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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
Iowa, the Real Iowa.

Marshalltown Times Republican:
The state fair opened yesterday at
Des Moines. 1t is big thing, some
thing more tam a fair and approach
ing national exposition. When the
variety and excellence OF the exhibits
are considered how much more and
how much better could the nation do?
Aside from some special exhibits in
the arts and few other lines tie Wis
itor to the Iowa state fair may see the
best of everything grown, raised or
made. Nowhere else may finer cattle
be found, fatter swine, heavier grain.
better butter In the agricultural dis
play We beat the world.
And we are not to be despised in
the matter of made things. Iowa is
growing into manufacturing state.
What we do make we make best
There is nothing wrong with our
educational display. When you have
gone over the educational exhibit you
will be satisfied that the average
Iowa school boy is being well trained
and fitted for his place as the future
Iowan. The work from city and coun-
try school is evidence of progress at
tanned and the promise of much to be
attained. The schools are all right
with perhaps little fixing.
Altogether the exposition of Iowa's
resources and advancement at the
state fair may bring self satisfied
and pridefuI smile to the Iowan. Our
farms are all right, our manufactor-
les are growing and multiplying, our
schools are good, our horses win prizes
abroad as at home, our cattle are the
aristocrats of the fields, our hogs are
square and bulky. our merchants are
busy, prosperity is In the saddle, all's
right with Iowa.
And after looking over the exhibits
take time to see the people That Is
the real opportunity of the fair. Hogs,
cattle, everything else is incidental.
The people are the real exhibit of
Iowa's greatness. What splendid peo-
pie crowd the pavilions and swarm
into the new steel grand stand that a
paternal legislature built for their
comfort and pleasure. Such solid farm
ers with sonsy smiling wives, broad
with motherhood and happy with the
day: suca trim. pretty country girls
dressed with taste and In keeping
with the times. She is not to be distin-
| guished from her city sister, unless a
| little line of tan above her collar be-
trays her Such intelligent, strong
faces among the young men. Such
strings of automobiles from city and
country Such a jolly people, sucn a
happy. contented, intelligent, prosper
Gus, fearless people safe in the knowl.
edge Of their own ability and the un-
bounded opportunities of their own
state.
That is where you see Iowa. Iowa is
the men and women. the youth and
children we see at the fair and all
over Iowa. She was the seed bed of a
planting winnowed from the best the
east and north afforded. She is now
the seed granary of the mighty north
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

A recent dispatch from Ottawa re-
ports the arrival in Canada during the
month of June of 9,2OS American i'm
migrants as compared with 1854 dur
ing the same month Of last year.
During last year about $4,000 Ameri-
cans moved into Canada to live, and it
is estimated that the number this
year will be $4,000. These men are
mostly well-to-do farmers, and they
took with them last year over s52.-
100000 in money or property.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
August, 80, 1909,
keokuk, Iowa.
THEY ALSO SERVE.

THEY ALSO SERVE.
Sometimes long to cease to strive;
1t seems so futile, now and then,
To crowd and crush with other men
And toll to merely keep alive.
Sometimes it seems as If the woe
Were not worth bearing on the
way
Then comes the thought OF those
who'd say
With shrugs and smirks: 1--WE told
you So"
They keep me striving when it seems
AS il I ne'er may hope again;
They give me courage- still 70
strain
When / awake from pleasant dreams +;
To them a lasting debt owe,
They give me strength to face my
fate;
Thank God tor those who sit and
wait
To smugly say. eve told you So"
IS. e. Kiser.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
Miuht Learn a Lesson.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil. The auto.
mobile might learn valuable lesson
from the bicycle. The latter has set
tied down to a position of good citi-
zenship. whereas 1t once used to be as
big a chump as the auto.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Congressman Fowler, who didn't re-
tain the Craftsmanship on banking and
currency, says Speaker Cannon is
car and Uncle Joe retorts that the
New Jersey statesman is joke. Hon
ors are now even.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Only forty days remain before the
end of the great maturity race. That
is the time intervening until October
8, the average date of the first killing
frost in this state. The corn must be
ripe by then or fall victim to the
hoary king from the north. Heavy
odds are being wagered that corn will
win.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Can any reader of The Gate City
tell what 'kuddlefleck" is? Inc word
appeared recently in the Allentown
(Pa) Democrat and is presumably
Pennsylvania Dutch" Alex Miller
doesn't know, and confesses as much
in his Washington Democrat All he
Is sure of is that the editor who made
use of the word is SO Dutch he can't
whistle in any other language.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
Some Men.

