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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
The Fate Of the Pedestrian.

The Fate Of the Pedestrian.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Chugs
Chug!
Br-r! Br-r! 4
Honk! Honk!
Gilligillug-gilligillug!!
The pedestrian paused at the inter-
section of two busy cross streets.
He looked about. An automobile
was rushing at him from one direc-
tion, a motorcycle from another; an
auto-truck was coming from behind,
and taxicab was speedily approach.
ing.
Zip-zip! zing-glug!
He looked up and saw directly
above him runaway airship in rapid
descent.
There was but one chance. He
was standing upon manhole cover.
Quickly selling it, he lifted the lid
and jumped into the hole just in time
to be run over by subway train.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
The NEW TRADING STAMP LAW.

According to the Interpretation
given the measure by State Senator
George Cosson, special counsel in the
attorney generals Office at Des
Moines, single dealers may give
coupons or stamps with goods under
the new anti-trading stamp law. Mer.
chants both in and out of the state
were alarmed because they under
stood the Balkema bill would prevent
the giving away of gifts or redeemable
coupons as. trade stimulators. In a
recent letter to. an eastern spice con
Germ Attorney Cpsson wrote:
1T will be observed that If two OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

At the annual commencement. of the
state University at Iowa City on We'd
nesday the graduates numbered 30
representing eight departments, name
": Liberal arts, law, medicine. home
opathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy,
graduate college and applied science
The address was delivered by Dr.
Harry Pratt Judson, president of the
University of Chicago. Keokuk was
represented in the law class by Mr.. Ed
ward ". ,McManus, former reporter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
No Disbursement

Jacksonville Courier: A church at
Green Bay, Wis., was struck by light
ming Sunday and one person was kill
ed and sixteen injured. This should
not discourage people from attending
religious services. Only .ust Thursday
down at Dalton, Ga, lightning struck
a lumber shed under which thirsty
Georgians were holding keg parry
and seven OF the men were severely 81.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
VACUUM STREET CLEANERS.

When the streets are cleaned in the
accustomed way, a great deal OF the
ldirt and dust is scattered over ad1oin,
ing property even whe-e the street
lis sprinkled before being swept 10
avoid this disadvantage It is pro-
posed to use vacuum cleaners on the
streets, where they promise to be as
welcome as they are in the nomes
Attention was first called to the posS
sibilities of street cleaning with the
vacuum apparatus by motor car own
ers. teaming companies and other
persons because Of the danger Of
"skidding" on wet payernents, particu-
larly on hill streets. A machine OF
the kind was tested with satisfactory
results recently in New York. Al
though, for the especial occasion.
street was covered with five or six
inches of dust and refuse, including
tin cans, bottles and scrap iron. the
machine, operated with motor car
engine, scooped up everything and
left the pavement dry and almost
speckless. An article in the Fort
Dodge Messenger thus describes the
arrangement:
"The machine used in New York
somewhat resembles steam road
roller, but, of course, is much lighter.
In front of the engine an open mouth
like attachment six or seven feet VIDE
sucks up the dirt and deposits II IN a
receptacle which is a part of the out
fit. At the rear a brush gathers any
remaining dust and puts it in the
same place. A receptacle can pc
dumped when desired at the end OF
| the street.
4 1.-THE outfit costs little more tnan 2
good motor car and reduces the cos!
Of labor by doing the work OF ten OF
ffteen men. Only two men are re
/ CURED to operate it. ~,
aThe scheme grew out OF tne
4 vacuum cleaning system used IN soins
houses and large buildings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

A character in one of the popular
books of the day propounds the in
uuiry. do you know why God Great
ed angels?' and thus answers it.:
at was to whisper good thoughts to
women Then come this further In
nuirv and answer. do you know why
He created women? 1t was to whisper
good thoughts to men" The question
what women are for was never better
answered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

