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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
oRTnocRAPH,c ATROCITIES.

The freshman class at Northwestern
university. upon matriculation, mas
given the world the latest exhibition
of ignorance of the spelling of COM
mon English words. That the young
men and women guilty of such ortho
graphic atrocities were permitted to
pass through the public schools WITH
out learning better is serious impeach'
ment of the efficiency of the latter In
stitutions. Following is list of some
Of the misspelled words;
Irregular -Earegular. iregelar, ire
gealor.
Accessible Excessable, assessable.
axsesable.
Counterfeit Counterfit, conterfite,
counterpheet.
Observation-Disclosures, aprentis.
Chivalry-Shivalery, shivelry, chieal-
cry.
Magazine Magazeen, magazean,
magivene.
Anthracite-Anthre anthrisight
Plumage- Plumhage, plumeage,
plumaeg.
Adage-Addage. Addige.
Municipal-Munisip municiple.
Glacier-Glassear, glashier.
Intelligence Enteligance, intele
gence.
1t has been pleaded by way of ex-
PLANTATION and apology for these ex-
amples of verbal ignorance that the
teachers who gave out the list to be
spelled must be held responsible for
most of the errors; that no person
with any intelligence at all would
spell accessible "excessible,' unless
there were warrant in the pronuncia-
ton of the first syllable. Like ex-
PLANTATION and excuse is given for
'shivelary." 'plumeage," etc. The ex.
isfactory. Professor Clark. in charge
of the class in English in which the
examination was held. has suggested
the true reason, towit: that the faulty
spelling was due to the present mode
of education in the grammar and high
schools. The New York Tribune has
a word on the subject that is directly
to the point 1t says:
We should say that boys ought to be
/ taught to spell better than these fresh
men before they are promoted from
1 the grammar school to the high
school But while thus illiterate-no
4 milder word will serve-that they
| should be graduated from the high
school. as fit for college, is disgrace
full The blame is not to be laid al
the door of English photography
Such ill-taught lads would blundel
just as badly If our spelling were
purely phonetic. The trouble is not
that the words are too difficult te
spell, but that the boys were not taught
to learn spelling by the most practica
and most successful methods-name
ly, by liberal and studious reading il
which they carefully observed the for
nations of the words which they read
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

which is a half mile west OF Sugar
Creek. Many changes of vital inn
portance to the lands on this side, as
the channel has in recent years is
inclining to the south and making
great work in eroding the bank. The
entire river at this time occupies
territory which was heavily in forest
when Kelley and his army fioated
down the Des Moines on that chilly
May Saturday in 1894. Some four
hundred feet in width have been
washed away in those years AS
followed the course of Sugar Creek l
came to pretty little Niagara Falls
where the channel is slowly cutting
down to its former grade which it
occupied before the filing up by the
sudden flood of June, 1905. The fall
of water is nearly four feet, with
width of some sixteen. It Is a pretty
little touch of nature, with ample
voice and violence. At this date the
wearing away of the sands has been
completed within some three hun
dred feet of the Rock Island railway
bridge, and in process of time the
grade will be restored to it's normal
plane. A hundred feet south Of the
bridge lies nearly buried in sand and
drift the Sugar Creek iron structure
which met and was overpowered by
the food from the great rainfall of
that Friday night four years ago. A
| few broken and torn points of the
bridge are to be seen, making a dole
full showing and reminding one of
! the wreck of the Maine in the Ha-
yana harbor. From the towering
bluffs near the new bridge the observ-
er has fine view of the delta of
Sugar Creek. Looking northward
four farm homes appear, and the high
points 5f land are decorated in oaks,
hickories and other trees whose
foliage now are of gold, orange,
green and other beautiful tins.
Along with the weather bureau pre-.
dictions of the weather I am learn
ing to predict rains, SHOWS, drought
and fair weather about FIVE miles
away and thirty minutes in the future,
JASPER BLINES.
Seven Pines
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Sarah Grand. the well known
suthor, says in a recent article in a
leading London paper that men have
always frankly despised women with
out disilking them. One women here
and there, she says, he may respect,
but toward women in general his at
titude will remain for the most part
mildly contemptuous. She thinks the
world will go sadly awry when women
once begin to lose faith in man. They
have been accustomed to look up to
and rely on men and when this ceases
to be the case they win be cut adrift,
as it were, and loss of religion may
follow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Some large real estate deals are re-
ported from southwestern Iowa. At
Carson, in Pottawattamie county.
Dennis Osler sold to Charles Bolton
an eighty acre farm for S1S1.2o an
acre. At Imogene. in Page county, the
D. d. Leahy farm changed hands
twice one day last week. The first
time Pat Haher. Sr.. bought 1t from
Mr.. Leahy a, $3.50 an acre and that
afternoon Mr.. Haher sold it to Domin.
lex Martin for s155 an acre. The last
purchaser already owned an adjoining
farm.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

