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Romances of Progress
Bv Albert Payson Terhune
S0CRATES-The Man Who First Taught People to Think for
Themselves.

mant minds, teaching them to think
for themselves, fearlessly rebuking
public injustice and superstition, he
gathered about him so many disciples
and admirers that the government be-
came seriously alarmed. Prosecutions
and i'll treatment became his reward
Not the least of these came upon him
at home He was married to shrew
named Xantippe, who could not in the
very least appreciate him and who by
her seedlings and beatings made his
life a daily burden. He bore all this
with the patience of a true philoso-
pher. But worse was in store for him.
The tyrannous council of thirty
whom he had so often assailed had
not molested him. 1t remained for the
popular democratic government (Which
he had helped to restore) to arrest
him and bring him to trial for his life.
He was accused by the authorities with
denying the gods, preaching the exis-
tence of a new God and of corrupting
the young by his teachings. Socrates
replied in effect
CT" that he had mere
ly u b S t i t u ted
Judges. +r,,+b for s,,nor-
stition, and that his only "corrupting"
of the young had consisted in making
them better educated than their ia
theirs. For doing all this, he claimed,
the city should honor and pension
him
This speech naturally did not serve
to pacify his judges, who next tried
to brighten him with threats of death.
a T..
ever world lay beyond the grave it
could not be much worse than Athens
under it's present rule, and that the
change could not be otherwise than
benefit. The judges, in rage, con-
demned him to die. He was led back
to prison. His friends thronged his
cell One of them secretly offered him
a means of escape. He refused, pre-
ferring to abide by the courts YER
dict. In the presence of his disciples
he drained a cup of hemlOck poison.
Xantippe rent the air with cries of
grief He asked his friends to remove
her from the cell so that in his last
moments he might enjoy in dying the
tranquility she had always denied him
in life Then, while the poison crept
through his veins, he preached a
powerful sermon on the Immortality
of the soul, exhorting his followers to
remember his teachings and to profit
by them. He ceased only when death
at last overlook him in the midst of
his sermon.
Thus died Socrates, first and great
est of the whole mighty army of phil
osophers; the man who, as a reward
for leading his fellowmen from dark.
ness into the light of knowledge, was
officially murdered. But the spark he
had lighted was destined to iIlumine
the world for all time
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Made

In olden times when a man was i'll,
instead Of dieting or taking medicine,
he sacrificed a sheep or an OK to his
favorite god If this treatment did
not improve the condition of his liver
or digestion, he took it as a sign that
the deity was angry, and resigned
himself to his fate. When lowing to
the horribly insanitary conditions of
the age) a oity or community was
smitten by plague or epidemic, votive
offerings were made to all the gods on
the list and an army of priests was
kept busy sacrificing and praying. In
fact, there was a special class of con-
secrated officials known as priest
physicians. They dealt in charms,
omens and amulets. In other words,
they had the same functions as have
the North American Indian medicine
men, of today
But in 46O B. c. was born a man
(sOn of priest-physician) who in
single generation changed all this bar
barous custom, to whom we owe our
present knowledge of physic, diet and
sanitary law. He was Hippocrates,
the father of medicine. He made
health a science and paved the way
for every doctor who has since lived.
Like most progress-makers, HippOc-
rates owed his greatness to the fact
that ne was disconnected with the
customs of his day, and sought log
ical reason for things which others
were satisfied to take for granted. He
could nos see how the offering of sac
rifices and the belief that the gods
held all health or illness at their dis
posal would cure a sick man. He
would have made a very poor sort of
Christian Scientist.
By a series OF careful experiments
Hippocrates discovered that certain
herbs and foods had direct effect on
the human body. Instead of exhorting
Tries Ers,+s - sick people to
make burnt offer
n o" ings to the gods,
he dosed them
with powerful physics. Luckily the
human system in those days was ro-
bust, and the medicines, strong as
they were, proved of vast benefit
Moreover, there were always slaves
on whom to practice in order to find
out how much of any certain kind OF
medicine or drug the system could
comfortably stand.
These marked reforms sent his
fame broadcast all over the civilized
world. He was hailed as a miracle
worker. Yet in reality he had merely
applied logic and common sense to
the treatment of disease, and had
freed the practice of medicine from
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How Color Affects Growth.