A writer in the State Register and
Farmer notes it as remarkable how
far along the work is when circus
comes to town. He has noticed that
the crops then do not need much at
tention, the horses are not tired and
the kids all have to go to the circus
when going to church one-fifth Of the
distance and at one-tentn of the cost
tires the horses too much and costs
far more than the benefit obtained. \
certainly does seem a bit curious.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
stMary Had a Little lamb

Mary had little lamb." The poet
read the verse,
And then he made a few remarks, and
each remark was terse.
II guess she did, he muttered. and
his face grew wan and white.
Il ought to know. for it was who
took her out that night.
Eyes, Mary had a little lamb.
She also had some chowdered clam,
Likewise some turtle consoame
And Caviar from Russia way;
And then some roe and then some
shad
Were other things that Mary had
She used to be my hearts delight,
But, heavens! what an appetite!
Before she finished was stuck
Two dollars for rudy duck;
And possibly You think joke
She also ordered artichoke;
And then, before the lamb came IN,
Some a la Newberg terrapin;
For salad, alligator pear,
And then imported Camembort;
Spring peaches and some strawber
ries
think that forgot the peas,
The lima beans and spinach green,
And stuffed red peppers in between;
The juice Of grapefruit in glass,
Three cellars and demi-tasse,
And sailed almonds by the peck
That's what she had-I got the check!
I'm living on bread and jam
Since Mary had that little lamb.
Harper's Weekly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

Department Commander Michael
Mcdonald of the Iowa G. A. R. has
appointed Captain Hugh Pickell OF
Des MONIES chief of staff and senior
aide: William Blades of Dubuque de-
partment inspector; John F. Lacey OF
Oskaloosa Judge advocate; ]. B. Den
mes of Traer chief mastering ofi1cer
and A. D. Collier of Sioux City pa
triotic instructor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

According to cynical old bachelor,
there are two classes of women in the
world: the reasonable woman and the
attractive woman. In other words, he
would have us believe that the reason
able woman isn't attractive and that
the attractive woman isn't reasonable
If would be difficult to devise punish
ment sufficiently severe for such
wretch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
MAJOR eYERs AND HIS DESERTS

4 Not for long time has the State
/ University of Iowa done anything SO
fitting as when it conferred the de-
gree of Master of Arts upon Major
is. H. NJ. Byers, resident of Des
Moines and citizen Of all Iowa. Major
ByeTs has distinctly earned this
scholastic recognition, and it was
meet that it come from the university
of his own state.
1t was, too, exactly the proper de-
gree for him. That OF Doctor Of Let
tiers comes to mind naturally, but that
is not inclusive enough for Major
Byers. He is easily the dean Of Iowa
authors, with Ave or six books of
poems to his credit, not to speak Of
many others published in magazines,
chiefly by Harpers. There is the ap-
parently immortal state song. Iowa."
and THE March to the Sea-" which
lives quite as much by the memories
of the effect it produced in wartime,
as by its frequent reprinting now. But
Major Byers has done more than
write. He is actually the master Of
several arts. His home, st. Helens,
holds some of the greatest paintings
in the middle west, and few that
are envied by the greatest galleries in
the country. AS a speaker Of the
postprandial type Major Byers is
famous among all who have been
privileged to hear him. He is devoted
to music, and some of his most init
mate friends are great musicians. AS
diplomat he won honors, for while
consul general he did much more than
perform the commercial duties of
that position during his twenty years
of service. Some of the brainiest men
and women of Europe are his warm
i friends, on this account
The fact is, that the university OF
4 his own state ought to have recog-
nized his scholastic worth and stand
4 ing long ago. The highest educationa
institution in Iowa ought to stand fol
recognition of Iowa men who are do
|, ing great things along its own lines
I of work. There are plenty of mer
+ in Iowa who deserve that the uni
versity of this state crown them witt
the bay leaves which are represented
today by a signed and sealed parch
: ment. 1t is gratifying that it does no
. confine itself to. honoring men LIVING
+ at distance and prominent only il
statescraft, which is hard to differen
y tiate from politics sometimes. If thi
degree given Major Byers marks
tendency to notice the evidences Q
: learning and achievement of low
/ men especially, the State Universit
,f of Iowa deserves more than ever tn
h cordial support of Iowa citizens an
q appropriation bill trainers.
st Even If Major Byers were not S
II eminently deserving OF the honor h
has received, those who know hi
would be gratified at its presentatio
> because he is such a fine old ma
70 Never did more charming compa
q ion. nor sweeter soul, breathe in Il
,e air of the Iowa prairies and breatl
n it out with finer poesy or mo
at musical words.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

