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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
The Grass Killer.

Peoria Herald Transcript: A word
about the grass killer. He Is the
man who cares nothing for the rights
OF property owners and who, because
it will save him three steps persists
in wearing patch across a park in
stead of turning the corner three feet
away on the walk.
The grass killer is the human rel
alive of the dandelion. He is a nat
ural enemy of beautiful lawns and
parking. He is pest, but unlike
the dandelion, he cannot be exter-
minated. He can only be plead with
and possibly be made to see himself
in an unfavorable light
The beauty of the city is greatly
enhanced by green parkings and per-
feet lawns. Throughout Peoria are
thousands of property owners who
are trying to make their property at
tractive both to themselves and the
passersby. Their enemies are dan
ldelions, bugs, and strangely enough,
certain varieties of human beings en-
dowed with alleged brains. These hui
mans persist In sacrificing the looks
of the city and the pleasure of the
property owners by cutting across
parkings and lawns often for the in
4 fnitesimal savings of steps. The re-
suit is that almost the only attract
i've parkings are in the Uplands where
] they are inside of the sidewalks-not
as attractive a method if outside park
4 ings could be kept in grass.
I re you are a grass killer of this va
riety, stop and think before you stamp
4 loutishy across some mans parking
Are you generous man, or a con-
i siderate one2 Are you good citizen
when you do it? Are you a support
er Of civic beauty or a detriment to
1 1t? And can't you make yourself a
great deal more pleasant to your fell
low citizens who have to live with
You by respecting their rights at the
4 expense of possibly ten extra steps a
day-one-half the distance around a
4 pool table?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
WEDDING GIFTS "PLuNDER."
Custom Of Present Day Unions De
nounced by Eastern Clergy
man.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May IL
'Wedding presents are plumber and
our marriage customs are pagan as
serted Rev. w. H. Butler of the Ed
wards Church of Northampton In an
address before the Hampshire confer
ence of Congregational churches IN
the Payson church.
In discussing The Christian Ideal
of Marriage Rev Mr.. Butler said in
part: Unfortunately most OF the
views of marriage obtained by young
people are from literature and such
literature as would not be found in a
Sunday school library.
.The church has been remiss in its
teachings on the subject. There have
been different views of marriage
among both the laity and the clergy.
There has been no clearly defined idea
of Christian marriage and 1T has not
been regarded as a holy sacrament
The fathers of the early church had
low ideas Of marriage.
"The church has been powerless to
prevent MARRIAGES anu lIdo tiiSl SloAS
tried to dignity marriage. Social re-
formers have regarded divorce as a
disease, or, rather as the symptoms of
disease. The cause of 40 per cent of
the divorces is desertion and 20 per
cent is due to infidelity If the truth
were known surprisingly large per-
centage of the assertions is due to
unfaithfulness on the part of the man
or woman The standard of morality
| is higher in this country than in
Europe yet divorces are much more
common here.
The movement to emancipate wo-
man has led to many divorces, for
marriage is now regarded as civil
contract between absolute equals. The
opportunity that woman have to earn
their own living has increased
divorces and hotels and apartment
houses have done much to aggravate
the evil. In many cases marriage is
regarded as an experiment and If il
does not succeed it is given up.
Marriages should be made more
difficult. The diseased, degenerated
and vicious should not be allowed to
marry. Divorce regulations should be
more strict and the causes should be
the same in all states. The short-term
residence for divorce purposes is a
national disgrace
"The relation of the sexes should be
I taught in the Sunday school the puhlic
school and the home
Some of our marriage customs are
pagan. l never see a band of well
dressed hoodlums at railroad
station with old boots, rice and
tin pans galore without think
ing of the customs of heather
nations. Marriages should be cele
brated in churches, but there
should be no engraved invitations with
/ their plumber in the way of wedding
gifts"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
Council Bluffs if you propose to en-
cumber the courts of Council Bluffs
RELIABILITY OF THE NEWsPA

