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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The Cedar Rapids Republican con:
cedes that if they pass all the stump
tuary and restrictive legislation that
is now in process in Des MONIES, the
Republican party might as well get
ready to go out of business in this
state in 1910, and believes it Will SC
be retired. In speaking of the matter
it savs.-and The Gate City fully
agrees with it:
All that the Democratic party VII
have to do IS to find another mar
like Horace Boies, a leader who car
win the confidence of the ieople
through his integrity and his common
sense. A change of party is apt to b.
the cure for party going to seed
1T is to be hoped that moderation
NAV vet become the watchword a
Des Moines this winter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
LlNcoLN's AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Written for Jesse w. Fell, in ths
Campaign Of 1860.


l was born Feb. IL, 1909, in Hardin
county, Kentucky. My parents were
both born in Virginia. of undistin-
tinguished families-second families,
perhaps l should say. My mother,
who died in my 10th year, was OF a
family of the name of Hanks, some
of whom now reside in Adams, and
others in Macon county, Illinois.
My paternal grandfather, Abraham
Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham
county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about
1881 or 1882, where, year or two
later, he was killed by the Indians,
not in battle, but by stealth, when ne
was laboring to open farm in the
forest. His ancestors, who were
Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Major Rathbun let's it be known
through the columns of his Marion
Register that his idea of an ideal
Iowa winter would be cold, dry wealth
er with cloudless sky from December
l to January 81, good sleighing dur
ing February and then sunshine and
warm weather. He protests that three
months for red-hot stoves and fur
mace, for overcoats and furs, is ''too
much of a good thing" that is, if zero
weather and billiards. can be called
good"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Before conviction, as we understand
the situation, it is generally agreed
that the perpetrators of murders and
dastardly crimes in Iowa should be
severely dealt with. In some commun-
tiles hanging without trial or benefit
of clergy is regarded as a form of
punishment that fits the crime better
than any other. But after conviction
it is en- regle, under the new admin
istration in the Fort Madison peni-
Tertiary, to supply music with meals
to such wretches and permit them to
take automobile rides in Illinois at
night. If this isn't making farce of
justice it comes mighty near to it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Henry Watterson in his matchless
address on Abraham Lincoln charac-
terizes him as one inspired. In sup
port of this view he says with char
acteristic Wattersonian eloquence:
Where did Shakespeare get his
genius? Where did Mozart get his
music? Whose hand smote the Tyre
of the Scottish plowman, and stayed
the life of the German priest? God,
God and God alone, and as surely as
these were raised up by God, inspired
by God was Abraham Lincoln: and
a thousand years hence, no drama, nc
tragedy, no poem will be filled with
greater wonder, or be followed by
mankind with deeper feeling than
that which tells the story of his life
and death"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Cardinal Gibbons took occasion one
dav this week to rebuke women who
seek social distinction to the neglect
of home duties. He referred to the
fact that woman is specially praised in
the Old Testament not for her struggle
for woman's rights or social position.
1T is not told that she was bold and
resolute and shook her fist in The face
of the prime minister" he said, but
we are made to understand that she
was womanly woman. loving moth
er, dutiful wife"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

this Tennessee Pass you told m.
about" The brakeman gathered him
self and remarked: 20, this is not tho
pass, l meant we would get there
Thursday morning and this is onlv
Wednesday morning" And his breath
at once came easier and he never fell
a quaver. The next morning, when
they really got to the pass, the trav
eler never even walked up to know
about it. Which shows what the mino
can do to the body.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
put together have fallen out on
crowded street.

put tOgeLner nave ldileu Jul VI
crowded street.
The Scranton Journal says the man
who fools with President Roosevelt
contrary to the idea Of that gentleman
stands about as much chance OF re-
coyerv as the man who mixes up with
a good, healthy buzz-saw.
The Marion Register considers it a
waste of words to advise the legis-
lature to adjourn p. d. q. Iowa never
had legislature that didn't do just
as it pleased" it says, land the pres
ent one will do the same.
The oregon legislature is consider
ing laws to regulate the use OIL me
hat-pin. The Iowa legislature, on the
authority of the Des Moines Capital,
is paying more attention to the safety
pin.
The University of Minnesota has
founded chair of refined humor.
A contemporary thinks it is safe TO
say that none of the artists OF the
comic supplement will be iven pro-
fessorship in that department.
In st. Louis this week is an actor
who delights in dexterity that en-
ables him to roll a cigarette with one
hand. The exhibition of this faculty
wins the plaudits of spectators, In
GLIDING those who do not care for Gig
arettes.
The other day Baltimore woman
accidentally made the morning cofee
out of handful of graduated tobacco,
and her husband drank cup OF II
before discovering the mistake. The
Des Moines Tribune has no doubt the
man was thoroughly used to the board
! ing house variety.
! The Davenport Times opposes the
proposal to have the state superln
tendent of schools appointed by the
governor. so long as judges are
elected by the people" argues the
I Times, sit is safe to assume they car
be trusted to elect the right kind o.
persons for state superintendent"
I "Why not place the scratcher ant
the straight voter on even terms?'
asks the Knoxville Journal. "WhA
net make it just as easy to vote {
straight ticket as scratched one
The proposed plan of replacing thu
circle on the ballot and letting thu
voter mark his exceptions to {
straight ticket is sensible, fair ant
just"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

