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Evening star., 1909-06-19
DR.. Wood to Speak.

The Covenant tent service at 18th street,
and Park road northwest tomorrow even
ing at o'clock will be conducted by Rev
DR.. Charles Wood. A musical services
will be given at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Jose
prime Dill. contralto, and A. III. Deibsrt
will be the SoioiStS
Evening star., 1909-06-19

/ first time S'lch All honor las been he
slowed in the United States.
The medal is to he Warded annually.
Evening star., 1909-06-19

The annual session of the New England
Society OF Friends will be held at tho
Friends meeting house in Lewiston. Me,
from June 80 to -. The meeting is al
WAYS largely attended and brings to-
gether some of the most prominent menu,
nerS of the sect.
Evening star., 1909-06-19

Dr.. Sexton to Preach Here.
Rev George S. Sexton of Houston,
Ten. who has been appointed to make
Evening star., 1909-06-19

DR.. Samuel Fl. Woodrow. who will speak
on ''Wha; Should Be the Attitude of the
Pastor and Church Toward the Society,"
He will also lead the pastors session.
Percy $. Foster will be one Of the direc
tors of music.
Evening star., 1909-06-19

Bishop Warren Gambler of Georgia ad-
dressed the Preachers Institute Of the
North Alabama Methodist Episcopal
Church conference held In Owenton, Ala.
last week. The institute proved one OF
the most successful held In recent years
Evening star., 1909-06-19

Prof George +. Moore. professor or
the history Of religion in Harvard Uni
versitv has been chosen by the German
government as the Harvard exchange
professor for the coming academic year
in Berlin University.
Evening star., 1909-06-19

Upen-Alr Service.
Rev. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe. pastor OF
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. will preach at the open-air ser,--
ice in Franklin Park tomorrow afternoon
III 1 o'clock The Y. NJ. c. A. Orchestra
and a large chorus will furnish the
music.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

An important doctrinal step was
taken by the Presbyterian General As
Rsembly at it's recent annual meeting
in Denver. The Assembly adopted a
formal declaration that since the re-
vision of the Confession of Faith in
1903 1T is no longer allowable to in
terpret our system of doctrine in any
|fatalistic sense" and that they were
not willing to admit that such fatal
istic Interpretation was ever warrant
ed. At the same time it was declared
that mo acceptance OF tie doctrine Of
the church is required of any com
municant beyond personal faith in
Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the
Savior of the world and sincere &C
ceptance of him as Lord and Mas
ter It is held in some quarters that
this is equivalent to population OF
the doctrine of predestination. In
any event it brings the Presbyterian
church long step forward along the
line Of modern thought.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
River Improvement.

Burlington Saturday Evening Post:
There is a feeling now in the public
mind that the commerce of the coun-
try can be carried on water for less
outlay than upon land. Railroad ex-
tortion is really at the bottom OF the
present general demand for the i'm
provement OF the country's water
courses. At the same time, from the
conspicuous examples furnished by
the old world it has been plain to
thinkers that the waterways of Ameri-
ca would be. utilized for highways of
commerce. Iowa has three rivers that
will be opened to navigation. They
are the Des Moines. the Iowa and the
Cedar. These three streams have
been inspected by Government engin-
GERS who will report fayorably upon
them. Congress will do something in
the way of an appropriation, the state
can do the rest The result will be
that barge lines will bring out much
farm product which will find its way
in the same hulls to the markets in
Chicago and st. Louis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Water Power Nearing a Certainty.

Warsaw Bulletin: The Bulletin Is
not disposed to make its readers
weary with water power talk, nor
bring the subject into discredit, but it
does want to keep them advised as to
the facts as they develop and treat the
matter as its Importance demands. So
much has been said and written that
the public has come to accept
1t all as idle rumors, and hence,
when something of real Inn
portance manifests itself there is a
disposition to accept it as of no sig
nificance. Last week Engineer Hugh
Z. Cooper. of New York, with a party
I.fronssthes east. including ]. H. Free
man, who was one of the four who ac-
companied President Taft on the trip
to the Panama canal, were in Keokuk
and went over the route from Burling-
ton south to the former city. Mr..
Freeman was along in the interest of
capitalists, and while he did no talk
| ing for publication he said that he
found things exactly as represented by
Mr.. Cooper. Nor did Mr.. Cooper in
dulge in promises or predictions The
entire party treated the matter as
men dealing with big business prop
osition-as men accustomed to deal
with such propositions; and while
they did not break out into any ebulli-
ton of enthusiasm, they impressed
| those who came in contact with them
as men not only approaching the
financial as well as the engineering
magnitude of the problem but reason
ably confident of being able to meet
! the one as we'll as master the other.
The water power seems to be drawing
| closer to certainty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
NO ELECTRIC HEADLIGHTS.

