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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21

his optimism and his faith in hu.
man nature. His character was a
series of delightful contrasts. He
was conservative in his personal
beliefs and tastes, disliking osten.
tatfon or display and decrying any.
thing like personal advertisement.
Yet, so simple was he in his views
that when he was introduced to
Speaker Cannon one day in Wash
ington while the house was in ses-
sion he took 1t as matter of
course that he should sit on the
speakers desk, with his back to all
the members, because there was no
extra chair on the dias for him.
He was beloved by the people of
Minnesota for having given them a
two cent railroad passenger rate
and for having delivered the farm
ers from the extortions of the
Irvine trust.
Was a Base Ball Fan.
He was distinctly a base ball
crank" Whenever the st. Paul
team played at home, the governor
was on the job at the stand, crack
ing peanuts and roofing" for the
team like mad.
In the winter he slipped off from
his office, his skates under his arm,
and skinned across the ice for
hours at time. When he was at
Old Point Comfort, Va, last spring
he got into the water without any
one being aware who he was. But
he could not resist the temptation
to turn a back somersault off the
springbOard into the waves, and
this attracted SO much attention
that pretty soon his identity was
generally known.
In 1898 he was elected State SEN
ator and again in 1900. In 1904 he
was elected governor, by a plur-
atty of 5000, while Roosevelt car
ried the state by 10000. Two
years later ne was reelected by
$4,000. Among his achievements as
governor are cited the increased
assessed valuation of the United
States Steel corporation in Mime
sofa from 100000 to $3.50, 000,.
900; reduction Of railway rates
from 10 to 80 per cent; two cent
passenger rate; free state labor
bureau, and reformed system of
taxation.
Johnson was not society
light" Both he and Mrs. Johnson
long ago made up their minds that
there was nothing much to be
gained by drinking afternoon tea In
unlimited quantities.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21
THREE TWINS"
MAKES A HIT

"Yama Yama" IL a phrase sound
ing again and again in the minds Of
those who saw the first perform
ance of THE Three Twins" at the
Auditorium last night. This piece
of music and its accompanying
electrical effects and pretty girls
was a very decided hit, and the
production as a whole Is most
clever and pleasing. Three Three
Twins" is gorgeously staged and
deliberately planned. It is one of
the best musical comedy pieces
played here SO far this season.
Bessie Clifford and Victor Morley
do the leading roles in great shape
and make as big hits as the rest Of
the play.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-
Whisky and ice cream is q fatal
combination, according to physi-
clans at Casualty hospital. Albert
Hammond, a IS year old negro, is
said to have mixed the two and, as
a result, died at the hospital from
abdominal obstruction. Physicians
say "his stomach was kinked.'
Hammond insisted on leaving
FreedWen's hospital, where he had
been, and started to his home in
Bladensburg. At Third street and
Florida avenue he fell to the
ground exhausted.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21
Warm Blankets for Cold Nights

While bedding department special comfort
look the line of fine wooden blankets
Of cold weather High qualities
oor country
Best wool blankets, $3.50 pair to $780,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21
Theatrical
| WASHINGTON

! VIII ROSTERS Bunch of Kids, -
listed as topliner at the Washing
ton this week, is certainly a fea-
tlre attraction. OF all the acts
seen here along that line it is the
best. Every boy and girl in the
cast is decidedly clever artist In
the line of entertaining, and the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21
ORPHEUM

For variety, such as the lover of
vaudeville enjoys, the bill at the
Orpheum this week is hard to beat.
From the opening number to the
close there is not dull moment in
the entire program. John We'll, in
his sleight Of hand performance, en-
tertains his audience with some
new stunts which are wonders in
themselves, the "baby's bottle
stunt bringing down the house.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-21

SAN DIEGO.-Francisco Arviso,
arraigned on charge of murder, rec.
ognized as murderer of man named
Kruiz, whom he killed Is years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10
The Eishina Fever.

Clinton Herald: Did you ever get
the fishing fever? The fellow who
gets it is one of the most enthusiast
tic bugs ever encountered. He has
the baseball bug" the auto "bug" and
all the other bugs" backed entirely
off the stage. There is only one thing
that will cause him to desist after he
gets the fever right, and that is the
coming of the closed season and the
wintry SHOWS and ice. He possesses
popularity that is not found in other
bugs" Lack of success does not dis
courage him 1t makes him only the
more intent on the pursuit of his hob
by. 1t makes no difference with him
that he sits all day on the banks OF
the river and never gets so much as
bite. Before he quits he has found
just the place where "scads" of them
can be caught, and he can find time
to take a hike to the new place
But, after all, 1t is good to be fish
ing bug" There is no sport that ic sc
conducive to good health and to break
4 the monotony of the da'lu grind as
tramping up and down the banks III
pursuit of the finny tribe. Don't, be
ashamed of the fact that yo', are
/ fishing "bug." 1t demonstrates tina
you are wise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

On account OF differences as to the
tariff the Chicago Tribune is not par
tial to President Taft, but it is fair
enough to print the conclusions OF the
correspondents of the New York Sun
and the New York World, who have
been travelling with President Taft,
as to whether the President has won
or lost friends in the course of his
trip which is now half completed
The views Of these close observers IN
dictate that the Presidents personality
has created a favorable impression at
every stop. The Presidents sincerity
and fairness have been evident in
every speech and have dissipated the
doubts that were created by false re
ports sent out from Washington dur
ing the tariff discussion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10
THE LAW AND DIVORCE.

