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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-30

tho many things which
We read about and
are Of immediate Inn
portance to the expec-
tant mother, Is q splen-
did external remedy
called "M o tn err
Friend" This Il APP
piled over the muscles
Of the stomach. Il q
deeply penetrating In
lbs influence. Mothers
everywhere tell Of Its
soothing effect, bow Il
allays pains incident to
- A0pda
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Letter to-
DR.. Kiluler &c Co.,
Blu z hamton, NY

Prove What swannp-Root VIII do for
Yop
Send ten cents to Dr. Ki1mer & Co.
Binghamton, n. Y, for q sample size
bottle. 1t viii convince anyone. You
will also receive booklet of valuable
information. telling about the kidneys
and bladder When writing, be sure
and mention the Keokuk Daily Gate
City. Regular fifty-cent and one-dol-
lar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.
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4 Fine Aid For
Mother be

We are all greatly indebted to those
who tell their experiences. And among
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weather Conditions

PrecipitatiOn IN "A nourS, Trace.
Mean temperature 2sth. 26.
Highest, 20.
Lowest, %.
Lowest last night, ~.
FRED z. GOSEWISCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-30
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and vicinity: Probably
light .now this afternoon or tonight.
Warmer tonight. Wednesday partly
cloudy and colder.
For Iowa: Probably light snow this
afternoon or tonight. Warmer east
portion. wednesday partly CLOUDY
and colder.
For Missouri: Partly cloudy and
probably unsettled tonight and We'd
nesday. Warmer east and south por-
lions tonight. Colder Wednesday.
For Illinois: Unsettled weather to
night and Wednesday. Probably light
rain or snow north and central por-
tion.. Warmer tonight. Colder north
and west portions Wednesday.
Weather Conditions.
In the plains states the weather 10
unsettled and warmer this morning.
with depression central in Colorado.
which is followed by an area OF high
pressure in the extreme northwest.
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Sc Louis Hay and Straw.

ST. LOUIS. Nov. ga steady and
firm market is on good to choice
grades Of timothy, clover mixed, Glow
er and alfalfa; small arrivals again
included very little or nothing in top
grades OF foregoing descriptions; ordI.
nary and common kinds are quiet, but
also in small supply and maintained in
price; poor and off color alfalfa is
most diffcult to SELL Timothy, No. 3.
$40 .OO@11 90; No. 2, s12. 00@14. 90;
No. 1, SIS. OOm17. 80. Alfalfa, No. 8,
S12. 90; No. /, SIC .00@17 90. Clover,
No. 2, $40. 00@11 90.
Straw-Scarce and firm 1T IS. SO
track and $500 delivered.
Chicago Live Stock.
limited Press Leased Wire Service1
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-The live stock
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. 0G0UQubV VII SNSS
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ;,
NEW YORK, Nov. so.-John ~
Rockefeller and other Standard vi
magnates and stockholders are NIL
lions richer today than they were !,
month ago. Figures compiled by wan
street experts Indicate fat CHRIST
mas for the Standard Oil group y
estimated that the market value Oh suo
stock OF the thfrty-six separate cum
panies formed after the dissolutioh y,
the Standard, has appreciated eo'ai
or $14S.1S7,017. :,
This staggering figure is salo 7.
represent only the increase IN 7alu .,, y,
the stock. The. aggregate ma lan,
value OF the stock OF the various Goo 200
panies is now said to be 1851 'oSS,ssa
REPORTS from various points nav
told OF advances in the price OF az
line ana oil. From Tarrytown toaa!
cam. : story that John D. had taken
steps to conserve his gas . s.pp a.
Chauffeurs and other enpios .sdns
Pocantico, Hills have been 10Y aid.
on Rockefeller's gasoline, II Sa.red
A. : result, the OIL king has olue a,,i.
that cars be supplied only WIN ~. ,hs
ncient quantity Of gasoline ~
trip on which they are oroef''
Japan War Stocks. ee-v,o.1
rYrr,tad press Leased Wire seL'i .ty.
TOXIC, Nov. 3o.-The wiloes 81 war
rocketing in Japanese history .n Oh
stocks. forced temporary susp Ass
Of the stock exchange TO-DAY some
re.nit Of frantic bull trading. s5oo
commemorative stocks have risen
per share. r..u,t Of the
enorrnous sale Of arms. munitionS he
supplies to Russia, since tne ,r,netus
from the Russo-Asiatic BANK ss.s cara
advertisement Of loan to 2s saSs action
Of the cars purchases. Inn russian
convinced &C spectators tina. that. and .
nayments would be prompt dat iately.
T sSeA movement gained headwa yyc,ers
r.nidlv that conservative m. n todsy
hacame alarmed and decided esre s for
that an opportunity must pc s If san
= Are restoration OF some degree u
| lily.
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rarket closed with the market hve 70
fan Cents lower than yesterdays
ayarage. The hog run II very heavy.
BADLY depressing prices. Esdmatsd
for wednesday $4,000.
The cattle market closed slow ana
weak, with top ut 5000.
The sheep market closed steady
to 1Oc higher than yesterday's avee-
age. The top for sheep. $3.50: lambs
$40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
Jayh awker Jots

