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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
True Patriotism and the Mail
Order Menace
Ley William Allan whIte.]

The preservation of the home trade
to the home town carries with it the
preservation of many of our Ameri-
can institutions.
It seems to me that a lot Of good
things in American life will pass if
the country town passes. And it will
pass just as surely as Capitalization
of retail mail order business in cities
continues.
The American country town. the
town Of from one hundred to one hun
dred thousand people, preserves bet
ter than the crowded city and better
! than the lonely ranch and isolated
farm life, the things that make
America great.
Here in these country towns, the
spirit OF neighborliness is the prevail
/ ing spirit. Men come to know one
another, and when any two human be-
! ings come to know one another, in
the one who is intelligent and wise.
respect always rises for the other To
know ones fellows always is to SYM
pathize with them. NeighborIiness
spells fraternity.
The American country town with it's
( broad circle of friendships. with it's
close, homely, simple relations be-
| tween men, with its spirit of co-opera-
| ton and with its economic status
that permits the creation Of no In
decently rich and no abjectly poor Is
! the American country town, 1t seems
to me, is the most hopeful of our
American institutions.
! To destroy that town, furnishing
the market for the farmer and giving
! steady employment to labor, means a
reorganization of our commercial, so
cial and industrial life that will be
revolutionary-and more matter OF
doubtful value.
The mail order house therefore be-
comes a menace to this country. the
mail order house unrestricted will kill
| our smaller towns. creating great
! cities with their terrible contrasts OF
/ life, with their cruel social relations,
with their inevitable caste feeling
! that comes from the presence OF
I strangers who are rich and poor. liv-
=! ing side by side.
Friendship, neighborliness, fratern-
! ity or whatever you call that spirit Of
comradery that comes when men
! know one another well, is the cement
! that holds together this union of the
/ states. It is not created in great
! cities.
! Great cities give much in aims, but
| little in justice. Only as we know
each other justly; and the city is a
! wilderness OF careless strangers
| whose instincts Of humanity are daily
becoming more and more blunted 10
suffering because in the nature Of
things suffering in cities must be i'm
| personal. 1t is not the suffering Of
| friends and nieghbors and kith and
kin as it is in the smaller town. so
tie mail order house. crushing out our
| towns. is drying up the milk of hu.
man kindness in our hearts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
Christ. the vlIlaaer.

Mary Austin in North American
Review: Christ was a small town
man, and no world builder. He preach
ed the kingdom Of God. knowing God
for spirit and having an increasing
realization of the kingdom as state
OF being. But he had no program.
He followed the inward voice. and
followed It instinctively, with the
freedom OF river in its natural
channel, with no fretting Of the flesh.
But where the voice left him unin-
formed he was simply a man from
Nazareth; his social outlook was the
outlook OF a villager.
All the great prophets of Israel had
come out OF the wilderness; their
words were full Of the terrible things
-thunders, earthquakes, fire on the
mountains. But the words Of Jesus
are all OF the small town--the candle
and the bushel. the housewives meas
ure Of yeast, the children playing In
the street. The rich he knew only as
the poor and the oppressed knew
them: the kings Of his parallels were
the kings of fairy tale and legend:
such rulers and potentates as make
the stock OF the village stroy teller
His very way of speaking was folk
way; the pithy sentence. the preg-
uant figure. He saw God reflected in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
EXPECT HOT FIGHT
IN MEMS SINGLES
Field for City Tennis Championship
Narrows Down to Three Sure
and Ono Possible
Candidate.
One MATCH HELD UP
orsborn Waiting to Battle Winner for
Entrance to Semi-Fin7is > Eb-
ersoic, Merriam ard
Joy Survive.

The third annual local tennis tour
nament has simmered down to three
sure and one possible candidate IL
the mems singles and the matches
scheduled for the semi-fnals and fin
ais promise to be some of the hottest
and most interesting that have ever
been seen on local courts.
Ebersole, Merriam and G. Joy are
three of the large field who have sur
vived to the semi-fnals. and finals
Orsborn is the only one In the third
round and as soon as first round
match that has been child up, is played,
the winner will battle with Orsborn
for entrance to the semf-dna1s.
1t is believed that Orsborn will win
the match and this will leave two
matches to be played in the semi-f1n-
ais, one between Orsborn and C. JOY
and the other between Ebersole and
Merriam The winners will then play
each other for the championship.
In the round leading to the semt-fn-
ais, there were some close matches.
McElree, King court champion, was
put out by c. Joy in whirlwind fight
3-6, 6-3. Sc.
Ebersole defeated Banks 81, 81 and
Merriam defeated Erhart 60, 60.
No other matches in the women's
singles or mems doubles have been
played.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

