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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1911-10-07

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
The RAGE For SPEED.

Motor races and aviation meets
are cleverly devised schemes for rid
ding the world of its encumbrances in
the form Of speed maniacs.'
So declared Dr. Francis A. Ely, for.
merly an assistant in the hospital at
Clarinda in a peppery paper read at
the conference of the superintendent
of state institutions with the state
board of control in Des Moines a few
days ago on some of the influences of
the present time productive of ner-
yous and mental disorders. He was
referring especially to the inventions
for travel and transportation by
which things in the world are moving
faster than they used to do.
DR.. Ely enumerated number of
the influences in the life of today that
were not known to the past genera
tons and pointed out how they are
making possible the breaking down of
life. He referred to the changed
view as to the one rest day in seven
and how the modern recreation Sun
day is far from being as valuable
as the Puritanical rest Sabbath. He
spoke of the holding lightly of mar
riage vows and its effects on moral
ity Women in business bring about
changed conditions in social life with
a train Of evils. The intensive educa-
tional system under which we operate
has its disadvantages. The massing
of population in large cities brings
other problems affecting the welfare
OF the people Inventions for the
rapid transit-fast trains, motors
aeroplanes, the telephone, etc.-these
are all having their effect upon the
people. Then there is over-organiza
ton, which the doctor said was re
sponsible for much of the nervous dis
orders of the day.
He summed it all up as the result
of greed, II is the desire for accumu
lation. for power for prestige, tina
leads to all these various things, They
are bringing about many nervous dis
orders that were not SO common II
the past.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
keokuk's Example.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
Looking back over the first years
operation of commission government
in Keokuk, The Keokuk Gate City is
prompted to say this:
The city has been governed bet
ter and at less cost than under the
old system. Merit has taken the
place of political pull and favoritism
and the personnel of the city en-
ployes has been improved according
~ Matters requiring attention re-
ceive it more promptly and more and
better service is rendered than under
the former arrangement Responsible
ter systemized, the revenues are look
ed after more closely and the dis
bursements more carefully scanned.
The result of all this is seen in in
creased efficiency of administration
and lessened expenditures
There are figures to back up these
broad statements The books of the
city show that in the year just gone
Keokuks commissioners wiped out a
floating Indebtedness of $500
which they Inherited from the old
government They did this with prac-
tically no larger revenue than the
cid government enjoyed, and in addi-
ton they closed the year with a sur
plus of $4,000 in the city treasury.
For the first time in It's history, as
ar as known, the city was not obliged
to borrow money to meet its current
expenses. The years record shows
that. there were gains in economies in
every department of city affairs, total
ing in all something like $4,000 All
this was accomplished without any
loss of efficiency. On the contrary
The Gate City specifically states that
never was Keokuk better governed
Keokuk adds another to the list
of bright examples of the success OF
the commission plan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
BUSINESS MEN, WILL BE WON.

Because he believes that eastern
colleges are a menace to efficiency
and that no education is better than
one received in colleges of their
type Ebert Hubbard made the an.
nouncement at Grand Rapids, Mich,
the other day that he intended to
send his daughter Miriam TO the
Michigan state university at Ann
Arbor
In making this announcement Mr..
Hubbard declared that the colleges in
the east educate away from work.
Exempt man from labor and he will
never work and a fellow who never
works is out of the game The sage
OF East Aurora went on to say:
My daughter will not take a lit
erary course at Ann Arbor. She will
take up scientific course. one that
will fit her best for her duties of life
We believe that literature should be
incidental in an education.
The professional writer is never a
good writer. The great writer is a
writer incidentally. Colleges teach
people to write before they have
something to say. The first thing to
do when buying hair dye is to have
hair; the literature scullion who has
something to fricassee will find a
way to prepare it.
The greatest business men of the
future will be women. Women are
conservators. Men are destroyers.
The party who fred the Alexandrian
library was not woman. During
1910 seventy-six bridges we're destroy
ed by dynamite. No one claims that
a woman took any part in this Won
en- are naturally creators and build
ers. and business is matter of crea-
ton
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
FLY CATECHISM