The supreme court Of Illinois has
evidently acquired the habit OF killing
primary election laws It would be
real gain to Iowa if our supreme court
would indulge in the same practice.
There is nothing the average primary
law needs as badly as fatal swat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

ing them soft. The Missouri berries.
coming IN at this time has made the
market bad; In fact Mr.. CLANCY. the
manager is having hard time to
place them. Yesterday, Elmer Reed,
Sr, sent us full box containing
thirty-one berries; as a rule 1t takes
sixty to fill quart box. showing that
they are almost twice as large as IN
former years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

The corn is up and country papers
over the state agree in saying that
Iowa from one end to the other is now
.sthe prettiest picture God ever unroll-
ed before the sight of mar"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
CITY AND COUNTRY.

o you of the restless city, tossed on
its heaving tide.
Kinfolxs and friends we greet you, we
Of the countryside,
We of the peaceful prairies, you Of the
turbulent mart,
Though our pathways lie asunder, yet
we are one in heart.
Blanche Trennor Heath.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

They don't have seed gospel trains
down in Virginia. Instead of travel
ing by rail the state commissioner of
agriculture and other instructors, with
their exhibit, go from place to place
by boat, touching eight of the richest
counties in the state at points which
cannot be reached by railroads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
5fIf -
The Graduate

ftsS- <NbsfShS q sSs 4 ~. -.
Des Moines Tribune: The college
graduate has been living in a world
just as remote from the one his work
will be as though it were on another
planet.
The college is little world by
itself. It's rewards are its own, its
promotions unique, its aims ideal. 1t
is too bad the other world is not more
like it.
But the real world does not carry
flowers to the budding amateur. nor
It's it particularly complimentary of
his efforts. 1t has no special cap and
gown to distinguish him, nor does it
reserve front seats for his con-
venience.
| 1t is a cold douche the aspiring
collegian gets when he graduates in.
/ to life. Some honest and sincere pro
fessors have prepared him for 1t by
occasionally setting him back, but on
the whole he is not in mood for
what is awaiting him. The only
experience like it was when, with the
Ihonors Of high school commence
Iment on him, lie was suddenly
dropped into freshman discipline.
/ Because of this total unprepared
mess and the probationary period The
collegian must serve, many college
graduates will assert that college
training is on the whole mistake.
4 They really do not mean 1t. Blu
what they say ought to suggest tina
pephaps the preliminary training TO
life might be in some way more init
mately associated with life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

A new French law provides that IT,
ties must be revised by the govern
ment before being used. American
heiresses who buy them should insist
upon an abstract Of title in the future.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

A character in story In one Of the
current magazines is made to say that
YOU couldn't sell through tickets to
heaven nowadays without an "ad''
man to boom the trade. Certainly not
in Iowa at this particular season OF
the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

The expense of city government in
Keokuk should be revised downward.
All testimony in the case to date is to
the effect that this can best be done
by adopting the commission plan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

A southern paper intimates the pos
sibility of an early break in the solid
south and landslide to the Republic
can party. Perhaps the millennium
isn't as far away as most people sup
pose.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
Regular Biennial Democratic Assault

HegUIdr bIcIH'd' I1S' To- - " =
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The Demo
cratic press of the district have begun
the biennial fight on Congressman G.
A. Kennedy. 1t should be understood
Ithat. mo- Republican papers in the dis
trict are concerned In the assaults
other than to maintain Mr.. Kennedy's
value as representative of the dis
| trict in congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
The strawberry Crop.