Governor Hadlev Of Missouri has
vetoed the bill requiring railroad com
panies to equip all their locomotives
with electric headlights of 1,500
candle-power. He refers in the veto
message to the practical test OF var.
ious headlights made at Jefferson
City, which resulted in an agreement
being reached between the represent
atives Of engineers, whose influence
had secured the passage OF the law,
and the representatives of the rail-
road companies, which had opposed
it. though agreeing that there was 4
necessity for an Improvement in the
headlights In use at this time.
The agreement entered into, upoo
which the veto is based, was sub
scribed to by all trunk lines in the
state except the Alton, whose execu-
tive officers were absent from the
state when it was reached. 1t pledges
the companies to equip and keer
equipped ready for use on all loco
motives used in main line service
of power that will outline
the figure of man on or adjacent In
the track, plainly visible at distance
of 500 feet. preceding the locomotive.
The visibility herein mentioned is
to be measured by and
under ordinary night conditions, and
for the normal sight of a person hay
ing the usual visual capacity required
of a locomotive engineer at his place
in charge of moving locomotive.
The conditions Of this contract are 10
be carried out on or before June l,
1910.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
George Siuned All Rjuht

Clinton Herald: There was mar
riage few days ago down at Mont
clair. N. J. For want Of better names
the contracting parties may be known
as George and Mabel They were
married by a justice OF the peace,
and before the fateful words were
spoken Mabel insisted that George
sign an agreement in the presence Of
the Justice. George signed and the
ceremony proceeded forthwith.
It is related that George hesitated
some time before attaching his sig
nature to the document which was
promptly pocketed by the bride, as
soon as it had been duly attested by
the justice Of the peace. AnG here
is the agreement:
lever smoke cigarettes.
Never use profane language.
Never attend parties without wife.
Never dance without her permission
| Be good to her mother and small
| brother.
Be home each night at 9, unless out
with wife,
| Hand over his pay envelop unopeu
! ed each week.
Beat carpets each spring without
protesting.
Smoke but three cigars week
days; FIVE on Sundays.
Help care at night for any chill
dren.
Drink but three glasses OF liquol
annually at spring cleaning.
And as we look over the agreement
we are inclined to believe that Mabe
is most sensible young woman
1 possessing many OF the qualities Q
foresightedness that cannot be claim
ed by all of her sisters. If Mabel Il
4 just as successful in keeping Georg'
to that agreement as she was in in
ducing him to sign it, their home vii
be most happy one.
The recipe for a happy home Is
splendid one and it would not b.
bad idea for all the young womel
to adopt it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Effects Of Army Life.

Des Moines Register and Leadet
Il was impressed with the suggd
ton in the Register and Leader tha
the remarkable thing about the unto
soldier is not that SO many are droI
ping away as that more than hal
million Of them are living" rcmarka
Major Byers yesterday. IF anybo,I
had predicted at the close of the W
that forty-three years later the
would be half million Of the BIO
left he would have been looked on q
e. visionary.
This reminds me of what was san
to me once by an expert in such md
tiers. He said that the four years ei
posure In camp and field would ad
ten years to my life or take ten yea3
off. In my case 1t seems to have add
ed rather than subtracted. i spen|
practically four years in the open
sleeping nights In the rain on th|
ground and living generally witho
shelter. And yet was never sid
more than two days during the wa
and have never felt any bad effed
afterwards.
For the men who were fortif'
for 1t there was health rather tina
debility in the rough life of the arm.A
That is why so many OF the veteranl
are with us and In such hale an1
hearty condition. In every walk q
life you will find veterans OF the unio1
army actively engaged. | do not bs|
lieve you could take the records 4
any church In Des Moines or of an
organization that keeps a record 4
membership and find as large PEI
centage of men after the same Laps
of years active and vigorous. tn
remarkable thing is that so many !
the old soldiers are with us, not the
SO many are dropping off,"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Reflections of a Bachelor,

