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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14
Colorado
Rockies

Dozens Of interesting places
to visit Pixies Peak, Estes
Park, Colorado Springs, Mani
tou, Royal Gorge, Glenwood
Springs, Denver.
Dozens of things to do
mountain climbing, trout fish
ing, bear hunting, golhng, polo
and autoing, or just saunter
around and get tanned.
Two weeks in the cool, in
MIGRATING Colorado air will give
you new lease of Life.
Low-fare, round-trip excur-
sions all summer.
You will enjoy reading
"a Colorado Summer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14
Eighth Inning.


Bresnahan was quickly re-
tired, Bagnall to Beckley. Blake trip
led to left. Pennington knocked a
long one and the ball went through a
crack in the fence in the carriage lot
for home run. Reichle reached first
on Walshs bad throw to Beckley
Painter was retired, Walsh to Beck
ley Hilly struck out Two runs.
Hannibal Milligan flied out to
Reichle. Walsh singled to left Bag
nall lifted one into Blake's territory
and Walsh waited too long to see
whether or not the fielder would catch
the ball He did not catch it and
Walsh scurried to second but the ball
beat him there, Blake to Pennington.
Bagnall stole second. Swain tapped to
Painter and expired at first. No runs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14
Seventh Innlno.

Keokuk- Hilly was retired, Walsh
to Beckley. Belts effort was high
one to Milligan. Cavanaugh singled to
right. Smith famed. No runs.
Hannibal Mcknight beat out a
bunt. He was sacrificed to second by
Beckley. Smith to Belt. Nickel flied
out to Belt and Mcknight was caught
at third, Belt to Bagnall No runs.
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President NJ. e. Justice has signed
Umpire s. Maple, who halls from the
Wisconsin league.
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c., 3. q q. RAILWAY CO.

Trains leay. from Union Depot
Berths and tickets. Fifth and John.
son streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-14
Hannibal,

xBatted for Smith in the ninth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28
GOING SOUTH-By Fra11k C. Carpenter

