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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-11
The Modern UnderstardInq.

Doctor said the parfshioner.
don't you consider love one anoth-
err as binding as any other part Of
the moral law" ''0f course j do an
swered the Rev Or. Fourthly It's
the first amendment TO the ten com.
mandments. &C Chicago Tribune.
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DR.. J. EATON JOHNSTON.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

The only physician practicing Oste-
pathy In the county. The Smith
sonian truss fitted and guaranteed.
tn only truss that holds. Office
North side of Main street, third door
above Fifth. Phone 49,. Residence.
Ninth and Webster. Phone "a. p.
Q. Lock Box Al, Warsaw. Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-11

Aches and Pains Of rheumatism are
not permanently. but only temporarily.
relieved by external remedies. Why
not use an internal remedy Hoods
sarsaparilla, which corrects the acid
ity of the blood on which rheumatism
depends and cures the disease?
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Interesting information.

Darwin's Theories on Evolution
were first made public in 1858. A. R.
Wallace brought out the same ideas
in the same year. The term Uncle
Sam was first used during the war
of 1912 and soon after that the figure
of the typical Yankee appeared in the
cartoons.
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Where He Came La

Minister-"1 made seven hearts hap
Ply to-day" Parishioner- How was
that" Minister" Married three cou.
Pies Parishioner That only makes
six. Z Minister-"Well, you don't think
| did it for nothing ?"--Life.
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DR.. w. p. SHERLOCK.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence, No. is North
Fifth street in Howell building.
ofilce hours: 10 to II a. M; 2 TO 4
p. m. Evening to 8.
Phones: Iowa 7S1rR; Mississippi
Valley, 1919.
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Mrs. C. R. Huber, formerly Of Min
den, committed suicide while on her
way to the home of her parents at
Stony Creek. She was at Petersburg
va, when the tragedy was enacted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-11

ADVISED
OPERATION
edbyLydia E Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Paw Paw. Mich.-aI snf

1 SuutTeu CeTr1-
bly, from female ills,
including infam-
nation and conges-
ton. for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. ! began
taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound, and
l can now say / am
a well woman.
ErsHVA M
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-11
RETURNED TODAY
FROM The SOUTH.
Three keokuk Gentlemen Who were
With the Presidents Fleet
Arrived Home This
Morning.
HEARD PRESIDENT TALK
Visited the Scene Of the vicksbure
Battlefield and Other Places Of
interest in the South
land.
HEARD PRESIDENT TALK

Messrs, Captain B. P. Taber, NJ.
Garmo and T. j. Hickey arrived in the
city this morning at 7:35 from st.
Louis having arrived at the Missouri
metropolis last evening at eight
o'clock aboard the steamer Cape
Girardeau, aboard which boat as the
guests Of the St. Louis Commercial
club and Captain H. w. Leyhe, master
of the Girardeau, they made the TWEEN
ty five hundred mile Tip, to New Or
leans, La. and return.
All three of the gentlemen this
morning were telling and looking fine
after their several weeks trip on the
river and taking part in the great
Presidential parade which left st.
Louis, two weeks ago last Monday
night for the Southern City.
The three citizens from Keo-
kuk. report very pleasant trip and
would not have missed the opportun-
lily of taking part in the great fotilla
which made the long trip, for any
thing, the entire distance traversed
being full of interest and those who
took it report splendid time.
The steamer Cape Girardeau was
probably the last boat to leave New
Orleans on the return trip. The boat
left New Orleans On Wednesday night
and the only delay during the entire
return trip was one night near Cairo,
where the boatlaid up at the bank on
account of a eavy fog. No bad
weather was experienced either going
or coming, and the trip was delight
| full one
Captain Leyhe of the Girardeau saw
to it that his passengers were we'll
cared for most of whom we're mem
bers of the st. Louis Commercial club
and the others, secured berths through
THAT organization. Alderman Hickey
was SO fortunate as to secure berth
through politial influence after al
berths had been spoken for and fol
this reason he probably enjoyed the
trip more than ever.
Everything in the way of comfort
was at the disposal of the passengers
the meals and berths of the best and
the trip made the more pleasant
through this fact.
Heard the President.
All three of the Keokukians who
saw New Orleans and other places
of interest together, were present in
the large Athaneum hall on the day
President Taft delivered his address
before the 5everal thousand present
regarding his views of the improve
ment of the Mississippi. They were
within easy speaking distance of him
4 and if they had so desired could have
shaken hands with the nations chief
executive and given him welcome to
Keokuk.
/ The Keokuk gentlemen were not
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INSURANCE.

CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
John w. Young, Builder. Superin-
tendent and Contractor for all kinds or
construction. Also general repair
work. Prompt and careful atten.
ton given TO plans and estimates
Your patronage solicited. office but
Blondeau, Iowa phone, office, 2143:
residence. 3342.
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MARIETTA:
Order Gold Medal Flour IL your folks are
peruickity about their victualE. SALLY ANN.
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DR.. CORAL r. ARMENTRour
& PHYSICIAN ANC SURGEON.

office-Y. NJ. G. A. Building. Resi-.
dence 912 1rulton street. office hours:
10 TO IL M: 2 to r. m, evening
hours by appointment. Iowa phone.
529-Y and Hul. phone, 2o92, Once
pnone. Residence phone, Iowa, l2-M:
Hub. 3515.
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Read the Daily Gate city.
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PHYSICIANS.
DIR, o. T. CLARK.


Office. M. c. A. building.
Office honrs--9. o0-lo:30 a. M 3:30
70 $3.50 and 700 and 500 p. m.
Phones-Office, Iowt, 305-R,; Hub.
lot. Residence, Iowa. 52s3; Hub. 2092.
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w. FRANK BROWN, M. ..
TOO Mai street.
Surgery Genito-urinary and Skin
Diseases, 2:3o-4:o0 p. M, 7:45-9 p. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-22

1t is a curious not to say an astound-
ing fact that, even after we have made
full allowance for the relative economic
values of the early days of the republic
as compared with those of the present.
The wealth of George Washington and
his immediate successors should still
register the highwater mark of presi-
Dental opuienee. In other words,
Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
Monroe must be even to this day ac-
counted the richest men who have ever
filled the Office of the chief executive.
When, in 1887, George Washington
was elected to the presidency of the
young republic, he stood, as regards
wealth, pretty much in the same rela-
tion to the people who elected him as
might a Vanderbilt or an Astor or a
Rockefeller today were either to attain
that office.
If not the richest man of his day and
generation in this country, he was at
least one of them Like Theodore
Roosevelt, Washington was born to
wealth. but with this exeeption-the
wealth of Washington s father was com
paratively great deal more than the
wealth of Roosevelt's father. There
were few men in this country as rich
as Augustine Washington. Indeed,
there were few men as rich as his
grandfather, John Washington. The
latter, with his brother, Lawrence, an
Oxford don, had come from England
and bought vast tract of land on the
west bank of the Potomac.
He added to his own wealth by his
subsequent marriage to Anna Pope, a
woman of the Virginia aristocracy His
son, Augustine, the to be father of
George, in turn added to his patrimony
by both his first and second marriages
and on his death George Washington
his son, succeeded to the paternal man.
sion and the broad acres surrounding it
together with more than 100 slaves
Mount Vernon, with its $500 acres and
about an equal number of slaves, he sue
ceeded TO few years later on the deatt
of his brother Lawrence 5 daughter he
being the next of kin. Both his OWL
paternal estate and that of Mount Yer
non boosted commodious mansions, SC
that at 26 years of age, young Washing
ton 5 wealth may be conservatlvely
computed at anywhere from $780, 600 Il
$3.50, 600. Then at q he increased this
very materially by his marriage witt
he Widow GUSTS, who brought him {
dover of 100000.
In startling contrast to Washington
wealth was the poverty of his success
sor. John Adams.
Unlike the Father of His Country ant
unlike his own three successors, on.
second President was not born with
gold snoon in his mouth
Unlike his predecessors and a Ion.
line of successors, his birth cannot b.
described as aristocratie. at least in th
sense in which that adjective was ap
piied 10 the landed gentry of the Oil
Dominion. John Adams father was
New England farmer He was a godl
man, and he did not allow any FOOLS
pride IN the fact that he was a deaco
the church to prevent his taking O
the trade of shoemaker to exc out th
slender living he was able to wrest fror
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The Personal Wealth of Presidents