New York Press: A woman seldom
brags about her brains when she
hasn't any.
A mans good deeds don't live after
him because they are only his mag
nation.
When man says he had boresome
evening the nigat before, he means ne
stayed home.
It makes a man terribly sorry for
himself to have to stand ANYBODY else
in the family being sick.
When man can't blame his wife
for something he did and that went
wrong, It's because he isn't married,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
prosperity reign here, for all such
improvements could be deferred a
year or twosif it had to be.
DEPEW ADVISES MARRIAGE.
Says Punctuality is Habit Which
Woman Cannot At

y
tain.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 7."Get
married, was the advice given by
Senator Depew of New York to the
graduates of Medico-C hirurgical col
lege at the commencement exercises
here. Don't marry until you are
ready 1T isi'wicked to ask any young
woman unless you can support her
and yourself" continued Depew, "but
don't be misled by waiting until you
get too much money. 1t is amazing
how little you can live on, and you
will have home.
Don't waste your time either. You
will have little of 1t during the next
few years. Put in your spare time
reading in your professional line.
Punctuality is not a gift Of nature, but
habit which woman cannot attain.
If you are married you will have just
as much time as II you were single,
If you know how to find It. Your wife
will give you plenty of time waiting
for her. Don't fret and fume during
this interim-read. ! have known
men to pick up liberal education
reading while waiting for their wives
to get ready to go out" The senator
also urged his hearers to Join DO
1itical party.
ANY old party is better than nc
party at ALL" he said.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
FACTS ABOUT FLIES.

Some facts about flies which every.
body should know are set forth in
brief in late number of Harper S
Weekly. The fact cannot be repeated
too often or emphasized too strongly
that the common house-hy is carrier
of disease. Typhoid fever, diarrhoea,
dysentery and tuberculosis are car
ried by flies. Flies feed on food and
also on filth. They go from the one to
the other In this way they carry dis
ease germs to the table. One fly may
convey six million bacteria. 1t is i'm
portant, therefore, that everybody
should know and act on the knowl-
edge that
Flies breed in manure heaps, out
houses. refuse, ash-pits, and all decom-
posing animal or vegetable matter,
and unclean places. Do not allow de
caying material of any sort to accumu-
late on or near your premises. If such
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
lnterurbans and Real Money.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
The report OF its years business has
been made to the state executive coun-
ell by the internrban railroad operat-
ing between Des Moines and Boone
and TT. Dodge, and it furnishes sug-
gestion to all other communities IN
Iowa which are In need Of interurban
service and lack the nerve to build
1.-The roads. The net earnings OF the
Ft. Dodge, Des Moines and Southern
for the past year were $1,000 per mile
and three-fourtis of the gross receipts
Ewere from passenger fares.
Now, interurbans in Iowa can be
built and equipped for approximately
$4,000 per mile The state law permits
bonded Indebtedness of $4,000 per
mile. The fixed interest charge at s
per cent would be 5000, leaving $500
4 per mile. or 10 per cent net on an
equity of $4,000 per mile.
Any community wishing to build
thirty miles Of interurban could easily
get tax aid Of $4,000 per mile, which
/ would leave an investment not to ex-
coed $4,000 per mile to raise by stock
subscription. Here is the Des Moines-
Fit. Dodge experience promising 10 per
cent on this equity to encourage busi-
ness men and farmers to build their
own interurbans. II our promoters
could get away from the construction
company graft of trying to gobble all
the equity in railroad as the con-
4 struction company; profit and get
down to everyday business methods OF
Investing real money in interurban
equities, there would be roads built in
half a hundred Iowa communities
which would pay fair returns while
i building up their towns as no other
institution could possibly do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

It remained for a New York paper
TO state the case truthfully, concisely
and dramatically as follows:
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life goes on like song,
But the man worth while is the man
who can smile
When the telephone rings and he
answers it and says "Hello!"
and the operator says, What
NUMBER" and he says. THE
bell rang" and she says, mo
1t didn't"
There's the rub.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Iowa is All Right.

