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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
his glory have missed splendid spec
WHY THE HoLLANDERs WENT TO
PEILA

The founding of the Dutch colony
at Pella, Iowa, furnishes an interest
ing illustration of the indirect and
unexpected results of advertising in
occasional instances This colony
was under the leadership of man by
the name of Henry Peter Scholte,
who came in advance of his associates
and chose the place OF settlement In
1S48 he wrote an account of his ex-
periences In America and of the
founding of Pella. In the October
number of ''The Iowa Journal Of His
tory and Politics. published by the
State Historical Society Of Iowa there
is a translation of this account by
Mr.. Jacob Van der Zee.
Among other things Scholte tells in
this account why he chose Iowa as a
place for settlement In preference to
Michigan, where number OF Hol-
landers had already settled One rea-
son was the healthfulness OF the eli
mate. Before my departure from Hol-
land" says Scholte, 81 had read pub
lished letter from Michigan in which
the healthfulness of that state was re-
ported as far superior to that OF Iowa.
Having arrived in North America,
received quite different opinions OF
Iowa: while was reading some news
paper testimonials at New York as an
advertisement of certain kind OF
pills, came across letter also from
the Michigan colony praising the pills
and ordering more, so that l became
convinced that people there as every
where else in the world, had to
wrestle with indisposition and dis
ease"
1t appears from this that an unpre-
tentious patent medicine advertise
ment was instrumental in driving to
Iowa some Of It's most prosperous and
valued residents. If such haphazard
advertising is SO beneficent in results
what might not be accomplished by
systematic, well directed publicity?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

This thing is getting serious. Mr..
Morgan's epigrammatic inquiry, "How
can you unscramble eggs?" has led
B. l.. T. to declare in his "Line-o'-
Type or Two" that there are eight or
nine things quite as difficult to I'M
scramble as eggs, and he mentions
two: How can you unlyonaise tripe?"
And "how can you unlorimer Lee
O'Neil Brown?' If the examples could
be limited to eight or nine the situa-
ton wouldn't be SO bad. But now
that the lid is off they are likely to be
multiplied Indefinitely. 1t is mad
world, my masters!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
THEY'RE cominu!

Burrell in Washington Press:
What? Why, hoop-skirts. to replace
these umbrella tubes and hobbies, and
stimulate trade and womanly interest.
The first one seen in Paris, Sept. 81,
put out by the fashionable modistes.
Il won't wear 'em, SO there now!"
You won't, Ell? Well see. o, yes
you will Fashion is She Who Must
Be Obeyed." Every last one Of you
will within six months wear a dress
that is bigger than a hay stack. When
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Governor Carroll denies the report
that he has decided to engage in the
insurance business Immediately fol
lowing his retirement from public Of
fee. He says the only foundation he
can think of for the report is the fact
that he recently received letters from
eastern capitalists wanting to know
whether they could not buy good in
surance company in Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Miss Mary Stafford, pastor emeritus
of the First Unitarian church of Des
Moines, was elected president Of the
Iowa Suffrage association at Thursday
mornings meeting at Perry
Iowa. Miss Stafford is ma
tional figure in Unitarian circles
She usually spends the winters in
Florida. but has announced she will
stay in Iowa during the coming
months, and work In the interests OF
the suffragists.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Charles Thorpe Of Manchester.
Iowa, shipped to a wholesale seed
house in Chicago last week car load
of timothy seed that he had raised on
his own farms in that vicinity. The
consignment was valued at $1,000 and
is said to be the biggest shipment of
timothy seed ever sent out of that
market. 1t is a safe guess that the
increased cost of living isn't keeping
Mr.. Thorpe awake o. nights.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
symptoms Of Fall.

