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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-18
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from repu-
table physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, con-
tains no mercury, and is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is TAX
en- internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney & Co. Testi-
free.
Sold by druggists. Price rs cents
per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-18
R29S@hheatre

shaded grounds. All the other myriad
attractions will not be disturbed. The
101 Ranch tournament, from it's very
nature and source, is different and dis
tinct from anything ever shown before
under canvas. Miller Bros. and Airing
ton, its owners, promise that none OF
the hackneyed, tiresome, familiar
round of other so-called and mis-called
wild West exhibitions enters into
its roaring rollicking and reckless dis
plays II is fresh, clean and whole
some, fairly tingling with the breath of
prairie and mountain. There is not
man or woman I'm il who has not
learned the secrets of the border far
out in the sage-brush and the prairie
and who cannot read the grass and
the sky with understanding eyes. The
grand entry at each performance is a
veritable echo of the plains and the
cattle trail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-18

pertinent station, both here at the uni
versity and in other parts of the state.
You can see these experiment fields
for yourselves, as 1 have done. 1t is
enough to say that they agree with the
absolute invoice of the soil, air and
water, and with the long continued ex-
periments in other states and coun-
! tries, to the effect that heterogeneous
organic matter (as clover or manure)
| PHOSPHORUS and limestone are the
only materials that need be applied to
normal soils in order to provide profit
able systems of permanent agriculture.
Here, on the oldest experiment fields
of the United States, the average yield
of corn after 80 years of cropping, is
% bushels per acre on untreated
ground which has grown corn every
year, whereas, a yield of So bushels
per acre is produced where rotation
of corn, oats and clover has been prac-
ticed, and while this rotated ground is
gradually wearing out, we find from
the records and the crops as they ap-
pear today, would indicate a produc-
ton of 80 bushels per acre, where lime
stone, PHOSPHORUS and organic mat
ter have been applied.
Numerous experiments made in ILL
nois and Ohio indicate that finely
ground raw rock phosphate when
mixed with manure forming a COM
posD or applied to ground rich in
humus has given results equally as
good as acid phosphate.
while soluble salts of potassium, or
of magnesium, or of sodium have been
found to produce very appreciable ef-
fects under some very impracticable
conditions, as where no adequate pro-
vision was made for supplying nitro
genous organic matter, yet both the
soil invoice and the fixed experiments
agree that under practical and reason
able systems of farming, which must
include liberal use of clover or manure,
there is no need and no profit in ap-
plying potassium.
Select Good Sized Farms.
I'm trying to develop ways in which
we could assist in the demonstration
of these basic agricultural prin ciples,
we have selected a number of typical
farms in different parts of the United
States, and will gradually put into
practice on them, definite systems of
positive soil Improvement, for the pur-
pose of securing exact data from good
sized farms, which, though on more
trustworthy, will carry more influ-
ence with most farmers than will the
results from the smaller fields. or plats
of the experiment stations.
Thus far our efforts have been con-
fined to two or three farms, one of
which is located at Moline, ILL.,, on the
very productive corn belt land, another
being situated on the partially exhaust
ed lands of Southern Ohio, about %
miles from Cincinnati, and we are ar
ranging the third on the agriculturally
abandoned land of Southern Mary
land, about 10 miles from the city of
Washington. In all cases, the soils are
normal and widely representative of
the common lands in these three Sec
tons of the United States.
First of all, we directed our chemist |
to collect representative samples of
soil from these different farms, and by |
analysis to secure an absolute invoice |
as to what these soils contain. In |
he reports the surface |
soil of an acre % inches deep to |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-18

