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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
DON'T LEAVE The EARN.

The following advice has been
clipped from the speech of one Nc
Wicker 1t smacks strongly of practi-
cal common sense on the subject with
which it deals:
Fathers, don't leave your farms
Build another house on the old farm
and settle down right there with the
boys to carry on the work. The farm
er who retires by thus staying on the
old farm brings about hearty co-opera-
tion between the father and his sons.
1t means a halt in the ruinous, disas-
trous depopulation of the farms
The farm boys viii no lonser
leave the farm to fight their way in
the cities and tl,ere will need be no
retirement of the fathers and moth
ers to the cities when their sons are
gone"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
SUGGESTS EDITORS, MEETING.

TIE Quincy Wing suggests that the
Republican editors of Illinois meet in
convention TO consider the Chicago
Tribune's purported poll of editorial
sentiment in that state. In public
address to such editors the Wing saws:
Will we permit ourselves TO b
misrepresented as practically repudi-
ating the national Republican ad nin's
tration and its policies, and a Republi-
can president before he has completed
the first year of : is public service?
Will we permit this false message to
go forth to the count~v as EXPRESSING
the sentiments of the Republican press
of the state Of Lincoln. unchallanged?
VIII we thus permit the givin9 of conn
tenance to the opposition at the very
inception of a campaign that is TO dc.
eide whether or not the Republican
party is to prevail in congress? Let
us hear from the Republican editor,
If the state In q manner that will adj
nit of no Misunderstanding with the
promntness and soontaneity that the
situation demands"
Perry G. Ellis. editor of the Whig. is
member of the Republican stale com
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The Sioux City Journal thinks the
purpose of the Des Moizes pan is to
clip the wings of some OF the wards
in a city. That the result might be
that some wards might not get that
to which they were entitled The
Cedar Rapids Gazette, speaking from
close observation of the practical
workings of the commission plan, says
in reply to this view of the matter:
The Journal will find that where
one section of the city is mistreated
under the new plan, half dozen sec
lions of the city were badly treated
under the old plan. The obliteration
of the wards has been one OF the
greatest benefits under the Ecw plan
of government The city has been
considered as a unit. AS the officials
are elected by all the people, there is
the incentive to be fair to all the
people,,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Improvement of the Des Moines River

Des Moines Capital: T re improve
ment of the Des Moines RIVER would
be worth millions to Iowa, especially
to the central part of the state. when
we say improvement, we allude 20 the
nayigability of the stream and the
power 1t might afford by turning the
wheels of factories and interurban
cars. When stream has plenty of
water with which to carry ye.scis
provided the water is guided into ono
channel, the work simple. There
would be nothing to do to the Des
Moines river except to dredge ont
the channel, which would require the
water to all run in one n ace Then
there would be plenty Of water.
river like the Des Moines would not
have the difficulties to contend againsf
which are found in the Migsissinni
and Missouri These big rivers have
g powerful current. which Is useful in
going down stream, but not usefnI in
going the other way. The smaller
river would have the advantage of
not being so considerably changed by
floods and freshets. With the dredg-
ing out of the river and the creation
of a good system Of docks, the river
would be available for ali heavy
freigkts. The reader may say that the
river is too slow. Business men know
that 1t would be easily possible for
til river to carry freight with all the
speed of the present railroad syatem
ard facilities. Heavy freight is now
on the road three weeks. When the
railroads are crowded, 1t is almost i'm
possible to get the freight through.
The river could not be slower than
the railroads are at times.
There is fall in the river of 2S5
feet between Des Moines and Keo.
kuk. This fab would indicate tie
existence Of many prospective power
ii es along tie river. Tho river has
mere water on the average than was
afforded years ago. A majority Of the
drainage bitches In northern Iowa
empty into either the Des Moines or
TIE Racoon rivers, which come to-
gether at this city. Thosc matters be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The matter of Business Success
and Failure"-with some remarkable
American statistics, relating to bank
ruptcy-is discussed in the February
Century by Frank Greene of the Brad
street Agency. Perhaps the most
conspicuous living example of sue
cess following earliel failure" Mr..
Greene says, is the Hon. Levi P.
Morton, former vice-president of the
United States, who, while member
of the dry goods firm of Morton. Grin
nell & Co. was forced to see his
house suspend. In 1861 this firm
stopped payment, later compromising
and settling in part with its credi-
tors. Men in business still recall
the dinner given by Mr.. Morton few
years later, where each creditor
guest found check for the amount
owed, with interest, most pleasing
sort Of souvenir to bring away from
a banquet"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Money In Iowa Land.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: There is
just as much money to be
made in Iowa land, either as a farm
ing proposition or as an Investment,
as can be made anywhere else on
earth That is the sentiment given
The Gazette by one who ought to
know what he is talking about. And
he probably does. Iowa land is the
best to be found anywhere. More of
Iowa land is good land; its general
productiyeness is unequaled, and Iowa
mas more people, in proportion to its
population, who have made good on
Iowa land investment than has any
other state in the union Other states
may be good, but none of them can
beat Iowa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

