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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
DOORS MUST OPEN OUTWARD.

DOORS MUST OPEN OUTWARD.
Among the new laws that will go
into effect in this state on the 4th of
July next is one providing that the en-
trance and exit doors of all public
buildings III Iowa must open outward
The text Of the enactment is as fol-
lows:
The entrance and exit doors of all
hotels, churches. lodge halls, court
houses, assembly halls, theaters,
opera houses, colleges and public
school houses, and the entrance doors
to all class and assembly rooms in
all public school buildings in all
cities and towns shall open outward"
The new law is designed as a
measure of safety and should be gen.
orally obeyed. 1t is impossible in
many cases to open doors which
swing inward when panic occurs
from fire or other cause and many
persons have lost their lives in con-
sequence. Outward-swinging doors
offer no such obstruction to hasty
egress and should be installed in
public buildings everywhere.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

After having rubbed shoulders with
royalty and conducted numerous sue
cessful demonstrations before Europe
an crowds with their aeroplanes, the
Wright brothers are now on their way
back to the United States, where they
are under contract to carry out SER
les of tests on the government grounds
close to the national capital. Possibly
their achievements abroad will have
the effect OF arousing greater public
interest in what they may attempt here
at home this summer. Not a few
American inventors have found for
eign reputation useful among their
own countrymen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Officials Of the Rock Island road
are in correspondence with vending
machine company relative to INSTALL
ing SIT machines filed with para
find paper penny drinking cups in
all passenger coaches, so that trav-
elers will not be forced to use the
disease spreading drinking cups which
hang on chains at the water coolers.
This is the first result of the state
board of health's fight against public
drinking cups, and the willingness of
the Rock Island to provide individual
paper cups makes it certain that the
board will issue an order against the
OH public cups.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

ing upon these utterances well says
that there is no doubt that the mer-
chant quoted represented the situation
exactly as it is presented to the bust
ness men there and elsewhere. That
they wish to be relieved of the burden
is only natural. If the business men
who have gone into the agreement
have enough courage to back their
convictions the plan will work to the
advantage of every local interest. The
experiment will be watched with inter-
est by the business men of other
cities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
THE LAST TREK.

The Century Magazine for May
presents an article of interest
on the emigration of Americans into
the Dominion of Canada. by Agnes C..
Laut entitled "The Last Trek to
the Last Frontier If half million
American settlers should suddenly pull
up roots and migrate in body to some
foreign land the event would be her
aided as one of the most epic move
ments of the century. Yet that is vir-
tually what has happened with little
notice and less comment in the last
six years. In less than six years 1885,
900 American farmers have pulled Up
stakes in their native states and
moved from Wisconsin, Minnesota, the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
4 MEASURE OF PROTECTION.

Fort Dodge merchants recently held
a meeting at which full confession
was made of the folly of being worked
by every advertising" promoter who
comes along, and an agreement was
reached to refuse to patronize such
schemes in the future. The plan de-
cided upon is to make the secretary
of the Retailers association the per-
son to whom propositions outside the
usual line Of advertising will be sub
mitted. He in turn will bring xhe
matters up before the meetings held
by the merchants so that the COM
bined Judgment of all will finally in
f1uence the decision. People outside
of business institutions have little idea
of the opportunities that constantly
come in for this or that proposition,
and it Is often the case that refusal to
respond comes high in the loss of
trade from those interested in the par
ticular proposition. One business man
of Fort Dodge presented the matter in
a clear light when he said to Mes
senger reporter:
eff a business man only gave to
what he felt was meritorious he has
no reason to complain because of the
opportunities given him, but usually
he goes in on the deal that is offered
because he is afraid there is some
thing to profit him which would go to
a competitor if he doesn't take it. He
gets worked up in fever by the
smooth talker and bites to keep the
other fellow out. We all do it and it's
good thing to get together and con-
fess the folly and agree to do SO no
more.
Then the hardest proposition for
us to face is the committee from a
church, club. or fraternal society who
asks US to advertise in some cook
book, program, or souvenir which a
travelling solicitor has induced them
to back. They are often good Gus
toners of ours and we succumb. But
most of what they make-usually one
half goes to the schemer from outside
VINO has put them up to the dodge.
Maybe they did not want to take 1t up,
but he told them he would go to an
other society and offer it if they did
not want it. So you see the outsider
is back of all our troubles and he is
the fellow we are going to make bust
ness bad for.
I'VE would be much better off to
make our contributions to local insti-
tutions direct and know what it has
cost us, rather than by fooling our
selves on an estimate that we are max.
ipo n cash nrofit nv IL -
The W.terlo6 Reporter in comment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Without rendering formal opin-
ion on the question Attorney General
Byers holds that May 81 is not a
legal holiday, and that by strict con-
struction of the Iowa statute saloons
cannot be compelled to close on that
day, though he suggests that If sa-
looms consult their own interests they
will not be open May 81. General
Byers quotes from decision OF the
Nebraska supreme court to the effect
that the date particularly designed as
legal holiday by statute does not
hold over the following day. The
ruling will apply also to the Monday
following JulyN4.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
WANT TAFT ON RIVER TRIP.
Waterway Boomers Plan st. Louis.
New Orleans Junket Tour.

