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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02

A successful peach grower, S. j. T..
Bush, in recent talk at Rochester,
IN. Y, said that 100000 bushels OF
peaches ro.ted on the trees in one
NEW York county alone in 1912 for
lack of cars to transport them to
market.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02

/ After years Of controversy che
Massachusetts general assembly mas
authorized a $4,000 statue of Major
General Benjamin F. Butler, to be
placed in the state house grounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02

/ Mrs Russell Sage has contributed
TO the state museum enough money to
acquire a series of log bird paintings
iby Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Of Ithaca,
for the museums book on the birds of
New York
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

o many shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant:
And many a word, at random spoken,
May sooth or wound heart that's
broken.
Sir Walter Scott
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
a DISCREET DADDY.

A DISCREET DADDY.
Ny daddy's always telling me
About how good he used to be;
Hs did what he was told to do,
And he was neat and tidy too;
He learned his lessons every day,
And he would rather work than play;
But when my srandpa's visiting with
Us, my daddy, If I'm had,
Forgets to say single thing about
His goodness as lad.
MY daddy says he never told
A fib or made his parents scold
Because he did things that were
wrong;
He always tried to help along
by being good and kind and sweet
And eating what boys ought to eat;
But when my granma visits here
Ny daddy never boasts to me
About how good and sweet and dear
A little boy he used to be.
MY daddy always took delight
In doing only what was right
When he was Just about my size;
He wanted to be great and wise;
But when my grandpa comes and
when
MY grandma's here to visit, then
My daddy merely gives a wink
Or smiles, If I've been kind OF wild,
And doesn't try to make us think
That he was once an angel child.
SIS. e. Kiser, in Harper's Magazine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
CHARLESTON.

Q . Q . . . . . q = . q . . .
Mrs. VIM. George and children are
visiting relatives In Joliet, Ill.
Thomas Dresser Of Montrose passed
through town Thursday.
J. P. Huston, wife and granddaugh-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02

For the time being, at least, British
will forego nerve tonic and bandage
kheir heads. Pass the arnica.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02

Dlarrhoea Remedy.
Every family without exception
should keep this preparation at hand
during the no. weather of the sum-
mer months. Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is
worth many times its cost when need
ed and IS almost certain to be needed
before the summer is over. It has no
superior for the purposes for which 1t
is intended. Buy it now. For sale by
all dealers-Advertise
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
treasury peficit Increasing.

Treasury Dehctt IncfeasIh9.
Meantime the deficit in the treasury
accounts continues to- mount, yester-
days official statement showing the
excess Of ordinary disbursements"
for the fiscal year s37, Os7,955, against
an excess OF revenue receipts Of 81
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
Or. BRUCE oIIFIllAN.

Or. BRUCE L. oiLFlLLAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once, 621h Main street, over
Winger Bros. store. Bell phone 100.
Black.
Residence, BIT North Fourth street.
Bell phone 12S0-Red.
Hours-1o-12 a. M; "a ,. M: 7-s
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
Six Months Of the Low Wilson larlft
sy Walter J. Ballard in Los Angelo. Times.

395, 706 for the same period Of the last
year, when the much-berated Payne
tariff was in operation, or. to put It
In ordinary terms, deficit of $37, OO0,-
900 this fiscal year against surplus
OF $7,333,O0O at this time last year. OF
course the administration is depend
ing on the income tax to pull it out
of the hole
In every month of the period In
which the new law has been indus
triously sharpening the wits OF
American manufacturers" by bringing
in foreign manufactures at reduced
rates Of duty the customs receipts
have fallen below those of the cor
responding period Of last year.
In Ave of the six months the I'M
ports of finished manufactures have
exceeded those OF the same month OF
the preceding year; and in four of the
six months the imports Of manufac-
lures have fallen short OF the record
of the corresponding months OF last
year.
Our Supplies Made Abroad.
This Increase in the imports OF fin
ished manufactures has been pro-
gressive The closing month Of the
period showed also larger total i'm
ports than any other, $1S3.00o.00o,
against $13s, 100000 in it's first month.
On the other hand, the exports OF do
nestle products have steadily fallen,
the figures for October. 1913, having
been $3.50, 00o, 900 and In March, 1914.
only s1s4.Oo00oo. This seems to IL
lustrate the fallacy OF the demo-
cratic theory that IL you don't buy
you can't SELL
The imports in the six months In,
creased more than 81 per cent, while
the exports decreased more than 81
per cent in tn sam period.
We repeat that in all Of this bad
showing OF six months Of the Wilson
tariff our factories and our wage
earners are the chief sufferers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01

