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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
thirty Little Fresh Air Children from
Chicago Were In the City on Ex-
custom Yesterday After
noon.
ENJOYED THEMSELVES
rore Around the City With Anxious
Guardians Taking in the Sights
and Visiting Ten Cent
Stores.

Thirty-three little girls and boys
from the slum districts of Chicago
we're given delightful ride on the
river yesterday afternoon through
the kindness of the Christian church
neople Of FIT. Madison, the boat cap
tain of the steamer Ottumwa Belle
and barge and large number of Nau-
VOC young ladies who took it upon
themselves to see that the happy
Youngsters we're we'll taken care of.
The Christian church of FIT. Madi-
son gave an excursion to this city
Yesterday afternoon on the Ottumwa
BELLE and when the boat landed at the
local wharf, thirty-three eager chill
dren with guardians-for-an-hour with
them ran off the gang plank and up
into the city where they spent several
happy hours visiting the ten cent
stores and having good time gen.
orally filling themselves full of ice
cream cones and soda water until ev-
cry little face beamed with honest
pleasure.
The thirty-three little boys and
girls were sent to Nauyoo a week ago
to enjoy country life. being sent there
by the home in which they are cared
( for in Chicago, in charge of an attend
ant. The children were given free
transportation and during their visit
al Nauvoo and surrounding towns
have been having the time of their
young lives.
None of the children are over
twelve years of age and all are bright
,AaHpy~looking children, showing good
care. Their clothes were plain but
neat. the majority of the little girls
wearing the plain summer straw hats,
with the rim turned down. neatly dec.
mated with a pretty ribbon of some
kind.
The boys were healthy looking
lot and the way some of them raided
the nickel and dime stores of the city
one would have thought bunch Of
troopers were in the city. They car
ried off coal shovels brooms, baskets
and everything they could get their
hands on.
Each of the young Nauvoo ladies
we're given a charge, some boy and
others girl To say that they had
time in keeping close tab on the
youngsters would be putting it mild
" and once or twice the young ladies
from the Mormon city were in sort
distress wondering where their MIN
bic charges had HE'D themselves to I'm
Ill they would find them handling
nver everything in the stores alons
Main street
One little freckled miss of the Chi
cago fresh air" children, Carrie Ball
well by name in speaking for the res
Of her companions from Chicago sal
they had all enjoyed their outing i'm
rensely and were sorry to go back t
Chicago again.
The excursion boat left at fiv
o'clock yesterday AFTERNOON for Nal
700 with a bunch of happy childre
aboard after their first visit to tn
water power city
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
Why Did Your

why do women marry?" inquiries
the Baltimore American. Usually be-
cause men ask them. Give us hard
err one" says the New York Herald.
"All right. Why do men ask them?"
Washington Herald.
But why call this still harder when
you can answer it yourself?-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
PERHAPS A SMALL. SIZE
An Innovation is Suggested in Reduc.
ing the Size Of the Bills
to More .Dlminutive
Shape.

