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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
Something to Think About.

Macomb Journal: Yes, it is a fact
that beef and pork and eggs and but
ter and -four are pretty high; and it is
likewise fact that in 1894 and 1895
and 1896. and we'll through 1897 Ieith-
er Of the articles mentioned were half
as high as at present. And, by the
way, there is another fact that bears
connection with the two events. In
the days of those extremely low prices.
in every city of metropolitan size
every winter there were established
free soup houses for the unemployed
and skilled mechanics "out of work
were daily in line to draw their ra-
tions Of free bread. But with the
present high prices and all the dema-
gogues, and considerable of the bal
ance of the public, are grooming over
now, there is not soup house or a
place of free distribution of bread and
other victuals to able-bodied men, idle
because they can get no employment,
in all this broad land We ought to
think Of this little when we are
declaiming so much against high
prices and blaming everybody for it
but ourselves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
Rashor Won't Do

Dubuque Times Journal: There are
signs that the liquor element in the
Democratic party of Iowa is getting
ready to put the skids under the Rev
S. H. Bashor, of, Waterloo, candidate
for the partys nomination for the gov
ernorship.
Mr.. Bashor has populistic ante
cedents and is for the initiative and
referendum That is enough to in
sure him the active opposition of the
liquor element. It is true that Mr.
Bryan is for this doctrine, but Mr.
Bryan is not an Iowan and the success
Of his political ambition would not en-
danger the liquor interest in Iowa
The referendum might end it. Under
such law prohibition could be resub
mitted to the people without endorse
ment by the legislature Or any polit
ical party, as it will be under a sim
liar law in Missouri The wire nails
salesman introduced with the remark
that you could believe anything he
said, except about wire nails, has his
counterpart in the Democratic part.
of Iowa, which believes in and trusts
the people and is ready to take theil
Judgment on anything except prohibi
ton. At this point the Iowa Demo
cracy loses its faith in the doctrine
that the voice of the people Is the
voice of God.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
A Poetic Answer.

G.. A. Anderson of Topeka, is an
admirer Of American verse, and is
searching around for the poem, How
Would You Like to Be a Dog9" He
was told that man named Gilliland
was the author, and SO he wrote to
Shirley Gilliland at Glenwood, la. That
member of the family sent the letter
to Frank Gilliland Of Tabor college.
and he, in turn, not being guilty OF
having written the poem, sent it to
Strickland Gillian, the well-known
humorist, who won fame with "Off
Agin, On Agin, Gone Agin, Finnigan.
Mr.. Anderson received this letter In
poetry from Strickland Gillian, which
was worth all the trouble:
In patient quest your letter ran
From Gilliland to Gillian
Until it found the only one
(My own good fathers Youngest SOM
That ever wooed the Muse a bit,
And now alas, am not 1t.
! did not GIN no credit hog)
Write How'd you like to be dog!
Nor do know, with shame sing,
Who was the author of the thing,
I'm sorry thus to disappoint;
With glory would fain anoint
This poll of mine, but, honest, man,
Not guilty
Strickland Gillian.
Roland Park. Md, jan %, 1910.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
CONGRATULATIONS FOR kEokuk

congratulations continue to be show.
cred upon Keokuk because of the as
sured success of the water power pro-
ject. Among the latest received are
those OF Mr.. David C. Daugherty. Il
pioneer resident. now living at Twin
Falls, Idaho. In letter to his broth
er, Hon. James F. Daugherty, he
writes:
was more than pleased on read.
ing in your last letter that the great.
est water power In the world has at
last materiallzed; that work has COM
menced and that old Keokuk is final
~ to reap the benefits due her by
reason OF her naturally superb loca.
ton at the foot OF the Des Moines
rapids on the greatest river of the
world.
The most excellent drawing of the
dam and works in The Gate City you
mailed me gives one, especially an
old Keokuk-raised boy. very com
prehensive idea of what the great
dam will be when completed re-
joice with you, as no doubt all Keo-
kuk people do although far from
their boyhood home. The people Of
the whole United States and of the
world have taken notice and Keokuk
will ere long fill noticeable place in
the worlds daily history.
1T is to be regretted that Birge
and several other old timers of Keo.
kuk who worked so faithfully for the
interests of the city passed away ere
they witnessed the fruition OF the
magnificent work they, with the liv-
ing, conceived. May we not hope that
they. in the all-wise, all-seeing eye
of the Grand Master Of the Univer e,
will be permitted to gaze upon and
glorify the bliss Of its full completion?
Old as am now and as far away
from Keokuk, my old, cherished
home, hope yet to see it."
Whenever and wherever heard from,
former residents of Keokuk voice
like kindly sentiments for the old
home town, coupled with confident
predictions of its greatness in the
near future. Such warm friends are
among Keokuk's best assets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
The Irony Of Fate.

