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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
VOCATIONAL TEACHING.

Cincinnati has recently taken for
ward step in the training OF the IN
dividual for a useful place in life that
is attracting wide attention. 1t has,
like its sister cities, schools and
classes for instruction in the arts ana
trades, but it has gone farther than
most of them in the matter OF bring
ing student and vocation closer to-
gether Thus, in the matter Of teach
ing high school girls how to be good
housewives, 1t provides house, or,
to be exact, fiat rather than books
or lectures. A model fat, ready for
housekeeping, is to be turned over to
Miss Charlotte Uhlrich, instructor IN
domestic economy, by the board OF
education, and in this apartment the
high school girls taking the course
will have opportunity not merely OF
playing at housekeeping. but o. carry
ing household work along as they
should II they were mistresses of their
own homes. 1t is not to be all cook
1 ing or sweeping or busting, either;
for instruction will cover all the arts
that contribute to the making and up
keep Of a presentable and comfortable
establishment, whether on large OF
q modest scale.
The progress and outcome Of the
experiment will be watched with in
terest by the friends Of education
everywhere. Undoubtedly it is alons
riobt Enee and daaervea f1lll meas
ure of success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

some paper in the new concern. but
frightfully scaled down and still
speculative. There Is nothing else for
them to take. although they may not
want 1t.
But now come other revelations. 1t
is said that a quarter Of a million dol
lars was paid over to some one be-
fore the old corporation went out.
Some think that Hampton and his
men took that to make themselves
whole 1t turns out also that one OF
the men with whom Hampton's was
hooked up was bucket shop promo
ter, whose place was about to be raid.
ed by the postoffice police and anoth-
er one who was connected with the
concern was under arrest some years
ago for getting money under false
pretenses.
Fooled again. That is all that needs
to be said about the fellows who
went into that uplift magazine stock
business Some one found their veal
spot and played upon it In an age Of re
form. why should not an occasional
''reformer'' warp 1t to the rest, the
suckers, who are in such things II
dead earnest, but without any com
mon sense back of them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
WHICH,?

WHICH,
She made a lot of sweaters for the
sunbaked Hotteu'ct,
And overcoats for Kaffirs far away;
She knit some woolen stockings for
the Fill Islands hot,
And mittens for the poor in far Pom
bay.
She made warm undarclothing for the
poor of Borneo,
Bought shoes for Arabs on Saharas
sand;
She thought herself a Dorcas, but she
didn't seem to know
That more deserving poor Lived
close at hand.
Her heart was very tender and it
made her very wild
To see dumb brutes abused with
needless pain.
She wrote for all the papers to eh-
courage treatment mild
For birds and beasts that could not
well complain.
she spoke from stage and forum for
the good S. P. @. A.
Or as patroness at meetings sat
And she wore sealskin jacket and
another muff quite gay,
And a dozen well-stuffed birds upon
her hat.
She went to mothers meetings
and presided with eclat,
Or read a paper built on study deep
.'The art Of rearing children" she dis
cussed in tones of awe,
Although her hearers often went t.
sleep.
She spoke of "wifely duty" and re
sponsibility
That rested on mothers shoulder!
now;
But she was so busy talking that sh
really couldn't see
Her children grew like Topsy-eany
how"
And yet know another, and she'l
doing all she may
To spread the light of happiness
around.
She fines come time to study mids
the many tasks of day
But knows that in her home bes
joys abound.
She teaches by example. and he
kingdom is her home:
Inside its sacred precincts she's til
queen.
And 30, somehow or other, her ow
children never roam,
And love around the hearthstone
always seen.
VIII Maupin in the commoner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
our unreasonina Attitudes.

