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The Washington herald., 1910-01-31
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The Washington herald., 1910-01-31

DR.. Alonzo Bliss has taken possession
of his handsome residence in Sixteenth
street. between X and L streets. and i'm
mediately north OF the home Of Senator
The Washington herald., 1910-01-31

Senator and Mrs. William Alden Smith
had an interesting dinner company yes
terday I'm the young girls from Michigan
who are at school at Mrs. Somers,' in
this city, and a few other young people
To meet them They were Miss Marie
Mitchell. Miss Gertrude Stearns, Miss
Margaret Downey, Miss Florence Car
penter, Miss Agnes Jewell. niece Of Mrs.
Smith, Miss Marguerite DieSema and
Miss Marie Diekema, daughters of Rep
.resentative Diekema; Mr.. Jarrard and
Mr. McKinstry, both of Michigan, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Knox, Of Sault Ste
Marie, who are spending the weekend
with Senator and Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. James F. Barbour was hostess at
luncheon yesterday in her Rhode Island
avenue home.
Mrs. Oliver E. Pagan, wife Of the spe-
cial assistant to Attorney General Wick
ersham, was hostess at a reception on
Friday afternoon at their home on Bit
more street She was assisted by the
wives Of the assistant attorneys Of the
Department of Justice, Mrs. Burch. Mrs.
Cole, and Mrs. Schwartz and Mrs.
| Thomas c. Bourne and Miss Margaret
Clarke. daughter OF Senator Clarke,
served punch. and Miss Laura Pagan.
daughter of the hostess, presided in the
dining-room.
DR.. Alonzo Bliss has taken possession
of his handsome residence in Sixteenth
The Washington herald., 1910-01-31

Mrs. KnOwland. wife Of Representative
Knowland, OF California, will be at home
tomorrow at the Highlands.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
The Amateur Reformer.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: DR..
Smaller Matthews, who has entertain
ed several large audiences in st.
Louis in the last few days with
brightly philosophical addresses, has
designated a rather new individual
among the sociological evangelists
which he calls the amateur REFORM
err"
The amateur reformer, we gather.
is the Jealous, self-appointed mis-
sionary that has sprung up in such
swarms within the last twenty years
and feels that he has been inspired,
whether divineiy or by the wagner
spirit OF progressive altruism, to
preach Internationally compulsory
-benevolence; and if we cannot all
accept this intimate interest in our
morals. our intellectual activities and
even our personal behavior we are TO
be legislated into more acquiescent
frame of mind.
The amateur reformer'S primary
error is his cock-sure conviction that
he is right; his secondary and more
grievious one, that it is his sacred
| duty to impose his will on skeptics
and unbelievers.
This is why amateur" applies SO
/ fittingly to him. For truth spreads
only through its voluntary acceptance
lest the eye seeth and the mind err
ceiveth, verify shall we not be con
verted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23


Des Moines advices say it has been
decided that there will be. at an
early date, convention of the hunt
ers of Iowa for the purpose of organ
izing an association to go before the
legislature and secure laws providing
for greater care of wild game and
a systematic policy of encouraging
game in the state. The state now has
a fund of over 100000, which was Sc
cured from the hunters licenses paid.
This fund is constantly accumulat-
ing and the state has not provided
any special way for having it used.
The hunters desire to assist in the
use of the fund and will make sever
al important proposals to the legisla-
ture.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The Southern Power Company at
Great Falls, S. c.. will begin the manu-,
facture of atmospheric fertilizers on
a large scale. 100000 worth OF ma.
chinery will soon be installed. Air is
to be forced through an electric furn-
ace producing nitric acid and this acid
applied to limestone will give nitrate
of lime, an excellent fertilizer. A SIM
liar plant should be possible here fol-
lowing the development OF the Keo-
lluk and Hamilton water power. Eiec-
tricity win be available in practically
unlimited quantities and all this re-
gion is underlaid with limestone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
A Few Fad Warnings.

