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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
Cou,dn't Friahtsa Him.

An Indian mahaTajah once received
Lord Give. the famous soldier. in bis
paiace court Presently In sprung two
whopping big Bengal tigers. as big as
ever grew. They rolled and sprawied
and romped all over The court. growl-
ed, spit and struck at each other. All
the time the rajah sIyly and snakily
stole gIances at Give TO see II II would
scare him green white. After little
the tigers were driven out Give
smoked his Cberoot all the while.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
NEW SHORT STORIES
Before Their Time.

Mortimer Singer. the millionaire de-
scendant of the sewing machine In
ventor, recently suffered many broken
bones In Cairo as the result OF an
aeroplane accident.
Mr.. Singer was pupil OF Henri
Farman, to whose pupils number OF
accidents have happened. A bird
man" apropos of this said Mt a recent
luncheon I'm New York:
They tell story about FSrman and
his pupils. II seems that pupil said
to Farman one morning as he tuned
up his Gnome motor at lssy:
al had dream about you last
night. sir
"'YesT said Farman.
ayes. l dreamed ] fell from my BIZ
plane and died and descended to the
golden gate. St Peter said. who are
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
8irds and liohtnino-

Birds are sometimes struck by light
ming. Darwin records the case OF a
wild duck that be saw struck by a
bolt while flying. IL was killed in
stanfly and fell to the ground. Bot
birds seem 20 know insfinct:vely that
lightning Is TO he feared That per
haps Is why they seek shelter 10 'bun-
derstcrmS. The sudden. disappearance
OF tho birds is. indeed. in the country
one Of The sureSf signs OF an approach
ing fcmpcst.-Philsdeiphia Bulletin.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
Cookery

There is no doubt that one element
in the increased cost of living now so
widely exploited in the press is due TO
extravagant hospitality. The fashion
Of elaborate entertainment often car
ries a hostess beyond all due bounds
In her household expenses. 1t seems
a pity that the true spirit of hospital
ity should be so misunderstood. To
serve as a pretext for mere display Is
a vulgar travesty upon one of the
sweetest privileges of home life
Dainty food well served ought to be
within the limits of every careful and
intelligent housekeeper. Care and
thought will often produce better re-
suits than foolish expenditure OF
money. The secret OF hospitality Is
the welcome offered to the guest. A
congenial atmosphere and pervading
spirit OF good fellowship are the great
essentials. Where these are assured
the housekeeper's next thought should
be not how much money she can
spend on her menu, but how she can
make it appropriate to the occasion.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

Young Man - Your twin daughters
seem absolutely inseparnble. The
Nntbcr-oh. don't know. A younz
man with haif million. ilkc yourself.
ought 70 make gvyd ~ a separation.
Chicago News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

Professor william Lyon Phelps Of
Yale. praisins tho delicate beauty II
one - Thomas Hoods serious poems.
said
-Hood. to great puus'er. deiigh,cd
IN his serieus Uort sio-e-voTk hFe
sFsIr Inez' ~ 'Euceus Arsm.' A. he
himself puf ".
~Trs cuiy fer my HrsIibood Inst Tn
q Hrriv Hocf
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

Boiled Goldfish by an un~rifien law
Il always served b. sbe chef with q
rich white sauce turned over u and q
-YrinLIing Of parsley over that The
mat II the cod r. not 80 white as that
% sorrc other coarse mcaied ish ana
not ~ slightly. and ~ - les rich than
most. The sauce for this reason needs
60 Be rich
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
Ginning 20 . Pleasure.

"why don't you buy a home instead
OF paying reDt:'
I'm tempted to- replied MIR. Flat
SOP. but I'm having too good a time
riding around with real estate men
looking at suburban proPerty-"-Wash-
ington Star.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

Room and a bath. sir" said the no
tel clerk politely. 50 day"
~TsaiI room and bavfh. young man.
interrupted the pompous msn. I'm
dersfand- hawth,~
-Oh. room and bawth, Rec pardon.
sir. Then the rates VIII be g. day.
-Fifistufc Press.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

she to parfuer claiming arsf dance'
-yoa arc an cariy bird. Mr. fiioxsincsi
He tranartiyl-Yes. and. ~ love I've
caught tho worm.-I,ondon VI. \. Y.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

~Mcdicine.r said n little girl. is
something that makes you careful not
20 catch cold again - UniverSslist
Leader.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
Cautious Chap.