ton of Congress last year was s250,000, but to this S113,000 was added from the Rockefeller fund, and many thousands were given by the business organizations and the bankers, merchants and wealthy men of the various communities. In ad- dition to the large number of farms or experimental patches on farms under the direct charge of the government agents and their demonstrators, there are more than 10000 farmers who are receiving instruction from the agricultural depart ment by letter and are reporting the results. This makes a mighty corre- spondence school which is increasing each week. The work Is not confined to corn alone. but to the proper culti- vation of cotton, oats,, COW peas and hay.
 100000 Farmers at School
 But the work Is just at it's Beginning. IL was originated and organized by the late Dr. Knapp only about five years ago. But there are already 100000 farms scattered over the southern states on which experi- ments are being made by boys and men as to the new ways of corn culture, and each of these is school for the communi- ty where it lies. The government has $50 travelling agents who supervise the work, and each of these has large number of demonstrators or teachers who visit the farmers every week or so and instruct them just how to go about raising the crop. Where possible they have these ex- perimental plantations set out close to the roads so that the people can see the results as thev go by on the way to or from town. They have organized farm clubs in several thousand communities and have caused the institution of hun dreds of county fairs in the interest Of im- proved agriculture.
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so much mending and washing to bt done for them.
 ..Irs Hannis tried to argue how mucf more good the sanle amount of money spent for clothing would do than i1 put into an organ, but Macgregar could only think of how the organ would cheer up the missis, and Mrs. Hannts | finally advanced the amount he ask ed for the first payment
 It was not a time of good wages for printers and the Christian Champion was not a gold mine by any means. Macgregor might have earned more in another shop. but it was doubtful If he could get another job readily Gen. erally he seemed content. It did not matter particularly how much heavier became his burden, he did the best he could, borrowed when he had to have money and paid back as best he could. For all his tiny appearance, he was soundly healthy. What would have happened to that big family had 1t been otherwise Is unpleasant to con template.
 The payments on the parlor organ were almost ended and Macgregor was looking forward to being really clear of debt when suddenly he was threat ened with disaster. He went to Mrs. Hannis one morning so upset that he almost spoke as fast as an ordinary person. His home-the house he had lived in for all the years he had been in this countryside house in which sey- eral of his children had been born would be sold at public auction if he did not buy 1t at once for s600 He had come to love the place. So had his wife and the children. It would break their hearts to leave it. Not only that but he had improved the land and the house until the Improvements represented much to him. He had gotten the place for S5 a month because of It's tumble down condition. Each year he had made repairs and Improvements with his own hands until now the house was honey and liveable. The garden, too had been brought up to a fine state of cultivation and the fruit trees had be- gun to bear. No one could know how much the loss of this house would mean to him. and he begged Mrs. Han his to lend $500 to him so he could buy the place.
 Mrs. Hannis, tender hearted and sym pathetically and responsible as ever, told him she did not have $500 In the world and she could not raise that much any easier than she could raise S6, ,000, 900. It was a difficult task, in fact. to keep the paper going, and
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North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan- sas and Texas The total crop, as have said, was almost 1,000000,00o bushels.
 One billion bushels As whole the figures stagger the mind, but load the corn upon two-horse wagons at a ton to the load and let each team take a space of 40 feet on the roadway and the train of teams would reach almost eight times around the globe at the equator, the first wagon being nearly 100000 miles distant by the time the last wagon was loaded.
 $500, ,000,000 Crop
 But the work is just at its beginning. It was originated and organized by the late Dr. Knapp only about five years ago But there are already 100000 farms scattered over the southern states on which experiments are being made by boys and men as to the new ways of corn culture, and each of these Is a school for the community where it lies. The government has 550 travelling agents, who supervise the work, and each of these has a large number of demon strators or teachers who visit the farm CTS every week or so and Instruct them just how to go about raising the crop. Where possible they have these experi- mental plantations set out close to the roads so that the people can see the re- suits as they go by on the way to or from town. They have organized farm clubs In several thousand communities and have caused the institution of hun- dreds of county fairs in the interest of improved agriculture.
 Not only the government, but the states, counties and towns are interested in this movement and are giving to il large sums of money. The appropria
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Until within the last decade cotton was the money king of the south. It was the cash crop and it paid all the bills. The farmers imported the feed for their stock, and the corn lands of the north furnished the hog and hominy. Then the boil weevil came in and with It's snout-liSe nose began to eat into King Cotton. even as the worms ate into King Herod the Great, and King Cotton seemed like to give up the ghost. Uncle Sam, patri- arch, saw the wrinkles of ruin spring ing up on the faces of his multitudinous children throughout the south, and he sent his legions of angels in the form of the agricultural scientist to fight down the weevil and planned the raising of crops which would add to or take the place of cotton. The chief crop was corn, and as result the people of the south have sprung from being the poorest to potentially the richest of Uncle Sans children. The growth has been almost accomplished in the space of four or five years. and 1t means hun dreds of millions of dollars.
 The corn crop of the south 1910 was one-third of that of the whole country. It was nearly 1000 millions of bushels, and at the low price of 50 cents a bushel it was worth $500, ,000 It ex- ceeded by many millions the output of the gold mines of all the world for that year. and not counting the value of the fodder was more than half the value of the cotton including both lint and seed. The increase of the corn crop of nine southern states over that of 1910 was more than 15S, ,00O,0O0 bushels, or a value of nearly $S0, ,O00, GOO, and this increase is 45 per cent of the total increase in corn for the whole United States during that year. These states were Virginia,
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and with grave misgivings she told him she would give him a trial.
 Whatever David Macgregor's short comings were they did not include lack of knowledge of typography. He had to stand on a box when he stuck type, but he was fast and accurate com positor. He loved the business, too. Mrs. Hannis had noticed the immi- grants eyes. They were blue and clear--the one redeeming feature in his homely makeup. As she got to know the wee Scotchman better she got to think less of his size and his manlyness and more of his eyes. There was not a lazy bone in his body. Onqe he got the hang of the shop he was able to get more out of the plant than any foreman Mrs. Hannis ever had em- ployed. He delighted in doing an ar tistic bit of work. A well-set, attrac
