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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15

BE biggest FIRE fighting brigade
IN the world and the quaintest
and the ruggedest and the most
hedged about with that air Of ro-
nance that makes il truly worthy of in
tsrost is maintained by the United
States government. and you, the people
who pay for It. are hardly aware Of its
existence. Yet It is the greatest object
lesson OF the time, IN that it points the
way to an avoidance OF those great con-
Aagrstions that last year proved so dis
aStrous and which are at this season
reeppearing in considerable numbers.
The months OF August and September
are usually marked by frightful losses
from forest fires. Last year II people
lost their lives IN them, and the prop
erty loss was enormous. Just now the
question OF the manner in which they
may be prevented should be uppermost
in the minds OF the public In answer
60 thiH question the government Is
pointing 60 it's national forest reserves,
ever which the rangers have jurisdic-
ton a. nrsmen, and telling you that
here there were no destructive fires last
year. nor have there been any this year.
The IRE brigade has prevented them,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15

hills OF Arizona know them well. as do
the snow clad mountains of the far
north. They penetrate to the wilds of
the ruggedest Rockies and follow the
canyons down the Coast range where
they dip into the Pacific. They are
everywhere in the belt that the nation
has taken under her wing to preserve
the timber areas for the best good of
the whole people.
These men are graduate cowboys and
miners. They are accustomed to lives
close akin to those they now lead. and
the qualities and accomplishments of
their former calling are necessary to
the work of q ranger. Their bronco
must be "roped' out of the wild bunch
every morning. There is the pack to be
put on the old bell mare in such way
that it will ride properly. There u the
80 or 40 or so miles a day to be ridden,
with a bed in the open on roll of
blankets. There is the pot of black cof-
fee and the strips of bacon for food,
and no grumbling. There is solitude
and work and hardship, but these men
are born TO the life and love it as
worthy the mettle of sons of pioneers.
Through the danger season the rang
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15

NUR residence was on a corner.
1 with windows and doors on both
streets, and cars passing con-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
BEFORE AND AFTER.

The Cedar Rapids Gaz cite feels call
ed upon to say:
When one reads of such a bastard
ly crime as was committed in OF
tumwa the other night, when young
woman was brutally murdered, the
conclusion is apt to be formed that
criminals are deserving of no very
great amount of lenie ncy."
The Gazette's conclusion is logical
and incontrovertible but it does not
track with the utterances of that pa
per in defense of Warden Sanders
management of tie Fort Madison pen
itentiary. Most of the inmates of that
institution are hardened criminals and
some of them were sent there for
crimes no less brutal than that COM
mitted in OttLmwa. Yet the Ga
zette has, in previous issues, indicated
its entire willingness that such Grim
inals should be coddled and pampered
and amused as part of the regular
program following their conviction.
Why should the perpetrators of das-
tardly crimes be deserving of no great
amount of leniency before arrest
and conviction and be shown large
amount of lenienry after arrest and
conviction?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
THE BYERs BILLS.

The Iowa City Republican is out
spoken and emphatic in opposition to
the Byers bills now before the legisla-
ture. In speaking of them in a re-
cent issue it declares that with all
those bills enacted by the Republicans
into law they become Republican
measures, and as obnoxious as they
are liberal minded Republicans will
feei free to go where there is more
liberality than is now found in the
reformed and revamped Republican
party in Iowa. The -epublican adds:
No self respecting man of liberality
will stand for such un-American and
outrageous legislation. Iowa Repub-
licans rebelled against statutory pro-
hibition, which is in the form of laws
in nowise improper if majority favor
them, then what will they do when ev-
cry sense of right and justice is out
ragged by such legislation as Byers
proposes? Such legislation is an in
vitation to every liberty loving Re-
publican to get out or be kicked out.
They will not wait for kick. Such
legislation means a Democratic gov
ernor and a Democratic legislature
two years hence.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
Glorious Iowa,

Boone News: There may be dis
agreeable weather IN Iowa. There
may be years in which the products
are not as bountiful as California or
cllards yield. There may be colds and
coughs and damnable mud, and all
that. But there is no state in the
Union where good solid health is
more frequent and liberal remunera-
ton for work and investment more
sure. The residents of this prosper
GUS state have license to "cuss' the
tickle winds that blow hot and cold
within the hour, execrate the roads
which are bottomless large part of
the time. But hey have no reason
to move 70 other climes with the ex-
pectation of bettering their material
welfare or their general health. Dis
comforts are found everywhere. but
none are so harmless as those of good
old Iowa. with all her faults we
love her STILL"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
KITCHEN iNsr cToRs NEXT.

