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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
CHARLIE STON.

Mrs. Belle West of New Boston
spent Saturday and Sunday at the n.
T. Kerns home.
Miss Esther Bassett was an over
Sunday visitor in Mt. Pleasant.
Walter Slater of New Boston and
Miss Iva Ball were married at the
home of the bride Wednesday even
ing. They will reside on the groom's
farm near New Boston.
Fred Ealy passed through town
Thursday evening.
Rufus Junkins and Chris Morrisy
were Keokuk callers Saturday.
Albery Prebe shipped car load Of
hogs from here Tuesday.
Frank Swinderman shipped car
load Of hogs from here Thursday.
Jacob Hopp and wife are the pos
SCISSORS of q new player piano
Mrs. Mary Barnes and daughter
Eula were over Sunday visitors in
ktba-c Mo
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
Iowa Legal Department Attempts to
Explain Who's Who Under
Workmen's compensa-
tlon Act.
SOME WHO ARE EXEMPT
Nurses and Doctors Are Not Servants
and Same Thing Is Said
to Apply to the
Ministers.

Inc Iowa legal department has Is.
sued an interesting booklet In connec-
Ilon with the Iowa workmens compen.
sation act.
one Of the most Interesting of these
rulings Is that pastors Of churches
are not workmen within the meaning
ior the Iowa workmen's compensation
act. The ruling was made in n let
ter to Sioux City insurance man
from the Office OF the attorney gen.
eral. Own
IL has been held. also, that a pro-
iesslonai nurse Is not to be consider
gu an employee in the sense of a
servant independent in its nature,
ana may not receive compensation for
injuries suffered in such service. In
the same way it has been held that a
physician Is not n servant, but f. in
reality an Independent contractor"
II mas been ruling Of the DEPART
ment that threshers employed on a
commercial basis to handle the grain
OF others are within the act, while the
farm employee. working on a threshing
machine In his employers field Is ey-
Guided through special provision that
farm employees do not come under the
act. Cooperative creamery compan-
les owned by farmers are not exclut
ied from the provisions OF compeusa
ton. however.
That charitable institutions are en-
ployers, as well as hospitals, Is the
thold1ng In still another opinion. Some
states make exceptions for such in.
situations, but the Iowa law is broader
In scope
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
Schedule Almost COMPLETE,
Philippine Government.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. l.
From the beginning of his administra-
ton Of Philippine affairs, Governor
General Harrison has removed repub-
licans from Office solely On partisan
grounds, ex-President Taft charges in
a new chapter Of his controversy with
Secretary Of War Garrison, made pub
lie today. s-7r s.@ -.sr- ..-@.
Democrats without experience and
native Office grabber" of particular
faction, supplanted republicans ex-
perienced in their duties, Taft charges.
$50 numerous have the records as
evidence in this regard become in
the islands" his statement says,
chat the word resigned with quota
ton marks, is recognized term in
the vernacular."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07

The work of Louis Hohl, for barb
team number l, was a feature. Fri
day, barb team number S came from
behind and defeated the second Beta
Theta Pi team, 16 to IA. Saturday
the second lambda Chi Alpha team
defeated the first Beta rheti Pi team.
23 to 3. Yesterday the Phi Gamma
Delta second team defeated the Tau
Kappa Epsilon second team, rs to 8.
The games are all hard fought, but
clean. There is little good teamwork,
but the individual work is first class,
Schedule Almost Complete.
The basketball schedule is almost
complete. Games are scheduled with
Monmouth, Lake Forest, Arm our
Campion, Coe, Parsons and several
universities. All the contests have
not been made public, as the con
tracts are not yet signed. Coach De
Tray is expecting a good season and
hopes to win a large majority of the
games scheduled.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
Past Exalted Ruler Of keokuk Lodge
of Elks Is Speaker at Memorial
Services Of the Order
There.
APPRECIATED ADDRESS
Speaker Traces Antiquity Of Custom
Of Mourning and Applies Ideas
to People and to
Nations.