Columbus Safeguard: Some men
think 1t is great IL they can go to a
convention and get onto committee
of some kind. 1t don't matter II they
can only get appointed as fourth a.
sistant cuspidorian they will get
swelled up like a poisoned pup and
think they are as important as ward
politician.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

In conversation with callers the
other day President Taft is said to
have expressed his attention of max
ing the postal savings banks a prom
inent feature of his annual message
to congress in fulfllment of his party's
pledge. 1t is suggested that the mil
lions thus placed in the custody of
the government could be used to take
W the depreciating PER cent bonds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

DR.. Charles w. Eliot, in publish
ed letter to one of the critics, who
had scoffed at his New Religion"
shows that he is hurt, and that he
attributes much OF the criticism to in
complete reports of his address and
to inaccuracies. In this letter he as
serts that Jesus will be in the relig-
ion of the future, not less. but more,
than in the Christianity of the past"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

It has been arranged that Congress
man Hull shall introduce President
Taft when the latter speaks at Des
Moines on September 90, with the I'M
derstanding that he must not consume
more than minute and half. Mr..
Hull's speech promises to be model
Of its kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

1t is safe assumption that the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad COM
pany would not give an order for
s11 100000 worth of additional equip
ment and the Santa Fe one for $4,000
600 worth of steel unless there was
business in sight to justify the outlay.
If prosperity is not actually present it
is not far away.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
Ianet,s Generosity.

"Hcw nicely you have ironea .Ds
things, Jane" said the mistress ON.
miringly to her maid. Then glans Is
at the glossy linen. she continues NAV
a tone of surprise: "Oh. but see :
are all your own :. all
YES" replied Jane, "and 70 ~
yours Just like that If ! had 1lms' 7
Central Methodist Advocate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

A visitor at Iowa City was heard to
remark that the guardsmen were kids
in appearance. The Republican adj
mits that this is true to /. considerable
extent, but says they are the same
kind of kids that fought the battle of
Gettysburg and captured vicksburg
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Babylon, sodom. Gomorrah and
Springfield are notified by the JacF
sonyille Courier that they will have to
look well to their laurels or Pittsburg
will yet wrest the championship from
them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Minnesota farmers are taking adj
vantage of new law emitting them
to record with the register of deeds,
the names of their farms. 1t gives
dignity to a farm to have it named
and the name officially recorded, so
that nobody else can use 1t. Every
farm in Iowa. as we'll as in Mime.
sofa. should have distinctive name.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

A moving picture concern Is put.
ting out films representing views OF
,aradise. Tnc enterprise should score
a great hit. 1t will be the only chance
most people will have of getting
glimpse of the happy land.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
Pure Rot.

Sioux City Tribune: This talk about
abolishing the Oyster Bay postoffice
is pure rot. Somewhere in the wilds
of Africa there is a man who can put
it back On the map in black-faced
type, and he is more than likely to do
it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
He Passed.

A political aspirant was taking the
examination to qualify as sixth aud.
itor of the treasury. He was asked to
state the distance of the moon from
the earth. His written answer was:
Not near enough to affect tho
functions of sixth auditor of the
treasury"
Aud he passed, too.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
Ruckinu AGAINST Waterloo.

Waterloo Courier: 1t never pays
to buck against Waterloo. Ask Ma.
poleon and Keokuk The turn of luck
which landed the latter from first
place to fourth started right here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

nobly has he performed it. All hope
that he will be speedily restored to
health. He is sanity man and
great honor to the community as well
as one of it's best assets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Col. Fred Grant predicts that the
next war will be fought with air ships.
1t is probable that they will at least
figure conspicuously in future contests.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

The vinton Eagle says that Judge
Prouty and A. L. Urick, the two Des
Moines reformers who have allen out.
"are two of the greatest bloodless poll
ticians in Iowa"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

J D. Gulick OF Van Buren, county
recently sold wetaer which weighed
165 pounds and brought him $3.50.
The wool from the same sheep sold
for $3.50 earlier in the season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

According to the Buffalo News,
man in that town who had SITS in IS
bills blown from his window sill adj
vertised his loss and got $205 back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Fortunate is the bride, observes the
Chicago News, who marries the best
man at her wedding.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
NOTES AND COMMENT.