The newspapers can well take
pride in the estimate Mr.. James Ford
Rhodes PLACES upon their work. in an
article in the current Atlantic Month
I ly, in which he upholds the newspa-
per as a reliable source or historical
data. Mr. Rhodes goes further than
to say it is worthy of consideration in
the compilation of any history, and
maintains that it is the best source of
information for everything except of
| fetal acts, in which case, OF course,
the public documents themselves tell
the story, although unlike the news
paper they do not disclose the mo-
tive. He says:
The impulse of an american writ
er in justifying the use of newspa
pers as historical material is to adopt
an apologize tone. 1t is somewhat
curious that such should be the case
for newspapers satisfy so many
canons of evidence They are con
temporary, and being written without
knowledge of the end. cannot bolster
up any cause without making a plain
showing of intent Their object is
the relation of daily events; and ii
their relation is colored by honest or
dishonest partisanship. this is easily
discernible by the critic from the in
ternal evidence and from an easily
acquired knowledge of a few external
facts"
The author takes severely to task
those who give preference and cred
ence to personal correspondence and
personal membranes, both of which
are often committed to paper long
after the events transpired, in prefer
erence to newspaper accounts of cur
rent date. He points out that mac
curacies in the newspapers would be
challenged at the time and other pub
locations would disclose them while
to memory and private correspond
ence there is no check to either par
tisanship or inaccuracy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
AMERICA LEADS IN AGRlcuL
TlJRE

Prof. Robert Wallace, the grand
old man of agriculture in the United
Kingdom" and for twenty-seven
years dean of the agricultural depart
ment in Edinburgh university, was a
visitor at the State College at Ames
yesterday. In an interview with a
Register and Leader representative
in Des Moines Professor Wallace de-
clared that America is ahead of Great
Britain in the science of agriculture
fifty years. Great Britain leads in
plant breeding, but this country is
ahead in dairying and raising stock.
The distinguished visitor paid a fine
tribute to the State College, saying
among other things:
"Ames college is one Of the great
est agricultural schools of this coun-
try, and as this country leads, it is
one of the greatest in the world.
have sent two scholarship pupils to
Ames from the Edinburgh university
/ | come to America every two or three
years to learn of the progress being
made in the agricultural colleges. The
methods employed in this country
are being adopted by the schools OF
| Great Britain"
Professor Wallace declared that
Secretary Wilson is the greatest agri
culturist the world has ever known
and one of its greatest statesmen. He
said he came to this country to wor
4 ship at the shrine of Mr. Wilson. In
speaking of the tariff situation and
the need of protection he said
The tariff situation in the United
States brings to my mind the tariff
movement now on in England THAI
country has been the dumping ground
of all other countries for many years
We call it free trade. 1t is free trade
for the exporting countries and MOI
! for England. For instance. England
raises a tremendous amount of hop.
and California hops are being i'm
ported. The result is that thousand!
of people, who labored for the hop in
dustry in England, are out of work
England has awakened to realiza
ton of the fact that it must d.
something to protect its home indus
tries
/ In Professor Wallace's view, the
: establishment of the country life com
i mission was one of the greatest
4 moves ever made by former Presi
: dent Roosevelt. The lack OF such d
: movement in England was assigned
: as one reason why that country is be
r hind this in agricultural lines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
THE DAILY GATE CITY

stand out against what the country
really wants or do what the country
at large disapproves of. You can
search our history from the beginning
and you will see that my statement Is
correct"
But you know, Mr.. Speaker, you
are car
Mr.. Cannon smiled grimly. Yes; !
know AMIN Democratic platforms
and in some of the moral uplift maya
zines" he said. but only Just SO long
as have a majority behind me who
like a car
And what are the qualities that
lead to success in the Houses"
Industry. capability. ability and
the Speaker paused for emphasis
..courage-that' the most important.
If when the Lord makes a man he
gives him everything and runs short
of material and puts in him an angle
worm where there ought to be back.
bone, he had better go fishing than
come to congress-"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
n. room. Keep J. the patients bed

room. Keep the patients bed
screened.
Catch the flies as fast as they ap-
pear. Use the sticky fly papers, traps
and liouid poisons.
To clear rooms of flies burn pyre-
thrum powder or blow black flag into
the air of the room. These do not
kill the flies, they are merely stunned
and fall to the floor. They must then
be gathered up and destroyed.
Eliminate the breeding places OF
f1ies-this is important.
Keep garbage receptacles tightly
covered Clean the cans daily
Sprinkle them with kerosene OF
chloride of lime.
Pour kerosene into the drains. keeI
sewerage system in good order.
Clean cuspidors every day. keeI
a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acio
in them all the time.
Don't allow dirt to accumulate II
corners, behind the doors, back o.
radiators under stoves, etc.
Do not allow decaying material o.
any sort to accumulate on or neal
your premises.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

During the month of April the total
amount OF money III circulation in
creased almost 100000 to a new
high record Of s3,O96.663,124, which
compares with sS,oS6,294.1o 1 in the
same period of 1908. After allowing
for the estimated increase in popula
ton to SS,6s7 900 however, the pei
capita is smaller in than the high-wa
ter mark established last year, sS492
comparing with 1851. With that ex
ception, the present figure exceeds all
previous records.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
II remained for the citizens OF Rad

It remained for the citizens of Rad
cliffe, in this state to become the pion-
GERS in the matter of real sane and
patriotic Fourth of July AS the fourth
falls on Sunday this year, the citizens
of the town have decided to celebrate
the nations birth on that day. The
business men will cooperate with the
ministers and other people of the
town in arranging a program that win
be at once sane and safe and wholly in
keeping with the birthday of the ma
ton and the Sabbath. This is, so far
as known, the first town in the state
to announce such celebration of the
anniversary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
Home PATRONAGE.


