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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
rBy walter Parker.l


-Four hundred million tons OF Sill,
the surface soil. Is washed from the
lands OF the Mississippi river water
shed into the Gulf of Mexico each and
every year. This Is waste Insofar as
everybody now living is concerned.
and the farmers and land owners OF
the Ohio and Missouri valleys are
paying the bill.
Water enough passes down the Mis-
souri, when in food stage to frrlgate
fifteen or twenty million acres oil the
dry plains or bench lands in the up
per watershed OF that river.
More than enough water goes 70
waste down the Ohio river each food
season to supply dry season naviga-
ton and millions Of electrical horse
power units. The same thing IS true
Of the upper Mississippi river.
All Of this water, concentrated into
raging uncontrolled torrent, com
bines at Cairo, and, on its mad rush
to the sea, carries waste and dests'ic'
ton In its wake In the shape OF bro
ken levees, devastated farms. home
less terror-stricken people, and re-
ltarded development.
Conserve the Floods.
Reverse the picture. Harness the
source streams. Conserve the freshe'
waters for dry season navigation
Draw power from dams and reser
voirs. Turn the floods of the upper
Missouri out over the dry bench
lands. Build strong levees from Cairo
Ito the gulf that will hold the PARTIAL,
fcontrolled foods in the lower river
And what will be the result?
The reservoirs will supplement thu
summer flow and thereby provide a
siall times an adequate supply OF Watel
for the system OF locks and dams 81
THAT there will always be nayigabi'
1 stage in the Ohio on which to foa
lout to tide water the coal, the iron
the steel and the manufactured pro
ducts of that portion of the country
I while the power developed will go
long way toward increasing the econ
lomy OF manufacture.
In the upper Missouri river countr:
HAY win grow on millions of acres Q
|IIand now devoted to grazing and tn
production Of cattle that will the
thrive on that land will be Increase
tenfold. In addition. summer seepag
will return enough water to the rive
to supply a navigable stage through
out the dry season.
The upper Mississippi will enjoy Al
| the year navigation and an abundanc
of power.
From Cairo to the Gulf the food
will not then climb anywhere near
high as they have done In the sprin
of 1912, and with a complete and vel
CONSTRUCTED levee system on bot
lsides of the river the farmers an
planters will no longer fear crevasse
and oyerfows and limit their inves
ments for improvements accordingl
The silt waste will be checked b
cause no adequate system of foe
control can ignore soil erosion. The
1.-THE farms Of the north and midd
west will not annually lose in fert
|ity, and there will be fewer bars al
mud Jumps in the lower river
check the flow and obstruct navig
ttion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
Development unrestrained.

With foods and overfows abated,
development in the Mississippi valley
will start on new scale, and gather
headway every year because there
will then be no periodical disaster to
check and hamper 1t.
With such development, the tens OF
millions of acres of lowlands which
are not now cultivated will be
brought under the pillow, and the food
produced thereon will appreciably re-
duce the cost of living, aid in main
tanning the national trade balance on
the right side Of the ledger, and great
ly assist in removing the cause Of the
social unrest In the factory towns by
supplying homes to the underfed and
disconnected people who cannot now
make both ends meet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

Gate City want ads bring results.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
The Flood Problem Of the
Mississippi and Its Solution

to s4o.ooo,oOo III the next twenty
years.
6.--The food losses along the Ohio
valley IN one year, 1907. are stated
in the preliminary report Of the In
land waterways commission for 1908
Ito have amounted to over $100, 0O0, 900.
Annual Losses.
The chief Of the water resources
branch OF the United States Geolog-
Iical Survey, Mr.. M. o. Leighton, esti-
mates that the average annual dam
age by foods on the Ohio river and
all Its tributaries. averaging the dam
age over ten-year periods, IL not less
than $4,000 900; $5o.0OO,000 annually
/ is 5 per cent per annum interest on
a total Investment Of $1,000, OOO, 900,
and the state and national govern
ment would be justified In spending
that amount OF money to completely
safeguard the entire region drained
by the Ohio river from destructive
| floods, because the works for food
prevention would not only protect
against foods, but would create q
commercial and Industrial develop
ment that would justify the expendf
ture OF the money In that territory
even though the question Of floods
was not involved.
When reservoirs are built for food
prevention, storage must be provided
for the normal flow OF the streams
which may be used for power develop
ment as well as flood prevention. In
addition to this. a very large emery
ercy surplus OF storage capacity must
Ibe provided. which can be done on all
streams by building reservoirs which
would flood given area Of territory
only in the event OF unusual foods
which come only once in several years.
In the intervening period the lands
thus overfowed at long intervals
would be used for grazing and for
4 timber production.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

