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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27
Trinity.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society will meet on Wednesday after
noon with Miss Nellie Hardesty. 7166
North Seventh street.
The Ladies Aid society will be en-
tertained on Friday afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. John Elgin, No. SOB
North Fourteenth street, by Mesdames
Elgin, COPYRIGHT, SAMSON and Elem
ing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27

niLaI; one son residing at home; and
enc living in the country. The daugh
ter is Mrs. Little Of BENJAMIN. Mo
He was prominent member of the
Christian church of Canton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27
Baptist.

There will be no meeting again
this week of the Ladies Aid society of
the First Baptist church. but meetings
viii be held each afternoon from 2.30
to 80 in the chapel, by Evangelist
Hills. All women are invited to at
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27
This Weeks Social Calendar.

Monday.
Keokuk lodge, |. o. Q. F.. annivers-
airy.
Alpha Trist Whist club. with Mrs.
G. f. Mcfarland.
Social dance. Woodman hall.
Tuesday.
Woman's Whist league, with Mrs.
Chute.
Happy Circle Card club, with Mrs.
Dorian
E. o. NJ. Bridge Whist club enter
tanned by Mrs. Isaac Blom.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27
Week Quiet.

The past week has been especially
alive in society with dozens Of small
er events over the city, but this week
promises to be exceedingly quiet in
comparison, and will serve to give
those who have been so busy during
last week chance for much-needed
rest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27
Will Have Home Hour.

VIII nave home TOUT.
Misses Ora Cole and Elizabeth Col
lier will be in charge of the home
hour at the Y. w. C. A. following the
vesper services this afternoon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-27

An1LAIpE:
Mother says they can't gay anything too
good about Gold Medal Flour" CaARIrY,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
Annual Short Course at Ames.

The annual short course in agri-
culture at the Iowa state college.
which has proved to be of such great
value to the farmers of Iowa, will be
held at Ames, January 9 to IA, 1911.
This short course has. in years past
attracted numbers of farmers to its
sessions; last year the attendance
reached nearly one thousand.
Instructions will be given in ami.
nal industry, agronomy, poultry,
dairying, horticulture, agricultural
engineering and domestic science
Lectures and laboratory demonstra-
tons will continue throughout the
day, so that large amount of instruc.
.stion will be given in the two weeks
time.
In live stock Judging, market and
breed types of cattle will be used
Representative types OF fat cattle
sheep and swine will be judged on
foot and then will be slaughtered and
studied in the meat demonstrations
For Judging work the college fiocks
| and herds will be used as well as
prize winning animals secured for the
occasion from outside breeders.
| For information concerning the
work in Animal husbandry, address
the Animal Husbandry department
Iowa State college, Ames, Iowa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
THE BOY PROBLEM.

w H. Park, vice president OF the
Illinois Central railroad contributes
10 a symposium on this subject in a
current magazine He declares that
the best boy for almost any ordinary
vocation is one who has early in life
been impressed with its seriousness.
Ii thrown on his own resources, even
partially. he learns the value of
money and time. Those from the
middle classes properly trained at
home furnish the most attractive ma.
terial from which to make the sue
cessful man, as they are impressed
with the value of time and money and
the Importance Of not making mis-
takes. Continuing, Mr. park says:
Fathers are not training their boys
as formerly at home Tbs eight-hour
day is not employed other than in
recreation by the great majority. In
view of this and the fact that the vast
majority Of boys leave school early
in life there would seem 10 be a grea'
! field for continuation and partial time
| schools and bureaus OF information
] for those more advanced, as wa!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
WANTS STRAIGHT GOODS.

General Grant is quoted as having
said that the Democratic party can
always be depended upon to make a
fool of itself at the critical moment.
Alex Miller admits in his Washington
Democrat that it looks like the party
was about to afford fresh illustra-
ton of the truth OF the saying by
making an alliance with the pro
gressive' Republicans to control
things at Washington II the Demo
Gratis do that says Mr.. Miller. we
see our finish before We get a good
start This is not because ne is not
in sympathy with the progressive
Republicans, but because it is TEN.
PORTING and compromising and try.
ing to make capital out OF the split
in the Republican party. in place OF
organizing issues of our own MIR
Miller goes on to say in his article
in the Democrat:
We are opposed to any temporizine
or monkeying with either the Stand
! patters or the Progressiyes. We arc
! in favor of a clean cut, open ant
/ above board fight for Democratic
principles and not for any monkey
ing with the buzz saw we can cite
too many instances right here a
home. that will prove that catering
to any faction in the Republican
party is of no permanent avail W,
have tried it and got the worst o
it every time
concludingly this is said
The Democratic party is either tot
big TO depend on Republican disaffec
ton for its excuse for existence, or i
is not big enough to have any mis-
sion. If it has no mission, the soon
er we know it and admit it and dunn
it, the better If the Democratic part,
has no purpose in our government ex
cept just to fill in the gap between
two fighting factions of the Republ
can party, then it has not excus
enough to live and II ought to die an
, it will die"
The Gate City confesses to likin
for Mr. Miller's views on this matter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
established on the Union Pacific rail

