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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

G., B. & @. Railway GO.
Trains leave from Union Depot.
Berths and tickets, Fifth and John.
son streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

between life and death Friday, is con-
siderable better.
Mrs. John McClary of Keokuk visit
ed with her relatives here last week.
National Montrose canning plant is
canning sweet potatoes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-26

Rev. Throw conducted the Harvest
home at the Presbyterian church Sun
day evening.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
LOVES LITTLE TRAGEDY

Daughter" said Stoxanbons, an
anxious tone coming into his voice, as
he led his only child to a seat, tel
me, was not young Seekem here last
night?''
"He was. father Why do you ask?"
Words passed between you?"
Yes. father A mere spat, hardly
quarrel. Why do you ask? Has any
thing happened?"
Am | to understand daughter. that
lie broached the question of marriage?'
The expression of alarm on the girls
face deepened. Yes, he proposed
she answered quickly. "Oh, father,
has anything happened? For mercy's
sake, don't keep me in suspense! If
he has"
what reply made you, daughter, to
this proposal? Did you accept?'
The girl moaned mo, father. I did
not. I did not feel that l could in JUS
tice to him. But why torture me thus?
Has his body been--''
The parents face hardened. "Tell
mel" he persisted. Did you give him
any encoura gement?'
ooh. / don't know, I don't KNOW
murmured the girl distressed. HAS
he drowned himself"
You refused him, absolutely and
positively?"
The girl shuddered. Heaven help
me, Sne Sdlu, l dlu! ne thIedleHeu
to end it all; but I didn't believe he
would And so this is the result! Oh
isn't it awful?"
1T is" assented the father. 81 sus-
pected that you had finally dismissed
him when the news of what he had
done came to me today"
Father" murmured the unhappy
girl. "shall I be held to account for
this awful thing?"
81 think not You weren't obliged to
marry him just because he asked you"
But tell me. father, what has hap
pened? Tell me! I have strength to
bear it,"
He has gone to work" said the old
man, as he turned away.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
THE REAL QUESTION
BY Genrpe Fitch

BY George Fitch
What do we care for little things, like
presidents and wars and kings;
Or tariff agitati0ns the rising price OF
wheat?
What do we care if Hartman grabs rail-
roads everywhere he can
Or If Japan Is laying plans to dessicate
our fleet
Night riders may go raging DER Kentucky,
leaving trails of gore;
"SaiOme" may make our preachers writhe
with horror and with pain
But we are through discussing these; they
are not even One-twO-threes,
For waiting time Is over and baseball is
here again.
VIII Jones come back and join the SOx?
viii C0valeski earn his rocks?
VIII Rube Waddell use spit balls or the
same old highball brand?
VIII Chances Cubs c0ntrive to eat another
meal of Tiger meat?
VIII Honos Wagner lead once more the
heavy swattng band:
These are the questions, grave and great
that rock each city and each state;
And keep us reading sporting sheets with
all our might and main.
Enough of wars and politics; these brands
of dope will never mix;
There's just one thing worth talking since
baseball is here again.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE

Women there earth, most sweet and
high,
Who lose their own, and walk bereft and
lonely,
Loving that one lost heart until they die,
Loving it only.
And so they never see beside tfem grow
Children. whose coming is like breath of
flowers;
Ccnsoled by subtle loves the angels know
Through chdess hours.
Good deeds they do; they comfort and they
bless
In duties others put off till the morrow
Their look is balm, their touch Is tenderness
To all in sorrow
Betmes the world smiles at them t were
shame.
This maiden guise, long after youths de-
parted
But in Gods book they bear another name
THE faithful-hearted."
Faithful in life, and faithful unto death,
Such souls, in sooth llumine with lustre
splendid
That glimpse, glad land where the vision saith
Earth's wrongs ended.
Richard Burton in Century.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
THE WAY TO SAVE