The experience in changing resi-
dences moves the Blue Mound Sun to
move for a movement to remove NOV.
ing.
A Sabetha woman who believes in
safety first has an extra set OF false
teeth. according to Mrs. Ralph Ten
nal.
Philip F'liphop is quoted by the
Lansing News as saying: "A good
housewife is never on the list of the
unemployed"
Jitney Jones is an all round enter
tainer. Jitney not only tells the funny
stories, but also leads in the applause.
-Holton Signal.
An enemy will pay what he owes
you quicker than your friends Will
pay, insists the Wilson County Citizen.
Enemies aren't such bad fellows after
all.
In the story books, explains the
jamestown Optimist, the girl jilts her
lover and lives to regret it. In real
life she jilts him and lives to sympa-
thize with the woman he marries
Never mind, urges Mrs. Homer
Hoch in the Marion Record, the old
philosophers say there is nothing
permanent but change" so the waist
line though unmarked and shifting
bids fair to remain.
AS Bob Good, editor of the Cawker
City Ledger, differentiates between
drafts: A draft from an open win
dow makes a man cold; a poor draft
in the kitchen stove makes him hot:
and overdraft at the bank will
hereafter make him hustle.
A bulletin from the state fire mar
shars Office says sermons in churches
were employed in many towns last
year to stimulate interest in fire pre-
ventiOn. notes the Clay Center Times,
and it adds: Aren't all sermons in all
churches for the purpose of stimulat-
ing interest in fire prevention?
Two sisters-in-law are vieing with
each other in pulling off special dress
stunts. reports the Pratt Union. One
rushed to n social meeting Friday
night with but the top button of her
shoes buttoned while the other at
tended the Ladies Aid with one lace
shoe and one button shoe showing be-
low her skirts. incidentally, these in
stances seem to be excellent argu-
ments for longer, not shorter skirts
as Dame Fashion is demanding.
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had to do with church choir in
which she had once sang; Mrs. Jones
had been reminded of lost little one,
and ever after that the listeners treat
Difference; Miss Crotty told of how
she had always wanted to study mu-
sic, but there had been no money and
many mouths to feed and-millinery
paid better wages.
Homer Dale was silent; his eyes
never left -Violet's lovely face as the
girl in return for the confidence of
these new found friends told the sad
story of her loveless life. She told it
simply and straightforwardly
MY dear" quavered Miss witch
ell, at last, and she quite forgot to
scratch, you are a wonderful girl
and 1 hope you will forgive me for
what 1 said on the stairS."
Dear Miss TwitchelI!" murmured
Violet, as she impulsiyely kissed the
faded cheek so near her own.
Still Homer Dale said nothing. The
others chartered so fast that they en-
tirely forgot his presence. When bed
time came Violet saw his extended
hand and her own little one was lost
in its warm grasp.
Thank you. Miss Lane. for conftd-
ing in us this evening" he said
gravely.
As she prepared for bed a tender
smile curved her lips. IF these are
ly's story, I must say that l adore the
occupants of Miss Cady's Zoo, 1 be-
heve-I m-going-to be very happy
-here" And Violet drifted into
slumber.
Sally Hecker faced her fellow teach
ers with a tragic wave of her hand to-
ward Violet Lane, who was walking
home with Homer Dale.
Girls, Iooki" she commanded.
There goes the most successful ami
NAL trainer in the world-Violet
Lane! What is her record? Merely
that she has tanned Miss Cady's Zoo
to a manor a bear! Miss Twitchell
swears by her-Miss Crotty worships
her-Dr. Coleman growls her praises
to whoever will 1isten-the drug clerk
is hope1essly in love with her-and
Mrs. Jones has offered to adopt her.
What can we do2 The menagerie is
tanned by little blue-eyed girl!'
There is Homer Dale, the big,
brown. growly bear" reminded Miss
Fem mischievously
''Oh, he is the most cowed of them
all" retorted Sally brightly. I'm fact.
Violet is to lead him through life with
chain of roses-fact. girls, they are
engaged! Isn't it lovely that she is 20
have a real home and real folks at
last ?''-(Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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EUening Chat
How Much Alike We Are.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


