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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

defect ia the structure is to be rem
edied without delay, SO as to make
it capable OF bearing the. full weight
of its proper burden or the tnins
should be closed up. The weak bank
takes away legitimate business from
the bank that is safe and does injury
to the business as whole by spread
ing general distrust. It should there
fore be put out Of existence With no
less expedition than we put out 2 firs
or block up highway or suspend
traffic on a tumbled-down bridge
This is not a case in which senf1-
ment, social standing of officials or
hesitation to sacrifice an old institu-
tion. that has outlived Its usefulness,
can be considered. II bank Is weak
it has either got to strengthen ITSELF
or go. The machinery of the law can
not be invoked too speedily.
f is suggested that II state bank OF
ficers, federal officials and bankers
generally will stick to old-fashioned
standards Of banking honor, and es
chew temptations. they need not have
unwise laws forced upon them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
CUT OUT WEAK BANKS.

The president o. the Wisconsin
state Bankers association says that
during the last five years not dol
lar has been lost by depositor in a
wisconsin bank The Wall Street
Journal points out that there does not
seem to be any ground on such rec
ord as this for the guaranteeing OF
deposits. The fact is that Wisconsin
has outgrown the necessity for max
ing strong banks bear the burdens OF
the weaker ones. The same high II
nancial authority holds that weak
banks have no right to exist and II
they were eliminated, as they should
be. when they fall below the stand
ards OF safe banking practice, the ex.
cuse for a law guaranteeing deposits
would be wholly wanting. The Jour
nal says:
A weak bank In the financial sys
tenn Of any state has no more right e
continue In business than has weak
bridge in a public highway, Thf
duty Of the public authorities and o.
public opinion in the one case Is the
same as In the other. Once an ele
-aont OF weakness has developed. tht
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
-. !, ate Colonel Mackey.

davenport Democrat: One OF tne
hast Known Democrats In Iowa, one Of
the most picturesque delegates ""'
ever attended convention, has passed
away 10 the person Of Colonel Charles
n. Mackey OF Sigourney. For more
than forty years Colonel Mackey rare
~ failed TO represent his county In con-
gressional and state conventions, ana
he has been honored by election to ma
tional conventions. And In every
gathering OF which he was member
he was both heard and seen. Many
! a fine he has won recognition simply
by standing in the face OF worn OUT
crowd and demanding it. A convention
without Colonel Mackey was not q
! failure. but there was always some
thing missing. True he was not al
ways conservative in his views. In
fact he was sometimes given to cnas'
ing shadows, but he always went aitei
them as IL they were real, substantial;
and he would argue with great 1orcs
land at much length that the tate O
i tha marty and the country depended 'oI
supporting these visions. He was quict
q 20 favor every new notion that seemed
4. TO have In 1t some element OF popular
4 ity, and he would espouse 1t with MI
characteristic energy.
And yet Colonel Mackay was an hon
est man from his point Of view. IL
was a born fighter. And he stood n
his country when 1T needed his ser
. vices He was colonel Of the Thirty
third Iowa and made a record tina
was always remembered. He wa
one OF the veteran members OF tn
. bar. and his legal battles were NOR
: than those of his army and politica
: life. re died at his home in Sigourne
i Sunday night.
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.mAusoLEuM At DIES MONIES.

Des Moines is to have an immense
mausoIeum which will be erected by
Senator ]. F. Maytag of Newton. F. F..
McIlhenny of Waterloo and others az
4 cost of between s125,o0O and $780,
600. The structure will contain be-
tween 400 and 600 crypts. It will be
sixty feet long by $50 feet wide ana
win be fifty feet in heighth. In the
center of it will be chapel and above
that beautiful dome. A news item
in the Tribune gives the following ad-
ditional particulars:
AThe crypts will be of solid con
crete. while the exterior OF the build
ing will be of rockface marble. The
interior also will be of marble. Eacn
crypt will be seven and one-haH fees
| long. thjrty-four inches wide and TWEEN
| ty-four inches high.
| tBy chemical process and the use
of drainage pipes that run into beds o.
| lime the moisture and decaying quail
tiles OF the bodies are carried off IN
| a strictly sanitary manner, and the
| corpse, besides retaining all its fea
I lures, remains In an excellent STATE
of preservation for countless years.
i It is understood that many of De
Moines' most prominent people hav
been interested IN the big enterprise
Des Moines is the smallest city i
the country to build mausoleum 0
such proportions. Only the larger ci'
les of the United States now hav
them. Buffalo, n. r., Detroit, Mich
Toledo o. and others have recent
had them built.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
WARNING AGAINST DRUGS.

