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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
wELLER,s DELICIOUS lDIocY.

For many years until about a quar-
ter of century ago Hon. John P.
Irish was one of the wheel-horses of
Iofa Democracy. AS editor OF the
Iowa City Press and as an orator OF
the stump he did great service for his
party. Since leaving iowa he has been
living in California. When Bryan and
free silver captured the Democratic
party Mr.. Irish broke with that politi-
cal organization. Latterly he has been
out of politics. At present he is Wis
ting old friends in this state. The
lo,her day at Davenport he submitted
| to an interview and said some things
that make mighty interesting reading.
In speaking of the opposition to Presi-
dent Taft he declared that the whole
theory upon which this populistic
| Movement is proceeding is that society
and the state shall be rebuilt on the
foundation of their failures and their
diseases. and not upon their success
| and their health. ''The gift of proph-
ecy," he added, SIS not necessary to
/ foresee results, Continuing he said:
.sThe French revolution was started
against the aristocracy, and was fed
4 upon the finding of new classes of
aristocrats to exterminate, until finally
any man who could afford to wear a
pair of trousers, or culottes, as the
French call them. was classed as an
aristocrat, and only the sans-cullottes
or men without trousers were regard.
| ed as worthy of consideration
Colonel Irish went on to say that
he finds some Of the vagaries OF
4 Calamity" Weller still in vogue. He
closed his interview by quoting sen
tence that Weller always put into his
speeches and which Irish said he re
garded as "the most delicious piece
of idiocy" he ever heard. He quoted
Weller as saying:
"Feller slaves, our beloved country
stands in the shadder of calamity
and the only way to make that shad
der pass by is for the congress of the
United States to pass law giving the
: people a more and fittinger curren
Cyl
Colonel Irish sees consolidation
, of Colonel Weller's vagaries in some
of the present day Craftsmanship.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
CHARITY AND STAMINA.

It has often been observed that liv-
ing organisms require for their full
est development certain amount of
resistance in their environments. The
individual or the species for which
things are made too easy loses the
unused function The butterfly help
ed from its chrysalis has imperfect
wings: the man fed on soft foods has
bad teeth. The parasite is always a
weakling and sometimes degenerate
monster. The parasitic dodder. which
draws all its sustenance from the sap
of the host, is a plant without root
or a leaf. The hermit crab, which,
instead of growing she'll for itself
Ike other crustaceans, makes use OF
the cast-off shells of mollusks. Is
atrophied in some of It's members and
enfeebled in its whole organism. So
with the intellectual environment and
tie mental qualities of man. The Jour
nal Of the American Medical Associa-
ton properly concludes from these
facts that the pauper and the pamper-
ed child of wealth are alike deprived
of those qualities of initiative and self
reliance on which their respective en-
yironments make no demand Unnec.
essary charity is twice cursed: IT
curseth him that gives and him that
takes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
FOR THE GOOD OF IOWA.

A booster committee has been
gathering suggestions throughout the
state to aid in formulating policy
for improving conditions. The replies
given have been heard before, but
their general endorsement should i'm
press the importance of them upon
the people of this state Here are
some Of them:
Give attention to the smaller
towns and their needs, If you would
boost Iowa"
The state needs more organiza
lions like your own. All cities and
towns of any size should join in the
work
Buy and sell Iowa made goods"
Build more public highways and
interurban lines
I'VE might take lesson from Call
fornia If we desire to improve oul
state and increase its population. Il
we would exert one-half the energ,
and advertising they do we wouit
skin them mile.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
POWER PLANT AT TACOMA.

