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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
FOREST FIRE PROTECTION.

The Western Forestry Conserya-
ton Association represents timber
protective bodies in the FIVE states OF
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon
and California, which contains half
the imaginable timber in the United
States and wherein the cutting of
timber amounts to one-fifth of tnat
of the entire country, or about $125,-
100000 a year in value
The association is organized large
ly for the purpose of promoting for
est fire prevention and conservation
forest management and reforesting
of lands once cut over that are not
more valuable for agriculture than
for timber, for Improvement in taxa
ton systems incidentally, the preser-
walton of stream flow and to COM
plete REPRESENTATION and all the other
things comprehended by the gener-
al term conservation.
The fires in the forests of the
United States cost the country s40,.
100000 year on the average. The
fires of the country that destroy
buildings only entail an annual loss
of between s300,00O,000 and $500, 000,-
900 and four-fifths of that loss is
due to the needles loss of combusti-
BILE materials for building. The fores-
try boards are beginning at the right
end. so far as their business is con
cerned. for since the forests should
be protected against fire to as great
an extent as is practicable. this
Western body reports that it spent
over 100000 last year in fire patrol.
1t is we'll that public attention be
brought to this matter and to the
general subject of our loss as well
as our resources. 1t is all part of one
great awakening of the public mind
to the necessity and the fairness
with respect to the effect of using
considerably and economically the
resources of the earth which are at
the command OF this generation.
There is no real difference of opin
ion among citizens on this subject
All are for conservation and are
equally sincere in desiring 1t. The
only objections which have arisen
are those to method and it will be
rather fortunate than otherwise If the
subject is taken into politics and fl
nally so guarded by lew as to insure
genuine conservation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
THE WAR UPON sMueeLERs.


In old times smugglers we're out
law folk, who hid in caves by day,
and who risked their lives by night to
land contraband booty in dangerous
harbors. under the guns of the rev.
enue officers. Usually they died
young.
Today, the smugglers. against
whom our customs officers have con-
Quoted so vigorous a campaign the
past summer, are directors of our
leading social clubs and business cor
porations. Often they sit in the front
seats at church. We may condemn
them privately, but the majority OF
us are secretly pleased if they give
us a lift in their automobiles going
down town.
There may be two opinions on the
justice and fairness of the duties inn
posed. But it is not fair that Mrs,
Newlyrich, with the run every year
of the Paris boulevard shops. should
be able to bring home low priced furs,
jewels, and laces, while the great body
of middle class and working people
must pay the same price Plus high
duty. And Uncle Sans income could
be increased by fair payment OF
customs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

school board have secured the ser.
vices of Miss Lubilla Auwater OF
Viele for the fall and winter term
School began Monday.
Mrs. Dr. Bassett and son departed
for Des Moines, New Mexico, Friday
morning after a pleasant stay with
relatives.
I James Dresser was a Dallas caller
on business, Tuesday.
M. M. Russell and family OF Stock
port were visiting at the parental
home last week.
Miss Kiefer of Houghton. spent sew
eral days last week with her friend
Miss Grace Bassett.
S. G. Robinson and family spent
Sunday with Grandma McAndrews.
Charles Eyler is shipping his baled
hay to st. Louis.
Miss Wardlow and Harry Dresser
Of Montrose spent Sunday with the
latter's relatives at this place.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
Nominated a Corpse

