Thanksgiving day.
That foreign language used when
putting up stoves has about been dis
continued
Weather prophets are predicting
cold and mild winter for us. but there
are not many people who believe they
know much about what kind of wealth
er we are going to have this winter.
We are now waiting for the first snow
of the season in Nauvoo.
When the outside world becomes
aware Of our fine and cheap factory
sites as yet lying bare and the vast
opportunities now awaiting capitalists,
we will surely have hot time in the
old town and this column is doing all
1T can to let the outside world know
all about it. Neuvoo will attract
their attention as soon as the war in
old Europe comes to an end
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
IOWA MINERAL INDUSTRY.

The Iowa Geological Survey in Co
operation with the United States Geo.
logical Survey has compiled the sta
tistics of mineral production in Iowa
for 1914. II is gratifying to be able
to state that the value of the output
was SIG ,301,s 1865, which is higher than
any previous figure of record. In 1913
the value Of the output was s26,612.-
24J and n 1912 the value was s22, 910.-
CSC. 4 comparison of the value OF
the output in 1914 with that of 1904
shows that the value in 1914 exceeded
that of 1904 by s11.346,865, which is
an increase Of more than seventy-fve
percent in a decade. Coal continues
to be the chief mineral produced. It's
value at the mines in 1914 was s13.-
364, 070. which is s13c.640 less than
the value for 1913. The five leading
coaEproducing counties in 1914 in or
der of tonnage were Monroe, Polk,
Appanoose. Dallas and Marion. These
five counties produced more than six
million tons Of the total tonnage,
which was 7,451 ,022 tons. Monroe
county alone producing 2.273,066 tons.
The first three OF the five counties
mentioned have retained the same or
der Of production for more than ten
years. For many years previous to
1913, Nahaska county ranked fourth;
in 1914 this county ranked sixth. In
1914 the average number OF men EN-.
ployed in coal Mining was 16,057. in
191 3the number was 1871.
The value of clay and clay pro-
ducts, which includes brick and tile
pottery and raw clay. was ss,405, 995
in 1914; in the previous year the
the history of the state has the out
put of 1914 been exceeded. The values
Of the outputs in the three chief pro-
county. s1,555,944, Webster county.
s1,17e,113, and Polk county, ss56,967
Iowa continues to lead all 9th er
states IN the United States in the
production Of drainage tile. The value
was s3,1So.836. Wapello county leads
in the production Of politely.
Since the year 1911 there have been
three large modern cement plants In
Iowa. two Of which are located at
In 1914 the output OF these three
plants had value Of s4,00s,915. The
highest figure previous to this year
was in 1913 when the value Of the
output was s3,972,876. Although the
output has been increasing year by
year there IS every reason to believe
that the maximum yearly output has
not yet been reached. The three
plants are thoroughly equipped and
there are abundant supplies of lime
stone and shale, which are the ma
terials being used in Iowa for cement
making.
The gypsum industry n Iowa is In
a most fourishing condition. In 1914
the value OF the output from Webster
COUNT. the center OF the industry,
was s1.321.457. the largest figure Of
record for the state.
The value OF stone and lime In 1914
was s594,s81 compared with s554.s14
in The previous year large part OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
Ripley Al SEVENTY.

Edward Payson Ripley, builder OF
empire and master OF mighty rail-
road system, is living. breathing re-
futation OF the Osler theory that at 60
a man has outliye, his usefulness
that six decades is the proper span
between the cradle and scrap heap.
On his SEVENTEEN birthday, Mr. Rip
ley sat in his Office Saturday and re-
ceived the congratulations and we'll
wishes of hundreds of railroad officials
and men Of affairs in business and
commerce. The president of the
Santa Fe was hale and hearty. with
sparkling eye and vigorous step, a
picture of vitality at 20.
A Chicago Herald reporter pro-
pounded question.
What is your recipe for success
he asked Mr. Ripley.
SUGGEST" said the transportation
king, 81 have no maxim for success
Work. OF course, is the great thing,
but that does not cover all the fac
tors.
LAS to what success l may have at
tanned" he unused. Il attribute more
or less to accident It's largely
matter of opportunity, combined with
q matter of ability to take advantage
of the opportunity, to meet it as 1T
arises.
What do think Of the old Osler
theory that at 60 a man should retire,
you ask Well, we live longer than
we used to. The span of usefulness
is expanding. It's due to the better
care men take OF themselves physical
~. Sanitation has improved. Men
live closer TO nature. They take eX-
ercise In the fresh air and keep the
machinery of the body from becoul-
ing rusty and clogged. They keep fit.
II am a great believer in sufficient
fresh air and physical exercise. Golf.
Yes indeed, play golf every chance |
get.
"And the joy OF living and work
ing, Life is worth living. Why, |
wish I could spend seventy years more
Of II. And working l believe man IS
better off If he keeps at work as long
as the harness doesn't gall! And the
longer one lives and the more he
works the greater becomes the charm.
CAS- the poet said, Grow old along
with me. the best is yet to be: The
last OF life, for which the first was
made"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
MANY TROUBLE DUE
TO WEAK KIDNEYS