At one of the New York City high
schools prize contest in short story
writing was arranged some time ago
and many of the boys and girls sub
mitted their literary efforts One of
the boys, with defective ethical
sense, had the audacity of copying a
clever short story by o. Henry, the
well-known writer, and submitting it
as his own work That the fraud
was not Immediately detected and the
plagiarist exposed is strange enough,
but 1t is far more puzzling that the
tscribbed' story was awarded the sec
ond prize. There are only two ex-
plantations possible of this remarkable
decision of the teachers constituting
the prize jury. Either the story
turned in by the boy who was award
ed the first prize had actually greater
literary merit than the one written
by Mr. Henry, which is highly improb-
able, or the jury did not know the diff
ference between good and poor or
at least inferior story. The latter ex-
PLANTATION is undoubtedly correct and
reflects discredit upon the literary
taste and qualifications of the teach
ers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16


The Iowa supreme court has decid-
ed that any kind of malt liquor can
not be sold in Iowa except under the
mulct law, even if it is not intoxicat.
ing The Iowa City Republican in
speaking Of the ruling says with some
degree of acidity
Now If the honorable court will de
eide that woman must either sit on
the back row or take off her hat the
state will be saved. But having held
that man could be removed from
the office of mayor when there was
no evidence of intexication. just be-
cause he had takSn drink some time
or other, the latest decision is not a
surprise. What the legislature over
looks the Iowa supreme court seems
able to supply
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
The Markings, of the Moon.

Brooklyn Standardization A typi-
cal lunar landscape has been initiated
IN curious way by Paul Fuchs, a
German experimenter. Iron ore Stag
from smelling furnace was run off
at l,loO degrees G.. and cooled with
water applied in various ways Craters.
mountains and plains were produced.
according 70 the condition Of the Stag
and the cooling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Ing true, the busincas en- and farm
ers OF central Iowa should lend all |
encouragement possible to the Des
Molnes river Improvement project.
Warbler az WvonInn.


The Hon. Frank Whee1rr Mondell.
or Wyoming, can say, with the black
Ing company. Law, sirs, we keep a
poet Has any other representative
+ - congress special, though volun-
teer, laureate? Some of them are
poems For example, Victor Murdoch
Is real war song; Ollie James, a
hexameter; Boutell, p-ntameter;
Leonidas Livingston, bucolic Hen
~, OF Waco, is music box; Champ
Clark. hand organ; Sulzer, an Eolian
harp; Macon. a big drum, slightly
cracked, and SO on. But who save
Nh Mondell inspires tributes" such
as r. NJ. LAME sends to the Wyoming
Tribune
Our young State is much indebted
To F. w Mondell
For his noble work in congress.
Far more than we can tell.
He's alert to every movement
OF interest to the State.
An able representative,
A man that's up to date
His latest stroke of Craftsmanship
Is admired by every one.
And his name will be remembered
For the work that ne has done.
/ mean his enlarged homestead act
That has brought our State boom;
It insures to the newcomer
A larger, better home.
II has acted like lodestone
To draw the people West
Ard the way they come, it's very plain
Wyoming is the best.
And LAME is the best, and Mondell
is the best. In eleven other stanzas
the inspired one celebrates his state
ard invites inning alton. He is an
honor to poetry and to human nature.
He ought to be Wyoming's commits
sioner of immigration. New York
Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Time was when Ireland was pre-em

