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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
NEWSPAPERS THEN AND NOW
Writing in a reminiscent mood w

~ - - A-iNS sIet AMI NOW.
Writing in reminiscent mood w.
]. Bryan says in his Commoner:
The newspaper reports of meetings
are colored by the editorial policy Of
the papers, and recall an experience
that l had at Creston, Iowa, twenty
years ago. The Republican paper he
gan by saying that | had a small
crowd, criticised everything / said
and concluded by declaring that the
audience was relieved when 1 drew
my remarks to a close. The Demo-
cratic paper announced that I had A
large crowd in spite of the short no.
tice, praised my speech all the way
through and wound up Its report with
the comforting assurance that though
talked two hours the audience would
gladly have listened until morning.
The style of newspapering in vogue
paragraphs now a thing of the past.
The rule that governs The Gate City
is believed to govern most newspapers,
towit: that the news columns shall
avoid expressions of opinion and be
absolutely free from political or re-
itSiOu6 uldS. IL OplhioAS dl0 dCSiI0u
they may be found in their proper
place on the editorial page. and If they
are not desired no one Is compelled to
accept them in order to learn the
news. The ideal newspaper gives the
news OF the day uncolored by the prl-
vate opinions OF the writer or the po-
litical principles for which 1t stands.
It aims to mirror events exactly as
they occur and to tell the truth without
regard to consequences. This marks
a great and important advance since
the time to which Mr.. Bryan refers.
In those days the average newspaper
felt 1t to be party duty to misrep-
resent and ridicule the opposition, and
the more effectively 1t did this the
better it was pleased with itself. Now
/ It seeks to keep its news columns free
from political inSuence of any kind
and to discuss public measures and
public men with judicial candor and
fairness in the space set apart for that
purpose. In this as we'll as In other
important particulars newspapers are
vastly better than they were twenty,
| thirty and forty years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

A Virginia paper has been investi-
eating the effect of the consumption of
mint iuleps in various southern local
tiles. The Norfolk juIeps, 1t says,
make men sing. In Georgia they
make men sing and dance, In Ken
lucky they make 'em sing and dance
and boiler, and in Texas they make
'en sing and dance and holler and
shoot. The Baltimore Sun adds some
thing about the effects of the Mary
land juleps as follows:
'0The Maryland juleps lift the soul
to higher dreams, where all the rude
fanfare of the world fades into din
silence, the air becomes fragrant
with the odor of roses. and afar of
the slow, quivering music of the harps
of the angels is heard in mystic
melody
On these confessions few of then
should go long ways.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
IOWA AND la TOILETTE.

The Sioux City Journal does not
share the opinion SO confidently ex-
pressed by few insurgent authori-
ties that La Toilette could carry an
Iowa primary against Taft-not at
least unless large numbers OF Demo
Gratis came over and decided the Re-
publican debate. The situation In THIS
state Is clearly and concisely stated
in the following paragraph from an
article in the Journal on the subject.
1T will have to be admitted In the
light of the record that Iowa RepuDll'
cans have liking for Senator Cum
Minis. But the record also shows that
although Senator Cummins has been
busv in our politics for a good many
years he has never yet controlled a
delegation to a national Republican
convention. If the senior senator
were himself the leading progressive
candidate. with real chance of nomi
nation and election, there might be
| ground for talk of carrying Iowa
against Taft in favor of Cummins. But
when Cumming asks the Republicans
of Iowa to go for La Toilette next
year. because he is for La Toilette, OF
even to go for Cummins as a stalking
horse for La Toilette, it is different
proposition. That the senator recog
nizes it as a different proposition is
indicated by laggardiness in starting a
fight along that line"
The case as regards Iowa could no
be stated in fewer or better words. i
Senator Cummins is wise he will no
start anything in the coming presiden
tial year--of all years. His strength
is on the wane and he cannot affort
" to create unnecessary antagonisms.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
The COST oE FOOD