And that brings US back to the first
principles: II we who live in these
small towns in America cannot see
that our duty to our country lies first
of all In our duty to our neighbors.
then We are blind indeed to the basis
of real patriotism. which is only
neighborly kindness Patriotism is
not cheering for the flag; 1t Is not In
feeling our eyes fill with emotional
tears at hearing 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" patriotism is just old-fash-
Toned human duty.
To sacrifice our neighbor-the man
who helps the town with its taxes,
with its public business, with its
myriad activities for neighborly right
eousness-to sacrifice that man and
his business for the mere sake of saw.
ing dollar on the purchase of hun.
dred dollars worth of goods. is Just
as unpatriotic as it is to spit at the
flag.
For the flag. II 1t means anything,
means the golden rule; the flag
means friendly burden bearing; It
means mutual help in trouble; 1t
means standing together against COM
mon foes.
| The motto OF the mail order house
is every man for himself and the devil
take the hindermost-and you bet the
devil will.
That spirit never fails to work; and
! the weak man, the unprotected man.
the man alone-the man of the farm.
at the end Of the fact. when his farm
market is gone, when his town greed
has left this country cold and hard
and mean and neighborless-the farm
er will be the hindermost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
very surface OF the common

p " . =. -g1 "a
every surface OF the common life,
and taught in parallels which are,
after all, but q perfected form Of
quizzes and riddles dear to the un-
lettered wit. That Is why so many
of them are remembered, while his
profounder sayings escaped his audi
ence. II Is evident from the form Of
these, blunted as they are by retrans-
lation, that they were many OF them
cast In the matched and balanced sen.
fences Of Hebrew verse, which &C.
counts in part for their easy reten-
ton.
He was a man wise In life, but I'M
learned. He read no books but the
scriptures: wrote nothing; took the
folk way Of transmitting his teaching
from mouth to mouth, and trusted
God for the increase; and he had the
folk way In his profoundest speech,
Of Identifying himself with the power
that used him. He dramatized all his
relations to the invisible. And with
It all he was a Jew OF the circum-
cision. He grew up beyond Judaism
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
ADVERTISED LETTERS,


List OF letters remaining IN the
keokuk pos'ofNce. rrcalled for. for
week ending Sept 4, 1915: .. 49,.
Ladies'.
Mrs. Frank Green.
Mrs. Lafrorte. ...
Miss Wealthy Parkins.
Miss Myrtle Pensinger.
Miss Annie Bell Porter.
Mrs. Kate Rockhardt.
Mrs. Jesse Stewart
Grace Wilson.
Miss Pearl Whitaker.
Miss Edith Wright.
Gentlemen.
Rev. George Edward Hughes.
Mr.. Ben Johnson.
John Measury.
Mr.. Morgan Mills.
Mr.. Albert T. Nelson.
Mr.. James W. Ogden.
Mr.. Carl Stevens.
Mr.. Parl Thomas.
Mr.. William Vavles.
Mr.. VIM. H. Wilkinson (2).
Persons calling for letters in above
list will please say they are adver.
tised. E. P. McMANUS,
Postmaster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

as a stalk Of grain grows from its
sheath, but never out of It. Always,
to his death, it was there about the
roots Of his life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

Honorable Frank p. Woods will have
a monopoly of the garden seed per
suasive in the tenth district "Mr,
Woods the Herald adds, lis q past
master in the art OF putting garden
seeds where they will do the most
good. Oh, you lucky Woods!"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

Candidates for the next legisla.
ture," says the Council Bluffs Nonpar
ell, Should be prepared to define
their attitude On the question of hard
surfaced roads for Iowa. 1t will be
one of the main issues"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

The Waterloo Courier says no anti
toxin has been invented that will
make a man immune from the wa
fever. $3.50
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

The Perry Chief suspects that it will
be difficult to convince most Of the
school children that it has been three
months since vacation started.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

The Bedford Times-Republican con
cludes that when the farmer want
hard surfaced roads he is going t
have them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

The Charles City Press suggests
that while the canning season is on
It would be good time to can Car
rama.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
September 9.

