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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
Liability for Defective Pavement.

Cedar Rapids Republican: There Is
recent supreme court decision that
makes it the duty of councils to be
very careful with contracts. A job of
paving that can be shown to be not in
accordance with the specifications
will not have to be paid for by the
property owners, for they have not re-
ceived what was contracted for, but
the city will have to pay for such
work out of the general taxes, the city
as a whole and not the particular
property owners being held respons-
ible for the failure to comply with
specifications. Under this decision a
poor job of paving is likely to fall
heavy on the general tax payers. The
court decision looks like good law and
it will have tendency to make coun-
ellis more careful A council that ac-
cepts a piece of work, or that permits
it to be put in, will have to pay for the
work whether it is up to the specif-
cations or mott IS the business Of
those in authority to see that contrac-
tors do their work properly. But the
mistakes or the negligence of councils
can not be charged up against the in
dividual property owners.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
College Boy Murdered.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
BRIDGEToN, N. j., July 2o.-Fol-
lowing the finding Of the mutilated
body of Herschal Ware, 10 years old,
sophomore at Swarthmore college,
living at Melville, N. j., floating in
the Maurice river. between Newport
and Delaware Bay, the New Jersey
police are today facing one of the
most battling murder mysteries they
have ever been called on to solve.
The boys head was crushed, his
body covered with bruises, the coat
was missing and the trousers pockets
were turned inside out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
A Leason From the Jew.

Galesburg Mail Place a Jew in
any American community with seven
tyfive cents in his pocket and in five
years he will have a business Of his
own. In ten years he will be one of
the towns leading citizens.
Why? Because no matter how little
the Jew makes, he lives on little less.
He is willing to sacrifice to succeed
and his wife and his children are will
ing to help him. When the Jew is
fifty years old he is riding in his own
carriage or his own automobile and
his wife is riding with him When the
American, who had as good a start as
the Jew but had a good time as he
went along is fifty, he Is grinding
away at the same old thing he started
at, bewailing the cruel state of society
which gives poor man no chance.
Perhaps he embraces socialism or
some other wonderful panacea that
promises to transform the whole
world into paradise where no one
will have to work in one day.
| What the average American needs
to learn more than anything elese is
thrift What he needs to do, and what
his wife needs to do, is to spend less
than he makes. Only in this way can
family. in a business or an institu.
ton, succeed.
The reform of our social system will
never come from destroying the upper
classes of society. There will be
classes as long as the human race ex.
lists. Ali progress will continue to
come, as it always has come, from the
efforts of the lower classes to lift them.
selves into the higher.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

The North American Review han
done the public a service by reprint
ing from the files of metropolitan
newspapers some political utterances
following the first nomination of Alb
raham Lincoln.
From the New York Herald:
May 10, 1sso.-The republican cor
vention at Chicago has nominated Alb
raham Lincoln of Illinois for presi-
dent of the United States-a third
rate western lawyer, poorer than
even poor Pierce. They pass over
Seward, Chase, and Banks, who are
statesmen and able men, and they
take a fourth-rate lecturer who can
not speak good grammar, and who, tc
raise the wind, delivers his hackney
ed, illiterate compositions at s2oC
apiece. Our readers recollect that
this peripatetic politician visited New
York two or three months ago on his
financial tour, when, in return for
the most unmitigated trash, inter
larded with coarse and clumsy jokes
he filled his empty pockets with dol
lars coined out of republican fanati
cism"
May %, 1S6o-The candidate for
president, Abraham Lincoln, is an un
educated mana vulgar village politi
clan, without any experience worth
mentioning in the practical duties OIL
craftsmanship. and only noted for
some very unpopular votes which he
gave while member of congress
The comparison between Seward and
this illiterate western boor is odious
lit is as Hyperion to satyr.'
From the Albany Atlas and Argus:
May 81 1S60.-Mr. Lincoln was
first heard of N politics a year age
last fall, when limping with wounds
and bowling with anguish, he was
driven through the state of Illinois
by Douglas and defeated with ths
tacit approval of the majority of his
own party, aud with the publicity ex
pressed Sratulations of Greeley
Weed, and others. Last spring he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
THE LONG DISTANCE CURRENT.

