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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
THE OTHER SIDE Of EARNING.

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According to Senator Fletcher the
average farmer in the United States
earns about $4,000 per, annum-less
than $500 per day. That is, he real
ICES that much in gross returns from
his toll and capital, after taking all
the chances and working longer hours
and harder than he would work In al
most any other occupation.
1T takes the farmer about ten
hours OF labor to earn $100 whereas
the man on the railroad which carried
mis- product to market earns $1.00 in
about 21s hours.
The situation is discouraging to
our young people.
While the consumer complains
about the price he pays for farm prod
ucts that complaint is not to be
lodged against the farmer-the pro-
Queer. Somewhere between the farm
and the dinner table billions OF dol
lars, probably seven billion, disappear,
annually. Some portion of this be-
longs to the farmer.
The total agricultural debt in this
country is estimated to be about five
billion dollars divided as follows:
500 Per cent secured by real es-
tate mortgage:
IA per cent secured by chattel
mortgage;
- per cent secured by crop liens
(other than cotton;
IT'S per cent secured by cotton crop
liens;
IS per cent unsecured, due local
merchants.
The farmers are paying from 6 to
- percent per annum interest on that
five billion dollars; say an average OF
s percent
AS remedies to assist farmers the
senator proposes
A The establishment of Chambers
of Agriculture in the counties.
B. A system of rural banks, or agri-
cultural credits or farm finance, what
ever you may designate it, by which,
in conjunction with other cooperative
organizations, the farmer will be able
to save enormous sums now going as
interest, profits to factories, and the
like, such as no other industry could
stand, have his open account at the
bank, available as needed, his lands
recognized and treated in the money
market as an asset at its real value,
with basis of credit similar to the
man engaged in business, enabled to
SO finance his affairs as to save himself
from being obliged to dispose of his
products at the lowest prices ever
prevailing. and buy all his supplies all
ways at the highest, time prices, and
otherwise, In cooperation with his
neighbors, finance all his operations,
himself
Senator Fletcher makes the further
suggestion that this principle of CO.
operation would make immensely to-
the relief of the women folks of the
farm.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
"The First Of July the Last Of August
Dubuque Telegraph. Herald: With


Dubuque Telegraph Herald: with
twenty-five fewer saloons in Dubuque
today than yesterday. memory recurs
to the explanation Of the paradox OF
how the first Of July can be the last
Of August. If there Is anybody in
the house who heard Joe Miller tell
1t. he will kindly refrain from throw
ing things.
August was chirrup enough when
he opened HIS saloon one June day.
The bartender was the first to greet
him that morning. The union, the
b. t. explained had met the night be
fore and decided on an increased
wage scale Of SO week, effective
July ]. There would be strike. he
added, II the increase was not granted.
Next to greet August and further
spoil his day for him was the land
lord He had been offered an in
crease of $40 month IN the rent; IL
August didn't want to move he'd have
to pay 500 more rent beginning July
].
Next came the brewery representa-
tive. The cost of everything had been
advanced, he explained, and the brew
cry had decided to raise the price
OF beer a dollar barrel effective
July /
August bore it all apparently with
the RESIGNATION of Stole. but when
the brewer left, he took off his AKRON
and went out to sign writer's shop.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
Grain Cradles In Iowa.

Laurens Sun: We dropped into
Strickland's blacksmith shop few
days ago and found them repairing en-
grain cradle How many
of the younger generation have ever
seen one-the machine that our grand.
fathers used to harvest the graine
And how many ever tried to bind af-
ter good Grader? The sigh. of the
old cradle brought up bygone days
which seem to have passed but yester-
day, yet when we look at the great i'm
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
Forest Fires.

WASHINGTON, July 81 Despite
unfavorable weather conditions the
fire danger up to today on national
forest reserves has been unusually
small, according to report issued
today at the forestry department. The
report states that, owing to better
conditions afforded by bigger appro-
priatioins for fire fighting in the for
ests, the year 1913 SO far has been
unusually free from the devastating
fires which have marked former
years. 1t is estimated that thousands
of dollars have been saved through
the aTousing Of public interest in the
care of forest lands.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
ENORMOUS SOIL WASTE.

