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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

was prepared to join in the country's
defense. Another letter, written by a
farmer, was little more than an illeg-
ible scrawl. but the writer protested a
willingness to enlist rather than have
the president yield the issue with
Germany.
Perhaps score of letters have
been received from mothers. These
are of the type which repudiate the
charge that the mothers of the coun-
try are for peace at any price in
preference to war which might sacri-
fee the lives of their sons.
Still other letters are in the
cramped handwriting OF aged persons
and these recall other crisis through
which the nation has passed and re-
mind the president that as people
we have never abandoned our ideals
of principle in the face of danger.
Some of the kilograms that have
reached the president are phrased SO
finely that they might serve as cpl
grams. Such appeals as stand stead
fast and the nation will vindicate
you" represent the spirit which rings
through nearly all Of the messages.
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He Never Spoke AGAIN.

A ventriloquist who is now famous.
but at the time of this story was very
poor. while walking from one town
to the next, passed a cold, hungry,
miserable dog. He picked the dog UP.
for he felt just like the dog looked.
When he arrived at the hotel the
proprietor asked him what he would
have. He answered, I'll take a whis-
key" Then turning to the dog and
exercising his power, he said, What
will you have?" The dog promptly
answered, 'I'll take ham sandwich"
The proprietor was dumbfounded. He
had never heard dog speak before.
He asked how long it took to train
him, what tricks he could perform
and ended by asking how much he
would take for the dog. The ventril-
oquist replied that he could not think
of selling the dog as they had been
companions long time. He added:
81 am little short just now and IL
you'll lend me $1,000 1 will let you
keep the dog until pay it back"
The proprietor replied that 1t would
be all right as he only wanted to
show the dog to some of his friends.
The bargain was made and the
ventriloquist prepared to leave. Just
as he reached the door, the dog"
said, "You mean, despicable man, to
sell me for $1,000 after all I've done
for you. So help me Moses, I'll never
speak again." And he never did.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
A Hint to Mothers
of Growing Children
A Mild Laxative at Regular Intervals
Will Prevent Constl-
nation

A vital point upon which all schools
Of medicine seem to agree, Is that nor
NAL regularity Of the bowels is an es-
sential to good health. The import
ance of this is impressed particularly
on mothers of growing children.
A very valuable remedy that should
be kept in every home for use as oc.
casion arises is DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin, compound OF simple Taxa
tive herbs that has been prescribed
by DR.. w. B. Caldwell, of Monticello,
ILL.,, for more than twenty-five years,
and which can now be obtained in
any well stocked drug store for fifty
cents bottle.
In recent letter to DR.. Caldwell,
Mrs. H. c. Turner, 844 Main ST., Buff
falo, N. Y. says, II bought bottle
of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for my
baby, Roland Lee Turner, and find it
works Just like you said 1t would. It
Is fine for the stomach and bowels"
A bottle of DR.. Caldwelps Syrup
Pepsin should be in every home. A
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
the previous day, while the forecast
gives the probabilities for the day.
Stands for Something

