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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15
NEW ORLEANS FOR mIssoURlANs

With the completion of the Panama
Canal Worlds Exposition will be Civ
en-, perhaps at New Orleans. and per
haps at San Francisco. A great deal
OF comment and argument is raised
over which city should have this ex
position.
The Californians declare that every
body wants to visit California some
time and that an exposition in San
francisco would be neyer-equalled
opportunity, on account of the service
the railroads would give. and that San
Francisco, being a larger and more
prosperous town, could give this ex-
position more satisfactorily in that ii
could raise more money.
Those in favor Of New Orleans as
the site for the exposition claim that
California is too far for the people
OF the most thickly settled part OF
the country to go, and that New Or
leans is more centrally located. They
claim that the interest in the develop
ment of the Mississippi river in con-
nection with the canal makes New
orleans more favorable place, and
that people are just as anxious to see
New Orleans as they are to see Cali
fornia
Inc exposition will undoubtedly be
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15
EDA Elk SHORTEST NAME
Srcckton. Mass. Girl Claims Novel
Distinction.

BROCKTON, Mass.-Miss Eda Ek
the 2O-year-old daughter of Peter G..
Elk, believes she has the shortest name
in the world
Ek is a good old Irish-Swedish
name and it was worn" with honor
by the famous explorer, John Elk, who
sailed into far seas and made illurlf-
mating discoveries and to whom Miss
Elk is related by direct descent.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

Two proposed electric roads through
Columbia are contemplating a merger
on paper Now let them get busy
and merge the rails along the line and
show Columbia some street cars.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

The attack on young women by ne
groes on a Columbia street last night
adds another. and a bolder crime to
the list charged against Columbia ne
groes recently. The police should see
that such things stop at once.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

Lawrence county holds the world
record in Sunday school attendance
and church membership. Practically
every family in the county is con
nectad with soma church or Sunday
school. The first Sunday school in
the state is said TO have been organ
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

lied at Verona in 1852 by Uncle
jimmy White" at the Big Spring
White" at the Big Spring which is the
source OF Spring River.
In Mcdonald county the men who
lived on the bottom lands at the time
of the Civil War organized and joined
the cOnfederates. While they were
gone the men living in the hills plum
dered the farms and carried away the
stock of the river farmers" The
result was many years of warfare be-
tween the river men and what they
then called the "Hill-Billies." This
warfare drifted into the organization
Of the Bald knobbers" which was at
first composed Of the best men in the
OZarks. 1t afterward became domi-
mated by outlaws and did not cease to
exist until three OF its members were
hung at Ozark in Christian county.
Christian county received its name
after Christian county Kentucky. 1t
was at one time part of Taney county.
The member OF the legislature from
that county in 1852 was riding horse
back to attend q session of the legis-
lature. He stopped over night with
a farmer. He told them that he was
going to introduce a bill 10 make
new county out of the section in which
they lived. The farmers wife asked
that she might be allowed to suggest
a name for the new county and the
legislator consented. She then re-
quested that it be named after her
old home county in Kentucky. So il
vas named Christian.
In the lead mining district in south
west Missouri the motto of the min
ers is: 60 two feet farther" The
motto originated long time ago
when discouraged miner sold a pros
Ipect tor almost nothing. The new
owner went just two feet deeper and
struck one Cf the richest ore veins
yer opened in the district. Miners
since have always advised their dis
Icouraged friends TO go two feet far
ther" before giving up. The motto
also is applied in business life.
a man by the name Of Jennings
vas the Danisl Boone Of Southern
Missouri. Jennings left Tennessee
shortly after the War OF 1912 and tray
eled into the Ozark. lie lived for
Fifteen years among the Indians hunt
ing and fishing and travelling around
through the new country before he re-
turned TO Tennessee When he re-
turned he told the people OF a great
country which he called the land of
the six boils meaning six large
springs that are the sources of
six rivers in the Ozarks. His Eng
|lish was SO bad that the people
thought he spoke of the land of six
bulls. He started hundreds of fam
lilies moving into the new country
which is today filed mostly with the
descendants of the Tennesseeans and
kentuckians.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