Ministerial associations have been
quite free in their criticisms of the
courts of late for granting so many
divorces. 1t is seldom that pro-
nouncement is made from that source
in condemnation of the divorce evil"
that there is not coupled with it an
expression of regret that the courts
enter so many DEGREES. Judge Nc
Henry of Des Moines, who has pre-
sided at many divorce hearings and
granted many divorces, says in reply
to the ministerial and other critics
that the fault does not lie so much
with the courts as has been claimed.
There Is, he contends, no divorce evil
under the law. He comedies that the
/ increase of divorces is an evil, but
holds that the granting of the divorce
is not the evil. "The law is right and
the courts are right he says. "Di
vorce is but the evidence of the evil
and not the evil itself Divorce is
the evidence of the disease. 1t is the
result of bad morals" Further:
Wherever there is congested pop
r
morals Not until the Christian
4 church has converted the men, made
men quit drinking, made them NOR
moral and made them quit desertini
their wives will the divorce problem
be solved In the thirty years of m
practice I have granted but six d
vorces to Catholics and but one d
vorce to members of the Jewish race.
Judge McHenry's views on tn
subject are sensible and practice
and in line with the facts in the case
; Instead of dealing with divorce itseli
which is only symptom, attentio
should be directed to the causes c
divorce and efforts made to eradicat
them. Divorce is result, not
!, cause. To avoid it humanity must b
converted to better living. as Judg
, McHenry suggests. Until this is dor
all efforts to put stop to divorce al
: doomed to failure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10
NEW coNcEprloN OF DEATH.

Few indeed are the men and women
of full age who have not yet contract
ed the malady that will kill them, ac-
cording to that distinguished scientist
and physician, DR.. Felix Regnault, as
reported by Current Literature. Nor
mally, as contemporary Investigators
are beginning to find out, 1t taxes
twenty wears for fatal malady to kill
a patient. 1t may take thirty years.
The popular impression is that man
may die suddenly or that he may only
require year to die in or six months.
To be sure. a man may be killed or
child may die in few months at the
age of one year. But ordinarily speak
ing, all deaths are very slow indeed
and about 95 per cent of civilized
adults are now stricken with fatal
disease. They do not know it. They
must not suffer from it. In due time
they will have their cases diagnosed
as cancer. or as tuberculosis or dfa-
betes or what not But 50 inveterate
are current misconceptions of the ma
ture of death that the origin OF the
fatal malady-in time will be mis-
calculated by from 10 ten to thirty
wears. In the case of human beings,
death-barring accidents nearly al
ways caused by some specific malady
This malady is as likely as not to be
cured-what is called cured = The
1 cure however, no mater how skill
I full the treatment or how slight the
disease, has left a weakness behind il
in some particular organ of the boy
One Of the organs is. if not premature
" worn out, at least so Worn that III
resisting powers are greatly diminish
ed. All Of us in this way when W.
have reached a certain age possess al
organ that is much older THAI the res
OF the physique. One day we shall di'
because of this organ. Even if w
livce to be very old indeed, we shall
not die of "old age but OF weakness
of the lungs, or Of the kidneys or o
the liver or Of the brain
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