Fort Dodge Chronicle: Editor Nor
ris Of the Marshalltown Times-Repub-
ican, made speech at Burlington
the other day, which leads The Bur-
lington Hawk-Eye to remark that a
great many of the audience came to
the conclusion rnat the gentleman
from Marshalltown would make a
mighty good governor.
Mr.. Norris was one of the first men
in the west, certainly in Iowa, to
comprehend the relation of good
roads to the prosperity and comfort
of the community and to suggest that
the most substantial and of course
expensive road is practicable and
within the means Of the public to be
taxed for it's support. When he first
ventured upon the subject it cannot
be said he had opposition. The idea
of permanent roads considering the
high cost of their construction was
so apparently quixotic that Mr.. Nor
ris, serious enough himself, was not
taken seriously. But about the time
he began talking good roads there
came along two advocates whose ser
vice was of great assistance, the
automobile and the rural delivery OF
mails. A good many years have
passed since the various agencies
mentioned and others have operated
on public sentiment. We have yet
few highways in the sense that the
purpose in its final sense will mean,
but there has been marked improve
ment, and in nothing is the improve
ment so marked as in the change of
sentiment. A few days ago there was
reported a movement among the farm
ers between Des Moines and Ames
to build hard-surfaced roadway be-
tween those two cities. Other reports
from other sections indicate the same
temper. Whether these enterprises
are carried through at once and with
the road laws in their present state
does not make a great deal OF differ
ence They will sooner or later be
realized. Such ideals do not gener.
ally travel far in advance of the fact.
Indeed, there is not now probably as
wide distance between the main
thoroughfares and their permanent
completion as there was between the
road as it existed when Mr.. Norris
began to talk up the importance of
it's betterment and the general use of
the King drag, which was the first
big step toward improvement.
1t is circum stances such as these
which interest The Hawk-Eye with
the idea, no doubt, that Mr.. Norris
would make good governor-he
stands for something.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
Tho Child Must Play,

The Craftsman: "And the streets OF
the city shall be full of boys and girls
playing in the streets thereof" Thus
said Zechariah in $40 B. G. But there
we're fewer motor cars in Zechariah's
day than there are in ours. The chill
dren now need for their play some
place safer than the street.
More important than the play
ground, however, is the play. 1t is
we'll that children should play in a
safe place, but it is absolutely neces.
sary that they should play somewhere
if they are to grow up at all. For
there is no doubt now, think, in the
minds of educators that play builds
the child. 1t is the method that ma
ture has provided for his develop
ment. Play indeed is the positive side
of the whole phenomenon Of infancy.
The reason the higher animals. and
man above all, are born helpless and
uniformed is that they may be finished
by this special method. 1t is for the
sake of play that infancy exists, that
there is such a thing as child at all.
The child who is deprived of his
chance to play is deprived of his oD-
portuntty to grow up.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
Feeding by Merit.

Harry Lauder was being dined by
friends at the Lambs club, New
York, one evening recently, and, of
course, reciprocated by entertaining
his hosts. The popular Scotch come
dian has an endless fund Of stories.
"a Dundee farmer, who lived not
far from my old home in bonnie Scot
land" Lauder told his friends, "em-
ployed a farm hand named Sandy.
Here, Sandy said he, one day,
gang room and gle the COOS a cab
bage each, but min We, gle the big
gest to the COO that gies the maist
milk
Sandy departed to do his masters
bidding. Upon his return. the old
farmer asked him If he had done as
he was told, and had divided out the
cabbages according to merit.
"'Aye, MASTER replied the 1addie.
4 gied 'em a cabbage head, and
hung tn biggest on the pump
handle"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

lion. The cheapest shells cost SIS
each and from that on up to $500
each for the largest ones. Placing
the average at $50 shell and the ex-
penditure is close to 100000 for artil-
lery ammunition alone. This does not
take into account the destruction OF
guns and supplies that have been used
or destroyed.
The loss Of life in this, the greatest
battle of the war, has been appalling.
1t is a cost that cannot be expressed
in terms of human understanding. An
other generation will be paying inter-
est and principal on account of Yer
dun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

and motorcycle, its great numbers
are not so apparent as form erly.
Every indication points to the year
1916 as the climax in bicycle produc-
ton. The slogan in the bicycle world
today is 100000 bicycles in 1916"
which seems nearer realization today
than any time since 1899, when that
number of wheels was made and sold.
Conditions that go to make vigor-
GUS bicycle market were never more
favorable in many years. Many signs
point to an increase interest in
bicycles the coming season.
With the country rapidly assuming
the role of the great purveyor to a
war scourged world: with general in
terest in bicycling growing daily
through formation of numerous BIZ
cycle clubs. with many strong pub
licity factors at work to boost it eff
fectively; with the advent of the
motor wheel, a booster in double
sense, with roads better, tires better,
bicycles better, cheaper and more
adequately equipped; with every boy
and girl in America a prospect for a
bicycle-with all these forces plug
ging away at speedway pace, the
widespread optimism of the manufac-
turers and dealers can be readily un-
derstood.
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DONN'ELLSON.
. - >>>>>>>>> .