tennial wildly before the people OF
the state.
While none of the editors to have a
hand in the preparation of the states
official history has been selected ex-
cept Professor Buck, it is the intention
of the centennial commission to
choose those whose training, expert
ence and mental equipment best fit
them for the important undertaking.
1t is probable that professors from uni
versities making a special study of
Illinois history will be designated
While great masses of material al
ready are available for preparation of
this history, members of the centen-
NAL commission are DESTROYS that
every possible source of information
be brought into requisition. Citizens
generally are invited to submit sug-
gestions and data that might be of
service in the preparation of a work
of this sort.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
NEGLECTED BoULEvARDs.

| Some way ought TO be found to pro-
| vide for uniformity of grading and
| improvement of boulevards on Rock Is
lands newly paved streets. Most prop
erty owners have sufficient pride
| to at least grade and seed the
! boulevards in front of their premises,
| but, of course, there are exceptions,
and one lot in a block left without at
tention or with the work done in a
slovenly manner is sufficient to mar
the appearance of the entire commun-
! ity. Where the streets are narrow and
there is little space left for boulevard
ing it does not make so much differ
ence, but in most cases there is op-
portunity for considerable landscape
gardening.
On some of the streets paved last
season where there are wide boule-
wards there are still many lots where
nothing whatever has been done to
improve the strip between curb and
sidewalk, while in other cases the
grading has been poorly done, with
too little or too much dirt. Some who
have graded have made no attempt to
seed and the only possible crop will
be weeds. Stones, bricks and other
rubbish cover the surface in many
places. One object in paving Is to
improve appearances, but it is utterly
defeated where the bou,evards are
neglected.
The city exercises supervision over
the streets between the property lines
on each side, and is the only agency
which has authority to enforce any
standard of improvement for boule-
wards. 1t is matter in which all the
people are interested. One solution
would be to provide reasonable specifi-
cations for the identifying of boule-
wards, the work to be done by the city
and charged to the property after a
given period, and with the park COM
missioner made ex-officio inspector TO
determine when the municipality is
justified in taking the matter out of
the hands of the owner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
Mexico Has Interesting History

| eventually resulted in the republic OF
Mexico of today More than half of
the first century of Mexican independ-
ence was abortive, one coterie after
another coming into temporary power,
and number of those acclaimed rul-
ers, after brief regimes, meeting ig-
nominous death at the hands OF the
! people they sought to govern.
The form of government adopted by
| Mexico follows in general that OF the
! United States, having executive, judi
I cial and legislative divisions. Each
of the 81 states is represented in two
| houses Of congress, composed of SEN
| ators and deputies. Congress holds
| two sessions each year for limited pc
| RODS. Sach state has its governor and
| legislature, and is sub divided into dis
! tricts, or countries, over each of which
"jefe politico'' is placed, the districts
having subsidiary municipalities with
magistrates, presiding officials and
councils. The so-called autocratic
feature of the government may be
largely due to the fact that govern
ors hold Office with approval of the
president; that jefe politicos have sim
liar relations with the governors, and
that the officers of the municipalities
are generally controlled by the jefe
politicos.
The church and state are independ-
ent, and congress cannot pass laws
prohibiting or establishing any reEg-
ion. OF the 100000 inhabitants,
two-fifths claim direct descent from
ancient tribes or families which are
accepted as the basis of Mexican his
tory, two-fifths are of mixed native
and foreign blood, the remainder be-
ing classed under the common appela-
ton of foreign"
The City of Mexico, 264 miles by rail
west of Vera Cruz, and 7,400 feet alti-
tude, is reached by two rail routes,
elm bing from the hot lands through
difficult mountain passes, one of which
closely follows the trail taken by
Cortes in 1919 by General Winfield
Scott with American troops in 1S47,
and over which, Is years later, the in
vading French troops passed. 1t is the
most populous city. One half of the
railroad mileage of the country is be-
tween sea level and 5000 feet, and |
about an equal amount between 5000 |
and 10000 feet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01