A telegram was sent to Senator
Cullom at Washington the other day
telling him that. thirty thousand
women of the Illinois w. G. 7. U. pro-
test against the repeal of pure food
law and urge the retention of DR..
Wiley" No effort has yet been made
to repeal the law, but the w. G. I. U.
women thought they might as well
have their sentiments known.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

"salomeo was billed to appear in a
philadelphia show house. number
of ministers took notice of the fact
and attacked the attraction with the
result that every seat in the house
was sold within five hours. There is
q moral to the incident-even if there
isn't anything of the kind in connec-
tion with "Salome" itself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Iowa's unapproacnable lead in
swine was maintained during the last
year despite the fact that the number
Of hogs in the state decreased 6 per
cent as compared with 1907 The mum
Der in Iowa is more than 1o,OO0,Ooo in
excess of the swine in all the Atlantic
states and more than in all the south
central states.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

One wear. .sa. 90 -Four months. 81. oV
Six months -. Lou One month 49,. 800. 20
Entered in keokuA postoince as seSohu
class matter.
Postage prepaid; terms in advance. ~ q
P. o. address and state whether 1t Is u
new or renewal order If change Oh Az .,
dress is desired. state both the olo It0
new address.
Remit by postotiice money oraer .r e \,
press money order, registered ieele' -
draft at our risk. ,h
The date printed on the address OF ea ,xl
paper notes when the supscrlptioii
pires.
Subscribers failing to receive their pa,
pers promptly will confer a iaVof ~
giving notice of the fact
Address all communications 70 Nv
THE GATE CITY COMFAI An
No. is. North Sixth St, keokek' Ao"0-
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the ioi-
lowing news stands: ,-on
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third ana Jo tInst
c. II. Rollins & Co., 629 Main olies@
Ward Bros, 525 Main Street.
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Spring cannot be very far away.
Jasper Blines reports 70 the Alexan-
dria Sun that he has noticed lady bugs
and ants walking around quite active
w and that wheat and blue grass are
.wearing of the green" 1t is in order
next for someone to report the arrival
of the first robin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Now that George Bernard Shaw has
let it be known that he is willing and
more or less anxious to have his mon
ument erected while he lives, the
newspapers are suggesting with one
accord that the most fitting memorial
would be highly polished column OF
brass.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

1t has been noticed that the man
who would rather be right than be
President generally has his prefer
ence gratified.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Congress has counted the electoral
votes and has learned that Taft and
Sherman were elected last fall. Now
that the suspense is ended it must
feel greatly relieved
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

1t is popularity OF the storms this
winter that each successive one has
been 1.-The worst in twenty years" Me
teorologically at least '9s and '99 seem
to be assured prominent place
in history.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The Rock Island has telegraph OPP
orator on it's western Iowa division
named OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
boughenklatzer. This may help &C
count for the recent increase in freight
rates
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
Drifting TO a Conclusion

Philadelphia Record: The upshot
of the Brownsville matter is the ap.
parent belief that the rifles went off
automatically, greatly surprising the
soldiers, all Of whom were asleep at
the time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The canned fruit is only about half
cone ont OF the cellar, from which the
brighton Enterprise calculates that
winter is only half over
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The city teachers of Iowa City have
combined to gather evidence against
pool room proprietors who permit
minors to play in their places.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The first Lincoln week" occurred
one hundred years ago in Kentucky.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

# remained for the pointed para
oranber of the Chicago News to OBJ
servo that it's easy to be fool, and
it's foolish to be easy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

oMan is made of dust" says a win.
low sign. Dust settles. Are you
nan? enquiries the proprietor of the
store which displayed the motto
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
keokuk, Iowa. -. February 70, 1909.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

o, slow to smite and swift to spare,
Gentle and merciful and just!
Who, in fear of God, didst bear
The sword of power, nation S
trust!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The washington Democrat remarks !,
mot millionaire may say have saw"
and not be criticised.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

NOISY religion wouldn't be any
worse than appendicitis If there was
a chance to operate on It," says the
cvnic of the Cherokee Democrat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The Glidden Graphic says it is a
+ravestv on American civilization that
a law requiring sheriffs to enforce the
law should be deemed necessary in
Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Pure was thy life; it's bloody close
Hath placed thee with the sons of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12
DAILY. GATE. CITY.
PUBLISHED BY
THE GAZE CITY COMPANY
DAILY BY MAIL.