Time was when Ireland was pre-emi-
nent in manufactures, but being OPP
pressed by England, she went into poll
tics and has been in it ever since, in
the meantime losing her industries and
growing poorer. But an awakening has
now occurred, and revival of industry
is taking shape with the prospect Of
her people again being busy turning
the wheels of prosperity. The indica-
tons are that the Irish people are at
last coming under the proper leader
ship, and working their way up to a
state of independence, or "home-rule,"
the development of their in
austries. This is the sure way of do
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
keokuk's BID Dam

Jacksonville Courier: The Keokuk
dam, which promises to be the biggest
thing Of the sort in the country, is pin.
ing fer an appropriate name In con.
sequence of its greatness and sirperla.
tiveness We propose THE Dam What
Am"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

It is rumored that the state board of
education will ask Secretary Wilson of
the department of agriculture to be-
come president of the State college at
Ames. He would make great head
for that institution.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The number of JOY riding automo-
bilists is not surprising, when you
think that several generations of joy
coasting kidlets have been getting
preparatory training on the bobsleds
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

1t is the observation of the near
philosopher of the Sioux City Tribune
that most public addresses are not
matters of inspiration so much as
respiration Many other people have
noticed the same thing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Luther Burbank declares that cactus
offers satisfactory substitute for
meat. If it is all the same 20 Mr..
Burbank he can have ehe cactus and
the rest of US will continue to feast
on steak and tenderloin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
ing it. and here's to the success of the
men who are heading the movement.

81 Valentines day is a close sec,
Old 70 Christmas in the matter of the
mum Der OF postcards sent through the
mans. II they continue to increase in
.Vaiume It will be necessary after
Willie to equip letter carriers with
motor wagons designed Ter heavy
loads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Experience is headlight that illum-
mates the track for miles, but as an
Illinois paper regretfully remarks, it
is on the wrong emf of tie train.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The proposed foot ball rules cut
ting out rough house make the finan-
cial managers of the elevens look wor-
ried.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Much evidence of the white slave
traffic" is being found. Plenty of
men would just as soon make money
by selling souls as by trading in cot
ton and pork.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The Liberals are winning in Eng
land. The English voter, his eyes SO
long dazzled by titles, begins to be
able to read the signs of the times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Do the people still own the Alaska
coal pile, or is it now in some ones
back yard? Let the garden seeds
wait while you find out, Mr.. Congress
man,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Seventeen Carnegie heroes tagged
and medalled. The poets may all be
dead, but things are going on daily
worth writing about.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

What folly to try to get SO much
sociological information in the cen
sus, when the supreme problem of
getting the ages of the women has
never been solved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Many predict a Republican split
from the Ballinger-Pinchot row.
However, the mortality of third party
movements is about 999 to 1000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Congress should quickly validate
the power site Withdrawals, as Mr..
Taft asked, else the people will have
to pay interest on their own gifts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The railroads may not oppose the
proposal for national Incorporation
very hard. 1t might be pleasant to
exchange 46 bosses for one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Most men lose 10 minutes out of
every business day now, because they
lack resolution to get up that much
earlier to fix the furnace
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Oliver Cromwell has been located
in st. Louis, and he lives on Olive
street The Roundheads can't be
very far away.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