Sir Thomas Upton told me he is
going to take to flying irstead of
yachting" said a member of the Aero
club in New York He says the air
is cheaper than the water.
He said in his jovial way that he
liked to save. even in the matter of
sports. He sad he was rather like the
old fellow in the smoking car.
Crossing the plains in a smoking
car an old fellow and young one
sat side by side. After some foI's of
travel they fell into friendly talk, and
finally the old fellow filed his p'pe
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05

from big pouch and lit up.
The young man took out his own
pipe.
"'Would you kindly oblige me with
match?' he said
THE cd man gave him match, and
the young man began to search his
pockets.
The deuce" he slid. with sheep
ish smile. I haven't got my tobacco
with me-
Then You won't need the match
said the old fellow, ami reaching out
his hand he took it and replaced it in
his box"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
SHOULD BE TAM E

Great onions! But this is a fierce cigar"
warmly exclaimed the touring motorst who
had bought and lit the weed in a crossroad's $
store.
"Fierce? Now. I can't understand that,
said the storekeeper in surprise; 1.-The drum
real domesticr'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
Getting Popular

An Aztec soaked a Chinaman
With a shovel, and small charity;
The more of them he soaks the more
He'll gain In popularity.
Houston Daily Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-05
THE BETTER WORD

He speaks of his immediate family
"Yes he married a widow with seven
children"
instantaneous would be a better
word"
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-04
Prescott Hardware Company
 East Elm Street In the big ding

panied by a corresponding reduc- tion in the donations to the state from the Peabody fund.
 New interest has been aroused among educators by the an- nouncement that the Peabody trust is to be closed, and the original distributed among the several states of the south. Such a course has been under cOnsid- eratiOn for many years, but the final distribution hascc been post pOned for various reasons The date of this final distribution is now dependent upon the action that the legislature of the state of Tennessee may take upon a proposition submitted by the trustees of the Peabody fund.
 The original fund Of S2,OOO,- GOO is still intact only the income from this amount having been disbused. and it is now propOs- ed by the trustees to give S1 ,OOO, GOO of this amount to the Pea body Normal School of Nashville Tenn, on condition that the state of Tennessee appropriate $250.OOO. At the last session Of the legislature of Tennessee an appropriation of S5O,OOO was made and it was provided that additional appropriations Of S5O,- GOO be made at each succeed ing session Of the Legislature un- til the required %25O,0O0 was ap- propriated The trustees of the Peabody fund refused to accept this proposition and an effort is to b2 made at the next session ot the legislature to secure the appropriation of S25OOO0 in a lump sum IT this IS done. the Peabody fund will be distributed. S10OO,OOO being given to the Peabody Normal and the re- mainder being distributed a. mOng the various states of the South.-Little Rock Gazette.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-04
A FOX CHASE.

Being no mindreader, stretch ed myself over the hide of a bronco that was stuffed with Hades and the freaks Of Mount Pelee and started in the chase. 1 knew from the yelping of the dogs that 1 would soon be on a cold trail unless I could move at a swift gait.
 Some broncos have all kinds of gaits, but l soon found that this one had but one and it had no hinges to it. To look at this pale faced beast while he was not in action would bring pity to your soul. He had one dreamy glass eye with a few freckles on it that oozed enough mois- ture to soften the heart of trust while the other seemed to be a. bout two sizes too large for it's socket and was sprung a little which gave him the appearance of looking at his nose. When he
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-04
LITTLE AID FROM
 PEABODY FUND
The Receipts for Schools from this
 Source Gradually Diminishing.