G. r. SkIRvIN Manager
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

According to George Fitch, wom-
IN never yearns to be man so VIC
entity as when she has just dreamed
hat all the pins with which she is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The Marion Register considers it a
waste of words to advise the legis-
lature to adjourn p. d. q. Iowa never
had a legislature that didn't do just
as it pleased" it says, ''and the pres
emit one will do the same"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

Among the noble host of those
Who persisted in the cause of right
William Cullen Bryant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The Scranton Journal says the man
who fools with President Roosevelt
contrary to the idea of that gentleman
stands about as much chance OF re-
covery as the man who mixes up with
a good, healthy buzz-saw.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

The oregon legislature is consider
ing laws to regulate the use OF the
hat-pin. The Iowa legislature, on the
authority of the Des Moines Capital,
is paying more attention to the safety
pin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-12

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-17
Partial Holiday.

BREMERTON, May 1.-THE plan
of the citizens of Port Orchard bay to
secure legal holiday in the navy yard
June S. when Puget Sound Navy Yard
and Port Orchard Bay Day. is to be
celebrated at the Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition, has not met with entire sue
cess. United States Senator S. H. Piles
has wired Edgar L. Gale, chairman of
the joint comtimtee on navy yard day.
stating that at recent cabinet meeting
1t was decided not to grant the holiday
on that date. The secretary of the navy
however, has been instructed to author
ize the commandant of this yard to
grant leave to all employees of the yard
who can be spared on that day. This
was the arrangement which was made
last May. when the men of the Pacific
fleet paraded in Seattle. At that time
practically all those employed at this
yard who wished TO see the parade were
granted leave.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-17

formerly a Portland girl, which wos
fulfilled by her at the Hotel Cecil Sat
urday afternoon, will probably ho
prosecuted under the state law for
apettlng a. woman. He may be charg-
ed with manslaughter.
1t Is the am of the prosecuting at
torney, Mr. Vandeveer, TO prove that
in furnishing the gun used by the
woman and in purchasing the poison.
Eames aided the woman in self des-
truction. Eames is held In the CITY
Jail in solitary confinement.
The police think that Eames did
not take the poison, but that his part
is all bluff" Eames says he was
just "joshing" the woman about the
pact.
Under the present law any person
deliberately assisting another to COM
init suicide, is guilty of manslaughter.
The supreme court holds, however,
that no person can be convicted on
his own uncorroborated confession. .
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-17
ARREST MAY BRING
MONSTER REWARDS
If theories of Spokane police Are Well
Founded, Men Who Robbed Great
Northern Have $64, 900 Price
on Their Heads.

SPOKANE, May 17.-No arrests
have been made in the case OF the
holdup OF the Great Northern train
IA miles from Spokane, Saturday
night The police believe the same two
men who held up the Northern Pacific
train near Hauser junction and rifled
the mail two weeks ago, and the Great
Northern train west of Spokane last
November are the same who robbed
the mail car Saturday night.
If the men are caught and are
proved to be the same involved in all
the robberies, q total reward of s64,-
600 will be paid for their capture by
the government, the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific. The postal
authorities say that little money was
taken.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-17