st. Louis will be the first large city
In the country to obtain a long dis
ltance supply OF electricity generated
by water power. President Scholl-
meyer of the Real Estate Exchange,
says this improvement will solve the
smoke problem as soon as it is proved
that the current can be economically
supplied for power, heat and light. Elk.
Guiding smoke is better than efforts to
abate 1t when once admitted. Aneth.
I er resource in smoke exclusion is the
lcheapening of manufactured gas. Sit
luated near coal fields of practically
unlimited extend ST. Louis should
eventually have supply of manufac-
tured gas as cheap as natural gas
and more reliable. Cities that have in,
troduced natural gas find the cost go.
ing up and the flow at times uncer
| tain. The cost is as great as that OF
manufactured gas in numerous Eng
llish cities.
Electricity generated by water pow
er will reduce the cost to new mini
mum, according to present calcula
tons. If, while cheapening power
and heat, 1t also keeps out smoke the
gain will be SO important that il
would call for public rejoicing. Elec
tricity from the dam across the Mis-
sissippi at Keokuk will travel about
$50 miles, but it will not be in the
mature OF doubtful experiment Ma
drid, Spain, receives a voltage of 81,
1000 from the Jucar river, 152 miles
distant, and suplus goes to Valencia
land Cartagena Zurich, Switzerland
gets the current from the Aubula riv
er, eighty miles away. and it is con
4 veyed eighty miles by means OF SO,
600 REINFORCED concrete poles. Al
iShawenegan Falls. Canada, 100000
volts is available for long distance
transmission.
In addition to the Mississippi ant
! Missouri rivers, Missouri has over
thirty rivers of considerable size. A
demonstration of the economies claim
ed for water power and long distance
transmission would open large indus
trial prospects for region in which
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
When Lincoln Was Abused

made his debut in this state as an
orator, and commenced charging for
his speeches at the rate of 500 a.
piece, and was forced to desist amid
such public expressions of contempt
that he may be said to have been
fairly Kissed out of the state He has
never held public office of any credit
and is not known except as a slang
whanging stump speaker, Of a class
with which every party teens, and
OF which all parties are ashamed
From the Boston Post:
May 81, 1S60.-.Lincoln has mere
" talent for demagogue appeal that
was thought to be worth in New Eng
land $50 or 500 a speech by those
who hired him; but some who heard
him were surprised that he should be
considered anywhere a great man. He
can only be the fanatical tool of the
fanatical host he will lead on. This
is the truth of the case, let the blow
ers of his party swell him as they
may into tremendous dimensions. BY
this means. and by initiating in every
locality the trickery and demagogism
that won Lincoln his local popularity,
and at length the nomination, his par
tisans may attempt TO secure his cleo
ton. But such is the intelligence
the country that this attempt must
fail"
1t is not necessary to draw the
moral. But as one reads the vituper-
alton of another eminent American
by metropolitan newspapers today
one wonders whether fifty years hence
their excuses will be quoted as a
warning and example. In 1860 the
classes calling themselves cultured
were worked into violent frenzy
against Lincoln. The plain peeps,
saw his greatness and clave to him.
The popular instinct proves better
guide than the Judgment of the con
sciously superior. 1t is often co.
Everybody, as Mayor Gaynor remark
ed to the young men of Yale the
other day, has a knack Of knowing
more than anybody.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
PROFITS IN IOWA ONIONS.