Public improvements involving the
expenditure Of 100000 are under
way at Tacoma, Wash. Two of the
largest of them are the Nisaually
electric power plant, to cost $4,000
coo, and the Green river gravity water
supply, to cost s1,S5o,0oO. Both are
far along on the way to completion.
If the plans of the light and water
department materialize Tacoma will
be using its own electric light plant
and the new Green river water sys-
tenn by next July. AS planned now
the electric power plant project at lie
Grande, on the Tacoma Eastern rail-
road, in the Nisqually river canyon,
and the big pole line to the city will
be completed next June
The Nisqually Contract company
local corporation organized by
George Milton Savage and other con
tractors-has the first unit of the
power project, which includes not
only driving the 1O,016 feet of tunnel
mostly through solid rock, and which
is to take the entire flow of the
'Nisqually river at low water but also
tho contract for the giant dam and
settling basin. The contract price fol
this is s65o,0oo. Only about 1900
feet of the tunnel remain to be com
pleted, and the contractors expect tt
finish this by next January.
The other unit of the power plan
| project Is held by Hans Peterson a
4 a price of s1,0T4,000, and includes the
! 30-mile transmission line, on which
900 men are at work, and 280-foo
steel approach, reinforced conduit
bridge to the reservoir and the reser
voir itself, which covers five acres
the pressure pipes, power mouse AM
electrical and other machinery 70
the plant
The Green river gravity water sup
ply project, which will furnish TIA
coma with water in place of that nov
supplied by the South Tacoma well
and several gulch streams, Is to b.
completed July /, 1912. The head
l works will be completed about Oct.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
"NuMRER. pIEAsE -

With view OF saving time and in
creasfng the efficiency of the service
the telephone company in Cleveland.
Ohio, some time ago issued an order
to its operators bidding them waste
no time on mere politeness, and to
cease using the word please when
answering subscribers But after
trying this impolite method for sew
eral weeks the company has found
that what has been gained in actual
time has been lost in morale, and so
a new order just issued puts prem
ium on politeness and please" The
company says in q public statement:
When we abolished the please
we did it to speed up the service.
That is, we thought that the saving
of several hundred thousand 'pleases
a day would have that effect. Well,
it didn't. In our advertisements we
solicit the assistance OF our patrons
in a general scheme of politeness
over the wire. Now we find 1t Is up
to us to take dose of our own med
icine and SO we have decided to re-
store the please
The company did we'll to make the
change when it learned it's mistake
Politeness pays in business as well
as in social life, and it is especially
desirable that 1t shall be rendered by
employees in public service. More
and more courtesy and politeness are
coming to be insisted upon and re
garded as valuable assets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
THE WEAKNESS OF PROHIBITION

That prohibition does not prohibit, .
though the most aforementioned char
acteristic Of the attempt to enforce t.
tai abstinence by law. is by no means
its most remarkable or important Pc
culiarity. This is made quite clear by
writer in the New York Times who
points out that the characteristic is
one shared by practically every statu-
tory command not to do something,
including that which makes DEAN
the penalty of murder. What does dis
tinguish the particular form of pro
hibition'' which in popular usage
monopolizes the significance of the
word and seeks to prevent the CON
sumption of intoxicants by forbidding
their manufacture and sale. is that
never has it anywhere so clearly dem
onstrated its beneficial effects as t,
convince permanent majorities of its
practical wisdom. Maine is cited as
case in point as follows:
In the state of Maine, for instance,
where prohibition has been on trial
for many years, the people have not
yet even approached unanimity as to
its desirability. In opinion they re-
main divided almost equally and are
still discussing the question with as
much heat and viyacity as if it had
been raised only Yesterday. Incident
ally, it may be noted that prohibition
Maine does not differ appreciably. as
to the health, morals, and prosperity
of its people, from the states where
the alcohol traffic is regulated and
made source of income instead OF
being banned altogether Yet if pro
hibition were such a good thing as
its friends declare, Maine would be a
near-heaven, with everybody healthy,
wealthy, wise, and virtuous."
AS regards temperance, on the
other hand, there is nowhere any diff
ference of opinion. Nobody has to
argue its superiority to drunkenness
for facts innumerable prove it beyond
dispute, even by drunkards. The wri
ter above quoted says as to this:
'It is, OF course, the right of the
total abstainers to add to their num-
bers as many as they can by persua
sion. but they will never be very sue
cessful until they give more attention
than hitherto to explaining-and prov
ing-that even the most moderate use
OF intoxicants is a practical disadvan
tage in the competition of life. The
mere assertion that it is wrong oil
that it leads inevitably to the guttel
will not accomplish much.
when a railway company announc
es that it will hire no man that drinks
and will discharge any present EN-
ploy who does-that means something
and has an instant effect, but the com
pany bases its rule on the ground tina
drinking means ineficiency in the run
ming of trains, which nobody cal
doubt, not on the ground that the oc
Icasional glass is wicked, which mos
people doubt or deny, and Away
WILL
/ There is valuable food for though
in this view OF the matter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
"pELivER rHE GOODS

