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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03

to tell some old devils of their sins"
"a lot of YOU" he said, either
ought to clean UP or get out Of the
church.
Ante-Easter finery was on dress
, parade at the tabernacle at the morn
ing service. The ladies were not
asked to remove their hats and the
spring millinery made most at
tractive appearance inside the big
shed.
The total number of persons In
Sunday school yesterday morning was
3.454. The goal of the churches par
ticipating in the revival was 5000.
The Trinity Methodist church ranked
first with 1.1OS and the Baptists were
second with 635. The Christian
church had 514, the Westminster
Presbyterian 367, the United Presby-
terrain 1877, the Methodist Protestant
1877 and the Congregational, 14s.
Conservation Of Church Forces.
The sermon was one on conserva-
ton of church forces. The evange-
list implored the church members to
stand back of their pastors and to
work together harmoniously. OF
course. after | leave" he said, there
may be some contention. some mis-
understandings. Don't let them ruin
your chances.
eff you people miss a single night
Of this weeks services he said once,
you will miss something that Broth
er Scoville will never say to you
again this side of heaven. | never
expect to spend another week in
Keokuk. Life is too short; | have
too many calls. Much as I would
like to come back. l can never do
it."
Some evangelists," he said. stab
the local pastors so much. and fail
to boost their Sunday schools to such
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03
PERSONALS.

Canton News: Mrs. c. H. Miller and
daughter. Miss Ivah, leave tomorrow
for Keokuk, where they will make
their future home. Mr.. Miller has
been there six years as chief engineer
in the Purity Oats factory. We re-
greet seeing these good people going
from our midst and extend our best
wishes to them in their new home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03
These Ailments Weaken Your
System. Your Body Then
Needs the Help Of
DIR. Kings New Discovery.

Colds are annoying. They inter-
tere with our duties. In our weak
ened condition they may end in a
spell of sickness or even more serious
ailments. Fear, however, should be
overcome, for in DR.. Kings New
discovery you have an effective rem
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03
Public Speaker

VIII accept speaking engag
for Decoration Day ceremonies. kd-
dress Arthur c. SpieImann, 205S Belle
Avenue, Baden Station, ST. Louis, Mo-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03
Villas Perversjty-

New York World: If Villa were in
as many places as he is daily report
ed TO be it should be easy work to
locate him and catch him. He persists
in being in only one place at time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03
No One Can Answer for You.

Brother Scoville can't answer for
you at the judgment bar" he cried
earnestly. "You brag about your
christian fathers: you brag about
your christian mothers. They can't
save your souls. The very fact that
you had good parents makes you all
the more responsible.
mo, sir" he answered. Don't
think that because you were born in
christian home you are christian.
If you were born in a potato patch.
would that make you potato?
Tom myrot!
"The bells in heaven are ringing
tonight" he shouted, for those who
are saved they are coronation bells.
For the lost they are funeral knells.
If you won't come to God in great
tidal wave of religion like this, you
will never come. It's now or never
for many of you and you know it.
Some men say, I don't ask for
mercy. want Justice All right, JUS
tice is waiting for you. You'll get
Justice But | want mercy. | may
never face you again." he said in
closing. He was on his knees on the
carpeted platform. His face was wet
with sweat. His voice had grown
hoarse from the strenuous preaching
of the day. Il may never see you
again under heaven, but my word to
you is, my brother. Prepare to Meet
Thy God And remember that death
prints no time cards and that there
are no turn tables in eternity"
The Morning Service.
DR.. Scoville told the crowd Sunday
morning that he isn't going to die
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03

cant stand what I'll say. Well, hope
what 7 say will get into the columns
OF the newspaper and that they'll
read what they didn't have the nerve
to come to the tabernacle and hear.
You know he said, Its mighty
poor sort Of christian who will Just
pick out the sermons he likes and pass
up the others. But am not to blame
II you don't come. You've seen the
birds fly south and back again; you've
watched season after season come and
go; you've seen the bees store up their
honey. And yet you have not made
any more preparations for heaven than
a grass hopper has for Christmas.
And he concluded, you're just living
a sort of grass-hopper, katy-did ex-
istence, too"
There are certain people-in the
social set right here in Keokuk-and
out Of it-who are worshiping false
GODS said Scoville. They've been
pretty faithful until today-and now
they are not here
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Trail hitters yesterday. ....... 222
Trail hitters to date. ......... 5000
Attendance yesterday ...... $4,000
Total estimated attendance. 10000
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-03

birthday. There are men and women
who will never see another April on
this earth. Are you prepared to meet
your God?
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medicine being dspnsabe with family
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in The Gate CITY.
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The Morning Service.
Dr. Scoville told the crowd Sunday
morning that he isn't going to die
and go to hell because he's afraid
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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-12

