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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-02-24
Copyright, 1910. BY W. G. Chapman
ARK MANLEY-he Of

AKIN MANLY LIE OF
the white hair and the
young-looking face
was in reminiscent
mood that sparkling
October morning as we
sat in a window OF the
Park Row building,
overlooking the busy
and bustling down
town vista Of Broad
way from st. Paul's
chapel to Bowling
Green.
For half q genera
ton he had been Bull
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-02-24

He-Do you think your father
would offer me personal violence II
I were to ask him for you?
She-I think he will ii you don't
pretty soon!
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-02-24
Doctors Said
Health Gone
Suffered with Throat Trouble

Mr.. B. W.
D. B q rnes,
ex = Sheriff
Of Warren
C O u n t y,
r nessee,
in a letter
from Nc
M in n vile,
T e n nessee,
writes:
II h q d
I h r o q {
( r o U b ] .
q n d h a d
thre G doc.
tors treating
m e. A ! l
failed to do
m e a n y
goo d. and
onounced
m Y health
gone. con-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

ka and points west of Omaha will be
carried by freight to Omaha and then
distributed It will mean big saw
ing to the government.
And we are told, too. that the post.
office department for the year end.
ing June 30th is going to show a
surplus
If that proves to be true. 1t means
that Frank Hitchcock is the biggest
man who has ever held the job of
postmaster general of the United
States.
Hitchcock has been abused shame
fully and a good many people thought
he deserved all the abuse heaped up
on him. If he succeeds in wiping out
the deficit which has existed in the
postoffice department for years, it
will show that he is a genius.
He has been so busy watching the
leaks in the postoffice department
that he has had no time to reply to
his critics. If he wins he can laugh
at his critics. They didn't know what
they were talking about
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

Chicago Inter-Ocean: In a lecture
on the cost of living recently deliver
ed in Boston Mrs. Ellen H. Richards.
instructress in the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. calls attention
to the growing unwillingness of people
to do things for themselves as de-
cided factor in the increase Of house
hold expenses.
We go motoring" she says, in
stead OF seizing the opportunity to
rearrange the furniture or mend
the curtains Or broken china. No
body seems to think OF sewing or
carpentering about the house. The
man who sets up his own stoves or
hoes his own garden has actually
become ridiculous character for
some reason perhaps the comic sup
PIGMENTS.
There is no question that this
unwillingness exists. and 10 Won
derfui degree in many American
families, when they come 10 think
of it. For instance, nobody seems to
think of taking the trouble to rake
his own leaves or shovel the snow OF
his walk ii he is able to find money to
pay somebody to do it.
1t never seems to occur 10 countless
American citizens of moderate means
TO put up their own stoves or trim
their own box hedges or build their
own hen houses or chicken coops OF
mend the broken fights of back steps.
1t has gotten to seem natural TO have
"a man come around and fix things.
As for carrying ones own pur-
chases home from the grocer's. as
used to be the custom. that has come
to be a thing almost unthinkable in
perhaps a majority of cases. No; the
grocer must deliver them and, as is
quite juet. collect for the cost of the
service in the price of the articles de
livered
Furthermore, there must be tele-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
keokuk, Iowa May 90, 1911
THE PASSING OF THE BLUE AND
GRAY