established on the Union Pacific rail
road by the writer a year ago
The essentials to success necessary
to inculcate in a boy by parents and
teachers are not numerous or difficult:
honesty. neatness, punctuality and re-
liability, with training otherwise
which fmpels involuntary submission
TO discipline. This with general
ambition to succeed is SUFFICIENT to
carry boy as high as his mental
capacity and physical capabilities will
permit.
He must make subseryient to his
own personal comfort the needs of the
service he enters: go when and where
he is sent, always cheerfully,
He will probably need to attract
attention if he rises high. by a super.
abundance of loyalty and fidelity; a
willingness to render more service
than paid for; to do better work than
others and more of it. To bring him
self to do that which is generally
considered obnoxious by his fellow
employees requires independence OF
character and self-denial.''
These are good suggestions, all OF
them, and worthy of acceptance by the
young men of the country. The quail
tiles Mr.. Park emphasizes are es.
sential to success and must be dis
played by all who would win the larg-
est measure of honor and reward
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION

The Oskaloosa Herald asked Major
Lacey his views as to whether Sena-
tor Young could hold over, or wheth-
er the governor could make new
appointment, If the legislature should
fail to elect this winter In reply it
qnotes him as saying that this is an
old and much-discucsed question. In
the case of Senator Samuel Smith
tMaryland, 1909 it was held that
the appointee would hold until the
senate was officially notified of the
failure to elect. In Senator r. G..
Winthrop's case massachusetts,
1850 the committee reported to
same effect, but the senate took no
action. In Jared W. Williams case
New Hampshire, 1859 the senate
held that the appointee's time expir-
ed if the legislature adjourned with
out filling the vacanacy. In Lee Man
ties case (Montana) and H. ". Cor
belts case (Oreson) tn, senate held
that if the legislature had an oppor-
tunity to elect and failed to do SO the
governor could not make an appoint
ment. To same effect J. B. Allen case
| Wash, 1899; S. S. Phillips case
| (Vt. 1854.
The senate discussed and reconsid
cred the Whole matter fully in case
of Senator NJ S. Quay, in 1900. The
question being a constitutional ona
each senate must decide for itself
The Quay case treated the subject
on principle and it was fully discuss
ed. It was decided by vote of SO tc
| 80 that the governor could not fill
the vacancy after the legislature
/ failed to act. a change of enc vote
would have decided the case the ota
er way. Where a question of this kind
is decided by as close a vote as 33 u
80 it cannot be considered as settled
at all.
Some of the greatest lawyers il
the senate voted with the thirty-twoi
/ Cullom. Carter, c. X Davis, Forak
4 er, Frye, Spooner, Daniel and Wolcot
are among the thirtytwo; so. also
| Allison and Gear, the Iowa senators
Spooner was unquestionably ths
strongest constitutional lawyer or
4 the Republican side. and Daniel o
4 Virginia the strongest on the Demo
cratic side. and they both voted tina
the appointment might be made.
From this it is obvious that thu
question cannot be deemed as havin;
been finally closed. Senator Hoar'
speech in the Quay case made yer,
strong case and Hoar was at tn
time the chairman of the iudieiar'
committee in the senate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
items which economy, cleanliness and t
public health demand.
Publicity for Pension Lists.

Marshalltown Times Republican.
The Worlds Work is demanding pub
licity for the pension lists of the gov.
eminent. 1t wants the entire pension
lists with names of recipients, rea-
son for being on the list and any 9th.
er details printed and given circula-
ton In an annual pamphlet as other
documents are distributed and would
lave newspapers publish lists of
local pensioners. 1t would give notice
three months in advance of publication
to permit those who desired TO with
draw rather than see their names in
the list of pensioners to do so.
There seems no good reason why
this should not be assented to by
everyone, those who receive pensions
worthily and those who pay them. 1t
would not affect and should not offend
those who have been honorably pen
stoned, but 1t would assist in cleaning
off the pension rolls those who do not
belong there and who have been
placed there by fraud or rank favorit-
ism. It would also put an end to the
assertion freely made by those who
oppose government pensions That the
list Is crowded with frauds.
No doubt the statements and asser-
lions OF fraud are highly overdrawn.
Among the veterans of the wars who
are drawing pensions there are few, II
any, who are not entitled to the
meager stipend they draw. 1t is not
likely that the old soldiers would op
| pose publicity for pension honor.
ably obtained is badge OF courage
and a certificate of splendid service
Print the lists. Publicity will do nc
harm to the deserving and expose
only those who deserve exposure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
PARCELS Post.

