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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
of the top of the world will come men
and material to tell the story of the
land of gold.
A HILARIOUS SOCIAL,

The Peoria Star tells about an en-
tertainment given by Young Peoples
church society of Rock Island on the
evening of Lincoln's birthday ami
versary that was departure from the
usual character of such gatherings.
The story is unaccompanied by affi-
davits, but it will be enjoyed just
as much as if it was fully verified.
1t seems that among other things
the church society had provided for
the occasion was liberal supply of
ice cream. At the same time a party
of people of the ''fust succles' in Rock
Island had ordered ice cream
which was to be literally treated with
sherry wine The delivery boy, Of
course, got the orders mixed. He de-
livered the sherry at the church par
lors and the ordinary ice cream at the
private house. Shortly after the dis
tribution it was noticed that unwonted
hilarity prevailed in the church. The
preacher laughed loudly at his own
jokes. The young people gathered in
corners and sang hymns, degenerat-
ing finally into coon songs and
snatches of "The Merry Widow"
The older members of the church
stood about and remarked that they
had never seen such warm Christian
sympathy manifested as was evidenced
at this social The more the ice
cream circulated, the more joyous
was the festivity. 1t was a manifesto
ton of the spirit that was in strong
contrast with the usual formality and
dullness that prevails at the ordinary
church social The meeting contin-
ued until late hour. Not until the
next day did they understand what
caused the unwonted fervor and they
would not have found it out then if
the maker of the ice cream had not
! organized still hunt to ascertain
where his sherry ice cream had gone
to. 1t was the most hilarious and en-.
tertaining church social that the
staid city Of Rock Island ever wit
messed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

DR.. w. A. Evans health commits
sioner of Chicago, said in public adj
dress in the Seventh Presbyterian
church in that city on Sunday evening
that IF you have typhoid fever in
your neighborhood, you deserve 1t. IT
you have scarlet fever, you deserve
it," DR.. Evans outlined the different
ways in which typhoid and scarlet
fevers are spread and declared that it
was generally the fault of few peo-
pie that epidemics occur. He said
that filth and carelessness We're the
principal causes of fevers and other
diseases and that neighborhoods and
communities contracted epidemics be-
cause a few persons refused to be
clearly and painstaking. In this con
nection he emphasized the fact that
where typhoid and scarlet fever cpl
denies occur they are always de
served They never enter in unless
4 the door is left open. And the care
I less ones are those who permit the
doors to remain ajar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
Attractixeness of Home Cities.

Charles A. stick, the big ST. Louis
dry goods merchant, edited the ST.
Louis Star Thursday. His leading edi-
torial is we'll worth reading by home
and city builders. He says:
We Americans, as class, have not
given the matter of the attractiveness
of our home cities as business asset
the Importance which 1t deserves.
We believe that we are the most prac-
teal nation on earth, and yet in the
keen competition that exists between
one city and another to bring people
to reside in our cities, We have failed
to recognize how much of factor the
woman of the camily is in the select
ing of a locality in which the family
is to reside. The average man is more
apt to be content to live almost any
where than is the woman of the fam
lily. His business brings with it new
associates each day which facili-
tates the making of friends, but his
vile must make an eff in order to
find friends and amusements outside
of her family home. 1t is, therefore
to be presumed that that town which
/ offers her the greatest attractions
( would cause her to use her influence
/ to have her husband become a resi-
dent of such city, and each new
citizen adds to the value of every foot
/ of real estate in that city, and adds
to the assets of practically every mer-
chant doing business in that commun-
ity. Notwithstanding this, with our
/ shortsighted practically we do not
bend our energies sufficiently to make
our cities as attractive and livable as
possible.
4 Terminal facilities and freight rates
may induce capitalist to build a fac
tory at favored point, but after hav-
ing been built, he is confronted with
the difficulty of getting men and WON
en- such as he would desire and re
, quire in the conduct of his factory. II
, is "up to- the capitalist then to in
quire as to the reason for this diff
Guilty. Should he investigate this prop
osltion as thoroughly as he would al
most any other, he is perforce com
PEELED to recognize the influence o.
the woman of the family, who de
mands that her likes and dislike:
: be taken into consideration as regard!
the location of the family in a new
city, away from that in which she ha'
formerly lived, had made her friends
| and had her own amusements. |
< would, therefore, seem wise and judi
= cious that those organizations tina
have the growth and business inter
ests of the city as their reason 70
S existence should take into considers
e ton the attractiveness of a city to tn
L entire family, and not simply recko
$ the business interests to be those e1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