Sioux City Journal: Something of
the quality of Wisconsin insurgency
Is suggested by the outcome OF the
primary contest for attorney general.
At the opening of the campaign there
were three candidates, two stalwarts
and one La Toilette man. A week be-
fore the primary the La Toilette can
didate was found dead in a creek, hav-
ing either committed suicide Or been
the victim of accident while in a
state of mental alteration. His
death apparently made the nomina-
ton of one Of the stalwarts GER
tainty. But it did not turn out that
way. Word was quietly passed along
among the La Toilette supporters to
vote for the dead insurgent for attor.
ney general rather than either of the
stalwarts. 1t was pointed out that
ii the corpse were nominated II
would create an actual vacancy that
could be filled by the insurgent state
central committee. The program
was carried out, and the dead insurg.
ent was nominated, running only TO-
900 votes behind the live ones on the
La Toilette ticket. 1t now remains
to be seen whether a vacancy that
was not caused by the death, resigna-
tion or incapacity of nominee after
the primary can be filed by the state
central committee. A new precedent
will have to be created in dealing
with the matter, for never before in
the history of our veriegated politics
was there such a curious combination
OF circumstances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
Ballad Of the Fly.

Baby bye,
Here's a fly.
BY the state he's doomed to die,
Since he brings
Germlike tidings
On his legs and wings.
Countless millions Of the same
Have their lodgings on his frame
His offence
Is immense.
Hang his impudence.
See him pass
Bold as brass
With buzz that's full of Sass
Sz-'sz-'sizz!
There he is
On the grub, gee whiz!
See him with infected feet
Walking on the bread and meat;
Then the within
SeiZes him
In the milk TO swim.
Baby bye,
Shun the ky,
Pure food sharps will tell you why
Ills no Joke.
They will soak
Fly-protecting folk,
Therefore, get your little axe,
Stay the "musca' in his tracks,
Don't delay!
Haste to slay!
Little fly, good day, good day.
-Pittsburg Chronicle Dispatch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
GALLAND.
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Mr.. and Mrs. n P. Johnson spent
Sunday in Montrose.
Mrs. Cheesman of Montrose and
Mrs. Arkwright and daughter, Miss
Emma. of Council Bluffs, spent Fri
day with Mrs. Rebecca Adams.
Miss Grace Noonan left for Summit
vile Saturday where she will teach
school
Mrs A. R. Osburp was a Keokuk
caller Monday.
Mr.. Earl DeRosear Of Mt Hamill
visited at the Hemingway home
Tuesday
Mr. T. Boyle, Jr.. wife and baby.
drove to Montrose Tuesday morning.
Mrs. L. Hemingway and son, Viii
bur, spent few days of last week
on Bluff Park, the guest OF her sister,
Mrs. John
Wedding invitations have been re.
ceived in this village of the marriage
of former Galland boy. Mr.. Earl De-
Rosear, but who now resides near Mt.
Hamill to Miss Amelia Haffner of Mt.
Hamill, Iowa. which will occur at
high noon Wednesday, September ia,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
STATE NEWS.

Eldora-B Biggest fair on record.
Ackley-Sept. 23rd is sauer kraut
day
Madam Melba will sing
here October 26th.
Boone Frank Slocum was over
come. with heat last week.
Mason Memorial university
will open Sept. 10th.
Ratcliffe-Farmers are busy get
ting ready to pick seed corn.
Ogden-The Ogden Boosters" Is
the name of the Commercial Club
st. Anthony-The Rev Mr.. Wilkin-
son is the new NJ E. pastor here.
Albion-H. ]. Reidel received $500
for lambs on the Chicago market.
Emmetsburg- community has
lost over 1000 chickens by thieves.
Stanhope-A crowd of 1000 people
made the farmers picnic success.
Ogden-The new opera house was
completed and opened to the public.
Mason City-The Great Western is
talking of building a line to Usage.
Mrs. Mccoy heard burglar in her
house, fired a gun at him and he fled.
Vinton-The Times force was filed
upon watermelon by pleased patrons.
Council Bfuffs-Nature books are
much in demand at the public library.
Newton-An election to bond the
town for a gas plant is being petition
ed for.
Aredale-Grant Roberts sold his
restaurant and bought the Franklin
Cafe.
Ames-Mrs. Henry Lowman was
burned By spilling boiling lard on her
arm
Britt-Henry Heimendinger's boy
was severely hurt in runaway ma
nure spreader.
shenandoah-Sept. IS is the date
for the opening for service of the
new Catholic church
Willard Harmon had a
loaded wagon pass over his feet
without serious injury.
Marshalltown-Sa Sam Rusbena had
an arm broken in five places by the
bursting of an emery wheel.
Grundy Center-Jim Mooty thresh.
ed thitry-five acres of oats that aver.
aged Jos bushels to the acre.
Silver City-Rev. Peter Jacobs re.
signed his pastorate and will enter
college at Evanston. Ill
Council Bluffs-Twenty plunks to
the city for speeding should heir
autoists to observe the ordinance.
Waverly-The farmers here will
get $4,000 for their sweet corn from
the Kelley Canning company.
Toledo-Leander Clark college
opened with good attendance. Harve,
! ingham delivered an address.
Waterloo-James Cash was out Of
coin and started begging dollar. He
was insulting and got ten days.
Triumph-A young colt was beinf
taught some useful lessons agains
his will and kicked S. ]. Curtis
against his will.
Honey Creek While trying to ge,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
AGAINST TRADE SCHOOLS.

