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

Manchester Press: Editor Agricnl-
tural Department, The Press: am
engaged to a young man whose par
ents object TO our marriage because
know nothing about cooking
can make fudge and angels food cake,
but they think he might want a
caange. To my notion, woman's
sphere is not in the Kitchen. but in
the sitting room. What would you
advise me to do2- Geraldine.
If we were you. Geraldine, we
would hunt up some pampered sob
Of luxury, like merry-go-round pro
prietor, and drag him to the altar with
d block and tackle. We can see Tnat
with yonr refined, 32-candle power
taste, you were never designed fol
such rude occupations as going to tht
mat with a bread pan chasing scrui
brush over a soft pine floor and shad
owing lissom carpet sweeper Yol
we're designed to sit in the from
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The Rock Island, satisfied with
its experiment with motor car be-
tween vinton and Iowa Falls, has
put on new and larger one. 1t is
of the gasoline pattern and carries a
200 horsepower engine with speed
of fifty miles per hour The car will
carry seventy-hve passengers. The
same company would do well to put
on similar car between Keokuk and
Eldon, and the Burlington should imi-
tate the Rock Islands good example
with cars between Keokuk and
Mount Pleasant on the North road
and between Keokuk and Lancaster
on the Keokuk & Western. In addi-
ton to being a great public conven-
fence such service would forestall
the construction of interurban lines
which would take much of the busi-
ness from the steam roads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02
MARTYRS WERE LOCAL MER
CHANTS.

Two dealers, in Inflated Cherry, H.,
described in the dispatches as repre-
sentative local merchants" were
among the volunteers who went down
into the flaming furnace of that burn
ing tomb of three hundred miners, to
rescue their townsmen and restore
them to the weeping wives and moth
ers at the mouth of that gaping Gee
henna The American Paint and Oil
Dealer. trade journal. in comment
ing on their heroism finds occasion to
say:
THE names of these two dealer
who thus met their doom and. with
all the rest of the dozen in that cage
of death, were Immediately incinerat-
ed by the flames were not Sears, nor
Roebuck. nor Ward These men. these
country dealers who had cast their
lot completely with their community,
to share its life and further its pros
perity, whose loyalty wavered not in a
calamity that wiped out almost the en-
tire male population of the town and
who stepped into the cage with their
eyes to the sunlight and a strange
smile upon their faces were John
Flood and Isaac Lewis
The incident thus graphically re
corded brings home in very realist
ic way an argument in favor of patron
izing home dealers that the press OF
the country has been making for sew
eral years. 1t was not Sears, nor
Roebuck, nor Ward who paid taxes In
Cherry and contributed OF theii
means in aid of every worthy enter
prise in furtherance Of the Interests
and welfare Of the community. MOI
was 1t Sears or Roebuck or Ward who
when the crisis came, braveiy ant
cheerfully laid down their lives in
desperate attempt TO save the lives
OF the miners imprisoned in the burn
ing mine. The men who thus sacri
feed themselves were home dealers
representative local merchants" an
their final act of heroism fittingl.
supplemented and gloriously crowne
their devotion to the community Q
which they were a. part. When l.
the course OF Inonotonous every-da
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

is an improvement we are proud Of
only it will hardly chalk up when he
goes out making reform speeches
against the trusts. We are reminded
by these reflections of the time Brook
hart and Clifford Thorne conducted
harmony meeting at the opera
house Clifford got up and bombarded
the G.. B. & @. railroad till there
wasn't shred of it left to do busi-
ness. There wasn't dry eye in the
house when he got done and nobody
Was more enthusiastic over AIS efforts
than Brookhart. He got up and said
he had always been proud of Clifford,
but now he was prouder than he had
ever been. And then he took the
skin off the corporations and hung
them up in plain view of the audience
and such fearful slaughter has not
been seen since st. Bartholomew
day. The dead and dying lay all
around. even as at the charge Of the
Six Hundred, made famous by Tenny-
son. And we must say that Clifford
has kept faith. He has fought the
corporations consistently from that
day to this. He will excuse our drag
ging him into this, as he was part
OF the harmony meeting and 1t be.
comes necessary to mention it. as we
hear 1t referred to so often since the
runor of Brookhart running for CON
orecs ie in the air
And so, while we would not for
the world mix up in any Republican
row, our duty as local newspapers
makes it imperative that We say this
much. Clifford's record as tighter
iof trusts is clear, while Brookh>,rt is
4 the big factor in one of the largest
corporations in the state. Like the
man who tried to commit suicide by
hanging himself with a blind bride
and was rescued at the last moment
/ by his son who sad to him, "you would
look Ike hell goi.'g to heaven in 9
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

life or when some great calamity sud-
denly presents itself, it is the home
merchant who meets the demands Of
the occasion-not some mail order
firm in some distant city. The latter
has no interest in community be
yond what it can get out of it. The
representative local merchant, as
typified by John Flood and Isaac Lew
is, is willing to lay down his life if
need be for his neighbors and friends
No argument is necessary to make it
clear that it is the home dealer and
not the mail order concern that Is
worthy of patronage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02
aefore the Drug Act.