Editor Pennington IN. j. Post:
Dear Sir: President Taft in one OF
his speeches has said the Lord is good
to children, drunken men and the
United States. The Lord surely has
been and is still good to the United
States. Our ultimate-final judgment Is
usually correct, but meanwhile we are
emotional. impulsive, hasty, often
ridiculous. No business man could,
nor could any European nation per-
form the ridiculous gyrations we do
and survive; we are extremists. The
Lord has blest US, but we have frittered
much OF it away. England is slow TO
crown her heroes, but once crowned
she is slow and conservative in tear
ing them down, or create heroes one
day and tear them down the next and
drag them in the dust We all re-
member when General Mcclellan was
appointed commander of the Potomac.
The illustrated magazines Of the day
pictured him standing at the side OF
his gray horse with his arm over the
saddle, under which was printed, Cen
eral George M. Mcclellan, the Napol-
con Of America Within eighteen
months he was twice relieved of his
command. and was anything but a
! Napoleon. Both attitudes toward Nc
Clellan were ridiculous and unfair,
but Enthusiastically American.
Twenty years ago or more, big
business men, big undertakings, were
praised by all alike; we gloried in our
material prosperity; now everybody
seems equally determined to tear
down everything and everybody who
is prosperous. Nothing would please
the yellow, the semi-yellows, the so
called progressives and the rabble
better than to see the rich man put il
Jail. They do not care whether guilt,
Of any particular crime or not, but Il
he is prosperous, II especially he Ii
prominent he must be rogue and i
, would so please the mob to see him &c
. to jail. The next step while in the
heat Of the usual American way, would
be to cut his throat, and after thu
wreck and ruin Of business and thu
!, falling and murder Of score or NOR,
j of millionaires, then begin to buil'
!. up again. The Lord has been goo,
to US in the past, but if We do not al
tain to more conservative and cor
siderate way of handling gu
i affairs we are going to &c
! into trouble one of these days
i wherein the Lord may abandon us t
n our follies.
If LaFollette were President. PHI
chot secretary of state, Roosevelt SEE
rotary of war, Cummins or Bristol
i attorney general, with the yellow an
: muckrake publications as mouthpiece
$ of this imaginary administrator
f what falling and cutting off tn
i, heads of Wall street brokers, dealer
:, in and holders of stocks and bond
millionaires, big business men, in fac
everybody who presumes to rate hin
q self above tramp
1. Yours respectfully,
IS E. S. WELLS.
/ Glenmoore, Oct. 5. 1911.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
aed.eked pamphoo IIshness,

Iowa CITY Republican: One of the
foolish customs which should De
dropped. is that OF the governor Oh
Iowa. on every possible occasion ap-
bearing In a long tailed coat ana
plug hat, with lot OF men "aaoilhs
about with uniforms that would put
tn shame the best that Is seen when
the king of England is on exhibition
Why should governor wear pug
hat and a long tailed coat when prac-
tically nobody else does? VINO is the
governor that he should be dressed SO
as to be an object of ogling curiosity!
And WHY should he be followed about
with a lot of men who have no mill
tary bearing and who wear nothing
graceful except their military titles!
II Ia not clear Just why self-respect-
ing man will tog himself out and
strut around the country In uniform
OF uncomfortable At, bedecked with
braid. lace, yellow rope and other
paraphernalia which look so outrag-
eous that a peacock would hide In
shame for such an exhibition OF but.
foonerv when there is nothing in har-
monious colorings, such as the pea
cock carries, to warrant an exhibition
| of pride.
Iowa never had uniformed staff
till democracy with its simplicity IN
augurated Horace Boies, and the habit
never got we'll under way until Hand
some Albert became governor. Shaw
wore a big plug hat. sometimes. but
there were brains under his hat. ever
IL he was the most ungainly wearei
OF a plug hat ever seen In Iowa. Shaw
was stopped and he wore his hat tilt
ing back a little, which made hin
look like the country editor of the
DAYS when they tried to be distinguish
ed by long hair and other marks
Shaw was not SO bad when ne walked
with bis plug hat. but when he mount
ed a horse, oh, lord, what an exhibi
ton of ungainliness.
II Cummins looks well In anythin!
| and he can sport tile SO GRACEFUL.
, that person feels that the hat shouts
be his exclusively. Carroll woul'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

Naval estimates demand 1929, 1000 900
for next year. This is more than
twice the cost of the navy in the year
of the Spanish war or the year that
followed 1t: nearly ten times the
cost of 1886; greater than the current
German expenditure on navy; great
er than that of France and Italy COM
bined. 1t should be borne in mind,
however, that this is simply the naval
estimate, not the amount congress
has appropriated. There's a differ
ence amounting to millions of dol
lars, sometimes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
AN lLL.ApulsEp STRIKE.