New York Press: Drink water and
get typhoid fever. Drink milk and get
tuberculosis. Drink whiskey and get
jimjams. Drink soup and get fat. Eat
meat and encourage cancer, apoplexy
and appendicitis. Eat oysters and alb
sorb typhoid gastric poison germs.
Eat vegetables and give the system
Asiatic thin-blooded weakness. Eat
dessert and die with paresis or some
thing else. Smoke cigarettes and die
too soon Drink coffee and fall into
insomnia and nervous prostration
Drink wine and get govt. Blame it all
il you want to keep well, quit eating
drinking, smoking ana loving, and be
fore breathing or touching anything
see that the air and everything is
perfectly sterinzed. Some scientific
cranks or madmen think every man
should SO live, while another set Of
cranks think all modern science Is
nonsense. There is scientific moder
alton in living that almost surely III
sures long life, no matter what the
different kinds of cranks say.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
MoNTRosE.
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Brotherhood of st. Andrew OF heo-
kuk will hold services every two
weeks at the st. Barabas episcopal
church in this city.
Section foreman b. c. Jordon has
charge of an extra gang on the Y. q.
& @. r. r. at Veile.
A baby girl was recently born to
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Barnes OF van
couver, British America
DR.. E. M. Bucks parents from st.
Patrick, Mo-, are guests for a lew
days at their sons home.
Mrs. Sarah Hansen has been COM
planning of not feeling we'll OF late.
Lecture Course will occupy the Nj.
e. church Nov. %. Don't forget the
date, as the proceeds are ror worthy
cause.-the cemetry aid.
Ladies of the Nj. e. church at New
Boston are planning for a Thanksgiv-
ing supper.
Floyd and Earl Jamison, Misses
Marie Bowen and Hazel Gates attend
ed the opera at FIT. Madison Thurs
day night.
The big holiday bazaar under the
auspices of the Episcopal ladies will
/ be held at the city hall, December IA
4 and promises to be quice social at
! fair. Many articles for Christmas
/ shoppers can be found in fancy work
! of all descriptions.
The new button factory of Kendall
and Gilmon is as busy as bee. The
manager reports they nave native
/ shells enough to run all winter. Sue
cess 10 you boys in your new ven
ture.
The Rev Jordan has been conduct
\ ing revival services at the M. e
church at New Boston.
/ lesson Rebekah Lodge rendered q
farewell reception at their hall Thurs
day night to Mrs. j. w. Doughty and
family, preparatory to their leaving
the city for Spencer, Iowa.
Our merchants have well stocked
stores for the holiday trade.
Mrs. Ollie Jordon was keokuk
shopper Friday.
The missionary society of the Pres
I byterian church was entertained at
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

the residence of Mrs. E. NJ. Buck Fri
day afternoon for the purpose Ut
raising funds for foreign missions.
Mr.. and Mrs David Wardlow re-
joice over the advent Of baby boy,
born Thursday night.
ST. Katherine's Guild met at the
home of Mrs. ]. D. Hamilton Wednes-
day afternoon. Dainty refreshments
were served.
The Montrose nimrods are bagging
considerable game, especially ducks.
F. NJ Johnson has been quite sick
and a physician has been called in.
Union Thanksgiving sermon will
be held at the Methodist church, with
special song service.
Mrs. Cecilia Johnneese was en-.
route to Chicago Friday to visit her
granddaughter, Mrs. Edith Strong
formerly Miss Edith Curtis Of this
place.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
THE BIBLE IN the SCHOOLS S.