The municipal Judge of Council
bluffs is a firm believer in patronizing
home industries and shows his faith
by his works as opportunity offers. A
prisoner charged with drunkenness
was brought before him. According
to the Nonpareil a dialogue something
like this ensued
Were you drunk?"
II was
Where did you get your liquor?'
"In Omaha"
Were you drunk when you came
from Omaha to this city?'
| was
Five dollars and costs. / will teach
you fellows to buy your liquor ii
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

example constantly before him, can be
so happy And it is a puzzle how one
without heart can be happy at all.
He's curiosity. And after all, self
possession and great Difference to pub
lie opinion is required to hold one
back from the tender of congratula-
ton, with secret design to sneak an
expression of hope to his ear that his
birthdays may increase and that hap
piness may be his portion always,
reflected, when he has nothing more
to say, as bank of flowers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

The nomination of Theodore Roose-
welt for mayor of New York is pro
posed by Gen. Stewart L. Woodford
the diplomatist and former minister
to Spain, in statement just issued. 1t
is admitted that the boom thus
launched has neither the knowledge
nor the consent of Mr.. Roosevelt, but
it is declared than an insistent and
unanimous demand on the part of tbs
people of the city would compel him
to accept.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
WARNING AGAINST FLY PESTS

- = y
The city health department of Chi.
cago has just issued bulletin warn
ing against the certain invasion with
in few weeks of a vast army of life
destroyers. The army is composed of
what the bulletin calls millions Of
the most dangerous insects known to
mankind flies" Citizens are re.
minded that now is the time to build
up lines of defense and to prepare to
fight them as YOU would wild beasts
seeking your life. The warning is
as applicable to the people of Keokuk
and other communities as to those of
Chicago and should be needed by all.
In describing how diseases are spread
the bulletin says:
Flies may infect you with germs OF
tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet few
er, and other communicable diseases
as well as typhoid fever. After flies
have Toasted on the infectious matter
of person sick with these diseases
they may go direct TO your baby.
crib to your food, to your drink o.
perhaps to a small open wound or
your face or hands and deposit tn,
germs Of these diseases. When these
germs are deposited in your milk sup
ply they multiply fast, therefore mill
should never be exposed to flies"
Here are some of the suggestions
made by the health DEPARTMENT TO
protection from these disease bring
ers
Screen your windows and doors be
fore fly time and keep the screens il
place until snow falls.
Keep flies away from foodstuffs.
Kill every fly that enters the sicl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

An eastern paper is ungallant
enough to remark that tie Daughters
of the American Revolution seem to
be having little difficulty in proving
their right to be considered as the
lineal descendants of fighting an
, cestry
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

One of the most exciting elections
ever known in Newfoundland came to
a close with Saturdays balloting. The
dispatches advise us that the result
may be known in a week or more. As
the Davenport Democrat observes, this
is about the length of time it takes
an American to forget that an cleo
ton has been held.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

They have queer ideas of justice in
Kansas. A man in Jail in that state
for murder secured his release by
writing a poem. Happily the author
tiles cannot force the people to read
what he has written.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

Mothers Day was so generally OBJ
served in Des Moines Sunday that the
florists could not supply the demand
for white carnations. White roses
were worn and even white lilies when
carnations gave out In the churches
the affairs were banked high with
white carnations and the hymns were
particularly appropriate to the day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

The suggestion has been advanced
that the discovery of 500 pianos in the
Yoldiz Kiosk explains A. Hamids ia
cility in furnishing music for the con
cert of the powers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
The Doctor Knows

Washington Star: did you ever
have appendicitis" said the insurance
man. We'll" answered the skeptic,
81 was operated on. But never felt
sure whether it was a case of appendi-
citis or case of professional curios-
ity.1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

Surprise is expressed that Dry Run,
Pa, has gone wet. But consider the
provocation. Probably the longer 1t
remained dry the drier it became.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

The esteemed Houston Post rises
to observe that corn bread is heap
better anyway and besides, corn can't
be cornered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

"Impulsive insanity" is what they
call it in the Hams case. Annis is
dead, just the same.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

ST. Louis consumes twenty carloads
of potatoes a day. The Des Moines
Register and Leader suggests that this
accounts for some Washers being so
busy in that city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
Hot lime Ahead.