Three hundred and seyenty-fve cars
of apples have been shipped this sea
son from Rushville. in Buchanan
county. A Rushville banker says the
profit on the apples will amount to
Si4c.0
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

\ farmer near New Franklin last
week brought in a pumpkin that
weighed lea pounds
In 1906 Barry county produced the
largest apple crop per acre in the
world. Since then the farmers have
b en- getting away from apple raising
and are going more into truck farm
ing. dairying ard berry growing.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15
WABASH TIME CARD

lfairs No 80 rs and 80 make Connections fo-
loI east only For further PARTICULAR pbona ,s,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-15

lied at Verona in 1852 by Uncle
jimmy White" at the Big Spring
White" at the Big Spring which is the
source OF Spring River.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09
A CALL FOR BETTER MEN.
The City of keokuk IS a $4,000, 900
Corporation and Men OF Brains
Are Needed to Manage
its Affairs.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
| am just a looker-on, that is all,
but cannot avoid thinking that the
men who are offering themselves for
commissioners of the city are i'm
pressed with the opinion that the
people who pay the taxes are going
to be easily satisfied But few of
them own any property, therefore the
amount of taxes the public will have
to pay will not concern them. Few,
II any, of them have ever been iden-
tilted with any public enterprise
whereby the city as whole was
benefited.
We have corporation here. with
a cash capital of four million dollars,
and We must have three No. / bust
ness men to manage 1t for us. None
OF those who have so far offered them
selves for commissioners are possess
ed of the qualifications which would
secure the position if you or l had to
furnish the money and pay the losses.
We want men who can afford to give
nearly all their time to the interest of
the city for the good of the people
and not for the salary. True the sal
ar is small, but we must have good
men.
Men who have made success in
life.
Men who from experience know
how to handle large affairs.
Men OF education, of whom we will
not be ashamed to stand as our rep
resentatives when delegations of bust
ness men from other cities visit us.
Men, every one of whom should be
expert accountants.
Men to whom the best element in
the community would be attracted be
| cause of their moral and intellectual
worth
Men above suspicion of graft or Gun.
ming.
HappilJ some of those who are
named for the mayoralty can fill al
these conditions and let us insist thai
our two commissioners shall be of the
same standard.
SIT, this Is a big job, with poor pay
and only men of means can afford t.
devote from six to eight hours PEI
day, for nine hundred dollars pei
annum, and We cannot afford to hav,
any man on the works who has no
been able in the past to have earned
at least three times that amount I
we make a mistake now the funera
will follow with all of us as mourn
ers for two years.
/ We want business men, not poll
ticians.
CITIZEN.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09
CITIZEN,
An Instance of Politics.

Sioux City Journal: The Keosauqua
Republican, in its issue of the Sd inst,
makes public the following letter:
"Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 4, 1909
Mr.. John w. Rowley, Keosauqua,
Iowa.-My Dear Sir: am in the
habit, as you know, of dealing rather
frankly with men and things, and,
therefore, feel compelled to write
you with regard to your appointment
as census supervisor of the First con-
gressional district.
was informed after l came home
that you had written some rather Sc
we're articles about me and, among
Others, one that indicated that, in
your judgment, Senator Dolliver and
myself were no longer members of the
Republican party, and that We ought
to be formally expelled at the first
opportunity. | said that if you had
written and published any sucn edi-
torial would do my best to prevent
your confirmation. Thereupon / made
an investigation and | am glad to say
that / find that the information given
to me is not sustained | shall, there.
fore, make no objections to your con.
firmation. but, on the other hand, do
what l can to see that it goes through
all right. Yours very truly,
Albert B. Cummins''
The Republican accompanies the
publication of the letter with a dose
of hot editorial comment. The junior
senator is commended for taking time
to investigate the charge placed at
the door of the senior editor of the
Republican The effort to defeat the
confirmation of j. W. Rowley for cen
sus supervisor is denounced as ma
licious, and the promoter of the plan
is called by name and given bad
character, though it is freely admit
ted that the party whose Eame is men
toned was not alone in the scheme
| 1t seems that what purported to be
clipping from the Republican, of the
nature indicated in the senator's let
ter, was directly employed, and it is
affirmed that the clipping was eithe9
borrowed from some other newspaper,
"or else manufactured and put in type
! in some local print shop
Keosauqua is in the First Iowa dis
trict, represented by Charles A. Ken,
inedy, whose home is at Montrose, in
/ the adjoining county of Lee. The polit-
ical relations of the offending parties
are not disclosed by the Republican,
though it would be surprising to know
that they are intimate friends of Mr.
Kennedy.
Whoever may be responsible for the
fake" is justly censurable, and it is
properly deplorable that such tactics
should be obtruded upon the political
game. The disclosure is the more to
be regretted because of the honest
effort of the administration to separ.
ate all small politics from the admin.
istration OF the census bureau.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09
GOOD MEN ARE NEEDED.