The following information concern
ing Mexico was given out by the Ma
| tional Geographic society in Washing
| ton. ID. c., today:
| 1t is interesting to note that the area
of Mexico is practically as great as
| that of the United States between the
Mississippi river and the Atlantic
coast, the Great Lakes and the Gulf
of Mexico, varying in altitude from sea
| level to $4,000 feet. Its climate is af-
fected by these elevations and by a
range of IS degrees of latitude. Twelve
hundred miles is the distance trav-
ersed in passing south from Juarez, on
the northern boundary. The Gulf OF
Mexico and Caribbean sea coast line
extends for 100 miles, while the Pa
cific Ocean and Gulf of California
touch 1000 miles of Mexican coast.
Prior to 1886, Mexico, as a Spanish
colony and the United States covered
approximately equal areas. but the
Texas secession and the result of the
Mexican war added nearly 100000
square miles to our territory, and the
extent of Mexico now is less than one
fourth that OF continental United
states. MEXICO mas 6tlll territorial eX-
panse equal 10 the aggregate of Aus
tria-Hungary, Germany, France, Great
Britain and Ireland. The total area of
the republic, 10000 square miles, is
less than that of Texas. California,
Montana, New Mexico and Arizona
com bined.
The average density of population
of Mexico approximates 20 per square
mile, the most thickly populated por
tions, outside of the federal district,
being the states OF Tlaxcala and Mex
ice. the former being less than Della
ware in size and of about the same
density of population, and the latter
being nearly as large as New Hamp-
shire, but with more than twice the
number of Inhabitants. The federal
district, modelled after the District of /
Columbia, but of eight times greater
area, is surrounded by the state of
Mexico, the large population OF the
capital, 100000, materially aiding in
bringing the average to more than
1000 per square mile.
During nearly 500 years subsequent !
to the conquest by Cortes, Spain dom !
mated Mexico. A century ago bold |
effort for freedom was started, which |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01

lies. smooth glass.
Where you may see your smiling face
Reflected you pause or pass.
And here and there a cawing crow
VIII slowly flap from tree to tree
As IL he did not care to go.
But went. just so that you might see.
I long to play a while with you
Out there where tiny rivers wind
Out yonder where the sky is blue
And there is peace of heart and mind;
I will forget a little while
That childhood's faith is mine no more,
And We will bridge some stream and pile
Up fortresses beside its shore.
Come, little comrade. let US claim
The Joy awaiting us out there,
Where no one suffers wrongful blame
Or adds to any others care:
With hopes that shall be sure and strong
Wen cross the pastures, hand in hand,
And you shall lead me back along
The ways that wind to Boyhood Land
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
THE WAR MONGER.