/. Where is the fly born? In manure
and filth.
2. Where does the fly live? In ev-
cry kind of filth.
5. Is anything too filthy for the fly
TO eat? No.
4. (a) Where does he go when he
leaves the vault aud the manure pile
and the spittoon? Into the kitchen
and dining-room. tb) What does he do
there? He walks on the bread, fruit
and vegetables; he wipes hislfeet on
the butter and battles in the butter
milk.
5. Does the fly visit the patient
sick with consumption, typhoid fever
and cholera infantum? He does-ani
may call on you next.
s. Is the fly dangerous? He is man s
worst pest and more dangerous than
wild beasts or rattlesnakes
Z. What diseases does the fly car
ry? He carries typhoid fever, tuber-
culosis and summer complaint. How?
On his wings and hairy feet What
is his correct name? Typhoid fly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

| s. Did he ever kill anyone? He
killed more American soldiers in the
Spanish-American war than the bull
lets of the Spaniards.
9. Where are the greatest number
of cases of typhoid fever, consump
ton and summer complaint? Where
there are the most flies.
10. Where are the most flies
Where there is the most filth.
II. Why should we kill the fly!
Because he may kill us.
u. How shall we kill the fly? (a)
Destroy all the filth about the house
and yard; (b) pour lime into the
vault and on the manure; Co kill the
fly with wire screen paddle, or
sticky fly paper, or kerosene oil.
IS. Kill the fly in any way, but
KILL THE FLY.
IA. If there is filth anywhere that
you cannot remove, cali on the local
board of health and ask for relief be
fore you are stricken with disease,
and perhaps death.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

partment store, who is in hospital a,
st. Louis, having undergone surgical
operation, is doing as we'll as could be
expected.
Mrs. c. Gregg, of Council Bluffs, Ia.
is a guest at the home of her sister
Mrs Elmer Reed.
Thos. ]. Simpson was enroute to OF
tumwa Monday to attend the confer
ence of Latter Day Saints, held in that
city.
Decoration day was observed here
last Tuesday afternoon. Tip Best
Post, G. A. r., and the citizens were
at the cemetery to hear the excellent
address by Mr.. Stewart, of For,
Madison. His lIlogy to the Iowa sol
dirs was fitting one, and said ere
long the Grand Army would be 8
thing of the past; that the rising gen
GRAFTON should perpetuate the name
forever and forever. His remarks
from start to finish were filled with
eloquence
James Reeves and Fred Sykes have
a large job of plastering at Donnellson
Mrs. Margaret Montgomery of Alex
andria was accompanied by her son
in-law, Al, Dross, to this city Sunday
for visit with her daughter, Mrs
John Allison.
The Benedictine Sisters of Nauvoe
Academy and their scholars to the
number of about fifty, enjoyed an out
ing in our city park Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
MoNTRosE.
, = = . ; . . > . > . = .

Memorial services of the Modern
Woodmen were held at the city GENE
terry Sunday afternoon, Rev. Rhodes,
of Sandusky, delivered the address,
choosing for the basis of his remarks
Am | My Brothers Keeper that all
should have kindly feeling toward
each other; that the Woodman lodge
was doing a greater work than the
churches in caring for widows and or
phans bereft of loved ones. In his re
marks he said considerable to stimu-
late Woodcraft, which has broad and
exalted meaning Venerable Council
Chas. Heath and his able staff OF
Woodmen fell into line at two O'Clock
on Main street and marched in a body
to the cemetery where the silent
mounds of their Neighbors We're
strewn with flowers.
The Montrose Journal has been sold
to Rev. Doty of Milton, Iowa. We pre-
diet success for the reverend in his
new venture. The retiring editor, j
G. Scott and wife, have given theil
patrons. without fear of contradiction
a well written and ably edited news
paper. which has been boon to oul
townspeople.
Mrs Ira Smith and son arrived from
Des Moines. They will visit the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Noles
! for an indefinite period.
| Owing to the drought of 1911 the
Montrose Berry association only ship
ped eight cars of berries.
Mrs. Embry Strong, formerly Mis-;
Edith Curtis, and children, of Chicago
Heights, are guests of her mother
Mrs. A. E. Worster.
Willie Cameron, of Warsaw, is visit
ing his schoolmate friends at THU
place.
Chas. Johnson, of the Johnson De
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
MAKING FATHER DO HIS DUTY