The total Panama excavation for the
trans isthmian canal will be 100000
600 cubic yards. The annual erosion
of the banks of the Mississippi river
alone tributaries excluded) Is esti
mated at more than 900. 10000 cubic
yards. The Mississippi in flood Is
eight times the volume of mighty
Niagara
The annual losses in the Ohio valley
alone exceed s50,000,o0o and the Ohio
is only 967 miles long and drains but
100000 square miles.
Clifford Pinchot estimates the flood
losses since 1900 at 1000 00O, 900 and
statisticians agree that direct flood
losses within The last half century es.
coed the total cost of all of our wars
(ncluding the civil war;
Floods in the Mississippi valley car.
ry out to the Gulf of Mexico every
year 60e,000,000 tons of the richest
soil In the whole great basin. and the
irony of the loss is biting when it is
remembered that this vast area of al
luvial is wrenched from the producer
only to obstruct navigation by depos-
iting bars or Swallowing channels, and
that this same producer must be taxed
to pay for second removal of his los.
producing area. All of these figures
have been on the direct lines of dol
lars or square miles. Who can esti-
mate the volume or the value Of the
lost hope and courage of those who
see the results of years of hard en-
deavor swept out in single night?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
sheep 90 Four Months without Water.

sheep go Four Months Without Water.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Sheep on
the Neho national forest, Utah, go
! four and a half months without water
except for such moisture as they get
| from the dew and the juices OF for
age plants.
Grazing sheep on range entirely
destitute of water is recent innova-
ltion due to the increasing demand for
forage and the efforts of the forest
officers to find place on the forest
ranges for all the stock that can
safely be admitted. The area on the
Nebo which has now proved disable
by sheep is high and rocky, portion
of 1t being above timber line, and it
has neither springs nor streams of
sufficient size or accessibility to be
used for stock watering purposes. The
grazing season lasts from June Is to
October 81, and during this period of
four and half months the animals do,
not get drink.
Under such conditions, however, the
sheep have done extremely well, and
last years lambs from this range
had an average weight at the close
of the season Of sixty-eight pounds on
the Chicago market. which was rather
above the normal weight from that
vicinity.
In one area on the Targhee forest
in Idaho sheep get water only twice
during the four months summer graz
ing season. There is no water on the
range, but the sheep are driven to a
nearby stream lower down the noun
tain side. Lambs from this range
weighed sixty-five pounds on the Chi
cago market
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Census statistics OF Hawaii, Jus,
published, show that the native stock
is dying out. The total number OF
natives left on the islands is 2s,041. a
decrease OF 12.6 per cent in decade.
Contact with the white man is not
the cause OF native decrease, for the
Islands are not a white mans coun-
try" orientals make up 55 per cent
OF the population. Caucasians % per
cent. half of them Portuguese. Span
ish and Porto Ricans.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
Des Moines advices say that III

Des Moines advices say that the
state food and dairy department is
receiving many applications for Ii.
censes for sanitary bakeshops and
other places where food is prepared.
The new law goes into effect Friday,
when all such places must have a
license and be subject to inspection.
Stringent rules are provided for the
care of all restaurants and kitchens
and for the construction of bakeries,
slaughter houses and meat markets.
i Is anticipated that great deal OF
difficulty viii be experienced in get.
ting this new law well started and
undAr way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
DYNAMITE IN EARNING.

The inventive genius OF man has
brought to pass many changes in our
methods of doing things. What would
the stage coacher of seventy-f1ve years
ago think of the trolley car and the
express train of today? What would
the farmer who followed his oxen with
the crudest kind OF pillow think of the
sullky pillow turning several burrows
at one time? And leaving the pillow
behind; 1t startles most OF us to be
told that dynamite has come into
Use for deep blowing and other agri.
cultural purposes, because it has been
found that trees and crops planted in
ground which has been broken up
with dynafite root more deeply than
ordinarily and thus absorb subsoil
moisture from greater area. and be-
come generally more sturd>.
In the great northwest the az and
the pillow have been found too slow
and dynamite has been used for
number of years In clearing large
timber tracts, and the explosive is now
being used as well in the east and
south. It is contended that some of
the enormous swamp lands of the
south can be reclaimed entirely by this
method Of breaking up the underlying
hardpan and forcing drainage bitches
with dynamite. In New England it is
said abandoned farms have been re-
claimed and made productive by tum-
bling the earth to pieces by this
violent process, thereby literally ex.
piodingNa theory that the soil has
been exhausted-by means of a real
dynamite NexDlosion
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

The stories told Of the attractions
of California by the papers OF that
state to encourage the influx OF Wis
itors are the limi.and then some
A Los Angeles pronounced Loce
Ahng-hayl-ais) paper, for instance. re-
lates that man took a bath in a
brook out there and reported that he
was viciously attacked by a hungry
horde of trout. Anyone doubling this
story is a prima facie liar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

1t Is reported that fish are biting in
the river. AS matter of precaution
1t might be well to muzzle the larg-
est and most vicious ones until the
hot weather is over
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
Worlds Conference.