symptoms Of Fall.
The leaves are turning into gold
They always do the same;
1t is little way t have,
Their gay autumnal game.
The hazy twilight brings the moon
That takes up half the sky,
And makes fellow think upon
The coming pumpkin pie.
The folks who've been away to fish
Come home and wildly snatch
To hear about their catch.
The fluffy summer girl returns
From the campaigns she's waged
And in ten minutes each one learns
That she's become engaged.
The cider press gets busy now
And neither stops nor lags,
Though many folks again dispute
If cider causes jags
The price Of coal goes up again,
The price of ice comes down,
The father blinks of winter clothes
And wears his wintry frown
And, o the rah-rah boy permits
His hair to grow quite long
And shakes the air with college yells
And sings his college song;
From Europe come the giddy stars
With dances that appall-
These symptoms make 1t very clear;
We know 1t must be fall.
w. D. Nesbit in Chicago Post
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
keokuk, Iowa .......-..oet. IS, 1911
OUR ALMA MATER,

OUR ALMA MAiEH.
The oldest university
Was not on midas strand,
Nor in the valley Of the Nile,
Nor In Arabia's sand;
From times beginning it has taught
And still teaches free
It's learning mild to every child
The school Of Mothers Knee.
The oldest school to teach the law,
And teach it deeply, too,
Dividing what should not be done
From what each one should do,
Was not in Rome or Ispahan
Nor by the Euxine sea;
It held Its sway ere history's day
The school OF Mothers Knee.
Tho oldest seminary, where
Theology was taught,
when love to God, and reverent prayer
And the Eternal Ought
Were deep impressed on youthful
hearts.
In pure sincerity,
Game to the earth with Abels birth
The school of Mothers Knee.
The oldest-and the newest, too
It still maintains its place,
It graduates the race.
Without Its teaching. where would al
The best of living be?
sTwas planned by heaven this eartf
to leaven
The school of Mothers Knee
Priscilla Leonard in Youths Com
panion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

A writer In a contemporary makes
trfis complaint: I'm too many
churches the books show entries like
these: New carpet for church, $500;
foreign missions, $50; coal for Widow
Smith, fifty CENTS" Well? Would he
have the churches overlook Widow
/ Smith?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Up In northwestern Canada they
have thirty inches of snow on the
level. That's the kind of country
they wanted us to compete with in
natural products on equal terms!
Weather like that in "the States in
october would defeat any administra
ton and seriously imperil our sys
tenn of theology.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

An inventor has devised a soup
plate into which the waiter cannot
stick his fingers. One by one the
worlds great wants are being sup
piled.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
The Days World.

me lays world.
Men work from morn till set of sun. i"
They do.
"Eut woman's work is never done.
Quite true.
For when one task she's finished some.
things found
Awaiting beginning all year ronnd
Whether it be
| To draw the tea,
Or bake the bread.
Or make the bed,
Or ply the broom,
Or dust the room,
Or floor to scrub,
Or knives to rub,
Or table set,
Or meals to get,
Or shelves to scan,
Or fruit to can,
| Or seeds to SOW,
Or plants to grow,
/ Or linens bleach,
Or lessons teach.
Or butter churn,
Or jackets turn,
Or polish glass,
Or plate or brass,
Or clothes to mend,
4 Or notes indite,
i Or stories write
But must stop, for really If / should
Name all the ors, take me day i
would.
| old Vermont Year Book.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
THOUGHT FOR HE DAY.

If men only understood
THAT the heart that sins must sorrow
That the hateful mind tomorrow
Reaps its barren harvest, weeping.
Starving, resting not, nor sleeping;
Tenderness would fill their being,
They would see with PHYS seeing
If ehey only understood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
Clarke for Governor.