eiO W CdhCf place SOOu.
Secretary McVeagh, Assistant Sec
rotary Norton and Director Ralph CT
the bureau Of engraving and printing
nave under consideration a general
scheme for systematizing the designs
OF all issues of paper money in such
manner that the same portraits and
emblems will appear on all notes of
the same denomination.
1t also is proposed that each of the
designs shall be SO distinctive that
no confusion as to the denomination
signified shall occur. A change in
the size Of the governments paper cur
rency also is under contemplation.
1t can be stated authoratively that
a portrait of the late Grover Cleve-
land soon is to appear on all ten dol
lar bills. This plan has been in con-
temptation before, and practically was
ordered by George B. Cortelyou, for
merly secretary of the treasury. Sec
rotary MacVeagh, upon entering the
office, held the order up, not on nc
count Of political considerations, but
in order to permit the question of a
general redesigning of the paper
money of the country to be taken up.
The director Of the bureau of en-.
craving and printing has completed
tentative new designs to go upon all
the paper money of national issue,
such as silver certificates, gold GER
fiGno+oc opd potos fhou
now are up for approval by Assist
ant Secretary Norton, who has the
matter mainly in charge.
He already has definitely decided
to recommend Cortelyou's order re-
lating to the imprint of the portrait
fof ex-President Cleveland upon all
| ten dollar bills.
I; Distinctive designs for one dollar,
five dollar, twenty dollar and fifty d D.
lar bills, and perhaps those of even
higher denominations, have been pre-
/ pared. The two dollar bill may be
i abolished, 1t is reported. Its fate
now hangs in the balance, there hav-
/ ing been many complaints directed
against it. owing to its tendency TO
stealthly slip in with its one dollar
brothers and cau~e woe. If the two
dollar bill is retained, it is certain
! that it's design will be such as TO
make it fash out from pile of one
dollar or five dollar bills with a
prominence that will permit nc
mistake in its handling.
The treasury officials are seeking
suggestions from artists of the bur
eau of engraving and printing, and
from artists and experts outside the
government service. They even have
sent to Europe for new ideas by whscr
the paper money may be improved.
Some treasury officials are inclsaee
, to favor even more radical change
and recommend that paper money be
, reduced to about the size of French
and Italian notes of smaller demon
, nations. These notes are about three
, ffths the size of the American kind
and are more convenient to handlv
BY reducing the size of the notes
considerable saving could be effected
in the expense of getting them out
and this is consideration with tn
present administration, which ha
adopted a policy of small economic
in all departments with the view o
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18

You're rotten, Mr.. officer, 1 don't
know what's your name,
Or who it was that raised you, but
you're rotten Just the same.
We hope they'll weed Tire service soon.
of all such men as you, and give
the service credit of having very
few
OF the kind of men who wears the
soldier straps and tell the band to
play at soldiers funeral, You're
always in the way"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
A Gentle Suggestion.

I'm consumer" said the man who
between hiccoughs was talking at the
top of his voice in the owl car, and
there is no doubt that | am always
getting the worst of things"
well" replied the advocate of To-
cal option, there are men who seem
ayerse to paying their good money
for any other kind of an article"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
FUNERAL DIRGE
OVER A SOLDIER
keokuk Boy in the Philippines Writes
Verse About the Bad Break
of Officer.

A short time ago at the funeral of
a soldier in the marine barracks at
Olongapo, Philippine Islands, appropri-
ate music was played by the military
band. Near the close of the services
an officer gave the order that they
should play you We're always in the
way" The soldiers became SO highly
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
A Cool Confession.

IF you had space for only small
library. what books would you
choose?"
II suppose" answered Miss Cay
enne, 'I'd follow the example of most
Of my friends who assume literary SUI
periority. For the library I'd select
volumes whose titles would make a
good impression and keep the current
novels and magazines out of sight
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18

For indigestion and all stomach
trouble take Foley's Orino Laxative
as it stimulates the stomach and liver
and regulates the bowels and will pos
lively cure habitual constipation. Will
kinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
Southeast District,

Henry (Mt. Pleasant)-No rain:
temperature very high; corn and all
vegetation suffering for rain; dew
very light: some pieces of corn off
so per cent.
Lee (Keokuk) mo rain; total de-
ficiency for the week .73 inch mean
temperature 49, or an average daily
excess of Z degrees; scattered local
showers in the vicinity, but no rain at
station; corn needs rain; pastures
becoming brown and gardens showing
effect of drouth; last rain was on
July 2Sth.
Van Buren, (Stockport) rain
thus far in August and only OF inch
In past three weeks, with almost
cloudless sky: ground dried out and
all vegetation, corn and new clover
especially. Is suffering: threshing al
most completed and all harvest work
is practically finished UP; stock water
will soon be short Il it does not rain
in a few days. (Bonaparte)-No rain;
excessively hot snd dry; maximum
temperature averaged SO degrees for
the first 10 days of August; threshing
about completed and no other work
possible; corn and pasture need rain
badly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
DR.. J. EATON JOHNSTON

