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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
PresbYterian.

First Presbyterian church, corner Of
South Temple and streets; Rev. VIII
liam NJ. Paden, ID. D.. pastOr-MOrning
services at II o'clock. Or. Hall of
New York city will speak on the mis-
siOnsry work of the Presbyterian
church. Evening services at 7:45
o'clock. Topic, Doctor Livingstone" by
the pas tor. Sunday school at u 80 d. IN.
Young Peoples meeting on Sunday
night at O'Clock. Mid-week services
on Wednesday evening. Teachers
meeting at 80. Prayer and confer
ence at s p. M. Everybody cordially
invited TO ali these services.
Third Presbyterian church. corner of
Eleventh East and Eleventh South
streets Sugar House cars); Herbert E.
Hays, pastor; c. G. SpOOner, superin-
tendent of Sunday schOOI.-SeTVices on
Sunday as follows: Preaching service
at II a. N. Subject, "Christ's Teach
ing Regarding the Holy Spirit" Preach
ing service at 1880 p. IN. Subject, "A
Logical Outcome" Sunday school at
1915 p. m. Christian EndeavOr at 6 80
D IN Topic. Doubling" Prayer meet
Gillian viii lead. A cordial welcome
to all services.
Westminster Presbyterian church. in
the l. o. O. h. hall. POstOffice place;
Charles Curtis Mcintire. pastor-Morn-
ing worship at II o'clock. Sermon.
Come Ye out From Among Them"
Evening service at 1880. Rev. Ernest
A. Hall, four years in Korea, present
field secretary of the western district
for foreign missions, will speak. Sun
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17

Norwegian Danish Methodist EpiscO-
pal church, 523 South Fourth East
street; II. ! Hansen, pastor-Sunday
school at 80 p. N. Preaching at 2:15
p. m. All Scandinavian people most
cordially invited
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
THE DISAPPEARING NEGRO.

The negro is dying Cloak the mat
ter as he may, that is the fact which
Judge Harris Dickson brings clearly
before every reader of an article, of
which this expert is the author. IN the
October number of Hampton's Mag
azine- He esents the opinions of
physicians and he gathers together Wit
al statistics until this conclusion is
inevitable. Judge Dickon writes:
Forty years ago the negro was the
healthiest man in America. Today he
is the weakest, most predisposed to
disease, the man with the least resis-
tive power Heredity and the white
mans regulations made him what he
was in IS; heredity and the negro
mode of life make him what he is to-
day
Before the war the great mass OF
negroes-as they are today-were
agricultural laborers Their masters
prescribed hours of toll and rest, pro-
vided homes and overlooked their
amusements. Irrespective of any
humane motive, the masters selfish
interest demanded the best possible
care of his property.
THE planters had received from At
RIGA horde of barbarians, who had
no idea of hygiene, sanitation, or med
icine. The planter took this stock
and made a healthy race in a new
land. His system was simple; he en-
forced the primary laws of health.
Every plantation constituted a sep
arate community. The will of the
planter was the supreme law. He
located his slave quarters on the
healthiest spot of his plantation, laid
them out in the form of little vii
lage, with separate houses, yards, and
gardens for each family. There was
good water and good drainage. Space
and air were cheap; every negro had
plenty of both and the overcrowding
of cabins was never permitted. When
a family became too large for one
cabin, another was assigned. Each
cabin had its open fireplace, the best
of ventilation, and an ample supply OF
fuel
Conditions since the negro was Civ
en- his freedom have changed. The
race was permitted to develop, or
rather degenerate willy-nilly. The
results are not what the abolitionists
expected. Judge Dickson does not
aim to defend or idealize slavery. Far
4 from It. But the regular, well-govern-
ed life, he writes, proved vital in build.
4 ing up a race of strong parents and
healthy children. The negro, in 1860
was a near-perfect specimen of phys
ical man, while 'in the south today
the negro lives where he pleases, and
/ in sucn manner as suits him best. The
plantation quarters are not laid OFT
as formerly, the cabins are scattered
often without regard to sanitation OF
4 water No efficient supervision is ex
ercised over the negros care of his
cabin. He is VIGOROUSLY unclean. His
home is rarely whitewashed or disin
fected In the rural districts the
blacks have nothing like the medica
attention and care that was formerly
bestowed upon them. Negroes dearl,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