ut Is no use advertising a medi-
cine unless the medicine itself is good
enough to back up the claims you
make for it, said Wilkinson & Co..
the popular druggists, to Gate City
man. "On the other hand It Is q
pleasure to sell q medicine when our
customers come in afterward and tell
Us how much good 1t has done them
And that is why we like to sell and
recommend Solvax, the great kidney
remedy. Ever since we first intro
duced Solvax in Keokuk, our clerks
have been SO busy selling 1t that we
have a hard time keeping a SUFFICIENT
stock on hand. We have so much
faith in this article that we are going
to guarantee 1t in the future and will
return the money to any purchaser Of
Solvax whom II does not help. This
may seem rash but our customers
have said SO many good words in its
favor that we do not expect to have
many packages returned"
This shows great faith in Solvax. It
really Is a most unusual medicine be-
cause It overcomes the worst cases Of
kidney complaint by removing the
cause. It goes straight to the seat of
the trouble. 1t soaks right in and
cleans out the kidneys and makes
them pass off all the uric acid and
poisonous waste matter that lodges in
the joints and muscles, causing rheu-
matte pains soothes and heals the
bladder and quickly ends all such
troubles.
Nothing is more uncomfortable or
hurts a persons perfect enjoyment Of
life more than troublesome kidneys
and their attending evils. Use Solvax
and get your full measure of benefit
lout of life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
AUTUMN ROMANCE.


Were you a leaf gold tinted,
And I a wandering breeze,
We'd gayly go a-fying
Where streams are lullabying
Through woods by autumn minted
TO far, old, welcoming seas,
Were you a leaf gold tinted
And / wandering breeze
Were sunbeam youthful
And you the guardian tree,
Whose gold and crimson treasures
praised in amorous measures,
My words, however truthful,
Would doubted be by thee.
Were I a sunbeam youthful
And you the guardian tree.
Were you green garlands wearing,
And ] the harvest sheen,
With serenade of passion
I'd sing September's fashion,
Till, modest green forswearing
You'd blaze, brilliant queen.
Were you green garlands wearing
And the harvest sheen
We're I the moon of reaping
And you the ripening grain,
In my blue dome supernsl
I'd brew draft nocturnal
To set the world a-sleeping
And food your bright domain
With the glory ever sweeping
Round castles fair In Spain.
st. Louis Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

Margaret Harwood, who was gradu-
ated from Radcliffe in 1907 and lata-
at Harvard observatory in 1912. has
been appointed for an indefinite per-
Tod as fellow Of the Nantucket Maria
Mitchell association, where she has
held the astronomical fellowship
award since 1912. She Is studying
this year in University Of California
and will take up her duties at Nan.
tucket next year at the Nantucket
observatory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

The combined weight OF couple
married at Caldwell, Ohio, is 1874
pounds The bridegroom, Pollard G.
stevens, aged 20 years. IS four feet
three inches tall. and the bride, Miss
Minnie n Welle. 81 years, is three
feet siT inches tall
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

the stone was used for concrete and
railroad ballast.
The value OF sand and gravel pro-
duced in Iowa in 1914 was s556,s6S;
in 1913 the value of the output was
s52S, 066 The value of mineral wat
ers in 1914 was s3O.179, and of other
products including mineral paints.
sand-lirne brick and natural gas was
$4,000
The following table gives the value
of the production of Iowa in 1914. For
comparison the figures of 1913 are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
MANY TEN AND WOr1EN OF
OUR HOME STATE.

USED a gre a {
amount of Doc
tor Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery with
fine results.
II used DR..
Pierce's Favor
lite Prescription
for won a n 3
trouble and was
cured.
al con slider
both of these
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
Purchase Of Trolley Lines.

DETROIT Mich, Nov. 2'-Detroa'
20-year battle for municipal OWL OWL
ship of her street railway system
reached it's climax today in the 'o ",
on the railway commissions plan i =.
buying the city lines. Acqulsi'ios sred
the municipality at price TO De Ht ,ss
later by six circuit judges was ,,,n,
feature of the plan. Public opail
seems to be divided on the auSi'"
ity OF taking over the car I0eS'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

In Chicago we have the combina ton
of a wet town and a dry mayor. And
1t won't work
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.

