The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-06-08

.om the columns of one OF our exchanges, 10
ransfer its sentiments for the commentator
nd consideration of our own readers: "Whst
40 readily the standard of town as the
appearance of its newspaper; and it's youth or
.ge can as we'll be defined by observing, by
zhnce at its newspaper, As Thoughts personal
observation had been made. The enterprise
Of its citizens is depicted by Its advertise
ments--ihe liberality by the looks Of the
paper. Some papers show . good, sohd,
healthy foundation, plethoric purses, and |
we'll do appearance generally, others show |
a striving to contend with the grasping thou.
sands around them, trying to wrench out an
existence from the close -6sted community
around them. An occasional meteorie dis
play in its columns of Geographic, or local.
or OF editorial, shows what it would do If IT
had the means, but cannot continue 10 the
expensive work until the support comes
which ought TO be readily granted. A news
paper is like church; it wants fostering, and
then as general thing in can and will reflect
credit upon its locality. Take your home
paper; it gives you more news of immediate
interest than New York or other distant city
papers; it talks for you when no others will
speak in your favor; when other localities
belle you it stands up for your rights; you
| always have champion IN your home paper;
and those who stand up for you should GER
tanly be we'll sustained. Your interests are
kindred and equal, you rise or fall together.
| Therefore it is your interest TO support your
home paper, not grudgingly, but in liberal
spirit as a pleasure; not disagreeable duty,
but as an investment that will amply repay
the expenditure.
A HOME, however tasteful as to house and
lawn, is incomplete without liberal slot>
ment of ground for gardening purposes.
Much of the domestic comfort of family is
derived from the products of the garden.
| Hence the importance of rendering 1t capable
of producing the greatest variety OF fruits
and vegetables. These provided for, taste
| for the merely ornamental and the beautiful
may well be INDUCED as conducive nike to
health ard intellectual development.
! TRANspIAxrlNG IL TUE NIGHT.-One Of
our exchanges says; -" A friend IN whose
powers Of observation we have confidence,
informs us that last spring and summer he
made the following experiment: tie trans
planted ten cherry trees while in blossom,
commencing at O. clock in the afternoon,
and transplanting one each hour. until
O clock in the morning Those transplanted
during daylight shed their blossoms, pro-
ducing little or no fruit, while those trans
planted during the darker portions main
tanned their condition fully. He did the
same with ten dwarf pear trees. after the
fruit WAS one,third grown. Those trans
planted during the night perfected their crop
and showed no injury from having been re-
moved. With each of these trees he re-
moved some earth with the roots.
SEVEN TnIRTiEs. The following, which we
take from recent issue of the New York
Tribune, will be of general interest:
The August 7,30s are fast passing into
long bonds aud at their maturity few will
pass into debt matured and not presented for
payment 1t may rs well be understood
that all : -30s not presented for funding at
maturity. aud all compound notes not pre-
scented at maturity, will take this direction
and interest ceases upon them. he Assist
ant Treasurer is now ready to pay the COM
pompounds at par aud accrued compound
interest to the date Of presentation, and not
at their face value at maturity. The funding
process in all its details is proceeding with
eminent success, and there is no reason to
doubt thst prior to maturity any currency
! obligation bearing interest will pass into long
bonds.
The Printer The following beautiful
tribute to the followers the stick and rule
is from The pen of b. f. Taylor, Of the Chi
cago Ereniag Journal:
The printer is the adjuiant Of thought, and
this xplains the mystery OF the wonderful
word that can kindle hope as no song can;
that can warm heart MS no hope can, that
/ H. fu~uitId s'attutH III ~
for the author and the printers are engin
GERS together Engineers indeed When
the little Corsiean' bombarded Cadz, at the
distance Of five miles, it was deemed the very
triumph Of engineering. But what IL that
range 10 this, whereby they lombard the ages
yet 10 be:
There at the case he stands and marshals
into line the forces armed for truth, clothed
in immortality and English. And what can
be nobler than that equipment OF a thought
in sterling Saxon-Saxon with spear or
shield therein, and that commissioning it
when We are dead, to move grandfy on TO
'the latest syllable of recorded time" This
is to win victory from death, for this has no
dying in ii.
The printer is called laborer, and the
Office he performs is toll. Oh it is not work,
but a sublime life he is performing, when he
thus cites the engine that is 20 fling a worded
truth in grander curve than missile eer be-
fore described: fling it into the bosom OF an
age unborn. He throws off bis coat indeed,
we but wonder the rather. that he does not
put his shoes from off his feet, for the place
where he stands is holy ground.
A little song was uttered somewhere long
ago; it wandered through the twilight, feeher
than a star; il died upon the ear, But the
printer lakes i. up where it was lying there
in the silence like wounded bird, and he
sends i forth from the ark that had preserved
it, and il fires on into the future with the
olive branch OF peace, and around the world
with melody, hike the dawning OF a spring
morning.