1. has been suggested that perhaps
the ocean Is treacherous because it is
full Of craft.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

A denial is published of the tele-
graph story sent out to the effect that
Billy Sunday and Mrs. Sunday were
parties to a fast automobile ride and
that Mrs. Sunday was seriously hurt.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette declares
that if Billy ever meets that cores
pendent the fellow will experience re-
ligion-or something else--al. in a
heap.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

The Davenport Democrat says that
although something like an approach
to keeping politics out of the federal
census is to be made, all previous at
tempts in that direction have been
either partial or complete failures.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

A farm In Appanoose county. Iowa,
has been traded for lighting plant
in Kirksville, Mo. There were 500
acres in the farm and it was valued at
$4,000. The lighting plant was put in
at $4,000, and in the exchange mort
gage of 100000 on the farm was as
sumed by the Kirksville parties.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

a novel move is on In Chicago ID
have church service before every
Sunday game, turning loose band Of
salvation evangelists in front of the
big crowd at stations where the
preachers voices will not overlap.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Jackson S. Elliott, well known in
Des Moines. Waterloo and Sioux City,
where he was formerly in newspaper
work. has been selected by the depart.
ment OF commerce and labor to meet
the important Japanese delegation
which will arrive at Seattle, Sept. 2,
as guests OF the chamber OF CON. merce
of the cities of the Pacific slope.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

The Waterloo Reporter foresees
Tat If the astronomers who have de-
clared that the canals of Mars flow
bank full with foamy beer can prove
their contention they will have no diff
ficulty in organizing a company to
build a pipe line.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-30

Read The Daily Gate cry
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-06
-BY-=
GEORGE NJ. A. CAIN

holders outside this district, the great
colonial homes fronting in the streets
and back by vast acres Of corn and to-
bacco-these were wrapped in darkness
as the bowling mob pulled and hauled
their victim TO his death.
Once or twice Dick thought he saw a
light hurriedly extinguished as he was
draw nearer to some house. The most
Of the houses were only visible when
the lightning flashed-now a little nearer
than il had been half an hour earlier
Bitterly Dick wondered that, from all
the houses they passed in the mile and
a quarter over which he was hauled ana
showed not one person came forth 70
stay the brutality; not one man was
willing or brave enough TO face the
mob.
He knew he was in the hands Of
towards. He knew that single IN
dividuai of repute. one who could call
these men by name and threaten them
with exposure and prosecution Would
send the pack scuTrying TO their dens-
At first, as they emerged from the
slam district and the light Of the
torches fell upon one large house close
to the road, Dicks heart had been
raised to a momentary hope that some
one would intervene to prevent the out
rage This hope doomed up a little
weaker again and again as they passed
the six houses nearest the center OF
the town.
II had weakened. almost died, when
he saw the light in a window little
ahead It hardly seemed possible that
he-innocent of crime, strong, healthy,
a short while since so utterly free or
care-that he should be put to violent,
shameful, agOnizing death. 1t seemed
that some providence must interfere.
And the light had sent the hope into
his breast once more, only TO die COM
pletely as it was hurriedly extinguished
and they passed another house and
another and another beyond, and no one
came to the rescue.
And then came the dread Of death.
The man who has been sick for weeks
or months-or the man who has endured
intense pain for days-reaches the place
where death holds no terror me sol
der in battle does not expect 10 ole.
II he does, he can we'll nigh forget the
erd in the glory of its Accomplishments
But the condemned criminal-the man
who walks with his own strength 70 the
gGlloWs or the electric charlie faces
death ia all its horror. When one reads
Of such walking calmly to the end, ne
cannot but wonder az the nerve when
steadies these doomed wretehes.
A few hours ago, weary ana worn
from the hard tramp into the town;
Dick had imagined that he half wished
the men would Kill him them ana there.
Now that he really faced death, II
seemed to him he had never wanted so
much 10 live.
He tugged at the cords with which
his hands were bound They would not
Yield He threw his weight backward
in an effort TO loosen himself from the
rope BY which he was being led. II
only drew tighter about him as the men.
eursing, jerked the harder.
He tried to remember some prayer,
such as might be fitting for man about
TO meet his end. He could not bring
himself to say such q prayer. Together
with the clear knowledge that he was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-06