Burlington HawkEye: At Iowa City
the Masons are planning new tenn
pie that will represent an investment
of $50, 600 At Boone the Elks are go
ing to invest $4,000 in a new building.
Woodbine is going to have new IL
brary building that will cost about 49,
900 withou. site and furnishings. New
churches are going up everywhere.
Evidently there is nothing the mat
ter with Iowa, and confidence and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Both Nasty.

They are going to hang Junkin. Ii
ever man deserved hanging, it is
Junkin, negro who murdered a white
woman in Ottumwa. But hanging
people is nasty business, neverthe-
less. Cedar Rapids Times.
Crushing out the brains Of innocent
young women is also something OF a
nasty business. Burlington Hawk
Eye
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

The Lincoln Journal declared the
other day that if there be a better
state than Nebraska it is the future
state, toward which we are all head
ing with more or less precipitance,
The Sioux City Tribune approves the
sentiment in the abstract. If not its
application in this particular instance.
, It recalls the Texas editors remark
on General Sheridan's statement that
, If he owned Texas and hell he'd sell
Texas and live in hell: Damn a mar
! who won't stand up for his own state
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Fancies.I

Fancles.
When you hear q redbird calling.
Don't you want to follow, follow
Over hill and over hollow.
Through the sunshine and the sbad-
ow
Past the creek and through the
meadow,
Drinking deep sweet scents Of clover,
Feeling life is good all over?
Don't you want to follow, follow
Over meadow, hill and hollow
When you ear a redbird calling?
when you hear brown thrush sing
ing 81 /
Don't you want to linger. finger Z
Near the sweet, home loving singer
On red haw bough a-swinging,
Wondering what 1t is he's saying
To his mate a-nesting yonder?
Don't you wonder, don't you wonder,
When you hear brown thrush sing
ing?
When into the silent twilight
OF the woodland steals the dove note,
Steals the low, heart reaching love
note:
Don't you want to guard her, guard
her,
In her sweet and tender ardor?
Don't you feel your heart grow warm.
Don't you pray that naugnt may
harm her,
Her you hear and her you dream Of,
Her whose eyes there comes CLEAN
when the dove note, when the love
note,
Steals into the silent twilight?
o, the woods are teeming, teeming,
With the things which start you
dreaming,
Nature ever there rejoices,
Lifting sweet, thousand voices,
Every creek is full of fancies,
Every glade of necromancies,
Every squirrels CHEEKY chatter
Has some meaning which may matter;
Every bloom and bird of passage
Bears for you some pleasing mes
sage
For the woods are teeming, teeming
With the things which start you
dreaming.
Kansas City Times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07


The improvement in mail facilities
IN the rural districts within the recol-
lection of the editor of the Iowa State
Register and Farmer is made the sub
5ect Of an article in that paper. He re-
calls that forty years ago when he
lived away out on the prairie" he got
his mail when he drove ten miles for
1T. Later a public road was laid out
by his house and he felt as If he were
living in town." Then came the star
route, which carried closed mail, but
the carrier was permitted to carry
outside mail for patrons. Then came
the rural free delivery and now the
carrier has an automobile. He is won
dering what next.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
a CAMPAIGN TO HELP NEGROES

