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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
MEREpiTH,s ADVICE.

E. T. Meredith, publisher of Sue.
cessful Farmer. tells the farmer show
they can aid in restoring prosperity
by each one of the Successful Farmer 5
100000 subscribers spending 500
each within the next thirty days.
Very good advice Meredith was the
opponent of Connolly at the recent
primary contest for senator. He was
defeated. He represented a party
that guaranteed good times and lower
cost of living. Result-failure. Now
Meredith proposes to bring back
good times by having the farmers
spend their money for Improvements.
We are in favor ofthe farmer becom-
ing good spender but the farmer is
not in the habit OF spending money
Just to make up political party
deficiencies. Here is Meredith's plan
you are planning to spend some of
your extra profits from your grain
and live stock. You are going to buy
new clothes or new rugs, or build an
addition to your house, or a new
barn, or a new fence, or buy new ma
chinery. If each of 100000 subscrib-
ers spends only 500 in the next
thirty days instead of waiting ninety
days, it will put $4,000, 900 in circu-
lation. That means prosperity TO
your partners, the merchant and the
manufacturer and the laboring men
Of our cities and towns, and their
prosperity means continued prosperity
for you We are all one
big family in this country. Our inter
ests are one. Let's pull together. We
are going to spend this money any
how. and if we spend it now, instead
of sixty or ninety days from now, it
will do vastly more good to the gen.
eral business condition"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
MILLIONS EoR RELIEF.

| A compilation of the list of funds
that have been raised in America and
dispensed to the people Of war-strick-
en- Europe has been made by the New
York World. 1t shows upwards of
months time.
Included in the total are: Nearly
| SO ,0OO, 900 in cash and food for Bel
gian relief; approximately s3,5Oo.000
for German needs; approximately
100000 for the suffering Jews; $780,
900 for dollar Christmas fund; ST.
125, 900 for Red Cross work; 100000
for the American ambulance hospital
in Paris; about $250,O00 raised by
French societies, including $4,000 TO
the fund for relief Of women and chill
dren in France; 100000 raised by
various British committees, including
the Prince Of Wales fund.
The showing Is one that fills with
amazement, says the Dubuque Tele-
graph-Herald 1t was the practical
expression of the sympathy Of hun
dreds of thousands, perhaps millions.
of Americans. There was no hope of
indirect returns in the gift, no ad-
vantage to accrue from advertisement
of the philanthropy to the individual.
1t was purely and simply the express
sion of human sympathy.
Why were the people of Europe SUI
fering? Causes were not sought. It
was sufficient men, women and chill
dren were hungry, were cold.
We're evidence needed that the
world is growing better, that human
ity is abandoning the bulwarks of
selhshness, the sight of the generous
hand with which America has min
istered to the want In Europe Should
furnish 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

The railroads from 1900 to 1912,
under protective tariff and re-
publican rule, increased mileage 49,
454: and dividends on stock, s2,912,-
319,354, with an increase in wages Of
$675,082.SS6 and an increase in the
number Of employees of 69S,627. The
locomotives used increased 24,599,
and the number of cars 931,S3G.
Freight business originating on the
lines increased 481, S50,20 tons. But
all of that great prosperity changed
quickly under free trade and demo
cratic control. says the Donnellson
Review. Over 100000 former en-
ployes are now seeking other work.
Net operating revenues for the last
fiscal year decreased s1O2,235, PAS.
Freight revenues for May this year
were over S24OO0,0 600 less than for
May 1913. That was long before
there was any talk OF war in Europe.
That tremendous and disastrous
change was all due to democratic
control and free-trade legislation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

their wishes treated with more re-
spect. These old members are plead
ing with Sawyer to his face and cuss-
ing him behind his back Sawyer,
with a half smile as innocent as
baby, is telling them that their can
didates are not stenographers as re-
quired, and is going on steadily pluck
ing some of the best friends of some
of the most prominent members OF
the house. He is showing the poor
work of those rejected and accom-
plishing the big reform about the
clerkships that has only been talked
about before for public consumption.
1t will save the state lot of money,
pay salaries to only those clerks who
earn them, and for the first time in
history put this part OF the legisla-
tura on a business basis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
GOOD FELLOWS NEED
KIDDIES' CLOTHING
Demands for Chiidren's Clothing and
Shoes Heavy and Tney are Ask
ina Friends to Assist Them.