Dubuque Times Journal: Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock will make
recommendation to congress in favor
of experimenting with the parcels
post on the rural routes. He would
allow the men to carry packages
weighing not to exceed eleven
pounds. The mail order houses have
been seeking this for twenty years,
or since the days when John Wanna
maker was postmaster general. He
said there were four reasons why
we could not have the parcels post
and he named the four big express
companies. Tom Platt was called
their representatives in the senate
and was credited with blocking the
reform that would mean prosperity
for Mr.. Wanamaker's department
stores and the mail order houses In
1.-The big cities. The newspapers and
some of the labor unions in the big
cities took up Wanamaker's cry that
the express companies controlled
congress, but the country merchants
fought back and with the aid OF the
ijobbers they have been able to defeat
the parcels post up to the present
time. Now and then an organization
| Of farmers has declared for 1T. but
as body the farmers have shown
NO interest Hence the congressman
have felt at liberty to oblige coun-
try merchants by DENYING the mail
order houses the use of the post Of
| fees and the rural routes as ware
houses and freight lines. They say
the parcels post would be self-sus
tanning. This is important If true
and the appropriate committee OF
congress may take testimony on this
point.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

as large as Kahoka or Warsaw. The
largest growth in population was
from 1850 to 1860, whe nthe figures
were doubled Anyway, there is yet a
real country condition, and this is
best for the social welfare of all. A
flowing away, thinning down, is some
times wholesome for a flood stage of
people as we'll as in high water inva-
sion.
In the affair OF good corn crop.
old times have come again, as Editor
Watterson often says Clark county is
making a grand showing in the chief
grain of the country, and the farms
have an abundance and are transport
ing superabundance 1t is well, and
all classes are helped by bounteous
harvests Of corn and other chief
grains.
JASPER BLINES.
Seven Pines
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

Death has been busy this year in
the United States senate. Since the
adjournment of congress four seats
have been made vacant. John w
Daniels of Virginia, and Samuel ID
McEnery of Louisiana, died early in
the summer within few days OF
each other, and Jonathan P. Dolliver
of Iowa and Alexander S. Clay OF
Georgia have been stricken down
within the last month or two. These
fatalities, added to the fatalities of
politics, will make a startling diff
ference in the composition of the SEN
ate which is to come into existence
on March 4 next.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

The executive committee of the
General Federation of Women's clubs,
in session at Colfax the other day, de-
cided unanimously upon keeping the
women's clubs OF the country free Of
the woman suffrage movement. Some
of the members of the committee are
qualified electors in western states.
but declare that the women's clubs
should not take up the suffrage ques.
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

Mention was made in these columns
recently of Q typographical error in
a Michigan paper whereby it was
made 10 appear that the moon was
eclipsed at s755. But that was not
nearly SO shocking as one to which
the Springfield Register calls atten.
ton. A church notice in the Journal
of that city is said to have read: "The
annual chicken pie supper will be he'll
at the church on Thursday night
The pastor denies that that was
copy and the Register sustains hin
to the extent of saying that the pie
supper was very respectable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
SUGAR CREEK.
= = = - = . . . . -

Linn Humes and family spent Sun.
day with Herber. Humes.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. G. Mckinney spent
Thanksgiving at Keokuk.
Mrs. Arthur Brown spent Sunday
with her mother, Mrs. Geo. Haywood
Morris Walker and wife of Kahoka
spent Thanksgiving with his father
G. Walker, and family
Ray Mckinney spent Sunday with
Wesley Walker.
Charley Sherwood spent Sunday
with relatives in Kahoka.
Allen and Elva Mckinney spent
Sunday with Flossie and Bessie San.
ders.
Grandma Shellenberger returned
home Wednesday from Williamstown,
where she was attending her daughter
Mrs. Ernest Raymond, who is the
proud mother of a baby girl.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
THouGAT FOR THE DAY,

HE knows that the pain of today
is but the blossom upon the plant of
self. whose seed he cast into the
ground with his own hand yesterday.
If he SOW more wisely today, who
can measure the happiness that to-
morrow will bring him?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

According TO statistics there are
100000 telephone stations in the
world No adding machine has yet
been found capable of expressing in
figures the number of times the Tines
busy
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
Need the Whole Works.

Houston Post: The last Democratic
victory was glorious and thrilling, but
we feel sure that merciful Lord will
give us the beautiful things that were
not within the reach this year. Not
that we are greedy in the least de-
gree, but we really need the whole
works.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

The women of Illinois in the state
club convention were not agreed, 1t
seems, in regard to the advisabiity OF
votes for women. Some of them
wanted to stand for this clause and
others said that they would fight any
effort to bring in the subject of wom-
an suffrage in their discussions. The
membership roll is now 30,234 women
and 32S clubs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
Rivers as Open Sewers.