It is mystery why the small boy
who kicks so hard about taking baths
has this unquenchable passion for
thin ice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
What Fairbanks Earned

sioux City Journal: At any rate.
alP. Fairbanks should not experience
any difficulty in securing an election
as lay delegate to the next general
conference. s
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Two hundred naval officers failed to
take the endurance tests. but all of
them seem to be able to keep pace
with the walking of the ghost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Mr.. Pinchot is endearing himself
to the hearts of his countrymen by
not starting newspaper
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

FOR THE LAST MEETING
The Proceedings Of the Last Session
Are Herewith Given in
Full Detail and
Complete.
(Continued.)

Continued
1891 keokuk Sand Co., sand 10 so
1892 M. F. Eaton, coal ....... 0O
1898 Fred Holmes. ice | III
1894 Cameron & McManus,
macadann and screenings l55 Is
1895 Keokuk Electric Railway
and Power Co., street
lights ......... $500. 500 90
3S96 keokuk Electric Railway
and Power Co., street
lights ........... s02 "a
1898 L. ]. Wolf, city treas
urer. interest on bonds 500 90
34o0 L. j. Wolf, city treas
urer. interest on bonds. 500 90
S401 L. J. Wolf, city treas
urer, interest on bonds. 500 90
34o2 L. ]. Wolf. city treas
urer, interest on bonds. 500 90
3403 L. j. Wolf, city treas
urer, interest on bonds. 500 90
3404 L. j. Wolf, city treas
urer, interest on bonds. 500 90
S405 L. ]. Wolf. city treas
urer, interest on bonds. 500 90
9406 L. j. Wolf, city treas
urer, interest ON bonds. 500 90
3407 L. J. Wolf, city treas
urer, interest on bonds. 500 90
34OS L. ]. Wolf, city treas
urer. interest on bonds. 425 90
S4o9 H. T. Moore clerk, emer-
gency allowance 264 80
s41o H. T. Moore, clerk emer-
gency allowance ... 500 90
SAIL Keokuk Electric Railway
and Power Co., Nov.
street lights 500 90
3412 Keokuk Electric Railway
and Power Co., Nov.
street lights ..... S5s 90
Total s11, 6S9 0S
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

A girl baby has been named tDes
Moines. The idea probably is to raise
It on the commission plan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Number of cards hold hy oo,,,

Number of cards held by coun-
try borrowers .......... Il
Total number of borrowers
cards in force ....... 5,112
Number of days open during the
year ......e. .......s....... 306
Hours open each week, Sc hours OFT
! to June; "a hours June / to octo.
: Der 1.
Board Of Library Trustees
John e. Craig, chairman; Ben B
Jewell, vice chairman; William ]. Full.
ton, secretary; R. H. Bell, Charles J.
Smith, William Reimbold. G. Walter
Barr, A. Hollingsworth, John I. Anna.
BILE.
MAMIE P. FULTON,
January, 1910. Librarian.
] have carefully read this report and
with tie approval of the library board
submit it to the city council and to the
Iowa Library Commission.
JOHN +. CRAIG, President.
w. j. FULTON, Secretary.
n. B.-A supplemental blank, pro-
viding for detailed report regarding
features Of work will be furnished BIZ
the commission to all libraries request.
ing 1t.
Received and filed:
Reports OF Committees.
To the Honorable Mayor and Council
of the City of Keoknk.
The board of healt. begs to make
the following report:
That DR.. Robert Fl. Fegers be ap-
pointed physician to the board OF
health for the unexpired term Of his
father. Dr. R. H. Fegers. deceased.
CHARLES OFF,
ALBERT KIEFER.
J. p. 8CHRISTY,
JOHN p. JOHNSON.
Adopted
Ito be Constinued)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Example Not AIIurtna.