All the praise given A. l.. Hemlnger
as candidate for the Republican nom
ination for state superintendent OF
public instruction by his Van Buren,
county neighbors is seconded by all
the Lee county people who know him.
The teachers and schoolmen here
speak highly of Mr.. Heminger and are
anxious for his nomination and cleo
ton. They base their preference en-
tirely on his eminent fitness for the
place and his qualifications for the
Office. They care nothing about poll
tics. as rule, and properly feel that
the school system, from country teach
er to state superintendent, should be
kept out of politics.
Mr.. Heminger has been highly hon
ored by his profession in Iowa which
appreciates his ability. He is now
president of the county superintend-
ents' section of the state teachers as
ISOLATION and chairman of its round
table with the duty of directing and
controlling the very free debates
which occur there. A large number of
LOW SGlOOiulSu NAVE StSStSu HIS Coi-
didacy with actual enthusiasm.
He is a self-made man who made a
good job of it under great difficult
ties which would have discouraged
most youths, but seem to have &C.
tually stimulated Mr. Heminger to
greater exertions. Being dependent
upon himself for his livelihood, he
4 lost leg by an accidental gunshot
/ when he was seventeen years old. He
went ahead, however, and worked his
way through to colleges and the uni
versity and all the time made marks
graduated from the college of liberia
arts and later from the law school o
the state university, and also from
the state teachers college at Ceda
Falls He is that rare combination .
both schoolman. lawyer and man 0
large culture which is specially desil
J able in superintendent of schools.
He has been elected county superb
tendent of Van Buren, county thre
times, each time getting the mos
votes on his ticket. Part of his popl
7 larity at home is due to the specie
care he has taken of the countr
5 schools which are his special ;nteres
| But beyond this are his remarkabl
. qualifications for the place, thorough
!, well rounded out by his education
n pedagogy, law and generally. Thes
f same things, plus the experience
e has gained as county superintendent
a are the chief arguments being use
e in favor of his nomination for sta
e superintendent. He has been a
e sured of large wide and strong su
e port all over the state-for his rep
tation is thoroughly state wide amor
all posted in public school matters
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10
SAYINGS OF HARTMAN.

As 1 grow older am beginning to
think more of my fellow man.
/ have worked hard because l like
the doing of things.
Grasp an idea and work it out to 9
successful conclusion. That is about
all there is in life for any of us.
People seem to take more stock in
man who talks than man who acts.
But this is a day devoted to isms and
it will pass.
/ have always been too busy to
think much about myself. The doctors
are beginning to tell me that the 9th
er fellow ought to have chance to do
something.
Every tide has it's rise and fall, and
one would be living in a FOOLS para
disc not to take the ebb into considera-
ton in figuring out his future require
ments.
The first law of all our civilization
is the cooperation of all individuals
to improve the conditions of life
To achieve what the world calls sue
cess a man must attend strictly to
business and keep little in advance
of the times
Ny father was a clergyman and he
/ was good one. He was an earnest
clergyman and he taught his boys
/ to be earnest in everything they did
There are two things that menace
the prosperity of this countryside
money and idle labor. The one is as
mischievous as the other
1t has always seemed wiser to me
to sleep on the roof than in the base
ment.
! Pull" can never carry a man far
1t is hard work and application tina
count
Fifty years from now a per cen
return on capital will be considered
as good as ten per cent now. But tina
need not worry you or me.
We have had monkey dinners an
the idle and foolish vaporings an
routs of society. Now is the time fo
less champagne and truffles and NOR
roast beef and milk.
The people have the get-rich-quic
t bacillus. It's fearful disease 1t
] the only menace to this country
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The changes that have occurred dur
ing the past century are reflected in
part By the differences in the news
papers then and now. The St. Louis
Republican recently duplicated the is
sue of the Missouri Gazette OF Octob-
err 4, 1909, showing that paper to
have been four-column, four-page
sheet-about the size of enc page of
a modern newspaper. The front page
was given over almost entirely to adj
yertisements. The first of these offer.
ed land for sale for cash, ne
groes or produce. In the local
columns was an account Of a confer
ence with delegation of Indian chiefs
who had come down to st. Louis tc
learn the fate of an Indian who hat
been in Jail for some eighteen months
| for the murder of white man a
Portage des Sioux. The general new
teemed with references to incident
leading up to the war of 1912, News
papers in those days were very dtt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The Des Moines Capital says that II
Joe Cannon entered into that deal
with Tammany that Herbert Parsons
accuses him of that he ougat to be
severely condemned, but it hardly
thinks that Parsons is the right man
to do the chastising in view OF MS
trade last year with one William
Randolph Hearst wherein the Repuo-
licans of New York city were to sup
port the Hearst following and in re-
turn receive aid in congressional and
legislative districts. The Capital also
reminds its readers that only a few
years ago right here in Iowa certain
Republicans agreed to a removal OF
the circle from the Australian ballot
on condition that the Democrats in
turn would deliver certain political
goods-and the trade went through on
scheduled time
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The annual report of the adjutant
general of the Oklahoma militia for
the past year contains complimentary
reference TO Major William Black, Q.
S. A., retired, representing the war
department, both in camp at Guthrie
and at Fort Riley. His report to the
chief OF the division of militia affairs
AT washington is incorporated in full
and pleasure is expressed at having
him as Instructor. Keokuk men never
fail to make good wherever they &c
or in whatsoever they engage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The Philadelphia Press we'll says
that President Taft's modest refusal
to compare his own gift of eloquence
to that of Mr.. Roosevelt does not de-
tract from its real value. No in
vidious distinction is made in say.
ing that the new President is evf
dencing something that at critical
iunctures is far more important thar
ready oratory. He is tactful always
and that is a resource a nation mus
count upon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