0hSe1 w st16 SOtISS6Ss
The reading of the Bible in the
public schools of Illinois constitutes
sectarian instruction, according to the
opinion of the supreme court of that
state handed down recently. The
court holds that as the Douay or Cath
olic version of the Bible will not be
accepted by Protestants, and the King
James Or Protestant version is incon-
sistent with the Catholic faith, the
reading of King James version in the
public schools of Illinois deprives
Catholic children OF the freedom of re-
ligious worship guaranteed to them in
the constitution. Judge Dunn says in
the course OF the decision:
The Bible is not read in the pub
lie schools as mere literature or mere
history. 1t is not adapted for use as
a text book for the teaching alone of
reading, of history. or of literature.
without regard to its religious char
acter. Such use would be inconsist-
ent with its true character and the
reverence in which the Scriptures are
held and should be held ii any parts
are to be selected for use as being
free from sectarian differences OF
opinion, who will select them9 All
sects. religious or even ant!-religious,
stand on an equal footing. The pub
lie school is supported by the taxes
which each citizen, regardless OF his
religion or his lack of it, Is compelled
TO nay. The school, like the govern
ment, is simply a civil institution. 1t
ic eannIor and NOT religions in Its
purposes. The truths of the Bible
are the truths of religion. which do
not come within the province of the
public school. The Punishment OF re-
hgious instruction from the public
schools is done. not from any hostility
to religion. but because it is no part OF
the duty of the state to teach religion
to take the money of all. and apply
it to teaching the children OF all the
religion of part only
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITION.

II has been generally supposed that
the proposition to put prohibition in
the constitution of Iowa would find
strong support in the dry counties
of the state. There, if anywhere, one
would naturally expect that constitu-
tional prohibition would be cordially
endorsed. 1t appears that this is a
mistake, on the authority OF MI. a.
P. Thayer, travelling correspondent OF
the Marshalltown Times-Republlcan,
a Republican paper with prohibition
tendencies. Mr.. Thayer spends SIX
months in a year in prohibition coun-
ties and he testifies that a big ma
jority of the business men in sucn
prohibition counties do not want a
constitutional amendment. The rea-
sons he assigns for this are as fol-
lows:
First because conditions in such
counties were worse under former
statuatory prohibition than now under
the mulct law. Secondly because as
Republicans and members of the Re-
publican party, they want the whisky
question kept out of politics. Sncn
business men say if statutory prohlo-
ition was more or less failure IN
our town, how would constitutional
prohibition improve matters? Again
one hears this argument. If our pres
ent mulct law is such failure, how
is it that the Democrats and saloon IN
teres.s favor a local option law, and
the prohibitionists also favor the re-
peal of the mulct law"
Mr.. Thayer wrote the foregoing sen
timent from Story City, in Story
county, where, he says, dry means
dry and not half wet" Concerning
the situation there and the merits
of constitutional prohibition in gener
al the Cedar Rapids Republican per-
tinently says:
The voters of the strongest pro
hibition county in Iowa rejected the
proposed constitutional convention
voted it down as an unnecessary step
and disturbance. They have all that
they can ask for III the way Of LID
nor legislation and they reason that il
those counties which can not enforce
the mulct law OF statutory prohib
ition. how shall heir condition be i'm
proved by putting the prohibition into
the constitution? The constitution
is not self enforcing instrument
The liquor question does not be
long to the constitution, any more
han burglary or incendiaryism OF
murder belong TO the constitution
These matters are all police matters
and they belong in the atutes. TIC
have such a thing in the constitution
Is mere fetish that some men and
women talk about without realizing
that ii would add nothing to the
strength of the instrument against
liquors, nor add anything to law en-
forcement. Nine-tenths OF the tall
about the constitutional amendment
comes from the mere political end o.
the temperance forces 1t does no
emanate from the practical men who
are helping enforce the Lar in sucf
counties as Story.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
LIQUOR in Dry states.
booze

Waterloo Reporter: The booze
dispensers of four southern states
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina
and portion of South Carolina
spent 100000 the past year for gov
eminent license to sell liquor. The
territory referred to is said to be
dry. That is, the law says it should
be dry, but somehow or other PEG
pie who have an appetite for strong
drink have not yet been induced tc
close up their threats because the
lawmakers have said they shall have
nothing in the way of liquor to pu
down. This thing of human nature
is a curious quantity, but perhaps II
no manifestation does it develop q
more obstinate mood than Is revealed
wherever the attempt is made t.
regulate appetite by law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
The Matter Of Making Money.