the Massachusetts soil. Indeed, with
the proceeds of his fathers cobbler
work young John Adams was sent to
Harvard. Here, needless to say, he did
not cut any figure in society. He
did not maintain any blooded horses
or the dignity of a body servant, as
did young Thomas Jefferson during his
college days. On the contrary, he work
ed as hard as and lived even more
vigorously than any farmers or me-
chan IS son of today working his way
through such democratic institutions as
Cornell or Ann Arbor. He was grad
uated when he was 90. Then he studied
law and got married. He married, not
reigning belle or heiress, but a
demure village girl, Miss Abigail Smith,
the minister's daughter.
They lived in modest frame house
which John Adams owned in Brain
tree, and that house continued to be
their "home' throughout their life
time. 1t was worth not more than $4,000
Indeed, the Adamses were VIGOROUSLY
poor-so poor, in fact, that they suf-
fered much embarrassment when in
1884 Mrs. Adams went over to Paris
and established herself in a house in
Auteuil, near Paris, where her hus-
band had spent the three years as
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Euro
pean countries, whittier he had gone to
negotiate treaties between them and
the new Republic
To the frugal Adams's successor,
Thomas Jefferson, must be awarded the
distinction of having been our richest
president. Like Washington, Jefferson s
parents were rich. His father, Peter
Jefferson, was the proprietor of 1400-
acre plantation. His mother was of
opulent parentage. Shadwell, his home
in Albemarle county. Va, contained a
fine library and all the elegance of the
time which money could buy. When he
| went to William and Mary college, at
Williamsburg, the seat of the colonial
court, young Jefferson cut a wide swath
| with his blood horses, his grooms and
| body servants. Like Washington, too,
| he married a widow. the greatest
! heiress of her day. Mrs. Martha Skel-
ton. She brought him as a dover 40.00C
acres of land and 1876 slaves. besides
much valuable plate. This made Jeffer-
| son the greatest STAKEHOLDER in Vir.
| ginia, as he already possessed before
his marriage more than 100 slaves of
| his own. He had also been in posses
sion of an income of $4,000 a year from
his ancestral plantation.
| The story of Washington and the
| story of Jefferson find an almost yer
batim repetition in that of James Madi
son. He was the son of an opulent
| planter. whose seat. Montpelier, was
one of the show places of Virginia
Montpelier was filed with beautiful
things. There was fine library, and
the best society of Virginia throngej
its drawing rooms. He had tutors as
| child. and as a young man went t
| Princeton college. He studied law. wa.
sent to congress, and. as luck Womb
have it, met a dashing beautiful anj
also rich widow. Mrs Todd. who wa
so soon destined to become the immor
tai Dolly Madison.
! james Monroe, the fifth president
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would have been the same. He was
born October 90, 1858, in New York,
the eighth generation of the old Dutch
family stock in the United States. His
father, also Theodore Roosevelt, was d
merchant and importer of glassware.
President Roosevelt was frail little
boy and was instructed by private
tutor at home and allowed to run free
as much of the time as possible on
Sycamore Hill at the old family estate
at Oyster Bay, Thus his muscles grew
with his mind, and when he was grad.
uated from Harvard in 1880 he had
some athletic victories to his credit
and also wore the insignia of Phi Beta
Kappa.
After graduating he spent a year
abroad. In 1881 he attended his first
primary, and then the real Roosevelt.
the man that the men of the United
States know and love, appeared. A
member of the old aristocracv. he was
So democratic that no one ever sus-
peeted that he did not belong to the
great class of self made men of which
TINS country is so justly proud. In COM
Portable circumstances in the first
place, the steadily increasing emolu-
ments of the various political offices
which he so justly won meant nothing
to him. Assemblyman in 1884, civil ser.
vice commissioner in 1889, president of
the New York police commission in
1898 and assistant secretary of the
navy In 1897, his salary was always
incidental to the work which he was
accomplishing, just as his ROYALTIES on
hooks ha
airy enthusiasm, and not the end and
ann of it. He cheerfully accepted
soldiers pay when he volunteered for
+ the Spanish war in 1898, and accepted