A new form OF city government is
| about to be established in Keokuk
and it is highly important that the
officials chosen to administer it shall
be capable and worthy men. 1t is not
or good fellows or that they need
the salaries attached to the posi-
tions. Keokuk Is in effect large
corporation with vast financial and
other interests at stake, and no man
should be placed in charge of its af-
fairs who would not be entrusted
with like responsibilities by an indi-
vidual or firm In need of the services
of capable manager This test
should be applied to every candidate
for mayor and councilman and all who
do not meet the requirement should
be promptly dismissed from consld-
GRAFTON for a place on the official bal
lot. If a given individual would not
be selected as manager of a manufac-
turing establishment doing large
business and employing several hum
bred men, or of mercantile house
with hundreds of thousands dollars
capital and activities reaching out in
every direction, he should not be
chosen to manage the business of the
municipality.
The commission plan of city gov
eminent as applied to Keokuk con-
centrates all authority in the hands OF
tyun l.
men. While it is true that bad or
Indifferent men are less likely to be
selected than under the old alder
manic form of government, it is also
true that the best men are needed at
the head of city affairs in order to
insure satisfactory results. The COM
mission plan, admirable as it is in
general and in detail, will not admin
lister itself. 1t is simply means to
an end, and the end will depend largely
upon the kind of men selected to
make use Of it as an instrument OF
government They must be honest
men, of course, but they should be
able men as we'll Moreover, they
Shodio JIG ulSh vi Nl0C hhO"
experience and recognized executive
capacity They will be expected to
make choice of all minor city officials
employ large number of men, dis
burse many thousands of dollars every
month, conserve property interests
running up into the millions in value
and promote the public welfare By
every legitimate means. Mediocre
men are not fitted to do this. The
demand of the hour, at this turning
point in Keokuk's history, is for mer
of ability and character who have
had experience in the management o
important interests, who will bring
to the discharge of their duties we'll
informed and well-trained minds ant
Of whom as its representatives th'
city will have no occasion at an.
time to be ashamed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

If the prohibitionists should sue
coed in getting constitutional
amendment through the next legisla-
ture the Iowa City Republican pre-
diets there will not be enough Repub-
licans in the legislature which fol-
lows the next to give the insurgents
and Republicans occasion to quarrel
over the United States senatorship.
The Republican makes the following
suggestion:
What liberal Republicans should
90 is to join with liberal Democrats
and see that the next legislature is
anti-prohibition, regardless of what
party gets majority. The prohibi
ton Republicans will not support any
Republican for the legislature who
will not pledge himself to vote fol
constitutional prohibition. The only
thing that liberal Republicans can dc
is to go and do likewise, only more
SCI
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09
(Continued.)

