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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
The Anabasls 81 thederand Army.

Marshalltowt1 Times Republican:
The long march nears its end Each
recurrent Memorial day Is mile
stone of its progress, a bivouac in
the anabasis of the Grand Army
which established universal freedom
on the American continent. Year by
year the line grows thinner, the steps
of the marching men less certain and
the hair beneath the service hats
whitens with age. The anabasis
nears the sea- So, weary, worn,
SCARED with innumerable wars, weak
ened with wounds, but unconquered
and uncomfortable, that handful who
survived the first anabasis saw the
waters shine in the sun and shouted
at the end of their journey.
Behind the remnant of the Grand
Army lies accomplishment; before it,
rest It's decay is physical. There is
neither senility, nor weakness in the
principles for which it fought and the
human rights i established. Its mon.
uments are not to be builded. They
rise behind it marking epochs. Where.
ever the grand army marched it left
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
LIE PRESENT WEEK

President Taft and many other
notables will assemble in Baltimore on
Tuesday for the jubilee celebration in
honor of the fitch anniversary of
Cardinal Gibbons ordination to. the
priesthood and the twenty-ffth ami
versary of his elevation to the car
dinalate
Later in the week the President is
to make a short visit in New York
Among his engag in the me-
tropolis will be to review a parade
Of Sunday school children in Brooklyn
and an address at banquet to be
given at the Hotel Aston by the Inter-
state Cotton Seed Crushers' associa-
ton
Opponents of statewide prohibition
in Texas are to hold a great rally in
Fort Worth today to mark the for
NAL opening of their state campaign.
! Governor Colquitt and other promin-
/ ent men of the state are to speak. The
/ state issue is to be decided at a
4 special election to be held next
month
n Id &c humDeI Vi important CON
yentions are scheduled for the week
Among those of more or less general
interest will be the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church of Canada
in Ottawa. the annual meeting of the
National Conference of Charities anC
Corrections, in Boston; the meeting Of
the Lutheran General Synod, il
Washington, d G.; the Interstate Cot
ton Seed Crushers' association, il
New York City; the American Water
Works association, in Rochester; tn,
National Association of Clothiers, IL
, Atlantic City; the Hotel Mems Mu
tual Benefit association, in Boston
j the National Association of Plan,
: Dealers, in Chicago, and the annua
2 meeting and tournament of the Nortl
: American Skat league, in Pittsburg.
Saturday is the day fixed for tn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
The OLD Timer.

I was knight of the open,
And had a hull kingdom to guard;
Them was the days of real glory
Their like won't be seen again
pard;
But gee! how the mighty have fallen
Some fellows allowed that they'd
stay,
But 1 packed the signs Of my knight
And let someone else pitch the hay
I've slept out with nary blanket
Them tents on the roundup's joke
I've froze, to my seat in the upland
With only the snow for the cleak;
But the scar that is sorest and deep
Was made when the boss comes
one day
And hands me a pronged stick Of
hick'ry
And says: Jim you pitch the hay
was king, don't forget it,
And set on real leather throne.
For was the best of the top hands,
And all the wide world seemed my
own;
But along comes their ranches and
fences,
And ] says heated words that
meant nay
When they offer the lord Of the sad
die
A hired mans job pitchin' hay.
You kin talk of the fall OF the Ro
mans
The smash bang that comes to ole
- Greece
They was play to the fall OF my king
When the cowpuncher got his re
lease;
For he was king In the saddle.
And no one disputed his away
Till at last came vandal in jumpers
With his hint about pitchin' the
hay.
Arthur Chapman in the Denver
Review.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

George Fitch recently raised the ques-
ton why people insist on getting mar
ried in June. One correspondent sug-
gested in reply that by June father
has usually recovered sufficiently from
Christmas to stand another attack. An
other correspondent confidently de-
clared that there is no mystery about
weddings in June. Summer railroad
rates come on then. A third public
illumination said he had tried several
months, but had found June the most
satisfactory because it is so romantic.
Mr.. Fitch's inquiry is well enough in
its way. but it doesn't go far enough.
Why do people insist on getting mar
RED in July. August, September, Oc-
tober November, December, January,
February, March, April and May?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
"she."