Before we had governmental IN.
spection OF drugs said chemist oil
Washington, queer things used to
happen. Here Is one;
"A Washington man was taken yio-
lently Ill, and his wife got him a box
Of nux pills. He took three and re-
covered. The remainder OF the box
was put away in a damp closet.
.Some time later, going to the
closet, the man found that two of the
six pills left in the box had sprouteu.
A healthy green shoot had sprung
from each. Instead, you see. OF being
nux pills they were nothing but peas
covered with coat of -four"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Cuba is restless again and the cafe
generals are said to be busy devising
means to depose President Gomez
after nine months in Office. The
editor of the Waterloo Reporter visit.
ed Cuba once upon a time and took
note Of conditions there. He suggests
that If Gomez will take tip from
one who observed the game in Ha-
vana from the outside for a few
months, he will abolish the public
cafes. He says that If The Cuban
generals" cannot sit in plain view OF
an admiring popuiace, drinking vino
smoke cigarros and talk politics there
wv he no more insnrrectsons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Compared with the average of the
previous five years. Secretary Wilson
says that every crop is worth more to
the farmer. Compared with 1908,
this years gains are sos 100000 for
cotton, $107. 100000 for wheat, $685.
100000 for corn, $4,000, 900 for hay,
s1S,000,000 for tobacco and s15.000,00O
for potatoes. Other gains are enum.
Grated as follows:
There were substantial gains in
value of dairy and poultry products
and of animals sold and slaughtered"
says the secretary. 1.-THE price of but
ter has not been SO high in many
years, and the same is true of eggs
and dressed poultry, and, except for
the higher price of last year, it is
also true of milk.
In the grand total the farm prod
ucts of 1909 are greater in value than
those of 1908 by sS69,O00,0O0 or by
enough to buy new equipment of
farm machinery for over 100000
farms.
"All the cereal crops of 1909 are
worth s3,oOO,o0o 900 to the farmer, an
amount that would pay for all the ma
chinery, tools and implements of the
entire manufacturing industries in this
country.
"All crops are worth $500 900 900.
which would make half payment on
the value of all steam railroads, ac-
lcording to the valuation of 1904. All
animal products are worth over So,
1000. 100000
THE total of all items IS $S.760 ,000.-
600. In eleven years of application OF
mind. muscle and machine to this
basic industry of mankind the wealth
produced by farmers, estimated as
previously described. is valued at sT0,-
4 100000, 900"
1 One of the most amazing portions
of Secretary Wilson's report is that
in which he discusses the increase il
lprices. In 1909 the relative price
of all commodities, he says. sis ex
! pressed by 1926, the mean average fol
| 1S9s-190o being regarded as 1907 No
81 one article in all the list of the prod
d ucts of the farms of the United
States shows a decrease. In compar
ison with other commodities, Secre
tary Wilson shows an increase from
the unit of 100 for the period 1896
1900 to 1887 in 1909 for foods afte
they have left the farm, 1919 TO
clothing. 1858 for fuel and light
124.9 for metals and implements, 1872.
, for lumber and building materials
) 106 for drugs and chemicals, 119 TO
house furnishing goods, 1898 for mill
205.1 for eggs, 151.7 for butter, 10.
for coffee, S7.2 for graduated sugar
TAI for tea and 127.1 for provision
and groceries generally.
The report makes a splendid show
ing for the farming industry in thi
country for the current year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

They have had the commission
plan of city government in actual
operation for nearly two years IN
Cedar Rapids. The Republican OF
that city discussing the Burlington
result does not claim that the new
plan is the perfection of city govern
ment, nor that it will do away with
the evils that are inherent in such
government, but
1T is a step in the right directio :.
The ward and aldermanic system Il
going to be a thing of the past In
Iowa within ten wears. This predic-
ton has been made many times in
this newspaper and we are more con-
irmed in that belief now than ever
before. The victory In BURLINGTON
shows which way the wind is blow
ing"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

the average for the last five years and
the farm price of wheat is higher than
at any time since 1881.
The hay crop is 10 per cent ABOVE
the five-year average, aud only in one
year, 1907, has its value been over
topped.
The potato crop is % per cent above
the fve-year average.
The tobacco crop has never been
equaled and is nearly 80 per cent
above the five-year average.
The beet sugar crop will be ABOUT
100000 short tons beyond any pre-
vious record in quantity and in value:
The farm value of the barley crop
is is per cent above the average OF
five years; that of flaxseed is 40 per
cent and that of rice is 81 per cent,
The farm value of all cereals Is 81
per cent above the average for the
last FIVE years
The following table shows the far. 2
value of the different crops named.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