In the current issue OF harm and
Fireside, contributor tells how in.
tensiye farming Is being more and
already threatens to pass the 5000 an
acre mark. Pleasant Valley township,
in Scott county Is an interesting ex-
ample Following is an extract:
THE pioneer in the onion raising
industry at Pleasant Valley was H.
Schuetter, now retired from active
farming life From 1875 to 1894 he
devoted from fourteen to nineteen
acres to onions every year and kept
an accurate account of the results OBJ
tanned. When he retired, his son, F..
F. Schuetter, succeeded him, and he
also kept a close record of cost and
production.
THE nineteen-year record of the
father shows that the average yield
under his management was 3a5
bushels per acre and the average price
received, 43 cents. The figures OF the
son, kept from 1898 up to the present
time, show that during these last
years the average yield has been 49D
bushels. and the average price IS
cents. The cost of production for the
same period amounted to about $40 an
acre year, leaving profit of $3.50
to the acre. By reason of his success
in onion raising Mr.. Schuetter has
not only been privileged to turn down
an offer of $1,000 an acre for his land,
but to set an example which many of
the farmers of his vicinity have emu
lated with great profit to themselves.
Best scientific methods are being
used by the growers. The fields are
kept perfectly clean, as the onion
smothers easily. BY using the same
soil for the crop year after year the
land has become so free of weeds that
ut is now kept clean with little diff
Guilty. Once each summer the farmers
| flood their fields with a formaldehyde
solution to prevent blight. Every sea.
son a small portion of the land is set
aside by each grower for the raising
of his own seed, and on this part OF
iis Heiu ne pldntS the DeSL DulDS Sc
lected from the crop of the eason be
fore. Careful selection Of the bulbs
for the seed is one of the chief rea
sons for the size and quality of the
Pleasant Valley onions.
When harvesting time comes, al
of the unemployed men and boys il
the township are put to work in tn.
fields pulling. cleaning. drying ami
preparing the onions for shipment
Most of the crop is shipped out 0
the valley through the County Frui
/ Growers association. to which mos
of the onion farmers belong. Tw,
hundred and seventy-hve cars wer,
sent last year
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
DOUBLY PROVEN
Gate City Readers Can No Longer

Gate City Readers Can No Longer
Doubt the EVIDENCE.
This Keokuk citizen testified long
ago.
Told of quick relief-of undoubted
benefit.
The facts are now confirmed.
Such testimony is oomplete-the
evidence conclusive.
1t forms convicing proof OF merit.
Mrs. r. ]. LANCE 2o9 Bank street,
Keokuk, Iowa, says:
Whenever caught cold, 1t was sure
to settle on my kidneys and for sew
eral days, sharp twinges darted
through my back, making it hard for
me to get about During one or these
spells several months ago, happened
to see Doan's Kidney Pills advertised
and procuring box, began their
use. The first few doses relieved me
and now have no cause for com
plant. Doan's Kidney Pills have
earned my hearty endorsement. .
Statement given August IA, 1861
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
IN The sPRINeTlME.

IN THE sPRiNGTlME.
In the spring when the green gifts
back in the trees,
And the sun comes out and stays,
And your boots pull on with good
tight squeeze,
And you think Of your barefoot
days;
When you ort to work and you want
to not,
And you and your wife agrees
It's time to spade up the garden lot
When the green gets back on the
trees,
Well, work is the least of my ideas
When the green, you know. gifts back
on the trees.
When the green gifts back in the
trees and bees
Is a-buzzin aroun' agin,
In that kind of lazy go-as-you-
please they hum roun' in,
When the grounds all bald where the
hayrick stood,
And the cricket's riz, and the breeze
Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood.
And the green gifts back in the
trees
like, say, in such scenes as these,
The time when the green gifts back in
the trees.
When the whole tail feathers O. win
ter time
Is all pulled out an gone,
And the sap it thaws and begins to
climb,
And the sweat it starts out on
A feller's forrerd a-gittin' down
At the old spring on his knees
kind O. like jes' a-loaferfng round
When the green gifts back in the
trees
Jes' a-sporterin' roun' as durn please
When the green, you know. gifts
back in the trees.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