She was college graduate,
(And she was wondrous wise),
Said everything was out of date
From babies down to making pies!
Mere man, of course, could sign the
check,
But women were the great hope;
The world would surely be a wreck
Unless with problems" they did
cope
Her future work she talked of much;
OF women's rights and how to vote.
On various topics she did touch;
And from the masters she did quote
or love and matrimony too,
There was so very much to say
The pros and cons raised such hue
Poor little Cupid ran away!
So, Time rolled on, as Time will do
And she grew wiser day by DAY,
And when the right man said will
your
She "wil-ted" in the same old way.
-Wenona Martin, in the New YORK
Times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

AS a possible Democratic candi-
date for the presidency Woodrow Will
son represents the scholar in politics.
Champ Clark, on the other hand.
stands for the Thomas Jefferson-G Gen
eral Jackson-one gallus Democrat
who has acquired mighty appetite
during his long years OF fasting as a
private citizen. With these things in
mind it isn't difficult to figure out
which stands the best chance for the
nomination
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Back 10 Old School DAYS,

Boston Traveller: The more one re-
fleets on the good old spelling be-.
the more enthusiastic one becomes.
There were spoilers, you know. in the
days when our parents and grand
parents stood up in opposing rows in
the little red schoolhouse and were
bowled over, one after another, by
"phthisic" and "caoutchouc" and abe
cedarian" and gauge and when
much fame was acquired by those
master intellects that always knew
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Nothing the Matter With Iowa

his own farm, we would think him
crazy, and IL conditions were such
that he was compelled to do SO he
would indeed be unfortunate. Yet,
he is continually looking with longing
eyes on sections that are compelled
to specialize on certain crops, and
! add freights, shrinkage and middle
mems profits to all other necessaries
of life; he seeks to abandon and flee
from the advantages so envied him by
the people Of all other places.
Oh, but the wonderful profits OF 9TH
er crops in other climes, from other
soils; but we can make the same
profit in Iowa.
One Mahaska county farmer pro-
duced from his farm in 1910 forty-five
bushels of wheat per acre, and there
were numbers of them who went far
above the twenty-five bushel mark.
Another farmer told a party Of gen.
tlemen who visited his farm during
, the past week that he would plant
but five acres of corn this year, as
the same five acres one year ago
yelled him nearly 100 bushels per
acre. He had 100 acres of the same
kind Of land The hay crop from an
other farm within two miles OF
Oskaloosa, averaged for three years
| S36 per acre. A few years ago GER
tain Iowa farmer rented his farm on
1.-THE crop-sharing plan; the tenant
planted the entire place to potatoes,
and at digging time the owner offered
to exchange his farm for the renters
share of the crop. But we would not
raise potatoes. No, but we could. A
firm in the eastern part Of the state
bought 120 acres of land at $50 per
acre, and the first year sold on the
New Orleans market $4,000 worth of
1 cabbages. But we won't. raise cab
bages. No, but we can. A few days
ago the papers published the name
and location of party who produces
! from a square rod of land radishes
that yielded at the rate of more than
$4,000 per acre. But we won't raise
radishes. No, but we can. And we
raise onions and oats and celery and
corn and beans and berries and
say, what vegetable or field product
] is there we can't raise in Iowa, I'M
/! less 1t is one that requires from nine
to twelve months to mature? And
nine to twelve months growth
means nine to twelve months work
No, we won't do intensive farming
and produce high priced products in
Iowa, but we will break our necks to
go couple Of thousand miles away
and try it. Neither are we foolish
enough to stake our all on the result
of any one crop in Iowa; but we are
perfectly willing to do that very
thing in sections where we are com
PEELED to depend on a single crop.
i If you we're located in one of those
boomer famed, one-crop countries
would our future in this life be JUS
as safe and would we feel just as
comfortable about it as we do in Iowa
Would we? Do you really want tt
| try the one-crop plan, or devote youl
energies and efforts to the production
/ of vegetables and berries, ETC.. that
grow no better anywhere than In
Iowa? If you do, just get thousand
miles nearer market and try 1t on 9
piece of Iowa soil that you absolutely
+! know will raise the stuff.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
The QUESTION.