The Des Moines Tribune complains
that too many hunters Licensed are is
sued to men and boys who don't seem
to know what risk they run by pull
ing gun toward themselves muzzle
foremost. The complaint is we'll found
ed. In the interest of the public safe
ty and the rights of property no
license should be issued to anyone
no cannot satisfy the licensing Off
cial that he knows how to handle a
gun and can differentiate between a
deer and calf and cat and rabbit.
1t would be well also to be able to dis
tinguish between a person with a
stocking cap on and turkey gobbler.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

lines of sturdy men have been the
lanti-profanity crowd are by no means
'mollycoddles.' Nobody may ques-
ton the masculinity of the society; II
tremendously sets forth the propriety
of religions place in the laymen's
life.
huge professions of men, wearing a
badge on which is the head of the boy
Jesus, should be succeeded by a ma.
tional demonstration probably at tie
nations capital. Already, the city OF
Washington has Holy Name Union,
with Episcopal appreciation. and it is
but natural taat these men should one
day be hosts to their fellow members
throughout the nation
The Society's Ancient Lineage.
The Holy Name Society was brought
into modern activity by layman, re-
Gently deceased, who was not aware
that it had been erected centuries ago
He was concerned over the prevalence
4, of the practice of profanity, which ris-
! honors che name of Jesus So ne quiet
~ established societies and in a sense
he was the founder of the present ma
tional organization, with headquarte.3
at 500 Lexington Ave. New York
| Actually, though, this is the Oldest
confraternity in the Roman Catholic
church. When the Crusaders re-
turned from the Holy Land, they
brought with them various loose prac-
tees, including profanity. So Pope
/ Gregory x, at the Council of Lyons, in
1874 issued bull calling for special
devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus.
| He commanded the Dominican Faith
ers everywhere opreach AGAINST pro-
family. Affairs were 'ects to the
Holy Name.
But the actual organization of the
society is traced to Portugal, where
, in 1882, Bishop Diaz officially estab-
lished the confraternity The official
narrative runs: AT this time
plague was making ravages in Lisbon.
/ Bishop Diaz urged the faithful to join
the Holy Name Confraternity and as
sured them that Jesus Compassionate
could not turn deaf ears to their pray
ers. He blessed water in honor of the
name of Jesus and its distribution
among the plague-stricken people was
followed by miraculous effects, for In
a short time Lisbon was freed from
tae scourge."
| A century later a Dominican friar.
Father Diego, established similar
confraternity; and shortly afterward
the two societies were merged, being
granted many inGulgences ,by Pope
Plus w.
With the men OF Professionalism, and
the men of Catholicism. organizing for
avowedly spiritual ends, 1t would ap-
/ pear as II his Satanic Majesty had a
strenuous winter ahead Of him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

A year ago, when the Oklahoma bank
deposit guaranty law was enacted, we
were told that all the state bankers
IN the young commonwealth were en-
thusiastic for the scheme Now a
group meeting of state BANKERS repre-
scntine sixty banks in the eastern
part of that state has declared the
Oklahoma bank deposit guaranty law
a failure. The difference in senti-
ment then and now represents the
difference between theory and expert
ence.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
HER FIRST BORN.

She heard the cry!
And all the pain was brushed away,
And all the tears were held at bay,
And all the wonders, doubts and fears,
The shrinking dread that works for
harm,
The cares, and all the long suspense
Were cast aside by His trong arm.
She heard the cryi
And all the light was gathered there,
And all the love that God could
spare,
And all the Joy and peace and faith,
The angel smiles that come and go,
Were radiant there in one pure face,
For God had blessed that mother so
HOWARD w. WOOD.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

In early days when river transporta.
ton was the chief mode of travel and
traffic Keokuk was the gateway to
Iowa, and hence became known as the
"Gate City" When the water power is
developed this city will be one OF the
greatest centers of electrical energy in
the world Keokuk should then ac-
quire the name Power City. Keokuk
and the Mississippi river have always
been closely identified and their in.
terests will be still more intimate in
the future than in the past.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Experts of many countries are mar
yelling at the great roads which the
United States government has con
structed and is now constructing on
the reclamation projects in g. far
western states and territories. More
than 600 miles of the most excellent
highways that it is possible for man
to produce have been completed and
are in daily use. These. of course. do
not include the by-roads leading to
many farms or the many other roads
being used for the time being until
the macadamized kind can be built
The dry farmers have had good horses
and vehicles since the reclamation
work began seven years ago, Md these
good roads are enabling them to haul
their products to the towns and rail-
road stations and to send their chill
dren to school They regard them as
the most important of all aids to prog
ress and prosperity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