An upstate country paper says:
The Iowa legislature is presenting
bills to have commissions galore with
inspectors for all kinds of food prod
ucts. The microbe scare has surely
come to stay and 1T viii, not be sur.
prising if some of the Iowa solons
present bill to create an inspector
for kitchens, both public and private"
There could be deal worse legisla-
tier than that. And there is a fair
prospect that it will soon become an
accomplished fact. A bill was intro
duced in the legislature on Monday
which provides that the stat and local
boards of health shall compel all
bakeries. confectioneries, restaurants
and hotels and wherever food is
handled or served to provide screen
doors during fly time. 1t appro-
PIRATES $4,000 to enforce the law and
makes the fine as punishment for the
offense $40 to $780, 1t further pro-
vides that wood work shall oe oiled
and all dishes secured.
The measure is intended to bring
about greatly-needed reform. State
and national laws have already been
enacted in the interest of pure food.
1t would be entirely logical and proper
to supplement these with laws in the
interest of clean food. Clean food is
no less important and desirable than
pure food
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
Why Business Is stagnated.

Burlington Saturday Evening Post:
Business is dull in all lines. The vol
ume of business has fallen below the
normal The country is passing
through period known as Hard
Times. There are no indications of
early relief from this condition. In
saying this we are not Soicing the SEN
timents of pessimism; but we are stat
ing cold hard facts. There are reas-
ons for this condition now confront.
ing the people. The first and principal
reason is that people have been living
beyond their incomes for the past half
dozen years. Settlement day has ar
rived for this huge bill of extrava-
gance The people are now paying in
self-denial and in privation for their
wastefulness. But this is only one
item. The Panama canal is rapidly
becoming a burden. The canal ap-
pears to mean an investment of some
thing like five hundred millions. This
is about the one two-hundredth of all
the wealth in the United States. Every
person in the union is helping to pay
the canal bill. The man with an es-
tate of 5000 is paying one dollar. The
man with an estate of $4,000 is pay
ing 5000 We plunged into the canal
business without due reflection. We
can reflect while we are skimping and
paying the bill Another influence
that is not to be overlooked is the
uneasiness of the entire nation over
the future. The Roosevelt style of
government has brought the people
into condition of nervous unrest. and
this unrest threatens to become chron-
ic in the American character. We are
in the kind of stew that characterized
the French while the Bourhons We're
being thrown overheard. VIII we ever
recover the old composure? This un-
a continuation for an indefinite period
! of the Roosevelt policies-which is
and will be bad for business Another
depressing influence is the proposition
| to revise the tariff schedules. This
/ serves to retard every business fos-
tered by the tarl1I. III the tariff is 60
ing to be removed or reduced. people
will not buy yet awhile but will wait
and see. Artificial wage scales, forced
upon the public by labor organizations
have drained the country of a great
deal of its surplus wealth, this wealth
having been wasted in prodigal living
1t may require the time of many years
| of frugality and thrift to bring us back
to the condition of prosperity which
obtained in America up to and includ-
ling the high water mark of the year
1906.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

The Council Bluffs Nonpariel recently
suggested that the compulsory educa-
ton law ought to be extended so as
to apply to every farmer in the state
of Iowa. requiring him to take course
of instruction in the uses and benefits
of the King road drag Tho Waterloo
Reporter supplements this with the
thought that the provisions of the law
might also be extended to the law
makers, requiring them to take the
modicum of horse-sense usually vouch-
safed to geese when the job of "solon.
izing" is tackled. The Reporter says
In support of this idea:
Somehow there is so much to sug.
gest the Importance of it the thought
cannot be kept down that if the legis-
lators could see pet hobbies as other
people see them there would be less
notional individual inspiration in these
supposedly dignified state bodies than
there is. Reform is like charity in one
very essential characteristic. It u.s.
uaily breaks out in the wrong quarter"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
keokuk, Iowa. -. February 10, 1909.
THEY MIGHT BE WORSE.

If all the flies had stingers and If all
the dogs were cross,
II all our joys were heartaches and
our every gain was loss,
If every day were rainy or if every
day were dry,
Then would there be some slight ex.
cuse for one to sit and cry.
If all the trees were winter-killed and
all the eggs were stale,
II all the prunes were wormy and if all
our plans should fail,
II all the roads were muddy and if all
the hills were steep,
You would not be SO roundly blamed
when you sit down and weep.
But houseflies are not hornets and
most doggies do not bite;
Two-thirds of what we undertake
turns out exactly right;
The weather's mostly wholesome. half
the eggs we buy are recent
Things might be quite whole lot
worse than fully half way decent,
Strickland W. Gillian in Judge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
AS to "Patent lnsides.v

Knoxville Express: The originator
of patent insides" died in Milwaukee
the other day at the age of eighty
years. Patent insides,'' be it under
stood, arc the ready-printed pages of
crossroads papers. No genius has
yet put on the Liarket patent insides
for the human frame. but there will be
big demand for them. It's easy to
keep up a good outside appearance,
but when your insides go wrong
goodbye, joint
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
who have given him such unmistak-
able evidence of their regard.