For the announced purpose of OBJ
tanning equality in civil rights and in
education for the colored race in
America national conference on the
status of the negro, held in New York
last week, resolved to organize per-
manently as the National Negro Con-
ference. Attention had been drawn
to the convention in advance by the
refusal of several prominent men to
take part Seth Low would not sign
the call because he did not think it
helpful to emphasize only the points
of offense against the progress OF
the race. Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son replied that he had always thought
it unwise to grant the suffrage to the
negroes as a class, cause OF fric-
ton between the races and an injury
+ to the negro himself. Although he
was one OF the early abolitionists,
commanded the first black regiment in
the civil war and had been a supporter
of negro education ever since, he had
reached the conclusion that mo white
community will ever consent to the po-
litical supremacy of the black man
or the yellow man. He felt that to
form such an organization at this time
might embarass the new administra-
/ ton in its efforts to get in touch with
/ the more progressive class OF South
ern white citizens
Among those attending the confer
4 ence were: Professors Ferrand and
John Dewey of Columbia, Wilder Of
i Cornell, John S. Bassett of Smith
Dn Bots tcolored) of Atlanta, William
Lloyd Garrison, Bishop Walters of the
Zion Methodist church, Edwin D
Meade of Boston, Mrs. Celia Parker
Wooley of Chicago, Jane Adams
{ Judge Stafford of the District of Co
4 lumbia Supreme Court and Ida Wells
Barnett. the negro woman editor
whose presses were destroyed in Ten
nessee by a white mob. Resolutions
were adopted denouncing the ever
growing oppression of our 100000
, colored fellow-citizens as the greatest
menace that threatens the country
, and demanding a complete system Of
. education for the negro. They regard
with grave concern "the attempt mani
fest south and north to deny to blacl
men the right to work and to enforce
: this demand with violence and blood
she'd" this referring in particular Il
the Georgia firemen's strike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

are decidedly perplexing even to the
Almighty The Record wonders what
He had to do with leaving the poison
N reach of the child.
According to the Buffalo News. al
most everybody who goes into drug
store and doesn't want to buy a post
age stamp wants to borrow bicycle
pump.
Noting taat Frank Gotch is to be
married the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
concludes that Cupid evidently dis.
covered device with which to over
come the toe hold.
1T is somewhat peculiar" says the
Creston Advertiser, sthat the section
OF the country which has prospered
most under Republican protection
should furnish the Republican CON
gressmen who are most vigorous In
their attacks upon the existing (tar-
iiff) law and upon the measure which
has been framed to take its place.
A progressive" says the Washing.
ton Democrat. is not Republican at
all, but species Of Democrat, and
ought to quit posing as a Republican
and come over into the party Of tariff
reform and lower taxation and income
and Inheritance tax and everything
that Is for the common man as against
greed and graft and spollation. :
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
Pre- achinu and Practice

Iowa City Republican: When the
mayor of Keokuk was candidate he
made a speech in which he said: 1--WE
Chermans must to -gedder stand, side
by each, or holdings we get" When
he came to appoint his police. the
Chermans holdings got.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

A Washington correspondent refers
to the disappointment Of an office
seeker as his nonappointment." This
Is aptly characterized by the st. Louis
Globe-D Democrat as the very refine
ment Of courtesy and the very flower
Of delicacy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07
What Kisses Mean.

Mrs. Kendall, the actress: We hear
lot about kisses. To steal kiss is
natural. To buy one is stupid. Two
girls kissing is waste of time. To
kiss ones sister is proper. To kiss
ones wife is an obligation. To kiss
an ugly woman is gallantry. To kiss
an old. faded woman is devotion. To
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

The pastor of an Omaha church is
attempting to remove an obnoxious
barn by the power of prayer. The out
come Of the undertaking will be await
ed with general interest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

1t has just become known that The
Hartman system has in contempla-
ticn one of the largest Identification
projects in the history of American
railroads. If the projects contemplate
ed are carried out they will involve
the abandonment of steam locomotion
on three of the important lines
through the mountain regions of the
west and the substitution of electric
motive power. 1t is understood tLat
the project contemplates the complete
electrification of the Central Pacific
from Ogden to San Francisco, with a
mileage of 7S6 miles, and of the
Ogden Short Line, from Salt Lake
City to Seattle. with a mileage of
945 miles. The San Pedro line. Isl
miles long, is another the electrical
ton of which is in contemplation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

A Chicago man has sued surgeon
for robbing him of cuticle while under
the influence of ether and using 1t on
another patient. This is the most
tlagrant case Of graft that has come to
public attention for some time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-07

Iowa registered nurses in state con.
vention at Dubuque last week went on
record in opposition to the woman suf
frage movement In this state. This
too, in the face of the fact that the
movement is in urgent need of the
services Of nurse.