st. Louis Globe Democrat: The
famous river trip. made by former
President Roosevelt, from Keokuk.
Iowa, to Memphis. is to be outdone
by President William H. Taft, if
present plans of the Lakes-to-the-Gul
Deep Waterway Association are car,
ried out. A committee OF the asso-
citation will meet by appointm ant,
President Taft In Washington tomor-
row at noon. The meeting has been
arranged to talk over plans for the
deep waterway convention, to be held
in New Orleans November IL, 70 and
10, this year.
President Taft last month accepted
a formal invitation extended by John
M. Parker, a member of the associa.
tons executive committee, to make
an address at the convention, and the
committee which is to wait on him
Saturday will ask him to send invi-
tations, in the name of the United
States, to every foreign government,
asking that representatives be sent
to the New Orleans meeting. If the
President agrees to do this the gath
ering will assume international i'm
portance.
St. Louis to New Orleans by Water.
At omorrow's meeting the COM
mittee will also take up with the
President its plan to have him make
thu trip from st. Louis to New Orleans
| by steamer. If he consents, the pres
idential steamer will be accompanied
/ b. fleet that will exceed in size
that which escorted President Roose-
welt when he journeyed to Memphis
in October, 1907, stopping at st.
Louis. The Lakes to-the-Gulf Asso-
citation has eighteen state governors
on its advisory board. A number of
these will be at the convention and
will make the river trip with the
President, If it can be arranged.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The postoffice department is soon
to receive bids for the transportation
of mail in New York City by means OF
automobiles. The motor cars are to be
used between the main postoffice and
the substations and, depots wherever
the pneumatic tubes do not perform
the service. The plan has been tried
elsewhere with success and found to
be approximately as speedy as the
pneumatic tubes, much more reliable
and operated with only fraction of
the cost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The recent intervention in Cuba cost
the United States some $4,000, 600
And Cuba is expected to pay the
freight" But the terms are easy The
President is empowered by congress to
receive from the Cuban government
from time to time such amounts to
reimburse the United States as ne may
consider the Cuban treasury then able
to pay without serious embarrass-
ment.' The difficulty in the situation
is that, judging from the past. the
cuban treasury is likely to be in a
tate OF serious embarrassment good
b. ri Of the time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Dakotas, Nebraska. Arkansas and
Oregon, across the invisible line OF the
international boundary to free home
steads in the Canadian northwest.
Moreover. 100000 Americans have
gone north as investors, spectators,
miners, lumbermen. Averaging each
persons capital at $4,000 which is be
lieved to be conservative estimate,
the American invasion of Canada in
the last six years represents in hard
cash one billion dollars taken out OF
this country. Miss Laut has no hest.
tation in saying that a billion dollar
average is too small by half.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
TIE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

The leading article in the Outing
Magazine for May is entitled Ihe
Sport of Flying" by Macmillan Eos
ter. The article is clear explana-
ton Of mechanical wrinkles which
have resulted in mans practical con-
quest of the air. DR.. Woods Hutch
;nson's article on Malaria" will be
read with interest by everybody Dill
Ion Wallace continues his fascinating
story of travel in Mexico in the fea-
ture entitled "The Peon and the
Land" other articles are: THE Battle
with Bugs" by p. P. Powell. timely
article on farming; THE Men who
Operate the Railroads." by Edward
Hungerford; and Miss Agnes G. Lauts
department. sour National Heritage"
The special feature of the May Re-
view of Reviews includes two articles
on the function OF the church In heal
ing physical disease, one from the
cIergyman's and the other from the
physicians viewpoint, by Rev. Lyman
p. Powell and DR.. John G. Fisher. re-
spectively; frank and searching ex-
position Of Japan's financial condition
and exigencies, by Adachi Kinncsuke;
an illustrated account of important ex-
lperiments now being conducted by the
EGovernment to prevent the frightful
loss of life in American Goa! mine ex-
tplosions; timely summary Of the re-
suits of Antarctic exploration, includ-
ing the "farthest south" accomplished
by Lieut.. Schackeiton in January last,
by Syrus G. Adams, and statement by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

