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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-12
MRS. Fred A. Wealer Passed Away
Last Light at Her Home
9ts Leighton Ave. After
g,hort Illness.
DEATH COMES SUDDENLY
Deceased Was Born in Leavenworth,
kans. and Had Been Resident
Here With Family Seven
Years.

The husband and family are strick-
en- With deepest grief and friends are
shocked today through the announce
ment of the death of Mrs. Fred A.
Wedler whose passing took place
last evening at her residence, 913
Leighton Avenue. Suffering the most
intense pain for only a few
hours and but few knowing of this
beloved womans serious Illness, her
death is extremely sad and to those
on whom has fallen more than their
allotment of sorrowing, the sympathy
of all is extended.
Mrs. Wedler was taken Ill with
acute stomach trouble a week ago to-
day. Her condition became rapidly
worse and although everything was
done for her that loving hands could
and it was thought that she would
recover, it became apparent to those
attending her last evening that she
could not long survive. inflammation of
the bowels and complication of 9TH
er stomach ailments fastened her
passing and death resulted at 1880
last evening.
Was Born at Leavenworth.
Anna Matilda Schiermeyer first
came into this world on the seventh
day of May, at Leayenworth, Kansas.
There she obtained her early educa-
ton and was reared to young woman
hood. 1t was in her mothers old
home at Leavenworth on the Goth of
June 1890 she became the wife Of
Fred A. Welder, today one or Keo-
kuk's foremost merchants, who is
heart-broken over her death.
In 1895 Mr.. and Mrs Wedler moved
to Savannah, Mo-, where Mr.. Wedler
was engaged in business until 1902,
and on the first of September that
year came to Keokuk where they had
since resided with their children.
Her Life Faithful One.
With a sweet trust in all with
whom she came in contact, faith
full member of the Westminster Pres
byterian church, the life of the deces-
ed was beautiful and exemplary
one. Surrounded by her happy fam
lily and possessed with every lowell
ness in an unusually attractive
home, the death of this good woman
comes in the prime of her well lived
life.
The decedent was member of the
Colfax lodge No. of Rebekahs this
city and took more than ordinary in
& ;y, t-Ar
church work On July Fourth, lit
lie over week ago it was her great
1 pleasure with the members Of her
family and friends to enjoy a long
{ auto drive and at that time she was
in the best OF health.
Relatives Surviving.
The oereaved relatives who are
mourning the deth Of Mrs. Welder
are rar husband and +,vn ehiIdra,,
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Suffered Snake ate

IOWA CITY. July William Ior-
ack, manager of the New England
Jewelry company, was bitten IN the
face by water woccasin when he
dfved into the Iowa river. Contrary
to the belief of tie snake experts, the
snake leaped from the water when the
1eweler arose and pressed its tongue
into his face. The bite was quickly
followed by poisoning and the face
Is discolored, swollen and otherwise
affected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-12
Women Ahead.

As women. We should not quarrel
with CIR horizon, nor should we
zarewis5ig arraign poor man because
ne has civilized us at his expense. we
must realize simply that emotionally
ne are centuries ahead of him. and
that We shall have 70 wait patiently
Ter him 70 grow up and meantime
moderate our steps TO his Just as we
DO when we take the baby out for an
airing. Woman's Life.
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The Short and Simple Annals.

Me gotta da good job said Pietro.
as he gave the monkey a little more
line after grinding out on his organ a
selection from Santa Lucia "Getta
forty dollar da month and eata myself;
thirty da month if da boss eata me. -
Everybody's Magazine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-12
Polish for Mahogany Furniture

A tablespoon each of olive oil and
vinegar to one quart Of luke warm wa
ter will be found a most effectual way
for both cleansing and polishing ma
hogany furniture. Moisten a soft
cloth with the mixture and apply TO
the article, rubbing vigorously.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-12
PEACHES

Two cars arrived this morning.
Quality very fine and price reasonable.
The season for Texas Elbertas only
lasts about ten days. Those wanting
to put them UP should get busy.
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Relatives Surviving.

The oereaved relatives who are
mourning the deth Of Mrs. Welder
are her husband and two children,
daughter Florence and son, Fred Jr.
Three brothers and one sister also
survive Mrs Jno. T. Glass Of Forest
CRY, No. the sister and Charles
Schiermeyer OF Willow Springs. Cal,
Chris schiermeyer OF Los Angeles.
Cal, and Theodore Schiermeyer of
Old Mexico.
Arrangements for the funeral are
incomplete but obsequies viii be
held likely On Thursday afternoon
md viii be IN charge of Rev. E. B.
Newcomb OF the Westminster Pres
byterian church.
Mrs. Bertha Ristow, a sister Of F.
4 Wedler viii arrive today or To-
morrow from Leavenworth and the
CHER relatives have been notified or
Mrs Wedler's demise
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Fresks of Llnhtninn.

