The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-02-04

enade Concert on Friday evening next:
First H-ard-M Miss Rene Curtis. Miss Kate
McCune and Miss jessie Wyman.
Second Hard-Miss Lalis McMeekin and
Miss Matte Hamill.
Third Hard-Miss Damsris Franklin and
Miss Nellie Hamill.
Fourth Ward-Miss Birge, Mrs. Ingersoll
and Miss Cross.
Ladies who are willing to contribute milk and
cream for oysters and coffee for the Prone
made Concert, will please send i. to Gibbon's
Hall at early hour on Friday.
IHE second and third numbers OF The
Iowa Medical Journal, edited BY J. c.
Hughes, NJ. D., and printed at the GATE
CIrr Office, is just issued. The Journal
shows large improvement in this second mum
Der, and gives promise of vigorous and sue
cessful journalistic life. There are articles By
Drs. Hughes, Carpenter, Baker, Stone, Har-
vey, Hudson and others. The Journal will
be a valuable professional acquisition to Ply
sicans in the State and the Northwest, and
deserves wide circulation.
Dos'r LIKE Exit isn't new dislike.
1t is as old as the oldest Oriental masculine
ons-ideaism. 1t as old Pagsnism. or bar
barisn, or Phaisieaism, or any other ism of
self-righteousness,e xclusiveness, prejudice and
tom>foolery. II has existed since the world
began, we suppose and grew, possibly, on.
OF the little unrecorded disputes Of our first
parents, when Adam used to srumble because
he had to take care Of Eve; and whom he
used to remind her, with much bitterness.
that be had to contribute spare-rib for her
support before she had even got her eyes
open CIR learned the use Of her tongue. And
masculine selfshness never. forgave the loss
of that capital Yet woman repaid it with
interest. And those aboriginal chaps, in
stead of taking care of the women, were
time ugly Egyptian Pagans--.o have done
all subsequent barbarians let the females till
the fields, and raise the crops, and harvest
them aud collect the wood, and make the
6res, and bring the water, and carry the camp
fixtures, and then, having toiled and drudged
their lives away here be debarred OF any bet
ter life hereafter, because it was in the creed
Of their ugly lords that women have no soul.
fou may like male Psgans, We don't. And
there was St. Paul. All the latter day Pa
gaus throw the Epistles Of the Apostle of the
Gentiles at you. 1t isn't permitted women 10
speak in the churches, he said, they say. We
sacrlligeonsiy snap our fingers afyour aathor.
ity. He didn't claim to bs inspired sathori-
~ on that score. He was an old bachelor,
and had the sore eyes; and We submit, that
an old bachelor with the sore eyer isn't au>
thoriiy on the Woman's Rights Question.
And then, Henry Ward Beecher ian on ST.
Panls side, but the other. That settles tbat
matter. And yet good Christian people in
many places: good Christian people here il
keokuk have an uneonquerabls and mn
changeable aversion to the whole kit and
kin Of female orators. They don't ike the
Gentle Anna They don't like Grace Green
wood they don't like Mrs. Cady Stsntos
nor Susan B. Anthony, nor, as Mark Twain
has 1t, George Francis Train. They vo.,tl
look in favor upon any Of them. The,s i. !.
lady at De- Aoinss who has splendid lee.
ture and she delivers it splendidly. She =
lady with oil vcnanly virtues and ,racp.
with thorough end 6nished culture, and or;,;,
naly vigorous thought; and when il il p,o....a
that she shall leeture in Keokuk, ~ -. .ola
that Keoknk dislikes and disclsim, f.m.,.
lecturers, and will hear no more Of then