There are probably few great bt nefactions regarding which there is less general knowledge among the people than the Pea body Education Fund which has been a great factor in the pro- motion of education in the South The majority Of educators are more or less familiar with the matter, but the average layman has little ,dea Of what the Pea body Education Fund is or what it has done for the cause Of edu- cation n the South
 Arkansas has shared with the other Southern states, in the benefits which have resulted from the administration of this fund but during the past few years the aid which Arkansas has received from that source has gradually diminished until at present it has been practical ly cut off altogether. The reason for this condition of affairs is the fact that the state has fail ed to do what the Board of Trus- tees of the Peabody fund regards as it's share towards the sup port Of the educational work for which the income from the Peabody fund is now being eX- pended The trustees of this fund have followed the policy of help ing those states which help them selves and have graded their dO- nations in accordance with the
 amount the states are willing to appropriate for the same purpose. For many years Arkan- sas fared well in the distribu- tion of this fund but this it is claimed was due to the fact that the state showed a liberal spir- it in making appropriations for the support of the articular lines of work fostered by the Peabody fund. The cutting down of these appropriations has been accom-
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-04

stood he kept his feet braced in front of him and kept up a swaying motion, back and forth like a penitent on the anxious seat,
 While was getting in the sad de and feeling around for one of the stirrups with my foot, heard him shuffling the bits be- tween his teeth. Then of a sud- den he came down on them with a firmness of a steel trap and bounded forth into space, leav- ing my hat and few, cuss words behind. The only object he seem ed to have in view was to leave this earth and as much of me behind as possible.
 We climbed fences and trees for a'couple of hours, and as my ears scraped the branches of the tall trees. I could hear a ring ing sound, like the hum of a cir cular saw when it leaves a sea soned oak plank. We looped the | loop and somewhere in the loop my bronco got grapevine tang led around one of jhis hind feet and when we came down in the middle of a cotton field with our streamers unfurled to the breeze it took only five seconds to decrease the acreage and make cotton go up.
 l held on to tthe pOmmel of the Saddle-al l had left to hold to l remember hearing a hissing sound like the air brakes make when a train is slowing up at a station, then all was stiffness -"nOthing doing" except now and then 1 could see locks of cotton coming down
 | have come to the conclusion that the sound of the hunt sman'S horn is a snare and a delusion henceforth 1 have decided to be less foxy.
 JOHN TWEEZER
The Prescott daily news., 1909-01-04
READ THIS.

Prescott, Ark, Dec. 12.-This certifies l have been selling Halls Texas Wonder for years and I re- commend it as the best kid ney, bladder and rheumatic medi- cine l have ever sold Hesterly Drug Store.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03

If you want to sell your house. lot
or farm. list it with W. D. Hodgson,
Fargo, N, D..
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03
PART THE IMPLEMENT PLAYED
in MAKING CIVILIZATION
No Power Has Been So Great IN Lifting the World Out Of the
Bread Line as the Modern Farm implement, Says Prof.
Rose IN Address Before Convention

the development OF farm machinery
that this has been possible
In 1880 there were few machines
for use on the farm. There, were no
good plows until 1850 and there has
been no greater factor. or / might as
well say as great a one, in the de-
velopment OF the west as the plow.
The pIow as it is now known has
been the means OF making the west
inhabitable.
THE next greatest factor In the
development of this country was the
invention OF the reaper. 1t was in
1888 that Hussy conceived the idea of
q series OF knives working through
stationary fingers or what we know
as the sickle bar. The invention of
his knife made the great western grain
fields possible.
Social Changes Wrought.
These inventions have wrought
great social changes and the inventors
have been great benefactors to the
human race. What statesmen and
soldiers have done for the people is
nothing compared to what has been
done by these inventors and the men
who have put them on the comnercial
market so that the farmer could get
them and use them. And you, gentle
men, are part of this great agent
for human good
''In 1850 the first corn planter was
invented. Last year this country
raised 100,o00,000 acres of corn. which
If it had not been for the corn planter
it would have been hard work to have
raised 100000 acres.
THE gas engine which has become
another great factor in machine de-
yelopment was invented in 1880 and
consider that the period between
1S40 and 1880 was the golden age In
the development of farm Implements .
In closing Professor Rose recited a
part Of Edwin Markham's poem, The
Man With the Hoe, setting forth the
sloped shouldered, brutal jawed
Brother to the OK" peasant of France,
as the bard saw II in the great paint,
ing.
Conditions have changed since that
time" said the speaker 1--WE have no
man with the hoe. We have the agri-
culturalist and the farmer. The sIop-
ing shoulders, the receding forehead
and the brutal jaw are gone and we
have straight, intelligent men
What has been the cause OF this
great change? I believe It TO be due
largely to the Improvement in farm
machinery which has made him king
as God has intended he should be.
TT has been the inventors of farm
machines who have done more in
making this great change than all the
statesmen, preachers, teachers or SOL
diers together"
Professor Rose was introduced by
President Mcintosh OF the associa-
tion, who made a short talk to the
| delegates present. of whom there were
about 150
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03
Last can