THE PASSING OF THE BLUE AND
GRAY.
The veteran, browsing at his door.
Smiles family when kpe breath OF
spring
Turns back his thoughts TO youth
once more;
On old campaigns his dream takes
wing,
And as he moves with old time zest
With comrades that he used to
know,
He smoothes the ribbon on his breast
And whispers of the long ago:
"You don't recall my cousin, Jim?
Well, he was nigh as old as me,
But was SO much bigger'n him,
whacked him once across my
knee;
If could call Jim back again
From where he sleeps on Malvern
Hill
/ guess I'd let him start right in
And whack me till he had his fill
"Them southern chaps, they lost the
game:
Doomed to defeat, them boys in
gray;
But femme tell you. jest the same,
They made great fight anyway.
It's queer how things get straight at
last
That once were tangled in web
The south forgits the bitter past,
And we shake hands with Johnny
Reb!
~ can't forgit that awful fight
When we got licked at Chancel
louisville:
lay there grooming through the
night,
Shot in the head, nigh crazy, till
At daybreak, hopin' I might die,
cussed my God and groaned and
bled-
Then Johnny Reb, a-passing by,
Gev me a drink and bound M
head.
mere ain no HiOIS VI Diue OF STd +,
It's all forgot, the war is past;
But tell you, on judgment day.
When all accounts is squared a.
last,
I'll watch for Johnny-yes. stree.
And I'll sing out: Lord here's a
man
Forgave and loved his enemy.
Give Johnny Reb the best yon
cam /"
Robert Gilbert Welsh.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
In the Back-Lot LEAGUE.

Things are doing on the common,
Down the alley. up the street;
There's a Jimmy Burke expression
Worn by every kid you meet.
There is talk of rotten empires"
Talk of games both lost and won.
All proclaiming that the season
In the Back-Lot leagues begun.
Mothers ball of twine is missing.
Store string saved since early fall
And she knows it now is serving
AS her Back-Lot Leagues ball.
In the yard she finds old broom ends,
Mop ends, hoes and things like
that,
Proof to her that once good handles
Rival now the tore-bought bat
In the evening on the corner,
Where the arc light casts its rays,
Future diamond kings sit tanning,
Talking over scores and plays.
Just one problem proves perplexing,
And it makes the pitcher pout.
"Why-dis cause his dads cop.
Dassen't no one strike Red out?"
Indianapolis News
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

phones to cost money and save one
the trouble OF walking or writing or
riding somewhere. And a constant
procession of things already prepar-
ca" from various retail establish,
ments in order to save somebody the
trouble of preparing them at home.
1t is an actual fact that in some
places men make quite a good living
by simply going around every now
and then winding UP the clocks of
citizens who have willingly been per-
suaded to intrust that important and
responsible duty to them. 1t strikes
us that the habit of having "a man"
to do things could hardly go further
than that
Now, it is q matter of common
knowledge that most Americans of
moderate means have plenty of time
to do a lot OF these things for them
selves. And it need not be proved
that If they attended to them the saw
ing in year would be large enough to
seem respectable to most people. But
still the great American citizen goes
on in his happ- go-lucky. send-for-the-
nan fashion. and pays for it roundly,
too.
We have up to this point confined
our remarks mainly to the delin-
quencies of the men as factor in the
increase of household expenses. But
it must be evident that the same gen.
araf limo of argument anpIieS tn large
numbers of women as we'll. although.
it must be confessed. that they have
hardly carried the habit quite so far
as the men.
What is the cause of it all? Mrs.
Richards blames vanity, modern in
novations and the dread of monotony
for this growing unwillingness of peo-
pie to do things for themselves. And
she might very properly have suggest
ed that 1.-The greatest of these is
vanity 80
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Judge Prouty declares that the su-
preme courts decision in the Stand
Oil case is victory for "the inter
estsn and that 1t puts the trust prob
lem before congress and the country
as the paramount issue. His utter
ance on the subject prompts the Du-
buque Times-J ,urnal to say:
circumstances having forced him
to abandon his campaign for reel
procity with Canada, and to oppose
any such arrangement, the Judge is
to be congratulated on having found
a new issue 1t is understood that he
is unalterably opposed to monopoly in
anything except walnut timber.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