Sioux City Tribune: The Mount
Pleasant man who boasts of having be-
longed to eighteen churches and fore
ing eighteen pastors to resign is evil
IDENTITY winning candidate for eigh-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

Because Diaz will soon begin his
eighth term as president of Mexico
some CT the papers are calling him
the "Tama Jim" of our sister repub-
lie.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Marriage has been defined as a
process which turns an unsuspecting
girl into an amateur detective of the
highest type.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

According to the Sioux City
Journal, when man at tea party
says he is enjoying himself his wife
admires him for being suca con-
siderate liar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

"One woe doth tread upon another's
heels so fast they follow" A pretzel
famine is said to be imminent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-11

William Howard Taft is the only
President with a middle name since
Chester A. Arthur. All but seven of
the nations twenty-six Presidents have
been blessed with but single bap-
tismal name.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-10

New York, Nov. 6.-By order Of
Judge Lacombe, all the receivers in
debtedness Of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway Company was called for pay
ment today. Series A. B and G. Of the
receivers certificates were paid today,
the money being furnished by stock
holders and the underwriting syndi-
cate in exchange for $18,000,00O Of
adjustment bonds offered at 20. The
road was taken out Of the hands of
the receivers this week and turned
over to the company.
The order Of the court also directs
the issuance of new securities and the
recording of new mortgages AMI
agreements. and says that all ont
standing certificates and other obliga-
tions Of the receivers are to be ad-
judged a lien on the property until
paid. The court reserves the right to
renew possession Of the road If the
Indebtedness Is not paid.
The receivers certificates are to be
paid by Blair & Co., Of this city. ana
the Continental Trust Company, OF
baltimore, and they are to pay in al.
dition 100000 two-year s per cent
notes of the company, all overdue in
terest the first mortgage 4 per cent
bonds and outstanding promisso ~
notes amounting to $2,4Ss,5s3 with
interest.
Effective tomorrow, the Seaboari
AIT Line Is to have a new passenger
srain schedule, which will greatly i'm
prove the service between the North
and South.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-10
Appealed to His Pride.

1t was the most obstinate mule in
the lot and refused to enter the car
of a train held up at q little wayside
station. Threats, cajolery and blows
were alike useless. The mule refused
to bulge. and the slant Of his ears told
those of the passengers who were ia
miliar with mule ear talk that where
he was he intended to stay. Then the
aged African who was trying to load
him in said in honeyed tones:
"Whuffo' yo' behave dis way befo'
all desc strange people? Why, yo'
fool mule, doan' yo' know dat desc
people will jes' believe dat yo' neber
done trabeled befo' in all yo' life?"
The long ears lost their aggressive
slant. and the beast went sedately up
the inclined plank with the air of a
man entering drawing room car for
the first time and determined not TO
betray the fact.-Exchange.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-10
MRS. STETSON EXONERATED.
Former Head Reader of Christian
Science Church in New York Vindi.
Gated.

NOTssACr AhcaU.ktt8OtF OF Christian
Science Church In New York Vindi.
Gated.
New York, Nov. 4.-Mrs. Augusta
A. Stetson, formerly head-reader OF
the First Church Of Christ, scientist,
in this city. was exonerated today OF
charges Of mental malpractice" in
the report of a special board of in
quiry presented to a congregation Of
1000 persons at long and stormy
meeting in the big white stone church
on Central Park, West. The exonera-
tiOn Of Mrs. Stetson was endorsed by
the members Of the church, but a por-
ton of the boards report, which con-
cerned Virgil Ostrickler, her successor
as first reader, who had appeared in
Boston as witness against Mrs. Stet-
son. was referred back to the board Of
inquiry for further consideration.
Among the charges against Mrs.
Stetson, the most important were. in
effect, that her teachings had tended
to disloyalty to Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy. founder and leader of the sect.
and that Mrs. Stetson had been guilty
Of mental malpractice in bringing
Christian Science to bear upon people
who did not welcome it, "by hypno-
tism. mesmerism and similar meth
DDS"
The report Of the board of inquiry,
which came after four weeks examin-
alton OF witnesses, the taking Of 1000
pages of testimony and thirty-fve sit
tings of the board was a complete ex-
oneration of Mrs. Stetson and a de-
claration of loyalty Of the New York
church to the mother church in Bos-
ton. The report says:
These false reports were engender-
ed and developed by malicious animal
magnetism, which is the opposite and
the opponent of Christian Science, and
they were circulated by persons who
did not properly protect themselves
against aggressive mental suggestion,
as enjoined by our beloved leader.