Macomb Journal: Here is some
more of the irony of fate. The build
ing in this city that fifty years age
was the most commodions, handsom
est and up-to-date, as well as one Of
the most hospitable homes in Ma
comb, was reported to the last meet
ing of the city council as a nuisance
menace to safety, an eye-sore to the
neighborhood. tumbledown refuge
for bats, rats, and other vermin and
''varmints derelict, as it were, in
the greater river of time. And yet q
Douglas, Singleton, Richardson
Shields, Ford, and all the early Demo.
cratic statesmen of Illinois have had
entertainment and luxurious housing
inside its four walls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
Memphis and the Dam.

Memphis (Mo.) Reveille: The work
on the Keokuk dam is being pushed
rapidly. 1t is one of the most i'm
portant enterprises ever undertaken
in this region of the country. Keo-
kuk, OF course, will be the greatest
beneficiary, but other towns in this
region will be benefited as well.
When the great dam is completed
there will be demand for electric
power in adjacent cities and towns.
Memphis hopes to be supplied from
this source and will rejoice with Keo.
kuk when the dam is completed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

recorder at Fort Madison and Keo
kuk! said committee to commence
work on January IL, 1910, and re
port to be certified and filed with
the county auditor at Fort Madison
Iowa, on or before February is. 1910.
Resolved, That Rice II. Bell OF
Keokuk and Chris. Haffner OF Don.
nelson are hereby appointed as an
expert committee to examine the
books and vouchers in the Office OF
the clerk of the district court, sheriff.
justices OF the peace and constabies
of Fort Madison and Keokuk, so far
as their fees pertain to state cases,
and the county superintendent Of
schools; the said committee to com
mence work on January Is, 1910,
and report to be certified and filed
with the county auditor at Fort.
Madison. Iowa, on or before February
Is, 1910.
The minutes of today's session
were read and on motion approved,
whereupon the board adjourned To
meet Monday, February Z, 1910, at
10 o'clock a. m.
GEO A. BRINKatAN.
Attest: Chairman
w. H SOUTH, County Auditor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

Donnellson Review: Smith w
Brookhart of Washington is out as a
candidate of the progressive wing OF
the Republican party for congressional
honors in the First Iowa district. He
don't like the way Congressman Ken
nedy is doing business. and wants to
go to Washington himself and show
us how it ought to be done.
Kennedy is human. and therefore
can not please everyone, and least
of all an insurgent, but he has pleased
enough of the people of the First dis
trict that they are going to send hin
back and let him tdo it some more.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
Helps Some.

Sioux City Journal: Incompetent
buying helps to make the high cost
of living.
There is always competition be.
tween the buyer and the seller
Whether the buyer is customer
procuring family supplies in the gro.
Gerry store, or the grocer himself, buy.
ing his store supplies from the whole.
saler, the cost of groceries at the
home where the groceries are con.
snmed depends in part on how they
are bought.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
How to Get Cheap Pork.