Montrose Journal Strawberries
are the largest this year that have ever
grown at this place, but the weather
conditions are bad as the rain is max
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

Flies breed at the rate of 120 every
ten days. A fly killed in time saves
millions later in the season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
MorEs AND COMMENT.

IT,
Tho Des Capital says that Mr.. Bryan
would be Of great assistance 10 MI.
La Toilette in the senate.
Theodore P. shonts Of New York
has been reelected chairman OF lac
executive board of Drake university.
the Cedar Rapids Gazette says the
neople who get the most newspaper
mention are not always the best PEG
pie.
Thev are holding an institute for
teachers in Shawnee county, Kansas
with 14o teachers present and oniy five
of them are men.
"Behind nearly every sweet girl
graduate is a tired woman who IS
nleased to respond to the name OF
mother says the Colfax Clipper.
aIf it be true that the big hats pre-
vent women kissing each other, then
| much of the prejudice against them
will be abated.' predicts the Manson
Democrat
The bite of skunk, it is now as
serted, causes rabies. But the Des
Moines Tribune recalls that the skunk
doesn't have to resort to bites to make
people mad.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, probabl,
the first woman to be graduated al
a physician in this country, now i
! eighty-eight years old. and is living II
quiet in Hastings, England.
/ over 100 negro Methodists fron
:. leading cities throughout Iowa are Il
s Des Moines to attend the annual meet
= ing of the Iowa conference of the Afr
:, can Methodist Episcopal church.
+ ITO the average man." says tn
Ida Grove Record Era, "the scie1
# tific discussion of what to eat al
s peals less strongly than the mate
tally practical question Of how
k get it."
l. The latest report about Mrs. Mic
y Longworth is that she is going up
? balloon. The Sioux City Journal II
~ fers that the last previous report aboi
If Mrs. Nick must have been more {
less exaggerated.
at "Just now" says the Onawa Der
r. ocrat. at is not so much the questic
II of tariff or temperance that is worr
re ing the farmers of Monona county !
Or 1t is of suitable weather for cleanir
lg out the corn fields"
= The editor of an Oklahoma pap
plays even with an angry subscrib
after this fashion: John Jones accus
y. us Of having misrepresented him.
= must be mistaken. as close examir
:, ton of the files of our paper fails
lo disclose single instance in viii
= Jones was referred to as a gantlems
er
=. Sunday is the prize contortion
to and slap-stick comedian of the r
,r- trum,v says the Dubuque Times-Jo
Mt nal, speaking of the evangelist's
,le cent meetings at Marshalltown. 9
a has made no sacrifices for the fa
in he processes. Religion has paid h
better than baseball ever did. I
or he seems to have demonstrated tt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18
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keokuk, iowa ........ June 1s, 1909
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-18

The Des Capital says that MI Bryan
would be Of great assistance to MI.
La toilette in the senate
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-29

Gran Quiyera postoffice, Torrenc'
county. New Mexico, will be discontin-
ucd on September Il.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-29
Preserving a Relic.