The Good Fellows are in need Of
children's clothing and shoes to sup
ply the demands which have been
made upon them for these articles.
They are asking for donations from
the local people for children's cloth
ing and shoes.
The Good Fellows have exhausted
their supply of children's clothing,
and need more to take care Of the
demands being made upon them now.
Anyone having clothing or shoes can
find a good use for It by giving it to
the Good Fellows.
If the contributions which you have
cannot be sent to the regular depot,
the Benevolent Union Home, tele-
phone call to Miss Dorothy Younker
will insure your contribution being
called for
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
Sample Each Free by Mail
DEATH AT PELLA
OF LEAH RUTH PAYNE
Daughter Of Dr.. and Mrs. II. c. Payne
Mrs. Payne was a Former
keokuk Girl.

News was received in the city by
Mrs. John P. Peterson of the death at
| her home at Pella of Leah Ruth
Payne, eldest daughter of DR.. and
| Mrs. H. c. Payne. The mother was
Keokuk girl and well known here.
She was the daughter of Mr.. Frank
A. French, resident for many years
in Keokuk and long time connected
with the Ayres jewelry house here as
bookkeeper. Many persons have made
anxious enquiry of Mrs Peterson
concerning the death of the little girl
who was we'll known here.
A copy of the Pella Booster of jan
uary Il, gives the following details
which will be of sad interest to Keo-
kuk friends of the little girl and the
family:
Death at PeIa.
Leah Ruth Payne, eldest daughter
of DIR. and Mrs. H G. Payne was
born at Leighton, Iowa. Aug s, 1902.
At the age of ten months the fam
lily removed to Pella. Iowa which has
been her home until the time of her
death. Jan. 6, 1915, aged IL years. 5
months
The last few years on account OF
sickness and business the family have
been more or less away from Pella,
but Leah Ruth has spent the past
two years here with her grandparents
to continue her studies In the public
schools.
Her mother and baby sister re-
turned from Canada, Dec. II, 1914,
and the father and other sister arriv-
ed Tuesday morning.
AS is the nature of the disease,
diabetes, the warning Of its presence
is often delayed until death Is at
hand.
Dr. Frank Keables was called on
New Years evening and On the Tues
day following a consultation with DR..
C. E. Ruth of Des Moines was ar
ranged, but no human aid could save
her from the end.
She passed peacefully away at
11:15 o'clock Wednesday morning.
having suffered no pain but weari-
ness
Public services were had at the
family home at 2:30 o'clock on Sat
urday afternoon, sunshine, music,
beautiful flowers and the sweet
sympathy Of friends combined to
make the service very beautiful.
It was conducted by Rev Jesse
Monkman Of the Methodist church.
assisted by Rev. Brinkman of the
Second Reformed church of which
her aunt, Dr. French was member.
Leah Ruth was a member of the
Methodist church and very faithful at
its services. She will be much miss
ed by her friends in school and church
as well as older people whose lives
she frightened by her happy face
and thoughtful ways. Private ser
vices from home Wednesday after
noon at 2:30 1nterment at Oakwcod
cemetery
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

The pamphlet will not, of course,
take the place of the advice of a ply
stefan, but it includes section on
how to keep the baby well, which de-
scribes the minor ailments of baby
hood and the symptoms indicating
the onset Of more serious illness. Spe-
cial emphasis is placed on the dan
ger to infants of whooping cough and
measles
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
THE WEST LAND.