DR.. ]. H. Kellogg, head of the Bat
tie Creek Sanitarium, says in Good
Health that the fasting fad is grow
ing. On the whole, he thinks it is not
doing much harm, as people generally
eat too much, and, while admitting
fasting, says there are also dangers at
tendant upon it. He says it is an err
rcr to suppose that fasting is the only
means of purifying the blood and that
there is some evidence tending to show
that fasting actually increases the
pollution of the blood by Gripping the
action of the intestines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

The reduction of steel prices an
nounced by the American Steel Cor
poration is taken by leading finan-
ciers to mean the end of the panic and
the speedy revival of business. The
reduction in the price of materials not
only enables the railroads to supply
their wants with less money, but it
also will furnish great volumes of
freight for transportation. With the
railroads resuming their full activity
lr umprove-~ents and with the tariff
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
THE INDIANAPOLIS GATHERING.

The number of men in the United
states who are bent on saving the Re-
nubIic is inspiring. They have no
doubt of their mission nor fear that
their schemes of salvation are the
best ever devised for the rest OF the
people. The socialists appear at one
end of the line ready to upset every
thing in favor now, and down the ilne
to the other end of it appear lesser
bodies intent every one of them on
some way of escape from the Tolls
that beset the citizens of the age. Re
marking these things, the Buffalo
News says of the meeting at Indian
anolis last week in particular, in the
interest of commission Of tariff ex-
lperts:
Out in Indianapolis convention
/ has been held that is devoted to the
& idea that there must be tariff com
mission a bunch of experts as they
lcall themselves, to tinker with tariff
schedules and after doing that genial
task to bring proposals of change per
netua1Iy to congress for action. Moth
inc will come of the movement and
nothing has ever come OF any enof
to do by outside lotteries the leas'
share of work that belongs by the Ia"
to the Legislative branch OF the gov
eminent. The papers read, the
speeches made and the Illumination
in general that come to the light II
the indianapolis meeting will come tt
nothing more than the satisfaction O
the orators themselves in their earn
est and rhetorical wisdom. The bust
ness men of the nation are not COINS
10 stand for constant agitation OF thu
tariff subject. They want rational re
, vision In congress itself and thel
) silence for another decade. They vii
, get what they want.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

The bill proposing to give the SUI
perior court in cities in which such
courts are maintained jurisdiction in
juvenile cases concurrent with the dis
trict court has passed the senate and
is expected to pass the house also. If
enacted, the new law will give the
judge of superior court power to hear
and decide juvenile cases where in
tho past those cases have all been
turned over to the judges of the dis
trict courts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

The saloons in Missouri Valley are
to be supplied with floor walkers
whose function is to see that all mulct
law regulations are enforced. The
Sioux Cit" Journal suggests that "the
next logical step 4, this process will
be the appointment of an inspector to
see that the floor walkers see that the
law is enforced" Following that OF
course there should be an inspector
to watch the inspector, and so on ad
infnitum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
clusively which offer man the means
of livelihood for himself and family.

-----------------------
"You Git Upl"
There's lots Of folks that has good
times,
But the ones that don't like morning
maps
Is the meanest ever wuz.
It's very rice to eat meal
With pie for a wind-up;
'Haint half so sweets tn nap pa
spoils
When he yells: "You git up!"
I'd rether lay in bed and snooze
Jest one small mint more
In the morning when the sunshine
Comes a-oreeping DER the floor.
Than go to Barnum's circus or
To own bulldog pup.
The meanes. thing pa ever said
Wuz. Come now-you git up!"
like to go in swimming,
And 1 like to play base ball;
like to fight and fly kite,
NJ | sometimes like to bawl;
But them there forty winks of sleep
Pa tries to Interrupt
Is better'n all. 1t breaks my heart
When pa yells: you git up!'
I'll stand the hurt and ache and pain
And all the smart and itch
Of raving him turn the bedclothes
down
To wake me with a switch,
IF he ud on'y jest go way
And let me finish up
The nap / started jest before
He yelled out: "You git up"
You bet when l git growed up big
Els rich n old es pa,
M never hat to go to school,
Nor work nor stand no jaw,
I'll sleep all night and all day too,
And only just git up
When git 'nough sleep to suit me,
Eff all the world yells: you git up!
Joe Kerr.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

1t is suggested by the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil that if the members
of the Iowa general assembly We're
compelled to travel from their homes
to the capital city by wagon roads,
they might be more interested in franz
ing up some kind of legislation
that would result in the Improvement
of the public highways.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
Such Impudenee.