1t is generally understood that
congress will do nothing in the postal
savings bank matter at its coming
session The proposition will be al
lowed to rest until the currency
commission has reported If estab-
lished at all the postal savings banks
will be made part of the new cur
rency system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Lynching is an expensive luxury
in Illinois, and should be made so in
every state in the Union. The Iii
nois law provides that anyone depend
ent upon the victim OF mob may re
cover from the city or county in a
sum not exceeding $4,000 One OF
the victims of the recent mob a.
Cairo left two little children wh1
may look to the city for financial as
sistanee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Is a Masonic lodge a charitable In
stitution? This question will be an
swered by the supreme court Of Iowa,
and will settle point that the lower
courts have answered in the affirma-
tive. Under bequ st a deceased
member OF the Masonic fraternity
willed his lodge some Of his property
The. state officials sought to collect
the Inheritance tax under the state
law, but it was resisted b. the lodge
on the ground that the lodge was a
charitable institution and therefore
exempt, under the provisions OF the
inheritance tax law. The lower court
sustained the contention of the
lodge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The Mason City Globe-Gazette de.
clares that Republicans may fuss all
they want to but next fall they viii
either have to defend the Payne bill
or else condemn it, and that every
mothers son Of them who expect To
be. elected will defend it. The mem
ory of the Mckinley bill is still fresh
in the minds of middle-aged people
but the Globe-Gazette consoles itse''
with the reflection that there is +;
year to test the bill instead of ;
month before the congressional cleo
lions are on.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Major Lacey says that woman is
the most beautiful thing on earth and
next to her the most beautiful thing
is red apple The Boone News-Re-
publican comedies that this may be
true, but it recalls that the combina-
ton of the two brought the most dis
astrous results in the cosmology of
the earth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

A Washington dispatch states that
Colonel Hepburn will open law
Office in that city at once. He viii
spend his summers in Iowa and his
winters in Washington 1t was be-
cause of his business arrangements
Colonel Hepburn, when sent for by
President Taft the other day, declined
the office of commissioner OF pen
sions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

parlor in cheese-cloul kimona and
shine like the family photograph al
bum When it comes to Grating up
thankful of baked beans for a coarse
and noisy appetite. you are not there.
Pick out some imbeeile with bank
account and throw tie, hooks into
him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

A southern professor is reported to
have said recently that the men of
the south are the only men in the
United States who believe in God.
read SCOTS novels and vote the Dem
ocratic ticket
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The canning of assistant sugar
weighers in the New York custom
house has become quite an active
and important industry of late.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Pennington Republican report
that twenty-seven of Vincennes citi-
zens were converted at recent re-
vival at that place
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The discovery by the United States
department of agriculture thar we
have this year raised more food stuffs
than last year affords occasion for
thanksgiving that at least we. need not
starve. There is no call for wasteful-
ness, however, as tho aggregate in
crease is only about two per cent
greater than last year, though nine
per cent more than for the five years
previous thereto
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

DR.. Cook is generally credited with
finding the north pole, but who will
now find DR. Cook?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

At Cherry. H., last Sunday one of
the local pastors in speaking OF the
mine horror said that OF the male
members OF the Congregational
church in that place only one man
was left All the others persisted in
the mine At the meeting of the vii
lage board on Monday night two al
dermen and the clerk were absent.
They were among the dead in the
same catastrophy. Incidents like
these convey some idea of the ex
tent of the calamity
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The imprisonment of the Nicara-
guam congress is not likely to become
popular as an object lesson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

1t has been noticed that the cheer
full giver and the early shopper are
In most instances the same person.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The Mason City Globe Gazette sug-
gests that if Wellman's estimate of
DR.. Cook is true it carries out the old
adage that it takes d fakir to catch a
fakir.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The Cherokee Democrat has observ.
good crop of wild oats doesn't do any
dry farming He finds irrigation to
be of much assistance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

