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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
WOMEN SPOIL PASTORS.
Fighters, Not WeakIings, Needed to
Fight Battles of the
Church.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 16.-"The
church women have nodded the min
lister to suit t-emselves and have
made him nice little fellow, when
he ought to be fighter AS a result
men in other walks of life do not mix
with the minister, they do not under
stand him."
This is the principal complaint
Arthur Holmes, professor of sociology
OF the University of Pennsylvania
found against the modern church in a
speech yesterday afternoon at the In
dependence Boulevard Christian
church. Professor Holmes was cpeak-
ing to about two hundred men, mem
bers of the Associated Brotherhood
of Disciples of Christ of Greater
Kansas City The Brotherhood is a
national organization, composed of
men from the different churches.
When man enters the ministry
he is not different from other men, .
Professor Holmes said, shut after he
has served in the pulpit ten years he
can be recognized as a clergyman any
where.
He is made over by the women OF
the church. They most freely criticise
his sermons, his actions and even his
dress. After a sermon once I heard
woman say that the minister's tie
was tied hideously. Another woman
| knew argued the removal of the
pastor because she thought his feet
were too big. After the sermon the
women gather to discuss-not the
talk, but the talker. They talk about
the fit of his clothes instead of the
soundness of his message.
Any minister who is patted on the
back by the women and told that he is
a lovely little thing is a poor speci-
men to fight the battles Of the
church"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
LEARNING TO SPELL.

The Des Moines Capital agrees that
the present day high school pupils are
such poor spoilers compared with their
fathers and mothers that they ought
to be ashamed. The Capital calls at
tention to the fact that our parents
had fewer of school room fads to oc-
cupy their attention which may in
some degree account for their sound
ness in the fundamental branches. The
same paper adds:
1T seems to lis that modern edu
Gators ought to look upon this matter
with some genuine concern and be
able to explain the situation and tell
US the remedy. 1t is sad blot upon
the educational credentials of anv
young man or woman that they are
unable to spell correctly the common
words of ordinary business and social
correspondence. To admit that there
is no remedy would be to confess that
keenness is giving place
to intellectual dullness in the general
march of time"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
Otto and His Auto.

Young Otto bought an auto, which
he ought not to have done
Till he had studied fully how an auto
ought to run;
But Otto didn't do it, so he had him
self to thank
That when Otto cranked the auto, Why
young Otto was the crank.
For Otto left the auto with the lever
pushed to go,
When he ought to have reversed it,
with the power shut off, you
know;
So when Otto cranked the auto the
auto gave jump,
And landed Otto sprawling, with an
automatic thump;
But Otto grabbed the auto as the
auto autoed by,
Then Otto and the auto adown the
street did fly;
And at speed that auto the luckless
Otto whirled
thinks he owns the world;
While the auto-hating public stood
and watched the auto rash
Till 1t ran against lamp-post with
most terrific crash!
Then they sadly laid poor Otto, who
had lost his auto zest,
Where the autos cease from trou-
bling and the ottos are at rest.
L'ENVOI.
Now in this auto story, with its sad
and fatal turn,
There is a moral hidden which we
surely ought to learn:
No Otto ought to auto till he knows
the auto rules,
For an automatic auto is no toy for
auto fools.
ID. G. Davidson, in Boston Globe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
PARpoNAHLE IGNORANCE.

The Fort Madison Democrat has a
local item about man who was work
ing in a construction gang on the
Santa Fe a short distance down in
Missouri, who drifted into Fort Madi,
son, and on being examined by a
physician was found to nave smallpox,
Last Wednesday he was discharged as
completely well and told to get out OF
town at once. The story concludes
with the following paragraph:
He told one of the doctors his
name, but the doctor promptly forgot
it and when asked his patients cog.
nomen, said, 'damfino,' which word is
included in The Gate City's new direc-
tory and at present meaningless to
us"
Naturally. TIE editor of the Fort
Madison Democrat does not belong to
the Keokuk Culture Club
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
SLEEPING Out Doors.