In many communities t has become
a grave problem as to what is to be
done with those fathers OF families
who refuse to care for them. I'm
doubtedly the lax feeling in regard to
marriage and its responsibilities
which has come about from purely
civil marriages and from the facility
for divorce has had much to Go with
the sloughing off of parental respon-
sibility by careless parents. But up
tc the present time it has always been
a serious problem TO devise some way
of Furnishing the negligent fathers
without, at the same time Furnishing
his already neglected family worse.
California has devised plan 1t
will not accept the excuse that the
father OF family cannot find work
and SO cannot provide for his family
If this excuse is offered it Is an
swered promptly by the California
courts which convict the father of a
misdemeanor, and instead of sending
him to Jail to spend his DAYS in bliss
full idleness, send him out on the high
ways to help build up the roads Of
the state.
For this work during the time Of
( his sentence, they allow him s1.50 a
day and all Of that sum is paid to
i his wife, so we may be sure that the
+ state sees to 1t that one dollar and
a halfs work is got out of father
every day. Thus father Is relieved
from the burden of parental respon-
sibility; he has no. care or worry as to
how his income shall be spent; his
wife attends to all that all he has to
do is TO dig at the highway. sure OF
steady and constant employment him
4 self, and serene in the knowledge that
his wife and little ones are being
cared for from the fruits Of his labor
This is wonderful Improvement
over the old plan of sending father t.
Jail and after he had served his sen
tence letting him 20 to loafing once
!; more BY this plan at least the de
, linquent fathers will be forced, b.
] practical and toilsome demonstrations
TO see that if they worked as hare
I without state supervision as under il
: they might earn considerably NOR
e than s150 day. Seeing this, an,
f knowing that they are going to b
:, made work in any case it is probabl
e that the crime of wife desertion an
! non-support will grow beautifully an
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Governor Woodrow Wilson, at.
ter completing his great speaking
tour to the Pacific coast and back,
decided to extend his vacation an
other week. in order to speak at the
University of North Carolina con-
mencement and at several other
points in the south. When asked by
a Baltimore reporter if the west had
greeted him as presidential candi-
date he replied with twinkle in his
eye; Frankly, now, as to that you
may quote me as saying that GER
tainly did not authorize them to an
nounce my candidacy" In his Lincoln
speech he emphasized the idea that
1.-The states had got to consider thei,
duties as well as their rights and the
great problems rest with them more
than with the federal government.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

BY unanimous decision the SUI
preme court of the United States UP.
holds the hours of service law for
railroad employees. which was passed
by congress in 1907. A test case had
been brought by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which contended that
the law was applied to lines within
one state contrary to the constitution,
that the Commerce Commission Rad
no right TO require reports OF viola
tons because of the expense and that
it compelled self-incrimination OF off
cials and men in making such reports.
The government denied all these con.
tentions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
To the Electors of the City:

In Of the fact that queries being made through the
be voted this City and
have other desire than frankly discuss objections that
made affecting the welfare Of the City, hereby
eeo whmsoe having mind objection that he considers
who seriously desires to arrive at sound and the
Of said with No. IS North Fifth
Street Monday "Wednesday Friday night o'clock will
be glad and explain fully all Of said the end that
may all together for the Cy best interest Before endorsing these
carefully considered the Cs best interests and endorse
them only because regard them the step yet proposed
looking to the up-buildng Of the Greater Keokuk.
KEOkUK INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Judge Green, the Republican can
didate for congress in the Ninth dis
trict, made opposition to the propos-
ed Canadian pact the chief feature
OF his campaign and won out hand
somely. His opponent, W F. Cleve-
land, an able and popular gentleman.
was equally pronounced in favor OF
the measure. The farmers in the dis
trict almost to man voted for Judge
Green and elected him by about 1900
majority
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
blood poisoning. and defeated the eff
forts of physicians to save him.

The Warsaw Bulletin in publishing
items from its 1854 files. tells about
July weather of that year, when for
two weeks the thermometer register
ed ion in the shade. The grass was
perfectly dead; the dust in the streets
was shoe deep. Gardens looked like
they we're blighted by frost Nearly
all the wells failed and there vas no
more than half crop of tame hay. In
no previous year since 1924 had rust
been so destructive to wheat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

The chief entomologist of the de.
partment of agriculture advises
amounting the face and hands with a
mixture consisting of one ounce each
of citronella, spirits of camphor and
oil of cedar to prevent the onslaught
of mosquitoes Protected by the com
bined odors of these ingredients one
should be safe from the attacks of
anything that flies through the air
walks on the ground or swims in the
deep.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
A TOAST TO DEATH.

Ho' Stand to your glasses steady,
It's all we have to prize,
a cup to the dead already.
Hurrah for the next that dies.
The above toast has become inter
nationally famous among those who
risk their lives at the automobile
wheel or in the aeroplane. At the re-
cent Indianapolis contest. at the
Vanderbilt Cup and the Savannah
race of last year, this toast was
solemnly drunk the night before the
race wa on.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
THE REAL QUESTION.