a pan. through the
craven heii ~ ~ would be briber.
He started .;i,h III his alarm. his eyes
almost blinded by the unexpected flood
of light thar had subsidized as quickly
as 1t had come.
My God. What is that?" he cried.
rubbing, the back of one of his hands
across his eyes,
Wheeler Brand. who had risen in his
place at his desk when the judge had
finished counting the money. set his
face into hard. unyielding lines as the
judge besonght him TO speak. to ex-
plain. He had won. He had COM
pletely at his mercy this cold. crafty
betrayer OF the public trust he had
sworn to hold sacred. And it was
with unmistakable triumph in his
voice that HI gave the reply that was
to be imprinted OH the brain of the
false judge as long as he was to live
a reply that would haunt him while
awake aud awake him when he slept:
ut is 4 picture OF you in stripes.
Judge Barteiny. be announced
The judge. realizing that he had
been tricked that he had been photo
graphed in the very act of handing
bride money To the managing editor of
the Advance displayed rare presence
of mind for il man whose complete
social and professional ruin had be-
come suddenly imminent. He rushed
across the room at the point where
the fash occurred. hoping to obtain
hold of the camera and destroy the
plate. Owing TO the pail of smoke he
had been unable 10 see Just in what
manner the camera had been arranged
But when he reached the side of the
room there WAS ne camera to be seen,
only round hole extending through
the partition into the next room and
! from which the camera had been re-
! moved EIe stood and gazed in dis
may. He knew now that he was at
the mercy of Brand and the Advance
| to a degree that he hardly dared to
estimate.
| He turned around and walked back
| To the desk Grand was still standin.
in his place. looking tixedly at the
/ judge.
Bartelmy was not beaten yet He
| knew that he would not be beaten IN
til the Advance appeared in the streets
/ spreading forth to all the world the
4 story Of lis shame
Shaking from head to foot in his
rage. he pounded the desk and cried
out: :
"You have gore to all your trouble
for nothing. am going direct to Mr..
Nolan's house. and in less than an
hour you viii receive orders to Kill
that story that dastardly pack of lies,
/ you want to print"
Brand smiled calmly He gathered
the $4,000 in bills. which lay scatter
j ed on the desk where Bartelmy had
thrown them when he dashed for the
camera
"I'll keep these as evidence" he said
when they have served their purpose
4 we will return them to you, or maybe
we will send them to the minority
stockholders in the Lansing Iron com
pany. That's who the money probably
belongs to-"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

Ebert Hubbard has gone into vaude-
vile, which reminds George Fitch that
at one time he set type on the old
Peoria Transcript. He was respected
and beloved by all But he got rest
less. Concerning his subsequent career
the same authority says:
He quit the newspaper business
and went to manufacturing soap. Then
he went into the slam business and
made, a fortune publishing the Philis-
tine From that he sank to banging
brass with hammer and selling it
to the eager rich Eventually he
found an affinity and now he has gone
into vaudeville. That shows what a
good man will do when he once begins
to Slide
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09
MRS. HILLS ON DIVORCE.