Here is plain talk and the right
kind of talk from Uncle George Per-
kins. In paragraph in the Sioux
City Journal he declares:
president Taft is FOR the Roosevelt
policies, but he isn't going to let a
few excited editors tell him what the
Roosevelt policies are. Taft was the
righthand man of Roosevelt through
out his second term. 1t seems that
Taft NAV be pardoned for assuming
his own definition of the Roosevelt
nolicies to be as good as anybody's.
Amen!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10


The Des Moines Capital says that
talk that Attorney General Byers, or
any other Republican, will contest the
nomination with Congressman Walter
l. Smith of the Ninth district should
not be taken too seriously, especially
the part having reference to the at
torney general. The Capital adds:
1T can be reliably stated that he is
we'll satisfied with his present berth
and will be until after another term
expires. And much can happen by
that time. Just now there is much
talk about opposition to Judge Smith
but no one is willing to name can
didate against him, and when the
time comes his friends say that the
Republicans of the Ninth will agree
with President Taft and line up behind
the Judge"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The famous astronomer. Archen-
bold of Berlin is quoted as saying
that telescope could be made at a
cost of 100000 by the use of which
we could see what is going on on
Mars. Any reader of this paper who
has 100000 lying about loose and
has curiosity to know what the
Martians are doing should not over
look this opportunity
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

In commenting upon statement re-
Gently made by The Gate City that the
town of Etah consists of about fifty
people, 10S dogs and four tents, the
Sioux City Tribune explains to its
readers that when the fifty people
get hungry they eat-ah the los dogs
and are content in the four tents. "
Happily capital punishment has been
restored in this state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The Chicago Tribune is doubtless
right in its statement that little did
Mark Twain think, when as boy
he walked barefoot in the hot sands
of Hannibal. Mo-, that he would live
to be A rich and famous author and
the father-in-law of man named
Gabrilowitsch. 1t is perhaps just as
we'll that people do not know in adj
vance what fate has in store for them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

John C. Busby of independence,
Iowa's premier weather prophet, pre-
diets that we will have cold wave
ali over this state and the northwest
today and that it will amount to a
severe freeze. From today until the
18th he promises a warm wave VIII
set in and thar We will have fine
genial october weather. Mr.. Busby
believes that Hallet's comet rushing
through space caused the recent
earth's disturbance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

President Taft incidentally pointed
out that there is a difference between
the Universalist and the Unitarian
church, Sioux City Journal.
The remark recalls Starr Kings
differentiation of the two denomina-
tons. He said that the Universalists
believe God is too good to DAM any
body, while the Unitarians believe
that everybody is too good to be
damned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

Letters have been received in Des
Moines from Gen. James S. Clarkson,
surveyor of the post of New York,
saying that he does not expect to re-
turn to Des Moines to live nor does
he expect to establish daily news
paper there. Nevertheless there is
said to be movement on foot look
ing to the establishment of Repub-
lican morning paper in Des Moines
with a paid-up capital of 100000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

They are having "bi-partisanship"
politics over in Illinois. For the bene-
fit of the uniformed it may be stat
ed that it is an arrangement to elect
Democrats to office in Republican
state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

According to the near-philosopher
of the Sioux City Tribune, wives
would be suspicious Of husbands who
always tell all the truth under all cir
cumstances. The best that can be
said Of this theory is that it is pure
" speculative.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10
Well. Rather.

Sioux City News: If you had son
and he acted like Peary is acting,
you'd just take him out in the wood
shed and lambast him good, wouldn't
you?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

There is a good lot of philosophy in
the remark by the Des Moines Tribune
that if people would chew their feed
as much as they chew the rag there
would be less dyspepsia in this world
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

Undertakers are so in the habit OF
putting under ground everything they
can get their hands on that over at
indianapolis they even went so for as
to bury their differences. Following
this procedure they added a new hor-
ror to death by forming trust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

The agricultural editor of tho WAY
erly Republican says that he "Hkes
to hear pigs clamor for their morning
meal with voice like an insurgent
senator talking tariff He declares
that pig that will not squeal on an
October morning has not enough life
and vim in him to make him safe
property.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

So many women are being operated
upon at Washington of late that the
press expects to hear the criticism
of a woman who isn't tidy that she is
always going around with some Of the
stitches united.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

At the present rate OF progress it
will not be long until it will be wise
hunter who can distinguish between
a flock of ducks and flock of air
ships. one will be as common as
the other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

A Missouri farmer has contracted
the habit of firing at every balloon
he sees. One of these days some sky
pilot will let something drop on him
that will make a dent in his empty
Uranium
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-10

President Taft seems TO an eastern
paper to have settled the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy by hanging a
wreath of roses and q reward of merit
card on both horns Of what the Cos
sipy public deemed to be serious
dilemma.