Most Reverend James j. Keane,
archbishop Of Dubuque, was in Water
loo the other day and while there was
interviewed regarded the shipments
strike on the Illinois Central railroad
now in progress. The archbishop
said that he had made a thorough can
vass of the situation and is persuaded
that the company cannot yield. He
declared 1t to be unfortunate that
men who have local interest allow
the irresponsible to secure control.
They do that by neglecting to attend
meetings and to elect the conserva-
tive and careful to Office" The
archbishop went on to say more at
length on this point:
Il am exceedingly sorry that the
men have been persuaded to go out,
as / know from very thorough can
vass OF the situation through the west,
where the matter is being agitated,
that the vast majority of them were
not In favor of it. Not only do the
men neglect to elect to office the con-
servative and careful, but by their IN
attention to the interests of the I'M
ions they permit the radical element
to advocate and strive for the intro.
duction of impractical principles OF
unionism =
some of the matters at issue IN
the present strike are radical, 30
radical, indeed, that 1t is difficult 70
see how the railroad company eau
Weld without captivating. Iney oe
mand. as an instance. the time OF
service and not merit must deter
mine whether a man Ia to be pro
NOTED or not: secondly. that man
personal record should not at all IN
| huence those who are to empio.
him: and, thirdly, that the en1ire
bodv should be made to suffer II
order to promote the presumed -
terest of a particular craft.
Il believe in unionism; pehev'
that men have right to unite 70 pIo
tect their interests, just as CAPITA
combines to promote It's INTERESTS
Men have a perfect right 10 "as
which will be sufficient TO suppol
their families in comparative coi.ioi
and TO make some provisions, proviae'
thev be economical and industrious
for the morrow. But the good whicI
.unIonism serves to promote canno
possibly Justify the introduction INT
the practical conduct of unionism
principles which are unjust. ! lea
that some of the principles 70
/, which they are contending are sucf
and believe that the superior mine
ed, upon deliberation, will have tn
t courage to repudiate what Is wron
. and abandon a contention for wha
. is not just
!. There is the further considerable
n that the Illinois Central shopme
! chose a very poor time to strike. Wi
; ter is coming on, when the deman
q for labor is always lessened and thel
are more men than jobs. This "a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

not look SO bad in plug hat II he
could re unjointed somewhere and
shortened up, but as it is. his appear
ance is monstrous, and when the gov
ernor gets that line Of uniformed
colonies back Of him, you cannot but
feel that the next transformation OF
the comic opera will be coming
across the stage with the governor
turned into typical Uncle Sam and
The staff made over into an old fash
toned New England muster day drum
corps.
But whatever is done, let's get rid
Of the staff
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
Hampton's Stockholders Get "some-
thing"