Announcement that the bureau of
labor is pursuing an exhaustive in
vestigation into the cost of food
products to the consumer, as sup
Elementary to similar investigation by
the department of agriculture relative
to the prices paid directly to the pro.
Queer, is a matter Of great interest to
the public. When the data now being
collected by the bureau of labor are
tabulated and published, comparison
between these tables and those gath
cred by the department Of agriculture
will enable one to ascertain, with
good degree of exactness, what the
cost Of transportation and distribu-
ton of foods really is. This import
ant item in the problem has never
been worked out satisfactorily in any
I investigation yet made.
The fact has been long established
that the price of food products at the
point Of production has not increased
! in the last ten years at the rate of re
/ tall prices to the consumer. The
| farmer, while participating to some
degree in the rise, according to the
showing of the department of agri
culture, has not received more than 6
1.-THE of what the city dweller has
been obliged to pay for the same art
icles. The motive for this investiga
ton by the bureau of labor is the sus
picion that the system of CATHERINE
products, transporting them to mar
ket and distributing them has place.
an inordinate tax upon food.
This suspicion, right or wrong, ha
been forced upon the minds of the ma
iority of men who pay the bills TO
food in the cities. They have beel
DESTROYS for long time of finding GU
whether the series OF enterprise
which furnish food products were be
ing too well paid for the service rel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

dered. It will be truly significant to
md out whether the agencies contain
ed In the word "middlemen" are hold
Ing prices down to the producer and
q the same time boosting them up to
the consumer. There is no way to
discuss this subject fairly until some
agency with competent facilities and
authority shall make a thorough in
vestigation and report the findings.
For these reasons the work of the
bureau OF labor will be not only of
nationwide interest, but will put into
the hands Of congress, the press and
the people of the country facts upon
which right conclusions may be found
ed, and remedy devised.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

Official figures compiled by the post
office department show that the gov
eminent is saving s1,500,o0o a year
by transporting the leading magazines
by fast freight to certain centers OF
trade throughout the country instead
Of in mail cars. AS yet only part OF
the periodical mail is transported In
this way. Estimates are that the
saving Of expense, when the practice
becomes general, will aggregate be.
tween 100000 and s5.ooo,oo0 year
The saving Of such an immense sum
is quite worth while.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

Pity that some Of the water now go
ing to waste cannot be saved up for
next summer. 1t will be one Of the
functions of the big dam when com.
tpleted to maintain the water In the
t.4pool'' at a constant level, and that
will solve the problem as far as navi
cation of the Mississippi river at this
point is concerned. II there only
could be some like arrangement to
conserve the moisture in the atmos
iphere and govern its precipitation as
needed by the crops
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

Walter Clyde Jones recently declar.
ed in the course Of one OF his orator
ical periods: I'VE want men at Wash.
ington with red blood. not water, In
their veins. We want men in the sen.
ate with militant spirit, with spurs
clanking at their heels" Upon this
vacuous statement the Springfield
journal comments as follows:
Yes, swashbuckling Don Quixote
with tin pan for helmet, a broom
stick for sword, and hobby horse
for Rosinante. The trouble with toe
many Of our latter day statesmen, IL
that their highest conception OF use
fulness is to make rafting big
noise"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
DR.. Samuel Dixon of the Pennsylval

DR.. Samuel Dixon of the Pennsylvan-
liza health commission told the state
medical association that the research
les of experts in the laboratory of the
university had made 1t almost certain
that the germs of the terrible malady
known as infantile paralysis are car
ried by mosquitoes or some insect.
The germ has been identified by ex-
periments on monkeys. At the same
time comes report from Cornell Uni
versity medical experts, saying that
infantile paralysis may be carried II
the dust arising from the rooms In
which a patient lies, and that it gains
entrance through the nose.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

In the public corridor outside the
office OF the Outlook Theodore Roose-
welt received a call from a hundred
Pennsylvania farmers, who were in
New York to try to find way to re-
duce the cost of foods to the consum-
er while getting more for their prod
ucts. The former President told them
he believed they should drive out the
middleman, who does not help the
consumer. The two classes he wanted
to help were the farmer and the man
who works for wages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

A successful public test OF the Still
well-Wilson telephone instrument was
held last Sunday, when officials OF the
Canadian Pacific railroad talked over
an ordinary telegraph wire from Mon
treal to Fort Williams. distance OF
995 miles. The present long distance
system is effective only about 500
miles, and that by the use of expen
sive copper wire. The new instrument
will cut down cost of construction 50
per cent and tolls % per cent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
The AIM OF LIFE.