The Hearst New York paper prints
a large picture showing dozens and
. scores of men slaughtered and women
outraged and killed across the Rio
Grande river, while the president with
his hand is holding back the young
men who are champing at the bits,
eager to rush to the rescue. We are
told that Mexico murders while Wash
| ington mediates.
| And yet, says the Cedar Rapids Re
| publican, Mr.. Bryan on the same day
made the statement that he had no
official information of Americans be-
ing either killed or outraged in Next
co. We believe that Mr.. Bryan told
the truth and that Mr. Hearst made
simply an appeal to ignorant preju-
dices, the kind of an appeal that no
man of sense or conscience ought to
make, not even to increase a newspa-
per's circulation. 1t ought really to
be regarded as a high crime against
the nation to make such appeals
based upon entirely false rumors In
face of our attack upon Vera Cruz, it
must be confessed that the conduct of
the MeXicans has been of high or
der, Even in this civilized country if
foreign power should land upon our
shores we might expect more disturb
ances and more mob rule than Mexico
has been able to show the world.
And as for the young men who are
SO eager, according to Mr. Hearst to
rush TO the rescue of struggling wo-
men, they will be better prepared IL
they go to war. II war 1t must be, with
calmer ideas in their heads War with
Mexico will be no medieval knight er
rantry in which the young soldier
finds a beautiful woman. maybe. an
heiress, to rescue at the other end OF
the line. Going to war will be MOTH
ing like that and there will not he
beautiful maiden for each gallant SOL
der. But going to war will mean w.
ing in trenches under burning suns.
or being picked off by snipers while
on the march with the sun shining 12O
degrees on the poor devils that carry
the guns. 1t will mean all manner of
tropic diseases of which men will rot
by the thousands. II will be, in short.
hell, and the men who have been
urged to go into such undertakings
will many times over curse the hot
heads who infiamed their passions and
who fnfiamed the nations with war
talk. In the end they would be more
eager to shoot at a lineup of all the
sensational war mongers among poll
ticians and Journalistic than at the I'M
offending Mexicans. most of whom
lave not greatly interested themselves
n the transactions of the Huertas and |
he Villas, who are much like our |
vould-be war makers at home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
Plan Centennial History of State

The publication of an official five
volume Centennial History of Illi
nois' is assured. Governor Dunno has
just given his written endorsement of
the plan to the Illinois centennial COM
mission and the commission will pro.
coed at once to select editors for the
work
In communication to DR. Otto L.
Schmidt of Chicago, chairman of the
publication committee of the centen-
NAL commission, Governor Dunno ap-
proves the commissions publication
plans and this is accepted as indicat-
ing that in his biennial message to the
general assembly next winter the gov
ernor will recommend an appropria-
ton covering the cost of these publ
cations.
These five volumes, together with
the volume now in course of prepare
ton on the subject of illinois in 1885,
will constitute the official publications
of the centennial commission. Dr.
Scion ]. Buck, professor of history at
the University of Illinois, is already
at work on the volume illinois in
1S1S,'' which will be a faithful chron-
icle of social and economic conditions
as they existed in this section at the
time Illinois was adm ed to state
hood.
This volume will be preliminary to
the five volumes constituting the
Centennial History of Illinois," 1t
will be published as soon as practic-
able, to assist the chronological vision
of the development of the state and
for the purpose of bringing the CEN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
Distinction.

Did any of your ancestors come
over with William the Conqueror ?"
she asked
Not that l know Of" he replied.
Are you a descendant of anybody
who was Sn the Mayfower?"
I'm afraid not. I have never IN
vestigated the matter"
Surely you had an ancestor who
was an officer in the Revolutionary
war;"
mo. Ny great-great-grandfath was
a common soldier in the Revolutionary
war, but"
Harold" she cried. finging her
arms around his neck, can 1t be pos
sible? have often wondered whether
there really was a Revolutionary army,
and now learn that l am loved by
descendant of him l am so proud and
happy, dear"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01

ers are left to draw their own conciu-
sions. Its employees in the field are
not permitted to grind personal axes
or appeal to a certain clientele by par
tisan reports.
That these safeguards are not eX-
tended the public by other news gath
ering agencies Is evident to anyone
who who reads their stories from Mex
leo. Some of them, it can scarcely be
doubted. are studiously andeavoring to
discredit the administration at Wash
ington. Every incident which It IS
possible to use for this purpose is
seized upon and enlarged. Difficulties
in the way of carrying out the United
States program are invariably Played
up, while no opportunity is lost to show
Huerta in favorable light and to mag
Nifty his power.
The practice OF permitting CORE
spondents to sign their names to their
stories is a partial confession that the
agency handling them does not accept
full responsibility for the assertions
made. 1t also has tendency to en-
courage expression of private opinion
in place of the bare statement of fact
Articles are signed to give them ''indi-
viduality, which in most cases means
merely personal bias.
Two explanations present them
selves to account for this tendency to
distort Mexican news. Either there is
a political motive behind it or the writ
ers are trying to overcome the handi-
cap of lack of access to the sources of
real news. In either case the reading
public gets the worst of il.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
NEWS, PLAIN AND COLoRED.