The QO . lON.
Were the world as good as you-no
an atom better
Were 1t just as pure and true,
Just as pure and true as you;
Just as strong in faith and works
Just as free from crafty quirks;
All extortion, all deceit;
Schemes It's neighbor to defeat;
Schemes some culprit to applaud;
Would this world be better?
If this whole world followed you
followed you to the letter
Would it be a nobler world,
All deceit and falsehood hurled
From 1t altogether;
Malice, selfishness, and lust
Banished from beneath the crust
Covering human hearts from view
Tell me, if it followed you,
Would the world be better?
Selected.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
THE ANNUAL FIRE LOSS.

some interesting HSureS ana COM
parsons have just been made pubic
relative to the annual loss by fire in
this country According to. the show.
ing made, if all the buildings burned
last year in the United States were
placed close together on both sides
of street, they would make an av-
enue of desolation reaching from Chi
cago to New York City. At each thous-
and feet would be building from
which severely injured person had
been rescued, and every three
fourths of mile there would be the
blackened ruins Of house in which
some one had been burned to death.
Other interesting comparisons are
briefly summarized below:
The fire losses in the United States
in 1910 would pay the total interest
bearing debt of the country in four
years.
They would build the Panama can
al in less than two years.
They exceed the total cost of the
army and navy of the United States
for the year.
They were greater than the annual
expenditure for pensions or the an
nual cost Of the United States postal
service.
The cost of fires each year Is one
half the cost of all the new buildings
erected in a year.
The annual per capita fire waste in
the United States is $2.51: in Europe
33c. Cause: The latter has better
construction, less carelessness, In
creased responsibility.
If buildings in the United States
were as fireproof as in Europe, the
annual cost of fire losses and protec-
ton would be only s90,000,00o.
Fires in the United States cost
over $500 a minute.
The way to get lower insurance
rates is to have fewer fires.
New York City spends s10,000,00O
year for fire extinguishment, and
only $4,000 year to fire prevention
The 9o,O00,000 people in the United
States use more matches than the
oup,Vup,UVu5 III Liz rest VI lu6 more OF
less civilized world.
OF 3,S75 known causes of fire IN
Chicago last year, 1889 were due to
careless use of matches. Nearly ten
thousand matches are scratched every
second of the day In this country
every one possible fire.
The report of the fire marshal fo1
Nebraska for 1910 shows that of S3d
known causes of fires in that state
106 were due to matches, of which 81
were caused by children playing with
matches, many of them resulting IL
serious injuries
Defective flues are responsible for
10 per cent of all the fires.
The fire waste of the United States
in the past ten years exceeds the
amount of gold held in the United
Kingdom, Austria Hungary, Italy ans
Spain. 1t is equivalent to wiping out
the entire corn crop once every ter
years, and exceeds the annual value
Of wheat, hay, rye and oats. 1t is
twice the annual value of the cottor
crop. And most of this waste is cas-
lily preventabie and due to careless
ness in one form or another.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