Ella Flagg Young, superintendent
of the Chicago public schools, says
that industrial training and the offer
ing OF vocational courses in the Chi
cago public schools are merely
branches of rounded system of edu-
cation. and that trade schools have
no part In a public educational sys-
TEN. She made her ideas known be
fore body of school principals.
Mrs. Young met the principals in
the Northwestern university building,
presented them with her first annual
report and discussed its contents and
suggestions for the conduct OF the
schools during the present year.
81 am not believer in trade
schools declared Mrs. Young, speak
ing on a section of her report Il
have no interest in manual training
to train the boys for a trade. don.
want TO say to boy. Your father is
hod carrier: we are going to make
a good one out of you believe in
that training which gives the children
skill by way of the senses / have
no interest in manual training that
does not give them skill; have no
interest in the cooking instruction that
does not result in something that can
be digested."
In the same vein Mrs Young's re
port is as follows:
'.In the early years of school life
the chief aim OF instruction in manual
training and household arts is TO con-
crete the academic subiects-reading
arithmetic, mathematics. geography.
and to train the hand and the senses.
4 In our methods OF today the tendency
/ IN aggregate industrial work and 10
treat II as an additional subject,
i isolated from the true, abiding aim
I of education, Is greater than the ten
dency to correlate and integrate the
academic and the practical. If sense
training and hand training with ma
terials and tools in the arts necessary
4 to home making are valuable, the
i question arises whether conditions
are not similar in mental training in
4 the HYGIENE practice OF fortifying
against tuberculosis by keeping your
children in fresh air; that Is. would
! the hand and the sense training
throughout the grades-weli directed
and with definite ends IN yiew-tend
10 prevent retardatfon IL learning az
4 well as TO overcome it, Is not pre-
vention more TO be desired thar
4 cure2"
A criticism in the report that prin
i cipals too often are expected to do the
work of Office clerks was well receiy
ed. II was as follows:
1T has long been evident that th'
position of principal has been takini
on too largely the duties Of clerkshipi
Il because Of the growth in size Of thu
high and elementary schools and th'
. consequent increase II the demands
on the time of principals
NO greater question lies pnsolYet
before the public school system ii
cities in this country than the uti1iza
: ton of the teaching power Of the bes
teachers after they have been pro
noted to higher positions. 4 sing
, ularly illogical condition is found il
schools and colleges; the gtronges
educational people are advanced to tn,
leadership of educational institutions
to become largely officers of adminiG
tration only, and the boys and girl
and students lose the greatest fore
| extant in the school, because of tn,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