Knoxville Express. With hogs at
$3.50 in Chicago. you cant expect
three pounds Of pork chops for Csc,
sent down to the house for dinner. In
fact the only way to get pork cheaper
is to feed pig and let him make a
hog of himself. A pig in the back
yard of every man who is too poor to
pay zoe pound for pork chops would
go a long way toward solving the prob.
lem of the high price of meat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
MEAT AS AN ARTICLE OF DIE


In an article in the current mum
Der OF the North American Review DR..
Charles F., Woodruff advocates the lib.
eral use of meat as an article of diet.
He calls meat the food which builds
up strong men. Those used to sedel-
tary life may get along on a vegetar-
ian diet, but the body which is to
have staying powers must be supplied
with nitrogen. The vegetarians, he
insists, suffer from nitrogen starva-
tion,' or under-nourishment, and
would be better off if meat were a
part of their diet.
Scouting the idea that meat-eating
is provocative of rheumatism and
neurasthenia, DR.. Woodruff explodes
some false ideas held up as criterions
proving that meat is not necessary
article of food, saying:
1T is calculated that the six hun
dred thousand German soldiers spend
for food over and above their rations
the enormous sum of one hundred
million dollars, or even two hundred
million, if we count the extras of
E1N'ito VI NCii-tO-oO iC Ian
ish soldier in the West Indies was
once held up as proof that low diet
will suffice, for he was given but foHg'
i ounces of meat; yet it was net men,
i toned that he got fifteen cents day
to buy more. The English were com.
I PEELED to give me soldier Tore meat
in India than in England"
! DR.. Woodruff laughs at "the theory
OF low-diet faddists that tubercular
/ susceptibility is due to overeating.'
| He affirms what every intelligent ply
4 stefan knows to be true, that tuber-
| culosis is not a disease of the we'll
\ fed, and continues:
1 "Beri-beri is another microbe dis
! ease which does not attack those with
! a big nitrogen bank account. In the
northern latitudes. relapsing fever and
| typhus rarely attack those fed upon
an abundance of nitrogen. Like beri
heri, they are found among the under
! fed. Similarly, cholera, the plague
and other infections are also dread
/ fully fatal to rice-fed OrientaIs, who
4 are able to do immense labor by the
oxidation of these carbon fuel foods
but whose tissues are in condition
of nitrogen bankruptcy. Well-fed
I Europeans not only escape the dis
eases as rule, but when they arc
infected a much larger percentage re
cover
DR.. Woodruff has done well In call
ing public attention to some import
ant facts which have recently been
lost sight of in relation to human
food and dietetics. The science OF
dietetics has had fastened upon it a
/ horde of fads which have brought II
into discredit. DR.. Woodruff says in
conclusion with touch of bitterness
when the real scientists took III
the work of experimental dietetics. il
was with keen expectation that the
medical profession looked forward Il
enlightenment-and the enlighten
ment we got was the new fad thai
we eat too much of the thing Of which
we are built, a fad which will destroy
a nation as surely as it will destroy
an army. Long before there was {
science of dietetics. Napoleon sait
that an army travels on it's stomach,
and every other man who has evel
had the management of bodies O
workers has said that they work OF
their stomachs. And we can appl,
the same rule to the nation and to tn,
4 whole race
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
LIE &.

LIFE.
A little dreaming by the way
A little toiling day by day;
A little pain, little strife,
A little joy-and that is life.
A little short-lived summers morn,
When JOY seems all so newly born,
When one days sky is blue above,
When one bird sings and that is love.
A little sickening of the years
The tribute of few hot tears
Two folded hands, the failing breath,
And peace at last-and that is death.
Just dreaming, loving, dying SO.
The actors in the drama CO.
A fitting picture on wall,
Love, Death the themes: but is that
all?
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
TEE DAILY GATE CITY
The Comet,

he Comet.
Oh. you Mistah Comet
Travelin' th'oo de sky,
fou's got us all a-tremble
As you comes a-brushing by,
We don know what you's up to;
An we don't know whah yous bin
Nor whah you is a-gwineter.
You is jes' a-buttin in!
Look here, Mistuh Comet,
As on yoh way you ride,
You amt much in particular,
An mosly Classified.
Yon's like some folks ! knows Of
Dat raises heaps o fuss
Wifout a-bein' nuffin'
Except mysterious.
Washington Star.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
The Fate Of The ultimate CONSUME

Knoxville Express: The editor o.
The Keokuk Gate City is physician
and he drives the last nail in the
coffin of the do-without idea by saying
that "starchy and saccharine foods
are much more prone to ferment and
make work for the doctors than meat !
So 1t seems the ultimate consumer
might as we'll unbutton his collar and
get ready, for he's sure to get in the
neck at last.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
THE NAIVE or the DAM.