contain $50 pounds in Maryland. 610
linois. In nitrogen the same soil
stratum is found to contain 1,340 punds
in Maryland, 1,940 pounds in Ohio and
$40 pounds in Illinois. In neither the
Maryland or Ohio land do we find any
limestone, whatever, but on the con-
trary they are both distinctly acid
soils, and thus require applications of
limestone We have applied the lime
stone to our Ohio farm and found the
acidity of the soil destroyed, as shown
by the chemical test of the soil, and al
so by the benefit to the clover crop.
While the Illinois soil is practically
neutral. it is not well supplied with
limestone
Calcium and magnesium are low in
the Maryland soil, moderately well
supplied In Ohio and still more abun-
dant in Illinois, but as already ex-
planned, these elements are contained
in limestone, and in using these ma
terials for correcting and preventing
soil acidity, the supply of both calcium
and magnesium may be increased.
while the invoice only reveals $50
pounds of PHOSPHORUS in Maryland
soil 1t shows 1890 pounds of potas-
SUM in the same stratum, and since
wheat and corn and other common
grains carry practically the same
amount of PHOSPHORUS as of potas-
SUM, and since livestock products
contain two or three times as much
PHOSPHORUS as of potassium, it is
plain to see, that while the phosphor-
Gus supply is very deficient, the potas-
SUM is present in great abundance.
Very similar relations hold for the
Ohio soil, and likewise in the Illinois
sufficient for 80 centuries, even in
grain farming.
Purpose of Demonstration Farms.
I'm conclusion beg to say that l ac-
cepted the invitation of your worthy
secretary to occupy a place on your
program, only because of our deep in
terest in the great work of the Illinois
Farmers institute. So far as the de-
partment of soil fertility and demon
stration farms of our company are con-
cerned, it shall be our one purpose to
give to the farmer, through lectures
and printed matter, the most reliable
and instruction gained
from absolute demonstrations. What
we want to do is to work out prac-
tical plan by which the farmer Of linn
tied means may be able to gradually
increase the producing power of his
land, and pay him profitable returns in
the way of increased crops on a mod
ern investment and one within his
means. We want to see all these aban-
doned farms in the east under cultiva-
ton, and there is no reason why they |
should not be helping to supply the |
eastern market and making a good liv-
ing for any farmer who is willing and |
can easily apply these principles of /
soil building 10 his land.
while we should prefer to say little |
about our farms, until we have a few |
years results from the fields, if our
plans and this report of the invoice of .
with which we begin opera
tons are of interest or value 70 the /.
farmers and friends of agriculture, we /
are certainly pleased to make this ad
vance statement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-18
AT RIvERvIEw PARK.

Announcement is made by the
Riverview exposition of Chicago,
the largest and most famous of
outdoor parks, of the appearance
there for eight days beginning next
Sunday, Aug. 81, of the 101 Ranch
Wild West. The big frontier amuse-
ment organization will exhibit intact
and undivided on level area of sew
eraI acres inside Riverviews spacious
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
MAN BELONGS TO HIS AGE
Essentially Subject of Environment,
Life in Other Periods Would Be
impossible to Him.

Could man, we're he given the op-
portunity, really live in any age wide
ly remote from his own? Modern phi
losophy tells us that life is then at
its highest and best when the organ
ism is perfectly adapted to its en-
vironment. If this be SO, then 1t is
clear that any large. sudden and
abrupt change in the environment
must impair the vitality of tie organ
ism, and might even destroy it alto
gether. If we think of it, Greek Of
the age of Pericles, Roman of the
age of Julius Caesar, would ind it as
hard to live the life of today as any
man now alive would find 1t hard to
live on were he by some freak of
magic, to fall asleep in his own world
tonight and to wake up tomorrow
morning in the Athens Of Pericles or
in the Rome of julius Caesar. The
mere effort of the organism to adapt
itself to the strange environment
would benumb all it's energies and ar
rest all Its functions You might as
we'll expect palm tree to flourish in
the arctic regions 1t would languish
and die in the attempt
Yet there are many worthy people
who delight to call themselves old
fashioned and are always longing, SO
they pretend, to live in some other
and better age than their own. They
make to themselves paradise of a
past they have never known and fond
ly imagine that were they its Adam
and Eve no serpent would ever be
guile them into wanting to know the
good and the evil of the present. II
IS vain aspiration and those who en-
terrain it only succeed, so far as they
succeed at all, in getting hopelessly
out of touch with their own age.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
MOONLIGHT WILL
BE BIG AFFAIR
ST. Peters Young Mems Club Will
be Host to Several Hundred
People this Evening.

The steamer Dubuque will leave
the landing this evening at half past
eight for a delightful trip down the
river. This affair which is an annual
one, will be the largest this year that
it has ever been. Aboard the boat re-
freshments will be served and the
guests will enjoy dancing to the sweet
strains of Agnes orchestra which
sounds even better on water than
ashore
Everything that will tend toward
the comfort and pleasure of the
guests will be done by the Young Men
who will act as chaperones of the de-
lightful affair.
The moon has been up in splendid
shape during the past week and this
evening about 40: 80 O'Clock during the
midst of the pleasures, promises to
shine forth more brilliantly than ever.
The boat leaves the local landing at
$50 and will return at midnight. The
street car company has made ar
rangements to meet the boat on it's
return with cars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
PERSONALS.