We live in deeds, not years; in
thoughts, not breaths;
In feeling, not In figures on dial.
We should count time by heartthrobs
He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels the noblest,
acts the best,
And he whose heart beats quickest
lives the longest;
Lives in one hour more than in years
do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips
along their veins,
Life is but means unto an end; that
Beginning, mean. and end to all things
God,
The dead have all the glory of the
world.
Philip James Bailey.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

Harmony with an ak" is the motto
OF the Harrison-Hearst progressive
Democracy in Illinois. In further
ance of this idea it did not hesitate to
deny the veteran Democrat H. N.
Wheeler the right to be heard nor to
assault him physically. Only the In
tervention of Thomas Rees saved him
from a bad beating. Judged by their
performances, progressive Demo
Gratis in Illinois are lot OF rough
necks.'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

A dispatch from Denver says that
the women of Colorado admire Presi-
dent Taft and approve his administra-
ton. They are especially pleased with
his action in the Dr. Wiley matter and
with his views on peace and divorce.
Their attitude is significant In view
iof the fact that Colorado women vote.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
Women are not allowed to pass tn,

Women are not allowed to pass the
gates of the Chicago terminal, by a
recent order, as it is thought that the
present style OF shoe and dress skirt
make it hazardous for woman to be
in such crowd as is always to be
found at train time in railroad sta
ton. Nearly hundred accidents
have been declared by the Pennsyl.
wanna railroad to have been of such
korigin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

A number Of Keokuk merchants util
lie almost a page in the Keosauqua
Democrat to advertise their goods, and
che Democrat in return prints each
week Keokuk letter giving the most
important local news. The arrange
ment is good one and should inure
to the benefit Of all concerned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

After exposure, and when you feel
cold coming on, take Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound. 1t checks and
relieves. Use no substitute. The
genuine in yellow package always.
Wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

whose standard OF virtue is at least
questionable. We are asked to change
our allegiance OF friendship from our
much loved and virtue-loving England
to this mongrel conglomeration."
Isn't that calculated to make your
hair curl?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

Blandinsville has a Sew and So
club. The proceedings under the lat
ter head are doubtless quite interest
Ing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
rHoueH1 EoR THE DAY

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
Say not II love the Lord unless You
find
Within you, yelling up by day and
night,
"A love strong, full and deep, for all
mankind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

1t remains to be seen whether lead
pills will do "the Sick Man of Europe"
any good or not.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

Abe Martin has noticed that kind
ness goes long way lots Of times
when it ought to stay at home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08
DAILY By MAIL.

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class matter.
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All subscription orders should give tne
|. ,. o. address and state whether it - :
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and now address.
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The date printed on the address OF
each paper notes when the subscrsSuon
expires.
papers promptly will confer favoE ~
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Address all communications e
TILE GATE CITY COMPANY.
Go. Is. North Sixth St. keoknk. Ao"e
THE GATE CITY Is on sale ~ t0s
following news stands:
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third ana Jonnsol1.
c. H. Rollins & Co., 6@ Main sueos
Ward Bros, SIS Main street
Depot News Stand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

exposing fake stock foods.
The attacks on the state board of
control are based only and solely on
supreme selfishness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-08

keokuk, Iowa ......oct. 8, 1911
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

where there is a large family of chill
dren the individual child is stronger
and healthier
rs that because only the fittest sur
vive?" was asked.
mot at ALL" replied the matron at
is simply because each child does not
get so much attention, and therefore
is not weakened by an excess of affec-
ton. 1t learns TO stand up fer itself .
Regarding food for young children,
Mrs. Hines said The large majority Of
the poorer classes could trace most OF
their children's illness to improper
feeding. Il have actually known a
baby of six months to be fed beans
right along.
MANY mothers give their children
beer-that is, if they like it them
selves.
THE affection Of these mothers
causes them never to refuse anything
their. child desires. If the child sees
something and cries for it, why. they
simply can't refuse They eat frregu-
larry and sleep at any time. Can you
expect healthy children on that?
Never lie to a child. That wins no
affection and only develops bad char
acter. but there are thousands of
mothers who 10 lie continual1y.'=
Boston Dispatch to New York Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

process if she will first dip it in scald-
ing water? The scales are loosened
by the heat and moisture. If ducks
and chickens are immersed for a few
minutes in boiling water before the
cook begins to pick them the feathers
viii come off easily.
SO. That if you get a bit of grease
upon wall paper Gas, for example,
when caller who uses pomatum
rests his head against it,, you should
sprinkle baking soda over blotting pa
per, place over the spot and press a
moderately warm iron against it for a
few minutes. The blotting paper will
absorb the grease and the paper on
the wall will be free from grease
"3. Instead of wearing your silver
thin with plate powders you should
wash it regularly in hot water, to
which. a little household ammonia is
added. This will keep it bright with
out the attrition of the powder, which
will inevitably wear it down.
"a That if you set tin cup of
vinegar upon the range when cooking
Brussels sprouts the rising fumes from
the vinegar will kill the doors from
the vegetables?
s. That if you put a handful of
coarse oatmeal in the water bottle,
half fill it with water. let it stand for
half an hour, then shake well and
rinse, the bottle will be like new.
sc. That when you would have pure
beeswax for family use you should
drain all the honey from the opened
combs, taking enough time to empty
them entirely. This done, place the
combs in a coarse muslin baS and put
a small stone to weight the contents;
put in the kettle, cover with water,
and boil. The wax comes to the top
of the water and the sediment remains
in the bottom of the kettle. Remove
the wax when cold.
. 1.-THE PRIVATE SECRETARY"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11
TEACHERS GO HOME.
Forty-Ninth Annual Convention Voted
= Success.