. 1t is not so much question OF :
. franchises as it is question of Z
. whether keokuk wants Stone & Z
. Webster or the present company; =
. whether keokuk wants to eN- =
. change a weak company for a Z
= strong one; whether keokuk =
. wants to become the best IL
= Illuminated city in the United =
. States or continue IT'S present =
. inefficient and insufficient public .
= utilities. A victory for the fran .
. chises and the publicity measure =
y will mean better and Greater =
. Keokuk, Do not hesitate to ex- .
. press your preference. =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

The Chicago newspaper headline
writer's, it is learned from one of them,
have decided not to support any man
for President of the United States
whose name contains more than five
letters. Taft, Root Knox, Bryan and
Clark are mentioned as coming within
the five letter limit LaFollette, Roose
Tslt, Beveridge. Williams and Wicker
Sham are barred
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
. . = . = = = = = = . =

In Des Moines last Sunday. on the
authority of the Capital, many people
found the very thought of church at
tendance so conducive to perspira-
ton that they had to HE themselves
away to the golf links in order to get
properly cooled off.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
Iowa,s Auto Fever.

Sioux City Journal: Iowa people
are spending about $4,000 a day for
automobiles, without waiting to see
what is to happen next year to our
government.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Dubuque Times-Journal: If Iowa
people could be induced to make a
practice of giving preference to home
products, other things being equal, the
result would be greatly accelerated
DEVELOPMENT of Iowa industry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
Two Fools.

Cedar Falls Record: Two fools with
but single thought is the fellow who
rocks the boat to hear some faint
hearted girl scream and the one who
points an empty gun at somebody and
pulls the trigger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

wonderfully less in California, and it
is highly probable that that state wiz
have TO hit on some other device to
get her highways made modern and
up-to-date.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
FATE.

L.
Two shall be born, the whole wide
world apart,
And speak in different tongues AMI
have no thought
Each of the Others being and have
no heed;
And these Ger unknown seas to IN
known lands
Shall cross. escaping wreck. defying
death,
And all unconsciously shape every
And bend each wandering step to this
one end
That one day out of darkness they
shall meet
And read life's meaning in each 9th
ers eyes.
And two shall walk some narrow
way of life
So nearly side by side that should
one turn
Ever so little space to right or left,
They needs must stand acknowledged
face to face,
And yet with wistful eyes that never
meet,
With cropping hands that never clasp.
and lips
Calling in vain to ears that never
hear.
They seek each other all their weary
days
And die unsatisied-and this IS fate
Susan Mari Spalding.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
A Good Place TO Visit.

Burlington Gazette: Keokuk is al
ways a pleasant place to visit. Its
new $4,000 hotel will make it even
more so.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
Iowa,s EaIIlna.

Iowa Falls Sentinel: A state is
judged largely by its highways. Judged
by this standard, Iowa ranks lower
than many states of less natural re
sources.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Knee deep in June" is all right,
but when people get up TO their
necks in it, as they are now, they
are liable to think things not limited
at in the Sunday school library.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

people in the world get busy. individ-
ually and collectively, and make the
greatest and most prosperous nation
that the sun ever shone upon!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
DoNNELLsoN

. o . . 2 = . = . . . . . .
Mass Daisy BENJAMIN who has been
teaching school in Centerville visited
home folks Saturday She left for
California Sunday to spend her va.
cation
Mrs. Chas. Holdefer and grandsons
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

An Omaha woman arrested on the
pickpocket charge claimed that she
got the haiti going through her hus-
bands pockets at night. The moral
is self-evident.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
THOUGHT FOB THE DAY.

Be still, my soul, and know that peace
is thine;
Be steadfast. heart, and know that
strength divine
Belongs to thee; cease from thy tur-
moil mind.
And thou the Everlasting Rest
Il shalt find
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Swat brothers, swat with care.
Don't use sticky fly papaire.
Swat on wall and in the air,
Swat on table, sill and chair,
Swat here and there and everywhere,
But swat not Whatnot or glassware.
w. E. MD in Chicago Tribune
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

And just TO think that according to
the calendar, summer doesn't begin
until the 21st,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Noiseless baseball is proposed. A
kind of denatured baseball, as It
were.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07
NEWSPAPERS AND FACTOR
les


. Monmouth Atlas: A factory is .
. an ever present feeder of the =
= community by reason of the help .
= it employs and the wages it dis .
= tributes. A newspaper is a fac =
= tory of another sort. II increases .
= the trade territory and with the .
. help of modern merchandising =
o brings the people to the common .
= center from distances impossible .
. without the newspaper. Few com
. munities live within themselves =
. and then only poorly but by the Z
= aid of factories and newspapers =
. communities grow and become
= strong. =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Charles Fogarty, aged twenty-one,
a farm hand from near Manson, Iowa,
who picked pimple from his face
with his finger nails about ten weeks
ago, died in a local hospital the other
day as the result The local infection
from the mans finger nails caused
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-07

Besides, fussing about the heat only
makes one hotter.