DR.. F. G. Smith. past exalted ruler
of Keokuk lodge No. 106, B. F. .. e.
delivered the address, at the Elks mem
orial services at Quincy Sunday. The
Quincy Herald says:
Dr. Smith was accompanied TO
Quincy by his wife and his mother,
Mrs. E. M. Smith and his sister-ln-
law, Miss Lillian e. McCreary, and
while here they were guests OF the
families of DR.. Rice and William
Schlagenhauf They left for home at
6:1O last evening DR.. Smith is one
of the most prominent Elks in Iowa
and at the last state meeting,
came within few votes of be-
ing elected state presidert. He is
also prominent in Masonic circles
and last April headed a party of 300
, members of the order that came 10
Quincy and held meeting at the
Masonic temple at which he had
charge Of the work. He was also In
charge of the entertainment at the
meeting held recently in Keokuk at
! tended by several hundred members
of the order from this city. He is pos
sessed of memory that is almost
phenomenal in is retentive powers
He shows this in an ability to recite
) by the hour the Masonic ritual and
in lesser but still marked degree
proved it yesterday afternoon whe1
he recited selections from the works
of Shakespeare, Bishop, Hail. Young
Long fellow, Byron, Bryant and other
poets, giving their various and vary
| ing views on death. His orations
aside from the poetical quotations
was in itself prose poem, or com
position that might be written ir
| balnk verse.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07

regained her appetite.
Get bottle of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin from your druggist and have
it in the house. A trial bottle, free Of
charge, can be obtained by writing to
DR.. W. B. Caldwell, 454 Washington
ST., Monticello, Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07

an entertainment to be given at the
Baptist church Christmas night,
after which there will be an oyster
supper at the hall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
Mourning Is Old Practice.

The antiquity Of the practice OF
mourning the dead was shown by the
case of Job who, bereft of his children
and deprived OF his possessions and
sorely personally afflicted, sat down
among the ashes and his three friends
who visited him lifted up their voices
and wept, and rent their mantles and
sprinkled dust upon their heads to-
ward heaven, and sat down with him
upon the ground seven days and seven
nights, speaking to him not word
seeing that his grief was very great
The death Of nations as well as Of in
dividuals, was dwelt upon at some
length and death was held as a bless
ing without which life itself would
not be life, but only a torture from
which release would of necessity be
prayed for in vain. A picture Of Pal
estine in all it's glory, the land flow
ing with milk and honey, was fol
lowed by a picture of Palestine of to.
day, little more than a memory. and
still another word picture was drawn
of the cliff-dwellers in the lower val
ley Of the Rio Colorado in this coun-
try and in northwestern Mexico, en-
tinct for ages untold and yet leaving
Ill lilSll SlOuo lOulcS eVluGnCGS OF
communal life and in some directions
a high degree Of civilization.
Can Draw Lesson.
To nations and to individuals death
must come and the lesson to be drawn
from the observance Of Memorial day
was that members of the Order Of
Elks should in the space allotted them
for earthly activity, bear ever in
mind the cardinal principles Of char
ity, Justice, broth erly love and fdel.
ity. and remembering. too that no
matter what the station in life &C.
cupied, no matter what the degree of
health and strength enjoyed, every
day brings the individual one day
closer to the end Of his lifes Journey
one day Nearer, My God, to Thee"
While reciting a selection from one
Of William Cullen Bryant's poems, the
orator was accom- panied on the piano
by his sister-in-law, playing in low
tones, tremendously with the tones of
the speaker. When the close of the
Grafton was reached, Miss McCreary
played with variations the tune to
which Nearer, My''God to Thee" is
usually sung, making an effective
close to what had proved a deeply in
teresting and impressive oratorical eff
fort.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
More Preparedness.

MOTC TTSPdI CUTrCoo'
Des Moines Tribune: Near the END
If December a lot Of folks in Iowa
will be laying something by for the
dry days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07

Taking Chances.
Atchison Globe: Recklessness is
what induces a dyspeptic to tackle
mince pie.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-07
Knox College News
rsnecia1 to The Gate City.]