Lightning has struck, plucked feath-
ers from and insides out of chickens
and, better than some cooks. roasted
them to a proper turn for the table.
1t has roasted apples on the tree and
corn on the stalk, and has struck
goober and potato vines and cooked
the COOLERS and tubers in the very
ground.
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beef, iron and wine TO tired souls. and
works and Days" Is a tonic for tired
men; and yet know that In spite Of
all his pretty talk about living near
to Natures heart he never ventured
into the woods outside of hallooing
distance from the house. He could
neither ride a horse. nor shoot. nor
sail a boat--and being well aware of
1t, never tried. All OF his farming
writes to Carlyle late In life, explain
Ing how he is worth $4,000. well Sc
cured by first mortgage he max es
clear one-half of his ambition.
And yet call him master. and will
match my admiration for him against
that Of any other six nights and days
together But / summon him here to,
contrast his character with that OF
another-another, who, like himself,
was twice married
In his essay on Love-" Emerson
reveals an average sophomore insight;
and In his work / do not find men.
ton or trace Of influence exercised
By either OF the women whom ne
welded, nor by any other woman.
Shelley was what he was through the
influence OF the two women he mar
ried.
Shelley wrecked the life of one OF
these women. She found Hurcease OF
sorrow in death; and when her oody
was found In the Serpentine he had
premonition that the hungry waves
were waiting for him, too. But be-
fore her death and through her deatf
she pressed home to him the bitteres
sorrow that man ever can know: the
combined knowledge that he had NOR
| tally Injured q human soul and tn,
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Emerson and Shelley
BY EBERT HUBBARD.
,copvrieht, 1910 by American Journalists
aminer.)

When Emerson borrowed from
Wordsworth that fine phrase about
main. living and high thinking. no
one was more astonished than he that
Whitman and Thoreau should accept
him at his word.
He was decidedly curious about the1r
experiment, but kept safe distance
between himself and the shirt-sleeved
Walt; and as for Henry Thoreau-
bless me! Emerson regarded him only
as a fine savage. and told him so.
Emerson loved solitude. but 1t was
the solitude of library or an or
chard, and not the solitude OF plain
or wilderness. Emerson looked upon
beautiful Truth as an honored guest
He adored her, but 1t was with the
alteration of the intellect. He never
got her tag in jolly chase OF conrad.
ery nor did he converse with her. soft
and low, when only the moon peeped
out from behind the silvery clouds
and the nightingale listened.
He never laid himself open to dam
ages, and when he threw bit Of
bomb into Harvard Divinity School II
was the shrewdest bid for fame thai
ever preacher made.
Emerson had the instinct of Con-
neoticut-that peculiar development
of men who have eked out existence
on a rocky soil, banking their houses
against grim winter or grimmer say
age foes. With his Yankee shrewd
ness went. subtle and sweeping
Imagination. and a fine appreciation
| of the excellent things that men hav
| said and done. But he was never =
| foolish as to initiate the heroic-h
| simply admired IT from atar n
| often advised others to work thei
| poetry up into life. but he did not q
| II himself. he never cast the ban, t
| ling on the rocks nor caused MIN !
| be sucked with the she-wolf's tea
He admired abolition" from dis
| lance, Whenever he went away frol
| home 1t was always with a retur
ticket He had summed UP FRIEND
] ship In an essay as no other ma
! ever has, and yet there was sell
| protective aloofness In his frtendshl
\ that made icicles gather, as Geore
/ William Curtis has explained
In no relation OF his life was thel
a complete abandon,
l His essay ga "Self-Rellanco'
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PHILLIPS THE LAST.