Tbs Gate City recently suggested
that the lake formed by the big water
power dam be called Lake Cooper, IN
honor of the eminent hydraulic engin-
eer who has the project in charge.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye commends
this paper for It's suggestion to honor
the man who has made the water pow
er project a possibility, but suggests
that from an artistic standpoint
name like Lake Montrose.' Lake
Shoquoquon' or Lake OF the Locks
would be more alluring to the class
of people who seek pleasure on the
shorelines of such attractive bodies
of water as the water power lake will
become. Tie Hawk-Eye adds:
The prospective lake will have
most beautiful setting, equal in maay
respects to the attractions of Lake
Pepin on the northern portion of the
Mississippi In addition to furnishing
industries that will attract many peo-
pie to that locality to live, the invit-
ing lake will prove most suitable for
pleasure resorts. The Hawk-Eye ex-
poets to see the whole region turned
ton
The Fort Madison Democrat sug-
gests that Lake Potowonok. would
have a mellifluous sound But the
best suggestion OF all comes from the
Nauvoo Independent, which proposes
that if the lake is 10 be named after
an individual. Lake Logan would
sound we'll and do honor to Judge
William Logan, who, perhaps, has
done more than any other individual
O. this community to bring the build
ing of the dam to realization If
name other than that of an individ-
ual is to be chosen the Independent
suggests additions TO the list as fol-
lows:
Lake Commerce would be indica.
tive OF the immense commerce t
will TEEN on its banks some day. Lake
Nauvoo.' which means the beautiful,
would be very appropriate, as no
doubt it will be beautiful Indy of
water. If a poetical Indian name is
wanted Quashquama would be all
right. That is what the spot on which
Nauvoo is located was called by the
Indians"
Lake Logan is an alliterative term
and it's selection would fittingly honor
a worthy citizen of Keokuk, who has
been intimately identified with the
water power project from its inception
and has given to it some of the best
years of his life, without reward 9th
er than the consciousness of duty well
performed. To name the lake for him
would attest in a graceful way the
esteem in which he is held and the
appreciation of the community for his
/ invaluable services in its behalf.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
Tn place Par Excellence for Boat,n,

Cedar Rapids Republican. When
the new dam is completed the city Of
keokuk will be far ahead of all the
other cities in the state when 1t comes
to waters for boating The Mississ-
iDpi will be backed up for thirty-fve
miles, making stretch OF water
reaching almost up to Burlington fit
Tor bostin9 and a,rall Yachting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The equal suffragists Of Des Moines
are calling for representation en- the
school board. The Political Equality
club has appointed a committee to pre-
sent the matter to the City Fedora
tion of Women's clubs. The ladies
will be out to vote on the school bond
question and will improve the oppor-
tunity to do a little electioneering for
woman school director Their pro-
gram prompts the Dubuque Times
Journal to say:
If they don't win it will be con-
ISOLATION to them to reflect that they
will still be at liberty to acquaint the
board with any ideas they may have
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

A man was acquitted in East st.
Louis because he testified that con.
fession was extorted from him by the
third degree. If juries generally will
follow the precedent thus laid down
the third degree abuse will be mighty
shcr: Lived
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The agricultural department has Isl
sued a bulletin, which anyone can
have for the asking. entitled Care of
Food in the Home The department
will confer still greater favor if it
will tell us How to Get Food into the
Home
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The Knoxville Express tells how
anybody who wants to do so can get
a reputation as a weather prophet.
The weather has been fine for week,
but the Express says that anybody
who will shake his head pessimistical-
~ and say Its only weather-breed,
er!" will get his reward sooner or
later when the weather changes. The
Express is close observer of men.
weather and events.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