DR.. w. w. Martin, pioneer Metho-
dist minister, is dead at his home in
Ind:anola. He was an early minister
of the Des Moines conference Of the
Methodist church.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

keokuk, Iowa ~. December 2, 1909.
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zens were converted at a recent re-
vival at that place.
The Mason City Globe-Gazette sug-
gests that if Wellman's estimate of
DR.. Cook is true it carries out the old
adage that it takes fakir to catch a
fakir.
DR.. w w. Martin, pioneer Metho-
dist minister. is dead at his home in
Ind'anola. He was an early min ster
of the Des Moines conference of the
Methodist church.
The Cherokee Democrat has observ-
ed that the young man who raises a
good crop of wild oats doesn't do any
dry farming. He finds irrigation to
be of much assistance.
According to the Des Moines Regis
ter and Leader. the average mans
irst impulse upon receiving a 1910
calendar is to see low many pay days
there will be in January.
The telephone users of Iowa City
will cast postal card ballots this
week to express their wishes relative
to the consolidation of the Independ-
ent Johnson county and the Iowa
/ Telephone exchanges.
Joseph Frailev of Fort Madison, the
! well known attorney, will deliver the
/ principal eulogy at the annual memoir
1 ial exercises OF the Des Moines lodge
/ OF Elks, to be held Sunday Afternoon
at Fosters opera house.
Norman E. Mack asserts that In nj
state CT the union has the Democratic
/ party gone backward. Which remind:
/ the Des Moines Register and Leader
that it can't go backward very wei
i without falling off the edge.
Woman in politics does not appeal tt
the Alta Advertiser THE mans idea
of woman It says, ais not one whe
4 can make political speech, bu
rather one who can make the hom'
pleasant, to whom he can tell hi
troubles and go to for advice"
The Davenport Democrat foresee
that If Iowa Republicans will vot'
against each other as enthusiasticall.
as they talk about each other, tn,
/ state win be the mysterious strange
in the Democratic column as soon al
we have another election.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

According to the Des Moines Regis
ter and Leader. the average mans
iirst impulse upon receiving a 1910
calendar is to see low many pay days
there will be in January.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Norman E. Mack asserts that in no
state CT the union has the Democratic
party gone backward. Which reminds
the Des Moines Register and Leader
that 1t can't go backward very well
without falling off the edge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

Joseph Frailev of Fort Madison, the
well known attorney, will deliver the
principal eulogy at the annual memoir
ial exercises of the Des Moines lodge
OF Elks, to be held Sunday afternoon
at Fosters opera house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-02

The telephone users of Iowa City
will cast postal card ballots this
week to express their wishes relative
to the consolidation of the Independ-
ent Johnson county and the Iowa
Telephone exchanges.
, 1909-06-12
ST. CKOIN SIHAT

49, Al IN y
London, June 9th-Ihe Times argues
that conditions demand from the whole
Empire the most strenuous exerti1ns for the
maintenance Of naval supremacy, and says
that the sultry hush in international politics
possibly preludes q storm.
The Government has telegyaphed its cor
dial acceptance OF Mr.. Denkiu's offer Of q
Dreadnought, or its equivalent.
Mr.. Nc kenna presided at the meeting of
the Imperial Press Conference yester-
day. Sir Edward Grey, in an address,
declared that if the Navy should fail
it would be useless to discuss other subjects,
and he endorsed every word of Lord Rose
bery's address, adding cit is the British poll
cy to keep what we have, consolidate and
develop, quarrel rs lttle rs possible, and up>
hold British ideals IL the worlds councils,
The present political weather he considered
sultry. Mr.. Mckenna said he foresaw the
possibility Of the empire beng summoned to
exert It's full strength in defence of the nome
country, and he declared he would assist in
the development of the local navies of the
oversee dominious in every way, as the main
, 1909-06-12
PASSENGERS.
Christiausted.

June 9th Viking from 81. Thomas-
Premierlojtnont Hoyer, Peter John, Martin
Alichall, Alexander Edward, Joseph Jamos,
Brother Lavier and Brother NajcalIa.
June 9th-Viking for St. Thomas-Maud
Teytaod, Victoria George, Elizabeth Sim
mons, Potrina Astiau, Marie Astian.
Frederiksted.
June 8th-per $. $. Guiana for Antigua
Miss Maria Edwards.
June 8th-per $. $. Guiana for Barbados
Nh. and Mrs, James j, Jones, Mr.. John
Williams and Miss Helena King.
June 8th-per sloop Endoayour from St.
Thomas-Mr. George Williams.
June 9th-per sloop Eudeavor to ST.
Ihomos-hisses Anesta Stephen, Mary
Cam.
June Ioth-per sloop City Belle from St.
Thomas-Messrs Louis James. Benjamin
Christian, Albert Martin aud Miss Mary
Fleming.
, 1909-06-12
Translation.
Publication.

II is hereby made known that Govern
- ment on account of plague has establish
ed a quarantine of IA days against Trinidad
and resolved that vessels ar1iving here from
plague injected places viii not obtoin free
pratique until they have been disinfecttd,
even If they arrive after the expiration Of
the quarantine period.
If disinfection cannot be Effected, the
vessel will not be allowed to 20 nearer any
wharf than 70 feet off, such cargo as may
carry infection or shelter rats vii not be
allowed to land, and personal communication
with shore will only be allowed when neces-
sary.
Government Secrotory's Office, st. Croix.
9th june 1909.
BAUMANN.