Ne,Iora-I really think you lvve INC
now. Jack. but win you be faithful to
the lnsis
Jsck-Ycu expect me 60 marry again.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

Fo- socn she zeufl~ areler fuan
HE iuree uiH s-i~n s~d svish
WIZ = rurfred dofzr 20 sri rr-i
To catch q 81 cert f-h.
-Dro~nfnEr Msx,ri1<
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21

THIS void is - the shasprs'. heavsu
70 the nost ~~rthy -Cicsro
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-21
A Pleasant Surprise

That's what you've got commf
when you get your first month's ga
bill for cooking and lightning.
We venture the opinion tnat 1t WI
not be one-half as large as you e.
Eected Il would be.
II you think that gas IL too e.
pensive for you to use for cookfn'
Why not satisfy yourself on tia
point?
Well charge you nothing for tell
ing you about what the amount
gas you'd likely use would cost 20
each month. Just think OF the COZ
fort you're missing by not having .
gas range.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25

nom de plume of Jonathan Snod-
grass for this was ten or fifteen
years before Mr.. Clemens knew his
real name would be Mark Twain
The State Register introduces this
early history of Samuel L. Clemens
efforts in literary work to show that
from small beginnings young man
with brains and an ambition to sue
coed may reach the zenith OF literary
fame. There we're the seeds in these
first articles Of Jonathan Snodgrass"
that grew to flower and fruit in the
more than half century intervening
between that time and the great hui
morist's death
The literary world and the cultur-
ed public will miss the genial, gentle
humor that made Mr.. Clemens books
and lectures exquisite. His passing
over to the majority will be sincerely
mourned. We meier shall look upon
his like again Peace to his ashes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
A DESIRABLE REACTION.

In his latest weekly letter to The
Gate City Henry Clews reports that
the business situation is quite spotty,
and that there is lessened activity
in trade. az we'll as notable de-
cline in the overconfidence which eX-
listed at the opening of the year. The
causes of this change in commercial
sentiment he says are not very diff
cult to discover He thus summarizes
them
Continued agitation against high
prices is having an unnistakable eff
feet, and has awakened the public
mind to the absolute necessity for
economy. In some Instances the eX-
haustion of buying power is forcing
economy; in others recognition of
the too-rapid pace at which the coun-
try was going has produced greater
conservatism There has unquestiona-
bly, been a lessened consumption of
many articles of food and other neces-
sites, as well as luxuries. Retailers
are in consequence buying in small
quantities, and the reaction thus start
ed is passing ON to the jobber, tire
wholesaler and the producer. In con-
sequence we are witnessing declining
prices in nearly all of the commodity
markets; a natural, wholesome and
highly desirable reaction from the pro-
h1bitive level to which values had
frequently risen.'
On the same authority crop reports
so far are very encouraging, notwith-
standing exaggerated reports of dam
age. The winter wheat crop is in
good condition, and promises TO be
a large one. There is also every pros
peet OF a considerable increase in the
acreage of corn and cotton. while
farmers are already at work using the
very best methods with which they
are familiar in order to secure the
largest possible yield per acre. 1t is
quite certain that efforts in this
direction have never been equalled
IN previous years thanks to the persist
ent endeavors to stimulate more
scientific cultivation which have been
made the last few years.
Taking all the facts into considera.
ton Mr.. Clews concludes that there
Is no reason for other than hopeful
views regarding the business situa-
ton. The crop and the monetary sit
uauon is improving and he sees no
reason why the security markets
should not in due season respond to
the favorable outlook in other direc-
tions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
THOUGHT THoRNE A DEMOCRAT