Il used to think 1 was different
from other girls, but I'm coming to
the conclusion that we are all very
much alike after. ALL"
So writes a. dear little friend OF
mine, in philosophic vein.
And now let me tell you something
remarkable. She is only sixteen. just
fancy her having reached that con-
clusion so soon.- Why many of us are
just beginning to glimpse, 1t ten years
later.
The feeling that one is different,
that many of ones thoughts and feel
ings are unique, or at least very rare,
is one of the hall marks of youth.
AS ones experience grows Broader,
and one realizes how many people
there are in the world, and how many
there have been, one begins to suspect
that perhaps among all of these there
may be some who have had similar ex-
periences. And as one grows still old
er. one begins to doubt if a unique
thought or experience is possible.
One of the experiences which is
most commonly taken for unique by
the astonished young person who first
undergoes it, is that sensation that
suddenly comes over one when one is
doing saying some perfectly simple
thing of having done or said just the
same thing somewhere, some time, be-
fore. 1 can remember when I first
had these flashes how surprised 1 was.
and how sure that l was having some
Love is another experience which
the young soul thinks is unique to
itself. OF course, the young person in
love realizes that other people have
been in love, but he is sure that they
have never felt quite the same as he.
The older one grows, the more one
realizes the fundamental similarities
of human nature
One experience which has particu-
larly impressed this on me is this: 1
write about the foibles of someone 1
know personally, and from some I'M
known friend miles away / will re-
ceive a letter saying, You were writ
ing about my neighbor."
So fundamentally similar is human
nature!
Nor are there such wide differences
between people Of different classes as
we are in the habit of thinking. The
believe with all my heart that they are
outweighed by the likenesses.
The society leader thinks of her
maid or her washerwoman as creatures
of another clay. If the veil could be
lifted from her eyes and she could see
things just as they are for a moment,
I believe she would be startled not by
the difference, but by the likeness.
For the Coioners Lady and Julia
O'Grady
Are sisters under the skim
Horace WalpoIe once said: eff
angels laugh, how we must divert
them" Can't you just imagine angels
laughing at our strutting little vani-
ties of class and uperiority-we, who
probably seem as much alike to them
as a flock of sparroyvs to us.
The differences between the COM
nonest and the most select the
crudest and the most cultured of us,
how small they must seem to the
Power that is itself so infinitely better
than the best. When one thinks of it
one feels ready to echo Wordsworth:
THE best of what we do and are
Inst God
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voluntary associations. quasi and semi
public, and public Many cities nave
organizations of the first type, Baiu-
more, st. Paul, Chicago, San Francisco
and various associations in the east
AS to quasi-public pensions. there mas
been legislation authorizing the crea-
ton of insurance funds by assessment
equal to a certain per centum of the
teachers salary, with the administra-
ton of the funds in the hands or a
public officer. The semipubhc type
assesses the teachers salaries directly
and the state adds directly or Indirect
lyly. through the municipality.
The Kansas statute affords a good
example of the semipublic type Its
defects lie in the length of service re-
uuired in one place, and that the law
is not of statewide operation.
The public. or fourth type, such as
Rhode Island has, provides that any
public school teacher IS years or age.
with thirty-five years of teaching eX-
perience, twenty-five of which must
be in Rhode Island, may retire ana
draw from the state one-halr his av-
erage annual salary for the last five
wears not to exceed $500 in amount.
Twenty states have some form or
pension laws for teachers. Nearly all
are northern states.-A Teacher, in
the Kansas Teacher.
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PROFITABLE DAIRY STOCK.