Y
thing"
Cedar Rapids Republican,: How
easily the people are taken In. There
is Ben Hampton of New York, who
organized and started what Is called
Hampton's magazine for the uplifting
of the down trodden people. He got
all the muckrakers and reformers to
write for his paper. His little hear,
to heart talks with the down trodden
were quite the most fearful that were
issued in an era of muck raking and
crocodile tear shedding.
| In these little confidential talks he
told his readers how the big inter
ests were after him, how they tried to
| hamper and to hinder him, but by
the big horned spoon, he vowed he
would not desist from serving the
people, even unto the end, which was
the emancipation Of the people
1 through the elimination of Wall street
and big Business" How he kept
big Business" posed before the peo-
pie, always as :. monster about to de-
stroy the people, to eat them alive.
4 You could al1ro st hear in his pages,
the crunching of the bones in the
mouth of the monster
They're after me" he yelled again
and again and finally he revealed to
the people, whose sympathies he had
won, his scheme to keep his maya
zine out of the hands OF the trusts.
His scheme was the selling of stock.
He told the people that they could
own and control their own magazine
He solicited subscriptions far and
wide to his stock. He not only ap.
; pealed to sympathies, in his battle
with Wall street, but he appealed to
their cupidity He published rosy
statements of what big money could
be made in the magazine printing
!. business. He held out the idea that
2 stock would double and treble in
4 value, and all the time pay big divi
2 dends. The dividends were almos,
s fabulous, even Wall street had moi
Y dreamed of such profits as Hampton's
! magazine offered. Well, they bit, al
: those who wanted to make some O.
e those unholy profits and also al
d those who wanted to trample "Bis
0 Business" and The Interests" unde,
t their feet. Thousands of them sen
e their savings. Some sent only $40, bu
t some went as high as 100000 Their
o were $4,000 of these suckers anon:
s them some Cedar Rapids men.
L Well Hamptons is no more. 1t ha
e been merged" swallowed, absorbe
J. and almost confiscated Tho.e VIII
h held stock in Hampton's are offere
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

just published, following that cele.
brated little volume which gave Mary
MacLane and the city of Butte to the
world in 1902 All that was the folly
of 10. At IS Mary MacLane finds that
she loves her own people, as she
ought to do; that humankind in
Butte has noble attributes like hui
mankind anywhere else in the civiliz-
ed country, and that nine years ago.
SO far from being a genius, as she
immodestly claimed, she was only a
very bright little girl with lot of
half-baked ideas which Time has rem
dered thoroughly done.
The experience of Mary MacLane is
great lesson for youth. 1t could be
the means of saving many another
impulsive young woman from fool
hardness at that period when girls
are much in need of wise mothers.
Mary MacLane had to go to the
world for her spanking. She got 1t,
and she is now very good girl.
Read The Daily Gate CITY.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

The more or less pertinent thought
has found Judgment in the Uranium OF
the Monmouth Atlas that In looking
for currency system 1t might be
borne in mind that the man who has
managed to concentrate large pro-
portion of the currency in his own
possession is not necessarily the one
best qualified to devise scheme for
it's general distribution for trade pur-
poses.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

Two thousand men are doing their
best in the way of picking apples at
Glenwood, Iowa, to secure the fruit
before a killing frost comes. There is
a shortage of from ten to twenty
cars daily, SO great is the demand for
cars. The apple crop in that vicinity
will be as large as two years ago
when about 100000 barrels were
shipped out But of course you can't
raise apples in Iowa."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
Everybody Mllks In Iowa.
An Ode to the Cow Dedicated to the
Dairy Industry

An Ode to the Cow DeQlcateu W ZIG
Dairy Industry
Tune: Everybody Works But Father
Everybody milks in Iowa,
We all like the COW
Pinning our faith to bossy,
Has made our neighbors bow.
Everybody milks in Iowa,
Even Sister Rae,
Everybody does the milking
In o w A
Everybody milks in Iowa,
Summer and winter time,
Makes no difference to Iowa,
They milk rain or shine.
Soil is growing richer,
Debts all cleared away,
Just because they're milking,
In o w A
Everybody milks in Iowa.
Let me tell you that,
| Buying automobiles
With the butter-fat;
| If the grain crop fails them,
They don't move away;
1 Just keep right on milking
no w A
Everybody milks in Iowa,
Hear, me, what say,
Live on milk and honey
While the cows eat hay,
Mothers quit her washing,
So has Sister Ann,
Everybody's gone to milking
Even my old man.
e. T. S., in Creamery Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
THE DAILY GATE CITY

agricultural country. Wheat growing
is being revived and the first machin-
cry to start will be the milling machin-
cry. The making of -four will be re-
sumed pretty soon. There are some
difficulties in the way of rebuilding
the dam. but 1t is presumed these
difficulties viii be overcome. There
is no reason why Bonaparte should
not be an important manufacturing
community.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
BAD, WORSE, WORST.