In its latest daily health hint the
Chicago Tribune has strong and
timely word in favor of fresh air for
the sick. 1t points out that nothing is
more common than fresh air. 1t is all
pervading and provided by nature. 1t
is free to all who ill take it. We all
need it and all have to have it. The
Tribune properly and forcibly adds:
The sick need it more than the we'll
and yet there are those who think the
windows in the sickroom must be nept
closed. AS matter of fact, the one
best thing we can do for the sick is to
see to it that they have an abundance
of fresh air all the time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
Lincoln.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: There
is no hope here of saying anything
new about Lincoln, or of saying any
of the old things in new way. The
ground is we'll covered, with much of
repetition. Yet it may be good to
once again some trait of the noble
character.
Lincoln was man of ordinary clay
who rose through the temptations and
trials common to us all, to station
of extraordinary responsibility in a
time of extraordinary events and
problems, and who met and solved
every responsibility and every problem
with patience, perseverance and COM
mon sense. If he had few so-called
advantages in his boyhood and young
manhood, he had also few confusing
influences about him, and, endowed
by nature with the power to think ac-
curately and to govern himself, his
circumstances were not perhaps so
much barrier as an aid. Lincoln was
never snowy, never brilliant; he was
sober, steady His gift of speech was
perhaps the greatest danger that
menaced his career, Notwithstanding
all that it meant to him at times, for
he himself confessed that he was
tempted to rely upon it as substi-
tute for hard work.
As time goes by, and the calm
judgment of years supercedes the
petty detail, grievance and confusion
of contemporary observers, we ap-
proach that state of crystallized senti-
ment which fixes the mans true place
in history. And what is it that
distinguishes him? The commonest of
attributes, humanity. That was his
great side He was intensely human,
at every stage of his career, in every
emergency. He lived in unison with
the great brotherhood of man. 1t was
the same whether his dealings were
with the humble Or the eXalted-he
never lost sight of tle fact that the
human race was but single family
In him had the charity taught by the
lowly Nazarene become implanted. No
man to him was an enemy War had
to be. but for aim it was but hateful
though necessary, instrument for
bringing peace and human happiness
in the end. So we see him, in spite
of the advice and wishes of his own
cabinet, showing sympathy for those
whom the discipline of stern events
had doomed to punishment. 1t is not
the great deeds that mark his admin
istration that endear him to posterity
and inspire for him universal love; it
In his humanity.
The lesson of this life is twofold.
First, greatness of soul, which is the
only greatness worth while, is not
born of magic The pages of history
contain no more eloquent and con-
vincing tribute to the simple and
homely virtues of plain living and
frank conduct than t.he story of Lin
coin. Second, this greatness is not
called for alone in paths of glory or
in times of overwhelming events.
Everyday life calls for it. Lincoln
would have been Lincoln still had the
times not been such as to bring him
into the public eye He still would
have been noble soul, worthy to be
remembered and sung through the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Perry Chief: One of the trustees
of the rural school had dropped in
to take few points on the work of
the new teacher who had only recent
ly been installed. The teacher had
detailed a pupil to illustrate the inn
portance of comma at the black.
board. After observing the work for
a time the trustee gave it as his opin-
ion that it was all waste of time
and informed the teacher that the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Some time ago Rabbi Leon Harri-
sons congregation in st. Louis show
ed it's high appreciation of him and his
services by making him rabbi for life.
This was remarkable exception to
custom but it was FULLY warranted.
Now the same con, regation by un-
animous vote has increased his sal
airy from $4,000 TO $1,000. Rabbi Har-
rison has refused call to go to San
Francisco at $4,000 a year and an
other to go to New York at any salary
he cared to ma ,e, in order to remain
with the people he knows SO well and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Carriers OF interstate commerce by
water "are subject to the act to reg
ulate commerce only IN respect of
traffic transported under common
control, management or arrangement
with rail carrier" says decision
announced by Chairman Knapp of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The commission divided on the matter
of the d cision. The decision holds
that 1.-The act controls the all-rail and
the part rail and part water ranspor-
tation and leaves all other water car
rage omen to free competition
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