DR.. FERDINAND G. Iglehart regarding
the successive political deafeats en-
countered by the American saloon dur
ing the past twelve months.
Perhaps the greatest article in The
Worlds Work for May is the opening
chapter OF the Rev. DR.. w. S. Rains
ford's The Land of the Lion" DR..
Rainsford, former rector of st. George
Church. New York, has just returned
to civilization after year of hunting
in the British East African Protector
ate, very much the same region as that
in which Mr.. Roosevelt will try his
luck. In Maxim's THE Story of the
Noiseless Cum the inventor has told,
for the first time. how he hit on his
remarkable invention
Jack London is represented in the
May issue Of the Smart Set by aloha
De-" tale of Hawaii. Ills Child's
Godmother," the complete novel Is
from the pen OF Frances Pussy Gooch.
\ l
ed family and presents beautiful pic
ture OF the winning of wife's love.
John Kendrick Bangs satire on liter
ary struggles, First Aid to the Libra
ry.' is one of the cleverest pieces Of
work Mr.. Bangs has done in recent
years. There are number OF short
stories in this issue deserving notice
for their unusual strength and charm.
place aux Danes" by Vivian Lee.
presents fine picture Of hunt meet.
'Jackson's Wife," by Victor Rousseau,
is story Of woman in whose very
touch is the sting of death. In IAN
Unbidden Tenant" Minnie Barbour
Adams has painted vivid picture of
an unusual feature of New York life.
Count Won Elberfield's Waterloo" Is
from the pen of Mary Lucke Challis.
Another of the English authors repre-
sented is H, de We're Stacpoole. whose
story of oriental mysticism is THE
Hundred and Fifth Dream"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Baltimore justice has decided that
rival lovers have a right to settle
their differences with their fists and
that no appeal will lie in the case ex-
Cept to the woman 1t is understood of
course that fouls are barred.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The anti-big hat bill in the Illinois
legislature, directed against the "un-
calmly, unwomanly. preposterous, dam
gerous and dreadful" headgear now af-
fected by the fair sex. seems to be
popular with the members, having
been advanced on the house calendar
by unanimous vote. Evidently it is
the intention to pass it and thus put
the lid on the lid.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The Des Moines Tribune prints a
picture of Major Meigs and the boat
with which he will navigate the Des
Moines river from the city of the same
name to Keokuk. In the picture the
major has pipe in his mouth and
looks every inch the liable seaman"
that he is.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Weather permitting, corn planting
will begin this week. The soil is a
bit cold as yet, but few warm days
will put it in proper condition. Veg
citation has made wonderful progress
during the past few days and needs
only little sunshine to be as far ad-
vanced as it usually is at this date.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The governor of Texas is about to
start a lemon ranch. 1t has been fig
ured out that the supplies handed
him by the Texas legislature will
keep the executive pantry stocked I'M
til the trees bear.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The philosopher of the Sioux City
Journal describes a real christian as
"a man who can refrain from speaking
d.srespectfully to his wife when he
has hit his thumbnail a savage lick"
Alas for the rarity of real christians
II this be the test!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

One of the magazines publishes an ar
ticle in which an attempt is made to
show that the weather bureau is sell
dom right in its predictions. BY way
of an offset to this we have the OBJ
servation of the Chicago Record-Her-
aid that the bureau has been painful
ly accurate every time 1t predicted
colder weather.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

A scientist claims to have discov-
cred that fly will survive an electric
shock that would kill horse. The
suspicion will be widespread that he
has discovered something that isn't
so.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Recent events in eastern Africa
should serve as hint to Mr. Thomp-
son that If he has any more gazelles
running at large he would do well to
look after them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The Cedar Rapids Gazette suggests
that the weather man must be trying
to land a job as professional aero
bat. Either as that or as a contor-
ZIONIST
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
Man and Woman.

Quincy Herald: Kippling, who salal
a woman was "A rag, a bone and Z
hank of hair" has had a cr'imp put 81
his remark by one Of them who say,
that . man is but "a jag. a drone an'|
o tank OF air."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

1t has been well said that the Unit
ed States is the only country that
Gan afford bad roads. Only very rich
and fertile land can stand the. waste.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

les. That sort of thing doesn't ap-
peal to the sober. And how far mon
ey raised by common taxation can
be used for the benefit of the com
paratively few is another question
with two sides to 1T.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

There is to be no duty on hides
under the new tariff law. This may
help explain why so many are being
hung up to dry in the senate in adj
vance OF the enactment of the meas
ure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

within their power for their children
even consigning their daughters to
misery because they would rather be
miserable and titled than happy with
an American husband who :las moral
capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Late fashion note: Overcoats are
being worn longer than usual this
spring.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