having done most to help stamp out
the great white plague The other
half of the prize went to the Charity
Organization Society of New York.
"In addition to its anti-tuberculo.
sis. work, the Association has aimed
IN many other ways to promote the
general health and improve the liv-
ing conditions of poor Irish people.
Visiting nurses have been engaged to
go about from place to place and
from home to home, ministering, like
the angels of mercy they are, to the
needs of the sick and the suffering.
They enter a poor grass matched
howell like ray of sunshine into a
dark cavern. On the little Island of
1nnishboffen, off the coast of Gal
way, one of these visiting nurses ad-
ministered alone for weeks at time,
without a single vessel from the
mainland, to the needs of the poor
people on the island. She was the
only ono to whom they could turn
for medical advice of any sort.
VISITING NURSES.
"In all the Association has main
tanned about 160 of these visiting
nurses. They have been sent to any
part of Ireland wherever there has
been a call for aid. They 20 to
the homes where a sick child has
just returned from the hospital, and
show the mother how to care for the
little one and how to prepare what
food is on hand so as to make it as
nutritious as possible. And in 90
ing about they give instructions to,
the people as to methods of preven-
ton of disease, telling them. for in
stance, that open windows are bet
ter. than closed windows to keen tn.
berculosls away, showing the value
of cleanliness, of proper cooking and
SO on.
And in Dublin, where as many as
10000 families live in sinFle-rooin
tenements, and $4,000 of these aver
age i've or six persons, living in,
damp and dingy cellar or a musty
garrett, you can realize the great.
amount Of work there is for these
visiting nurses. They have been en-
ployed there and in other cities. as
we'll as in the rural districts of the
island. with infinite benefit to the
people.
"other ways" continued Lady
Aberdeen, Sin which the, Association
has been active have been in the es-
tanlishment of babies clubs and In
fant welfare centers, in Fairgrounds
and open air spaces for the children, 1
IN dental clinics in the schools, in
providing inexpensive meals for
school children and IN Offering them
prizes for eating porridge instead
OF taking tea; in conducting classes
for mothers and elder girls, in send
ing about the country travelling
child welfare and good food exhibits,
and in cleanup campaigns.
AMERICAS DEBT.
1--WE owe much to America" said
Lady Aberdeen, for we have bor-
rowed many Of the health methods
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aid. She instituted the Irish In
dustries Association. She arranged
the famous garden party at the
Viceregal Lodge at which all the
guests We're expected to wear gar
ments made of Irish material. This
was the start of society whose
members pledged themselves to en-
courage and develop Irish indus
tries by every means in their power.
Never once during the thirty years
since that time, has Lady Aberdeen
appeared without some garment of
Irish texture. 1t was under her
leadership that the Irish Village was
organized at the Chicago Worlds
Fair, which made S250,O00 and gave
great impetus to Irish industry.
Ireland, for two generations has
been a dwindling. race. There are
but half as many people there today
as there were in 1910. Then the
population was more than 5000, 900
and now it is barely above the 4,
100000 mark. Plague. emigration,
war, infant mortality, have taken
their toll. There remains today
little more than a remnant of once
proud race, and conditions that are
tragically dangerous are facingtthat
remnant. The lustiest of Ireland's
sons are dying in trenches of Europe.
Death stalks among the sod huts
where the financial stress of the
great conflict is felt and the babies
are dying much more rapidly than
they would be If their opportunities
for lTfa HtyaFoa 10
Is the Irish race to survive? Is
there to be another generation Of
Irishmen to go forth and become the
salt Of the earth? The safest wayto
assure an affirmative answer: to this
question is to battle that the babies
may be saved.
ut is eminently fitting that this
should be Irish Babies Week. said
Lady Aberdeen in conclusion. sNo
better time could be selected than
the week in which the patron saint
Of Ireland is worshipped by the. loyal
sons of Erin all over the world.
MAKE this week of st. Patrick's
one in which each good son and
daughter of the blessed isle, shall
deny himself and herself some little +.
luxury to help save the babies of
Ireland. Their little lives are crying
to great and generous America and
to their brothers. on this side ofl.the
water to contribute a bit to help
them live and grow into strong, men
and women for the future glory Of
the Irish race"
In some of the cities which Lord
and Lady Aberdeen have visited,
treasurers have been named, among
them being John d. Crimmins, New
York; ]. Q. Heyer, Boston; "A. G.
Rains. San Francisco, and John Joy
Edison, Washington. Permanent
headquarters have been established
for the Aberdeen Fund, American
Auxiliary-of the Wornen's National
Health Association of Ireland, at
105 East 22nd street, New York
City. 800
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AN 1RISH RDRA1 HOME