Dubuque Times-Journal: The Child
Saving Institute at Omaha has deter
mined that the forty-one children in
its care shall get the habit. They
have been provided with tents having
wooden floors and screen walls and
like them SO well that they would not
sleep in doors now except by com
mand. The National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis pins its faith on outdoor dor1ni-
tories and has issued a pamphlet on
the subject.
The pamphlet is meant to be hand
book of information for anybody who
desires to sleep out of doors in his
own home. 1t emphasizes the fact
that outdoor sleeping is as desirable
for the well as for sick. The booklet
will be sent free of charge to anyone
applying for it at the headquarters of
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis in New
York, or to the secretary of any local
or state anti-tuberculosis association.
Some of the subjects of which the
pamphlet treats are, row to take the
open-air treatment in a tenement
house; how to build small shack or
cabin on a fat roof in the city; how
to make one comfortable while sleep
ing outdoors either in hot or cold
weather; how to arrange a porch on a
country house; and how to build a
cheap porch; the construction of tents
and tent houses; the kinds of bed and
bedding to use In outdoor sleeping,
and various other topics. The book
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

him for use any place. He is the
same at home in his district as he is
Washington Republican.
We sometimes almost wish we had
been born a Democrat SO we could
have inherited the sublime and child
like faith of that party. They always
expect to win in every election, coun-
ty, state Or national, and the few days
of anguish succeeding an election is
soon forgotten in the buoyant hopes
for the future. Whoever said that
hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK surely could not have had ref
ence to the Democratic party.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

For many years there has always
started about the first of July a loud
cry that there was not sufficient
money to move the crops. Western
bankers appealed to the treasury de-
partment to get money from the east
SO that harvest hands could be paid and
transportation paid on grain as the
crops were harvested to be moved
eastward. Deputy Comptroller of the
Currency Kane says that there is no
particular demand Of that kind now
and SO far as he can ascertain, there
is plenty Of money in the west for
the movement of the crops. He does
not anticipate the usual clamor for
crop-moying money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

Friday was ST. Swithin's Day, day
second only to Grounding Day in the
calendar of the superstitious. Accord
ing to the ancient legend:
st. Swithins day, if thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain;
st. Swithin's day, if thou be fair,
For forty days twill rain mai MAR.
1t rained on ST. Swithin's day this
year, and if there is anything in the
ancient superstition the corn crop is
assured all the showers it needs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

There is great deal of sentiment
about the mint julep, and quite often
a SIMILAR amount of bad liquor
Louis Globe-Democrat.
That may be the situation in st.
Louis, but no Keokuk man has been
heard to complain of an undue amount
of liquor, bad or otherwise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
NO MORE CARRYING BACK MAIL

NO MORE CARRYING BACK MAIL.
In May, 1888, congress passed law
restricting days work of a letter
carrier to eight hours. This law re-
NAMED in effect until July j, 1901,
when a law was passed which provided
that letter carriers may be required
to work as nearly as practicable only
eight hours on each working day, but
not in any event exceeding forty-eight
hours during the six working days OF
each week, and such number of hours
on Sunday, not exceeding eight, as
may be required by the needs of the
service The latter act was proylso
in a general act making appropriations
for the maintenance of the postal ser
vice for the fiscal year 1901. The
question arose whether congress Ia
tended this enactment TO be perma-
Enent or a temporary amendment OF
the eight hour law. The assistant at
torney general for the postoffice de-
Ipartment ruled that the forty-eight
hour week proviso ceased to be eff
fective at the end of the fiscal year
covered by the appropriation act OF
which it was part. Consequently al
the end of the fiscal year ending June
30, 1901, the former restriction limit
ing the work of a letter carrier to
eight hours day again went into eff
feet
Quite recently the court Of claims
ruled that the, proviso added, to the
appropriation sact Of 1900 is still in
force. In conformity with this ruling
the postoffice department has issued
instructions That letter carriers shall
work only fortyseight; hours. per week,
but may if necessary work more than
eight hours in single day The new
arrangement went into effect in the
Keokuk postoffice, in common with
free delivery offices in all parts of the
country. about two weeks ago and is
proving quite satisfactory. The first
three days of the week the mail is
lighter than on the last three. BY
carefully conserving their time the
carriers are able to complete their de-
liveries on Mondays, Tuesdays and
Wednesdays in less than eight hours
in seven and one-half or seven and
three-fourth hours, according to con-
ditions Under the new arrangement
the time thus saved is available on
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
when the mail Is heavier than the av-
erage, and carriers are thus enabled to
complete their trips by working more
than eight hours on those days. This
is advantageous both to the carriers
personally and to the service. The
flexibility of the hours makes it posi-
bic for the carriers to deliver all mail
the day it is received, except possibly
during the rush of the holiday season.
They are not compelled to bring any
mail back to the postoffice to be added
to the following days mail. Patrons
are assured prompt receipt of their
mail and have no longer cause for
complaint that the carriers bring let
tiers back to the office simply because
it would take them few minutes over
the eight hour schedule to deliver
them.
The new arrangement is sensible
and practicable. 1t is based on the
volume of the mail instead of an arbi
trary number of hours work each Cay
regardless of the requirements of eff
| ficient service
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
THINNER end standnatter