L. E. Barnes was a business visitor
in Ft. Madison Monday evening.
Mrs. Geo. Kirchner visited in Keo-
kuk several days during the past week.
Misses Kathryn Mattern and Hattie
Meissner were Keokuk callers Tues
day and Wednesday,.
Miss Dora Scheck was an over Sun
day visitor in Hillsboro.
Miss Edna BENJAMIN who was re-
Gently operated on at Moline, ILL.,, has
returned home
Mrs. Dan Refur and little Clara Ball
visited at the Rev. A. W. Fruechte
home in Quincy, ILL.,, the past week.
Misses Lena Wise and Elda Dahms
were Pennington callers last Saturday.
Geo. Kirchner was an over Sunday
visitor in Keokuk.
H. G.. Ktrchner, who was operated
on at st. Joseph's hospital, in Keokuk.
last week, is getting along as well as
could be expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo. Abel attended
the adel-Schlagenbusch wedding
near viele Wednesday.
Miss Lizzie Scheck Of Primrose,
visited home folks the fore part Of the
week.
Aug. Sell has purchased the M. T..
Helm property on the east side Of
Main street. We understand that
Mr.. and Mrs. Helm will move into
their property on the west side OF
Main street.
Miss Laura M. Seyb is home from
a several weeks stay at the M. Wirsig
home, near Warren.
Mrs. Emil Hennies was called to
Centerville Thursday by the illness Of
her sister, Mrs. BrIner, who has an
attack of appendicitis.
A large number from here attended
1.-THE Birth of Nation" at Keokuk
Wednesday.
Ben Hartman of Shenandoah, Iowa,
is visiting at the H. Meinhardt home.
David McCulloch returned home
Friday evening from Graham hospital.
In Keokuk, where he has been since
November MI. McCulloch says he is
feeling fine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
PAPER AT HiaH MARK.

1t is the opinion of a New York
man that the United States is enter
ing upon what is believed to be an
era of high prices. War conditions
are blamed for the increase.
Shoes, clothing. stationery. hair
brushes, pocketbooks, painted articles
of all kinds, Photographic supplies,
varnishes, medicines-nearly every
thing that man uses every day
have increased from 10 to 80 percent
in price, according to experts.
The rise in the prices of raw mate
rails needed for military uses or Gus
tom arily imported from Germany and
Austria that occurred almost stimuli
taneously with the beginning of the
war was soon accompanied by rise
in the prices of those domestic spro-
ducts which were substituted for
articles withdrawn from the market
because of the war.
These increases affected only the
manufacturer and wholesaler at first,
for retailers had supplied themselves
with stocks at prices that prevailed
before the war. When these stocks
were used up and mad to be replen-
ished the retailer felt the price ad-
vance.
AS prices have been rising steadily
for months, with unprecedented &C.
celebration in the last few weeks, the
prediction was made generally today
that the cost to the consumer of
goods this spring would make those
purchased last winter look cheap.
Probably the most important rise
of all has been in the price Of paper.
For consumers of large quantities of
paper conditions have been serious
for some time and recently even the
smallest purchaser has had to pay
his share in the general price adj
vance.
With the price of aniline colors
raised from 20 cents pound before
the war to $50 a pound when last
quoted, tinted papers have become
very expensive and in some cases un-
procurable. Leather prices are away
up. The prices of all shoes will be
materially higher this spring than
ever before.
Meat prices in New York have
taken a sharp upward tread. The
cause is the unprecedented demand
in Europe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
keokuk, Iowa ......I March IA, 1915
CLOSING The DOOR.