John Meyersick of Elderville was in
the city on business today.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Snider were
business callers from Donnellson to-
day.
John Jester of Cincinnati is in the
city to attend the graduating exer-
cises Of the class of 10, of which his
sisters are members.
Robert Reiner of Argyle is in the
city for short visit.
H. D. Hadfield, travelling freight
agent of the T. P. & W., was in the
city today.
]. w. Highly of Eldon is a Keokuk
caller today.
]. A. Quick and wife Of Warsaw
were business callers today.
DR.. Collins of Montrose was in the
city today.
A. S. Hindman, travelling freight
agent of the Michigan Central, was
business caller this morning.
d. F. Miller returned from Quincy
last evening where he had spent the
day.
Henry Lear, Milton Johnson, Robert
Ulrich, and Archer Miller leave for
Chicago Saturday where they will
spend couple of days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

and 1873 feet high, will be occupied by
the power house The substructure.
built of massive concrete, will con-
tain the water passages and water
wheel chambers. Upon this will be
the superstructure, containing the
electric generators, transformers and
switchboards. There will be thirty
power generating units, each consist
ing OF vertical steel shaft, carrying
on the lower part two turbines, or wa.
ter wheels On the upper part, on the
floor of the power house, will be the
revolving parts of the generators.
To keep floating ice and logs from
entering the power house, an ice fen
der will be built UP stream from the
upper end of the power house, curv-
ing in toward the shore This will be
$500 feet long and built of concrete
masonry.
The construction of the dam will
entirely destroy the government canal
built to carry shipping around the
rapids. This canal now consists of
tiiiSe ioCho. III Iuell pace Single
lock will be built. There will thus
be substituted for the canal lake
OF deep water over mile wide at the
dam. and 40 miles long. The govern
ment has given permission to build
the dam. Landowners on both sides
OF the river will be given a fair prices
for all land overhowed as the result
of the creation of the reservoir.
The construction of this gigantic
river project is under the direction
of Hugh l.. Cooper of New York City.
The work of excavation is well under
way on the Illinois side of the river,
and the project will be pushed as
fast as material is delivered at the
site.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
A PLEA FOR HoPEFuLNEss
Writer Well Describes Pessimism as
Sin and the Pessmst a
Man to Avoid.

fiopefulness is true sign of great
ness. 1t means conviction that we
are greater than our troubles, greater
than the world itself, greater than
death, and can hold our own when
ever 1T comes, in the universe any
where and through all eternity. Such
convection makes man god. 1t is
better than riches or high position.
1t makes poor man king. A per-
son who constantly fears or worries
is practically an atheist He has no
faith in himself or any other being.
He does not usually live long. Wor-
ry kills more than whisky; it really
hardens the arteries.
No man has right to kill his
friends by a sad, morose count e.
nance. A long face is mark of re-
ligion. 1t is out of date just now and
forever Sour-looking people should
be shut up in Jail; they are danger
Gus. 1t is good thing to throw back
your shoulders, walk erect, and be-
lieve that you own the whole city.
You do 1t as really as anyone else, and
you feel better for the belief Most
of our troubles are fear for the future,
only "bogies" which disappear when
you walk up to them There is a
good time coming. 1t is here already.
If we only knew it.
To doubt would be disloyalty,
TO falter would be sin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
uNNA DEFINES A CAUSE.
European Skin Specialist Says Dan
druff is Caused by Parasites.

Upon that theory, proved beyond a
doubt, cure for dandruff was sought
after Scientists, chemists, druggists
and physicians all took hand" and
the successful issue is the present
product known as "Newbro's Herpi,
eide"
This remedy actually kills the para
sites that infest the hair bulb, does
its work most effective and contains
not an atom of substance injurious to
anything else than the germ alone.
Herpicide causes the hair to grow as
nature intended it should, soft and
abundant.
Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c
in stamps for sample to The Herpi-
eide Co., Detroit. Mich. One dollar
bottles guaranteed For sale by all
druggists.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
At MaA:m's.

Addison Miner, the well-known
first nighter. praised, at supper at the
Cafe de rOpera in New York, the
wit OF the Parisienne.
~ met my first Parisienne," said
Mr.. Miner, "in restaurant in the
Rue Royale, near the Place de la
Concorde. She was very beautiful
How beautiful you are, made
moiselle | said; but you are very
pale tonight
She turned to me with a smile.
Then, monsieur she said, tell
me something at once to make me
blush"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Vegetables Development.

Cabbage, in it's many varieties, has
been developed from single wild
growth called Brasica 0leracea.
which in its wild state is very remote
in appearance from our cabbage.
hale, caulif1ower and collards come
from the same origin. The principal
cultivated varieties of all these are
known to have existed as far back
as the sixteenth century Cabbage.
however, is an infant compared to
lettuce, though why man would take
to lettuce first when he could have
cabbage or both just as we'll, seems
singular
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Law Would Have Barred Author.