Amatitlan there was fleet of canoes manned by native Indians, who made 'a demonstration in his honor.
 Arriving at the capital We found an army of troops at the station, and the Secretary's party were escorted in great state to the finest residence in Guatemala City, the millionaire owner of which had vacated in order to give the royal resi- dence to MT. Knox.
 During the Secretary's stay here the streets over which his carriage passed were covered with sweet scented pine leaves, and the main streets for a dis- tanee of several miles were decorated with palms and with tho flags of Guate- mala and the United States, the two flags always waving together. The first nieht he came 50.0oo Indians, brought from all parts of the country, marched in parade. They were dressed in their tribal eos- tunes and the music was by their own native band.
 on the next day one of the events was a great celebration at the Temple of Min erva, in the race track which 1 have de- scrbed. At this thousands of school chiI- dren, dressed in the national colors of Guatemala and carrying the flags of the two republics, marched in procession past President Cabrera and Secretary KnoN. The little Guatemaans played "rhe Star SpanRled Banner and as they did so the natives all removed their hats. The next music was the national hymn of Gua- temala. which was sung by the school children. At that time the Americans removed their hats. The streets from the Secretary's residence to the race track was earpeted with pine branches, and it was over these sweet smelling pines that the Secretary stepped in that night to the ball which was given in his honor in one of the chief official buildings
 In addition to these ceremonies there were banquets, receptions and other pa- rades. and at the close the Secretary wag taken in great state down to the Atlantic ocean. During the visit I was about much among the people and I heard only kind words for the United States
 FRANK c. CARPENTER
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La TTATORE-THE EVIL EYE
Concluded from last page)

Contest" they replied, and growing small as peas they dropped pell mell to the floor, glowing as if coals of fire. Hearne clambered to the foot of the bed and saw the burning coals grow larger, and in a ball of flame chase themselves up the walls and along the ceiling.
 Contest" they cried. Contest" Hearne dropped from the bed to the floor. The eyes fell upon him, pelting him, burn ing him. He attempted to strike, but ever they swayed just out of reach.
 s'Confessln they screamed, until his ear drums seemed to burst.
 He clambered to his feet, and staggered to table. He wrote:
 q killed Turpin. Go away
 The world seemed calmned at last From the street no sound was heard. For the first time in four years he did not see the eyes. But his soul seemed to have fled Slowly he walked to the bed and slid under the cov- ering. A cold dew was breaking about his forehead. His breathing was difficult. He was struggling
 At that moment, by means of skeleton key. du Bar entered the chamber. Hearne saw him, but did not cringe. Instead, he smiled feebly and pointed to the table. The detective leaped across the room and found the note. He read.
 .sIt has been a long chase, Hearne, he said
 But Hearne did not hear. On the bed was a mass of clay-cold and cammy. The eyes had done their work.
 The following morning the detective wired Turpin:
 "Hearne before dying last night con fessed'
 Late in the afternoon came the answer:
 'sSome mistake. Indisputable evidence followed by confession has convicted the butler
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

A TANG of frost was in the air. so
 "A that the sunny side of the Court 4 \ house was welcome spot for the assembling of the usual group. A chill wind made eddies of dust in the wide road the sky was clear. and an occa- sional wagon load of cotton passed the street, with a bevy of smiling negroes on top of the load.
 The Sheriff sighed as he listened to friend tell of an operation for appendi- citis on a young girl of their acquaint- anee.
 Tn these modern scientific times.y said he, the little hypodermic syringe and the Surgeons knife is the first thing the Doctors think about If a person eats bait of green plums they straightway swear he has appendicitis, and they cut you open like nigger does water melon The old time Doctor seems to have emigrated or died out; there wasn't all this foolishness about Pellagra and germs and Appendicitis and hook worm and morris -muticaulis in the days when Old Dock Patterson iourished and cured the sick All the Surgeons supplies he needed was a pair of forceps, a handsaw and a tomato can full of calomel. With these simple tools he would wade in and bust up the biggest case of cholery nor bus, or Newmoney, or tuberculosis, or Gias Cutus, or any other of them danged Latin diseases before the sickness had taken good holt of a Patient. Old Dock Patterson was not only type of the old time Physiican, he was a whole galley. sah, and he could come nearer raising the dead than four Hospitals and a ton of dynamite. He never asked the Whoop- ing cough, measles. worms, or itch the least odds, but he'd sail right in. with one suspender hanging down his back, and the tobacco juice trickling doSn the rsr1ft hand corner of his mo,fh--as you 20 in-and before you could get over being scared Old Dock Patterson sra1 Knocked these aforesaid diseases into the middle of next week. He vas not pretty to look it. and the old mare he rode was afflicted with more vices and diseases than Constantrople: but when, after<a hard ride the Old Doctor landed at the bedside of the sufferer-quieting with gentle touch. firm voice and steady hand, the half-crazed patient-his features be- gan to impress you that. after all, his face was not an insult to the landscape. But few Coroners sat on the remains of lis customers, and he never took a poor mans COW, and the Family Sewing ma chine. to pay for his doctoring He didn [ fill the New Jerusalem with lis Patients, nor did he send them to a Hospital, but he just staid with them. and fought sickness, face to face. like the Devil beating Tan-barls. He trusted in Calomel, good nursing and prayer--yes sah, he'd pray like house afire, and devoutly be- lieye the Lord heard every dam word he uttered and listened to him. giving him an answer lots of times. calomcl and
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track is known as the Hippodrome, and it incloses mile ring with various em- blems of science and education inside it Just opposite the grandstand is a stone temple put up by the president in the interest of education, to the Goddess Minerva. and on one side of this is the biggest relief map of the world
 This relief map covers several acres. and by climbing the platform at the side of it we can see Guatemala in miniature The map is made of cement, plaster and other materials which the weather has turned to stone. It is connected with the waterworks, and as we look the man in charge turns d crank and real noun tain water begins to flow through the min iature rivers and fill the lakes On one side we can see the waves of the Cario- bean sea, now a great expanse of sil- yer, and on the other the waters of a little Pacific ocean dash upon the shores. All of the ports are marked by landing piers and strips of steel wind their way over the country, representing the rail- roads. Along the Pacific slope you can see the Pan-American railway, which is fast approaching completion and which, as soon as Mexico is quiet, will give us an iron track from here to New York You can see the new lines building down to- ward Salvador and those which cross the mountains from coast to coast
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YARNS OF COURTHOUSE GANG-By Wellington Vandver