fh I SlClAN AND SURGEON
ne oniy physician practicing Oste-
p1lny N the county. The Smith
'alah truss fitted anc guaranteed.
ohiy russ that holds. Office
as side OF Main street. third door
aooVe Fifth. Phone 80. Residence.
~ an Webster. Phone iS4. p.
=. LOCK Box. Al. Warsaw, III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
pnYs Clans.
DR.. CORAL r. ARMENTRouT
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

ofiice-Y. Nj. C. A. Building Resi-.
dence sl2 Fulton street. ONCE hours:
AZ 70 a. M: TO 4 D. ~. evening
hours By appointment iowa phone.
ols-i. and Hub. phone 2us2, office
pnone Residence pnone. Iowa Ian:
H, Sol6.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18
DR.. Q. 7. CLARK.

FL 4slCIAN AND SURGEON
once--Y. NJ. C. A. building.
luce nours-9;oO-1o:SO a. m.:3:30
20 o:oo and 700 and 500 p. M.
rhones-Ofice. Iowa 3o5-R; Hub.
~. Residence. Iowa 5293; Hub. 2Os2.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18

Sometimes Tart.
Many a man is forced to confess
hat the apple Of his eye is not always
iWeet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18

Gold Medal Flour makes the iightest
sponge cake ! ever saw. RACHEL.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18

II. [. COPYRIGHT, M. o.
Office COL Main street.
speclai attention to X-Ray and cleo.
trical work. 49,
luce hours. 10 to 1880 :. M; 2 to
$3.50 and 7 to 5 D. m.
Nesiaence. 1923 Franklin street.
w. M. HoGLE, M. D. =.
Col Main street
once hours. . to and Z 10 8 D. m.
Nesioence. 604 High rest
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-18

incensed at this apparent desecration
OF the death rites that for some time
1T came near causing rebellion against
the officer who gave the order.
A soldier, whose home is in Keo-
kuk, composed the following piece,
with the request that it be printed
in the home paper.
We don't object to hiking through a
hundred miles of sun,
We don't object to charging up
mountain on the run,
We don't object to wing on soldiers
rations straight.
We don't object to dying-but to reach
the Golden Gate
With ragtime funeral marches, where
the band is made to play,
1t does sound a little AWKWARD
you're always in the way"
We don't ask no favors of you-you
MAY do une WO,SC you can,
But, congress can't make gentleman
where God has failed on man.
To hi with this sickening rot-its
bad air dry and warm,
due the uniform,
When shoulder straps make man
lose half his little head
And make joke of the holiness that
wraps the country's dead.
oh, yes, we will salute you and we'll
say yes SIR too,
But. we salute the shoulder straps
we wouldn't speak to you.
You're farther down beneath us than
dog "nigger" owns;
You're dirtier than a buzzard picking
flesh from dead mems bones
,, When the flag is on your coffin, you
will tell the band to play:
That old ragtime music, You're al
ways in the way"
You've stolen from dead man the
last solemn funeral rites;
You've put daub of paint upon the
flag for which we fight.
You havn't disgraced the service. but
you know you have, at least
shown how little man was In you
and how near you We're beast
Few men who hold commissions, now
would tell the band to play
That ragtime dance hall music when
a soldiers layed away.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-19

scientious architect. Such one will.
frst Of all. study tho setting a home
will have. He will not try to build a
Bungalow on treeiess. rolling lawn.
which may demand colonial design.
nor will he snuggls = Swiss chalet
where . Spanish mission effect should
be developed. The close relationship OF
the home to its. environments is the
main secret OF successful building.
The adaptability OF the half-timbered
houses and the bungalows. in this re-
spect. no doubt accounts for their popu-
larity. The modern half-timbered work
10 far removed from the original elabo-
rate style that prevailed in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. It now con-
sists simply OF . pattern Of inch boards
nailed to tho sheAthfng, with panels Of
plaster on wire lath. One particularly
good model employs chestnut. hewn
with an ADJ. and stained Z dark. rich
brown. for the half-timbered work and
for all the exterior woodwork doors,
window frames. etc. Paint would have
given . dead. cast-iron result. but the
long. open grain Of the wood was thus
preserved by merely staining. The
pebble dashing was uniquely handled.
Instead OF the usual slushy mixture OF
pebbles and yellow wash. the pebbles
were thrown dry upon the soft plaster,
which gave q delightful mosaic effect.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-19