Des Moines Register and Leader
Recently" says the Council BUNS
Nonpareil, "a member of the city eouii-
Gil had the temerity to inquire WI,
public work contracted for was nv.
done" Well, we'll! Did you ever hea'
of such impudclce?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

The navy widows" and sweethearts
were on hand yesterday in full num-
Der to welcome jackie home again,
and they alternately cried and cheered
to their hearts content. 1t was a
great day at Old Point Comfort and
will long be remembered as cele.
brating the conclusion of the most re-
markable cruise ever undertaken by a
fleet of warships.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
EFT Iowa wherever that Is offers to

nett, Iowa, wherever that is, offers to
let The Journal into little scheme
for So bill whereby we can make
SITS in three hours Thanks, Mr..
Barnes. but we don't want to get In
the habit of making SO much money.
These are parlous times for the pred
atory rich.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
Why So Much Bread?

Atchison Globe: An Atchison WON
an decided to give Dutch lunch for
her husband and half dozen men
friends. So she bought three pint bot
ties of beer, half a loaf of rye bread,
two angels food cakes, and box of
chocolates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Colonel Watterson says that the
man who asserts that Democrat can
be a Prohibitionist is fool, liar and
rascal. The remark is respectfully re-
ferred to Alex Miller of the Washing
ton Democrat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

William E. Curtis, writing from
Washington to the Chicago Record
Herald, calls attention to the fact
that TIE constitution always gets the
worst of it in collisions with states
men. There is nothing particularly
new in this. Whats the constitution
between friends?" has long been a
byword.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

There are still few good men left
who enjoy the distinction of not hav-
ing been mentioned for cabinet po-
sition. But their number is daily be-
coming smaller by degrees and beau
tifllly less.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
The Next Move.

Pennington News: 1t will next be
up to some ambitious" legislator to
propose that all governing power be
taken from the people and placed in
the hands of an appointed commits.
sion Such may sound good on pa.
per but the people of Iowa will con.
tinue to conduct their own local af
fairs, at least for the next few years
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
The Daily Gate City


Moines Register and Leader suggests
that perhaps the fellows VINO were
dropped were guilty Of taking an oc-
casional drink.
Having seen a picture of the jury
in the Carmack case, the Chicago
Tribune gives notice that it is pre-
pared for any verdict it may render.
1t is remarked by the Marshalltown
Times-Republican that old Geronimo,
the worst Indian" is now good one,
having complied with the old-time
specifications.
The Minneapolis Journal thinks
when the Commoner, the Outlook and
LaFollette's Magazine get to hammer
ing one another the weekly paper BUSH
ness will smoke some.
The Des MONIES Capital states that
in Des Moines, when the heating plant
at the city hall fails to work, all that
is necessary to do is to have a special
session of the city council.
A scientist insists that snakes can
intoxicate themselves. The Omaha
Bee points out that this opens field
for CHOICE between snake with
jag and jag with the snakes.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette con-
cludes that there isn't much occasion
for offering bounty on rattlesnakes.
in Iowa, but it suggests that there are
pests which ought to be suppressed.
There's the common house-fly, lot
instance" continues the Gazette, ALSO
the mosquito. Way not offer bounaes
for the determination of the fly and
the mosquito?"
The notorious Rainsbargers will re-
main in prison for a time longer, by
preference of Governor Carroll, to
! whom their cases was submitted by
the parole board. Tle board was d.
vided as to what to do with the men.
Two members of the board favored an
order for a release which would get
them out in about two years. The term
being forty-seven years. The presi'
dent of the board was opposed to any
clemency. The governor therefore
refused to take the matter up at this
! time.
The Philadelphia Record recent,
quoted an observant street car con
ductor to the effect that the RICH
hand seats are always taken first. HI
could not account for this except OF
the theory that as most persons arr
right handed and accustomed to turn
ing to the right, it might be simpl.
force of habit There. is anothe'
probable reason which he did no
think Of says the Record. st is gen
, orally believed that the right sid
: of car is safer. An old travelle
once said to the writer: In travelin
; always sit in the middle of a car an
!, on the right hand side. The middl
is safer than the ends in a collisio
3 and the light side is not likely to b
f side swiped' by projecting objects 0
I trains, cars or any vehicles passing o
I the adjacent track"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