continuously in forest. Laying as
we do a yearly tax on both the grow
| ing crop and the land, the burden of
taxation makes the holding of land for
| a second crop prohibitive as far as
the private owner is concerned Rem
edial legislation is essential. To this
end the state constitution should be so
amended as to secure equitable tax
alton of cutover lands.
Private Forestry
If the fire problem is solved and
equitable taxation of timber lands is
once secured, the way to the practice
of forestry on privately owned land will
be paved. Private owners can then put
their holdings under management for
! the holding of cut-over lands for sue
cessive crops will pay. In the matter
Of management the important thing
is to so harvest the old crop as to get
new one established at once. In our
pine forests east of the mountains this
is done by leaving seed trees scattered
over the cutting acres in scattered
numbers to seed up the ground. If
fire danger is not too great the brush
is Topped and scattered and allowed to
decay on the ground. Otherwise it
is piled and burned.
West of the mountains the problem
VI Is an altogether QlII6T-
ent one. The forest is so heavy shat
when opened up by cutting, the trees
remaining are very apt to be wind
thrown. The leaving of scattered seed
trees is therefore not practicable The
usual practice is to cut clear and al
low the cut over area to seed UP from
the trees on the sides. The Forest
Service is trying the plan now of leav-
ing seed trees in groups so as to pre-
vent loss from windfall. Whatever the
method of cutting, the slash must be
burned as a precaution against fut-
ure fires. Y
.The question of reforestation is at
tracing wide attention. Where our
forests are cut under regulations and
protected from fire, reforestation will
take care of itself on the most of our
forest land This is especially true
of our coast forests. Here reproduc-
ton is prompt and abundant Never
theless, owing to careless cutting in
the past, and subsequent fires, Wash
lngton has many thousands of acres
which are not adapted to agriculture
and on which tree growth is as COM
pletely destroyed as to make natural re-
forestation impossible. These lands
should not lie idle. They have produc-
ed magnificent forests and are capa-
BILE of doing so again. Steps should
be taken to plant them up. 1t may be
that the only way to do this will be
for the state to acquire control of them
But in any. event they should be re-
claimed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-17
TEMPERANCE IS
THEME OF SPEAKER.
. MISS MARIE BREHM OF CHICAGO
ADDRESSES WALLA WALLA
PEOPLE SUNDAY.
President of Illinois w. C. T. u. Makes
... s.. Three Addresses Yesterday
to Large Audiences.

Miss Marie c. Brehm, of Chicago
former president of the w. c. T: u.
of Illinois, spent a busy day in Walla
Walia- yesterday, ,.She delivered three
addresses and is scheduled for one this
morning before. the high, school, Miss
Brehm is now. lecturing on the scien-
.tific phrases of the temperance ques-
tion under the auspices of the tenn
perance committee of the Presbyter-
tan church. AlI-the' meetings were
well attended but the principal one
twas held In the First Presbyterian
chareh last night. 49,. -.
=. Spoke from a Text.
"a At this service Miss: Brehn. had a
tt KIT in the scripture. reading of the
evening, the goth. .chapter of the First
,.Bool< of Kings-the chapter that tells
of the swQopipg, down. of Ben Hadad
king of Syria on Samaria under King
Ahab; the brazen demands of Ben
Hadad for silver and gold and for sons
and daughters; the tendency to obse-
quiousness shown by Ahab; then the
doubling of the demands; the final de-
cision of Ahab after asking counsel
with his councillors to show resist
anceS; the appearance of a prophet
of Jehovah with a message saying
= that the Lord would deliver the Assy-
rian hosts over to Ahab; the Hill con-
test in which Ben Hadad's forces were
slaughtered. the temperance of the
prophet telling Ahab to strengthen him
self as Ben Hadad would return fol-
another conflict ON the plain, his ad-
visers having told him that Jehovah
was a god of the hills and therefore
had conquered. but that he would bs
powerless on the plain. Again Ahat
was promised victory, and again he
attained it. Ben Hadad escaped the
slaughter and appeared before Ahat
asking that his life be spared. Ahat
made treaty with him, granting him
life in return for the delivering bach
to him of cities that Ben Hadad':
father had taken from. Ahab's father
and the making of streets in Ahab's
cities. But because Ahab had thus
spared and bartered with an enemy OF
the Lord he was warned that his owr
destruction would result
The Deadly Parallel.
Miss Brehm drew modern parable
to this ancient story. Ben Hadad she
likened to the liquor traffic, Ahab tC
the modern politician. She declared
that the Lord has messengers now as
then, and that they. are proclaimine
that the liquor traffic shall fall before
the onslaught against it if Christian
men have faith and courage. Its de.
mands have already been doubled. ant
s, this. has caused the long-suffering peo-
pie to demand resistance. The battle
y, is on and the victory is assured. Whel
- ever we fail and in whatever we ia
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-17

mess IN Oregon have filed complaint
with the railroad commission here
charging the o. r. & N company with
discriminating against shipments re-
1oelVed at Portland by opposition steam-
snip hnes from San Francisco To get
lower rates the San Francisco mer-
chants are giving the trade to ships
competing with the Hartman ships
AS punishment, it is charged that the
hartman railroads in Oregon delay
the moving of such freight for weeks
at a time.