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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
There are three classes of scou

There are three classes of scou
Tenderfoot second class and llrst
class. Graded tests are made TO
qualify boy to join, snccessNeN'
these different stages of membership.
For example, a tenderfoot must know
the scout law, be able to tell lie
composition of, and how to fly, the
American flag. and how to tie iour
standard knots. The higher grades
call for further tests. such as being
able to box the compass, male
camp fir , with two matches, render
first aid to the injured. etc.
The scout oath is three-fold w.
Il give my word Of honor that VIII
do my best
"a ITO do my duty to my God ana
my country.
ca ITO obev the Scout laws 3.
CD ITO help other people at al
times"
The organization is not sectafiah
or political in any sense. but can Dc
worked, where desired. in connectoh
with any church, Y. NJ. G. A, coiiese
or school. The separate patrols OF
camps may represent particular
school, church or organization, whiie
a local battalion or regiment may pe
formed of group Of such patrols OF
camps under general officers Or .
patrol -or camp may be formed 10
community not directly in connec,lo''
with any church or school, nu' re-
cruited under leadership which see ;
to keep it carefully free from mo
control of any special interest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
TO EIGHT THE ELY

So completely have house flies been
exterminated in England that screens
are no longer used in windows and
doors. This shows what can be done.
A solution of formalin or Tornado
hyde in water is the best and cheap
est exterminator. Put spoonful OF
formalin in half tea cupful of water
and expose It in saucer in your
room. Try it once and you will see.
Burn pyrethrum powder in room
and sweep out the stupefed flies. Or
put twenty drops OF caroolic acid on
hot shovel The vapor is deadly TO
the pest. Put a dram of bichromate
of potash in half glass of water and
sweeten. Expose little of the solu-
ton in saucers. Sticky fly paper also
will do the work
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

transpired at the last general election
the youthful Bombastes Furioso OF
Iowa insurgency will be permitted to
strut his one brief day or until the
statute OF limitations shall mercifully
permit the curtain to be rung down.
After that, cheap vaudeville circuits
VIII undoubtedly have new attrac-
ton to offer. Bosco. the snake-eater,
Will be pushed into the background to
make room for Clifford Thorne. who
can swallow an entire railroad cor
-poration at one gulp without the
twitching of a muscle or the batting
of an eye. 3
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The so-called progressive mem
bers of the Iowa delegation at Wash
ington are catching it" from the in
surgent newspapers of the state.
The least caustic criticism of them
is that while they had been long on
professions, they We're mighty bad
performers. The lot of western
progressive" congressman is not a
happy one in these days of proposed
free trade with Canada at the ex-
pense of the farmers of the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26


The extent to which the telephone
has enroached upon the telegraph as
means Of dispatching trains in 1910
is shown in bulletin just issued
by the Interstate Commerce commits
sion. An increase of 1878 miles of
railroad on which the telephone is
used was shown. On January /, 1911.
the telegraph was used on 1921
miles and the telephone on 41,717
miles. The bulletin also shows that
there We're at the beginning of the
year 71,269 miles of railroad in the
United States operated under the
block signal system, 17,711 miles of
which were automatic. The increase
in this system in 1910 was Sab miles,
Sab miles being automatic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

A government operated coal mine
not for profit sounds like socialist
talk, but it is to be reality, with the
object of getting scientific data of the
working conditions most likely TO pre-.
vent explosions and fires. The ex,
perimental mine is to be at Bruceton,
Pa near Pittsburg. DR.. Joseph A.
Holmes, head of the bureau of mines,
who has just returned from personal
investigation of the mine disasters
at Throop. Pa, and Banner, Ala,
reports his conviction that the only
way 20 security is to make mines abb
solutely fire-proof, and recommends a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Congressman Prouty comes in for
chastisement from the Des Moines
register and Leader because Of his
attitude on the Canadian reciprocity
measure. Mr. Prouty was quite a
tariff reformer when he had no re-
snorsibility BIZ. as soon as ne got
where he had vote as well as a
voice in shaping legislation he went
back on all of his protestations and
joined with Joe Cannon and other
re; ctionariess in opposing the adj
Il inistration of President Taft. This
leads the Cedar Rapids Record to say,
very pertinently, that there is quite
a difference between being an agitator
and a legislator.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
Clifford in Action.