The st. Louis Globe Democrat re
marks that
ut is wise politician who can tell
In advance whether senatorial pri-
mary is to be obligatory. advisory, adj
monitory or prohihitory"
The problem seems to be largely one
of geography In Iowa the senatorial
primary is generally regarded as oblig-
atory; in Missouri as advisory and
in Illinois as prohibito-y The poll
tician who would solve the problem
must first get his latitude and longi-
tude.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
Loyalty to Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: An Iowan
who las spent several weeks in Cali
fornia and returned to the Hawkeye
state in time to enjoy" last weeks
blizzard, says he prefers Iowa winters
to the California kind. He doesn't
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

boys time could be used to better
advantage "figurin' an writin'. ,
Whereupon the boy wrote the follow
ing on the blackboard: "The trustee
says the teacher is a jackass." The
visitors joy, however, was soon turn
ed to grief when Johnnie inserted his
commas: "rho trustee, says the
teacher, is a jackass.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
like the coast state weather litt,.
bit. That's loyalty to Iowa, all right
State Hotel Suggested.

Atlantic News: The state would
make money by establishing hotel
at Des Moines at which all state Of,
ficers who charge their hotel bills to
the state would be compelled to stop
That 1t would do a good business is
apparent from a reading of the hotel
bills as given n the statement of ex.
penses as published by the executive
council.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Samuel Sallee, Bell township farm
er, Kansas, who died last week, was
the father of six living children and
100 living grandchildren. In all he
was the father of ten children, four
of them now being dead. Of the
grandchildren, forty-five are of the
third generation, sixty-one are great
grandchildren and three are great
great grandchildren.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
Next.

Burlington Gazette: With Nebraska
fixing the length of bed sheets and
Oregon that Of hat pins, it's up to
some unregenerate state to limit the
length of sermons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

A dispatch announce; that 1.-The
beef trust is to be put on the grill.
Maybe in course of time it will be pos
sible for the average c.tzen to put
some beef on the same thing without
flirting with bankruptcy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
GREAT LINCOLN CLASSIC
Address Delivered at the Dedication OF Nation
al Cemetery on the Battle Field OF
Gettysburg, Nov. 10, 1868
CLASSIC
G, Nov. 10, 1868.

Four score detract The
nen nation
dedicated
hat all be ded
testing whether fought
can long dedicated
battle
dedicate
field
their
of
this
of
living people
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

An explorer says: Beware of
stimulants in Africa" 1t is also
good idea to beware of them in
Europe, Asia, North and South Amer
lea, Australia and the Islands of the
Sea.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Bedford, O., has lost it's oldest resi-
dent, James Fuller, who 101 years
old. At the last national election the
old man, who had been eighty yeas
voter, was taken to the polls by the
mayor, and cast his ballot for Mr..
Taft, the twentieth President for
whom he had voted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

terra in milk, including those which
form Tactic acid, and thereby the
milk SO treated is not only rendered
bacteriologically pure but is deprived
of the elements which turn it sour, and
will remain sweet for seve i days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

The bill in thu Oregon legislature
limiting the leng' o. hat pins to ten
inches MIST have been introduced by
some member who has been stuck.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Billy Possum has succeeded the
Teddy Bear and in few more weeks
TIE new broom will take the place of
the big stick
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Turn the public schools to techni-
cal training and agriculture, and their
value will be quadrrpled," says the
Iowa City Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

The Chicago Tribune concludes that
if Hero Binns, on salary of ~ a
week, refused an offer OF $1,000 a
week from dime museum manager,
he is indeed a hero.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

An electric locomotive he Dis the
mile record having covered that dis
lance in twenty-seven seconds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

Prohibition was defeated in Texas.
Texas is the home of the tarantula.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10
NOTES AND COMMENT.

A Virginia paper says 100000 peo-
pie in that state are deprived of ru-
raj free delivery by bad roads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-10

According to the Chicago Tribune,
the name of Mr. Gmelich, the new
lieutenant governor of Missouri, is
pronounced as If the &c" were away
attending to its regular alphabetical
duties elsewhere.
She frowned at him and called him
Mr..
Merely because he anne and kr.
That very night, just her to spite,
That naughty Mr.. Kr. Sr.
Current Literature.
The fact that SO many women or
the United states go abroad without
their husbands has been much COM
mented upon in Europe. The queen
of Italv is said to have refused to re-
ceive any woman travelling In her
country Who is not accompanied by
her husband.
Senator Lodge refers to the "enor-
nous. unappreciated" work OF the
late senator Allison stretching over
thirty-six years. The ST. Louis Globe
Democrat declares that "Mr. Lodge
is mistaken as to the appreciation. 1t
has long beer general among intelli-
gent Americans
DR.. c. C. Carroll declared at the
annual banque, of the Medico-Legal
society that no .rization OF milk be-
tween electrode through which cur.
rent of enormous alternating velocity
is passing is the only process that ut
terly destroys all the unhealthy bac-