Bishop Quayle. known and admired
IN keokuk. was one of the speakers at
the recent Methodist conference in
Peoria. AS is his habit, he gave the
assembled ministers something to
think about His address was on
Bearing the Burdens of the Weak, !"
and he thus told the men of the cloth
where to head in:''
Deliver the goods, it's what the
people demand Sometimes you hear
preacher sniveling because there
are too many lame ducks in his flock
that's what we're here COR. If every
thing was going tip top all the time
there would be no use for us. We
would be out in the field husking corn
or gathering watermelons. It's the
lame ducks that keep us on the job;
It's our business to bear the burdens
of the weak.
People were given spatters to use
them The brainier the people are
the harder the minister must think.
1t is our vocation to help. Anybody
can pick up nothing: 1t takes a person
lon to bear burden
" GLE you ever SpdLL6U ny d LuChi
Der of your congregation? II you
haven't been, It's funny. You ought
to thank the Lord there we're not two
spatters working at once. II one
woman was raking you. you should
have been thankful she wasn't twins. :
Good advice, that, and as applicable
to others as to ministers of the Cos
pei. The tendency to SWIVEL about
conditions instead of setting earnestly
at work to correct them isn't confined
to preachers. by any means. Nor are
ministers the only ones who would be
out of a job if there were no sinners
or lame ducks and everything was go.
ing tiptop all the time. The doctors
and lawyers and lot OF others would
be assisting the ministers in huskine
corn and gathering watermelons. As
for the "spatters," let us all unite in
a Thanksgiving service that there
| aren't more of them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
moLp MAN opp

Some are SO disrespectful to Oppor-
tunity that they refuse to speak to
him on the streets, and others are SO
irreverent that they talk of him be-
hind his back as odd Man Opp" To
both classes John Nicholas Beffel has
a word of timely advice which he ex-
presses in verse thus:
The best friend that you've got in al
tn world is Old Man Opp.
He passes by your house each day an
always makes stop.
But if you're watchin' for him, he will
help y NOW your hay.
He isn't blessed with time, of course;
he hasn't long to stay,
An Old Man Opp will help " beat
the gloom gods line O. dope;
He'll boost Y up tn ladder with {
fresh supply of hope.
You'd better fix those shaky steps
an oil your front ward gate
An don't forget that Old Man OPP
has not much time to wait.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

DIR. Frank Crane takes pessimistic
view of the outlook for culture and
the higher literary interests generally.
He thinks he sees frightful craving
for condensation ahead, and an inca
pacity for anything but snippets. The
essays OF Matthew Arnold, De Quin-
cey, Charles Lamb, already belong to
a past epoch, like the ichthyosaurus
and the dinosaur, and any one of them
must be boiled down into a half doz-
en- readable, striking. quotable and
disable paragraphs to suit the coming
taste" This looks bad for the future,
and II true 1t reflects seriously upon
our higher institutions of learning. II
the departments of English in our
colleges are developing generation
who will want, say, an essay OF Ella
reduced and dessieated to the literary
equivalent of shredded wheat bis
cult something must be amiss in their
method
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
signs Of Fall.