Miss Polly being a silent listener. At 1o:50 D. m. the Colonel remarked Well. 1 guess 1t is about time to retirer Yaas said Jim, Podner. we've been CT waiting for you to do that for erbout an hour.
 The Coroner read an item from news paper to the Gang to the effect that a member of the Nebraska Legislature had introduced bill to make t q misde- meanor to have more than four aces in deck of cards.
 "Jever notice.' said he. that when a country gets older, more civilized and indulge in luxurles. that cards are dropped as crude ways of gambling and passing away time? The old time Preach CTS howled themselves hoarse over card. playing, and horse-racing because these were the two most popular and accessible forms of gambling at that time. but now that we have Elections. baseball and the stock and cotton futures the old form Of taking money away from the lambs is regarded as crude and effete It is true an occasional Whist club depriVes an unwary person of some pocket change but the professional Gambler doesn't re- ly on the pasteboards any more for a full dinner pail-he has better means of an nexing the plrnks than cards. Tn the Wild and woody West. the Legislation suggested by the Nebraska Man misht | even for that locality. He ought to in- troduee a bill to make it felony to use five hxes and hoss-pistol In UolSer ar gument. Also section providing for the death penalty to play the decll-head in game of seven up Also there should be a fine of one thousand dollars on the woman at the Whist Club who asks: Whats trumps? It should likewise pro- vide that the Criminal who Hips up 9 Jack from the bottom in game of old sledge should be banished to Australia It looks queer to me that the ladies Of our Country can play cards openly on front porches and In public places, at pic nics while a poor coon who indulges "a the fascinating Craps in the woods. ss sight of a Public road. is sent to fh.. chain gang You will have to born a nls- ger over again to keep him from playing craps. It's just as natural for him to do that as 1t Is Tor him to spend his last cent for Livery rig on Sunday. 1 am rather against games of chance. espeeial- ly since the last visit of the Circus to this town. There was a fellow with that Circus who was fooling with some peas under shell. and I bet him that l could tell under which shell that pea was. saw him put 1t under one of them. Well Gentlemen. 1 would like to interview that shell Gent for a pair of minutes. as he walked off with Thirty-seven dollars of my hard-earned scads-I certainly would punch his head, at least Forty dollars worth. It Is just as the Bible says: You never know what's going to happen when you ain't looking and it says in another place that A Fool and his money Is soon parted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