The forty-ninth annual meeting of
the Kansas state Teachers association
which came to q close Friday night is
conceded to have been the most sue
cessful meeting of the kind held in
the history of the organization. The
program was the most brilliant that
has been arranged, and the attendance
at the meetings larger.
While the actual enrolment was but
3.6O3, the attendance was fully 5000.
I am confident" said Professor J w.
Searson at the head of the publicity
committee of the association. that
1,2O0 of the teachers did not register.
The round to Die and departmental
meetings require no ticket of adnis-
sion and many of the teachers We're
tempted to save their dollar
At the closing session at the Audi
torlu1n Friday night equal suffrage was
endorsed with great enthusiasm espec-
tally by the feminine portion of the au-
dience.
The following vas the section Of the
resolutions which dealt with the text
book law. and which will he of esnec-
nal interest to TOpekans at this time:
We approve heartily the PRINCIPLES
OF a uniform textbook law. and believe
that the present measure has resulted
in very considerable saving in cost
of books TO the people Of this state. Pee
ognizing, however. that the prices fixed
by the legislature in 1897 prevents tha
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11
Love Fatal to Babies.

"Too much love kills many babies
is the opinion of Mrs. Mary Hines, foI
years matron of the Sunnyside Day
nursery. There is too much kissing,
fordling and caressing," continued tho
matrcn '.Babies are not any hapI.it r
when ccddled by mothers or peigh9ois.
In fact. it makes MANY Of them nlser-
able have known = Inl5er ~ L-Ae
away ard die from too much physical
affection. Take yourself n an cx-
4,.,is, When lot 1ce.i.'5 vel unu
y,,; ather lie by yourself IN 4 coich
or be close up against some one?
Well, that is the baby's feeling exact
Iy, unless his constant handling has
made him prefer it.
kissing is bad for children, because
it might give them serious disease, and
it certainly does no good If mothers
would consider that baby has rights
the same as grown person, there
would be fewer sick babies and much
of this harmful affection would be
abandoned.
1.-The love of many mothers seems to
be wholly to crafty the whims of the
child. which is not a sane love. It is
really true in my experience that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-11

offering of a number of the best texts,
we recommend that the next legisla-
ture be requested to amend the present
law, making such changes IN the sche-
dule of prices al will insure the offer
ing of the pest books OF every grade.
Such a provision will insure offers OF
the best books and will represent to-
tai cost only slightly in excess OF the
present cost. We also recommend Inal
provision be made authorizing boards
of education to purchase necessary sup
Elementary books for use in our schools
Believing that the judiciOUs use OF sup
elemental books IN our pubH9 senoo -
is a desira Bile and necessary adjunct 70
any system of education, we earnestly
advocate che passage of q law ina :
shall confer authority upon boards o.
education e purchase such supplement
tai books"
The state book law was endorsed
and. among other things, the proper
teaching Of sex hygiene in the hlgh
school was recommended
The concluding clause of the resolu-
tions follows:
we wish to conclude our educa-
tional resolutions by proposing that a
record OF our appreciation be mace
for the manv cOurtesieS extended 70
the managers of the State Teachers
association, the entertainment given
by the citizens of Topeka, the banquet
and organ recital given by the Com
mercial club. the able speakers VINO
nave appeared aS dlIHOuiSSu Oh liz
program. the state press and the pa
pers of Topeka, the work of Professor
Searson and his committee on publl-
cation and the various gratuitous ser
vices of individuals, and OF ofIlclals,
narticularlv of President Pearson and
State superintendent Fairchild-"
A number of enthusiastic reunions
were held Friday evening. The former
students of the State Agricultural col
lpesf. celebrated the election of PreSl-
dent Henry J. Waters TO head the state
Teachers association. There were 125
persons present at this reunion in the
First Christian church. President
Waters spoke briefly, paying compn-
nent to the women school teachers in
the rural districts " no have introduced
the study of agriculture.
A rousing Washburn reunion was
held in Boswell hail The reunion OF
the former students OF the Pittsburg
Manual Training school was held in
tae Commerce building.