The Gaekwar of Baroda has just is
sued a report covering the industrial
Rnd commercial progress of his do
n;inons, which is of interest to Amer
leans because of the fact that the
Gaekwar and his wife have visited the
United States, and the further fact
that the most important department
Of the state is under the administra-
tive direction Of an American and the
highest Barodan institution of learn
US an American at It's head.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Colonel William Leonard Davis, a
cousin of Jefferson Davis, at one time
vice president of the Press Publishing
company. publishers of the New York
World, and brother of Mrs. Joseph
Pulitzer, is dead in Colorado, where
he had become heavily interested in.
mining properties. He was born III
Virginia and was a graduate CT the,
Naval academy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

A scream of woe comes from the ho-
telkeepers of Baltimore. They are in
the hole on the convention fund of
100000. They expected $4,000 visit
ors; only 10000 showed up, and their
tireless efforts failed to extract the
sum Of their subscriptions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

manufacturing and mining are already
extensively established. There are
coming uses for the current on farms
also. The exclusion of smoke would
be worth millions year to st. Louis
in health, cleanliness and preservation
OF property. Dirt is always dangerous
and expensive. Interesting develop
ments may be expected shortly in
st. Louis in power, heat and light.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

In ruling that landlord cannot en-
force the collection of rent for prem
Uses already infested with vermin, a
New York court delicately insinuated
that warning families could not live
happily on the same premises at the
same time. Therefore the landlord
must look to the first occupants for
his money while the late arrivals are
moving.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

John D. Rockefeller has cut down
the number of his automobiles since
the government ordered the dissolu-
ton of the Standard Oil company.
Before then he had FIVE. The state
department at Columbus, Ohio, receiv.
ed request from Mr.. Rockefeller for
licenses and tags for four machines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Henry Moore Teller, five times SEN
ator of the United States from Colo
RADIO, once secretary of the interior
in the cabinet of President Arthur,
and with the longest public record of
any man now living, celebrated his
eighty-second birthday anniversary at
his home in Denver last week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

A legacy of $4,000 and an interest
in three plantations in Louisiana is
said to be awaiting Mrs, Courtney
Weathersby, formerly of New Or.
leans, who was in Milwaukee police
court charged with vagrancy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Miss Clyde Giltnsr Chandler, q Chi
cago sculptor, has been awarded, In
competition with five other sculptors,
the commission for a $4,000 fountain
to be erected on the state fair grounds
at Dallas, Texas. to the memory of
the late Captain Sidney Smith, for
twenty-five years secretary of the
Texas state fair.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Much excitement prevails in Wiehi-
ia where the sheriff's force captured
a carload of bottled beer. The loot
is too large to be disposed of in thirs-
ty quarters, and too good to flush a
sewer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Maurice Farman. the French aviator,
is defendant in the first suit ever
brought to determine who owns the
air. Landowners around Versailles
want to prevent his flying over their
property. contending the aeroplane
frighten game and stock. The Paris
court has been unable thus far to
reach decision
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Out of regard for his fine crop of
Hoosier WHISPERS. presidential light
ming did not come within seorching
distance of Senator Kern.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Z, The last of Barnum's bunch of wild
men of Borneo is dead at SO. But
Barnum's prediction of the fool crop
is the liveliest sprinter on the pike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
A Second Statement.

On May 3rd. 1910, Mrs LANCE add
ed to the above: q can still say that
Doan's Kidney Pills are an excellent
kidney medicine. 1t gives me pleas
ure to confirm my former endorse
ment of this remedy and advise its
use in cases of kidney complaint"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents Fcster-Milburn Co. Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the named oan' sand
take no other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21
Ointon's Storage
Unions Transfer

Merchandise, Machinery, Furniture
Stoves, Musical instruments, Pictures
and everything In the Storage Line.
Large, clean, safe warehouses. Prices
reasonable including Insurance.
TRANSFER LINE IN CONNECTION
Office 525 Biondeau. Both 'phones rs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-21

Gate City want ads bring results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-01
FISHERMEN ATTACKED
BY MOB OF NEGROES
Centennial Island, in the Mississippi
Scene of Another
Tragedy.