GALESBURG, ILL.,. Dec. Rev.
Charles r. Brown, dean Of the Yale
university school of religion, and Il
leading divine Of the Congregational
church. addressed the students yes
terday. He spoke of the different
nhases of ones life work. His speech
struck responsive chord in the stu
dents hearts and was enthusiastically
received.
In the afternoon, DR.. Brown held a
conference with fifteen leading men,
At which time he discussed the vari-
ms yocations and their relation to.
service for the world. He declared
that almost any respected vocation
offered a good field for young men.
so long as they entered it with the
idea of rendering some service to the
world. There may not be so much
money in life of a service. but there
is more recompense, declared the
minister.
DR.. Brown is visiting number of
the leading universities of the coun-
try, and at all these institutions he il
attempting to impress these same
facts on the men. Earlier in
the year, Hon. Raymond Robins,
the famous Chicago social worker,
and national figure in the progress
sive party, spent a week at Knox for
the same purpose.
Basketball Work.
Basketball work has begun in real
earnest with the opening of the sea-
son in the intramural league. There
are five teams representing the barbs,
or non-fraternities, and two teams
representing each Of the five fraterni-
ties: Beta Theta Pi, Lambda Chi
Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Delta
Theta, and Phi Gamma Delta. Thurs
day, barb team number 1, led by
Beans Johnston OF Warsaw, was
badly beaten by barb team number 8.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-12-25
NUNS IN KANSAS SCHOOL
ARE EMPLOYED AS PUBLIC
SCHOOL TEACHERS IN. cATHo-
Lie GERMAN DISTRICT.

Probably the only place i'll Kansas
where Catholic Sisters are employed
as public school teachers is i'll the st.
Joe school district of Reno County.
In this district, which really is a
consolidation of three rural districts,
all the families worship in the Catho-
lie Church and all the taxpayers are
Catholics. 1t became a question of
abolishing the public school and mai1l-
tanning parochial school or combin-
ing them. The county school author
tiles favored the combination idea and
the parochiaI and public schools were
consolidated. Catholic Sisters are en-
ployed as teachers.
The st. Joe district is i'll a remote
section of Reno County, nine miles
from the nearest railway. Neverthe-
less, a $4,000 brick church, equipped
with the most expensive paintings and
statuary, has been erected and was
recently dedicated. 1t stands on hill
top, the spire being visible for many
miles.
Around the c1ufcaf is az rural ssron.
munity of German Catholics. The Rev.
J. J. Gruefer,' who has been pastor of
the church for sixteen years, came
from Cologne, Germany, to take the
paStorate.
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DIOCESE OF WINONA

Winona: The annual reception
which the College of st. Teresa holds
in honor of the Right Reverend
Bishop Hebron took place at the Col
lege on Wednesday, December Is,
when about six hundred persons
greeted the Right Reverend Bishop,
who stood in the receiving line with
Father Griffin, rector of st. Mary's
College, and Father Peschges, mem
Der of the faculty. The reception was
held in the main corridor of ST.
Teresa Hall. Ices and cakes were
served by the College students,
The function was very elaborate and
concluded with a splendid Harp
Recital by Miss Geneyieye Smith of
Chicago, in the spacious auditorium
which was beautifully decorated in
mistletoe and heather held together by
long strings of golden ribbon-the
College color. The audience encored
the artist and she responded by play
ing several medleys-Irish airs, south
ern lyrics and national airs.
The spiritual retreat conducted by
Rev. Francis O'Neill, 0. p, of the
Dominican Convent, Minneapolis, was
brought to a close at the Cotter High
School on Friday, December II. The
retreat was opened to all and was
very generously patronized.
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WHY WAS STATUE REFUSED
INQUIRY INT, ACTION OF PARK
COMMISSIONERS OF SAN FRAN.
CISCO WHO REFUSED GIFT OF
RELIGIOUS STATUE.

Why Rafaello Romanelli's marble
statue, christianity Emerging From
Paganism,' offered by the sculptor to
San Francisco, was refused a place in
Golden Gate Park by the Park Com
missioners is being investigated by the
Supervisors Public Welfare Commit.
tee. Supervisor Vogelsang is launch:
ing the inquiry.
When Romanelli rendered his work
to the city the Park Commissioners
decided the statue, being religious
one, was not appropriate for public
park. Mrs. A. G. Boggs headed COM
mittee of prominent women, who
raised $4,000 to defray the tranBporta-
ton and cost price OF the stone i'll the
marble figure.
Vogelsang cited the fact that there
is a prayer-bOok, cross, figure of
Junipero Sierra and Thomas Starr
King, a divine, in The park, and will
campaign to obtain the wonderful
marble for San Francisco. The figure
was on display in the Italian pavilion
at the Exposition. 1t is of Carrara
stone Romanelli is the peer of con-
temporary Italian sculptors.
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DIOCESE OF DULUTH.