PORTLAND. July 3."The Fam.
lily; Marriage and Divorce" was the
big topic under discussion today at
the fifth days session Of the Second
Worlds Christian Citizenship confer.
ence which will continue through July
6. This afternoon the delegates turn
ed their attention to matters OF pris.
on reform, social purity. intemper.
ance and capital and its relation TO
labor. The meetings We're held in the
huge open air ampitheatre OF the
Multnomah Athletic club Delegates
numbering Approximately 10000 Aare
in attendance from all parts Of the
United States AND from several Euro
pean countries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Alas and alack! In Pennsylvania
the voice Of reform which smote the
arching heavens last fall failed to
deliver the goods In the legislature,
that body adjourning last week with
out enacting measures needed to put
Righteousness in the saddle.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
Meaning Of Gettysburg.
The Last of August.

"Sduiug OF Gettyspur9.
/ st. Paul Pioneer Press: On the field
OF gettysburg, where three days OF
awful carnage built anew the history
tof civilization, there will be presented
this week the most thrillins>and sig
nificant spectacle that any nation ever
beheld. Upon that field the broken
remnants OF two armies will meet with
the flag over them. with one country
for their heritage, with one love in
their hearts,
Ihese two armies faced each other
IN deadly conflict fifty years ago and
b1thed the land with their blood. To
day they gathered about common
campfire and bequeath the message OF
peace to mankind.
Never before In the history OF the
world did two armies spring up as
these armies did. armies OF toilers and
citizens. representing the culture and
civilization OF an era, and without
mercenary motive
And never, following 80 great a
conflict, did two armies return again
to peaceful pursuits, and, side by side,
work out the destiny OF a common
country.
The sublimity of that war was the
fact that 1t rose eternally above last
ing hatred.
The glory of the nation today is that
1t has made shrine of every grave,
north and south.
Gen. John B. Gordon. famous CON
federate general, speaking in st. Paul
few years ago, said to the old veter-
ans Of the north: The reason it took
you SO long to defeat,us was that we
We're Americans like yourselves"
That was the great significant fact
OF the war and it is the beautiful
significance of the present. When the
blue and gray charged together up
San Juan hill new nation built upon
the foundation of a war not ruled by
hate was born in splendor and power.
Meeting together In what for many
will be the last campfire, these one
time foes will hear the paeans Of
peace where once they heard the bull
lets OF strife, and when the flag Of
the nation floats to the breeze the
blue and the gray, together cheering
1t with moist eyes. will symbolic the
indestructibility of the republic ce-
mented by sacrifice which has raised
the nation forever beyond divisions
OF creed and race and section and fac
ton.
By divine alchemy the heroism of
men becomes the heritage of the
world, regardless of the mistakes OF
the blunders or the wrongs of the 4
causes to which they gave their uplift-
ed devotion.
And today these veterans Of two
armies will not discuss the rights or
wrongs of that far off conflict, but
will, in generous forgetting and a
kindly remembering, realize that to
the heroes of both sides belong as
sons who followed what they con-
ceived to be the right, and that out Of
the sacrifices of both sides came the |
significance and glory of the American
people.
In Columbia's heart is room for
them all and 1t is the spirit OF Amer.
lea herself that speaks in Will Thomp-
sons noble words:
The Gray hath sealed in the bond OF
blood
His faith to the Blue, and the brave
shall never
Question the brave in the sight of God.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

The statement of a Massachusetts
mill girl in court that she worked for
50 week, on further investigation de-
yeloped the fact that she gave her
pay envelope unopened to her father
and the latter swiped all the envelope
contained, over 50. Mill records
showed that she had been receiving
from 81 to $3.50 a week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
Icy eye!
It's easy enough to be jocund

It's easy enough to be jocund
When life's like garden of roses,
But the chap we prize
Holds smile in his eyes
When a coy old maid of thirty-nine
summers and forty-eight win
tiers with peroxide locks and a
complexion fresh every hour,
having the ways of kitten and
the temper Of its mother. gets
him off in corner on dark
Leap year night
And proposes!
"A Sufferan Mann.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Speaker Clark is credited with the
statement in clean-cut old English,
that "hog jowl and mustard green's
are fit for king" Holding opinions
like this is what makes Speaker
Clark SO strong with his countrymen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
ne at wellman, Iowa, last Thurs.

home at wellman, Iowa, last Thurs.
day
Mrs. John Bengston is at Graham
hospital in Keokuk where she under.
went serious operation. She is re-
ported as getting along nicely.
Prof. Harry Dow and wife and child
OF Fairgut. Ia, are visiting relatives
here.
Mr.. Schaffer OF FIT. Madison
brought fine piano to the Fred
HEM home yesterday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Former Senator Bourne of Oregon
says that better roads will stop the
rush of country youth to cities. The
best roads in the world have not
stopped 1t in Germany. The st. Louis
Globe-Democrat explains that better
roads make walkir~ easier, and many
rustics Will walk in if they can get in
no other way
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
ICinton's Storage
inton's Transfer

Merchandise, Machinery, Furniture,
Btoves. Musical instruments, Pictures
and everything In the Storage Line.
Large, clean, safe warehouses. PrIcea
reasonable, Including Insurance.
TRANeFER LINE IN CONNECTION.
ONCE 626 Blondeau. Both phones 10
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