BAD, WORSE, WORST.
An unidentified contemporary is re-
sponsible for the following:
A man may lose his arm or leg,
A man may lose his nose
If he .sbites 1t off to spite his face"
AS the old expression goes
man may lose his self respect,
Or his nerve, but when all is said
The MAN is lost IT,. pen in hand,
He happens to lose his head.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

A paragraph in the Sioux City Trib,
unc tells of a notable bit of financier-
ing recently achieved by George Fitch.
the Peoria humorist. The story is
best repeated in the Tribune's words:
George Fitch, the vestpocket
essayist, dashed from Peoria to Chi.
cago in his motor boat 'Siwash' to
attend the waterways meet. BY put
ting in two days and paying SOS in
lock tolls, he beat the railroad com
pany out of a SO fare. AS a compen
sation he probably accumulated a sur
plus of philosophy with which Tribune
readers later will be RECALLED"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

in particular is good time for man
with Job to hold 1t If he can by
faithful and efficient work. The In
dustrial situation just now is most un-
certain and many employers of labor
are glad of an excuse to lay of some
of their men. Not only are the strik-
ing shopmen unreasonable in their
demands, but were foolish to attempt
70 enforce them at this time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
Mary MacLane Humanized.

ST. Louis Post-Dispatch: What
Mary MacLane needed was not, as
she thought, either love or sympathy.
but human experience. Nine years Of
human experience since she startled
the world with her brutal denuncia-
ton OF kith and kin has resulted in a
very natural desire to take 1T all
back. This she does in the afterword
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

DR.. George NJ. Chapel. director OF
the weather bureau at Des Moines,
predicts that the coming winter will
be one of the most severe ever ex-
perienced in Iowa. There Is this con-
ISOLATION: Severe freezing weather is
hard on germs. 1t is possible 1t may
be worth the extra coal it costs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
Bonaparte.


LATE Young in Des Moines Capital:
Bonaparte is one OF the old towns in
Iowa and is located on the lower Des
Moines river There was settlement
there as early as 1888. Not long after
that three brothers by the name OF
Meek secured the water power rights
at Bonaparte and erected grlst mill.
They afterwards put in wooden ma
chinery and In an early day "carded"
rolls" for the old-fashioned spinning
wheel. The names of Bonaparte and
Meek Bros. became a household WORD
all over southern Iowa Their enter.
prise made money and resulted In the
erection of large and substatial build
ings. A crib dam was put In as the
successor of the brush dam. For q
number of years the Iowa legislature
was importuned to require Meek Bros
to put fishways in the Bonaparte
dam In the course of time the dam
went out. It is still out. The large
buildings are idle The machinery is
silent. There is nothing left In any
of the big buildings except the panta
loon factory in one of them. Bona
parte Is charmingly located and the
silent machinery tells it's own sac
story. An effort is being made tt
start everything over again The vas
properties have been sold under the
hammer and the new owners expec
! ultimately to erect new dam and Il
start the wheels. The community ii
getting together in harmonious rela
/ ton and is prepared to restore thu
glory of the Bonaparte of former days
Bonaparte is surrounded by a ricl
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

Hog cholera is prevalent in parts Of
illinois and is causing losses aggre-
eating thousands of dollars. The
state supplies a serum. but 1t is wholly
inadequate to the demands in time of
an epidemic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

Sing for an hour every day and
you win not have Indigestion" says
physician. Possibly not. but is in
digestion worse than broken head?
The neighbors can't be expected to
stand everything.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

Foreign companies fear that Ameri-
can ships will get reduced tolls In the
Panama canal Maybe so. But it will
be necessary to get American ships
first.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16
navy Ry MAIL

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

A contemporary calls attention to
the fact that DR.. Webster has dem
onstrated that killing one wife is a
way of winning the affections of some
women Some women yes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-16

Dr.. Webster of Chicago seems tc
be real ladykilier.