"A report of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture sets forth
peculiar situation In the fact that GER
tain drugs which physicians are us
ing less, and with more care, are pc
ing used by persons without medical
advice in greater amount. The facts
as stated certainly indicate warning
against their indiscriminate and IN
professional use
The drugs especially referred to are
the coal tar products phenacetlllnl,
acetanilid and antipyrin, That these
are drugs Of medical value for certain
cases is not disputed. But their tox-
ic proportions are such, especially IN
depressing the action of the heart
that fifteen years ago report to the
British Medical association attributed
evil results to their use in excessive
and iniudicious doses. Since then
PHYSICIANS have employed them only
in extreme cases and with the great
est caution.
It Is reported by the agricultural de-
partments investigators with refer.
ence to pure foods and drugs that
their unauthorized use is increasing,
especially for the relief OF headaches
II is well established that it is
dangerous practice, from which fatal
results have often followed. NO one
doubts the va.ue of these drugs when
their use is governed by professional
knowledge and caution; but the ha
bitual resort to them is akin In It's
effects to the similar use of cocaine
or morphine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
The Church Delegate.

Mt. Pleasant Free Press: II the
editor Of this paper is ever sent any
where as delegate, he announces
rigat now now that he will not inn
pose on people by having them en-
terrain him at private houses. II a
convention is worth while, go to a
hotel and pay your own way. Recent
" two delegates were entertained by
a woman in this town. She gave them
the best room in the house and cock
ed for them TIL she assumed dark
hue in the face. She was not mem
her of tae church which was holding
the convention; the delegates were
rich and amply able to go to a hotel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
ct the Roads Alone.

Hampton recorder: About once IN
eight or ten years some agricultural Or
county newspaper puts out the idea
that our sixty-six foot roads in Iowa
are too wide, and that they ought 70
be reduced to thirty or forty feet.
The theory is that the land on eacn
side of the wagon track Is wasted and
produces nothing, and the Britt
Tribune suggests that the roads pc
cut to thirty feet and the remaining
thirty-six feet sold to the adjoining
owners at s75 to 500 an acre and
the money expended in lettering
the roadway. This is a nonsensical
suggestion, as the adjoining owners
virtually own the land now, and II
the roads or any portion thereon
were vacated the land would re-
vert to them. The land occupied
by the roads is only leased, as It
were. and the state itself could not
take a foot of 1t for any purpose other
than that for which it is now used
MANY Of the farmers in this county
/ have the space on either side OF the
wagon track nicely seeded down and
NOV 1t each year. Stock does not run
at large any more and we have seen
4 cattle herded in the lanes by the al
Joining farm owner. In short, the
adjoining owner can use the land
along his fences for the purpose tna1
Il does not interfere with travel Shouie
1 the roads be cut to two rods IN width
a the owner Of the 100 on one SIDE Q
the road would gain but an acre 9
ground which would hardly pay 10
moving his fences and trees. Tree
are all right along road II planted q
proper intervals, SO not to shade Tn
roadway and ii they were at an inter
val Of fifty or sixty feet, they woul
not be Objectionable.
Keep the roadway free from weeds
but let the public enjoy the four rod
wide as they always have. TO reduc
their width would make them loo
skinny" and cheap. Let the roat
way be wide enough. SO the commo
people can get out Of the way OF tn
? automobiles and steam threshers, an
g wide enough for the boys to play ba
l in IL they can find no better plac'
Y There is land enough in Iowa to rails
corn on without getting over tn
fences into the roads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

There are half a million persons
killed or manned every year in the
Industrial occupations OF the United
States. number greater than all the
casualties of all our wars since the
Declaration of Independence. 1t Is a
serious problem therefore how rc
make labor safer in our factories. Ac
cident insurance companies find thai
the hazard of farming is greater thar
that of almost any other ordinary DC
cupation since so much machinery IL
used in farming. Farmers too otter
are unframed in the use of machinery
and are reckless in handling 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
uNcovERs HUGE BONES.
Tooth Weighing Over Four Pounds
Found Near Logan, Iowa.

LOGAN, Iowa. July 2S.-For some
days Frank Peckenbaugh has been
upcoyering bones in gravel and sand
pit near the limestone quarry on the
Boyer river east of Logan, but to what
animal the parts Of the skeleton thus
far discovered belong was a matter OF
uncertainty in the absence Of Profess
sor Calvin and Professor Shemik I'M
I'll today when Mr.. L. Adams brought
in what is evidently the tooth OF an
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The Bonaparte Record inquired re-
Gently: Whom will the Republican
party in Van Buren, county nominate
for representative to make the race
against Bauman?" The Pennington
News replies that the name OF Will
liam B. Newbold OF Keosauqua has
been mentioned, and says of the gem
tleman:
"His Pennington friends would
cheerfully support their former fel
low-citizen and doubtless other town
ships would be pleased to see him
In the race DR.. Bauman is an O. K
Democrat, bnt it is time to have this
old Republican stronghold represent
ed by Republican"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
The Other Fellows Hide.