Des Moines Capital: We fear there
is one feature of the recent home tes-
timonial and banquet to Senator Ken
yon AT Ft. Dodge that has not been
properly called to the attention of the
people of the state. We refer to the
holy show which the Honorable Cliff
ford Thorne, the Boy Wonder of the
Iowa board of railway commissioners,
made of himself in the wee small
hours of that Easter morning, when
the baDqueters had not yet dispersed
and when the very air was surcharged
good will
Az to what happened we will let
Fred w Davis, the well-known cor
respondent of the Sioux City Journal,
who was at FIT. Dodge and saw and
heard all that TRANSFERRED, tell the
story.
We have made some Investigations
as to why the insurgent newspapers
of Des Moines. who were represented
at FIT. Dodge By staff correspondents.
failed to give Clifford their usual en-
thusiastic mention and We find that
their modification, chagrin and dis.
gust were SO intense as to utterly pre-
clude anything of the kind.
Verify, we think that will be about
all for Clifford. Accidents in politics
will happen and as a result OF what
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Another of George Fitchs burning
why's" is why does a sixteen year old
hoy working Tor nothing around a rail-
road station feel bigger than the presi-
dent of the road? Mr.. Fitch has a con
firmed habit of wanting to know
things that nobody can find out
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The President finds that the Uni.
tarians are regarded as a goddess
church and thinks steps should be TAX.
en- TO remove a wrong Impression An
oklahoma preacher who was challeng-
ed by Unitarian to joint debate
found himself offered the best coor
dog on Black Bear by a citizen un-
der the Impression that this here
Unitarian was creature not to be
taught until freed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
Senator w S. KENYON has accented

Senator w. S. Kenyon has accepted
two invitations to make speeches in
Iowa. and will return from Washing
ton for that purpose in June. He will
deliver a commencement address at
Coe college at Cedar Rapids on June
Is and a similar address at Grinnell
college on June IA. 1t is stated that
he has had several hundred invitations
to speak in Iowa since his election as
senator. He anticipates that congress
will have adjourned by the time he
will want to return for these address
es.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The notoriety given the Dam family
attests the popularity of the name.
Sioux City Journal.
And the name. in turn, suggests
keokuk. Thus are the scriptures full
filed that all things work together
for good-to this community since
Engineer Cooper inaugurated his great
enterprise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The dangers of the public drinking
cup are by no means imaginary. A
guinea pig, inoculated with the scrap-
ings from a drinking cup of a public
school in Chicago, died in few days
OF diphtheria.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

A. Maurice Low, expert in interna-
tional affairs, doubts that after Japan
had swan across the Pacific ocean
she would have left enough wind to
take the Pacific coast and cross the
Divide, Mr.. Lows doubling has in it
the elements of common sense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

DR.. ]. I. Gibson of Des Moines has
been appointed state veterinarian to
succeed DR.. Paul o. Koto. whose term
has expired. DR.. Gibson served as
state veterinary surgeon during the
administration of Governor Shaw and
made an excellent record. The retir-
ing surgeon has held the office since
1902.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

A new law in Nebraska provides
that no one may hunt or fish any
where in the state, unless there Is a
license held by someone in the tam
lily. It has been thoughtfully suggest
ed that the law should go little fur
Their and provide that at least two
members of every family holding Il
cense shall be willing to clean the
fish or game.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The Greater Des Moines committee
is in receipt of letter from the
prime minister of Siam asking for
"one catalogue" of that city. Opinion
is divided as to whether he thinks it
is museum of some kind or a mail
order house. The body of the letter
is written in English, but, on the
authority of one of the papers there,
the signature attached looks as If it
were the footprints of an intoxicated
chicken on its way to church The
prime minister's name is Manghow
Rajabaree.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The state department of public in
struction has sent out circular to all
schools in the state asking general
observance of Arbor day and Bird day
In the schools of the state next Fri
day. The teachers are urged to have
special exercises and to encourage
the planting of trees and the study OF
the birds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Let's see. Muscatine is the city
where Billy Sunday turned practi-
cally everybody from the error of their
way and subsequently all the saloons
we're put out of business. And now
it takes three companies of the Iowa
national guard TO preserve the peace
there
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The Casey indicator rightly insists
that young lady has just as good
right to wear hobble skirts. etc, as
young man has of wearing accidental
fitting trousers strapped to and about
the short ribs with the seat bobbling
along behind with a clearance OF six
or eight inches above the right of way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The Democratic majority In the
house at washington has reciprocated
with Canada. The farmers of the
country will reciprocate with the
Democratic majority in the house at
Washington next year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
THOUGHT EoR The DAY.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest,
neither selfish nor unadvised nor OBJ
stinate; let not over-refinement deck
out thy thought; be not wordy nor q
Observation-Disclosures Aurelius.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