Death Removes Last of Hnmpton's
officers of '61.
by GEORGE r. WOOD.
The death OF Colonel j. G. Phillips
here recently ends the lives of all
the Confederate officers who left
Hampton In May. 1851.
The following officers left Hampton
In 1851:
Old Dominion Dragoons-captain J.
C. Phillips, Lieutenant w. r, Vaughan.
Lieutenant Gill Cary. Lieutenant G.
Booker Jones.
Wythe Fufles-captain w. r. Wills.
Lieutenant Thomas Latimer, Ideu-
tenant S. r. Chlsman, Lieutenant
Hampton Grays-captain B. F.
Hudgins, Lieutenant Baker P. Lee.
Lieutenant T. v. i-orse. Lieutenant j.
Mcfarland.
washington Artillery-captain c. L.
Smith. Lieutenant G. w. Semp!e. Lieu
tenant ]. p. Hoke, Lieutenant Thomas
Tabb.
Colonel Phillips and his company
Old Dominion Dragoons-was very
useful to General Magruder as scouts
as they were acquainted with the
county around here. Colonel Phillips
was promoted in 1851. to major of the
Fifth Cavalry. and later to colonel OF
the Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry He
was not in command Of tho trooE
which burnt Hampton In 1851, as has
been asserted by the papers. Colone
Hodg SIS. of the Mississippi Battalion
was in command. and Colonel-ther
captain-Phtllips and his company
were the guides OF the expedition.
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wrrEs rnoM DISTANT LANDS.
tCnptpin franklin, OF England. Tells Of
tI,a confederate DAYS.

HIM COuIeueTUIe DdsN.
Editor OF The Times-D Dispatch;
AS an old Confederate allow me to
tender you my heartfelt thanks for the
column in your paper devoted TO Our
Lost Cause" and which gave me so
much Measure Thanks TO Mr.
Knox, Vfrginian and subscriber to
your paper and like myself on business
here, pro tenn, that ] have been able
o peruse your Divers ,nd heeoun n 10. 81 pat
tails OF that reunion of the veterans
at Mobile. Ala.
went to the South many years ago,
az did Saul to Damascus, and with
out owning a negro. or tile hope of
owning one, I Joined your army for
the right OF self-government; mean
thereby States Rights and the North
found 1t easier to prove by the sword
than the pen that we had no right to
secede.
I regret that my role was a some
| what ,nglorious one, belonged to a
head Magruder in the Trans -Missis-
| sippi Department., and passed my ex-
| animation as captain of the ordnance
| corps. and as such l was attached to
TOMS staff, whom I accompanied to
| Brownsville on the Rio Graude. where
| (knowing Spanish rendered some
! servlce In the exchange OF courtesles
with General Mejia and staff COM
! handing then the Imperial forces al
/ Matamoros Mexico. -
remember Captain Edmund P
/ Turner. also Lieutenant Yancey, botf
| on General Magruder's staff, the
| former assistant Acknowledgement anf
! the latter aide de- camp, l believe. Oul
! only little brilliant battle was the re-
! captaure of Galveston when we cap.
tured the Harriet Lane" along witt
| a regiment of Massachusetts volun.
/ teers. If the named staff officers are
still among the living their addresse!
would greatly interest mo in order u
keep in touch with old comrades.
| had the honor of shaking hand!
with Captain semmes. OF the famous
alabama" after her loss, and me
in Paris after the war our Ambassa
dor Slidell, Major-General Polignac
who had fought with US with distinc
ton, and in London, last, but not least
Judah p. Benjamin. our former Sec
rotary OF War.
Though established at Great Win
chester Street. London, e. Co as
commission merchant and travelin
for years all over Europe and Afric
4 as far as Khartoum, and In Sout
America as far IS Manaos on tn
Amazon | much regreat that l hav
nothing which would compel me I
visit the sunny South. where I me
such noble high minded people. pos
sessed OF such lofty and generou
wish had been present at the re
union at Mobile-in spirit was there
EDGAR FRANKLIN
Il Captain late Confederate Army.
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tho blockade, but he proudly e6-
claimed that his wife had knitted every
stitch of the SUIT She had spun tne
yarn and dyed 1t. had even knitted the
coverings OF the buttons.
Mrs. Lee, the Wife of our dear gen
eral. was confined to her chair from
rheumatism, yet she herself knitted
| 1876 pairs of socks IN one year. WINE
her daughters were nursing in hes
pital In the year 1853 woman
| known to the writer made i,02S yards
' OF cloth, besides knitting socks and
gloves for the soldiers. There were
I thousands OF just such noble women.
| without them 1t would have been inn
| possible for the South to maintain tho
long struggle against unequal odds"
Were Angels OF Mercy.
These women OF the Confederacy for
four long. terrible years. were angels
/ OF mercy, of hope, OF inspiration to the
valiant soldier who followed the
southerns cross The value of their
services can never be computed. The
wealth of their love Is irnmeasurable.
the debt OF gratitude that is owed to
them cannot be estimated. Her mission
was that of ministering angel, and
her usefulness In the hospital was to
bind up wounds, and in her home 1t
was q labor of love to work for the
soldiers In the field. to pray for his
} success. and to encourage him by her
, fortitude and self-denial to the put
ting forth OF his best efforts. The
Southern woman labored. They spun;
they wove; they knitted; they delved
and they planted; they nursed, picked
lint, rolled bandages and wrote letters
of faith, hope and encouragement.
The face of the figure that Is In
tended for the monument to the Con-
federate women should represent
heroism and extreme sacrifice. the ten
y derness OF charity. the gentleness OF
, refined womanhood, the solicitude OF
! the wife and mother. the devotion
} OF patriotic determination and the
tlgure itself. should be that of a wo.
manly woman, inspired by love OF
duty 1t Is a comfort to know thai
the Daughters of the Confederacy Il
such strong organization. and tina
. 1t will live on and perpetuate tn
i. glorious history. traditions and prin
: ciples Of the mighty struggles OF tn
sixties. The patriotic spirit that I'm
, bues the member of the U. D. c. !
= Identical with that which moved thei
= mother OF the past. They wish to pro
h serve truth unsullied, and to per
g petuate facts relating to the gallantr
9 and daring prowess and self-sacriflc
Q of the soldiers OF the Confederate!
:. When the sun and stars have foreye
"a set and the mists have rolled ava.
perhaps we will then understand tn
y mystery of Gods providence in furlin
3, the Stars and Bars forever. AS Daugh
tiers OF the Confederacy we declare OF
love and devotion to the South and 1t
noble defenders with an unfading an
everlasting love. We glory In the his
tory OF the Confederacy from Manassas
to Appomattox. Monuments may dt
cay and memorials may fade. but tn
y glory and valor OF the men who "wor
the gray" will live forever and ever.
TELL II as you may.
n 1t never can be told.
Sing 1t as you will.
1t never can be sung.
The story of the glory
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OUR SOUTHERN WOMEN.