Uncle Sam-that is to say, that part
of the American population that farms
keeps three immense herds of dairy
COWS; each herd contains seven mil
lion head and occupies a farm the
size of the state of Illinois, writes Will
Der J. Fraser in the American Review
of Reviews for March. in an article
entitled Uncle Sans Three Herds OF
Dairy Cattle One of these herds
lacks s50,OOO,000 annually of paying
for its keep. Another of equal size
makes moderate profit of s7.S5 per
COW, but the third herd of 100000
high producing cows makes the SPLEEN
did but not extra ordinary, profit of
S26.S2 per head, or S1S7. 100000 an
nually.
This is not a mere guess, but is
based upon facts secured by the de-
partment of dairy husbandry of the
University of Illinois from a large and
fair comparison of the individual
yearly records of over 1000 cows in
herds, tested by this department. in
different parts of the state.
Investigations We're not made TO
show that there is a difference in the
producing power of individual dairy
cows, as this has been known for n
wide and far-reaching this variation
is and something of its meaning to the
dairy industry of the United States.
The poorest third of these COWS
produced an average of 1854 pounds
of milk and 134 pounds butterfat an
nually, each COW lacking s7.25 of pay
ing for her keep. The middle third
averaged 5000 pounds of milk and
1913 pounds of butterfat annually, re-
turning an average profit of s7.S5;
and the best third averaged 6,765
pounds of milk and 27s pounds of but
terfat, each cow making. an annual
profit of S26.S2, besides paying mar
ket price for all items included in her
keep.
As these cows were in commercial
dairy herds in four different sections
of Illinois, it is justifiab1e to assume
that they are fair representatives of
Uncle Sans cows. According to tho
last census, the average production of
the cows in the United States was LAG
pounds butterfat, while the average
production of the 1000 cows tested in
Illinois was 2os pounds, therefore the
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Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

A lot of men meet ruin fooling with
safe things
You will be treating your friends
better if you don't treat them.
Hope is a great institution although
it won't effect a cure where calomel
is needed.
In the spring the town gardeners are
much more numerous than in August
the well-cooked month.
1t is all right to be a friend of the
people if you can make a living and
other luxuries in that line of en-
deavor.
Alb Adkins says his lodge talks a
good deal more about the Good of the
Order than of relieving distressed
members
1t may also be said that a mistake
of many of the Christian soldiers is
heavy artillery.
The difference seems to be that the
Chinese worship their ancestors and a
large portion of the rest of the world
merely brags on it's ancestors.
Comparatively few of the broken
bones are the result of the jiu jitsu
artists clever work, contrary to what
the advertisements may have led you
to believe.
Why can't the weather man be an
optinist like the election forecaster?
about it, even if his guesses are often
vain and uncertain.
You may have observed that the
gumshoe school of statesmanship has
graduates in a number of officers
in this land of the free, and keeps
them there longer than the shoot
mouth variety. So
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figures here given do not exaggerate
the actual conditions and are conserv-
alive.
Using the above figures as basis
for Uncle Sans herds, the following
noteworthy facts are brought out:
Since each of the three herds con-
tains over 100000 cows, or more
than 100000 herds of 80 cows each.
it will require 230, 900 farms contain
ing 100 acres each. Ca quarter section
being required to successfully handle
a herd of 80 cows), together with all
the buildings, horses. tools, equipment
and labor necessary for one of the
three herds. These farms aggregate
SO, 10000 acres, or $500 square
miles, equal to an immense farm the
size of the state of Illinois.
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
Riches have wings, but poverty
wears the spurs.
Provided it isn't counterfeit even a
silver dollar is good round sum.
Strangely enough, you have to run
a rumor to earth to find, that it is
groundless.
Self-respect is good asset, but
many man has more of 1T than he is
entitled to.
Never compliment a woman on be-
ing graceful until you see her get off
a trolley car.
Don't hold a man up to scorn Even
the footpad is satisfied with simply
holding him up.
You never can tell. Many a man
bows to the inevitable, only to find
that it is a case of mistaken identity.
Sillicus-.'A man never makes a mis-
take in accepting advice Cynicus@
No, it's acting upon it that counts .
Money is still tight said the
financier. NO wonder, considering
how much of it goes into Saloons re-
piled the reformer.
Muggins-"She thinks no man is
good enough for her Buggins--She
may be right, too.'' Muggins-"Yes;
but she is more apt to be left
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[FroTn' the Chicago News1
Diamonds are strumps in the game
of love.
Judicious silence is an eloquent in
dicatiOn of wisdom.
Wealth makes kleptomaniacs; pow
erty makes thieves.
Ignorance occasionally borrows a
coat and poses as wisdom.
Every woman is a conundrum that
keeps some man guessing.
Women never discuss anything at a
club meeting; they just talk.
A few short weeks and the house
cleaning microbe will get busy again.
A man gets down to bed rock when
he has to keep the cradle in motion.
a frenzied financier is a man who
collects every dollar due him and
stands off every bill collector that
calls on him.
The individual who sits between two
fat women in crowded car knows
what it is to have, greatness thrust
upon him.
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From Other Pens
OUR FIRST RESERVES.