Color agriculture is the latest. Ca
mile Flammarion put seedlings of the
sensitive plant into four different
houses-an ordinary conservatory, a
blue house, an ordinary greenhouse
and a red house. After few months
waiting he found the little plants in
the blue house practically just as he
had put them in. They seemingly had
fallen asleep and remained unchanged.
In the green glass house they had
grown more than in the ordinary
glass house, but they were weedy and
poor. In the red house the seedlings
had become positive giants, well
nourished and we'll developed, Is
times as big as the normal plant. In
the red light the plant had become
representative. 1t was found that the
blue light retards the processes of de-
cay as well as those of growth.
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nitZ, in the Illuminated World Life.
They are productive and cost nothing
but the price Of the seed, and the Ia
Dor of producing them. All the labor
of harvesting and storing and feeding
these crops is saved; the sheep get
all the good of the crop, and they get
it in the field where it grows. For
cheapness of feed, pastures are not
to be Outdone.
Not alone are they cheap, but they
furnish the most desirable sort of feed
for sheep. Succulent, palatable, bulky
enough, yet possessed of all the nutri-
ment needed. No feed could be more
readily digested than these pasture
crops for the cell walls surrounding
the nutrients are thin and tender and
readily broken down. Sheep are for
ayers by nature and pasture furnishes
for them not alone the ideal feed but
likewise the ideal conditions. Never
are they so contented nor so healthy
as when given the freedom of a five
or ten acre plot over which to play
and feed.
Science has long since taught us
that grass and root crops must be
grown, if soil fertility is to be main
tanned. In the end all profits must
come from the soil whether its prod
ucts are marketed in the mineral,
vegetable, or animal form, and to keep
his land yielding large and increas-
ing crops annually should be every
farmers first business. How better
can he subserve this end than by
growing grass crops to improve the
physical condition and give humus to
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grew stronger, and within three months
I was perfectly well woman.
Z" I want this letter made public to.
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Mrs. JOHN G. MOLDAN,
MINI.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to restore their
health.
Ifyou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass.
Shewill treatyOur letteraS strictly
confidential. For 90 years she
has been helping sick women in
this way, free of charge. Don't
hesitate = write at once.
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Law of Attraction,

The attractions of men to women
and women to men are full of the most
perplexing inconsistencies and contra
dictions imaginable. 1t is, for instance,
a physical law that magnetism is not
simple attraction of one thing for an
other, but the difference of two oppos-
ing forces of attraction and repulsion,
of which the former is the greater
The same law holds in relation to the
attraction of men and women for each
other, in which, as rule, the mascu-
line is the superior force.-T. P.'s
Weekly, London.
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piece of land but few days or a few
months at a time
1t would pay to have every field in
the farm fenced, as there is scarcely
a crop grown that at some time or
other does not furnish feed for sheep.
Most farmers, however, do not find
themselves in position to do this,
but they can, every one of them, do
the next best thing and that is fence,
say, three, five or ten acre fields, and
practice upon these a three year ro-
tation which will give pasture crop
each year, or if they prefer, SOW them
all to pasture, and alternate them be-
tween hogs, sheep and cattle, or Just
sheep and hogs.
The alleged cost of fencing is the
hedge behind which many seek to
hide in excusing themselves for not
using pastures. Yet as a matter of
fact, figures show that practically any
where in the northwest, a five acre
field can be fenced at an annual cost
of $3.50 or $40 an acre, allowing ten
years as the life of the fence Ger
tainly this sum cannot be regarded as
prohibitive. AS compared with the
cheap and excellent feeds it makes it
possible to use, it is not worthy of
consideration.
The man who is attempting to grow
sheep without pasture is making a big
mistake. He is not growing his sheep
as economically and as well as he
might, nor is he realizing the maxi
mum benefits to his soil as a result
of his sheep industry.
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Marriages of College Women.

Charles Franklin limerick of Smith
college has an interesting article in
the Political Science Quarterly, in
which he discusses the subject of
college Women and Race Suicide"
While he gives numerous tables and
quotations he finally ends with the
statement that the conclusion of the
study is generally negative. The
tables fail to establish any casual
MENUS between higher education on
the one hand and the frequency of
marriage and maternity on the other.
The problem does not admit of sta
tistical determination. Sterility is not
a specific disease, but is the intricate
product of causes as complex as civil
lization. College women should only
be compared with noncollege women
who are their intellectual equals.
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MANAGEMENT OF
YOUNG SHOTES
Unique AS Well AS Useful Idea
Concerning Little Pigs.

The following is rather unique as
well as useful idea concerning the
weaving of pigs without apparent dan
ger of injuring either the litter or the
mother. AS quoted in the last report
OF the Nebraska state board of agri-
culture, the author says:
1t is best to wean pigs when they
are two months old, but wean them
slowly. By this time they have been
or should have been running four
weeks on alfalfa pasture with their
mothers. Some morning when they
start for the pasture let the sows find
the gate closed. but with creep un-
der it to permit the pigs to go out
Outside let the little pigs find a
trough full Of nourishing. appetizing
food and they will I'LL themselves up
on it and then start, as usual. for the
alfalfa pasture. The sows are re-
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CHINESE SMUGGLING ON
BORDER is DECREASIN

Washington, D. C.-'The smuggling
of Chinese into the United States on
the border is pretty well under con-
troll" declared Commissioner General
of immigration Keefe. who returned
to Washington after an absence of
more than a month, during which
time he was inspecting many immigra-
ton stations of the country. Mr.
Keefe said the bureau would increase
its vigorous inspection service, par
ticularly in the vicinity OF Ell Paso,
Texas
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The Bible and shakesDear.