Mason City Times: 1t is generally
conceded by the newspapers of the
state that Geo. w. Clarke Of Abel
Will be the next Republican nominee
Tor governor of the state. Clarke's
nomination means certain election.
Such is his reputation among the
people OF the state that there Is not
man in the state could defeat him
a the polls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

lovers press the dears to their buzz
Gums, the ornary balloons will tilt up
and veer way of to the northwest
Sputter now, and get out your Dec
laration of Independence-yo come
into the reservation all right, when
hungry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

IA magazine writer says that If a
woman had three wishes she would
ask for love, protection and personal
beauty. What about a new hat?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Speaking of resounding names,
there is merit in the appended sug
gestion from the same source:
The place for youths who love SO well
To make an awful "swash'
In sending forth the college yell,
Is Walla, Walla, Wash.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Suggested by Kin Hubbard: Flat
terry won't hurt you if you don't swal-
low it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

The rules have been revised and re.
revised and still there is good deal
of kicking about football.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

A new use has been found for aero
planes. They are using them in pick
ing corn over in Illinois.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

AS defined by George Fitch, sar
casm is a patent drill seeder for SOW
ing dislike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
CURRENT coNcElrs.

The following, contributed by Nix.
on Waterman to the Christian
Science Monitor, carries with it an
air of probability:
BY those who ought to know, It's said
And no doubt 1t is true,
An author, If he isn't read,
Is likely to be blue"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Turkeys demand is quite simple
and wholly natural 1t wants the
flghting stopped before it begins.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
One CHARGE Escaped.

Omaha Bee: At any rate, they can
never call Senator Stephenson a
tight wad"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
Safe and sane.

He never drank, he never swore,
He never failed to shut the door;
He never risked the dough he earned
To speculate; he never turned
His head to see pretty girl,
He never idly, like a churl,
Laid off little, now and then,
To sport a bit like other men.
He never stole, he never lied,
He ne'er usurped nor occupied
A place In line that might belong
To some one else amid the throng;
He never got upon the car
Until the rest-with rush and jar
Had forged ahead and got the seat
That he had lost from being sweet.
He never WEIGHED, he never made
An enemy because afraid
He might be wrong, and that the
blame
Would rest on him with all It's shame,
He never made a wee mistake,
Nor stirred the muck, with hoe or
rake;
He never walked, he'd rather crawl,
He never, really, lived at all.
Baltimore Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

The original aeroplane was a broom
stick. The world "do move"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
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THE GATE CITY CONWAY
No. IL North sixth st.. Keokuk. Iowa.
THE GATE CITY is on sale u tns
following news stands:
Hotel keokuk. cor. Third and John .saa
Ward Bros, SIS Main street
Depot News Stan1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15

Of equity and the former only in
court of law.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
FROAl ORANGEBURG IN AUTO.
Party Makes Quick Run to the City
by the Sea Sunday.

The News and Courier say "a par
ty. consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. +.
Fulton Dukes, Miss Witherspoon,
Miss Albergotti and Mr.. G. R. Nc
Kewn, Jr., arrived in Charleston Sun
day at ten o'clock in the morning,
having made the trip down from Or
angeburg in Mr. Dukess touring car.
The party left the City on the Eds
to at six o'clock and reached Summer
VILE at SIS. They could easily have
arrived at Charleston in three hours
after the start was made, but they
we're in no particular hurry and took
the time to stop at Goose Creek and
view the historic St. James Church.
The automcbllits report the roads
between Orangeburg and Charleston
in good shape for motor car traVel
with the exception Of a stretch OF
about FIVE miles covered just after
leaving Orangeburg county, and an
other stretch of seven or eight miles
between Summerville and Charleston
OH the State road.
Mr.. r. Fulton Dukes, in whose car
the run was made, is prominent ons'
mess man Of Branchville, being an
extensive farmer and president or the
Peoples Bank.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
PLANNING BIG CELEBRATION.
The Glorious Fourth Will BE Big Day
in Orangcburg.