MEMPHIS, January 1.--Wiliam Har-
desdy is said to have been killed and his
body burned. and Charles Young ard
James Molloy, rivernlen. were seriously
wounded by a mob of fifteen negroes, sale
to have been headed by Bob Sanders
and John Sharpe OF LambethVille, Ark,
on Centennial Island i'm the Mississippi
river. twenty mics north, Of Memphis,
opposite Iambethvile. Christmas day.
according to story told yesterday by
Young, who, with Molloy, has been Sc
creted in shanty boat in Wolf river.
near Memphis, since Wednesday.
The tragedy has been known to river
men since Monday, it is said. but fear
kept their mouths sealed, as the wounded
men are said to have been compelled to
fee for their lives after their cabin on
the island had been set afire with the
body OF their comrade in it.
Sanders, a plantation owner. is said to
rule like a feudal lord around Lambeth
vile and to be engaged in the sale of
whisky to negroes and whites Of the sec
ton.
Young declares Sanders and his lieu
tenants were incensed against them for
the alleged selling of whisky to their
customers. Young and Malloy deny SELL
ing whisky, but admit having a case Of
spirits in their cabin. All three men are
fishermen and have for years made their
homes on the river. Centennial Island
has been the scene of many similar
tragedies during the past few years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-01
OUR NAVY OF STEEL:
NO WOODEN FURNITURE
Dangers of Flying Splinters in Time
of War to Be Mini
mized.

Every year the battle practice i'm the
American navy more closely approxi-
| mates the conditions of actual warfare
In the spring practice OF the -Atlant c
fleet this year the idea OF Kidding a ship
as far as possible of comhustible mate
rails and woodwork that might cause
splinters in action is to be carried out
SO far that the officers and men of some
of the vessels may not even sleep ION
the soft side of plank" The plans
contemplate the removal Of all wooden
boats, the hunks and the wooden furn-
ture. Not even the mess tables will be
left and the bluejackets will have to eat
their meals squatting tailor-fashion on
deck.
More damage and loss of life have re-
suited on shipboard in time of war from
suffocating fires and flying splinters than
from shot and shell wounds. therefore
it has been decided to determine just
how much woodwork can be dispense 4
with when a craft clears for action.
The spring practice Of the fleet in the
West Indian waters, with Guantanamo
as the base, will occupy ten days more
than two months. beginning January 10.
After that is completed the big ships
will come north to the southern drill
grounds off the Chesapeake capes for the
regular battle practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-01
BACON PLANNED AIRSHIP,
IS CLAIM OF ADMIRER
Writing Plays Of Shakespeare Only
an Incident in a
Busy Life.

DETROIT, Mich, January Follow
ing closely on the announcement by
DR.. Orvi1le w. Owen that his research
es in England for proof that Francis
Bacon wrote the plays of William
Shakespeare are fast nearing compile
ton comes the admission of the doc
tor that Sir Francis is the inventor, or
at least the designer. of an airship.
I'VE haven't discovered the airship.
said the doctor yesterday, but we
have found descriptions of one in our
excavations in the river Wye which
are undoubtedly the work Of the man
whom we are certain is the author of
the plays attributed to Shakespeare
And he, of course, is Sir Francis Ba
con-.
when do you intend to- make these
plans or descriptions public the doc
tor was asked.
only when we find them in their en-
tirety. our real mission is to find the
plays and the conclusive evidence of
their authorship. When we have done
that we may turn to the other matter.
But at present it is only secondary to
us. no matter what its significance to
the world of science may be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-01
FEWER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.
One of the Features of Recent Edu
cational Legislation.

without question the year 1911 was
Productive OF more educational legisla-
ton Of value than any previous year in
the history of the nation. says James
C. Boykin. editor Of the United States
bureau of education. in a forthcoming
government monograph. Mr.. Boykin de-
clares that the forty-three state legisla
lures in session during the year, practi-
cally without exception, were friendly TO
the cause of public education.
He notes as one of the larger develop
ments of the Year the beginning of a
movement to lengthen the school term
by reducing the number of holidays. and
says that salaries are showing tend
ency to rise, with prospects growing
steadily brighter for retirement on liv-
ing annuities when usefulness is past.