at the home of the brides parents
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Haffner.
Miss Emma Noonan departed 70
Mt. Hamill Saturday, at which plac
she will teach school.
Mr.. George Hemingway left 70
Mt. Hamill Tuesday to attend th
wedding of his cousin, Earl DeRoseal
Mrs. L. Hemingway made bus
ness call to Keokuk Monday.
Mr.. George Rutledge and siste
made business call at the Las
Hemingway home Friday Afternoon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Los Angeles is to have home for
young women, to be built by William
A. Clark, the copper magnate, former
ly United States senator, as memor
ial to his mother, Mary Andrews
Clark. The home will cost 100000
A site has beer bought and ground
will be broken this month. Mr.
Clark's plan is to provide home for
young working women. especially
those employed in department stores
and offices, who will be required &c
pay moderate weekly rental for
apartm ents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Six generations of the Burnstein
family attended the wedding of Abra-
ham Burnstein, % years old, and Miss
Bertha Shiffman, 20, in New York
City last Sunday Miss Cecilia Burn.
stein, 101 years old, was the senior
member of the party present. She is
the great-great-great grandmother OF
the bridegroom.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

supposed advancement Of the super
Tor teacher. Eventually there will be
worked out some plan by which the
heads of schools will be more positive
~ people of affairs and not account
ants and correspondents"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

1t is the desire of Mrs. Am Roberts
who for a year acted as the foster
mother of King George of England,
to so from her home in Poultney, VT,
to England to pass the remainder OF
her life there King George has made
it a point always to see Mrs. Roberts
has lived comfortably, and it is said
he will see to it she returns to Eng
land.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

D'Annunzio, the Italian playwright
and novelist of far from savory repu
tation. was recently asked to define
the difference between mans first
love and his last love THE differ
ence, said the Italian, is that he
always thinks his first love his last
and his last his first"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Move On. 81 Get Out Of the Way
Did ycu eyer give cattle out OF ID
pen? II you have, you have often see
an old coy stop in the gateway an
horn everything back. There are loi
OF people In the world Just like the Of
cow. They stand In the path of pro-
ress and horn everything down that
for the betterment 0. their communal
and country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Papa Elkins expresses great fatigue
over the persistent efforts of pencil
pushers to marry his daughter Katie
rine, to the Italian Duke of Abruzzi.
The senator SAYS there Is no more
truth in the present reports than in
those he denied two years ago, and
signs for a rest from the gossips.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

The Vermont Republican majority
was Whitfield down 45 per cent Tues
day, but the little rain drops were a
more potent foe than such vestiges
OF the democracy as survive among
the Green mountains.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

David B. Hill is 81 years old. His
friends in Albany took notice of the
anniversary and wished him much
happiness. He is in good health and
busy man at the bar Six years
ago he took leave of politics as an
active factor in the game.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Prot. James spirit is said to be
talking, but it would seem as if it
would get the pictures hung and car
pets tackled down in the new tene
ment before having much time Tor
letter writing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

If Teddy would change over that
first person singular to first person
plural, he would find that the whole
band sounds better than any single
instrument.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Many accidents from the hobble
skirt are reported. If women will
wear handouts. the proper place is
the wrists and not the knees.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Three footpads set upon a farmer
and he whipped the lot of them. II
is safer to tackle the city man, who
relies more upon the chance to yell
for the police than to put up the best
fight there is n him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Although the insurgents carried
Wisconsin. New Hampshire and Mich
igan Tuesday. Uncle Joe Cannon still
persists that their band wagon is
only the dump cart.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

A special Carnegie medal is due to
two members of the Volunteer Life
Saving Corps of New York, who risk
ed their lives in half-mile swim
IN East river to rescue wooden In
dian from drowning. So far laugh
and a cigar sign is their sole reward.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

They are in big row over who
shall have the privilege of sitting in
the chair at the New York conven-
ton, but the carpenter who builds
the platform has the more important
task.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Billy Bryan has often talked about
the pocket nerve. but since he took
up prohibition he is learning that the
throat nerve is quite as influential
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Mrs. Flora L, Dotger, who died re-
Gently at East Orange. n. J., left the
most Of her large estate OF a million
dollars to Tuskegee institute. She
left sums Of $4,000 each to number
or orphan asylums aad orphans
homes. She has been prominent for
many years in charitable work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Roosevelt and Taft agreed fairly
well at st. Paul, and such razors as
we're flying through the air were of
the safety variety.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