love medicine; all kinds of YARDS and
teas and connections, They delight in
dosing themselves with patent nos
trums. all manner of home cures and
conju-charms'
Mr.. Dickson says that the deadliest
enemy of the negro is tuberculosis
but 1t is new enemy. Old-time
southern physicians are almost unani-
nous In the opinion that before the
war tuberculosis was less frequent
among the negroes than the whites.
Some of them mention it as exceeding
rare-many insisting that the black
man was practically immune to the
white plague
After the war the negro's environ.
ment changed. he was free to do as
he pleased. There was an immediate
increase of all the Old diseases. the
acquisition of new ones, and a few
inventions. His birth-rate dropped;
his death-rate went skyward. The
process OF deterioration began at
once.
One reason why the negro is in the
grip of death is that for the last thirty
Years he has shown tendency to
abandon the field and flock to the
pavement. He cannot resist the gas
light, the brass band, and the street
fakir.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
GIRLS ON the sTREETs.

Almost every evening the doorway
recesses on Third and other down town
streets are the rendesvouz of young
girls in short dresses who If not al
ready on the downward road will soon
be beyond all hopes of redemption.
What parents can be thinking about
to permit their children to run the
streets at night and become the as
sociates of evil companions is beyond
the power OF any one to explain sat
isfactorily As their natural guardians
seem utterly unconcerned about them.
il is up 10 the municipality to exercise
the restraint that should be exercised
at home There Is city ordinance
which forbids the thing here com
planned of and the peace officers of
the city should proceed at once TO en-
force it to the letter. If they fail to
do so they cannot be held wholly
guiltless of the deplorable conse-
Quences that are sure to follow. Every
young girl found lettering about door
ways down town or hiding in dark
an officer and warned to stay there.
If the offense is repeated she should
be arrested and fined under the ordi-
nance made and provided for just
such cases. The police force should
not need to be called upon second
time to perform their plain duty in
this matter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
SOME MOTOR CAR figures.

1t is estimated that $40, 000. 900 will
be invested in motor cars in the Unit
ed States next year. A trade authori-
ty says that there will be 200, 900 cars
sold at an average price of $1,000
The number of cars to be sold is not
more significant of the DEVELOPMENT
of motoring than is the average price
Taking the high-priced cars into con.
sideration, it must mean that tens OF
thousands of cars will be sold at a
figure under $1,000. This means that
the perfection of motor car produc-
ton has proceeded to the point where
manufacture is possible at a cost
within the reach of persons of ordi
nary means
With these statistics as basis the
Boston Herald figures out that one
family in every forty in the country
Will have motor car next year; there
will be one car to every 200 of the
population, and this estimate will not
include the retention of old cars in
service. Equally significant, as thS
same paper points out, is the estimate
that 5000 business cars will be built
for next years trade The number
looks small in comparison with antic-
ipations of pleasure cars. but the
business car is not subject to such
variations in style and the fancy of
the owner as is the pleasure vehicle.
and average a longer life. But small
percentage of the 5000 business cars
TO be built will retire cars now in use.
The figures indicate practically alb
solute increase of motor car use in
business. Figures of this sort mark
the advent of the motor car as a
necessity Communities must adjust
themselves to the fact.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
II He Should Buy Farm Lands.