No Monument IL TOO Exalted for
Heroines of Our Great Struggle.
The women were Spartans at heart.
wanting their men to come home with
their shields or upon them. These
women remained at home. They could
only watch, Wait and pray. They sold
their laces and their jewels, as we'll
as the family silver, to feed and
clothe the soldiers in the army. They
cut off their hair and sold 1t. When
Shermans army was marching through
Georgia. burning and pillaging as they
advanced, the general expressed sur
prise to see 50 many women of the
South with short hair. He offered q
reward Of handsome silk gown to the
first woman to be seen with long hair,
which caused the few women who had
not done so to cut their hair at once.
No Southern woman wanted gift of
the man who made war hell. To this
day standing chimneys are known as
"Sherman's sentinels." Church bells
were given the government to be made
into cannons. Before hostilltles began
bell was ordered from Rochester, N.
y, for church In this town, 1t
reached Richmond. where 1t was seized
nv our government and sent to the
foundry to be recast into guns. Mrs
Jefferson Davis, in her memoirs Of her
husband pays deserved tribute to
the women of the corfederacy. These
women, says Mrs. Davis omitted like
penelope from daylight until dark
They did it to clothe their families
and the soldiers, Old silk was picked
into fragments and spun into thread Il,
knit gloves and scarfsy Carpets were
portioned out as blanke S for soldiers
and household linen VA scraped into
. nv, ana sion IN IN am har ~
Congress made his appearance ut the
Dayis mansion in such an elegant
| and perfectly fitting suit of gray that
/ .,,a owe suggested that he had ctln
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tsenso OF helplessness to minister to its

rsense OF helplessnoss to minister to its
needs.
Harriet westbrook said to Shelley
Drink ye all OF It." And could hs
speak now. he would say that tho bit
terness OF the potion was a lorna
tive influence as potent as that OF
the gentle manifestations of Mary Woll-
stoncraft, who broke over his head
the precious vase of her hearts love
and wiped her feet with the hairs
of her head.
lovableness and beauty OF their ma
lures, Emerson and Shelley were very
similar. In like environment they
would have done the same Things.
A pioneer ancestry, with Its struggle
for material existence. would have
taught Shelley caution; and noble
patronymc, fostered by. the state. lax
Emerson toss discretion to the winds.
Emerson and Shelley were both
apostles OF the good, the true and the
beautiful One rests at Sleepy Hol-
low his grave marked by a great.
rough -hewn boulder, while overhead
the winds sigh requiem through the
pines. The ashes of the other lie be-
| meath the moss-grown walls Of the
Eternal City. and ths creeping vines
| and flowers, as X Jealous of the white,
| caryen marble. snuggle close over
| the spot with their leaves and petals.
| Both have reached immortality, Tor
! their thoughts live again in the minds
| OF the race. and their hopes and
| aspirations mingle and are with the
| men and women on earth who think
| and feel and dream.
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WYATT WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA.