THE WEST LAND.
o to lie in long grasses!
o to dream Of the plain.
Where the west wind sings as It
passes
weird and unceasing refrain;
Where the rank grass Wallows ana
losses,
And the plains ring dazzles the
eye:
Where hardly silver cloud bosses
The flashing steel arch Of the sky.
To watch the gay gulls as they futter
Like snowtiakes and fall down the
sky,
4 To swoop in the deeps Of the hallows,
Where the crows foot losses awry,
And gnats in the lee of the thickets
Are swirling like walters in glee
To the harsh, shrill creak of the
crickets,
And the song of the lark and the
bee.
@ far off plains Of my West land!
20 lands of winds and the free,
Swift deer-my mist clad plain!
From my bed in the heart of the for
est,
From the clasp and the girdle of
pain
Your light through my darkness
passes;
To your meadows in dreaming fly
To plunge in the deeps Of your
grasses,
To bask in the light of your sky.
-Hamlin Garland in ST. Louis Globe
Democrat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

Tangible losses in Indiana from
the flood of March, 1913, were in ex-
cess of s25.00o,0o, according to the
Indiana state flood commission, which
has just completed its report for Gov
ernor Ralston. The damages to coun-
try roads and bridges alone were
more. than 100000. number Of
recommendations for preventing
floods are made to the legislature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
Another World Be.+e,

Des MONIES Tribune: A Sioux
City detective who is very fond of
pancakes claims to have eaten "a oao
Of them in the last eleven years
There's anothey championship that
ought TO go to SIOUX City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

When the stranger comes into your
store Or Office or home and asks
Flows Keokuk," don't hand him
bunch of gloom. It isn't fair to Keo
kuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

Anyway the presidents Indianapolis
speech caused some of the republicans
to sit up and take notice-as per re-
marks of Cummins, Borah and Mann.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
a Novelty In the legislature.

Sawyer went at his new work with
gravity and earnestness. He announ-
ced an examination for fifteen a9pli-
cants for these positions. Everybody
smiled then and though him
shrewd. The next day, 1t de-
7eloped that that was real
examination consisting Of die
tation OF new matter to be short hand
ed. typed and then graded to the frac-
ton OF one percent Sawyer fixed his
standard passing grade exactly as in
the schools.
In the first lot of applicants exam.
med Sawyer found one star, some
good ones, and a lot who failed to pass.
These last, Sawyer told to go home
as they could not be appointed. The
next day and the next and all the sue
ceeding days, the same thing occur
red. There was CONSERVATION among
the young women and youths who
had engaged board in Des Moines for
the winter. because their home mem
Der of the house had insured them
good positions in these hard times.
There was surprise among said old
members who are used to having
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

the club. after which the evening will
be spent in a social manner. Before
the next meeting the various commit
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
LITTLE P|MP[[S
ON CH|LD'S FACE
ltched and Child Scratched. Could
Not Leave Them Alone. Some-
thing Terrible. Used Cut;cura. In
a Month Child Was Healed.

Merle Beach. Mich.-"My little daugh-
ter was nearly two years old when she had
little pimples come on her face. 1t was just
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
Friendship Biggest Asset.

For ages. there have been couple
Of hundred stenographers and type
Wrists employed during each session
of the legislature. They have euphem-
isticaIly been called clerks Their
duties range from taking in shorthand
the most important committee hear
ings to writing letters back home for
the member from Metropolisville.
Hitherto, their qualifications have
been the friendship OF some member
popular enough among his fellows, or
big enough in the house, to land them
in the jobs A whole section of the
governors message was devoted to
this abuse Of a proper action, and the
extravaganza entailed thereby
Representative Sawyer was more or
less inadvertently made chairman Of
the committee to select these clerks.
Probably it was done because he Is
president of business college and
the old guard coulG cunter criticism
by pointing to him as a guarantee
that all the clerks appointed are stem
ographers and typists. The guarantee
holds good. but not in the way that
old legislative habitues anticipated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