George Could demonstrated his
ability to come back" which is more
than some other gentlemen in the pub
lie eye have been able to do
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
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THE GATE CITY COMPANY,
No. IS, North Sixth St. keokuk, Iowa
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the
following news stands.
Hotel keokuk, cor, Third and Johnson.
c. II. Rollins & Co., by Main street
Ward Bros, 625 Main street.
Depot News stand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
orloIn Of "Yonkers."

Patroon Van de Donck, in the years
after 1912, lived such serene anu
robust life on his Hudson river esta.e
that the Dutch villagers caiied mo
manor farm, de jonkheer's lanat
the gentleman's land: later coh'
pressed by the frugal English INV
"yonkers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Next Friday Is Arbor day. If you
can't plant tree say good word
for Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Awful thought Just suppose Sen
ator Lorimer should turn states evil
dence!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Within fifty years the stock of the
Pullman Palace Car Co. has increased
from s1,25o,O0o to s12o,o0O,O0O from
the surplus of its earnings. Last year
it earned s33,334.07 1t paid per
cent dividend. and distributed $4,000
600 in stock. These figures are taken
from the first report of the company
to the interstate commerce commits
sion. No further evidence is required
by the commission to prove that the
charges Of the Pullman corporation
are too high, and its rate ought to
be regulated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
The Sioux City Journal offers tt

The Sioux City Journal offers the
following:
1T is suggested that the Iowa dele
CATION to the national Republican con,
vention should be selected next year
with reference to proposal of Col.
LATE Young for vice president. No
doubt the suggestion Is made In the
interest of harmony and in full recog-
milton of Colonel Young's power as
stumper."
More likely it is made as a possible
means of getting rid of Colonel Young
as candidate for senator All that
glitters is not gold.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Anyway, 1t can be said of the dan
delion that 1t is no gutter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

It is also poor rule that won't
work always.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Even the Democrats in the senate
have insurgents that bite EN-.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Why Does the Harem Scare Emf
There was young lady OF sense,
Who said harem skirts were immense,
Till she thought. IF wear EN-
Suppose / should tear EN-
While climbing a barbed- wire fence ~
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
When You hi,1k

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OF the pain which many experience Win q -
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with womanhood to almost - os-
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weak strong sick women
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you want book that tells ali about woman's disease, -
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

ut is neither an insurgent nor a
standpat victory" says the Bedford
Times-Republican, speaking of the
election of Kenyon. 1T was essential
~ compromise
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

system of electric firing while the
men are out of the mines. Wetting
of the mines is urged to prevent dust
explosions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

II newspapers were compelled by
law to tell only the truth, George
Fitch foresees that the number of ac-
complished musicians would diminish
with horrible rapidly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Cedar Falls Record: The destruc-
ton of the newspaper property at Los
Angeles and the death of twenty peo-
pie in consequence SO thoroughly
aroused the country that the best de-
tective talent in the United States de-
voted its energies to running down
the offenders. The men under arrest
have been tracked all over the coun-
try and many pounds of explosives to-
gether with numerous devices for
carrying forward the. deadly WORK
were found in the possession of the
men arrested.
1t is an awful thing to contemplate
this conspiracy against life and prop
erty by officials of one of the strong.
est labor organizations in the limited
States. Such conduct does the cause
of organized labor more harm, Gre
ates more prejudice and prompts
greater effort for the supremacy of
the open shop than anything that
could have happened
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Ever notice, inquiries Ed Howe,
when dog follows woman, how
she stamps her foot angrily and says
Go home, sir And the dog pays no
more attention than do her husband
and boys
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

The Castana Times says that while
we are a peaceably inclined people
good, live war dispatch will sell more
newspapers than all the yellow hash OF
the yellowest kind of journalism.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Gracious exclaims the Waterloo
Reporter. What If the button work
ers' strike at Muscatine extends to the
growers of watermelons
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Iowa Falls Citizen observes
that the original Kenyon fellows are
now very numerous and very much in
evidence.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

1t is laid down as a rule by the
Peoria Herald Transcript that when
young people marry in haste the pa
rents get the best chance to repent
at leisure.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

Three members of the Paine family
marrying three girls of the Kennedy
family is the record Of two families
near Eagle Grove.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-26