The plan was worked out to the last
detail. TO tho rough-hewn kitchen porch.
with its half-timbered gables.
The bungalow may be constructed OF
wood. plaster or brick. but wood has
the preference. finished in variety Of
ways. from the vertical boards to tho
overlapping shingles. The rough splIt
shake is desirable ana the rough sid
ing Is always staple and In unQues-
tionable taste. The sine qua non OF
the bungalow 10 unpretentious. This
sometimes leads however. TO the error
Of supposing that q small house on .
small lot must have q narrow front.
But II the house is too narrow 1t only
calls attention to the limited ground on
which 1t stands.
with those simpler forms Of archi-
lecture has come the fusion OF the FIRST
floor rooms into q living room which -
at once parlor. library. den. music room
and study. It Is not unusual to md
living room and dining-room combined.
though an archway may indicate q sepa-
ration which does not exist. Sometimes
bookcases stand out into the room a.
screens, but to make this treatment
pleasing, there must be q certain SINH
larity in the lines and the effect OF the
woodwork. The raised dining-room,
reached by a couple Of steps or 30. gives
= pleasant break to the floor line. Tho
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-19

HAT 10 coming to be the slo-
IVA gan Of the lowliest students
~ l. OF that most democratic OF all
arts, the making Of home
From the villa Of the millions
- aire with its classic restraint
Ise elegance. to the hssne Of the lahorer.
with it, modern mission severity. beauty
10 being recognised - I result rather
Of simplicity ana utility than OF ex-
penso and characterization. After q long
period OF indiscriminate limitations and
lrsvivals. the typical American home Of
today II an example Of good taste. both
- regards architecture and decoration.
Though INFINITE in design and treatment.
the tendency Of the times IL toward =
certain rugged chastity OF structure and
. repression Of the excessive interior
decoration 30 prevalent q few years ago.
Home builders are realixing. more and
more, that It 10 AZ important to secure
the services OF Q good architect as 1t
IL to employ q good surgeon Nobody
feels quite capable Of mending his own
constitution. but nearly everybody IL con-
fident he can plan his own house. And
yet architecture IL . science requiring
a. long and thorough preparation az
surgery II 10 these abortivo efforts.
however, that have impressed prospect
I've builders with the need Of that prime
regulate Of . successful house. con-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-19

mand for the modern typo Of living
room. and copper ware and pottery seem
the best suited for decorative purposes.
Shelves. which have besn the saving
grace OF many . room. are always Of
fective when carefully used
When the dining-room 10 separated
from the other rooms. its finish and
furnishing usually depends upon tho To-
cation OF the room. Where there IL
little light. white enameled woodwork.
with q warm-toned paper and mahogany
furniture Will be favored. but IN an east
room. for example. the Flemish style
may be employed or . modfied English
typo. The Jaeobean pansling and detail
10 admirable for its quiet dignity and
the substantial eject produced.
Ono criticism often heard q . nsw
home Is that while the first floor was
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-19

entrance hall Of the moderate homo II
fast becoming as extinct az the parlor
Sometimes q screen forms . little en-
trance way, shutting of the main part
Of the living room. but ~ rule the
front door opens Hospitality into the
heart Of the home
Nothing gives = greater sense Of hos
pitality, and comfort than the open nre-
place with its cosy inglenooks. The
English type IL perhaps best adapted for
beamed ceilings and plastered walls. In
one attractive home. having the null
lioned windows separated by pilasters.
and a beamed ceiling with panels above
the beams. q wide brick hearth was
laid in herring-bone. The chimney-piece
not in the exact center OF tho ingle-
nook scheme was successful departure.
Handmade furniture IL greatly in de-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-21
EMBALMED BEEF BACK AGAIN.