CLOSING THE DOOR.
/ have closed the door on Doubt;
1 will go by what light can find.
And hold up my hands. and reach
them out
To the glimmer of God in the
dark, and call:
tT am thine, though I grope and
stumble and fall.
/ serve; and Thy service Is kind"
1 have closed the door on Fear.
He has lived with me far too long.
If he were to break forth and re-
appear,
1 should lift my eyes and look
at the sky,
And sing aloud, and run lightly
by;
He will never follow a song.
have closed the door on Gloom.
His house has too narrow view,
/ must seek for my soul wider
room,
With windows to open and let in
the sun,
And radiant lamps when the day
is done,
And the breeze of the world blow
ing through.
Irene p MsKeehan, in the Chris
tian Commonwealth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
Afraid Of LAWYERS.

An old colored man, charged with
stealing chickens, was arraigned In
court and was discriminating himself.
when the judge said. You ought to
have lawyer, where's your lawyer
"Ah amt got no lawyer, ledge,
said the old man.
Every well, them" said His Honor.
"Ill assign lawyer to defend you. %
"Oh.- no, sub; no sub! Please don't
do dat" the darby begged.
why not?" asked the judge. at
won't cost you anything. Why don't
you want a lawyer?"
well, Jedge, ah'll tell you, suh,'
said the old man, waving his tattered
old hat confidentia1ly. Hits jest dis
way-Ah want tub ENJOY demj chick.
ems maself!"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
FARMERS AND DAILY PAPER.

Daily newspapers enter into the
business life of farmers. They re-
ceive from the columns Of the daily in
formation that they can obtain in no
other way, and more quickly than by
any other method within their means.
Farm and Fireside, of Springfield,
Ohio, prints in recent issue an art
1cle on the subject by H. E. Knies, OF
White Haven, Pa, which illustrates
the point, as follows:
Most everyone reads and appreciates
the government weather forecasts;
but how many, especially farmers and
poultrymen, realize the value of the
weather report, giving. as it does,
the temperature and weather condi-
lions Of the previous day in all Sec
lions Of our country?
Since the advent of the rural de-
livery, all up-to-date farmers get a
daily paper, and It's value can be made
UNNECESSARILY greater by careful
study of the weather report. For in
stance. the previous day at p. m. the
temperature Of Detroit was thirty de-
grees. Then, If you happen to live in
eastern Pennsylvania, that will in all
proba bility be your local temperature
the following evening. Farmers or
poultrymen who have to look after
the ventilation of barns or poultry
houses will find this knowledge in
valuable.
| 1t takes a little time and study be-
| fore one becomes proficient in antici-
pating the weather, but after a time
| it becomes like second nature. There
are many who. by closely observing
local conditions, can pretty accurately
forecast the weather.
Suppose you have long drive to
make and you live in eastern Penn.
sy1vania, then if you know it rained
or showed the previous night in Chi.
cago or Detroit, or that it had been
zero, you would, if you possibly could
put that drive Off until later, when the
weather conditions were likely to be
moro favorable.
The writer has had four years ex
perience raising squads. and he knows
how invaluable 1t is to have some
knowledge Of weather probabilities In
arranging the ventilation of pigeon
houses for the night. Poultrymen who
some times have to get up during the
night to close a door or window, or
look after an outdoor brooder, be
|, cause q strong cold wind has sprung
up, might have foreseen the cond
tons by a simple study Of the weather
report.
In reading this article do not con
fuse weather reports with weather
forecasts. They are distinct and sep
arate. One reports the weather OF
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Mr.. Hanshew were one and the same

Mr.. Hanshew were one and the same
person.
Impossible! But true. It was Mr..
Hanshew who penned "Thorns and
Orange Blossoms. and hundreds of
tales of a like nature in which virtue
was always triumphant and poverty
was united to nobility. This, perhaps,
will be most disappointing revela-
ton to millions of readers all over
the world. And it may be doubted by
those who have pored over the works
OF the immortal Bertha. How could it
have been possible that mere man SO
beautifully understood and expressed
the yearnings of the feminine heart?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
The Cost at Verdun.