AS you grow ready for II some
where or other you will find what is
needful for you in a book-George
Mcdonald.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

1t will be observed that the kaiser
is not doing HIS fighting from his seat
at a roll top desk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

Cleveland's board of education asks
the voters to o. X. loan issue of 81,
000,0 900 for new buildings
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

An electric clock has been invented
IN France that runs without attention
as long az its battery Is in good con
dit1on.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

Greater lew York has 666,12s reg.
fstered voters entitle to speak at to-
days election.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

According to a German stetistician,
only per cent Of musicians are bald,
to 1s per cent OF men in other intel
lectual pursuits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

japanese remove the pucker from
peTsimmons by enclosing ripe fruit
for several days in alright casks that
have contained sake, the national
wine
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

The 5000 automobile is coming
Then pedestrians will be compelled tt
take to the woods
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-02

Buffalo has two railroad stations
under construction. One Of them will
have tratnshed 837 feet long.
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keokuk, Iowa November 2, 1915
Evening journal., 1915-09-25
DRAW NEW Jury PANEL.

The second panel of petit jurors
for the September term Of Superior
Court and Court OF General Sessions
was drawn yesterday afternoon by
Jury Commissioner S. ID. Townsend
and John Nivin. serving temporarily
as jury commissioner The new panel
will report next week.
The temporary appointment Of John
Nivin as jury commissioner was made
by Resident Judge Herbert L. Rice
because Of the illness OF Jury Commits
sioner Frank }. Williams. The new
panel was:
First Representative District Wal
ter II. Hartlove. Thomas Hannigan,
Frederick W. Heiss. Jr. James Il.
Hurlock.
Second-James T.. Osborn. Luther
NJ. Bradway. Clarence A. Darby, Her
bert White
Franklin j. Murphy, Frank
Vansant. John II. Minnick, James
Heman
Fourth--Charles c. Loeber. Andrew
Bexon. Thomas O'Conner, James f.
Robertson
George W. Clarken. Harry
J. Beggs, James j. Cahill, MAXWELL S
MahOney.
sixth-winiam Cloud, Charles C,
Evening journal., 1915-09-25
BE NOT DECEIVED.


GsE iGuREs don't lie. hut liars can figure" We in
tend unmerited disrespect for Secretary DAN
ies in using this quotation but it is called mind
by reading OF the letters which he has exchanged
with Senator Lodge The Secretary would have the
country believe the effective navy list has been
increased by fty ships since 1913 The Senator shows
more than thirty OF these 10 be old ships some Of
them like the Oregon for instance. obsolete and now
commissioned only for show purposes at the
cisco Exposition The Secretary tries point out what
two years OF what he correctly calls Wilson Con-
gress" have done for the navy and contrasts it with
what the last two years of what he incorrectly terms
Taft Congress" did The fact is that the last two
years OF Tafs administration blessed with Dem
ocrac Congress whose leaders refused do anything
that Secretary Meyer recommended-and Mr. Meyer
has recently and pontedly reminded the country OF
that fact The Secretary emts the usual whine of
Democrat who is caught in attempt to deceive and
declares that the Senator Is trying play politics The
Senator produces his and in Congress and
makes good his denial
All this is what "tncle Joe" Cannon would call
feather and prunea" 1t is evident that the admins
tration and the Democratic party in general try
ing TO scuttle away from adequate programme for
national defense. To carry out any such programme
means the appropriation Of large sum Of money The
Treasury. by Of ridiculous Democratic revenue
legislation and by reason of criminal Democratic
trayagance, is practically empty To get money for
any purpose-for the actual running expenses OF the
Government 10 say nothing Of money for enlarged
army and navy programme-means bond issue
a series Of Government notes revision of the
tariff along Republican lines Any Of these alterna-
tives spell Democratic ruin 'Ceyeland's bond issues
contributed more TO dscredt his second administra-
tion with the large Of the voters than anything
else-and his signal triumph over England in the
Venezuelan controversy could not this handi
cap So 1t will be with Wilson. His dubious success in
the German negotiations 0or II must be remembered
that not yet the end Of the epsode would
be smotered up in the execration which would arise
If he should add the national debt in time of peace.
TO attempt a revision Of the tariff Republican lines
would be admission of the complete failure OF the
fundamental doctrine on which the Democratic party
has planted itself from time out of mind and which
found its highest expression when Democratic states
men it into the Constitution of the ill-fated Con-
federate States.
The only alternative therefore is 10 "ronig the
national defense programme. This the administration
and the Democracy preparing for. In order to
cloud the issue the President is trying to make use
both OF Garrisons brains and Of Daniels gall The
newspapers henceforth will be filled with Garrisons
tut tut" and with Daniels partisan clamor. Nobody
will be deceiyed-unless it is the President in the
"oiympian superiority" Of the White House His
awakening will next year.