On women's Tailored Suits. None
Reserved; all go at just Half Price
this week only, at A. L. Moody's.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03
MAY NOT RESIST
Big DRAIN LEVY
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
LEADS CITY ATTORNEY TO BE-
LIsVE $4,000 APPoq. TIoNMENT
is REGULAR AND THAT CITY Is
GREATLY BENEFITED.

Tint there is little likelihood that
tho city viii rsslEt the payment Of the
su1n levied against 1t by the drainage
commission for the cost of construct
ing the big slough drain In the latest
development In that case. When t.
was first learned that OF the $23,500
to be raised by bond issa9 to defray
the expense of putting in the big drain,
the city would be called upon to pay
something more than $4,000, at it's
appc9 ttonmsut, there was belief that
probably the municipality was getting
the worst Of the deal and that 1t be-
hoovsd the city attorney to resist the
levy In the courts if 1t were found
the apportionmsnt not only was legal,
but that the city has received more
than $4,000 worth Of benefits from
the drain.
'Ts IT were found that the proceed
ipgs OF the meeting at which the ap-
portionment was made were not regu-
lar said City Attorney Resser, this
morning, there would be cause for
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03
,eaistine the nayrnent Of the levy.

resisting the payment of the levy. /
have looked into the matter little and
have found that the meeting held q
decade ago appears to have been regu.
lar Due notice had been sent to the
parts interested to appear and register
protests. A committee from the city
council met with the drainage commits
sion. So far as can ascertain not a
siI.Tle protest was made, either by the
city or the property owners affected.
Furthermore, am inclined to be-
lisve that the city has received moro
than $4,000 worth of benefit from the
drain. Before II was constructed
Fargo had to maintain two bridges
across the slough. This entailed cor
siderable expense. The sloagh bred
disease. Immunity from disease alone
probably has been worth the $4,000
which represents the city's share OF
the apportienment. ..u 4
IF it is found, upon further inves
tigatlon. that the apportionment is no:
equitable the bond issue contemplated
by the commissioners can be interfered
with. However even II the city does
not In this particular time resist the
levy it is not prevented from doing SO
at some future time. provided there is
cause" r.. f.. 3D..
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03
WHAT THE IMPLE LEMENT
HAS DONE;

We have no man with the hoe.
NO force has been % great in
lifting the world out Of the bread
line as the farm implement
Statesmen, preachers, teachers
or soldiers have never done as
much for humanity and clviliza-
ton as the implement inventor.
History has been strangely lack
ing in recording the deeds OF the
inventors.
The good plow has done more
in developing the west than any
other agency. The reaper stands
second in the winning of the west.
The golden age in the develop
ment Of farm machinery was be-
tween the years 1s40 and 1880.
These are a few of the best
points brought out in the address
of Prof. p. S. Rose OF the agrf-
cultural college before the imple-
ment dealers of North Dakota and
northwestern Minnesota at the
commercial club last night.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03
jamestown man
GIVES REASONS
FREDERICK N. WILD ENDORSES
PROPOSAL OF BOSTON WOMAN
TO BRING OUT CARLOAD OF
BACK BAY MAIDENs TO NORTH
DAKOTA AND TELLS WHY.