Dovers Powders, roots and yarbs, fer vent prayer, and Cold water, constituted the remedies Of the old time Doctor, and l am here to tell you that with these sim pie means he snatched more people from the brink of the grave than are contained in the suburbs of Birmingham, When old Dock Patterson wore himself out cur ing other people, and at@ last just vent to sleep with wearness-not diedt but just dozed off into q better Land-there was more -sure-enough tears shed-more sim ere grief-more real sorrow. than there would be now if the greatest Potentate on Earth was 10 pass through the gates of Farewell Fellows. I really get mushy when I begin to think about Old Dock Patterson" and the Sheriff cleared his throat violently. and handed little negro boy dime to buy candy, with the ad- monition, "Git away from here, you little black scoundrel, before l skin you alive.
 The small darkey moved off slowly, with a greasy grin, not at all daunted by the shern's dire threat-eXecntins com plicated double shuffle when he reached the edge Of the sidewalk.
 "Uh, Huhr' grunted the Old confed- crate, q aint no slouch of a Doctor myself I slept In the same room for a whole year with a medical student, and I invented q cure for the Glanders in horses, for which reasons I am inclined to believe that my medical opinion will be respected by the State Health Board, or any other gung of real scientific Docks This Country would enjoy just as good health if we had less medical ethics and more calomel and Catnip-tea. Nowadays a man can't roll over in bed and succeed in comfortably shunling off this mortal coil unless a whole passel of Scientific Docks prance around his cot. jabbins thermometers under his tonsils and get- ting out Search warrants for his Alimen- tary Canal. Let Great Public official get shot-or even half shot-and then obs serve what happens. Does an old Saddle bag Physician come to bis bedside, put his feet in hot water and slap mustard plaster on his stomach? Not on your lire; but a joh-lot of scientific Medical sharps board in the Telegraph office, seeding bulletins all over the country ad- vertising themselves and spllling their vhiskey all over the costly stationery of the Western Tnon Company. telling the agoonized people that Galen and Hippopotamus, and all tlcm ancient docks. was just Jackasses to them. and that their Patient nibbled small section Of dry toast q. 1 D. m.-SisDed, HypoT dern1ie Jones. NJ D., J. c. r. D. c. Ifar~ vev Rouis. H. PIX W And when the bill for this Telegraph- h-Ofiee-Profe ofessional- Treatment cones in to the BereaveG Family. if foots up One Hundred and Twenty five thousand dollars-seventy- five cents of this bill being for Antitoxin at the corner Drug Store-the remainder of it fig for Western <Ilnlop Photographic Attention. I fiafter myself that my ex- rerienee in trestng mules and my clsxe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

the best rubber tired carriage and horses that this country could furnish. They re- quested President Cabrera to pick out the carriage and team. and he bought them of the American livery here at g cost of S4000 in gold. He sent them to San Jose, the port of Guatemala on the Pa cihc, from where they were to be shipped to Honduras. The arrangements were such that the tournout would have reached there In time, but, alas, in load ing the horses and carriage upon the ship the two hind wheels of the latter were overlooked and left behind. The next steamer did not arrive until about a week after MT, Knox had left Salvador for here, and had he gone 10 Honduras the Si000 carriage would have been useless
 Guatemala and the United States
 There is no doubt but that the Central Americans are jealous of us. They think their country is the best upon earth and that the United States wants it. The bet ter classes, however. realize that their future is wrapped up in ours and that the Monroe doctrine is necessary to protect them from the nations of Europe. Guate- mala is the natural field for American cap- ital. and if it could have good goverE- ment, fair taxation and protection it would be the richest country on the North American continent.
 There are many here who tell me that the Guatemalans do not like Americans. but if the treatment of Secretary Knox is to be considered, they think far other wise As soon as it was known that MT. Knox was coming. the president sent out an order over the country to brighten up the republic for his advent. Here in Qua temala City 1t was directed that all the houses be given a fresh coat of paint and for whole month previous to his arrival the painters and whitewashers were at work everywhere. The doorlxnobs were shned up so that they glstened like gold and the brass knobs on the balconies were treated likewise. Today there is no brighter town in the tropics than this. The buildings are of all the colors of the rainbow, apd they are roofed with red tiles, Owing to the work done for Secre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
e5choolcRdrenCdrried An7erlco1 And Guate7aaFTa9s

As l came into Port Barrios I saw a ship going out which had 700O,Ooo bananas in it's hold, and was told that the output 1fDr this year will be enough to give }hree bananas to every man. woman land child in the United States, and leave some to spare. Since coming here have taken run down to the Pacific slope, and I find the lower lands there ex- |ceedingly rich. A great part of my jour- ,ney on both sides of the~mountains has Ft-een through fruit superior to that of Brazil and equal to that of Arabia and Java.
 Guatemala in 1912 >But before I go further let me give
 You an idea of the country. You can
 lget the size from any book of statistics. lGuatemala contains over 4S,0s0 square miles. It is as big as New York or |about equal to the states of Ohio and Massachusetts combined. It is bigger than any other Central American re- Ipublc and it contains, in fact, about one-f fourth of all the land between Pan lama and Salvador and twice as big as Costa Riea.
 Guatemala has more people than any 'other Central American state. It has lover 2000,000, but six out of every 10 'of these are Indians. and the country 'is run by the descendants of Spaniards land halfbreeds. who make the Indians do 1.-the work Altogether there are more In ldians here than the population of Phia- Idelphia, and there are @ little more ithan half as many who are halfbreeds or |Iadinos. The Indians and Ladinos are livery interesting, and shall write more Iof them in future.
 The Worlds Biggest Relief Map .. As to Guatemala itself, we can see 1t |pest at the race track in the capital This