Y = /
Des Mofnes Capital: Harry G. Wal |
lace. secretary Of the Corn Belt Meat
Producers association, and one OF the
editors Of Wallaces Farmer. is dis-
appointed man. In governmental
sense his heart is broken.
Harry went into the movement Tor
tariff reform in good faith. hoping to
remove some OF the stumbling blocks
which he thought prevented us from
selling more farm produce in other
lands. 1t was Harry's dream that Il
the duties on the manufactured out
put OF Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New Hampshire ana
Vermont could be reduced. thus IN
creasing foreign impo7 tations OF man
ufactured goods. the foreigner would
feel more kindly toward our people
generally and as consequence would
buy more Of our beef and pork. Mr.
Wallace went into partnership with
Massachusetts and other New Eng
land states on behalf OF tarih reform.
The eastern men talked eloquently IN
regard to tarin reform and the spec
les OF reciprocity which should bene-
1T the farmer and everybody else,
and Harry joined in the enterprise.
The entire movement was to be Re
ciprocity Christian Endeavor. u
course. Harry had in mind the lower
| ing OF the duties on the manufactured
| products Of New England. He thought
| that everything in those lines nao
been too high. And, OF course, the
New England men, Harry's partners
/ in the uplift, had in mind free hides
] coal. free corn, oats barley etc me
partnership worked very well until u
came to show down In congress.
The show down demonstrated that
/ Harry Wallace Of Des Moines, Iowa,
secretary of the Corn Belt Meat Pro.
ducers' association. had been GOLD
bricked BIZ his New England partners.
They were able to preserve every
item OF tariff duty In which they we're
concerned. and to destroy some OF
the tariff duties in which Harry Wal
lace had been concerned. SO there
Won are. Wallace went into the
movement with one purpose, New
England men went into 1t with an
other purpose. The New England
men came out with their purpose
To try to save something out OF tne
wreck, Harry c. Wallace has teie
graphed to President Taft, Senators
!. | Dolliver. Cummins and Aldrich, urg
ing the continuance of the presen
, duties on hides. The petition says: !.
I'VE see no Justice In taking mil
lions annually from the farmers am
stockmen Of the corn belt and rang
country unless our farmers can br'
manufactured articles corresponding
!. cheaper"
I Mr. Wallace put the case on benal
Of the farmer strongly. We regre
that he has been betrayed. But q
i must admit that we gave him timei
d warning many months ago. We undo
IS took to educate him on the tariff que
n ton. but he wouldn't come TO OF
n school. He thought he was educate
already. He knows more now !.
The tariff reformers went into q
= fight together. each having differe'
e purpose. each seeking some SENS
= advantage. They now understal
!. that a true and honest tarin meal
- protection to all or protection % non
s The sooner this matter is understood
the better.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
CO. OLD Enouqh Quickly.

Grinnell Register: We had an ex-
ample Of what some people have seen
fit to call sticktoitiveness, brought TO
orr door the other day. Not so very
long ago a little boy came into our Of
flee and inquired for work. Upon be-
ing told that there was no work Tor
a boy under fourteen, he left, and we
did not hear from him till Tuesday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

A man is a molly-coddle who can
not make woman shut UP, says a
Missouri district Judge The Iowa
City Republican suspects that that
Judge probably knows as much about
women as a mothers congress does
about babies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The news that Colonel Roosevelt
spent three days in camp writing a
book is discouraging to the Des
Moines Tribune, which wonders II he
Il falling off in speed or II the book
is to be about the size Of Webster's
unabridged dictionary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The state board Of railroad commits
sioners has decided they have no pow
er to interfere with interstate trains
in the matter Of time and service
This cuts off the right Of complaint
of many small towns wanting better
train service.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The army of unemployed has heard
the call of the farmers in the Dakotas
for harvest hands and are hurrying
there in answer to the appeal from
the wheat fields. For several days
trains going north have been carry
Ing scores of men bound for the har-
vest fields of those states. Accord
ing to railroad officials the men seek
ing work in the north outnumber
those of any previous GUNNER for the
last three years. The crowd Is {
motley one, being composed of for
mer farm laborers, tramps and col
,ege students wanting work until the
middle OF September
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

John F. Ready, a prominent attor-
ney Of Fairfield, was married the
other day. The Marshalltown Times
Republican In making mention Of the
fact considers it unnecessary to add
that John had been ready for long
time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

Andrew Law, q flour and grain i'm
porter from Glasgow, Scotland, who
IS now in this country. declares after
a thorough study Of grain conditions
throughout the world that there can
be no cheap grain this season because
the worlds supply is SO near exhaus-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The Burlington Gazette declares
that the news that John D. is fer
ninst' the income tax will surprise
no one. The man naturally hates to
pay the whole blame thing himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