Webster City Herald: If Rockefel-
Ter should conclude to put his wealth
into farms at SIS per acre, did it ever
occur TO you what a tract ne could
buy? 1t would be 102 miles wide by
100 miles long and could take in Black
hawk, Grundy, Hardin, Hamilton,
Webster. Humbolt. Kossuth, Win.
nebago, Hancock Wright, Franklin,
Cerro Gordo, Worth. Mitchell, Ford,
Bremen, Chickasaw and Howard, some
nineteen counties in ali. And for
what the cities occupy. another would
have to be thrown in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Eggs at Seventy Cents.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
New York Herald prints the predic-
ton that eggs may go to seventy cents
in that city before Christmas. That
will mean no eggs for majority of
the people, the vast majority. Eggs
at six cents apiece, good. bad and in
different is prohibitive price. The
hen that lays 200 eggs in a season
will produce an income of So, or about
twenty-four times its own value in
dollars and cents. Even the predic.
ton of such prices ought to suggest
to people the idea of going into the
egg and poultry business. On the
farms fifty or hundred hens would
support a family in comfort and in
abundance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
The ncARp oE THANKS

Notwithstanding all that has been
said against it in recent years, the
card of thanks" continues to appear
in the newspapers. Time and again it
has been pointed out that this method
of expressing appreciation of acts of
kindness during the greatest griefs
we are called upon to bear is viola
ton of the finer sense of gond taste,
but the good counsel thus rendered
seems to have fallen on deaf ears
The newspapers which protest against
the practice cannot be accused of mo-
tives of self-interest, as it is the rule
to charge full reading matter rates for
all such notices. In waging a cam
paign against the card of thanks" the
newspapers strike at one of their
sources of revenue They would rath-
er deny themselves financial gain
than make the judicious grieve, as
they invariably do when such an
acknowledgement appears in the pub
lie print. There is the less excuse
for such publication in view of the
fact that there is a method by which
expression of appreciation may be
voiced in way that is immeasurablv
superior. A little note of thanks adj
dressed privately to those who have
given their sympathy and encourage
ment. or a few spoken words, give an
Intimate and personal touch of graft.
tude utterly lacking in a printed par
agraph in a newspaper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Attorney General Byers has Just
ruled that county treasurers who can
not secure per cent interest on their
daily balances from banks in county
seat towns should hunt up banks
which will pay the interest as requir-
ed by law 1t appears that since the
new law went into effect requiring
county treasurers to deposit public
funds in banks at interest of 2 per
cent on daily balances a number Of
treasurers and county attorneys have
asked the attorney general what TO do
in case the banks in the county seat
towns refuse to pay the interest. Mr..
Byers holds that the treasurer must
take his funds to another town, whose
banks viii pay the required rate of
interest
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Iona Life to the Steamboats,.

Davenport Democrat: Again the
obituary of the raft boat is being writ
ten, as the half dozen that have been
plotting their lows down the river the
present season are led off to winter
quarters. For lack of forestry policy
that could protect the white pine for
ests of the upper reaches of the Mis-
sissippi. in the days when the ak was
laid to them, the lumber industry of
the valley had to go. And the raft
boat has gone with it.
There still remain the packet lines,
however, the last barrier against the
argument of the pessimist that he
river has seen its best days and will
never carry a commerce that is worth
improving. For what they stand for,
the packet lines deserve the encour-
agement of every city along the banks
Of the river. They bring trade to
the cities. carry certain amount of
freight at low cost, and help to level
the rates on all the freight that they
do not carry.
The river needs more boats. but a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Ezra and Rufus.

We're in great commotion down to
Pohick on the crick.
We tried to do the proper thing, but
fate has played a trick
That leaves us in confusion, Ezra
Spinks an Rufus Lee,
They went out a-explorin' fur to find
a possum tree
Ezra borrowed several lanterns, dogs
an similar supplies,
An had great farewell when he set
out to win the prize
But Rufus, he snuck out alone an, fus
as We could see.
He didn't even stand chance to fin
ish one, two, three.
We'd most forgotten EN- when Rufus
came in out O breath,
With Ezra steamin after him like he
was scared to death.
Congratulate me-" Rufus says. i've
found that possum tree,"
An Ezra says: "Shet up, The one
that seen 1t fust is me-"
We cried "Hooray for Rufust" which
made Ezra want to fight.
Then We says 'Hooray for Ezra"
which riled Rufus out O. sight
And, as all thet we could think Of
was that useful word "hooray."
We stood around. embarrassed. not
jes' KNOWN what to say.
Then oil Joe Struthers, he spoke up as
follers: Pears to me
You're maxim an unusual fuss about
that possum tree.
When you go out explorin'. the inn
portance of yer find
Is measured by the nelp that 1t kin be
10 human kind.
My Judgment isn't warped by either
prejudice or fears,
The one that brought the possum
homes the one that gifts my
cheers"
But there warn't nary possum. An
all went home ag'in,
Exceptin Spinks an Lee. They staid
an kept on arguin'.
Washington Star.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Is This the Top in Iowa7