Mt. Vernon Hawkeye: once IN a
while we see it stated or hear it said
that there is no money in farming,
Also. now and then reference is
passed that a certain business insti-
tuition is Simply coming money;
then something happens and we know
better. On the farm or in mercan.
tile or professional pursuit, some
make money. and some do not. The
general philosophy along this line is
to the effect that it is not the char
acter of the industry or business which
is TO blame.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
Modesty a Lost Quality.

Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t does
not take much of man nowadays to
think that he is big enough to go to
the United States senate. Modesty
has ceased to be a conspicuous quail
ity in public men. The smallest poll,
tician nowadays thinks that he is an
embryo statesman. 1t Is the result OF
the exaggerated ego with which
these times are sorely afflicted. Men
are no longer capable of placing
proper estimates on their own abili.
ties.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
CHARLESTON.
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The Willing Workers were enter
tanned Thursday in all day session at
the home of Mrs. ]. Fl. vermazen. A
general good time is reported.
Miss Mabel Scott returned Sunday
morning from visit with relatives in
Fort Madison.
Mrs. Edwin Stevens and Mrs. Retta
Skeahn were calling on friends in
Franklin Monday.
The NJ. w. A. lodge will give a
supper at the hall Tuesday evening.
James Barnes made business trip
to Keokuk Saturday.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
give social at the church Wednes-
day evening. A cordial invitation is
extended to all to attend.
J. A. vermazen and family visited
relatives near viele Sunday.
Bert Bassett Of Caldwell, Idaho. is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The Forepaugh & Sells Bros show
won out in the state supreme court
in damage case brought by the
street railway company in Muscatine
because the show wagons tore UP the
tracks at the crossings. The supreme
court held it to be the duty of the
company to have its tracks so they
could be crossed even by circus wag-
ons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The output of the farms this year.
according to the figures of the agri-
cultural department, is 8 per cent
above the average of the Ave last
prosperous years. There is good rea-
son why the whole country should
celebrate tomorrow with more than
the usual eclat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The Hannibal Morning Journal has
closed contract for $4,000 two
color perfecting newspaper press to
be installed at once. The new acquisi-
tion will be the finest piece of machin-
cry of the kind ever installed in n
city of Hannibars size. The Journal
is TO be congratulated upon the de-
gree of prosperity that makes such a
press both a possibility and a neces-
sity. It is tirst-class newspaper and
Merits generous reward
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

There is project afoot TO dam the
waters of the Grand Canyon of Col
orado, erecting a dam roo feet high,
and developing 100000 horsepower.
The site for the dam is in Arizona
near the Colorado line and the pro-
1ect will require s2,o0o,o0o
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
Thorne az a Savior.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: A lot of
Iowa people have seemed to think
that Clifford Thorne is second edi-
ton OF the Messiah To their notion
Abe LINCOLN was two-spot compared
10 CliB
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

Evangelist Sunday addressed 1900
men in the large tabernacle in Water
loo Sunday afternoon on the subject
chickens Come Home to Roost II
was the largest mass meeting ever
held in that city. The collections for
The day we're $4,000, swelling the
total to date to $1,000. the total at
tendance TO date has been 139,3Oo;
CONVERSIONS. 622.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
keokuk, Iowa ......... Nov. q, 1917
OPPORTUNITY.