 tive ad, had all the charm to him that a good painting has for an artist. The iourneyman printer and the printers s devil, who had been inclined to scorn him at first, had come to recognize his ability as a craftsman, and his soft spoken orders were obeyed more faith fully than the loud and some times pro
 fane ones of his predecessor.
 David had not been in the shop many days before he went trembling to Mrs
 Hannis to borrow money. He had a wife and various children. They had come over with him in the steerage
 He had rented house and grounds out 15 miles from the city. The rent was s5 a month. The house was tumble down shack, but it would cover his brood for the time being. But all his cash was exhausted
 Mrs. Hannis advanced enough to re- leve the family's immediate needs. She was happy to do so, for one of her hob bes was to help deserving immigrants. This was the eginning. It was not long before Mrs. Hannis was busy keeping books. David never had full week wages coming to him. There was some thing always happening that necessitated the borrowing of money. Donald had fever or Kathleen had to have shoes or Mrs. Macgregor had given birth to an- other youngster or little David had fallen and broken his collarbone or Eileen need ed a new dress. It always was some- thing for the wife or children, never any, thing for himself He wore the same rough clothes he had on the day he ap- piled for work and the same coarse shoes. Half the time he slept in the shop at night that he might save the car fare it would cost to go home. He made con-
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some times she had to do some high | financing to pay the wages of Mao
 gregor and the others.
 Macgregor, downcast for the first l time, went home that night without a
 smile with which to greet the children,
 but the next morning he was back in the shop in his usual quiet, tenacious humor when on borrowing bent. He was accompanied by his wife. She had in her arms her last born, girl two weeks old The wee man and his great, tall wife ipRaded the office of Mrs. Hannis. AS the owner of the paper looked at the foreman she was more and more reminded of how he had appeared the first day he had come to the shop. If anything, he looked more singed than ever He went over the same ground he had traversed in his appeal to her the day before, and as he talked she became more and more uncomfortable. It was not what he said. It was Mrs. Macgregor. She did not say word. She simply hugged her wee baby to her breast and looked with her big. pathetic eyes at Mrs. Hannis. There was an appeal in those eyes that Mrs. Hannis could not with stand The baby too, walled a bit just when Macgregor was at the most touching part of his story.
 Mrs. Hannis loves babies. sNest child less women 0O. The cOnDlNaIIOn or DaDy, mother and father was too much for her and she said she would do her utmost to raise the money for them. Like the ar dent spirit that she Is, Mrs. Hannis did not delay. She went at once to one man who she thought might advance the money. He could not spare 1t. but sug- gested she go to the Rev. MT. Burchard.
 To the man whose Rum, Romansm and Rebellion" speech defeated James G. Blaine for the presidency she hurried. He listened to her narration and did not show much interest. He seemed cold and unre- sponsive and she thought the case was hopeless. The prospect of defeat may have unnerved her bit Maybe the tears came to her eyes. Maybe she said some thing that touched a sympathetic chord in the clergymans heart. Clergymen have many stories of distress to listen to. At any rate his manner changed a trihe and then he softened more and more until finally she had his promise of the s600 MacGregor got the money, purchased the house and land and skimped and saved as he never had before Within two years he paid back the $6OO, had his home free and clear and was out of debt
 The Christian Champion continued for some years and then passed out of exist
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1 ence. Mrs. Hannis, whose enthusiasm
 never wanes, turned her attention to an- other field of endeavor MacGregor plodded along as printer for some years and then managed to establish a little | printshop of his own. Occasionally Mrs. Hannis heard of him. He was making headway
 It was thirty years after the incident
 of the $6O0 that Mrs. Hannis received a
 letter from David Macgregor Her hair is silvery now, but time has dealt gently with her. She still is the ardent en- thusiastic helpful woman of former days In the letter Macgregor asked her as a
 great favor to come to his home and attend the wedding one one of his daugh- ters. He gave directions as to the train by which she should travel and said he would meet her at the station. She went by the train he specified and when she stepped from the car he was there to greet her On his head was silk hat. But clothes coud not change David Mac gregor. His hair was white, but every hair was as wiry and bristly and unruly as .eof yore. He escorted Mrs Hannis across the platform and helped her into handsome automobile. The car sped away through the streets and then out into the country Then 1t turned into a beautiful road and entered & charming estate the entrance to which was marked by artistic pillars. The approach to the house was delightful If landscape gar dener laid out the grounds he did his work well. The car turned in to a porte cochere and Mrs. Hannis alighted. At the door Mrs. Hannis was met by Mrs. Mac gregor. The tall, angular woman of thir- ty years ago was now large and impos- ing There was no angularity about her now. Far from 1t. She was a bit shy of her visitor, perhaps for she is shy by nature but the pathetic look had gone from her eyes. And then Mrs. IIannis had to meet the children. They came for ward in body. The eldest was past 4o The youngest was 30, She was in her bridal robe. Thirty years before Mrs Hannis had heard her wall on her moth. CTS breast in the office of the Christian
 Champion.
 That wedding service was a. wonder
 full sight to Mrs Hannis. There wer
 guests from far and near. There wa
 no ostentation, but everything bespolx, refinement, luxury and good taste. Mac. gregor was an odd figure as. with tears In his eyes, he gave away his daugh- ter. She was the last of his flock and she was leaving him now as the others
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T does not matter particularly
 whether the foreman quit or got \ fred He got separated from his job somehow, and Mrs. Harriet Hannis, owner, editor and chief contributor, had to get some one in his place, or the Christian Champion might not get out A woman who invades the bus mess realm and particularly the news paper f1eld has much to contend with. This Mrs. Hannis had discovered long before, but she was one of those dy- manic souls who had to be doing something for the general public all the time and the Christian Champion acted as one vent for her energies. Usually when any one failed her she pitched in and did the work herself, but she could not set type, and she could not make up the forms of the paper, so she had to look for help. She had sought aid from the editor of one of the great dailies of New York and it was this editor who recommended Da- vid. Mrs. Hannis read the letter of the editor and then looked at David and her heart sank. The letter said David was a frst-class printer, and that he was just over from Scotland. That he was just over from Scotland she had no doubt, but how could such a tiny, mangy, human being be first class at
 