Stanwood Herald: Land in Cedar
county reached the top notch last
week when VIM. Abbott of Martins
burgh, Iowa. purchased the A. ]. Bo-
ling farm joining town on the north,
for few cents less than $3.50 per acre.
As far as we are able to learn this is
the top for land In Iowa, It certainly
is mighty good price, and has caused
no little comment. 1t only goes to
prove that Cedar county and Fremont
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

In sermon on "Methodism in the
West" preached in Centenary South
ern Methodist church in ST. Louis, last
Sunday, Presiding Elder S. H. Vain
wright told of John Wesley's zeal trav-
cling 100000 miles when there were
no railroads, and preaching on 10000
different occasions He spoke warm
" in praise of the itinerant system,
saying that the good resulting from 1t
far outweighs its fnconveniences. 1t
continues" he added, "to be the trust
ed agency of Methodism for the spread
of the Gospel and building up of pas
torates. Methodism believes that a
preacher should have no abiding city
here; that he should not entangle him
self with local trammels; that by the
cross he should be crucified to the
world, and that world to him"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The Springfield Register of last
Sunday was state fair edition Of
seventy-two well-filled pages. The
Register promised that its special num-
Der in honor of the fair would be some
thing out of the ordinary, and it raised
no expectations it has not fulfilled
The edition is the greatest both in
quantity and quality ever issued in
tae Illinois capital and reflects the
highest credit upon all concerned IN
its production. Sixteen pages of fine
book paper are used exclusively for
the printing of attractive engravings
and fifty-two pages are devoted to To-
cal and telegraph news. The latter
are also illustrated The number con
tanned over 1000 inches of advertising
and required nearly car load of pa
per The Register is entitled to the
heartiest congratulations upon its mag
rificent accomplishment
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
cuses; gone is the Hobson war with
Japan at fifty cents the scare.

Wanted. A real earthquake which
will cause the bricks of the flues and
chimneys to tumble onto the roofs, so
that the papers may have a genuine
truth to report An earthquake of no
more intensity than the seven thun-
ders of June rain storm is indeed a
tame affair. A shaking whica would
cause the falling in prices of many
commodities would be a beautiful
event for the general people.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

President Henr. of the Grant club
in Des Moines has telegraphed Speak
err Cannon inviting him 10 be the guest
of the club any night this week and
informing he would be expected to
make speech IT is to be hoped Mr.
Cannon will accept the invitation. Des
Moines needs TO have sound Repuhlf-
canism preached TO it more than any
other community in the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Distinction purely re own.

Davenport Democrat Ansel Briggs
had distinction that vas purely his
c7yn Any bright Iowa boy may look
forward to the possibility Of some time
being governor Of Iowa, but Angel
Briggs was the only first governor that
the state will ever have.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Deserves Hancino.

Cedar Rapids Republican: Des
Moines had the poor woman who kill
ed her babe indicted. But the insane
commissioners ought to sit in judy
ment on both the woman and on the
over eager officials. And the hang
man ought TO attend to the man who
BETRAYED her.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

A headline in western contempt
rary announces that Taft dropped L.
200 feet into a mine" 1t may
be none of our business, but we have
sneaking curiosity to know where he
got all of them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The Duchess of Somerset says that
traits" for the hair cause insanity.
Those who regarded them as evil
dences of that state of mind seem to
have made the mistake of putting the
cart before the horse.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The flying machine when perfected
will be able, like birds. to fly in all
kinds of weather At present it can
not be used unless the wind is just
right. There is large field yet re-
naming to inventive genius in the
matter of airships
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Hon. John Cowne in his annual esti-
mate to the agricultural department
at Washington fixes the crop OF Iowa
this year at 2e5.o0O,0o0 bushels. The
total value of Iowa crops is placed at
nearly sS75 ZOO. 600. Last year the
crop value OF the state was placed at
s376, 600 600
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05