OPPORTUNITY.
Foolish Is he who says that at his
door
knock but once, furtive moment
stay,
Fearing lest he shall hear, then
haste away,
Glad to escape him-to return no
more.
Not so, / knock and wait, and DER
and DER
Come back to summon him. Day af-
ter day
come to call the idler from his
play,
Or wake the dreamer with my vain
uproar
Out of thousand, haply, now and
then,
One. if he hear again and yet again,
Will tardy rise and open languidly.
The rest. half puzzled, half annoyed,
return
To play or sleep. nor seek nor wish
to learn
Who the untimely, clownish guest
may be.
William H. Eddy in the Atlantic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The complaint that the cost of liv-
inq has increased until the working
man cannot support his family does
not dovetail as it should into the fact
that the accumulations in the savings
hanks of the country have increased
10 $4,000 100000. Wage earners are
the chief depositors in such institu-
tons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The perilous suggestion is advanc-
ed by a western paper that possibly
those Mexicans who are threatening to
invade the United States have con
cluded that since the country went
Democratic it doesn't care what hap
pens TO 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

DR.. Wiley's message to the Ameri-
can people: Eat thy fill Thanksgiv-
ing day The lid is off. But-do not
eat cold storage turkey" Fall to,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

A st. Louis reformer proposes to
pension every man over the age limit
whose wages were 5000 or less at the
rate of $500 year and says the gov
eminent should do it, though it cost
IS, 100000 600. Sure. but where's the
government going TO get the money =?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The conceit is harbored by the
Sioux City Journal that Senator
Young has so much humor that IT
would be just like him, as he goes for
ward on the arm of Senator Cum
MINIS TO take the oath, TO punch the
senior senator in the ribs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

A Michigan paper reports the moon
eclipsed the other evening at s755.
The next time such thing occurs
efforts should be made to get it to
throw off the fifty-hve cents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

If the dispatch has an Eagle Pass,
Texas. date line the chances are it
isn't true.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The buckwheat cake is passing, ac-
cording to a New York paper. Good!
Hurry it along in this direction.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
UP to him. and be just as big as ever
it has been"

Only fourteen football players kill
ed and forty seriously injured this
season. The game threatens to de-
generate into a real sissy affair."
walls the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23

The doughnut is again in our
midst complains the Ohio State
Journal well. don't look to us for
sympathy We have troubles OF our
own responds the Des Moines Reg
lister and Leader.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
Down the Mississippi.

Down the Mississippi in the Fall O. the
year
There's shanty boat a-foatin' like
dream
There's skiff tied up beside her, an
sweep ahead to stern,
An the woods is red an yaller long
the stream.
O. what's the use o. riches when yer
home is where you bitches?
o, what's the good o. sweatin' for
yer bread
With million punkin patches on the
road from here to Natchez.
An the Paradise o. Dixie land
ahead?
Down the Mississippi in the Fall O
the year
There's a Teller sort o. baskin' by
the door.
The hills is lit with glory. an the
days is GROWN drear.
An the smell o. possum gravy
comes ashore.
", Wudt S the use ilNAh
there's only one Thanksgivin'!
o, what's the good O. payin' as you
When the woods is full o. mama all
the way to Loosyana,
An the Paradise O. Dixie is below!
Down the mississippi in the Fall o
the year
There's woman singin some'ere
like lark,
She's kind o. found her Eden, an ner
voice is sweet an clear.
An the world is sort O. purity ike
park.
O. what's the use O. money through
the land O. milk an honey?
o. what's the good o workln' In
the end
When there amt no alligators at the
crop O. sweet pertaters,
An, it's Dixie land awaiting round
the bend?
CLARK McAdams in the st. Louis
Post Dispatch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
NOTES AND COMMENT.

According to the Atchison Globe
man who has his nose on the grind
stone is usually better off than the
man who hasn't.
"A legislative job isn't going to be
all music and flowers this winter.
SAYS the odelbolt Chronicle. 1T
doesn't require a shrewd guesser 10
see that
Ed Howe has noticed that the first
time man is elected TO public Of
fee his friends begin to tell II around
that he is a new factor In politics to
be reckoned with.
Its case Of getting the cart be
fore the horse-the wa farmers Of
Iowa are buying automobiles to drive
over mud roads" says the Marshall
town Times-Republican
The Harlan Republican says
doesn't believe the fact that lot o.
rather small men are being candidates
for the senatorship will cheaper thf
Office. The ofice.' the Republican
predicts, "is going 70 hunt up som'
] nice. big. brainy fellow and snuggl'