Dean stanley's handwriting was
a1foclous. The late Lord Lyttleton
handed in an amendment to the tory
reform bill of Lord Derby. The clerk
at the table could not read it, nor
could any one else. At last, Lord Lit
tleton-a rare scholar and an accom-
piished man of letters-was asked to
read 1t himself He explained that,
though he could not pretend to read
ehe text, It's purpose was to enact that
no man should be admitted to the poll
unless he could sign his own name in
legible handwriting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
CITY NEWS.


silks. ST qualities now SOC at Centrals
silk sale.
Tom Golfer, "The original sod
buster" at the Colonial this week, is
making one of the biggest hits ever
here in vaudeville. Manager Frank
Sansone of the "Theater Beautiful"
made no mistake in engaging Tom for
the week and hundreds have laughed
at his original and comic songs and
monologues during tie week. His
"Hosannern is hit and is among a
dozen other funny stunts put on by
the green man from Vermont.
The City Drug Store will give a
choice of any bill book in stock to
the member of the Keokuk baseball
team who makes a rome run hit.
A loaded car jumped the track at
the cereal works this morning, neces-
stating quite little work to clear
the track
A G. Roberts has received a new
steel launch of the latest pattern and
improvements.
The Wabash train, No. 2, forEferly
leaving at 1870 p. M, will leave each
afternoon fifteen minutes earlier, or at
AIS, beginning with the Sunday trip.
This was found necessary because OF
the change in the time of the Chicago
ST. Louis trains.
The Monmouth baseball team
came in at lis this afternoon.
n I,
the Washington senool with a large
steel engraving of the picture of the
4 signing of the compact in the cabin
of the Mayfiower by Edwin White.
The Y. M. c. A. received a new
discus this morning that will be used
I for the first time in the Ottumwa-
Keokuk meet, The meeting for the
| election of captain has been set for
next Monday. All members who are
contemplating entering the meet are
requested to use the Athletic field in
practice each evening, so as to be in
good condition. The meet is dated
! for June is.
Fire Chief Anderson spent yester-
day in MAKING lie annual examination
of the fire MIGRANTS. All were tested
and few were found to be in bad
condition and will be fixed at once, SO
as to insure the public complete fire
protection.
A number of Keokuk people are
planning to go to Quincy on next
/ Monday to witness the Keokuk-Quincy
| baseball games. 1t is expected one or
two excursions will be run to the
down-river city and the packet Keo-
kuk will have all it can do attending
\ to the passengers who will leave in
4 the early morning.
The comet was more visible in
\ the western skies last evening than
it has been since notices of its APP
pearance several weeks ago. There
was a tail appended to its body, too,
4 is the statement made by several who
saw the phenomena.
The large automobile of Howard
/ Connable met with an accident this
morning at the site of the water pow
err dam. In driving along the edge
/ of bank the machine became over
balanced and toppled over. Only the
driver was in the machine at the time
and he escaped without injury. The
machine was only slightly damaged.
Charlie Yaeger is playing second
base for Keokuk this afternoon in the
game against Monmouth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Requirements of Tragedy.

The clearest and most succinct
defamation of the dramatic unities
was made by Boilleau, when he laid
down the law that tragedy must
show 'one action in one day and in one
place" 1t must deal with only a
single story: and this obligation Is the
unity of action It mast never change
the scene, massing all its episodes IN
single spot; and this is the unity oil
place. And it must compact its sue
cesstve situations into the space OF "a
hours, into single day, and this Is
the unity of tine Atlantic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Noble St. Bernard Doqs.

While the everlasting hills stand
the self-devotion of the ST Bernard
monks will find an object and till
storms shall cease their four-footed
companions will find vocation. Dogs
and men in this case are worthy Of
each other and are true comrades.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
The Discriminating Auditor.

Men don't go out between the acts
as much as they used to-" said the
matinee girl. NO" replied the old
playgoer; the average show nova
days makes it unwise to do so. The
music by the orchestra is likely to be
the best part of the performance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Fatal Gun Accident

COUNCIL BLUFFS, May 26.-D. j.
Whitaker, special agent for the Bur
lington, was accidentally shot through
the throat when his gun fell from its
holster Death resulted three hours
later. Whitaker was searching for
stolen goods when the accident hap
pened
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
In This Land Of Possibilities.

Joseph Mardust came to this coun-
try from the north of Europe, worked
eight years for Sc a week, married
when it was raised to SO, and four
years later departed for home" with
his family and draft for $4,000 on a
foreign bank, thenceforth to lead a
country gentleman's life.-World's
Work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
The Pea Long Known to Man.

From its original home as native,
wild growth in western Asia and ad
jacent Europe the cultivated pea has
been taken by man to all civilized
countries. 1t has been cultivated for
thousands OF years, for dried peas
have been found in Egyptian tombs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Louis Geiaer's MARRIAGE.

Word has been received in this city
OF the marriage of Louis Geiger, a
resident of this city, to Miss Eloise
Dethrage at Lincoln, ILL.,. last week.
The groom is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Geiger of this city. and has
many friends here who will wish him
and his bride every happiness in mar.
ried life. Mr.. Geiger is travelling rep
resentative of the Marshall Field and
Company of Chicago, and his head
quarters are in Lincoln, where he and
his bride will continue to live.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Balanced Grand Piano.

A balanced grand piano has been
invented in England. One side Is a
duplicate of the other and the lid is
hinged in the center so as to distrib-
ute the sound waves evenly.