Health Association of Ireland, of
which she has been president ever
since it came into existence.
Many times obstacles and opposi-
ton have appeared in the way, but
these have only spurred Lady Aber-
deem on to a greater determination
to win out. Friends have said to
her frequently, after she had an
nounced that she proposed to do a.
certain thing: sit can't be done"
This has not daunted her. Like Rob-
ert Bruce, her ancestor she would
not admit that there was any such
word as cant" in the language.
While the Marchioness of Aber-
deem and Temair has accomplished
much during her life, perhaps the
greatest monument which she has
erected to herself and to her unf1ap-
ging energy and devotion to cause
has been the Women's National
Health Association of Ireland. She
has given of her time unsparingly
slice its inception in 1907.
CURLING TUBERCULOSIS.
"The babies must be saved for the
coming generation" said Lady Aber-
deem, sand the other children must
have their health protected, if the
strength and stamina of Ireland as
nation is to continue. Thousands
of brave sons of Erin are giving
their lives in the trenches of Europe;
the little ones at home must be safe
guarded and saved for the future of
the race. The need for infant welfare
work is more imperative now than
1T probably ever can be again, for in
addition to an increased infant NOR
tally, and the deaths on the battle
field, the records show decreasing
birth rate since the war began.
Owing to lack of funds, a chill
dren's sanatorium for the treatment
of tuberculosis has been left stand
ing empty. A new preventorium,
where women and children can 90
whose health would be restored by
few weeks of good food, good air and
care, was taken over but there is no
money with which to equip it. Ire
land possesses no hospital to care for
children suffering from surgical tu-
berculosis, and this is much felt
need. A large percentage of these
cases could be cured II proper medl-
cal attention were given at the right
time. Unfortunately this cannot be
done.
"But, among its numerous activi-
ties, the Association can point with
PRIDE" continued Lady Aberdeen,
to what it has accomplished in re-
ducing the death rate from tubercu-
losis in Ireland. There are about so
less deaths from tuberculosis each
week now than there were in 1907,
and there are about $4,000 fewer
persons suffering from the disease.
The Association is proud of the fact
that it was able to come to the
United States few years ago at the
time of the international Congress
on tuberculosis and be rewarded, in
q contest open to the world, with
half Of the grand prize Of $1,000, for
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which had been tested and found
valuable in this country and employ
ed them in our work in Ireland,
ION the other hand, in coming
to the United States, we feel
that some compensation is due to
the little isle for the thousands of
sturdy sons and daughters who have
emigrated to this LAM of promise
and who have helped by their labor
and their loyalty in making it the
great nation it is today.
,"Do you realize," said Lady Aber-
deem, shat more than 100000 per-
sons have come from Ireland to the
United States since 1916? The
statistics of the immigration bureau
show this. / am sure that many of
the government officials will tell you
that no better class of immigrants
have come to these shores, for most
of the Irish came to stay, they have
proved good citizens and very valu-
able to the United States from an
economic point of view" !.
Lady Aberdeen talks gently and
without any ostentation of manner.
She never boasts of "what she has
done" While she was describing
the work of the Women's Health AS
ISOLATION, of which she was so great
a part, she never once used the per-
sonal pronoun. 1t was always: "The
Association has done this" or "The
visiting nurses have accomplished so
much" and so on.
In spite of their rank and titles
the Marquis has string of letters
after his name which look like the
alPhabet-the Marquis and Mar
chioness of Aberdeen and Temair are
extremely simple and democratic in
their ways. There is about them
none of the red tape which often
makes 1t difficult for a person in
humble position to approach those
who occupy exalted positions. After
you have been talking with Lady
Aberdeen for a few minutes. you
feel as if you had known her for
many years. She inspires you with
q confidence in yourself, which, COM
blned with an admiration of her man
ner and of her goodness of soul,
makes you, feel at ease In; n moment.
When Lady Aberdeen is conversing
she smiles sweetly; she is gracious,
easy and unassuning in manner:
and charity and kindness are writ
ten large on her countenance.
A VANISHING RACE.
Before leaving for the United
States on this present trip, Lady
Aberdeen had her life insured for
$4,000 in favor of the Women,s Ma
tional Association. SO that the or
ganization would have that sum Of
money II any misfortune overlook
her.
Lady Aberdeen practices what
she breaches" Many years ago. in
fact right after Lord Aberdeen went
to Ireland in 1886 as Lord Lieuten-
ant for the first time. his consort be-
came interested in the effort to pro-
mote the home industries of Ireland.
at that time particularly in need Of
p e 4 : :
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under one year from 1G2 per thou
sand in the early part of 1914, be-
fore hostilities began, to 181 per
thousand in the corresponding period
of 1916. The normal death rate in
Dublin is about Ids per thousand.
Proper feeding and wise care for the
little ones and their mothers would
have prevented many of these
deaths. In the country districts
there is not the crying need that
prevails in the large cities with