Mrs. Newell Dwight Hills blames
her sex for the prevalence OF
divorce. She Gays that two-thirds OF
the divorces are obtained on the
ground of desertion, and that it is the
fault of the American woman if she
is deserted. She even goes SO far
as to hold that because womsn's
duty to the state and her vows is
higher than her dutv to herself she
should not divorce even the man she
despises. The following excerpt from
late interview indicates her ideas
on this point:
"Of course, there are conditions
certain people-a separation is in
evitable. but not a divorce. There are
too many women who do not consid-
er their duty to their country except
when they desire to demand its pro-
lection and privileges. There are too
many selfish women who Ike wheels
temporarily disconnected from the
main machinery, are whirling madly
by themselves and accomplishing
nothing but the whirl The only anti
dote FOR the tremendous prosperity of
this country is responsibility. Re-
sponsibilities the men of America
have, but unfortunately too many re-
sponsibilities have been lifted from
the American women. Modern mech
anism has taken the tools of wom-
ans natural vocation from her and
left her through lack of proper phys
zeal exercise. a prey to nervous dis
eases
opinion, should give more personal at
tention to homework, which, she says,
is the normal, healthful exercise for
woman
1T is because they know so little
about it that one marriage out of
every twelve in this country is dis
solved That is what mean when
say ii is the American woman's
fault If her husband deserts his
home. The American woman does
! nos make homo much of a place o
/ stay in. 1t is the fault OF our pres.
I emf system that includes nothing OF
home making in TIE course of a
4 young girls education There should
/ be a poSt-gr9 Quate course IN domestic
+ economy, TO which a girl would look
/ forward Just as a young man looks
4 forward TO entering law school OF
any other specialized educational
/ branch
"A girl remains uninstructed in the
/ varied complicated and delicate line
! of business on which depends the
1 health, comfort and efficiency of her
j husband and family Because of<the
4 American woman's nefficiency in
/ home making the poorer husband
takes to intemperance and the richer
4 husband to divorce. The German
/ French or English women are better
wives than we are"
i Mrs. Hills fully persuaded thai
4 ii the men OF America would cease tc
give things and give themselves in
stead. and if the won en- of America
would learn the proper home duties
that belong to womanhood. we would
hear no more of divorce scandal. i
is rery evident that Mrs Hills is {
woman of large vision and sane
views.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

The Comic supplement was the
subject of discussion before Mo,
line Women's Club Friday. The sup.
plement that is now placed in the
hands of the chill was severely criti-
cised and the club voted it mis-
chievous and detrimental influence in
the education of the child The CON
clusion, as intelligent observers gem
orally will agree. is entirely ac-
cord with the facts in the case
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

That the new law prohibiting any
but qualified electors from engaging
In the retail sale of intoxicating
liquors. which went into effect in this
state on March /, does not apply to
bartenders and porters. merely serv-
ing as employees of the proprietor OF
saloon, is the opinion OF Attorney
General H. W. Byers. The question
was raised by certain interested sa.
loon men at Council Bluffs, who Were
assured by the attorney general that
the new law was merely intended to
prohibit any person other than quail
fed elector of the city, town Oh town
ship in which the business was carried
on to conduct a saloon or engage in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
that one Council Bluffs woman saved
$4.75 in four weeks by watching the
grocery advertisements in the Non
pareil and making her purchases
where she could get the best prices
and the best goods. What was don
in Council Bluffs can be done in Keo-
kuk by reading the advertisements in
The Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

1t has been calculated that the wa
ter power already installed in this
country would, on steam basis, fig
uring coal at $3.50 a ton, and operat-
ing 1t ten hours each working day,
cost Sl75,0o0,o00 per annum. AT 5
per cent this would equal capiteliza-
tion of SIS, 800, 100000 The figures
make it very clear that our waterfalls
are valuable national asset.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

lan-inusr see HIN III once That was
the most important matter to which
he should now attend
He walked deliberately to the closet
and secured his hat and coat. He
turned fhe KEY and went out OF the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

The Waterloo Courier says the trou-
Bile with the good roads propaganda
is that everybody anxious to obtain
good roads is either trying to shift
the expense to the other fellow or
else devise means for raising fund
in such way that it will seem to be
at the expense of nobody. The OBJ.
servation is unfortunately only too
true.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

The papers are now remarking that
Paris isn't so in Seine as it was. This
sort of thing is incident to the sea
son, along with colds, muddy roads
and high winds There is no use
complaining about it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

Under Republican administration
hogs are worth about as much as
horses we're under the last Democratic
administration 1t pays the farmers
of this country te'keep the Republican
party in power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09

Up in Dakota they regard winter as
over because the prairie dogs are out
of their holes and tie frisking about.
They'll be lucky dogs if they escape
getting crimp put in their tails by
belated blizzard
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-09
politeness and Liberty.

All politeness is owing to liberty.
We polish one another. and rub off
our corners and rough sides by a
Sort of amicable collision. To re-
strain this is inevitably to bring
rust upon mems understanding
Shaftesbury.