III Georgia had a man like Colonel
Blease for governor" says the Cedar
Rapids Republican. lit would have a
chief executive who might join in their
lynching BEES
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

The Webster City Herald says that
since Senator Kenyon refuses longer
to be distributor of garden seeds the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
Where Father "eets His"

Louisville Courier-Journal: An auto.
mobile is emancipation from dis
lance" to ma and the girls. But slav-
cry to the job with monkey wrench and
a hose for father"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
RURAL CONFERENCE
HELD THIS WEEK
Interesting Celebration Is Being Held
At Sharon Church Today
and Tomorrow.

DONNELLSON, Iowa, Sept. ga
home coming and rural life conference
will be held at Sharon church today
and Thursday Of this week. There
will be good speaking, inspiring sing
ing and delightful social hour. The
music will be in charge of Fred B.
Wise, tenor soloist Of Chicago uni
versity. The program is as follows:
s,,.o.,.s-s..s ~, September 8.
Evening service at o'clock.
Deyotions-Rev Mr.. Click.
Special music.
sermon-Rev. Scott W. Smith, d. D.
September 9.
Morning service at 10 o'clock.
Devotions-Rev. Mr.. Beecham.
Special music.
Address-Rev. Matthew B. McNutt
IL a. m.-Musfc.
Address by Rev. L. E. Koenig.
IL o'clock-Rasket dinner.
Afternoon meeting at o'clock.
Special music.
Address-Rev. ]. F. Hinkhouse.
8 p. m-Special music.
Closing address-By Rev. Matthew
McNutt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08

DR.. BRUCE 1. oiLFlLLAN.
Physician and Suroeofss
Office, 612h Main street, over
Winger Bros. store. Bell phone 100.
Black.
Residence, SIT North Fourth street
Bell phone 1280-Red.
HourB-10-12 q. M: "a p. m; ~
p. m. Sunday by appointemnt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIAN. "a
DIR. w. p. OVERLOOK.
Phvalelan and auroaon.

Office, Masonic Temple. Residence
Alpha apartments.
Office HourS-10 to ~ Q. m. : 70
8 D. M: evenings, to 8: Sundays,
II to p. m. United States civu scr.
vice examiner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-08
Not Long Until Cold Weather
and Your Home Should Be
Pleasant

Have you thought about heating your hous
If not, Why not have Hot Water Heating Fin
out in readiness before cold weather sets IN, al
then YOU can have the heat when you need It al
just the place you want it?
Remember, we are headquarters for all kin
Of plumbing work We have a large stock Of Ba
Room Outfits Let US put in one for you and ha
comfort in the house. A cool bath in the SUNNI
time or hot bath in the winter. You can ha
just what you want
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
\ DANGER TO BABIES

\ periodical called Child Be- ,erment and Social Welfare" which IS published in Chicago, sounds a warning, even in midwinter, against the dangers of using poisoned pa per for destroying flies. It shows that last year thirty-seven cases Of the poisoning of little children were reported from fifteen states, from July to October, in all of which the .ictims drank water from saucers containing fly paper.
 To attract flies arsenical fly pa Der is sweetened and then it is put in saucers or other reCeptacles where it can be saturated and even covered with water. Little cEil- dren. under three years of age, are ,he mos, common victims of this method of warning upon flies. They taste the water, perhaps with a finger moistened in it, and finding it swee. they drink it and are stricken with arsenic poisoning.
 IL is much safer and better to swat the flies. Persistent and general "swatting" does not en- danger the lives of babies and Il So, relo,s. sr4t vysetive,fa. thN ttHHS ,,,. |. ful elimination, as far as possible ot the favorite breeding places fol flies, fly-Swatting is the most ef' iecJiye means of reducing the fly danger and nuisance to the mini mum.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
EDITORIAL P A c E

assertion and medieval harshness of religion is not only offensive but appears even sacrilegious to a great many people.
 Yet Billy" Sunday wins thou sands of converts to christianity and a better life wherever he breaches. Why is it? That Ques- ton has puzzled more than a few of those who give serious thought to such things.
 Does not the answer lie in the defense of the first great "yellow newspaper in America, made by its publisher when he was called to ac' count for it's sensationalism and perversion of the truth? There Is a great mass of people in this coun- try" he said, which can not be reached. and it's interest attracted and held, in any other manner
 This Is not q good defense for yellow journalism" because, while what the publisher said is un- doubtedly true in principle, hte aim of this class of newspaper is to acquire influence and wealth by pandering, so far as the law and public sentiment will permit, to the worst that Is in humanity. But may it not be an acceptable de Iense for the Billy" Sunday style of evangelization, whose manifest object is to uplift men and women:
 It is surely not impossible, and in fact it seems 10 have beer proved, that Sunday, by his meth ods, is enabled to reach at onc' ! " fn need -0t a ritoFal~ and S6fritua awakening, who can not be reached readily in any other way That i; why he is being commended in Phil adelphia now as strongly as he i: being denounced. That is why many New York ministers went tC hear him in a body, a few days ago.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
NOTICE TO TAN PAYERS