kewanee Star-C0urier: the ears
have been bent downward for many
days. Below them the stalk is losing
its green and taking on the yellow
russell of husking time and here and
there yellow leaf shows among the
green tops of the field. The meadows
are short, Pussygrass carpets the
grain stubbles. Black patches OF fall
blowing break the landscape into
eheckered squares and rectangles.
The naples are taking on the Grim
son tinge and the bright yellow OF
coming fall CLEANS in the branches
of the elms The blackbirds gather
into punches and flocks and chatter
noisily as a sewing circle at lunch
con. Here and there the pumpkins
in the corn fields shine with glimrses
of rudy ripeness. When the sun
goes down and we sit upon the
porches comes premonitory gusts OF
chilly air which promise cooler
weather and whisper of coming storm
and snow and heated furnaces.
There are signs Of fall. The signs
are for another of those long, mild
Illinois falls rich with the ripeness of
things. When the winds blow cool
and the sun shines strong and the
days are bright and warm and the
nights medicinal with the strength OF
north and west breezes. A long
motherly autumn in whose lap Illinois
rests content and satisfied. Weather
! that no Japan current can breed
skies that italy can not euqal, a val
! ley of contented rest, peopled with
I happiness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
The Baby.

came from a country of sunset,
Beyond the islands of Dawn,
Through a sea of eternal darkness,
Whose wind bore humanity's song.
came from the shores of the even
ing,
Where the surf is golden and cold
came at the beck of the God hand
I'm thousanda million years old.
l came over mountains of Ages;
l scared over valleys of death.
The wisdom of all gone before me
Came with the touch of my breath.
Under the seas and over the clouds,
And beyond the horizons fold,
/ came in the night with eternity's
love
I'm a thousand million years old
w. D. Davenport, in the Philadel
phia Public Ledger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

Rev. A. E. Kepford, state lecturer
on tuberculosis, estimates that tuber-
culosis entails money, labor and
life loss OF over four and a half mil
lion dollars in the state of Iowa every
year. He puts the money value OF life
lost in 1911 at $3.04S,925 and the cost
OF actual disability at $1,000, 900.
making a total OF s4,54s,925. The
number Of persons who died last year
in Iowa from consumption was 1,411.
This enormous waste of life and mon
ey cannot be too speedily checked.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

The governor of the new state of
New Mexico will receive salary OF
$1,000 year, while the governor Of
the sister state of Arizona will draw
but $4,000 year. The governor of
New Mexico will be elected for four
years, while the governor of Arizona
will hold Office but two years. The
Arizona executive. however. may be
reelected for second term. while
the constitution of New Mexico makes
the governor and other state officials
ineligible for reelection
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

An upstate paper has figured out
that when male citizen is fully
dressed he wears eleven different
articles including his necktie and his
pipe. 1t claims that woman wears
nineteen articles in her hair alone
and fifty-seyen other varieties of
clothing, most of which are held in
place by pins. A man spends ten
minutes a day in dressing. A fash.
ionable lady spends four hours per
day. A man could not put on the
same number of garments that a
woman does and anchor them safely
in four weeks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
BOOKS,

The value of books is properly en-
phasized by an inscription to be placed
over the portal of the new public Ii
brary in st. Louis. The sentiment
was taken from the writings of Fred.
erick NJ. Crunden, the longtime lib
rarian there who lost his mind from
too close application to the duties OF
the position. 1t reads:
Recorded thought is our chief herit
age from the past, the most lasting
legacy we can leave the future. Books
are the most enduring monument Of
mans achievements. Only through
books can civilization become cumula
tive
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

In a recent address at Oskaloosa
Lafe Young declared that he has two
GROWING ambitions, though later on
he confessed to others. He said,
however, that 1t was necessary to
mention only one, and that was that
he might live long enough to see the
style of ladies' hats change. He had
started out in the world as a printers
devil and decided to acquire two
things. One OF them was printing
Office and the other two pairs of sus.
penders, so that he would not have
to switch every time he wanted to
don his Sunday trousers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

THE ANCHOR THAT HOLDS.
Ideals, mind pictures, my souls
greatest wealth,
Deep hid from the world with its
soothing and jeers,
We picture them fondly and whisper
by stealth
OF the dreams that sustain us
midst discord and tears.
When fell disappointment withholds
from our grasp
The fruits Of our efforts, our striv-
ing and toll,
Half-dazed, empty-handed, we turn
with gasp
To the realm of ideals, which the
world cannot spoil.
Which the world cannot spoil, cannot
tarnieh nor mar.
Our God-given knowledge, our Wis
ions and dreams
OF perfection made real-how we
reach for the star
Forgetting the distance) and bask
in its beams.
Gods realities-ours! If we're faith
full and true
To ideals that he lovingly plants in
each breast
They are sure OF fulfillment for me
and for you,
II we do our part and trust Him
with the rest.
Cora NJ. W. Greenleaf.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
A minister delivering a lecture at