Harry e. Davis in Oskaloosa Herald /:
Nothing in the world, except her
people are and have been suffering
from marvellous prosperity, due to
her unequaled conditions OF soil, eli
mate and location
What has become of the increased
population reasonably due, a section
of earth so favored?
The answer is found on the end
grant trains headed for Canada and
every western and southern state, and
in the most remote and obscure cor
ners OF Gods foostool, wherever
there is opportunity for human enter.
prise, ingenuity and effort, the farm,
workshop, office and counting room
are enriched by the stimulating intlu-
ence Of Hawkeye brain and Drawn.
Why is this so?
The wonderful success Of our eff
forts to create wealth and "get
money" has fired our brain with the
Utopian hope that somewhere gold
grows on trees or oil, with which
to fill our Aladdin lamps, gushes
from the ground our habit of look
ing for some constellation or newly
discovered comet is SO absorbing that
we fail to note the electric light that
brightens our home and dissipates
the darkness Of our streets; we are
SO intent in the pursuit of the prom
1se OF some mystic muse, that we
pass the possibilities and certainties
that Iowa offers In profusion unequal
ed by any other state.
That is partly the reason; the per.
verseness of human nature Is respon.
sible for part of it.
Seasonable climate rarely ever
suits us. In winter we stampede for
southern California or Florida, where
we can wear duck suit and cork ha,
and swelter on the sand in the rays
of tropical sun. In July and August
we are terrorized by the weather that
six months before we travelled fifteen
hundred miles to enjoy, and pack oul
| grips for the northern lake or the
snow-capped summit of the Rockies
where we can feel the tinge of zero
wear an overcoat and sleep in blan
kets. Why do sensible people spend
fortunes every year seeking climate
that Iowa furnishes always, in the
proper season, by an admirable ad
| justment of changes that would de
light any but the possessor of al
overworked stomach or deranget
| liver?
Iowa climate: What more invigor
ating, nerve developing nutrient thar
| the weather of her winter months?
What stimulates, encourages an6
revives, filling every effort with the
zest of youth as does the bursting in
to life Of all nature in riot of volupt
uous splendor and rapturous melody
during her splendid spring?
What is more gladstone than he
summer sunshine. what more glori
Gus than her harvest moon?
What is more beautiful, restful ant
supremely sublime than her autumn
days?
If an Iowa farmer went elsewhere
for what he consumed, going to the
| Dakotas or Kansas for his wheat, t.
Colorado for his potatoes, to Michigan
or Missouri for his apples, to the ricf
1 riyer.deltas for his corn, to othel
places, for other products, when they
4 can alls be produced in abundance OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

The special election on the Stone
& Webster franchises and the Keo-
kuk publicity proposition will be held
one week from today. Sentiment local
ly is overwhelmingly in favor of both.
but this will not avail unless the vot-
ers in the city turn out and record
their will at the polls. Ballots are the
only things that count in an election.
In all history good wishes never car
ried an election unless supplemented
by votes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

The world is progressing. Original
ly there were onlv three wise men"
who journeyed from afar to meet at
common point guided by star.
Now the number has increased to five
and they have come to Keokuk as to
find the ideal summer resort, under
the guidance of DIR. G. Walter Barr
whom this city is glad to acknowledge
as bright orb in it's literary
armament. Thus does history repeat
itself, with variations and additions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Where is He Now?

Rockwell City Advocate: What has
become OF the old-fashIoned farmer
who came to town to do his tra ding
and bought dimes worth of cheese
and nickel's worth of crackers for
his MONDAY meal? Well, he's either
dead or coming in with his automo-
bile and going to the hotel or first
class restaurant for his dinner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
To the Electors of the CITY:

In Of the fact that queries being made through the
that be voted this City and
have other desire than frankly discuss all objections that
made affecting the welfare of the City, hereby
eeo whomoe having mind objection that he considers
vh seriously desires sound and conclusion the
Of said with No IS North Fifth
Street Monday Wednesday Friday night o'clock will
be CAD discuss and explain fully all Of said the end that
may all together for the Cy best interest Before endorsing these
carefully considered the City best and endorse
them them proposed
looking 10 the up-buildng Of the Greater Keokuk.
KEOKUK INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

The operation Of the Moon law, FIX
ing the number Of saloons in city at
a certain per cent Of the population,
will have the effect Of closing eight
saloons in Des Moines as coon as suits
can be brought against them Thus
far the city officials have failed to act
for the enforcement OF the law, but
now Will order the licenses revoked
The eight licenses were granted after
the law went into effect.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

In the opinion of the Fairfield Led
ger, whatever else may be said of La
Toilette he cannot be called gutter
and he is the logical leader of those
who have been displeased with the
leadership of the Republican party
He is selfishly ambitious and he is
INSCRIPTIONS. but he is the real
leader of insurgency, nevertheless.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