Frederick Nelson Wild OF James
town. addresses a letter Of inquiry to
The Forum relative to the threat
made several weeks ago by Miss Anna
Hutchins Connaughton of Boston,
that she very shortly will personally
conduct carload OF Back Bay maid
ems to this state. object matrimony.
Wild, judging from the tenor Of his
letter, has given the matter much
thought and has come TO the con-
clusion that the suggestion Of Miss
Anna Hutchins Connaughton Of Bos-
ton is a very laudable one, indeed.
He agrees with the Boston clubwonlan
that women are very scarce In the
west, and particularly in North Da-
kota, and deplores this sad condition
for several hundred words. His let
ter follows:
Editor The Forum: see by the
papers that a woman--Pll take a
short cut to her name--a Miss Con-
naughton, briefly. is going to run a
bunch Of females out to this state
I hope she makes her threat stick, FOR
when she does, count me as one who
will yell Encore.
Not that I've got any Mormon
proclivities Mr.. Editor. but because,
IL happened to grab q peach in the
first bunch, would want other lonely
parties 20 enjoy some marital bliss,
too. All married men are that way
they want somebody else to get mar
ried. don't know whether it's be-
cause they're really happy or because
misery loves company Still, I'm will
Ing to take a chance and find out
what's the reason.
Mr.. Editor. It surely is a plumb
unsatisfactory condition OF AFFAIRS
when laundries rip chunks out of your
shirts and underclothing and tear of
all the essential buttons. who Is
there to repair the rips and sew on
the buttons when you haven't got a
wife or mother. or nothing refined
but some taicum powder? Nobody.
You've got to- use pins, and IL you do
use aena on your a5amas, when YOU
roll over IN your sleep they stick you
and wake you up When yeur big
toe poixes holes through your socks
you've got to change the sock on your
right foot to yonr left foot. Pretty
soon there isn't any use to change
am at ALL except when you bury new
ones. These arc sufflcient reasons
why Miss Ccnnau lton ought to make
good"
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-02-03

Last evenings session of the Imple-
to the address by Prof e. s. Rose OF
the A. c. He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
THE great advancement in the de-
velopment of the farm implement has
been made within the last hundred
years and until the last few years
there was no necessity for implement
mems associations. Prior to that
time the ground was titled by the
crooked stick or wooden plow and the
narrowing was done by trees or with
wooden tooth harrows.
With the invention Of the steam
engine by James Watt, a new force
entered the arena. 1t was found that
this was a cheap power and could be
transported from place to place,
whereas, prior to its advent the only
power was that Of water which could
only be secured in certain localities.
Steam Engine Made Farms Pay.
with this invention came a de-
nnad for machines to which this new
power could be applied. and rapid de-
velopment was made nlong the lines
of textile machines. Mills for the
making Of cloth became numerous and
there was a great demand for the raw
material. The demand for labor TO
work in the factories and for men to
raise the raw material became great
and 1t was at this time that for the
first time in the history OF the world,
labor received good wages and farms
began to pay The demand for food
increased and this demand cause men
to think how greater crops could be
raised and harvested and the result
was the first inventions in farm ma
chimes.
"A man by the name Of Brown in
England started to manufacture a
reaper which had been invented. II
was tried out in the fields and when
the farm laborers saw that Il would
work they went to Brown and said
that If he did not discontinue the
manufacture OF the machines they
would kill him and consequently he
did not make any more and the reap
er was set back many years in its
development
However, social conditions were
different in this country and as a
all OF the greatest farm implements.
Had 1t not been for the social condi-
tions of Europe there is little doubt
but that country would have been the
home Of the great inventions.
Metal PIow Won the West,
Early in 1900, Jethro Wood
and Charles Newbold invented the
cast iron plow which was the
first metal plow ever made and It was
not until 1850 that really good plow
was made. History has made a great
mistake in not recording more o. the
men who made these really greet In
ventions. 1t has paid at:c prin-
cipally to the men who have destroy
ed life and little to the men who have
helped other men to live.
up to the time of the invention
OF the farm machines. the rulers OF
the world paid very little attention tc
the lives Of their people and the thing
| that makes America great at the pres
ent time is that 1t gives the people
plenty to eat and it has been through