Duluth: The Duluth Columbus
Home Association was organized on
December 10, to promote. the building
of $4,000 club house for the mem
bers of the Order in that city. The
Association will soon be incorporated
and then plans will be drawn and con-
tracts awarded for the construction of
the building which is to be erected
next year on Second street between
Second and Third avenues West. 1t
will contain a gymnasium, swimming
pool, and other club features, as well
as a large council chamber and other
accessories of an up-to-date club house.
The first board of directors consists
of G. W. Atmore, Grand Knight; DR..
F. J. Lepak, Deputy Grand Knight;
and John H. Murray, Treasurer, who
are ex-ofTicio members, H. HI. Kelley,
f. w. Sullivan, F. S. Kelley, P. Orig
non, M. Stack and T. J. Monahan.
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grief of the Spaniards and on Christ
mas day spread banquet to which
they were invited and at which many
of his people acted in the capacity Of
servants.
This was the first Christmas dinner
in America, and at this aboriginal
spread" SO many new and strange
articles of food were offered the Span
iards that Columbus made note of
them, SO we are enabled to state ex-
actly what they were. In the first
place, there was maize, or Indian corn,
which the Europeans may have seen
in the Bahamas, but which they had
not eaten before. In fact, the golden
kernels carried back to Spain by Co
lumbus from his first voyage to Amer
lea were the first that ever reached the
old world, and it was many years after
that before brown bread and "Injun
pudding became at all common on
the tables of European royalty.
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FIRST CHRISTMAS IN NEW WORLD
THE NEW WORLDS FIRST CHRIST
MAS CELEBRATION TOOK PLACE
IN HAITI I'M 14e2-coLUMBUs
WAS GUEST OF HONOR.


1t may or may not be generally
known, but the first Christmas ce1ebra-
ton in America took place in the West
Indies and in the very year that
America was discovered, says the Al
bany Press. There was not much fes-
tivity about it, to be sure, for the first
anniversary of the Nativity in the new
world found the participants in state
of mind not conducive to merrymak-
ing or cheerful entertainment.
The great navigator, Christopher
Columbus, who showed the civilized
world the way across the Atlantic,
was master of ceremonies, and he had
little reason for rejoicing, for on
Christmas eve, 1872, he had lost his
flagship. the Santa Maria, which had
run ON reef on the north coast of
IIayti. Fortunately for him and his crew.
the native Indians of the island we're
friendly, and they not only came TO
his rescue. but saved all the wreck
age of his vessel, which they piled up
on the beach at Guarico, near the pres
emf city of Cape Haitian. The Indian
cacioue did all he could to allay the
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Rs
portions of the weed into a curious
pipe, with a branched stem shaped
like the letter Y and after inserting
"a stem into each nostri1 proceed to
fiddle themselves with the narcotic,
to the great disgust of the Spaniards,
who had few vices of their own, even
then, but did not smoke. 1t was only
because they did not know how, but
Columbus lost another opportunity for
adding another laurel to his immortal
wreath and left to Sir Walter Raleigh
the introduction of smoking into
Europe a century later
The main object of this article is to
point. out that down in the West Indies
where dwell our nearest foreign neigh
bors, and where we have a tidy little
island of our own in Porto Rico, the
first Christmas anniversary in Amer
lea was celebrated and the first dinner
eaten with aboriginal Indians as the
hosts.
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DIOCESE OF ST. CLOUD
Diocesan Correspondents Rev. A. S
Preusser. the Cathedral, st. Cloud.
BISHOP BUSCH'S LETTER