New York Tribune The practice
of transforming even big rivers into
open sewers is doomed, and those
cities will be wisest which most
promptly and most readily seek TO
adapt themselves to the new condi-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

A copy of The Gate City by mail
for a whole year costs only SO. No
more suitable Christmas present
could be sent a friend. nor one that
would be more appreciated every day
in the year. Order now and avoid
the rush
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

When the real fighting began Ma
dero took to his heels and put the
Rio Grande between himself and the
government troops The would-be
president of Mexico is evidently a
firm believer in the first law of ma
ture
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
Illinois.
THE population of Illinois is now
5,63S,591.)
Illinois.
Seven Pines.

5,63S,591.)
Uncle Sam has got us counted,
Illinois.
To wonderous mob we've mounted
Illinois.
At the closing Of the year
See six millions of us-near-
Ready each to answer here
Illinois.
Near six millions of us hustllng,
Illinois.
Building cities vast and busting,
Illinois.
Planting factories in each dell;
Raising corn and hogs and-well,
Down in Springfield, raising
Illinois.
Hail thy rich and boundless prairie,
Illinois.
See the burden it must carry,
Illinois.
To its might our hats we dofr,
At it's burden it will scott
When the Jackpot gang gets off,
Illinois.
Peoria Herald transcript.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

In Cincinnati there is in operation
what is called the Dow plan for the
relief of dumb animals. On hundred
million of pages of paper for univer-
sal distribution is printed the follow
ing: "a Square Deal for the Horse.
We believe every horse deserves
three ample meals daily: water fire.
quently; proper shoes; a blanket in
cold weather; two weeks vacation
annually Throw away the whip.
The sentiment and the admonition are
alike all right and The Gate City is
glad to bring them to the attention
of the people of Keokuk and all the
country round about.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

II will have to be admitted that the
Sioux City Journal is right in say
ing that there is one thing that even
a vigilant official like Postmaster
General Hitchcock can't do He
cant prevent sucker from being
born every minute.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

All that now remains to conclude
the war in Mexico is to call the at.
fention of the rebels to the fact that
they have been licked
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

A st Louis paper calls census pad
ding political fiction" Lying, with
three-em dash before it, would be
more expressive declares the Quincy
Journal. And we thought all along
that the editor OF the Journal was a
Sunday school superintendent,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

DR.. Wiley says an egg viii give
the strength of pound of meat No
doubt. And sometimes a great deal
more.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

Sme of the newspapers of the
State have been engaged for some
time in a controversy as to when the
term of an appointive senator will
end in case of legislative deadlock.
and it was reported that professors OF
law at the state university had stated
that an appointiye senator would hold
indefinitely until his successor was
seated Attorney General Byers, 10
whom the matter was referred, states
that after full investigation there can
be no doubt whatever that the tern
of an appointive senator ends. when
the legislature adjourns without max
ing a selection. 1t is supposed that
much of the effort to bring about a
deadlock in the Iowa legislature was
upon the theory that there would Dc
no vacancy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

An Illinois contemporary cant IN,
derstand why man should make a
fool of himself when there are so
many women willing to do the job
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

Great Britain, France and Belgium
are agreed on penny postage The
United States should not be far be-
hind
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
The Wherefore Of Il.

Mrs. Crabb-"The Wilkinses boast
that their servants have grown gray
in their service" Crabb-" Humph!
From worrying about getting their
wages, probably"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

Anyway, the revolution in Mexico
was quite large affair-in the news
papers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
lie In Iowa

Manson Democrat. eLife in Iowa
seems to be just one champion corn
husking story after another.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

A peevish spinster says that LOIS
of affection is wasted on man that
would be appreciated by pet dog.
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

1t seems to the Davenport Demo
crat that naval officers ought to talk
we'll in waterways conventions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

The Houston Post is Boosting thai
the bank deposits of that town ex
coed those of the entire state Of
South Carolina.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

copensasen's Deer Park.
Copenhagen, Denmark, has the lar
gest park OF any city in the world. i.
area is about 4,20G acres.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01

The odebolt Chronicle believes the
hall of fame has niche for the man
who can cause a revival of the turkey
raising industry in this country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-01
THE THINGS uNpoNE.

II isn't the things you do, dear,
It's the things you've left undone.
Which gives you bit of heartache
AT the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write.
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting hosts tonight.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of the brothers. way
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried TOO much to say
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or though for
With troubles enough of your own.
The little acts OF kindness
So easily out of nina,
These chances to be angels
Which every mortal finds,
They come in the night and silence,
Each chill, reproachful wrath,
When hope is faint and tagging,
And a night has dropped on faith.
9aa |
For life is all too snort, dear,
And sorrow all too grsc
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries U - to- late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the things you leave undone,
Which gives you a bit of heartache
tha setting of the SIN
Margaret Sangster.