A prominent Republican from Ka-
Iona is quoted by the Iowa City Repub-
lican as saying that when Clifford
Thorne CT Washington, Iowa, who is
seeking to supplant Col. D. J. Palmer
as railroad commissioner spoke at
Kalona at Republican meeting, some
of the Democrats present thought he
was of their party. The incident is
thus given publicity in the Republic
can:
The Republican committee sent out
two speakers, and to show no partial
ity and to cement into a compact
whole, the somewhat discordant ele
ments. they billed two speakers, Cliff
ford Thorne, an insurgent, and anothe,
young attorney. who is regular Re
publican. Each made fiery speech
but when Thorne topped off his eli
makes, the Democrats did the cheer
ing.
When the meeting was over. some
OF the Democrats went to Thornt
and sought to have him make othe,
appointments. They liked his speech
and declared their man rad skinned
the Republican. They thought it was
joint debate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25

pie in the duties of his Office. Civil SER
vice reform means simply a return in
the treatment of public office to first
principles. In the vast majority of
public offices tins : best accomplished
by system of competitive examina-
ton open to all qualified persons If
respective OF their political beliefs.
The principles and work of the League
have the cordial approval of President
Taft, former President Roosevelt,
Charles w. Eliot. Elihu Root and
other eminent statesmen and publ
cists. The offices of the League are
at IS Wall street, New York City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
PROGRESS All PANAMA.

The small army of diggers at Pana-
ma are still making the dirt fly.
According to a report just PUBLISHED
the excavation has reached a total
corresponding to the amount of earth
which it was originally thought nee
essary to remove. If orders had not
been issued to widen and deepen the
canal to accommodate the greater
warships of recent construction, the
digging would now be complete. The
total is now 103.795,0o0 cubic yards:
under the revised plans. the amount
remaining to be removed is 70,S71. 594,
and the digging is going forward at
the rate of more than 100000 cubic
yards month. In less than two years
this part of tbs work should be com
pleted.
Thus far it is record of accom-
plishment which is described as with
out precedent in engineering under
taking" So smoothly has the work
been going latterly that there has
been little mention of it at Washing
ton or in the newspapers. Most per-
sons have to think twice to recall the
name of the man at the head CT the
great enterprise, but there is day
coming when Colonel Goethals will be
more popularity honored than any OF
the living heroes of war
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
Mark Twain in keokuk.

Springfield (ili.) Register: Mark
Twain"fhad literary aspirations, how
ever, before he became pilot AS
boy he learned to set type and
when he was about twenty years old
he came to Keokuk, Iowa, where his
brother Orion Clemens, was engaged
in the job printing business. This
was in 1856. At that time the faith
er and oldest brother of Ex-senator
Thomas Rees, manager of the State
Register, We're publishing paper in
that Iowa city, and Mr.. Rees has
heard his brother George, now living
in st. Joseph, Mo-, often speak of the
young man and his aspirations.
In biographies of Mr.. Clemens the
date of his first literary production is
given as 1867 when THE Jumping
Frog. was printed in pamphlet form.
But more than ten years before that
he contributed to the Daily Keokuk
Post. published by Rees & Son. Mr..
Rees, in his Sixty Days in Europe,
makes the following brief reference
to the fact:
Il have always felt considerable in
terest in Mark Twain (who was be
ing entertained in London by King
Edward, Whitelaw Reid and others at
the time Mr.. and Mrs. Rees were
there) because it so happened that
my father and my Oldest brother had
something to do with starting him on
career that has brought him to his
high and enviable position"
This was in 1856, fifty-four years
ago. when Mr. Clemens was in his
twenty-first year. Mr.. Rees continues;
"The firm of Rees & Son arranged
with the young man to write some
articles for publication in the Keo
kuk Post, which they mutually agreed
would be worth five dollars each. Mr.
4 Clemens started out and took a trip tc
I Quincy, ST Louis, Chicago and Gin
cinnati. After writing the first, he
concluded that he fought to have
seven dollars and half piece for
his articles, so he wrote the second
article, which was published, after
which he thought his talent was
worth ten dollars per article"
The proceeds of the articles pub
lished in the Post, Mr.. Rees is Ger.
tain, was the first money ever paid
Mr.. Clemens for writing The nego
tiations were broken off, as the pro
prietors Of the Post decided they could
not afford to pay ten dollars per art
icle At the present time Mr.. Rees
4 has locked up in the safe of the State
Register Office typewriter copies OF
two articles taken from the files Of
his fathers paper, now in possession
of his brother, Robert Rees of Keo
kuk. Each article has an affidavit at
tached showing the genuineness Of the
publication and the copy, and the cir
cumstances under which it was writ
ten by Mr.. Clemens.
The articles were written under tn,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
Fruits Of insurgency