The Des Moines Capital has it that
Harvey Ingham would like to go to
congress. and the Des Mo.aes Regis
ter and Leader has it that Col. Lafay-
cite Young would like to be minister
to China. You pay your money and
you take your choice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
Bank exchanges last week at all the

Bank exchanges last week at all the
leading cities in the United States
were s3,393, 946,945. an increase of
3S.S per cent compared with year
ago and of 14.2 per cent compared
with tue corresponding week in 1906
Bank exchanges are now at record
point and illustrate very clearly the
extent of the business activity that
prevails throughout the country.
Every city reports an increase over
last year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

In the controversy over the smoke
nuisance, the Omaha Bee observes
that the Illinois Central is willing to
go in for coke. but Chicago threatens
1t with Blackstone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

1t is announced, as usual. that the
turkey crop is short this year and that
the prices of the favorite American
bird will be high. Any year in which
such an announcement is not made
along toward Thanksgiving deserves
to be classed with the year in which
the Delaware peach crop isn't killed
by frost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
one Misses. After All.

am sure 1t is a great mistake al
ways to know enough to 60 in when il
rains. One may keep snug and dry by
such knowledge. but one misses
world Of loneliness. -Adeline Knapp.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

An Ohio postmaster who resigned
has been adjudged insane. The board
of commissioners simply couldn't
make mistake in case of that kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

her mind on the baby in the crib or
the croupy child in the next room even
while she sleeps, it is in order for
Mrs. Belmont to arrange for a read
justment of the almanac.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

her mind on the baby in the crib or
the croupy child in the next room even
while she sleeps, it is in order for
Mrs. Belmont to arrange for read
iustment of the almanac.
Ballots In New York are four fee.
long. Tie st. Louis Globe-Democrat
suggests that this is why women want
them-to put on the pantry shelves.
sKings kiss when they meet says
the Buffalo News. 1t occurs to the
Des Moines Register and Leader that
perhaps thac's one reason why they
don't meet oftener.
An Ohio postmaster who resigned
aas been adjudged insane, which leads
the Des Moines Tribune to say that
in Ohio the man who voluntarily gives
I'D an office is running big risk
Stuyyesant Fish proposes moving
platform for New York. The Dubuque
Times-Journal tells him ne might get
some valuable pointers by studying
the declarations of the Democracy
the past forty years.
A. NJ Deyoe, county superintendent
of schools of Hancock county, is
candidate for state superintendent. he
has had quite notable career in
school work and is widely exper-
fenced in the teaching profession.
A number of Ida Grove housewives
having become disguised with the
servant girl problem have dubbed TO-
gether under the leadership of Mrs
| Noah Williams and Mrs. j. w. Reed
and have contracted for number Of
| Cinnamon who are to be shipped there
from San Francisco.
The Washington Democrat cannon
bring itself tc like William R. hearst
| 1t declares that he is menace to free
government and to decency and thai
he is an anarchist and teaches anar
! chy day by day il his big newspapers
1--WE hope he will be buried under
million majority" continues the Dem
ocrat, "even if it elects the worst Re
publican Who can be found in New
York. BY which we mean to go OF
record as saying that we have more
use for the worst Republican in tht
state of New York. or anywhere else
than VIC have for Hearst.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Mrs. Belmont thinks that American
mothers do not give enough personal
time to their children. The Omaha
Bee suggests that inasmuch as the
average mother gives up twenty-four
hours a day to the little ones, with
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

The Taft smile continues to hold its
own, but the Taft voice is showing
unmistakable signs of wear and tear.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Of course it had to come. The
iaeroplanes are causing serious runa-
ways
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

The output of epithets in the New
York city campaign, puts Daniel
o'Connell's harangue with the fish
woman In the subcellar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Ballots in New York are four fee.
long. Tie st. Louis Globe-Democrat
suggests that this is why women want
them-to put on the pantry shelves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Yesterday was one of President
Taft's busy days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
prevent the use Of such language by

prevent the use of such language by
Others"
This is the explanation OF the extra
ordinary diminution which many per-
sons hav, noticed in the use OF profan'
ity. The l.lboring men, who have often
been most addicted to this thoughtless
habit, have gone into this new society
in such great numbers that in many
places they leaven the whole indus
trial community. This accounts IN
good part for the lessened amount OF
cursing and swearing generally Used.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
THE HOLY NAME SOCIETY.
Extraordinary Present-Day Growth of
Ancient Religious Organ
ization.