Donnellson Review: The FIT Mad
ison Evening Democrat says that Mr..
Kennedy as a trimmer was successful
but as a standpatter he can not be.
Mr. Kennedy's trimming was con.
fined to his grape vines at Montrose,
but his standpatism he carries with
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

The declaration that the Reno fight
pictures are no worse than many
other films is properly declared by the
Waterloo Reporter to be no argument
In favor of the Jeffries-Johnson exhi-
bition. It only emphasizes the neces-
sity for censoring all moving picture
shows.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

Frank Gotch, the champion wrestler,
has brain as well as Drawn. When his
attention was called to the recent
statement of Corbett and others that
he was 1.-THE white mans hope" he
promptly replied that if he met the
colored champion he would be "the
white mans goat"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

There may be something in the ex-
PLANTATION volunteered by the near
philosopher of the Sioux City Tribune
that mans inability to see through
large volumes of water lends attrac-
ton to fishing and stock gambling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

The recent refreshing rains caught
a number Of farmers with Lay down"
but they were a great blessing never
theless. They came at the right time
to do the most good to the growing
crops and vegetation of all kinds. A
few more downpours at intervals dur
ing the next two months will assure
banner corn crop.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
wei illustrated and attractively pre-

is wei illustrated and attractively pre-
pared.
The object of the book is to suggest
particularly to consumptivss who can
not secure admission to sanitarium
how they can be treated at home I'M
der the direction physician. III view
of the fact that there are less than
$4,000 hospital beds in the United
States for consumptives and fully $780,
600 who should be in hospitals. the Ma
tional association urges that more at
tention be paid to sleeping in properly
provided places at home, and that in
every case the best be made of the
patients environment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

There he's been but one legal hang
ing in Iowa since 1885, period OF
twenty-five years. The lone exception
was the execution of Joe Smith, a
negro, on April 20, 1906, for the MUIR
der of his sweetheart 1t is warrant
able inference from this showing that
public sentiment in this state is averse
to the infliction of the death penalty
except in extreme cases.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

At one of the Yale class reunions
last week a clergyman with forty
years (more or less) of experience in
the world told his listening friends
that his conclusion of the whole mat
ter was that hell was not now any
thing like SO big as it was when he
entered the ministry, and he thought
it was still shrinking. The remark
was suggestive and encouraging.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

A writer in the ST Louis Globe
Democrat points out that if the goose
that lays the golden eggs hadn't ac-
quired such a foolish habit it wouldn't
have been killed Probably not. But
a goose will be a goose.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

The science of aviation is exacting
heavy toll in human life. The Gate
City is in accord with the st. Louis
Star that it is too heavy for the
benefits that are in prospect for civ
1lizatton and its scientific advance
ment, even though the air be com
pletely conquered in the end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

Joseph R. Frailey. the silver-tongued
orator of Fort Madison, is to be chief
reading clerk of the Republican state
convention. The choice is an excellent
one. Mr. Frailey's voice is far-reach-
ing and permeating as well as mel,
liflous, and he viii experience no diff
fieulty in making himself heard and
understood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

wholesalers have led to abuses. A dis
senting report as to the tariff and
some other factors will be filed by a
minority of the committee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

A Massachusetts flying machine
man committed suicide with pistol.
Some men seem not to have an iota
of patience.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

The "back-to-the-soil movement has
received setback. Some one was in
considerate enough to cry .chiggers.'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

Dangers of the. rowboat can be
avoided declares an eastern paper.
Certainly Don't get into the row.
boat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

1t will be noted that the old saying,
'as easy as flying" significantly
rhymes with as sure as dying"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

found was our own back yard says
the Ida Grove Pioneer.
A st. Louis paper asks: what is
the third degree??' and the San An
tonic Express promptly responds:
THAT is what follows the discovery
of blond hair on the coat collar"
THE main thing is for Republicans
to get together says the Shenandoah
Sentinel-Post. IF you are for the Re-
publican party, get inside. If YOU are
not for it, go over to the Democrats
and be done with it,
The supreme court of Illinois has
decided that the city council of the
city of Chicago has tie right to regu-
late the size or weight of loaves of
bread and to regulate the sanitation
and ventilation of bake shops
ut is failure, q farce, a fraud" as
serts the Marion Register, referring to
the primary law. 1T is Illegal. uncon-
stitutional 1t is q 100000 to 100000
loot of the treasury. Every dollar of
the peoples money taken to help
nominate party tickets is as barefaced
steal as midday or midnight robbery
ever was"
With all our admiration for Roose-
welt, it must be acknowledged says
the Eagle Grove Eagle, that President
Taft has secured more popular legisla-
ton in sixteen months than Roosevelt
did in seven years. Taft has conquered
wonderfully AS soon as the people
can get their breath he will be every
where acclaimed the most popular
man in the country"
Iowa has been raising too many
bright, money making young men, who
go west to make more money" says
the Hopkinton Leader, commenting on
the prediction that Iowa's population
will show further decrease by the
1910 census. Iowa has been so al
! mighty prosperous that pretty nearly
every one could move when he wanted
1 to-"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
pAILY By MA1t.