This must be plain to union men, Who
as class can have no sympathy with
such outrages. But it also should be
plain that the abolition of violence
must not be left to external agencies,
but should be put down from within.
Davenport Democrat: 1t is to be
hoped that the Investigations will dis
close the truth of the whole matter.
If some ofathe labor unions have been
able to carry their point only with
the aid Of dynamite, it is to the inter-
est OF al shesunions which have ac-
complisheda their yaim by peaceful
methods that the lawless ones be
curbed.s pradess pionism should be
purgeda OF any Suggestion that tide
pendssupon the torch and the stick of
dynamite to win its battles
Marshalltown Times Republican
Violence and the violent are the chief
mistakes of organized labor. The time
is coming when labor organizations
will In their own protection and for
their own good name weed out the
violent and prosecute violence. Otis
may be pursuing his private ver-
geance. Burns may be earning pay
by concealing dynamite in order 10
find it again and by bringing false
charges If this is so it would be the
part of wisdom to consider how and
by whom the hook upon which to hang
false accusation was furnished. No or
ganization can furnish strong suspi-
cion OF violence and outrage and en-
dure with credit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-21
caution is being taken TO prevent il.
The child passed a sleepless night, but
today was resting more easily.
ON BOOSTING TRIP
Hundred Rock Island Business
Men to Visit Aledo and
Monmouth.
TO ATTRACT TRADE HERE
VIII Return Calls Merchants of
Those Cities Made Recently
Banquet at Watch Tower.

At the monthly meeting of the
Rock Island Business Mems associa-
ton held last evening at Maths hall
1t was decided to take a trip oVe- the
line of the Rock Island 81 .nhern
about the middle of April for the
purpose of getting the residents of
that section of the country acquaint-
ed with the fact that the Rock Is
land business men want their trade.
It is planned to have a special train
and to make stops all along the line
between here and Galesburg and
Aiedo One hundred local business
men are expected to make the trip.
Plans for the annual banquet of the
association were also talked over last
evening This will most likely be
held at the Watch Tower the mid
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-21
MASONS TO MEET ON
NEW HOME PROJECT
To Determine Whether to Take New
Lease on Quarters or Push
Building Plans.

Whether to release the present
quarters in the Robinson block or
to go ahead with the proposition of
the building OF a new home is a
question to be considered at a mass
meeting of the members of the Ma
sonic fraternity to be held next week.
possibly Friday evening. This was the
conclusion arrived at by the mem
bers Of the Masonic board of con-
troll at a meeting held last evening
A committee composed of H. H.
Cleveland, z. B. Kries and S. J. Fer
guson was named to arrange for the
meeting. A speaker will be secured
to present the matter clearly to the
members. 1t is a matter which has
been under consideration for more
than year now and whether it shall
be pushed to the finish at once, or
shall remain dormant for possibly a
few years, will be decided a lot on
which to build the proposed home,
and specifications for the home have
already been secured.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-21
City Chat
The SPRING MAID.

April, half-clad in flowers and show
ers,
Walks, like blossom, DER the land ;
She smiles at May, and laughing,
takes
the rain and sunshine hand-in-hand.
So gay the dancing OF her feet.
So like a garden her soft breath,
So sweet the smile upon her face,
She charms the very heart of death.
The young moon in a trance she holds
Captive in clouds of orchard bloom,
She snaps her fingers at the grave,
And laughs into the face of doom.
Yet in her gladness turks fear,
In all her mirth there breathes a
sigh,
So soon her pretty flowers are gone
And ha! she is too young to die!
Richard lie Gallienne, in Harper's
magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-21
sIMoN-EELSENThAL.

ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE OF
the engagement Of Maurice Waldorf
Simon of Buffalo, n. Y, son of Mr..
and Mrs. L. Simon of 702 Twenty
first street this city ard Miss Gertrude
Felsenthal OF Chicago. The announce
ment of the engagement was made at
the home OF the prospective brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Eli B. Feisen-
thai of 41OS Grand boulevard Chi
cago. Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs.
Simon being among the guos:e The
date Of the marriage is not announced.
Mr. Simon was born and reared in
this city, he Is a graduate of the Chi
cago university and is now connected
with the Tonawanda Board and Paper
Mil company as sales and assistant
manager Miss Felsenthal visited In
the city during the holidays as the
guest OF Miss Elsa Simon, making
many friends here during her stay.