1t is reported from Washington
that Dean Charles Noble Gregory OF
the law school of the state university
at Iowa City will be the new dean of
George Washington university Law
school in that city. Dean Gregory has
resigned from the university at Iowa
City, to take effect at the end of this
school year. He is an authority on
international law and would be a de-
sirable acquisition for George Wash
ington university, which deyotes es-
pecial attention to this important sub
iect.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
much as any single interest by reason
of the diminished purchasing power of

much as any single interest by reason
of the diminished purchasing power of
money.
I'VE have gone crazy in trying to
regulate too many things by law. For
instance, bill was introduced in one
state to regulate the amount of foam
on glass of beer and in another to
regulate the size of the aperture in
ladies' shirtwaists
while we all recognize these things
ought to be regulated, II is question
whether they ought not to be regula-
ted by common sense rather than by
law
President Delano was disposed TO
congratulate the railroads that in the
general rage for regulating everything
and everybody the railroads have al,
ready gone through the mill. and. in
the language of the noble art of self
defense, although somewhat disfg-
ured are still in the ring" Other pub
lie service corporations are in the
same boat, he pointed out, and the
turn of the manufacturer. and the mer-
chant is coming next. Indeed. why
shouldn't the newspapers have taste
of it, While the butcher, the baker.
or the candlestick maker may fix
prices at will so long as their business
is subject to the ordinary laws of COM
petition. yet Just as soon as by reason
OF monopoly or combination the laws
OF trade no longer apply. then their
business will have to become subject
to public supervision, and If necessary,
control
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Alex Miller has noticed that when
two children play horse it is always
the little one who has. 10 be the
horse
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
the President has pretty generally es-
tablished the fact that it isn't wise
to call him without full hand.
IF the senate will vote i,orimer
out and then vote to adjourn, leaving
Canadian reciprocity as unfinished
business, the country will be fairly
well satisfied" says the Cedar Rap
ids Republican.
California hot air used to keep
Towans on the jump for the golden
gate, but it's different now says
the Cherokee Democrat. Most of the
Iowans who have got a whiff of the
hot air have hot-footed it back for
the Hawkeye state
III IL Is SO easy 10 TelOFm SuHddS
work in the postoffice. why couldn't
the railroad men arrange their SEIZED
ules to a considerable extent?y asks
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil The
best place for any man is at home on
Sunday with his family
Woodrow Wilson is credited with
saying that he has not even thought
of the presidency. IF Mr.. Wilson has
said that, comments the Webster
City Freeman-Tribune, "he is unfit
for the office to which his friends
have said he should be elected. The
President of the United States should
be man who tells the truth
The Burlington Hawk-Eye predict:
that the chautauqua political orators
will not be able to scare the peopl'
so easily this year as in forme1
years. Some of them are becomin.
so used to the song and dance styi'
of oratory,' the Hawk-Eye continues
{ that they now stand without hitch
! ing, and others are SO tired of tn,
i racket they are liable to yawn RICH
! in meeting, or stay away altogether
! The time has come for sanity an,
more optimism on the lecture plat
! forms.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Someone suggests that If we kill
off all the flies we will upset the bal
ance of nature and that we will be
threatened with some other danger
that might be even worse than the
flies. The plea is specious one. but
no one should be deceived into tolerat-
ing a present and real danger as a
means OF avoiding an imaginary one
in the future. Let the campaign con-
tinue Swat the fly!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
Hitchcock and the postofEee

Mt. Pleasant Free Press: After
July 1st, magazines will be carried on
freight trains. The New York and
eastern magazines which come to
Iowa will be carried to Chicago by
freight There they will be distribut-
ed for Iowa points and will be carried
by mail. This applies to monthly
magazines only.
The magazines which go to Nebras-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

The Illinois Elks are in state con-
vention at Alton. Elks are 80 human
and natural at all times and places
that the Burlington Hawk-Eye sug-
gests the Alton nature faker should
retire into temporary obscurity while
they are there.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

A special election at Marion on the
question of adding a domestic science
and manual training department to
the public schools there resulted in a
handsome majority for the PROPOSE
ton. Women were permitted to vote
and were largely responsible for the
large Affirmative vote. 1t Is worth
while to remark in passing that
women generally vote right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
TO BOOM kEokuK.