President Huerta OF Mexico is about
to call an extra session of congress.
Just as II he didn't have enough trou-
BILE on his hands already.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
l sing with a fearful cadence

big viii tearIul cadence
For one who stands in the dark,
And knows that his last, best arrow
Has bounded back from the mark
sing for the breathless runner.
The eager anxious soul.
Who falls with his strength exhausted
Almost in sight OF the goal.
For the hearts that break in silence
With a sorrow all unknown,
For those who need companions,
Yet walk their ways alone.
There are songs enough for the lovers
Who share loves tender pain:
sing for the one whose passion
Is given all in vain.
For those whose spirit comrades
Have missed them on their way.
sing, with heart o'erfowing.
This minor strain today.
And know the Solar System
Must somewhere keep in space
A prize for that spent runner
Who barely lost the race.
For the plan would be imperfect
Unless it held some sphere
That paid for the toll and talent
And love that are wasted here.
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Swat the fly, dig the dandelion, boil
the water and don't look a. the Their
mometer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

In the matter of weather the VIII
son administration is putting out con-
siderable hot stuff.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

There are no swear words In the
Japanese language. Talk about ia
pan licking the United States!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Swat the fly but do not overlook
the "is-it-hot-enough-for-you?" idiot.
Insects aren't the only pests.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

TIE Winterset Reporter is con-
vinced that the under dog wants no
sympathy, what he wants is assist
ance.
Some laws are too lax insists the
Shenandoah World 1T is as much a
criminal proceeding to libel town
as to libel an Individual"
The Cherokee Democrat observes
that when bride begins to eat on
ions and the groom resurrects the
strong old pipe OF bachelorhood, it is
near setting time for the honeymoon.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat in
clines to the belief that when all
kinds of business shall have been
regulated by fatherly government
the country will probably learn that
the old way of permitting each citi-
zen to attend to his own business
was the best.
president Wilson thought he would
settle the currency question In TWEEN
ty minutes" says the Cedar Rapids
Republican. THE bill drawn up by
the president is one of the queerest
things ever devised 1t would affect
every bank in the country, tying up
Its money In an unproductive way. It
is safe to say that such law will
never get past even the present on
gress, queer as 1t Is"
The Spencer News believes that the
Wilson administration should be Civ
en- time to prove itself before being
condemned. Wilson was not our
man." the News continues; I'VE did
not vote for change and regretted
the defeat of the republican party and
policies. but let's not hedge up the
way and discount the new administra-
ton, but give 1t a fair chance to
show what 1t can do with fair field"
Cut out politics and unite in the
development of a greater Iowa." says
the Mason City Times. Nothing in
It," comments the Charles City Intel
ligencer. THE right kind of politics
can only aid in the development of
a greater Iowa. However, the petty
politics that have acted as drag ON
the growth OF the state during con-
siderable part OF the past twenty
years might well be cut out. We
mean the kind of politics that is all
for self and nothing for the other fell !,
low"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
THE DISAPPOINTED.

There are songs enough for the hero
Who dwells on the heights of fame;
sing for the disappointed
For those who have missed their
aim.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03
TIE DAILY GATE CITY

proyements in harvesting machinery
alone. we feel that we have lived cen.
turtles.
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The HandyDay Club.


The HandyrDay Club.
It's easy enough to be pleasant
When life runs on like song,
But the man worth while
Is the chap who can smile
When his note for Northumberland
fifty dollars falls due on the
day after his bills for the plumb
er. the coal man, and his wife's
Easter hat
Come along!
It's easy enough to be CHEEKY
When life's like lovers chat,
But the man who wins
Is the fellow who grins
When he starts out on bright spring
morning arrayed In his finest
regalia, and by noon finds a tor
rent of April rain, February
snowstorm and a March wind
playing hide and seek with his
brand new
Beaver hats
It's easy enough to be jolly
When life is huge mince pie,
But the man for us
Is the chap who don't cuss
When ne goes Off for the summer to
get a good rest and finds he has
to pay seven hall boys, two
head walters, three mattresses,
six porters. eight chambermaids,
and fourteen assorted but I'M
classified tip chasers twenty
five cents day apiece or suffer
the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
The man who is only as honest as
he has to be is as dishonest as he
can be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

Read The na,ly Gate city, 100
rer week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

When he came back he had sign
with him. which he flung up on the
bar, and this Is what It said:
The First OF July
Will be
The Last of August.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

TIE Winterset Reporter is con-
WINGED that the under dog wants no
sympathy, what he wants is assist
ance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-03

The Cherokee Democrat observes
that when bride begins to eat on.
ions and the groom resurrects the
strong old pipe OF bachelorhood, it is
near setting time for the honeymoon.