With the cattle shows open, our
statesmen are now ready for the an
nual ordeal of distinguishing a Jer-
sey from a Holstein COW.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Register continues, and should he
desert them now or hereafter there'll
be his record to plague him. Will
tie? We don't believe he will"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

The flying tackle and other things
are ruled out of foot ball this fall,
but while the old Adam remains in it
the game is much the same.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Col. Roosevelt was introduced on
his western trip as the greatest man
in the world. This could not have
happened during the foot ball season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

The Mason City Globe-Gazette sug-
gests that Senator Deliver should
have a care how he refers to Roose-
welt as the presidential candidate for
1912. 'Nebraskans say Dolliver will
suit Them the Globe-Gazette contin-
ues, land Senator Cummins is to be
Iowa's candidate. Deliver should not
knock both Iowa candidates even to
boost so good man as Roosevelt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

On Labor Day the American people
sacrifice themselves for the sacred
cause of labor, by exhausting toll at
base ball, tennis and golf.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Here. arithmetic class! If cotton is
10 cents, how much costs a suit of
wooden clothes?
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WARREN.
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The Baptist congregation contem-
plate having Rev. Hansen of Bona
parte with them next Sunday.
A number of our energetic boys and
girls are enrolling as pupils in the
Donnellson school.
We are pleased to note that the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

On the hottest day in the year New
York authorities received bids for the
removal of snow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14

Gazette Turn about is only fair
play"
Which is to say" the Waterloo
Courier explains, 'that the honest and
daring republicans are to be consider
as the true regulars"
The Burlington Hawkeye says per-
usal of Taft's ST. Paul speech will dis
close the fact that the president is
padding his own canoe in most adj
mirable style.
As horrible examples of abject pow
erty, the big railway systems stand
at the head" says the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil They talk to the commits
sion as miser to the township asses
sor."
1T is estimated" says the Marshall
town Times-Republican that there
are 100000 of us. Subtract the few
who are identified with the special
interests and you have the number of
Americans that are with Teddy"
"Col. Roosevelt in his Sioux City
speech Endorsed the Taft ideas, and
it is probable that number of poll
ticians will soon realize that they have
been fighting simply for the love of
the scrap says the Perry Chief
1T was to be supposed" says the
Dubuque ph-Herald, that SO
earnest an advocate of a central bank
of issue as George E. Roberts would
be cared for, and that he should be
put into position where his views
viii carry the prestige OF high of
fee
aMr. Bryan, observes the Des Moin-
es Capital. notes the trail W ich is
blazed across the country, reads the
rear platform speeches, and sweetly
discourses about how the doctrines
which ne has preached for TIE past
fourteen years are being enthusiast
cally Endorsed"
After all has been said and done, =
says the Cedar Rapids Republican,
Roosevelt mas come over to Taft on
the tariff He rebukes the men who
have been denouncing Taft and he
approves the methods in which Taft
proposes TO work out that problem"
1T was thoroughly Rooseveltian, =
says the Des Moines Tribune. speak.
i7g OF the colonel's vigorous disposal
Of the man who called him liar. and
to be expected Of man abundantly
4 able TO take care Of himself whether
Il be IN politics. in African iungles
in official conflict, In business, or what
not
Mr. Pinchot may be capable o.
& general rhapsodies over conservation,
as President Taft calls thsm.' says
the Davenport Democrat, but mos
: Of the scores Of speeches at z conser
vation congress make pretty dry read
ing. The beat way is TO give their
al permission 70 print and let It q
al that"
The Marion Register contends thai
the stalwarts are the real progress
siyes Of the country Roosevelt wal
with them and one Of them during hi
geyen years in the White House." the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Roosevelt has called grea. many
people liars" says the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. Turn about is only fair
play"