At the Seven Pines rural home the
literary bachelors editorial duties
have included during the summer the
caring and cultivating of one-half acre
Of corn of the Mammoth White Pearl
variety. The culture was from a hoe,
and the land being very fertile, the
stalks grew up ten. twelve, feet and
the ears are large and beautiful. From
this small area thirty-five of forty bush
els of prime corn will be harvested.
Intense culture and care are prime fac
tors in agriculture as we'll as in all af-
fairs of human life which are of vital
concern. Intense cultivation of the
heart and head promote the heavenly
attainments of an individual or ma
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The experience of Oklahoma with
its bank guaranty law is additional
proof that politics and banking cannot
be mixed with permanent advantage
ito either interest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The volume of business continues to
grow apace. Bank exchanges last
week at all the leading cities in the
United States were s2,T46, 469,S9S a
gain of 21.S per cent over last year.
Nearly every city reports much larger
exchanges than year ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The latest definition of marriage,
volunteered by professional pessi-
mist, is that it is a process by which
woman deprives herself of an es-
cort.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Gasoline is becoming a great mover
of mechanical industries. At present
Colonel Bryan is the greatest gasoline
power for revenue only.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

township especially, is the garden spot
of Iowa. No better land can be fodnd
out of doors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
Keokuk. Iowa ...... October S, 1909.

! To the esteemed Springfield Reg
lister, in view of its fine state fair
number: Go up head! You are 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05
JASPER RLINEs' JoTTlNes.
The Republic Holds Its Own-Inten-
sve Culture-Fate of Steam
boating-The Des Moines
River, Etc.

To the Editor of Tie Gate City:
Having extended its dominion from
Porto Rico to Manila and on north to
ninety degrees, the American republic
appears not to be retreating.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

The veteran editor. Henry Waiter
son, is enjoying rest in old, historic
London, and is writing long letters to
the Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr..
Watterson says he cannot hope to see
the Democratic party other than the
Monster without Head. and the
Empty Bottle with a label.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Great oaks from little acorns
grow" and likewise, considerable
claims grow from small promissory
notes. when compound interest is
charged This fact was demonstrated
in the probate court when note for
SIS, which had grown in thfrty-three
years to the awesome size Of s1-837.S6,
was allowed against the estate of the
late Allen H. Collins of st. Louis. The
note was given April 27. 1876. to John
H. Bobb.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

One of the teachers at the girls
Industrial school at Clarkson, Miss,
says that most OF the pupils are very
poor and are being sent there by
churches, or are else working their
own way. One girl came to the school
recently leading COW. She had trav-
eled twenty-five miles over the noun
tains and plains to sell milk and so
pay her way through the school
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

A Kansas City woman has been mar
ried six times in twelve years. The
Delta Sun has had three editors with
in one year. The republic survives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-05

Gelett BURGESS latest piece of
work is monumental satire on New
York life. II is appearing in the DC
tober Smart Set and is causing no end
of talk. The pretensions of the blue
blooded descendants of Colonial
skirmishes, the antics of the parvenus
and the would-be Bohemians and the
ridiculous aspirations of the high
brows are presented in light that
will make readers wonder what was
done with that particular portion OF
common sense that was omitted from
the makeup of these extraordinary
people. This work of Mr.. BURGESS
is in the form of novel, which ne
calls, The Cave Man" recounting the
adventures that befell a peculiar rough
hewn individual dragged unceremoni-
ously from his native coal heaver's
haunts, and, barbered and tailored,
flung into the giddy whirl OF fashion
able life.
Mr.. Burgess is master of satire.
In this story he gives free reign to MS
inconclastic ideas. He has turned our
a red hot sizzling literary fireoolt
that sputters and crackles with clever
ness. It is one of the big magazine
features of the year.
The october number is one OF the
very best Smart Set has ever issued.