to be known as Lee County Bridge
Funding Bonds" and that the auditor
OF Lee county, Iowa, be and is hereby
instructed and authorized to give pub
lie notice in the official papers Of Lee
county, Iowa, to the effect that SUBJ
scription lists for the purchasing Of
S50,000.00 worth OF Lee county Bridge
Funding Bonds will be opened Jan
uary is. and remain open until and in
Guiding February Is, 1910, and that il
within said time the amount of $50 900
has been subscribed to that then said
board of supervisors will pass reso-
luton authorizing the issue Of said
bonds in accordance to the subscrip-
tion lists and as by law provided.
GEO. A. BRINKMAN,
Chairman.
/. HOSIER.
P. SCHEFFLER, JR.
January IL, 1910.
On motion the following resolu-
lions were adopted:
Resolved, That Fred Soechtig of
Fort Madison and Geo. E. Radasch
of Keokuk are hereby appointed as
an expert committee to examine the
books and vouchers of the county
treasurer and county auditor at Fort
Madison and Keokuk, and the county
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
a Possible Secondary Effect.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The ice
bridge continues to be good slayer.
If the Keokuk dam gives slack water
as far. up stream as Burlington, ice
bridges may be more frequent occur
rences.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

respecting the management of the
schools. There is always a market
for original ideas of value and those
who possess them can afford to de.
spise the suffrage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The Marshalltown Times Republi-
can, insurgent, is out in a bitter per-
sonal attack on Col. D. J. Palmer. If
the game in Iowa this year is to be
along that line the Marshalltown pa
per will mighty soon find out that it
is one that Others can play at as we'll
as itself. Colonel Palmer has friends
all over Iowa who will resent with
righteous Indignation any aspersions
on his character as man OR his con-
duct as an official. They will also
visit their wrath upon candidates
known to be in sympathy with the
movement to discredit him The op
ponents of Colonel Dave" better go
slow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The cold storage trust is under sus-
picion. However, as it has the whole
country under its thumb it will prob
ably be able to worry along without
loss of either appetite or sleep.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

A California Judge has decided that
the mule is a deadly weapon. The de-
cision might have included the addi-
tinnal dictum that it is always loaded
and still! been within the confines of
truth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The Marengo Democrat says that
maybe some OF the standpat papers
can tell us why TAFT is so unpopular
with so large part of his party
The Waterloo Courier. insurgent, de
clares that they must tell, Very
we'll. here is the answer: He isn't
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
Gems Of Literature

Buffalo Express: A book entitled,
"A Married Mans Troubles" written
by Richard Harding Davis and illus
trated by Howard Christy would be
a big seller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The St Louis police fund, it is
feared, has got beyond the reach of
euccor There is no complaint of any
lack Of suckers, it will be noted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11
NOTES AND COMMENT.

1t seems to the Toledo Blade that
riding on monorail must be some
thing like riding down the banister.
The Burlington Gazette naturally
presumes that the ring service was
used at John L. Sullivan's wedding, the
other day.
A Marshalltown centenarian is to
be made an Elk. "Oh, dear! won't his
100-year-old head ache the next morn
ing?' exclaims the Knoxville Express.
The near-philosopher of the Sioux
City Tribune lays down the dictum
that man is not fool unless he
can be fooled twice on the name
game.
The Memphis Reveille denies that
the election in the Sixth district has
put Missouri Republicans out of bust
ness 1t declares it just woke 'em uI
before business hours.
Dr. Cook has been seen in Bermuda
This prompts the Burlington Gazettf
to say Tat about the only place the
late lamented ex-discover has not been
seen is at the north pole.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
is impressed by the thought of how
easy 1t is to lay out cheap menu for
somebody else. Anyone can show any.
one else how to save money.
Some delivers into the mysteries OF
human life and its evolution now claim
that the human race originally began
life in the form of trees The Tama
News suggests that this may account
for the fact that there are so many
sticks and blockheads among us.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

What is help asks correspond
ent of the New York Sun That's a
great question to ask in New York!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

The Hannibal Journal has an article
headed Democratic Fairness The
Hannibal Journal is a great Joker.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

If you see it in the report of the
Chicago Municipal Voters League the
chances are that it isn't SO.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-11

Living costs more, but 1t is worth
more to live nowadays than ever be
fore.