Iowa City Republican: The Re.
publican has been in pretty close
touch with the efforts made here and
elsewhere to finance interurbans and
it has learned that nowhere can such
a project be financed by corporation
organized under the laws of Iowa,
1t is not necessary to SO into the
reasons. They exist and are such that
they cannot be overcome Every fin
ancial institution in the country will
verify this statement: To avoid this
condition, companies have to be
organized and chartered in other
states. When this is done interurban
workers find another objection almost
as prohibitive: IF your state has
laws so drastic that its corporations
cannot comply with conditions univer'
sally imposed by those who finance
such enterprises, we do not care to
put our money into state where
our investments will be subject to the
whims of legislatures that enact
such laws
When business enterprises seek to
bring industries and capital to the
state, objections are made that Iowa
legislatures are getting as bad as
those in Kansas, and our congress
men are pointed to as representing
Iowa sentiment, and the men with
means do not care to have their
property subjected to the possibil-
tiles of what such men nay do.
The Republican does not say who
is right. 1t is stating fact.
The Northwestern railway com
pany has announced 'ts purpose to
Immediately remove its terminals and
division from Clinton across the
river in Illinois. Something is said
about the company not having room
in Clinton and about the snow
troubling them, But that is not the
reason for such action. Years ago
the company bought a great tract OF
land west of Clinton for terminal and
track purposes. The company may
not be willing to admit it, for fear
of reprisal, but the Republican knows
that the intended buildings did not
go there because of the political and
legislative conditions in Iowa The
company did not care to have its
terminals and division investments
controlled by laws which were pass
ed, not to help the people. but as
political assets for one man.
Clinton has been rather loyal in
a way to insurgency as it is practised
and while its people are reason
able, it now is reaping its reward.
The terminals are not crossing the
river because of anything the people
have done there, but it is fact that
Clinton has been lending its influence
to help the chief Iowa insurgent who
has been battering down business en-
terprises in Iowa just to get tam
gible asset to help himself into Office
We have the insurgency. We have
the laws: We have the new condi-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25

Some rather thorough Investigations
on this point, and the results were
surprising when making comparisons
with ten years ago. He cited as in
stances, cheese, which is higher and
SO is butter. But sugar is lower; rice
and canned goods are about tie same;
dried fruits. in the main, lower-some
are higher but the average is lower;
salt fish is about the same; beans
were higher. But cheese and rolled
oats were the principal things that
were higher.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25

tons. But of what benefit? Is there
& man in all Iowa who can truthfully
say he is bettered thereby morally,
religiously or financially?
Now just take a look at other
places. The Milwaukee has its
shops and division points at Savanna,
Ill The Rock Island has It's at Sylvis,
H., just over the river from Daven-
port. The western roads have their
terminals at. Omaha The railways
are afraid OF Iowa
Here we want to recall a single
instance of politics and insurgency
preventing capital f,om coming into
,, iowa.
A few months ago Congressman
Mckinley, either in person, or by
representative, went to Des Moines
and proposed to buy the street car
system there He said his syndicate
! would invest a million dollars in i'm
proving the city plant and would
make Des Moines the center of a
great interurban system. 1t was
planned to connect Des Moines with
the Illinois lines and thus give the
capital of Iowa trunk electric rail-
way to Chicago. Iowa City would
have been upon that line and 1t
would have utilized the proposed in
terurban from Iowa City to Daven-
port.
Mckinley happens to be regular
Republican, a member OF congress and
chairman of the Republican congress
ional committee That was enough.
Under the lead of the arch insurgent.
Harvey Ingham, backed by the trust
owned Des Moines News, Mckinley
was driven out of the state. Des
Moines is wrestling with its bum
street cars, is minus the interurban
and the entire state is made to suffer
on account of Des Moines insurgency.
Nobody will question the right
and duty of the state to regulate the
railways, but that is different from
persecution. 1t is one thing to con-
troll and another to denounce and
make such announcement the basis
of seeking political preferment.
With a possibility that the insur-
gents may have control of the state
and with the possibility that an up
start like Clifford Thorne, who has
not legal business standing in his
own county sufficient to win himself a
ten dollar retainer in an important
case, becoming railway commissioner
there is not much to encourage rail-
way capital to be either invested or
retained in the state beyond abso-
lutte necessity.
The Republican can speak for it.
self. 1t prefers the interurbans. 1t
prefers to invest the capital in manu-
featuring and other industries, and
the increased business activities of
the railways, to all the reform laws
we have secured in the last ten
years Ii everyone of them was
wiped off the books, the people would
be the gamers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
uNBELIEF.