ton to The Gate City suggests twelve
reasons why Keokuk should boom
during the next ten years and the best
means to that end. as follows:
q. Because the biggest dam and
the most golden opportunity lie right
at our feet. and as long as Cooper,
Logan, tombstone, Irwin and the rest
live keokuk will boom.
90. Endorse the Stone & Webster
franchises and the publicity PROPOSE
ton. Isn't the experience and wisdom
of our mayor and commissioners worth
something? God bless them and their
honest endeavors,
IS. This is no time for keokuk TO
be penny-wise AMI pound-fooiish. We
need the Stone & Webster influence.
We need the advertising and publicity.
"A. We need factories. Why not
stipulate in our contract with Stone &
Webster the necessity of the same and
their cooperation in locating some OF
the eastern factories looking for a
more central location. This is SUI
perfiuous.. AS large investors in the
water power project Stone & Webster
have already done so.-Ed.l
%. We need to be loyal to the
factories we already have. We should
encourage small factories and patron
ize home industries of every kind.
How can they grow and multiply If We
do not2
IS. Quincy. Burlington and other
good towns close by boost first, last
and all the time for home products
We should learn from our neighbors
who have more factories than we
have.
81. It will take money to boost Keo.
kuk. Get the money as easily and ju.
diciously as possible. Get the town to
growing. Get the people coming and
the money will come, too How?
"s. Get the people coming by civ
ing them a square deal when they dc
come. Meet them with open heart
and the glad hand of fellowship. Show
them that Keokuk is all right.
.. Keep ISubS, lc.hSS anu Ooi tStoes
within the bounds of reason. Dom
graft and try to skin everybody who
talks of locating or buying piece o
property in Keokuk.
80. Danish all grafters and dishon
est men to Illinois and Missouri. w
are right on the border line and cal
do it easily.
III. Stand up for Keokuk's church
es with her smart ministers; for he
schools with her bright and eompeten
teachers: for her editors who ar
hustlers; for her men, with her Mi
Iers, Mccrarys, Davises, Hagerman
and Joys that she has given to the ma
/ ton.
80. Lastly, be proud of Keokuk an
! her future, with her great power PLAN
her beautifully lighted streets, her fin
police and fire departments. her hi:
/ tory in the past and her achievement
for the future Boost for Keoku
which has given to the nation som
of its greatest men Long may 1t liy
and grow in population This is tn
spirit Keokuk needs. Best town o
the map"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
To the Electors of the City:
In view Of the fact that certain gu

In Of the fact that queries being made through the
the that be voted this City and
have other desire than frankly discuss all objections that
made affecting the welfare Of the City, hereby any
eeoto whomsoe having mind objection that he considers
vho seriously desires sound and conclusion the
rooms 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 Cys best Before endorsing these
measures carefully considered the Cs best and we endorse
regard them the step proposed
looking to the up-buidng Of the Greater keokuk
kEOKUk INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Apropos the supreme courts deci,
sion in the Standard Oil case, the Du.
buque Telegraph Herald explains that
if you have strange hold on the
other fellow, it's reasonable, if he
has it on you, it's unreasonable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Abe Martins latest observation is
peculiarly applicable in Keokuk. He
has noticed that you always find the
same old Saturday night crowd any
where but at home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
THOUGHT FoR THE oAY.

Every attempt that is made to get
the boz or young man to save dol
lar or a fraction of that amount ey-
cry week in real estate or in the
savings banks is real applied
religion. The habit of frugality is the
one great need in the American youth
of today.-Mason City Globe-Gazette,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
Extinct?

What has become OF the old-fasb.
Toned boy OF whom 1t was claimed
that he was double-jointed? There
used to be one in every neigbborhood
Topeka Capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

A Michigan man has asked for a
divorce because his wife is not happy
with him This seems to be about
the limit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Calling the roll of that new Mexican
cabinet sounds to the Omaha Bee like
hive OF bees swarming.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

The osteopaths of Iowa are in seq
sion at Des Moines. Going to pull
each others legs for change?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

In the view of the St Louis Globe
Democrat, much baseball talk is like
talk about the weather; carried on
10 fill a conversational vacuum
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

There is more or less curiosity to
know what the D. A R does when it
is not in session
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

A gossip, as defined by George Fitch.
is a specialist in other peoples az
fairs,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Keokuk's newest distinction is that
1t is a fly town.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

The lumber trust should be spiked
before it takes to the tall timber.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

B. l. rs contribution in the Chi
cago Tribune is as follows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26
Grass Used to Make Matches.