Example Not AIIuring.
Dolly mo. ] won't wasl. my face.
just hate to wash my face! Grandma
Naughty, naughty! When . was lit.
tie girl | always washed my face
Dolly-yes, an now look at It'll
Cleveland Leader.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

A bread advertisement in Indiana
polls advises the weighing of the
loaves. The Des Moines Capital re-
calls that the old theory has been
hat light bread was the best.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Report Of caIaboos~ Keeper.
Recapitulation-
Whole number fed from January
to January 81 inclusive. 1903; whole
number Of meals from January / to
January 81 inclusive, 355: s55 at zoe
per meal being s71.00; whole number
locked IN 1O1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
NOTES AND COMMENT.

NOTES AND COMMENT.
How much are eggs now?'
Two dollars down and dollar a
month until the dozen is paid for
Judge.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye suggests
STAT it would materially reduce the
cost of living if the retail business
We're placed upon cash basis.
A bread advertisement in Indiana
polls advises the weighing of the
loaves The Des Moines Capital re-
calls that the old theory has been
that light bread was the best.
Owing to the fact that Dir. Cook
never took the trouble to return "the
keys of the city, the Monmouth AL
las anticipates that New York may
have some trouble about presenting
them 10 Mr. Roosevelt.
The politicians who were at one
time sure on the matter" observes
the Cedar Rapids Republican, fare
how beginning to Intimate and to adj
NIT that former President Roosevelt
may not criticise Taft. Some of US
have known that right along
1T is we'll enough to investigate
the cost of living says the Cedar
Rapids Republican, but it is not
likely that any two. committees will
come to the same conclusions. There
will be confusion worse COMPOUNDED
after all the committees are through. =
The war at Washington is about
ended says the Coon Rapids Enter
prise. Both factions seem to have
stacked their. arms, though there may
be little disultory firing now and
then on the outposts. Taft is an ac-
complished diplomat He will yet get
his policies enacted"
The crafty country editor
Puts up a plaintive bleat,
Yet takes in eggs and butter for
subscriptions to his sheet.
He claims to have but little luck,
Conyinces us of that:
Yet fairly rolls in garden truck,
The darned aristocrat;
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The statue of former Senator James
Harlan which. with that of Governor
Kirkwood. will represent Iowa in
statuary hall, has arrived at the CAPT
tol. 1t will be erected in a day or
two. The Harlan statue is of bronze
and was designed by Miss Nellie
Walker of the Chicago Art Institute.
formerly of Iowa 1t is said that the
Kirkwood statue will be finished soon
and that the two statues will be dedi
Gated together.
The Burlington Gazette does not be.
lives that the wife of Governor Car
roll, who advocates the teaching OF
sociology in the public schools, is
actuated by desire for notoriety or
anything but the highest motives in
her new tangled proposition. Most
folk, however" the Gazette continues.
will adhere to their old fashioned
notion that if the school children are
taught the three Rs in an intelligent
manner they will then be able to solve
other questions at the proper time and
IN the proper way. Children cannot
be taught everything at school Their
first lessons and their best lessons
are received at home"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Read The Daily Gate city, ID
cents per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

mittee from the Fifteenth COMPRESSION.
al district.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The Burlington Hawk-Eye suggests
sat it would materially reduce the
cost OF living if the retail business
were placed upon cash basis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

Owing to the fact that Dir. Cook
never took the trouble to return the
keys of the city, the Monmouth Al
las anticipates that New York may
have some trouble about presenting
them 10 Mr. Roosevelt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

keokuk, Iowa February is, 1910.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

How much are eggs now?
Two dollars down and dollar a
month until the dozen is paid for
Judge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16
Reports Of Committees
Annual Report

of the Keokuk Public Library for the
year ending December 81. 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-16

The politicians who were at one
time sure on the matter" observes
the Cedar Rapids Republican, fare
Low beginning to intimate and to adj
NIT that former President Roosevelt
may not criticise Taft Some of US
have known that right along