Representative Sawyer Sensation.
Representative G. F. Sawyer, from
Lee county, has made in the very
first days of the session record that
may properly be called sensational.
He has gone quietly to work and &C
complished a reform in three days
that has been talked about for years
and recommended by Governor Clarke
in his annual message with apparently
little hope Of having the gubernatorial
advice adopted incidentally, Repre-
sentative Sawyer has made commo-
ton among the old guard who are
still living back in the last century
and the politics OF that day.
And he has done the biggest thing
accomplished to cate in a very quiet.
casual way, calculated to attract the
least attention to himself and without
the least blare of trumpets-has ac-
complished one Of the biggest reforms
in years in the most casual way mag
Unable. It is the most interesting and
important story being told around the
capitol and the hotel Hobbies this
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17
kEOKUk SOLON IS
FIGURE IN HOUSE
--
Representative Charles F. Sawyer
Throws Bomb into the Leais
Iaturs BY Reform I'm
cIerkships.
MUST PASS EXAMINATION
Some Who Expected to Winter in
Des Moines Already Sent
Home FraiIey is
Big Figure.
MUST PASS EXAMINATION
Especial to The Gate City.l

Special to The Gate City.l
DES MONIES, Jan. 16.-The two
new members of the legislature from
Lee county took front seats in the
work of that body even before the
governor was inaugurated and the
real labors Of the solons began.
Senator Joseph r. Frailey was al
ready pretty we'll known over the
state and well acquainted with a
score or more Of his fellow senator's
when he arrived in the capital. He
entered at once into that home feel
ing and was received more like an
old member of the upper houes than
as neophyte in the legislative game.
Senator Frailey was made mem
Der Of the committee to notify the gov
ernor that the senate had convened.
He was also put on the important and
highly honorary committee on the in
auguration of Governor Clarke. Final
ly, he was made the chairman OF the
committee of the joint session of both
houses to present the governor for
the lattar's annual address and mes
sage to the legislature. This is the
best of what opportunity there has
been to date to honor and show con-
fidence in Senator Frailey, and the
forecast is that he will be one of the
most important and influential mem
bers of the upper house during this
entire sssion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-17

xeokuk, Iowa -. January II, 1915
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22

the United States to act as mediator,
to preside at the peace negotiations.
Should that come TO pass, we should
have a rare chance to serve civiiz-
at on by reconciling the adversaries
and urging moderation in their de.
mands and by representing the cause
of justice and human welfare. Only
II these enter into the settlement can
1t be lasting.
This privilege can be ours only II
we are fit. To be fit we must as
nearly as possible be nonpartisan and
unprejudiced. Accordingly we should
continue to study the causes OF war
and the required remedies with fair
and open minds, so that in the day
of settlement we may participate
with both impartiality and known
edge. - IiTl
We have never had such a pros
pect of doing humanity service. We
should not waste II by becoming par
tisan along with the rest of the
world Deseret News.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22
THE TERMS OF PEACE

with the war at its height and with
no signs of abatement the terms Of
peace are already being discussed.
At the same time We are reading
cable dispatches telling OF Italy's
readiness, or Hollands increasing un.
oasiness, even, and Of other indca-
tions that the end is far away; Eng
land is calling on Canada for more
troops, orders for munitions of war
and horses are being placed in this
country and many other signs exist
that peace is still remote. But the
war Will end some time, observes
The Advocate Of Peace, the organ of
the American Peace society. and then
will come the peace negotiations. At
the council table, if the present de.
termination Of the belligerents per.
sists, there will be the naughty vic.
tor and the bruised yanQuished; the
one will seek to pluck the fruits Of
his costly triumph, the other to es.
cape the consequences of his evil
fortune, There will be plenty OF ar.
rogance and raucous pride and abase.
ment. There will, too, be much OF
self interest, for each nation will, as
before the war, strive to secure all 1t
can.
Who will represent the cause OF
humanity and of progress in this
council of self seekers? Who will
seek to secure for mankind the bene-
fits of democracy, antimilitarism, and
culture for which the nations profess
to be lighting? Little OF this may we
expect from nations first emerging
from the heat Of battle, says The Ad.
Vocate.
Here is the opportunity Of the Uni
ted States, Circumstances may call
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22

| to give them or that satisfies their
parents.
Desire of the modern woman to be
economically independent, even when
her men folk are able and willing to
support her..
Love of work for which the woman
is particularly gifted such as artistic
and professional work and even some
branches Of business.
Need or desire to help husband
who is unable alone to support the
family.
The greater interest in outside bus
mess as opposed to the monotony
and limitations Of home environ.
ments.
The desire for knowing how to
work so that she can be self support.
ing in case OF need,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22
About the Daily Bath