Questioned as to why he had omit
ted the Bible and Shakespeare from
his ''five-foot shelf" library, DIR. Eliot
gave as his reason that most people
have read them" Most people of DR..
Eliot's personal acquaintance. maybe,
but it would be risky for him to ex-
tend the limit of his statement. 1t
is freely charged. indeed, that in what
is called the reading world of to-day
the greatest books are neglected; that
they are known when at all only by
name, and are buried under a mass
of trivialties. DR.. Eliot's list of books
would appear to need revision.
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SHEEP AND PASTURES
ARE CLOSELY ALLIED
Latter is Absolutely Raising
OF FOrmer.-NuunerOus Crops May


Pastures and successful sheep rails
ing are so closely allied that it may
almost be said the one can not exist
in the absence of the other. Certainly
1t is true that sheep are not being
grown as economically and advantage
ously as they can be nor are
the maximum benefits to the
soil being realized, unless pastures
are provided to furnish feed for the
sheep from early spring until late fall
The man who is seeking the very
cheapest sort OF feed for his sheep
finds it>in pastures, writes D. A Gaum-
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Old Protests About Bread Prices.

: The high price of wheat, flour and
bread the last few months has
caused some of the old-timers to re-
call the corners and high prices OF
other days and antiquaries to dig into
the past for ancient parallels.
, A correspondent has unearthed a
lot of metal tokens" recording prices
of bread in England, especially during
the Napoleonic era. These were half.
penny tokens. One of these was struck
in honor of the Duke of Beaufort,
with the legend, ''He feels his peoples
wants and relieves them" The other,
with a pair of scales. records a fall
in the price of bread: "6h pounds of
bread. one shilling. God be praised"
Another token previously issued
bore this legend: "31s pounds of
bread for one shilling. Good Lord
deliver us."-The Miller.
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Calves Screaming"

could talk for hours about NV
country and my own people. am so
fond of both. On my birthday many
of them came in procession to see me
and danced what is called the 'bour-
rec" with them. They say such quaint
things. An old woman once, hearing
me sing, asked: Doesn't it hurt you
to scream like that?" A peasant once
told me he was sure the proprietor
OF the grotto would give me five
francs a day to sing there.-Calve, in
London Standard.
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SIX LIVES LOST;
THIRTY-SIX INJURED.
One Woman Physician on Hand Was
the Heroine, While Other Ladies
Tore Up Their Skirts Freely


for Bandages.
Kansas City, Mo.-Six lives lost and
SO persons injured, three perhaps ia
tally, is the result of the wreck OF
Wabash passenger train No. when
it plunged into the Missouri river 80
miles east of here Saturday night.
The train left Kansas City at nine
o'clock Saturday night and was due in
ST. Louis ten hours later. OF the
eight cars which made Up the train,
five and the engine are now in the
river with the water covering all of
them except one end of the Des Moines
sleeper. The chair car and two Pull
mans also remained uninjured.
Dr. Turner Lohveck, woman ply
stefan of ST. Louis, was the heroine
of the wreck, according to railroad Of
ficials and passengers. In thirty min
utes she gave temporary treatment to
twenty-five injured persons, several
women passengers assisting her BY
preparing bandages.
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Its Punctuation.

For sheer simplicity OF phrase and
conception few have surpassed that
delightful old lady who, with a shrewd
twinkle in her eye, inquired whether
soda water should be written as
two separate words, or If there should
be a syphon between them?' "-Ar-
gonaut
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caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system. I read so
much ofwhatLydia
e. Pinkham'S Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women I
felt sure it would
help me, andI must.
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left me.
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The ohIioinn Dealer.

Shopper-Give me a half-dollar's
worth of sugar.
Grocer-Yes'm. What address?
Shopper-I'Il take it with me, il it's
not too heavy to carry
Grocer-In try to make it as light
as 1 can for you, ma'am.
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AMERICANS THE PREFERENCE.
Strike at Butler Plant is Off on Com
pany's Terms.