The news from New York of the
formation there of an organization %
be known as the American Legion
and to be composed of former army
and navy men, militia men and citt-
zens having special qualifications Tor
military service, draws attentlon TO
source of strength that is frequently
overlooked Some appear to look up
on our small standing army as repre-
senting about all the trained fighters
we have in this country. They forget
that in the .eighborhood of $4,000
trained men are being discharged
every year, after serving enlistmentS
in the regular army or national
guards and that schools including
military training graduate enough
others to bring the total to $1,000.
The American Legion plans to estab-
lish within a short time Il first re-
serve of between 100000 and 3OO,0OO
former army and navy militamen
''for instant call in case of emergen-
Cyl Owing to the policy of this ma
ton against maintaining large
standing army, no plan has been de-
vised. for reserving the services of the
men discharged annually. after serving
military enlistments, but they have al
ways been looked upon by the govern
ment as a source of strength. That
this confidence is not misplaced is
shown by the patriotic move these
men are now making to form them
selves into reserve. Major General
Wood has unofficially Endorsed the
the legion to establish temporary
headquarters on Governors Island,
Government reservation. While it is
not known whether the Government
is in harmony with all the details, the
move is wholly in line with sugges-
tons of President Wilson and other
officers of the administration. Sec
rotary of War Garrison and Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels in their last
annual message made strong recon-
mendatiOnS that steps be taken to-
ward securing reserves, and President
Wilson, in a recent message to con-
gress, said every announcement
should be given efforts to attract civil
ians to military training. Organiza-
lions of former army and navy men
would give that an impetus. 1t is en-
phatically stated by the organizers of
the legion that the move is not one
of militarism, but of precaution. We
believe the Government, which has
recognized the desirability of having
reserves, will hail this spirit with de-
fredericksburg Post.
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Lets see.'' he said to himself, sis
there any place else 1 can look? I've
searched around the front porch-ev-
erybody seems to be asleep this morn
ing for there wasn't a crumb put cut
for me-and I've hunted around the
back steps. 1 have flown over and
over the yard and looked around the
garbage can. Now where else could
there be anything"
Tommy looked across the fresh
white snow in disgust. THE people
that make such a fuss about beautiful
snow never had to hunt for food in
it, that's plain to Sect Then, because
he had to do something even if there
was no hope of success, he started for
the garbage can again. I'll just look
once more to be sure he said to him.
self, and away he flew.
And there, right down close by the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-26

George w. Wickersham, formerly
attorney general of the United States,
might change his mind in respect to
the theory that womans suffrage is
a danger to the home if he would
make a trip through Kansas and other
equal rights states and inspect the
conditions of the homes in them. 1t
would be just as sensible to argue that
men would make larger successes of
their business enterprises if they did
not have the right to vote, as it Is to
suggest that the home is on the road
to destruction when women are &C
corded this privilege.
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Many prominent Japanese are ayi-
tating for the purchase of the Philip
pines a means of ending the con-
slant disputes between Japan and the
United States. These disagreements
are almost wholly concerned with the
Japanese emigration to this country
And the Japanese Philippine-purchase
party declares that if Japan owned
the Philippines there would be no
need of Japanese emigration to CALI
fornia and elsewhere in Uncle Sans
domain. But is such an argument
sound? The opportunities and advan-
tages for Japanese in the Philippines
are not to be compared with those in
the United States, and even il Japan
owned the Philippines the chances are
that just as many Japanese as ever
would desire to emigrate to this coun-
frV