The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-27

neIplessf bH gOOu lfltnus, ~ not u trluc.
Danish from your feelings and your treat
ment of them, every element Of such .
thought, as you would have your Father in
heaven to be merciful to you here and here
after.
| Mr.. Butler is intelligent and Industrious, q
humane man, we take it, takes personal in
,erest in the duties Of his place, and the
Board was fortunate in committing the Farm
and the county's paupers to good keeping
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In THE CoUSrRY.-These CHEEKY days it ID
| . delight TO forswesr sick>room or sanctum
| for the country. ''God made the conntry"-
which certainly never occurred to Cowper
because there was or is any skepticism exist
| ing on that score anywhere. There is vast
variety in the workmanship, to be sure, but
the parts out about Summitvlle, whittier, by
the kindness of friend, we went, produce
some of the best samples. The evidences of
civilization and prosperity between our town
and that little borough are not the most ad
nirable in the world to contemplate. A
stupid and reprehensible nonresident land
proprietary system, has doomed the districts
about Keokuk to wildness. The Summitville
road is through the best and richest parts of
the territory joining the place in our own
county. We venture to say there is not res
cognizable village, or county seat, in any Of
the counties of the State that have inhabit-
ants enough to make avillage or county seat,
that has SO many dilapidated and beggarly
farm houses, and such a shabby looking
farming district generally, in the parts adjoin-
ing it, ssare visible on the road between here
and Summitville. This is due to disputed
land titles aud large ownership of land by
non.residcnts. The whole thing has been q
nuisance and an uumiugated evil and a
breeder OF poverty. We are glad to see that
large tracts formerly held in one are now being
sub divided, and getting occupants and cult.
vators. One tract, now held by Judge S. f.,
| Miller, he Is selling in small farms of ten and
| twenty acres. The result is that several of
these have been purchased by industrious
| Germans, who have erected neat dwellings
and farm buildings. and are putting the land
in the highest state Of productiveness, for they
| intend to use il for gardening purposes. As
| q further result Of this, it will not be long
until this recently untitled and wild land will
fairly blossom as therosen Asimilar policy
| inaugurated fifteen years ago, would have
| greatly changed for the better the appearance
Of the country about keokuk, and ''garden
sass would have been much cheaper at this
| present.
| At Summitville we enter into new pro-
| vince; there is q neighborhood for Hswkeye
to be proud Of rhe first premises we come
to are those of our kind friend, Mr.. Fred
Holland whose gracious hospitality we en-
joyed. Finding an editor running around
loose, he confscated him. It isn't fai. re-
turn, but we shall tell of him His farm is a
model. 1t shows what attractions farming in
Iowa can offer. There are FIVE and one half
acres forming vinyard; choice Delaware,
Concord, and Catawbs grapes. There are
ten acres forming an orchard. The trees are
thrifty, and the trunks and branches look as
If vanished. Mark you. gentle folk, who
take spasmodic spells of setting out few
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receive any attention after the first planting,
and when they die, as of course they do, you
wonder Why you have no luck in fruit grow
ing-these trees receive attention, they are
trimmed aud pruned, and dug about, and
washed twice year with strong soap suds
There are dwelling house, with wood house,
aud wash. house, and well.house, and every
convenient appurtensnce, and under the
same roof; and barn, and stable, and grana
~, and houses for his different stock-builds
ings, the cost of erection of which was nearly
$4,000. There are meadows, and corn,
and cereal lands, that rotate in their crops.
There are the esthetics, too, flowers, and
shrubbery, and shade trees, of too various
kinds to be named herein. There is every.
thing to make q property attractive to a
person OF taste and capital. Here is model
which, when generally followed in Iowa, will
make farming vastly more inviting than it is
in this present year of grace
We go with Mr.. Butler, the gentlemanly
and efficient keeper of the County Poor Farm.
to the big house over which he presides. We
started out in this article for the express pur
pose Of talking of what we saw there. Our
introduction has become so bulky that we
put the body of our work in notice of the
Poor Farm, elsewhere.
| Our friends, DIR. Brice and Mr.. Woodward.
have each handsome property at Summit.
vile, elegant homes and farms, which offer
unbounded sources of health and enjoyment,
and sensible life. as improvements upon
pent up city life. The genial, broad>chested
Doctor argues this phase of the matter very
earnestly, aud we dare say he is in the right.
Another Historical Fable Expleasa.
| William Tell has received his passpor-
rtsed BY Mr.. ). Barring Gould, NJ. A.-spd
has gone 10 join the gentle Pocahontas in
the regions Of historical fable. Mr.. Gould.
an English antiquarian scholar, who wrote
his GLORIOUS Myths OF the Middle Ages
70 preeorm ''the painful duty as he terms
II, OF dispelling the popular belief in the stir
rng story OF William Tell, 10 the man who
prick the popular bubble.
/ Mr.. Gould, utterly disrersrdful Of the nro-
prieties of historic tradition. declares tb.t ~.
story OF Tell has been repeated, with varia>
hons, ever since the eleventh century. The
original Tell was Morse hero, he vss !
myth of the Farce Islands, he was an Encl;.h
. Finish, and Persian person I: in sSors
the Legendary swiss 10 only : .;nt con.
Persia, Iceland, Switzerland and Deowsrr
put the strongest claims and on th...