slo,oo0 a year as governor of New
York the following year, with equal
indifference. AS vice president of the
United States his salary was $4,000 D
year.
Roosevelt has bigger family than
any other president ever had. He ia
giving them all an expensive educa-
ton. His income left to him nv his
father has been variouslv stimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000 wear. His
income is little if any larger at the
present time than if was at the time
of his fathers death.
"AIiiam Howard Taft has been too
busy so far serving his country to make
any money. He was born in Cincinnati
| IN 1857. He was the son of Judge
Alphonso Taft, so he came naturally
| by his legal bent. Taft was graduated
from Yale in 1873, second in a class
! OF l2O men. After graduation he be-
| came reporter, which occupation does
not ALWAYS imply a superabundanee of
| cash, and studied law. He became as
sistant prosecuting attorney of Hamil-
/ ton county at the age of % Shortly
afterward he had a period of compare
tive prosperity when he became a col
| leetor OF internal revenue for the First
/ district of Ohio at a salary of $4,000
| a year. but when he married Miss
| Helen Heron, at the age of 90. his in
| come was but $50 a month.
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was also Virginian of wealthy parent
age. Born on a great plantation, his
childhood spent in a beautiful colonial
mansion he had all the Injuries which
money and position can give man.
He had tutors and private teachers as
child, and was graduated by William
and Mary college Like all the rich men
of his time, he entered politics. He mar
ried a New York girl, Miss Kortwright,
and she had money as well as beauty
and accomplishments. The Monroes
were so well situated as regards money
that they shed great luster upon the
republic by reason of the entertain
ments they gave when Mr. Monroe
went as our minister to France. At the
time he become president Monroe was
one of the rich men of the country,
but during his service as chief execu-
tive his time was So entirely devoted
to public affairs that his fortune be-
came much lmpaired-so much so, in
fact, that when his term of office ex-
pired he left the White House all but
penniless.
Like his father, John Quincy Adams,
the sixth president of the United States
was born, lived and died poor man.
Only in culture and the treasures of
the mind could he be said to have been
an aristocrat He was born in the
frame house in Braintree, where his
! father had been born, and this house
continued through his lifetime to be
his real home. His long life, devoted
to the last to public service in a null
| titude of capacities. from congressman
and ambassador to the presidency,
shows no time devoted to private gain
or emolument.
| In Andrew Jackson we have a presi-
dent who was likewise poor, but poor
| in a different way from the Adamses.
| He was poor in the sense of low birth
and squalid surroundings A postum
nous child, his mother supported her
| self and three children with the work
of her own hands. And so far from
| having a family burial lot was Andrew
| Jackson that this same faithful mother
was doomed to be laid away in an
unmarked grave. He. was the first
! president America had chosen who was
not man of scholastic attachments, of
| culture and of experienced statesman
/ ship. and he may with safety be de-
I clared to have been one of the most
/ poverty-stricken executives
| Martin Van Buren, presents a strik-
ing antithesis to his immediate prede
| eessor. So far as fortune is concerned
/ he may be described as our first
bourgeois or middle class president. Oh
substantial Dutch lineage. he never
knew the meaning of the word want
/ His father was a typical American as
the father of none of his predecessors
had been. He kept tavern in Kin
derhoOk and was man of imperturb
able good nature. His son did not &C
to college, but to the village academy
which has educated the typical Amer
lean public man since the foundation Of
the republic
4 lawyer by profession. Martin Var
Buren, had built up for himself a lu
erative practice in the towns on tn,
Hudson when he was elected to the
United States senate, whence he stepped
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Mr.. Asouith has declined to grant
an interview for the personal presenta-
ton of the memorial signed by over
200 head mistresses of girls public
secondary schools in favor of granting
the suffrage to properly qualified
English women.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-28