=
tation in saying that a billion dollar
average is too small by half.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
The sultan is out, but he left the
job in the family says the Monticello
Express.
LATE Young warns Dolliver that
some of the bouquets he is receiving
may contain bugs.
The Dewitt Observer has noticed
that the man who says he takes too
many papers never looks like it.
The Council BLUFFS Nonpareil OBJ
serves that Judge Smith Mcpherson
is giving no indication that he is
scared.
The Burlington Gazette says that
Congressman Murphy's bitter attack
upon Judge Smith Mcpherson will
not shake 1owa's faith in the integ-
rity OF the man from Red Oak.
A story is told of two Atchison
hunters who went across to the lakes
to shoot ducks. 1t was still dark
when they reached what they sup
posed was the lake, and they took
their position by a tree and waited.
When daylight came they found they
we're guarding a wheat field, and by
the time they finally reached the lake
the ducks had left.
Protection" says the Marion Reg
lister, never put out a furnace fire in
factory or mill It never closed the
doors of beehive industry. 1t never
sent their operatives home with their
discharge papers instead of their
wage. Differences between employees
and the employer and overproduction
have at times, led to the banking OF
the fires, but protection never"
The people OF the state of Washing
ton have revolted against the tipping
extortion, and their representatives
in the legislature have promptly
rushed to their aid. Both houses have
passed bill that provides that
every employee of public house or
public service corporation who So
licits or receives any gratuity from
any guest and every person giving
any gratuity shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor."
Iowa club women. when they gather
at Davenport for their annual con-
vention this year. will be shown how
they are cheated in the purchase OF
kitchen sundries, especially extracts.
They Ill be given this interesting
demonstration by State Chemist OF
the P re Food Department ]. R. Chit
tick. He has beer gathering all
kinds of extracts sold on the market
and will demonstrate their strength
to the women as we'll as SHOW
them how, by pannelled bottles, they
are deceived into thinking they are
getting large quantity, whereas they
receive but little.
Miss Mattel Howe, daughter of Ed
Howe of the Atchison Globe, diagrams
married life in this way: "A man
soon gets mighty tired CT treating his
wife like a goddess. If he cannot DC
at ease with her, and smoke wher
he pleases, and take off his coat Il
he wants to. and throw ashes on the
floor and cigar stubs all over the
house. he is going to be mighty I'm
comfortable, and long to go where
he can. For it is born In man te
like to do these things. just as 1t II
born in girl to like to do her owr
net things. Moreover, If a girl has
once known man in perfectly com
Portable chummy way, she Will finf
him worth twice as much as before
he dropped his awe OF her. Men are
pretty nice as they are but, for good
ness sake don't try to make mar
ladvlike. He isn't and won't be,
he is even half a man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Yesterday was widely observed as
Mothers Day" No date has yet been
fixed for services in honor Of Dad"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

contemporary has department
headed IN Baseball Circles, just as
II baseball wasn't a square game.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

Question of the hour: Why is 1t
that wheat and flour go up together,
but when wheat drops it drops alone?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10
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keokuk, Iowa May 10, 1909.
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

The sultan is out, but he left the
job in the family" says the Monticello
Express.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

DR.. FERDINAND G. Iglehart regarding
the successive political deafeats en-
countered by the American saloon dur
ing the past twelve months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The Burlington Gazette says that
Congressman Murphy's bitter attack
upon Judge Smith Mcpherson will
not shake Iowa's faith in the integ-
rity OF the man from Red Oak.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-10

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that Judge Smith Mcpherson
is giving no indication that he is
scared.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-31
UTAH WELL FORTIFIED
AGAINST IMPURE FOOD

No state In the union Is better for.
tifed against impure foods and food
swindles than Utah, is the opinion oil
State Chemist Herman Harms. upon
his return. with State Food and Dairy
Commissioner Willard Hansen, from
attending the pure food convention at
Denver,
Utah's pure food laws are marked
improvement over the incomplete and
ineffective and uncertain laws OF sew
eral other states, Mr.. Harms thinks.
For instance. the Utah laws specify
distinctly just what ingredients are
considered adulteratlves and are bar
red from use. so that the manufacture
er knows just what he can and what
he cannot put into his products. while
the laws of other states nre delightful
ly uncertain. merely prohibiting
harmful ingredients" In foods without
specifying what ingredients are con-
sidered harmful and prohibited.
The trouble with such n provision as
this is that 1t Is left to the courts TO
decide whether an ingredient Is or is
not harmful. with expert testimony be-
Ing called in by the derellct manufac-
turer to color the evidence in his IA
vor and throw dust into the court s
and jury's eyes.