r The Associated Press is the only
agency which is giving the public abb
solutely uncolored news of all phases
OF the Mexican situation. It's writer's
remain unknown TO those who read
their stories, and the organization, as
suming responsibility for their state
ments and with no purpose other than
70 give the news fairly and Impair
italy, sees TO II that thsy are compe-
tent men, trained in just this sort OF
service, and then makes doubly sure
by keeping careful track OF their copy. |
The Associated Press makes the tell |
ing of the news its mission. The read
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
The Goose.

The goose, which for some unknown
reason has become an emblem of
idiocy, but which is really wise bird
of good habits and one of the most
profitable for the fancIer, was prob
ably the first fowl to be domesticated
by man. Homer, 1900 years before
the Christian era. speaks of his geese
in which he was greatly interested,
and the hierogylphics of Egypt prove
that at his time they had been tanned
for centuries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01


Underneath them was a dark, green
forest dusky with great purple shadows
and far in the distance broad river
mirrored the sky above
IF only l was big and grand like
you," sighed the little cloud one day.
ITS SO stupid just being a little cloud
all the timc-forever and all the time. ="
What makes you think being a big
cloud is any more fun than being little
cloud? Don't l have to stay up in the
sky just as you do"
yes, you do" he decided, thought
fully. you may have TO stay up in
the sky just as / do. But you are so
much grander looking while you are
there! So much bigger and more in
teresting."
How do you know all that ?" laughed
the big gray cloud.
II know it." answered the little white
cloud. because I've been listening to
what people say. heard them talking
just little while ago; one said, Look
at that. beautiful gray cloud and at
once ] wished !, too. was gray instead
of plain, stupid white"
Then the big gray cloud laughed
harder than ever!
You don't mean 10 tell me-" he de-
clared, that you are so stupid as to
listen to what people say! thought
better of you than that
We'll, I'm sorry to disappoint you."
said the little cloud in distress. but you
see I just heard and / couldn't help
wishing"
Eyes. you could" replied the big
cloud firmly. listen if you must. but
never pay any attention to what people
'sayl Now. for my part, like white
clouds, so you see there are all kinds
of tastes. Those people liked gray; /
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01

: TERMS-Ten cents per week by car
rier in Rock Island; So per year by mail
In advance.
3 Complaints of delivery service should
be made to the circulation depar tment.
which should also be notified in every
instance where ii is desired to have
paper discontinued, as carriers have no
authority in the premises.
! All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Telephones in all departments. Cen
( trai Union, Rock Island 145, 1l45 and
g2145.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
Faith.

oh, for your faith, dear little enei
You kneel beside your mothers knee,
And pray that wrongs which you have
done
May be forgiven graciously.
You feel that Some One hears somewhere.
That Some One, gazing from above,
Will not ignore your simple prayer.
Nor scorn the proffer of your love.
You have not learned to sit in doubt;
You think that He who lights the sun
VIII hear and blot your SHINING OUT
Oh for your faith, dear little one!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
0Ho CALL a.
the FIELDS

Come. little COM
rade. let US go
Out yonder where
the wide fields
are.
Where lazy breezes
softly blow
Ger wooded hills
that stretch afar.
The paths are fair
and free out
there,
The turf will soon
be gro W ! n g
green:
Come. little friend.
let's turn from
care,
And gladly stray
Ger y o n d e r
scene.
In every little hol-
low place
A akv-hltIa lake
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01

I May 1 is here. How time flies. Soon
st will be Memorial day, and after that
come Fourth of July, Labor day,
Thanksgiving, and then we'll have
Christmas presents to bury. Do your
shopping early.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-01
Still Thoroughly Feminine.

'T had an idea, when l heard that
she was going to study medicine, that
she would cease to be womanly."
Hasn't it had that effect upon her? ?"
NO happened along the other day
when her runabout had broken down
and she was busy trying to fix 1t with
a hairpin.'