1t is estimated that there are about
1000, 900, 600 jack rabbits in New Mex
leo. No wonder some of them man
aged to get into the territorial legis-
lature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Prohibition must prohibit in Kan
sas, else 1000 drug stores would not
be for sale there. 1t is where prohibition
does not prohibit that a drug store
is more profitable than saloon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

An Oklahoma man asserts that he
has distant relative in Nevada who
knows Lincoln story that has been
printed only eight times. He is clear
ly in error in contributing this infor-
nation to the newspapers. He should
tell it to the marines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Idle freight cars are going to work
at tae rate of 5000 week. BY the
time the crops are ready to move
there will be a deficiency instead of
a surplus.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Maxim's gun "silencer'' may do all
he claims for it, but he would better
no. try it on a certain Cannon at
Washington.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Steel is coming down in price and
going up correspondence in demand
for railroad and building purposes. 1t
is a good omen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

question to be disposed of in the next
three months, prospects are bright for
a complete restoration of prosperity
before the end of the present year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
Would You?

Would Your
If you caught captious curate kill
ing kippers for the cook,
In the cloisters with club yclept a
cleek,
Would you say he was as willy
AS cunning crocodily
Catching cookies with corkscrew in
a creek?
If you beheld a battleboat bombarding
Biscay Bay
While the big guns beloved bold from
brazen throat,
Would you say it was as funny
AS bouncing blue-backed bunny
Blowing bubbles with bobby in a
boat?
If you saw dwelling dreamer drown
ing ducklings in ditch,
| And deducting data dry as dust to see
| Would you say that this death-dealel
| Was of ducks and brakes stealer
Or Of Darwin's dead ideas devotee'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
Editor shuns Temptation

Knoxville Journal: Some galoot by
the name of Barnes. who claims to be
the publisher of newspaper at Ben
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Was it thus he plodded ahead,
Never turning aside?
Then we'll talk of the life that he led
Never mind how he died.
Ernest Crosby
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

Even a Penrose has its thorn. as
Senator LaFollette can testify.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
keokuk, Iowa. February 90, 1909.
LIFE AND DEATH.

So he died for his faith. That is fine
More than most of us do.
But stay; can you add to that line
That the lived for it, too?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

The Milwaukee Bartenders' union is
to have dropped seventy-five
of it's 100 members in order to i'm
prove it's membership The Des
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Des Moines is to have another glove
factory. The Commercial club, on the
authority of the Capital, has hand
in it.
An eastern exchange asks, What
is the greatest need of the New York
stage?" The Rockford Star promptly
answers: Less tights"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

It is easy to die. Men have died
For wish or whim-
For bravado or passion or pride.
Was it harder for him?
But to live; every day to live out
All the truth that he dreampt,
While his friends met his conduct witt
doubt,
And the world with contempt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-07
The Moderate Drinker
BY Charles W. Eliot University

capable of doing his best in the work
of the day.
Benjamin Franklin made very early
observation of this subject when he
first worked, as very young man,
IN an English composing room. Drink
ing no beer he found he could easily sur
pass the English workmen IN the print
ing Office, and he attributed his great
er capacity to his abstinence from beer,
which was the favorite and habitual
drink of his fellow workmen. So / say
that the recent progress of medical
science, largely accomplished through
animal experimentation, has satisfied
me that the habitual use of alcohol,
even in moderate quantities, is inexpe-
aient, because it lowers the nervous and
intellectual power of the human being.
IF man be leading an intellectual life,
if he be engaged in work which inter
ests him keenly, stirs him, and requires
the active use of his powers of thought,
then he will inevitably feel the re-
tarding and deteriorating effect of this
drug.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-07
President Fallieres 5 first list Of de,

President Fallieres s first list of dec
orations for the New York included
the name of one man who is little
known. This was a young physician
named Louis Bozy, who lost an eye in
the discharge of his duty. DIR. Bozy,
while acting as assistant to an operat-
ing surgeon in one of the Paris hos
pitfalls, had an eve injured through "a
drop of poisonous matter coming in
contact with it. He knew ti-st an
antidote must be applied Immediate.
but by doing this he would have left
the chief surgeon unattended. and re
manned at his post with his eve UNI
cared for until the operation was com,
pleted. In consequence of his heroism
he lost an eye and was confined to
hospital for long time President
Fallieres, in comforting the decoration,
said that wound received by ply
stefan in the discharge of his duty was
as honorable as one received on the
battlefield.