North Carolina OFFICER Who knew Hin
So Declares the Fact.
Editor of the Times-Dispatcn:
In the Confederate column of your
tieIe from W. L W. headed as fol-
lows: Another Ideal Of the North
State Shattered"
After describing the battle between
3. F. Butler at Bethel. he uses the
following language: "A member OF the
First North Carolina Regiment certain
ly killed Winthrop, but that the first
error" It is well known in my native
county. Pitt, n. c.. that John Wyatt
and his family settled there few
years before the. war. and It was IN
derstood tina. they came from Viz
both legs fractured by gun-sh
wounds. pieces of bone from each leg
being removed or extracted by army
and patriotic citizen. heard of the Incl
dent and forthwith made what he
knew I would need. substantial
and neat pair OF crutches, and was SO
kind and gracious In presenting them
member him with deep gratitude as
long as live. Young Wyatt had just
grown to manhood and was working
IN an adjoining county at the time vol
Without hesitation he enrolled himself
as member of the Edgecomb Guards
and went forth to do battle for his
home. family and fireside. That he
fell in battle at Bethel Is known to
history. No North Carolinian that
am aware of ever claimed that he was
born in the State, as the writel states
or intimates. That he was a citizen
of the State and belonged to a North
Carolina command was all that we ever
claimed.
What motive w. L. w. could harbor
in his bosom. to prompt him to assert
that North Carolina wishes to claim
that Wyatt was native-born citizen
when the fact, is certainly known that
he was not. is indeed strange to me
forty-nine years after the battle was
fought.
wish to say In conclusion, if justice
Is the standard to be measured by
North Carolina has glory and honor
enough in her war career without
hlching one iota from Virginia or an,
other State.
CAPT. RoBT. w. JOINER.
Late of 9th North Carolina Regiment
General John R. Cookies Brigade.
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ginning OF the end. Grant had been
Joined by Sheridan and the decisive
battle Of Five Forks was fought on
April /.
The Finnl Asannlt.
When Grant heard of this victory
at o'clock that night he ordered an
immediate assault on Petersburg.
repulsed. In the early morning OF the
I'd. however, Ord's, Humphrey.
Wrights and Parker's corps. in all
about $4,000 men, assaulted the lines.
then defended by less than 10000 men
The Confederates offered desperate re-
sistance and finally the exterior lines
were captured. Lee ordered a retreat
which started at 5 o'clock that evc-
ming. Early next morning Wilcox's di-
vision took possession OF Petersburg,
and at 8I5 Richmond was formally
SURRENDERED to General weitzel, rho
entered 1t from the north OF the James.
The total loss in the campaign to the
| North was $3.50 dead, 34.414 wounded
and 20.S50 captured or missing.
| At 0 o'clock on the morning OF the
/ Sd General Grant rode into Petersburg.
there he made himself comfortable on
( the piazza OF deserted house, and
waited until President Lincoln should
| come UP to see him. The inhabitants
4
| city with the Confederate army re.
turned within their houses but grad
ually they came out to look a. the
| general. The people In the city were
well nigh furnished, and one or the
4 first things the Northern army die
was to hurry supplies into the city
1t was not an easy matter. for the
roads were not only in a miserable
condition, but were choked with strng-
glers and wounded. Moving a wagon
train was always slow process. 10,
It's speed depended on its slowest part
Frequently an axle would break. o,
a horse would balk. and then the
] whole train would have to wait, TO,
the roads were seldom wide enough tc
let the rest pass. But the provision
train finally entered Petersburg Will
its barrels OF -four, pork. coffee and
! sugar. and the people OF the surren.
dered city could once more have sup,
+ plies. The war was now practically
, over. General Grant followed hare
8 after Lee and in a few days he sur
:. rendered at Apponattox A little Ia
: ter Johnston surrendered to Sherman
u It was not all beer and skittles af
\ ter the hostilities ceased. There were
s the paroles that had to be filed out
5 The printed forms for these were no
d always on hand, and this caused man!
: delays. Then. too, the soldiers wer
o. far from home, and 1t was long wa
q that many had to travel But tn
worst of II was over, and before man.
I months they were back where the.
I belonged and peace reigned In tn
r land
o Matthew R. Brady. the famous c,vi
: War photographer obtained many pic