A Michigan man who admits that
he was at one time insane has offered
to wed Typhoid Mary" The qualify
ing phrase "at one time seems en-
tirely superfluous.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28


In his brief speech against the
nroposed amendment to the constitu-
t,on to make possible the leyying OF
an income tax in case OF great nation
al need Congressman Mccall OF Mass
achusetts declared on the floor Of the
ho,,se that compelling man to re-
mort faithfully what his income has
heen amounts to calling on him TO
Iav hare the innermost recesses OF his
.ou,v Now the papers are 9sking
Is it is in the innermost recesSs O
souls that the people OF MESA
keep their treasure chssts.
No aaem intimate rather pia'Nly
Any si,,ran Mccall failed 70
held as sacredly coD6dentiA.Pnd the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

Thought for the CAV in the Ians
guage OF Henry Ward Beecher: Every
man should keep a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults OF his
friends.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
THE DAILY GATE CITY

when he returned With the same re-
quest The same question was asked
His answer, given promptly, and with
touch Of pride IN his voice was,
Fourteen yesterday"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
n sou can't pay your way. don't go
as delegate.

The Gypsy Trail.
The white moth to the closing vine,
The bee to the open clover.
And the gypsy blood to the gypsy
blood
Ever the wide world over.
Ever the wide world over lass,
Ever the trail held true
Over the world and urder the world.
And back at the last to you.
Ont OF the dark Of the gringo camp.
Out of the CRIME and the gray
Morning was at the end OF the wor]t
Gypsy, come away.
The wild boar to the sun-dried swamp.
The red crane % her re d,
And the Romany lass to the Romany
By the tie Of rowing breed.
Morning waits at the end Of the world
Where winds unhaltered play.
Nipping the TANKS OF their plunging
ranks
| TIL the white sea horses neigh.
The pied snake to the rifted rock.
The buck to the stony plain.
And the Romany lass to the Romany
lad,
Aud both to the road again
Both to the road again. again!
! Out of clean sea track
! Follow the cross OF the gypsy trail
/ Over the world and back!
Follow the Ronany patteran,
! North where the blue bergs sail,
And the bows are gray with the frozen
| And the mast are shod with mail.
Follow the Romany patteran
Sheer to the Austral light.
Where the bosom OF God is the wild
west wind,
Sweeping the sea floors white
Follow the Romany patteran
West to the sinking sun,
/ Till the junk sails lift through the
nouseless drift,
And the east and west are one.
Follow the Romany ratteran
East where the silence broods
I. BY purple wave on an oval beach
In the hush Of the Mahim woods.
The wild hawk to the wind swept SKY
The deer to t wholesome void.
And the heart Of man to the hear
Of maid
AS it was in the days Of old.
The heart Of man to the heart Of
maid
!. Lights Of my tents, be fleet!
! Morning waits at the end OF the work
And the world is all at our feet.
: Rudyard Kipling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

elephant found at tie stone quarry.
The tooth weighs four and three
quarters pounds and is little over
six inches long.
Another skeleton OF some large ami
NAL partially uncovered by the recent
floods in deep gulch has been found
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

1t has been noticed that usually the
fellow who gives most advice about
boys hasn't any of his own.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28
nAuY az MAIL.

DAILY BIZ NAIL. ".
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Entered in Keokuk postodice q secon0
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All subscription orders should give i sne
p, 3, address and state whether
new or renewal order. II change q nd nd
dress 10 desired. state both me gay So
Remit By postof,ce money order: ea s.
press money order. registered iesee
draft At our risk. ..eh
The date printed on the address q eaSn
paper notes when the suoscript'oa
ptrea. -. xS.4r M
etyinG notice of the fact
Address all communications g
THE GATE CITY COMfANy =.
No. n North Sixth St. keokuk. A0vs.
THE GATE CITY IL on sale az the ~
Hotel Keokuk. cor Third and Jonns s
q a Rollins & Co., 62s Main 49,
Ward Bros. 525 Main street.
Ospoe News Stand.
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Keokuk, Iowa ......... July %, 1909
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Des Moines Capital has an idea
Iowa is going to see something doing
In the interurban line pretty soon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

near Logan The skeleton is thought
to be that of a buffalo, and will be left
as found until passed upon by scien-
tist.
Read The Daily Gate city. 10
cents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The Council Bluffs Nonpareii de-
clares hat by voting for higher rates
in the tariff bill. certain congressman
are making free exits for themselves
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

A Kansas paper says the way to
get the weight of piece of ice is to
multiply the length. breadth and thick
ness and divide by tairty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

The Iowa City Republican comedies
that the Smithsonian Institute may be
back OF the Roosevelt hunting trip,
but says that at this distance it reads
like butchery.