The glorious fourth cf July IS to
be celebrated in this city in the ante
bellum style, before wars devastating
hand was laid on this fair Southland.
and big preparations are now being
made for the OCCASION. The tinai
meeting of the committee from the
chamber Of commerce, which has the
celebration in hand, met yesterday.
The stores of the city will observe
a half holiday. At daybreak the ma
tional salute will be given by Il
guns. There will be a grand parade
of the police, fire companies, Tillman
Volunteers and secret societies at one
o'clock. The singing of the national
anthem will be participated in by all
the school children Of the county
after which the Grafton of the day
will be delivered.
In the afternoon there will be bl-
cycle races, creased pig, hose reel
motorcycle, foot. bag and three-legg-
ed races, also horse show, automo-
bile parade, and firemorks at night.
A big band concert will be given dur
ing the afternoon and night by the
Orangeburg Military Band.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
VERY BADLY HURT
h1R. CLIFTON HoRGER STRUCK
.BY A NEGRO MAN.
Sheriff sa1ley Runs The Negro Down
with Bloodhounds aid Lodged
Him in Jail.

While Mr.. Clifton Horger, youngest
son of the late DR.. A. c. Horger, for
many years county Treasurer, and a
negro 5y the peme cs John Fielder
were engaged in hand to hand tight
late Sunday afternoon, another negro,
Ed FEEDER came up from behind and
dealt terrific blow to Mr.. Horger on
the head, using heavy piece of fence
siat.
It seems that the two men were On
the ground and at the time Me. Hor-
ger was on top of John Fielder The
blow with the ieavy weapon fractur-
ed the skull of the young nah. Mr..
Eorger fell unconscious and rem natned
so for several hours. Drs. T. H.,
Ire,,.r, Of st. Matthews. aud d. ].
Hydrick, Of Orangeburg, trephined
tre badIv fractured skail al Z o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The negro fed Immediately. SheT-
If Salley was sphoned for and MS
bloodhounds could be heard in pur-
suit Of the fugitive in the swamps,
near Jamison, while the operation
was in progress on the depot plat
form. While the injury Is severe, 1t
is thonght that Mr.. Horger's chances
for recovery Is good
Mr.. Horger is about thirty years
Of age, ird is unmarried. He Is
cousin of the Hon. Thomas P. Horger,
at one time member Of the Legisla-
ture from Ills caui.ty. He is fine
young man and lives on his place
near Jamison, where the assault was
made. The cause of the fight between
him and John Fielder Is not known.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
THE BOYS CORN CLUBS.
Their Work Points to Successful
Years Competition.

The Washington correspondent or
The State says reports submitted at a
meeting Friday morning Of the State
managers of the boys corn clubs OF
the department of agriculture show
he work of youthful farmers is be-
ing conducted with unprecedented
enthusiasm and prospects point to a
banner year in the size and quality or
the crops raised.
There are now in the various clubs
in tho states throughout the South
between $1,000 and $4,000 engaged
in the cultivation of an acre of corn
apiece. According to the State man
ayers, all the boys are working hard
for a prize Of trip to Washington
offered by the department of agri~
culture and many other premiums do
mated by merchants and public spirit
ed citizens.
In awarding prizes the following
basis is used: Greatest yield per
acre, 80 per cent; best exhibit of ten
ears, 90 per cent; best written ac-
count showing history of crop, 20
per cent; best showing of profit on IN
vestment based on the commercial
price Of corn, 80 per cent.
The State managers were in session
all the morning and will meet again
+on,orrou Those in attendance are:
I. o. schaub, North Carolina; c. b.
Campbell, Georgia; l.. N. Duncan and
G. B. Hobby, Alabama; c. A. Cobb,
Mississippi; V. T. Roy, Louisiana; 1.
A. Early, Tennessee; H. S. Mobley,
Arkansas; Fred H. Ives, Oklahoma;
J. L. Quicksail and w. F. Proctor
Texas. Virginia is represented by the
State agent, and the department it.
self take considerable interest in the
activities in the nearby States.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
Church Building Burned.