their congested districts and wretch
ed conditions"
Lady Aberdeen is president of the
Women's National Health Associa-
tion of Ireland, which she organized
in 1907, soon after Lord Aberdeen
went to Ireland as Viceroy. Since
that time the death rate from tu-
berculosis in Ireland has been re-
duced in marked degree and much
other excellent health Improvement
has been noted throughout the
Emerald Isle.
But the association always has
been supported by voluntary contri-
buttons. Therefore, it began to be
hampered almost Immediately after
the European war started and. with
other demands upon the people who
had been contributors, as the months
rolled by the money stringency for
the association became more and
more acute. At last the organiza-
ton was almost threatened with col
lapse. Then it was that Lord and
Lady Aberdeen decided to come to
America with their appeal.
LADY ABERDEEN.
Lady Aberdeen has a heart as big
as the world. She has beer called by
one writer, "a Mother to All the
World" Her life has been devoted
to good works. Wherever she has
been, she has sought for the oppor-
tunity to be of some benefit to those
around her. When Lord Aberdeen
was Governor General of Canada,
his wife organized the Victorian
Order of Nurses in Canada; and we'll
has the energy and time which she
expended in this direction been
repaid. She is one of the leaders
Tor the advancement of women in
world affairs. She was president of
the International Council! of Women
from 1898 to 1899 and again from
1904 to date. She is keenly interest
ed IN this movement and is constant
~ striving to advance its object of
bringing into close relationship the
women workers of the world.
When Lord Aberdeen went to Ire
land as Viceroy for his second tenure
of that office, in 1905, which high
office he held until 1915, Lady Aber-
deem who had been for many years
identified with the movement for in
dustrial revival in Ireland, was
quickly touched by the poverty and
the wretched conditions which she
saw about her. So she set about de-
vising ways to help the people who
needed help. With her characteristic
energy and skill at organization, she
started the Women's National
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citation, the body which is striving to
carry on the Child Welfare Cam
paign is, in consequence of lack of
funds caused by the war, threatened
with humiliation.
Every bullet that kills a soldier
skaters at least two lives-the life
of the man and the life of the woman
who loves him-to say nothing of the
babies. To compensate for these los
SEES of the war, the best way is to re-
duce the death-rate among children
and to do away with preventable i'll
ness. This must be done now-to
wait until the end of the war" will
be too late. If the saving of the
babies and children has to be aban-
doned at this time, there will be no
way of making up for the losses af-
ter the war. The destruction will
have been wrought. The lives of the
thousands of little ones who might
have been spared for the rebuilding
of strong and sturdy Irish race,
will have been lost, and no efforts
after the war can by any possibility
make UP for the irreparable dam
age to the race.
DECREASING BIRTH RATE.
This is the plea and the lesson
which Lord and Lady Aberdeen have
brought with them to America. They
have been laboring, in season and out
Of season, to impress upon those to
whom they have spoken the urgent
need of the Irish babies welfare
work. In addition to an increase in
the infant mortality in ireland since
the beginning of the war and the
loss of thousands of Irish heroes on
the battlefields of Europe, the rec
ords show also a decreasing birth
rate since the war started, Lady
Aberdeen points out.
an one of the cities of ireland,
Dublin, for instance, there has been
a great increase in infant mortality
since the war began" said Lady
Aberdeen, in discussing the question
a few days ago. "There has been an
increase in the death rate of babies
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st. Patrick was the original "wel-
fare worker" of ireland. He better
ed the living conditions of his day
and made life easier for succeeding
generations. Probably the babies of
Ireland benefited most from his hui
manitarian work.
Now comes in his wake, two of his
fellow countrymen, by name Lord
and Lady Aberdeen, with message
from the workers who are striving
to bring health and happiness to the
descendants of the children of the
fifth century. The children of the
present day are beset by perils more
deadly than the serpents which st.
Patrick drove from Ireland. Death,
or life Of long invalidation from the
mlasma of unhealthy surroundings
and bad housing, is what threatens
many babes of modern Ireland. Tu-
berculosis and other diseases result
ing from lack of sanitation, and of
milk, and of medical care, are the
plaques which imperil the lives of
thousands of little ones VINO should
be saved for the Ireland of a better
md future day.
CALL FOR HELP.
Save the Irish Babies!
That is the slogan which the Aber-
deems have brought with them to
the United States. They believe that
the great throbbing heart of hu-
manitarian America will be touched
by this cry of the children at the
gateway Of life, calling for their
chance to serve their day and gen.
Grafton; but meanwhile the little
ones are passing away month by
month in thousands, and it needs a
great popular educational campaign,
like that carried on by Babies Week
in the United States, TO awaken par
ents and municipal authorities alike
70 the .needlessness of this waste of
precious infant lives and to the
means which should be taken to pre-
vent it.
But this means money. Meanwhile
the Women's National Health Asso-