The East oregonian is still here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-28
IT Is NEEDED.
victory.

The agitation in behalf of a new
theater for Pendleton has reached
such a stage that a new house is
promised by w. F. Matlock provided
he is guaranteed a six per cent net
revenue for the next Is years. To
guarantee this revenue for the pres
ent the theatrical people are willing,
and C. j. Mitchell, local manager,
hopes to induce the northwest cir
cult to make the Is year guarantee.
But if the theatrical business in
Pendleton is sufficiently good at this
time to produce a six per cent net in
come for a theater owner there should
be no trouble. Pendleton will never
be a lesser town than at present. On
the contrary, the growth and ad-
vancement of this place is inevitable.
OF this fact Mr.. Matlock and other
local property owners doubtless feel
assured. If so, then it would seem
they should be willing to proceed
with the erection of theater pro-
vided suitable revenue is assured
for the present However, it might
be very proper for the new theater
! huiIders 70 demand that the north
west circuit, or it's successors, agree
to use no other local theater for a
term of years.
That a satisfactory agreement will
be- reached between the theatrical
people and Mr.. Matlock, or other
property owners, is to be hoped. Pen
dleton needs a new theater and II
needs it now. A new theater will
help the city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-28
HOW 1T WAS COLLECTED.

In the home of a certain Influential
family they arose one morning to find
that no breakfast had been prepared
even the kitchen fire had not been
lighted. Upon investigation the cook
was discovered peacefully reclining in
bed.
Are you ill?" inquired the mistress
mot at all. I feel quite WELL" was
the surprising response. but still no
persuasion would induce her to arise
After a time the doctor was sent
for He put to her his usual ques-
tions, but the girl insisted that she
felt perfectly well.
"If. as you say you are not i'll, =
said the man of pills and potions
then tell me in confidence why you
won't get up and go to work"
We'll" said the girl resolutely
"these people owe me $25. and
won't stir until they pay it."
do you think you'll get it quicker
by staying in bed?" asked the doctor
81 most certainly do" she replied
with CLEAN Of the eye that expressed
determination to get it out on tina
line If it took all summer.
The doctor, advancing, said: "Rol
over and stay there. That's the onl!
way you'll get it. They owe me $50.
National Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-28
GODS OUT OF DOORS.

There is a temple--not of stone,
Nor with contracting walls and
roof
Wherein each man may stand alone,
And be from grosser things aloof;
There with his soul he may commune,
Where waters whisper to the shores
And distant hills send back the
Groom
The temple of Gods Out-of-Doors.
It may be on the desert sands
, When night has hung her tapestries
And when across the silent lands
There comes a wondrous censer-
breeze
Scent laden from some far off isle
Where bud and fruit hold pungent
stores
That thus are waited mile on mile
Into the House of Out-of-Doors.
1t may be in some wooded place
With sunshine sitting through the
leaves
Until its flashing jewels trace
A wealth of rare moasaic weaves;
All green and golden the forest walls,
All gold and green the forest floors
This is the grandest of all halls.
The tempe of Gods Out-of-Doors.
Gods Out-of-Qoorsl The ceasless
march
Of sun and stars from night to
dawn
Trace from our eyes the dome's high
arch,
Show us what it is builded on.
Hymn, anthem and recessional
The shouting storm in grandeur
pours;
Mute worshipers, We hear his call
In this great House of Out-of-
Doors. w. d. NESBIT.