A species of stiff grass. which grows
.abundantly in India, is used for sticks
in making matches in that country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Swat We terriers, swat.
Swat We terriers, swat.
Or it's work all day
And find flies in you tay-
Swat We terriers, swat,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-26

Alex Miller has noticed that when
two children play horse it is always
the little one who has. 10 be the
horse
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-05-13
MICE INJURE
FOREST TREES
Little Rodents Gnaw Bark of ca.
taIpa and NpIberry Which
Frequently Results fn
Complete GirdIe.
CBy r. G. wEATHERsToNE)

For some years catalpa, mulberry
and other trees commonly grown have
suffered considerable injury by the
attacks of field mice. These rodents
gnaw the bark about the base of the
trees to n greater or less degree, which
frequently results in a complete gir-
die. When girdling occurs below the
root crowns the trees usually die.
There are no practical means of ex-
terminating field mice, although GER
tain operations are helpful in prevent
ing their attacks on trees. 1t has been
observed that injury is greater and
more general when dead grass, mulch
or debris of any kind lies close TO the
trees. Material of this nature affords
harboring place, from under which
cover mice prefer to operate. All
grass or mulch material of any kind
should be raked away from the trees
for a radius of at least two feet, leav-
ing the ground as bare as possible.
Where mulch culture is used a foot or
two above each tree should be left
bare. Injury is more severe on those
trees whose root systems set forth on
Charlevoix county herald., 1911-05-13
The PRICE OF
LAND INCREASING
THE "BACk TO THE LAND" CRY
is EFFECTIVE.

Travelling through the state Of Iowa
the other day, and Iowa is no excep-
ton to the story about to be related,
the writer was shown a farm that was
offered three years ago for $3.50 an
acre. That appeared to be high fg-
ure for land upon which the owner
depended upon the crops of corn, hogs
and cattle that could be raised upon
II. But it wasn't. A few weeks since
the farm changed hands at 1925 an
acre. Over In Illinois, down in In
diana, up in Wisconsin, across the
line in Minnesota, the same expert
ence was met with. And then atten-
ton Is directed to Canada, which has
been the Mecca of so many hundred
thousand Americans during the past
few years. Not only in Eastern Can
ada has the price of lands increased,
but in Western Canada, during the
past few weeks, farm lands have in
creased from three to five dollars an
acre, with the prospect OF similar
advance during the next three months
The reason for this Is very apparent,
and in a few words it may be pointed
out that the lands are worth a great
deal more than the present prices.
The Northwestern Agriculturist OF
Minneapolis, paper that was one OF
the first of the American farm papers
to discover the real merits Of the
lands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, says: "The reciprocity sched-
10 Ay,oo orin fa
ers to move to Canada, where the vir-
gin soil will produce greater crops Of
grain with less labor than can be pro-
duced in our own farms in the North
west The result will be to enhance
land values in Canada" This paper
Is afraid land values in Canada will be
enhanced at the expense OF land
values in the United States. In face
of the fact that land values in the
United States are increasing the rea-
soning scarcely holds. The reason for
the advance in value Of Canadian
lands is partly accounted from the
fact, admitted by this paper, that Can
ada's virgin soil will produce greater
crops of grain with less labor" But
that is not the only reason. During
the past twelve months 100000 peo-
pie haYe made Canada their home and
these are mostly of the farming class.
They want farms, and the demand as
we'll as the wealth of the soil is regu-
lating the price. A study of the in
crease in the acreage of land put un-
der crop last year, which can be had
from any Canadian government repre-
sentative, will prove the point, that
the demand is increasing at a greater
ratio than even the most sanguine
would have predicted.