4 milestone which ground grist tot
the residents of the old %Suunysidc sec
ton of Long Island City more than
200 years ago has been embedded face
upward i'm a concrete sidewalk i'm
front of a new office building at f37
Jackson avenue. near tn north plaza
of the greensboro bridge. This relic
is said to have ben imported from
Holland BY the old Brouehard family,
which settled in S|unnyside about
1851. Jean Brouchard was a Hu-
gucnot who escaped from france into
the Palatine ana from that point came
OF America. He was the ancestor of
the Brokaws and Bragaws and Drag
aus of today.
The gristmill stood on the old
Dutch Kills creek near the Middle
burgh road, named for "a famous
clergyman OF Colonial times. The
stone planted in the sidewalk is the
upper stone. II is about -four feet
inches in diameter and the FUR
on its upturned face tell the
story OF its service to the early set
tiers. Years I the mill fell into
disuse and went TO decay.
Dutch Kills creek, which became a
muddy. sluggish stream passed en-
out Of existence several years
when the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
began leyeling %Sunryside hill and fill
in the hollow through which the
ran to make way Tor the Dig
railroad ward. Even historic Middle
burgh avenue over which the British
and Continental troops fought ana
marched. was wiped out. In the
crumbling of the old mill the neither
was buried in the SOFT oo2e
surrounding the mill. George II
Paynter. whose father bought mp the
tract of land on which the mill stood
had the top milestone hauled to the
Of Skillman and Jackson
venues, where it has reposcd Tor
In completing his new oiiio'
Payntor had the old stone
TAINTED in the center of the sidewalk.
York sun.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-29
BRIGHT
FOR PASSAGE OF
ENABLING ACT
PRESIDENT DECLARES
BILL SHOULD BE PASSED
liza NJ. Bond, For Twenty Years
a Worker For Statehood For
Territory BeIiveS Bill viii
Become Law During Next
Session of Congress,

rh,t president Taft is out natfoot-
i'm FAVOR or statehood for the ter
,ft,,ies and intends To see that the
.,atc,rm Of the party with
r,farapca to the enabling act is ear
no, .ont 10 tho letter. was the o
,oino and ontimistic message brought
frari washington last night by ira
n pond veteran newspaper man
",1 fn,. MANI wears n resident of Al
h,,n,aroue ana other parts of New
uavt.o hut for the past decade a
,...ti.ine attorney in the national
,aff,t Il have followed the state
h.,d matter unite closely" said Mr..
nond "beinp naturally interested in
il oe , farmer New Mexican. AS far
as can see the prospects for the pas
y,go of the act were never brighter.
Tha nrestdant has stated ON a num-
her of dtrerent occasions that he IA
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-29
SEE BIG BATTLE FOR
CONTROL Of THE
PARTY
ProbitS See in Fight Over theI
Tariff Beginning of WarI
Against Eastern Interests
Which Have Dominated,
Morning Journal Bureau
G13 Munsey Building.

Washington. ID. c., Aug. rs.
Now the American Protective Tariit
league has declared war on those re
publican senators ana representatives
who are d%enouncing the recent tariff
measure and who voted against II.
Through the American Economist. the
league is turning its batteries on the
downward rc%Visionists, and declaring
that nothing less than the control of
the republican party is at stake.
As the Economist sees it. such sen
ators as Barstow, Dolliver. CumminS,
Beveridge, Nelson. Clapp and La Fal-
ictte are bent on wrestling the control
OF the republican party from the hands
that now direct it and taking it over
unto themselves. The latest issue of
the Economist discusses the speeches
senator Cummins has made since he
has been in the west, ana it says these
torebode a struggle for control
"Protectionists may as well under
stand this now" it says. 1T is bet
ter to understand this now than to
make the discovery after the mischief
has been done"
Moreover. as the league leaders see
1t. the enactment of the recent tariff
law not settled the tariff question. 1t
Is asserted that Grave possibilities af-
l'clnS the future OF protection in the
Jhited States are seemingly involved
in the contest which has Just ended
'n the enactment of q tariff revision
law. 1t would certainly appear that
l'e outlook for tariff tranquility and
Tor the pcrmancncy of the policy OF
protection to American labor n in
duStry has not been improved as a re-
suit of the fierce struggle for the re-
IaAtlon and virtual abandonment of
,"e cardinal principle Of protection.
lhter-party conflict concerning the
protection policy is in a fair way to
'' carried on more stubbornly and
lSsressivlcy than ever before
II does not escape the notice of the
20 ague that Senator Cummins has de-
'crmined to carry the fight into every
invention between now and the ma
'''nal convention Of 1912. with a view