Pfttsburg, Pa.-The strike at the
Standard Steel Car company's plant
at Butler was ended when more than
1000 former employees returned to
work at the company's terms. Seven
of the leaders Of the strike movement
were discharged Officials of the
company state that hereafter Ameri-
can workmen will be given the prefer
ence in all departments.
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One Day Less.

News Item-To-day there are but
S64 days in year on the Island of
Chichi. The sultan took a day on
yesterday.-Judge
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Real Thino.

Dolly-Do you approve of this pres
ent fashion of having no hips?
Jack-Sure. A poor fellow isn't so
likely to get stuck on a girls shape.
Puck.
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Only chanee.

The young man leads his bride to
the altar, but that's as far as he goes
in the leading busfness.-The MeddleE
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Learning from the experience of
others is like having baby hand you
candy.
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VERY ABRUPT.

Spring Poet-Yes, sir; I can write
about anything, sir.
Irate Editor-Wen, then, suppose
you just right-about face and head for
the door
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Lewis Single Binder straight SC cigar
You pay l0c for cigars not SO good.
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WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Minn.-s.I was a great
sufferer from female troubles Which
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Good luck never hangs around a
man long enough to become tiresome-
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Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gums reduces IL
hammation allays PAIN cures wind collie. 25c bottle
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~The wastes of love bring greater
riches than the wisdom of greed.
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He who honestly seeks to save an
other finds himself.
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Duty has stern face only when
viewed askance.
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PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
for all sorts of cuts, bruises, burns and strains.
Taken internally it cures diarrhea and dysentery.
Avoid substitutes. 25c, S5c and SOC
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GOOD HoUsEKEEPERs.

Use the best That's why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers cents
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-22
MILTON, IOWA.
NsHH~~~~~ - = = =

Every one is working. Harvest is
on with fair yield of grain. Hay s
good and the threshing men are start
ing out.
Carpenters are all busy. The Town
send and Bannar houses are ready for
the painters. The brick store on Main
street is being put up, also the jew
elry store room. Mrs. Grey is tear
ing down her residence and having a
modern home put up and many others
are improving. Some are in the west
for business and pleasure. 7. G.
Boag is in Canada, Mr.. Burford
wife. also Mrs. Hammer ana children
have gone TO Portland, Ore, to join
Mr. Hammer. J. D. Rowland and
wife are at Spokane, visiting and will
go to Seattle while away.
Mrs. McGafey and children returned
to their home in Fairfield, after Wis
it with her parents, VIM. Murry's.
H. w. Hill is in Lee county, visiting
friends.
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Concert and Social in the Park Tues
day Evening Was Well At
tended and Was
Great Success
THE VISITING LIST
Two Lucky Runaways In the City
During the Week In Which
no Bad Results Have
Followed.

\ WARSAW, Ill.,. July % The concert
and social by the Young Mems Mill.
tary Band at Ralston park Tuesday
evening, was well attended and
neat sum realized for the benefit OF
the band. Quite a number Of Keokuk
people attended.
Miss Maud Eymann gave lawn
party to her young lady friends at her
beautiful home on the bun, on We'd
nesday afternoon
Fred Halloween Of Grand Junction
Colo. formerly of Warsaw, arrived
here Tuesday afternoon and will visit
his parents. This is his first visit
since he left here in 1896 He and his
family are In the best of health. He
says Grand Junction is growing rapid.
~ and now has about 10000 popula-
ton. About 5000 cars OF peaches.
ears and apples will be shipped from
there this year. Fred is doing well in
the real estate and loan business.
Miss Jeanette Worthen entertain
ed a party of her young lady friends
Thursday afternoon.
Warsaw and Kahoka will cross bats
at the Fair Grounds on Sunday, July
25th at Q p. m.
Miss Hilda HOFFMAN,. postmaster's
assistant, has gone to Ottawa, Kansas.
to visit friends, stopping enroute at
Kansas City, Kans.. for a few days.
Warsaw has had two lucky run
Always this week resulting in but
slight damage, and no one hurt. A
butchers horse hitched to delivery
wagon. scared at little girl sitting
on the curbstone, and ran about eight
blocks to his home, doing but slight
damage to the wagon. A team and
farm wagon tied on Main street scared
at an automobile, broke away, ran
about a block and half to Fourth
street, turned south, ran into a tele.
phone pole at Cherry and Crawfords
corner stripped OF their harness
which was old and ran about mile
before they were caught. No damage
at all to horses or wagon; some har-
ness repair needed however.
| Blackberries are plentiful in market
and are selling at twenty-five cents
for three boxes. The woods are full
of pickers but you have to go about
four miles to get the best.
| Big strings Of fish are being caught
about the brewery these days; mostly
German carp however.
New hay, not we'll cured is selling
at $500 per ton. $1.04 per bushel is
being paid for best new wheat
and market falling.