Keokuk lost lovable character in
the death of Miss Sarah T Meyllng.
She was all that was sweet and pure
and ennobling in womanhood and her
daily life was a daily blessing to all
within the circle of her acquaint-
anceship. The influence Of her char
acter and example was wholly for
good and her memory will be cherish
ed as that of one who was a constant
inspiration to what was highest and
best The world is richer for her toe
brief stay in it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

investiture of the Prince OF Wales as
a knight of the Garter. 1t is under
stood that the investiture will be
the start of the all-European aviation
races. the Richmond Royal Horse
show. the Franco-American celebra-
ton at st. Die, the international con-
vention of Good Templars at Ham
burg, and the continuation of the ar
rangements for the coronation in
London
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Quite Likely.

Iowa City Republican: One of the
first acts OF the Standard Oil COM
pany after it is dissolved, will be 10
raise the price of oil in order to
prove that 1t was a beneficent COZ.
poration before 1t died.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

Dr.. Wiley. chief chemist Of the de-
partment OF agriculture, says that suf-
fering from the heat Is merely state
of mind. This pronouncement should
90 far toward relieving the anxiety
Of come people regarding the next
world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Iowa Eoots the Rill.

Ottumwa Courier: 1t seems that
that wasn't N-uscatine's strike after
all. but Iowa's strike. At any rae
Iowa will have bill OF 100000 to
pay for the militia service during the
trouble.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

Milwaukee teachers have found that
the spelling books now used do not
fill the bill in the schools. They con-
tain many words that are neither used
nor disable, and it is proposed to com
pile another that will carry none of
this dead wood. 1t will be practical
speller for Milwaukee children because
the superintendent has requested
teachers in all grades to send in lists
of words most frequently and persist.
emily misspelled by pupils. These are
what will appear in the new Milwau
kee speller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

An Idaho man who wanted to com
init suicide adopted a unique plan. He
fred a revolver into satchel contain
/ Ing nitro-glycerine. This arrangement
has the merit at least Of being differ
ent from the usual custom Of engaging
In an automobile race or going up in
an aeroplane.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
footsteps immutably fixed in the his

tory of the race.
1t is not pitiful when such men
grow old and pass in the course of
nature. 1t is as natural and as much
a part of great plan as when the
corn rises in the fields, Dungeons and
bears and having fulfilled It's purpose,
passes in the process of an Almighty
Wisdom. So came the grand army
into being because the world needed
1T and Infinite Wisdom ordered So !,
passes. But behind 1t leaves high
er civilization and the seed of a
wider liberty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

With the Democratic majority IN
the national house IN mind, the Sioux
City Journal observes that If enough
Democrats stay away from the meet
ing IL Is sometimes possible to have
q fair degree Of harmony.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
A Leading California Druggist.
Pasadena, calf, March 8. y

Pasadena, Calf, March 9. 1911
Foley & Co., Gentlemen: We have
sold and recommended Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound for years. We be.
lieve it to be one of the most efficient
expectorants on the market. Contain
ing no opiates or narcotics it can be
given freely to children. Enough OF
the remedy can be taken to relieve a
cold, as 1t has no nauseating results,
and does not interfere with digestion.
Yours very truly, c. H. Ward Drug
Co., G. l.. Parsons, Sec'y. and Treas.
Get the original Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound in the yellow package
Wilkinson G. CO., and ]. F, Kiedaisch
& Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

Kin Hubbard makes one of his char
acters to say that it must be nice to
run a boarding house and not have
to worry about something different for
dinner tomorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

A nephew of the late Senator Dol
liver has just won first prize in
South Dakota forensic contest. The
power of orator. seems to be inherent
IN the Dol1iver family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

1t takes two to make a quarrel, but
1t is the common experience that the
other one is not generally hard .o
4 find.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

Room for the sweet girl graduate
and the lovely June bride! They are
entitled not merely to the center, but
to the entire stage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05

The picture post card is a bugaboo
to the postoffice employees, but it must
be awarded a large share of credit
for wiping out the postal deficit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-05
Tariff RippIno.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat Give an
incompetent party rope in tariff rip
ping and it will hang itself in an ex.
ira session, no matter how short.