The amazing growth of mems or
CARNATIONS in Protestant churches has
has its counterpart in the recent rapid
rise of the Holy Name Society of the
Roman Catholic Church More i'm
pressive ocular demonstrations of in.
terest and might have been made by
the latter, than by any other religious
organization of modern times. Even
the monster Christian Endeavor con-
ventions, which at their zenith gath.
cred fifty thousand delegates, from
many lands, into one city, pale beside
some public gatherings of this body
which is composed of grown men. In
the city of Newark alone, more than
fifty thousand men marched behind a
big Holy Name banner and American
flag, on recent Sunday.
October is the month most popular
for these great public displays of the
society's strength and purpose. In all
parts of the United States these
parades were held, especially on the
second Sunday of the month. Isolated
reports of these demonstrations have
found their way into the newspapers,
but the significance of the growth of
the Holy Name Society as a national
organization has been generally over.
looked. In a single Charlestown,
Mass, parish, 1,20o men recently
paraded. In Brooklyn more than 35.-
600 men were in line for the last
parade, while Jersey City sent $1,000
for a local demonstration. Last spring
10000 Philadelphia Catholic laymen
marched as Holy Name members.
The growth OF the society is on the
SNOWFALL order; within the past five
years CAT new organizations have
been erected, and with fuller super
vision and national organ, this now
looks like only a beginning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The question of adopting the corr
mission plan of city government will
be settled by the votes of Buffalo next
month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
Cutting Out cuss Words.

Four laborers were engaged in a
difficult job Of erecting h, ge poles.
A bystander remarked that, despite
minor accidents and annoyances, not
single word of profanity had been
altered. He was puzzled to explain
this, until his attention was directed
u the fact that the men were Catho-
lies, and members of the Holy Name
Society. who had pledged themselves
ito abstain from cursing, swearing,
and all blasphemous and immodest
language, and to labor earnestly to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

The first of the week I enjoyed a
little excursion across into Lee couc-
ty in the Sugar Creek region where
the little stream enters the Des
Moines The port of departure was at
the dikes of DR.. George F. jenkins,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
JASPER BLlNEs, JoTTlNes.
Cook and Peary-Winter Wheat
Change in Channel Of Des
Moines Rivera Nina
ture Niagara.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
The controversy about the north
pole seems to incline to the election
of DR.. Cook. Credit is due him for
uncovering Major Peary and hasten
ing him out to the firing line of hon
ors for ninety degrees, north. The
north pole territory is roomy enough
for both claimants. During the
Chinese-Japan war only few millions
of the Chinese knew that a war was
in progress. Perhaps U. S. elect
oral commission will have to be per-
fected to determine whether DR.. Cook
Or Major Peary carried South Caro-
lima, Louisiana and Florida.
Farmers on our valley are develop
ing new condition in the growing of
winter wheat. The common belief
and practice heretofore was that a
successful crop of winter wheat was
an affair which depended upon an
early planting, the dates terminating
along about the first week in October.
Now. with new varieties of wheat,
the Red Russian, for example, plant
ing of wheat month later is in order
and promises an average crop along
with the old fashioned classes Of
wheat whose growth began in Sep
tember
Out in the grove these early morn
ings I am hearing the low, sweet
voice of the chewink This is shy.
retiring bird of pleasant voice and
pretty plumage. Slowly the chewink
/ is going southwark, moving in short
flights, and lingering in dense places
for rest of day or so along its
way.
The first of the week enjoyed a
/ little excursion across into Lee cou.-
ty in the Sugar Creek region where
the little stream enters the Des
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

'Kings kiss when they meet" says
the Buffalo News. 1t occurs to the
Des Moines Register and Leader that
perhaps thats one reason why they
don't meet oftener.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26
To Make Men Loyal to Religion.

There are other purposes to which
the society is devoted: the official
literature of the society characterizes
it as zone of the most effectual means
of keeping men practical and loyal
sons of the Church. The monthly
meetings. the stimulated attendance
upon mass, the closer contact with
the parish priest and parochial life,
the quickened consciousness of church
relationship, and the circulation of the
society literature, all make for in
creased Catholic loyalty.
An innovation has been the estab-
lishment of annual spiritual retreats
for laynlen. These have called men,
especially those engaged in business
and professional lives, apart from
their secular activities, for the culti-
walton Of the spiritual life Such a
retreat" was recently successfully
conducted for New York iaymen at
Fordham.
In connection with the monthly
meetings Of the society, religious In
struction is given by the director, who
is clergyman. The Pocket Manual
of the Holy Name Society also pro-
vides daily prayers for the men.
The Pope has given very cordial ap-
prevail. and his apostolic blessing to
the society. and members of the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy throughout
the country have been earnest sup
porters of this movement which bids
fair to do more to impress the strength
and solidarity of the Catholic Church
upon the community than any other
agency.