Des Moines Capital: If the present
artillery fire around Verdun is kept up
for many more days, the engagement
will go down in history as the Bill
lion Dollar Battle" according to
French officers 1t is estimated that
the Germans alone have used from six
to eight million shells. The French
undoubtedly have used over five mil
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
Bertha M. Clay Was a Man.

Kansas City Star: Lovers of the
writing of Bertha NJ. Clay Of sentt-
mental novel fame, beloved of young
romanticists wherever the English
language is read, received sad jolt :.
few days ago, for the death of Thomas
W. Hanshew in the Annesley suburb
of London brought out the fact, as
tonishing to many, that Bertha and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

Fifteen inmates of the Jasper coun.
ty CMo) almshouse rebelled when in
formed that they would have to take
a bath before being transferred to the
new $4,000 structure, and would have
to battle regularly as long as they re-
manned in the new quarters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14
LOOKS LIKE GREAT
YEAR FOR bikes
Prediction Freely Made That Popu.
isrity Will Be Revived
This Season.

The bicycle has not been dead: it
is a question whether it has even
been sleeping. There are probably
as many bicycles ridden today as
were used in its neydey, twenty
years ago. but compelled to divide
public attention with the automobile
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

Mrs. Earl Burley of Chicago was
leap year baby twenty-eight years ago.
The stork repeated the performance
on the goth ult., leaving leap year
baby at the Burnley home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

Write poetry, by all MEANS" boldly
spoke University of Minnesota pro
fessor to his class, "but don't show il
to anybody he added, after sol
emn pause.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

No other plant gives such quantity
of food to the acre as the banana
which is forty times more than that
of the potato and 1873 times more than
that of wheat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

The musical acuteness of horses /;
shown by the rapidity with which cav
airy horses learn the significance Of
trumpet calls.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

A man is relieved and gay, when
he has put his heart into his work,
and done his best; but what he has
said or done otherwise shall give him
no peace.-Emerson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

Atlanta, Ga, threatens to inaugur-
ate free dental clinics in connection
with the public schools.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-14

Quicksilver Is thirteen and one-half
times heavier than water.
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Read The Daily Gate City, loo
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The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-05-26
State Convention.

1t is expected that there will
be over 5000 delegates and visi-
tors in attendance upon the Dem
ocratic State Convention, which
will meet in the municipal audi.
forum in Little Rock May 81 for
a three days session. It is gen
orally conceded that the support
ers of DR.. Brough will control
the organization from start to
finish.
There is every reason to believe
that the following slate will be
put through without serious op-
position: Temporary chairman,
Vol Walker, Fayetteville; perma-
nent chairman, J. D. Head, Tex
arkana; secretary, A. H. Rowell,
Pine Bluff: chairman state cen
trail committee. Joe House, Jr.,
Little Rock; secretary state cen
trail committee, C. C. Calvert,
Fl. Smith.
It is more than probable that
the delegates to the national con-
vention will be instructed to vote
for Thos. R. Marshall for Vice
President, although Gov. Elliott
w. Major of Missouri has quite
a following, who may endeavor
to block all instructions.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-05-26
Notice.

Notice is hereby given under
the Democratic Party in Arkan-
sas that meeting of the Demo-
cratic Central Committee of the
Northeastern Arkansas Railroad
Commissioners District will be
held in Little Rock on Wednes-
day, May 31st for the purpose of
organizing said Committee and
transacting such other business
as may legally come before same.
Notice is further given that
the meeting of the Northeastern
Railroad Commissioners District
Convention will be held in the
city of Little Rock on the same
date (said date being the same
as that of the State Democratic
Convention) for the purpose of
declaring results of the Primary
held in March and nominating
Democratic candidate for Rail
road Commissioner from this
District.
Given under our hands as
Chairman and Secretary of the
Democratic Central Committee
for the Northeastern Railroad
Commissioners this the 22nd day
of May, 1916.
R. D. SMITH, Chairman,
E. M. PIPKIN, Secretary.