NEW YORK. Aug. 6-"Conscious
motherhood is the ideal OF the future.
Perfect womanhood is tempered with
dash Of the devil. The height OF
woman's mental attainment viii come
with contented motherhood. declares
Victor D. Bremen. the noted sculptor,
whose Lincoln penny has created so
much comment.
Bremen is a Russian, Of the highest
intellectual type.
The woman of tomorrow win COM
bine seusuality and iEtelHgency that
Is perfection. Our old ideals were sens
ual: they had no intellect. The beautt-
ful body was there with It's appealing
suggestion Of motherhood.
The most intelligent women Of to-
day are too intelligent, too cold, ali
/ brains; the suffragette type. Il Is bet
ter than the old ideal Of sensuality. but
il is not right.
THE woman Of the future will be
the best Of the old and the present. "
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-06

certainly about to die there remained
the feeling that he could not ole yet
once or twice it was upon his tongue
10 plead with these rufhans for his life
Here alone his pride baked. He knew
il could do no good. He could not bring
himself to the craven attitude Of one
crying for mercy to those from whom
all In the world he needed was com
mon justice.
At length the men passed a long iron
fence, over which Dick could see a we'll
kept lawn, dotted here and there with
handsome. shrubs and trees that showed
prosperity even in the heeting glimpses
the lightning revealed.
He caught a CLEAN from the alumni
num-painted mail box, shining in the
fare of the torches. On Il was stem
Ciled, "R. Martin" It was the home
Of the man he was supposed to have
murdered
A little beyond the end Of this fence
they turned into a rough drive which
appeared to have. been made for the
purpose. of hauling logs from the wooo
into which they presently entered. Ihey
had not gone far among the tail trees
when they turned again at the foot of
a steep incline.
At the bottom this was still covered
with heavy trees. But, as they neared
the top, il became apparent that there
was q huge platform Of solid rock high
enough TO overtop the trees around.
Almost exactly in the center OF this
stood the gnarled stump Of pine tree.
To this the men made fast the rope
that bound Dick about the waist
AS they were tying the rope about
his body again and again, fash Of
lightning, brighter than any which
hid gone before, showed Dick tSat he
was standing upon q point from which
a fire could be seen by the whole val
lev for miles and miles
II reckon we bettah hu'y up this
heah Job eff we don want the rain TO
put out the hah," one of the men said
calmly.
But another Of the masked figures
stepped up close to Dick and spoke
in a more merciful tone.
Young fellow. in fifteen minuits 20
soul u be standin' afoeh the Judgment
seat of Cave Almighty. You-all bet
tan confess yo crime an die homes. y
By the light OF the torches Dick
could see enough of the fellows chin
to know that ne was a negro. and that
he wore the white tie and high-cut
vest of a clergyman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-06
CHAPTER X.


ARTINSBURG is a village OF
I'M some fifteen hundred inhabi-
tants. The court house is To-
Gated very near the center OF
the place, and opposite IS a saloon ant
hotel, the former literally patronizec
by most of the population; the latter
used by occasional lawyers when some
litigant is dissatisfied with either OF
the two resident practitioners.
From beyond the court house and the
hotel stretch rows OF general stores
They are unevenly built Of brick OF
frame. and usually IN woffui state toI
lack OF paint.
of the men who own them. The. judge
and the hotel keeper own the only two
estab lishments of any real dignity
Then come the little shantles Of the
ragtag. and bobtah OF the piace-the
Stun from which the smallest com
munity is never free II vas from these
squaIid little frame huts tEat most OF
the mob had come. The sherif's posse
had been recruited from The better ele-
mens with a few exceptions
II had been these exceptions who had
done most OF the talking with the sher-
If as Dick had been brought over the
road. II was one of them who had rec
ognized Dick when the hammer had
flown from his hand in the darkness.
Such deeds as lynchtng are only to be
expected of such men as take part IN
them That which aston shes the rest
OF this country is the Indifference with
which the respectable element allows
such scrimes 10 be committed and per-
mits the perpetrators TO go unpun-
ished.
The whole Of the shanty neighborhood
was lighted up. Old men, women and
even hlaf-clad children were out on the
street to add their shouts Of approval
TO those of the men.
Bus the sturdy mansions OF the land