Some think they are doing spe-
cially good thing for their health by
taking a warm bath every day, and.
IL they find time, even twice. The
result of their indiscretion 10 a con-
slant catching cold, for they treat
their skin very much as they would
the butchers beef. Others will ad-
here to the opposite habit:-that is,
to use cold water principally, either
in the shape of cold plunges, sprays
or sponge baths. If both were used
the result would be perfect.
There Is nothing more stimulating
to the circulation of the blood, moth.
ing that will harden the skin so
much against the changes of temper
allure, as the use Of cold water.
Only, and that is the secret of t. the
cold spray should come after the
warm bath II you insist on taking
one very day. Skin will be skin,
whether the inner organs are dainty
or coarse, whether red or blue"
blood circulates through It. The one
rule stands good for all, with the ex.
ception of the BARRIERS age, his ply.
sical condition and the action OF his
heart. The latter should also decide
the temperature OF the warm bath,
which, as rule, ought to be only
mildly warm, not boiling except in
the case of a heavy cold, just in its
first stage.
There are only few people who can
stand the strain on the heart OF an
extremely hot bath without feeling
either too exhausted or too excited
after It, At any rate, a rest is requlr.
cd after any warm bath to get the
good out Of It, which is to animate
and regulate the circulation Of the
Dlood and the opening of the pores
to freer persplrNtion and greater gen.
eral action.
TO understand better the value and
correct use OF either hot or cold baths
whether taken in the tub or only
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22
TOWN PROMOTION mo. y

Growth, advance In population
prosperity and civic advantages, II
the dream of every community. The
importance of town is gagged by
the outside world by its figures Of
population. Every progressive mar
is anxious to see his town grow great
or, confident that at the same time
1t must grow better.
Where so many towns are compel
ing for the same end, many of these
hopes must be disappointed. If some
places gain, others will remain sta
tionery or lose. If a community re-
mains Indifferent to its own advance
ment, the chances are that It will re-
main stationary, while its young and
enterprising men go elsewhere.
The problem of what practical
things can be done to make town
advance in population and prosper
ity is one vitality important to our
own community. How shall we get
our share of the splendid advance
that has been accomplished by so
many places, which has multiplied
the value of all property and of every
solvent business and secured many
public improvements and comforts of
living not otherwise to be had?
This question was put recently by
a representative of this paper, to the
secretary of hustling Board of
Trade in one of the most progressive
cities in the United States.
The questioner expected to have
the secretary reel OFF long story OF
organization and machinery by which
new industries were secured, capital
subscribed and factories built.
Instead he was surprised to hear
the Board of Trade man reply, that
1t often seemed to him that the get
ting of new industries and increases
in population were matter of luck
or chance. you can send your ap.
peals in a thousand directions" he
said, and get nothing. Then In
some unexpected way the news Of
your advantages makes an impress.
sion on the thousand and first man, |
in the quarter where you least ex-
pected it, and you land something /
big"
This Board of Trade man did not .
mean that a community can lie back |
and go ahead without effort. On |
the contrary, only consistent and in.
cessant effort can make a town grow
This effort ought not to be burden
some on any one man. but it must be
persistent. The next following edi.
torials in this series will tell how
several Board of Trade men think .
that these ends can be achieved.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22
WHY WOMEN ENTER
THE BUSINESS WORLD

They must help in the support of
the family.
They have no private income and
their men folk are unable to support
them.
Where parents can give them a
comfortable home, girls find there is
not sufficient work at home to keep
them occupied.
While parents can give them a
comfortable home, they cannot sup
ply them with pin money" for good
clothes, entertaining, etc.
Girls desire a higher standard Of
living than their parents can afford
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22

reduce the average consumption Of
populations, which in times of peace
have too little food, and to increase
the sentiment of hate between the
two nations most affected. 1t is a
case Of making war indirectly upon
noncombatants, which hurts every
body. and will have very little effect
upon the final outcome of hostilities.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-04-22

with the sponge, We ought to recol.
lect the functions of the skin. First
it incloses and protects the internal
organs, and it eliminates waste mat
ter.