st. Cloud, Mimi, Dec 25, 1915.
To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese
of ST. Cloud:
Beloved Brethren:
With all my heart, pray Heaven to
grant every Catholic of the Diocese
of ST. Cloud most happy Christmas
feast.
Such is the subtle influence of the
world, despite it's cruelties, it's selfish
ness, it's follies, cannot entirely ignore
the sacred charm that, like the fra
grant breath of the lily or the rose,
clings to the Savior's Birthday.
Would that all the world might fully
realize the wondrous blessings that
came to earth with the entrance OF
the God Man, Christ Jesus, the Savior.
Oh! how it needs the Savior, His
Truth, His Guidance and His Grace.
Alas, for the world at large, Christ
mas is but a touching memory.
Happy we, who understand that
Christmas commentaries a blessed
fact that still continues as a blessed
influence, reminding US that Christmas
of long ago is daily re-enacted for the
Christian on our Affairs.
For every Altar is crib and every
Mass a Christmas. Indeed, the first
Christmas would be incomplete with
out Christ's presence on our Affairs:
the goodness of God would be but
family understood, if we remembered
the gift of His Only Begotten Son
made to the world in Bethlehem, but
forgot the gift to every one, made to
us Individually in the Blessed Sacra-
ment.
The same Christ Who.nineteen hun
dred years ago deigned to rest in the
loving arms or the Virgin Mother;
Mary, longs to linger on the trembling
lips and to rest near the heart OF
every captive of His love.
Vain, therefore, would be our Christ.
mas cheer if in our imagination, we
turned back to welcome Christ's com
ing to earth in Bethlehem but in
reality, had no room for Him in the
inn of our heart.
Happy beyond all earthly joy, is he
who today has Christmas i'll his heart
and the Christ-child on his tongue
| This is the joy my wishes carry tC
every Catholic of this Diocese: the
happiness of knowing that Christ il
ours today in very truth; this is IN!
prayer, that you be ChTist's as Chris
is yours, that you lay at the Savior'i
feet, your good will in holy humility
your heart in whole-souled generosity
How holy and how strong is thu
bond that makes us one today il
Christ! How blessed, if this sacret
/ brotherhood would ever grow NOR,
firm, more conscious and more read,
to represent and to carry out into tn
world the Spirit and the influence o
Christ.
ask especially the men of the Die
cese of st. Cloud to make this Christ
mas the starting point of ne1
conservation to Christ, new zeal 70
the IGNORING of His Holy Name,
knew crusade for the Sanctif1cation c
the Lords Day, new confederate
| for the Frequent Reception of til
| Blessed Sacrament.
The Holy Name Society is the bes
means of fostering and demonstratin
| our lively Faith and our Loyal Low
for Christ The gift that would wis
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financial secretary; T. Beauchaine,
recording secretary.
. Kilkenny: The recent bazaar for the
benefit of the. Church of st, Canice
held at Murphy's Hall, Melted $1,000
for the church fund.
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DIOCESE OF FARGO.
Diocesan Correspondent Rev. v.
Ryan. sos Broadway, Fargo. ~. d.

I Wahpeton: ST. Arnolds mission,
Minor, N. D., and st. Joseph's near
Tyler will henceforth be attended from
st. Johns Church, Wahpeton. Until
the present time these missions were
attended from st. Anthony's, Fair
mount.
Rev. A. kofar, pastor of St Luke's,
Veseleyville, for the past two years,
has been assigned to st. Adelbert's,
Wahpeton, as successor to the late
Rev. Joseph Gaydusek. Father Kolar
will assume the duties of his new
charge at the commencement of the
new year. - :.
Geneseo: The contract for the new
st. Martins Church has been award
ed to f. A. Hancock of Morris, Mime
sofa, for $4,000. The late e. J. Dono-
hue of st. Paul designed the plans.
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One of the curious tubers offered the
Spaniards that day by the Indian chief
tain in Hayti was the manioc, or cas-
saya, from which the aborigines made
their daily bread. They we're the orig
inators also of the cassareep, or West
Indian pepper pot, made by throwing
pieces of meat of all kinds into an
earthen vessel, where it was preserved
for any length of time by the anti
septic properties Of the manioc.
!. There was one function at that BAN
quet which Columbus may have in.
dulged in, though he has left no record
of having been suddenly indisposed,
and that is tobacco smoking. He had
seen Indians on the coast OF Cuba roll
up dry leaves Of plant unknown to
him and after lighting one end of the
roll inhale and puff out the smoke
thereof with evident enjoyment. But
at this banquet he. was astonished to
see the chief and his big men cram
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DIOCESE OF BISMARCK.

Bismarck: The local council of
the knights of Columbus has set Sun
day, January 16, 1916, for the
annual initiation ceremony. A large
body of visiting knights will gather
from all parts of the state to witness
the comforting of the three degrees
of the order on large class of can
didates.
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the Diocese of st. Cloud to lay at the
feet of Christ today is this Federation
of our Catholic men and of our
Parishioners under the protection of
His Holy Name. This | would con-
slider the most perfect answer to my
prayer: that the holy joy of Christmas
reign supreme in every heart, today
and evermore.
Very sincerely yours in Christ,
. + JOS. F. BUSCH,
Bishop of st. Cloud.
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ST. Paul Seminary: The Right Rev.
erend Bishop LAWYER delivered an ad-
dress in the Aula MaXima under the
auspices of the Clerical Total Absti-
nence Society on Wednesday evening,
December %, which was much enjoy
ed by the student body.