UNBELIEF.
There is no unbelief;
Whoever plants a seed beneath the
sod,
And waits to see it push away the
clod,
He trusts in God.
Whoever says, when clouds are in
the sky,
BE patient, heart, light breaketh by
and by"
Trusts the Most High.
Whoever lies down on his couch to
sleep.
Content to lock each sense in slumber
deep,
Knows God will keep.
Whoever says, Tomorrow, THE I'M
Known
The future trusts unto that power
alone
He dares disown.
The heart that looks on when the eve
lids close,
And dares to live when life he's
only woes,
Gods comfort knows
There is no unbelief;
And day by day, and night, uncon-
sciously,
The heart lives by that faith the
lips deny,
God knoweth why.
Mrs. Lizzie York Case.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE

In order to obtain the cooperation
of persons in sympathy with civil
service reform in districts where no
local civil service reform associa.
ton exists, the National Civil Service
Reform league recently amended it's
constitution to provide for two
classes of individual members-asso-
clate and sustaining The annual
dues for associate members are five
dollars and for sustaining members
twenty-five dollars. A larger and
more widely-distributed membership
is desirable in the interest of the flu.
ture work of the league which lies
not only in maintaining what has
already been gained. but in extending
the merit system to state and munic
lpal governments where 1t does not
now obtain. In this work It seeks
the cooperation of all patriotic citi
zens.
The National Civil Service Reform
League was organized in 1881 as {
leoeratlon OF various local civil ser
4 wee reform associations, the first O
winch was founded in 1877 in Nov
YORK. The underlying principle 9
civil service as defined by the I,eagu
Is that public Office exists for tn
beneflt OF the whole people, not tn
politicians nor the offlceholders. an
that each office should therefore b
filled solely with regard to the Fl
ness OF the incumbent to serve the no,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-25
PRAYERS NEVER PASSED OVER
First Thought in the Mind of Moham.
nnedan lie His Duty Of Devotion
to Allah.

And while we three white men of
Christian race stuffed ourselves
without preliminary or postprandal
grace, and our shenzi porters grace.
lessly gorged themselves like beasts,
scarce 80 feet from our table stood
the noble form Of old Regal and the
spare ascetic-faced Awala, unsteady
informing their evening prayer to AL.
lah, oblivious to all about as IL alone
In monastic CELL 1t was majestic
rebuke to us, a weird mystery to the
shenzl. whose voices were always low.
cred when the Somais began to pray,
and who sat contemplating them in
wild-eyed wonder to the end of each
prayer, awed, almost silent--as were
We ourselves silent out Of the sheer
respect for religion which can give
men such perfect self-control that no
Danger daunts them and no hardship
or suffering wrings from them a
plant.
Five times day do they SO pray
at dawn, at high noon, at four, at
sunset and before retiring-nor can
anything interfere to delay these
prayers. not even hungry masters.
And before addressing Allah, mouth,
face and hands are carefully washed,
the best turban wound about the head,
the freshest garments donned, the
feet barred. then with a glance at the
sun, If by day. or at the stars, If by
night, to get their compass bearings,
they spread their rugs, face towards
Mecca and begin low, droning
chant that at little distance might
easily be mistaken for well-intoned
litany.-From In Closed Territory. by
Edgar Beecher Bronson.