The old negro Baptist Church on
an a1lev between Green and Sunny
side streets, which for years was used
by the colored Baptists as house OF
worship, but which was abandoned
about three years ago as such and
since used only for Sunday-school
nurposes, was destroyed by fire Sum
day morning at four o'clock. When
discovered the flames were all over
the building and little was saved.
The origin of the fire is mystery
but it is supposed that some improper
use had been made of the building ~
tramps or other equally careless per-
sons, and in that way the ire was
started.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
Don {
" al / {

for next fall and higher prices. 'r
anueburc dirt is OH the move. Guy
now and reap the profit yourself.
How many people can you count on
your fingers that have lost their mon
ey in buying Real Estate.
Think of how Orangeburg County
is increasing in population every
year. And do you think they will
ever leave this grand old county OF
Orangeburg, thinking they can buy
better farms that will produce bet
ter cotton, corn, wheat or oats than
this grand old county?
How much Real Estate have you
heard of being made In this county?
Now l have one Of the best farms
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
THE LONGEST DAY.
Had Eighteen Hours and Three Min
utes of Daylight.

The summer solstice occurred last
Thursday according to the astron-
omical calendar, and it was the long
est day in the year-15 hours and
10 minutes of sunshine and alto
gether l9 hours and three minutes of
twilight at dawn and evening be in
cluded.
While the suns position is now
more directly upon the earth than at
any other time in the year, it Is not
necessarily the hottest period of the
year, The matter of atmospheric
heat in the summer is not governed
by the suns position to the earth.
The diverse is true as to the amount
of cold in the winter. 1t is all a
matter of friction-the meeting to-
gether of the suns rays with the at
mosphere Of the earth and regulated
as to quantity and degree by the
electromagnetic waves of the terres-
trial system-a wonderful affair
when you begin to think ABOUT II.
It Is now the popular belief that
the days begin now to shorten at
both ends. But a little investiga-
ton will show that the sun will now
begin to rise later and set at exactly
the same time for at least three
weeks after the summer solstiee has
passed-the digerence being that on
July 9Th the sun will rise six min-
utes later than on June 21st. The
day begins to shorten a minute on
July 1 0, and the movement goes on in
that direction until the spring equi-
nox occurs on March 81, when the
days and nights are equal in length
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27

A dispatch from st. Matthews to
The State says "a negro styling him
self Prof. Mintz lies at the home OF a
relative here in very serious condi-
ton, a pistol ball lodged in his chest.
Parties arriving in town state that
Mintz got into trouble in Branchville
and was chased by the off GERS. Hav-
ing successfully eluded them he got
on the train. Officer Byrd followed
him to Rowesville, and attempted to
arrest him. Mintz resisted, injuring
the officer in the chest and ribs. MIR.
Byrd shot the negro.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
RAIN IS BADLY NEEDED.
No Rain of Consequence Has Fallen
for Several Months.

The Orangeburg correspondent of
the News and Courier says this city
is still in the grasp of the most pro-
longed and disactrous drought known
to the oldest inhabitants. Some rain
have fallen in the county in the last
three or four months, but they have
been very partial, giving this imme-
diate territory the go-by every day.
Saturday and Sunday have broken
the heat record for the last 25 years.
The thermometer went on both days
in unexposed places to SO and in some
others as high as 105. Nothing ap-
proximating the present weather con-
ditions has been known since 1881,
thirty years ago. Sunday afternoon
a stiff breeze is blowing and light
rain has fallen, which has relieved
somewhat the sweltering populace.
"The damage to date to the corn
crop is immense and cannot be re-
trieved to any great extent, and un-
less copious rains come in a very
few days the present magnificent
prospects for a splendid cotton crop
in many sections of this country will
be blasted. Small vegetation of all
kinds is dying; gardens have yielded
none of their fruit and 1t Is no
easy matter to find seasonable things
for the table.
Merchants report very abnormal
" large sale of canned goods, due
to the scarcity of vegetables, and
those that are to be had are quite
beyond the reach of the citizen OF
ordinary means in price,