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No. Is. North Sixth St. keokuk. Iowa.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

A St Louis paper asks: What is
tie third degree?' and the San An
tonic Express promptly responds;
That is what follows the discovery
of blond hair on the coat collar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

'But one who has no dwelling place
In earthly time or earthly space;
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

THE ONE WHO STAYED.
/ met a woman old and gray
And sought to cheer her lonely way.
girl flashed by us, all aglow;
Your child?' l said; she answered,
NO"
II have but one, and she is dead,
Yet seven others live she said;
Live. but we live so far apart
! hold them only in my heart;
But one who has no dwelling place
In earthly time or earthly space;
She nestles in my arms at night,
She greets me when the morn is
bright;
1Her baby smile, her winsome ways
Make glad my bleak November days.
She looked across the waters gray,
Then pressed my hand, and turned
away.
Ada Foster Murray.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
NOTES AND COMMENT.

"The best summer resort we ever
found was our own back yard says
the Ida Grove Pioneer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

keokuk, Iowa. ....... July II, 1910
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

"She nestles in my arms at night,
She greets me when the morn
bright;
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

II have but one, and she is dead,
Yet seven others live she said;
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

Live. but we live so far apart
! hold them only in my heart;
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17

Her baby smile, her winsome ways
Make glad my bleak November days
, 1910-01-20
Wool Storehouse at Rawlins

A movement is on foot in Rawlins
looking to the building of a large
wool warehouse for the storage of
wool in the spring, Or until the
growers can get what they believe
to be satisfactory prices. Until
two years ago when the Wyo-
ming. Wool Growers association
established a big warehouse at
Omaha, and last year when the
National Wool Growers association
established a warehouse at Chicago
the growers were compelled to &C.
cept the prices offered by the mid
dlemen or let their clips lay out in
the rain. With the establishment
of these warehouses in the west
the growers will be in a mere in
dependent position.
, 1910-01-20

The lecturer raised his voice
with emphatic confidence. Il
venture to assert that there is not
a man in this audience who has
ever done anything to prevent the
destruction of u forests"
A modest looking man in the
back of the hall stood up.
"I-er-T've shot woodpeckers,"
he said.
The golden-hair red song bird
had just bowed to her audience
when a man rushed frantically up
on the stage and cried:
lis there II physician in the
house?"
A young man in the third row
blushing with embarrassment, a.
rose.
"Say.D Doc" asked the man OH
the stage with a jerk of his thumb
toward the singer, "ain't she a
beautY
Toward the close of a recent
lawsuit in NJ Massachusetts,, the wife
, 1910-01-20
Census Applicants Forms

Census Supervisor. Homer
Merrell, whose office is at Rawline,
Wyoming, has received from the
Census Bureau a supply of blank
applications for persons applying
for positions as census enumera-
tors. These will be forwarded to
his list of applicants as 500 as
possible.
The applications, properly filed
out, must be returned to the super
visor not later than January 81,
the Census Director having extern
bed the time from January 25,
which was the date first set for
closing the consideration of ap-
plication. The test" will occurred
February 8, as previously an
nounced.
Endorsements of each applicant
must be secured from two repre-
sentative citizens of the communi-
ty in which the applicant resides.
They must be at least q years of
age and acquainted with the ap-
plicant not less than one year.
Endorsement will not be accepted
from any person who is in any way
related to an applicant. The in
dorsement certifes that the appli-
cant sis a thoroughly trustworthy
and honest person., of good hadits'
and, in my opinion, is fully cap
able of discharging the duties of a
census enumerator, if appointed
, 1910-01-20
W. c. T. U. Meeting

The next meeting of the w. G
T. U. will be held at the residence
of Mrs. T. NJ. Dukes next Tuesday
evening. Business of Importance
will be transacted. A strong eff
fort is being made to provide a per
manent home for the library near
the central part of town. If you
are interested in a reading room
and library combined your pres
ence will be welcome.
, 1910-01-20
Broken Truck Delays Train

The morning train from En-
campment was delayed several
hours at the switch opposite the R.
A. Day ranch yesterday morning
by the breaking of a Aange on the
tender trucks. Only the rear pair
Of the front trucks we're disbled.
The crew chained them up and
came on to this place where a new
truck was put in the place of the
disabled one. The train was be-
layed "a hours but no damage
of any kind was done.