 thought of a poor singed cat. Hair grew on him as 1t does on wire-haired terrier, only more irregularly. His clothes were DOT and i'll fitting, but that did not signify. for he would ruin the reputation of the most famous of tailors, just as he would disgrace the most talented of barbers. Nothing would fit him or look becoming. Where hair did not grow about his face freckles did.
 Mrs. Hannis, worried about her pa per, disappointed In her hopes. sorry for herself and this poor immigrant, read the letter he had from the Scot tish printers he had worked for and determined he would not do. The let ters spoke well enough of him. but the man by his very manner spoke i'll of himself. He was so mild of voice, so hesitant in speech, so insignificant that he never could fill a foreman s job. even if the foreman of the Chris tian Champion only bossed himself, one 1ourneyman printer and the printers devil
 Mrs. Hannis cleared her throat to tell him she was very sorry and so forth and then, in the goodness of her heart, she did not say it, but instead
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fidant of no one except Mrs. Hanns
 Sometimes he owed her S25, sometimes
 $50 Once he almost got clear of debt but
 something happened to set him back
 again. Occasionally Mrs Hannis got tired
 of this chronic impecuniosity. but David
 was rare hand at borrowing and never
 failed to get what he asked.
 It was a weird life David Macgregor led
 in those days. To feed the family was In
 itself a task. There were nine or ten
 children. Mrs. Macgregor, who was near | ly six feet tall, did all the housework, sewing, mending, washing, ironing.
 David, to reduce the home expenses, cul-
 tivated the little patch of ground about
 the old shack, getting up at dawn such
 days as he was home to work in the garden. Such nights as he did not sleep | in the shop he utilized to teach the chill dren. He was passionately devoted to the | little ones. No sacrifice on his part was too great for them. Recognizing their power over him they took advantage of him in many ways, but he did not care If they pleaded for anything he was not happy until he provided 1t for them and heard their cries of delight. He was in distress when one of them was i'll and
 rarely week passed that some of them was not in need of doctor Year in and year out, it was worry and starving for him. Nearly every year Mrs. Mac gregor pfAsented him with another son or daughter
 One day David went to Mrs Hannis
 with a plea for an additional loan. | What is it for now, David?'' she asked. q want to buy an organ-a parlor or gam he replied.
 | Nonsense" exclaimed the boss, you have a hard enough time as 1t is with
 out adding to your burdens with such 8 ridiculous thing as an organ. l
 wouldn't think of giving money to you for such a foolish purpose"
 But Macgregor, in his small voice and his halting way, told how lonely | it was for the missis and the bairns sometimes and how the misss longed ] for an organ. She had an organ in I her home in Scotland before she mar
 ried Macgregor, and now and then she
 spoke of 1t. Recently a man had been around selling organs on the install
 ment plan. The missis had mentioned | it. She had not asked for it, but he l knew her heart was set on getting
 one. It would bring joy into her life, and she had such dreary existence.
 It was work, work, work from morning until night for her. Young children need
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the letter is as it is written. The pen manship I cannot reproduce:
 "A. D. :, Is, 10. Sir:
 "I rite you a few lines in the gards of farming agricultur. I do sey that your advice has Ben Folard, and your direck- sion have Ben Bald, and I find that am successful in Life. Sey, Mir. Knapp, I do know that there is gooder men as you an as fair you, But O that keen eye ov yourse that watches ever crook fin farming, that can tell ever men which, ever way to Gro to be successful in Life. On last yer folerd your advice, and also on yer Befor last. On 1908 1 made IA Balls of cotton. and in 1910 r Balls. l startid with one mule an now I own 8 heads ov the great worthies. Thanks to you for your advice a Long that line, an Great success in your occupation to you.
 "Sey MT. Knapp I am a culered man. Live near Graysport, Mississippi. Corn a plenty, also make a plenty of Sweet Potatoes, But 1 read your advice aBout them. Will close, Yourse,
 (Signed) "wM WASHINGTON"
 King Cotton Dethroned
 The above bits of evidence are mere straws to show how the wind blows. Uncle Sam has a mighty stack of them in his department of agriculture and his mail is loaded with similar letters each day. He is teaching the south how to raise cotton and corn and is creating a revolution which has already added hun dreds of million to our national wealth. He has now something like 9o,000 men and almost an equal number of boys who are raising corn under government d. rection, and the result is the creation of new industrial empire.