A minister delivering a lecture at a
commencement recently reminded his
audience that education is from with
in and that no school can make a
paragon. Spending $4,000 on a 3o-cent
boy he thought poor way to use
money. Perhaps. But who is to meas
ure the boys possibilities of develop
ment? This is a thought calculated
to give pause.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

A magazine writer predicts that the
women will be wearing mems clothing
within ten years. Seems probable. All
some of the married ones have to do
ss to don the coat and vest
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
sary is to go down at the end of the
dump and wait for him.

Washington Odd Fellows have
shipped to indianapolis thousand
boxes Of Brother Jonathan apples,
bearing the initials and emblem of
the order, made on the surface by the
process of covering that portion from
the sunlight.
Accent should be placed on the or
in the following contributed by Nixon
Waterman to the Christian Science
Monitor:
The natives who live in its precincts
say
That their proud states name is
Iowa"
And they find it hard.to go
Person calling 1t Iowa"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

It appears now that Andrew Car
negie was really in earnest when he
said he expected to die poor. He has
lust announced his determination TO
found and conduct an international
newspaper. There is nothing more
certain to bring about penury than a
newspaper that is not needed-not
even a circus.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

Uncle Joe Cannon is said to get
most Of his enjoyment out of golf
game by making believe the ball is
one of those tadjectives understood)
insurgents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

Two trial tests of the 1911 model
hay fever cure-one in the cold stor-
age room of brewery and the other
In wine cellar-are reported to be
satisfactory. Which would you rath-
er?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
DAILY BIZ MAIL

DAILY BY MALL
One year. $3.NtFour NOUNS SS
Six months -. 1.50EOne month. 49,. -
Entered in Keokuk postofice a. seSonN
class matter.
Postage prepaid: terms In aavsnct En-.
All subscription orders should gi,v 4. "a s q
Up. o. address and state whether ~
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Remit by postoftioe money 9s sata:
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The date printed on the address a,s,,o %
each paper notes when the
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living notice OF the fact
Address all communicated 70 Nv
THE GATE CITY COMES! L.
No. Is. North Sixth st.. Keo&uA' wv
THE GATE CITY is on sale At the
following news stands: ..,
Hotel Keokuk, cor. Third and Jonnsux4e
C. H Rollins q Co, 6ss Maln sus
Ward Bros, SIS Main street.
Depot News Stand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

A Kansas editor tells his readers
saat 1--WE cannot do business on hot
air. He must be late arrival in the
state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

It isn't creditable to prohibition
state that the Maine pendulum shows
such unmistakable signs of intozi-
cation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
Foley Kidney pills.

Will reach your individual case II you
have any form OF kidney and bladder
trouble or urinary Irregularities. Try
them. Wilkinson g. Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Ed Howe asserts That when WOlHeH
attend party, on the way home they
have quite little criticism to offer,
il they had a good time.
The Iowa City Republican has come
to the conclusion that the time has
arrived when 1t matters not whether
T. r. indorses Taft or not.
The Des Moines Tribune says that
only a very curious person will en-
deavor to learn how many of the La
Toilette boomers failed to land jobs
under the Taft administration.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
IT would be just like Secretary Will
/ son, with his characteristic Scotch
Presbyterian stubbornness, to refuse
| to retire at the behest of several re-
! Iigious bodies.
People who persist in walking rail
way tracks are advised by the Des
Moines Capital to carry identification
marks to assist those charged with
the grewsome responsibility of gath
ering up the remains.
According to the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil, when you hand boy plen
ty OF money and an automobile, in {
igreat many cases all that is neces
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-24

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
It's backbone, not "wishbone," that
counts.