Pure food commissioners throughout the country are
much disturbed the so-caed benzoate of soda de-
cson recently promulgated by the agricultural depart
men They fear this is the first step in what will amount
to general undermining of the pure food law.
Benzoae of soda is what the packers to kill the
odor of meat which is too old to be fit for sale 1t is used
also in limited way preserving vegetables The ben
zoae of soda decision, however is of principal value to
the beef trust.
The decision reverses the departments previous ruling
as to benzoate of soda, and permits its
1t is hardly necessary to add that the decision is
plete reversal of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley-Father of the
Pure Food Law The decision from the so-called
board board secured by the packing interests after the
government authorities had construed the pure food law
to forbid the of this poisonous drug. The board is
composed of Dr. Ira Resen, Dr. Russell H. Chittenden,
DIR. John H. Long, Dr. Olonzo A. Taylor and DIR. c. A.
Herter The reversal order signed the day before
President Iats inauguration March 3, by Secretary
of the Treasury Corteyou Secretary Of Agriculture Will
and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus. The
fact of its signing unknown until few days ago,
when the beef packers throughout the country Off
cialy Informed that they might benzoate Of soda
''hs legazes embalmed beef" said high official of
the government.
by members of the Remsen board that benzoate of soda
the quantities authorized is not a serious menace to
health Whether this contention is true not has little
to do with the The extensive experiments
Quoted by Dr. Wiley resulted conclusions that benzoate
OF soda poisonous and injurious to health What the
pure food commissioners object to- however, is the decep
ton which is made possible by it's Packers are
enabled to sell products which have progressed far
toward decay to be actually unfit for human consump
tOn the OdOr and other incidents OF decay being hidden
by the use of small portion of benzoate of soda.
Food commissioners say is significant that than
half of the largest firms engaged in making and selling
pickles. casups and other preserved vegetables do not
this chemical and have thrown their influence in
every against its Resolutions recently pre-
scented to the governor of Pennsylvania urging him to
veto law which would permit the use of this clinical in
Pennsylvania food factories.
One of the last official acts of President Roosevelt was
effort to keep the packers and disers from under
mining the pure food law. The packers, however, have
has hnpnr with
every prospect that the Limitation whisky of the dis
ters will also be legaized
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-21

-therival asphalt trust, we will
call them-have had standing of.
fer of more than 100000 for the
concession, and when they learned
of the lease to the PHILADELPHIA
crowd for $4,000, they went pok.
ing round to see what was the mat.
ter. They found that a "side bet
htad been laid, as it were, with a
party named Baptiste-secretary of
state or what not-of 100000. II
was as if the representative of the
trust bet Baptiste 100000 that the
trust would not get the concession
for 100000 a year. See? Well,
Baptiste won. And so did the trust
And everybody was happy, except
Baptiste, who has not received his
money.
For-supposing everything to be
cinched up, the settlement having
been reported to the state depart
ment by Envoy Buchanan, and Gas
tro being well out of the way
somebody in Philadelphia con
nected with the trust got streak
of piety, or conscience or economy
or pedes frigidus-and-well, the
100000 side bet has not been
forthcoming.
What is the answer? How does
Baptiste collect a side bet of this
sort?
Answer: The rival asphalt trust
the "other bunch"-are now load
ing ship at Venezuela's principa
port.
And the band played annie Lau
rie" and Johnnie, Get Your Gun
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-21
WHITE HOUSE KID
RIGHT ON THE JOB
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 81.
Charles Taft is having more fun
than anybody else in the white
house. He thinks being son to the
whole thing" is ''all right"
Charlie is all boy. He sails boats
in the fountain, does impromptu
boxing stunts with the ushers,
grinds out the monograph records
in the blue room and has been
known to do quiet leap frog with
the chairs in the state dining
room.
Charlie prides himself on his
knowledge of public men. He goes
to the capitol with his mother and
tells her the names of the con-
gressmen and senators-some-
times he tells right and sometimes
not. But he always speaks with
confidence. He is quite intimate
with Capt. Archibald Clavering
Butt, who serves as escort to Mrs.
Taft Charlie and Archie do the
scouting for the first lady. They
find out what is going to happen
and bring in stories that. are inter
esting.