Real estate taxes for the year 1914 are now due and payable at the office of town treasurer, U. S. court house, and if not paid on or before February 27, 1915, the same will become delinquent.
 MARTIN CONWAY, 2-10-td. Town Treasurer
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
A BIT OF ADVICE
First-DOn't Delay. Secohu--Doh
 Experiment.

If you suffer from baokache; headaches or dizzy spells; if you rest poorly and are languid in the morning; if the kidney secretions gre irregular and unnatural in ap- pearauce, do not delay. h such cases the kidneys often need help.
 Doan's Kidney Pills are especial ly prepared for kidney trouble-the gre recommended by thousands. Can kidney sufferers desire more convincing proof than the statement following.
 James NJ. Cahill, stationary en- gineer, PAT Harrison St., Portland, Oregon, says: Nothing has occur red 70 alter my high opinion oi Deans Kidney Pills and confirm my former endorsement Ot them fiYRaaRF YRaaRFSs qBg6n vS2I5e8 By BS5j2&Gs BS5j26Gs fkRff33 kRf3 ney Pills and 1 believe that they have no equal for kidney and blad, der trouble"
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for kidney remedy get Deans Kidney PiIls-the same that Mir. Cahin had. Foster-Nlil' burn Co.,, Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
THE LAW UPHELD

The manufacturers Of the "PUR- OLA' line Of Household Remedies and Toilet Preparations are in full accord with the Purt Food Laws. Besides this their preparations ara sold under an iron-clad guarantee. Once used, you will use nc other. Your druggist will supply you. Speci fy "PUROLA" Sold by Keller Bros. Drug Co.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
How,s Thisl

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 P, l. CHENEY & CO. Toledo. o.
 We, the undersigned, have known S. J. Cheney for the last l5 years. and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry nut any obligations made by his firm. . NATIONAL BANK OF COMM ERSH,,
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, nCtinE directly upon the blood and mu- sous surfaces of the system. Testimoniais Sent free. Price 15 cents per bottle. SoIo Take Haifs Family Pills for constipation.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
EXPOSED!

After exposure. when you feel a cold coming on, take "PURoLA Honey and Tar cough syrup. Don't wait until it has developed into 5ronchitis or pneumonia. Does not contain opiates of any kind. Keep
 bottle in the house for emergen- cies. Your druggist will refund your money if not satisfied. Price 25c and soc Specify "PURoLA' Sold by Keller Bros. Drug Go.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
k OPEN TO DEBATE

Every well informed man and woman is acquainted with the revival ID. thods of Rev. Billy" sunday, forme: professional base ball player. He knows that Sun days roughness of talk, violence Of denunciation, reckleSsness of
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

The virtuous Georgia youth who fell out of a hay loft while running away from a kiss is only sixteen and has plenty of time to learn to ruh the other way.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

Hope has dawned for the joy liders. Prizes have bee offered for designs for automobiles that will stand war usage.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

Kentucky's corn boys didn't ad- vcrtise their excursion to Wash ington. The prohibition amend meut was up in congress.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

It can be taken for granted Shat history is not going to be popu- lar study with the Mexican school boy of the future.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

Unsolicited, President Yuan Shih- kai of China has solved the one term problem. He has extended his tenure of office to ten years.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

Anyhow, Austria-Hungary prob ably will not insist on declaring herself in on the trial of the Maine bridge dynamiter.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20
NO PAPER MONDAY

Washington s Birthday, legal holiday, coming on next Monday February 22d, there will be no issue of the Daily Alaskan on that date,
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

and children of the men who are doing the fighting in the Chicago wheat pit,
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

Senator Stone feryently wishes there was no whiskey in the world 50 do the "rectifiers."
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

At least the baseball trust is showing progress. It has reached the injunction stage.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

No appeal for help has been made as yet in behalf of the wives
The daily Alaskan., 1915-02-20

Note Kellers' display candy ad.
The mirror., 1915-02-25

with their abnormal luck. On the other hand, the
average concern can't estimate the probabilities of
the immediate future.
Nobody knows when Europe will recover her
sanity and until there definite assurance of
peace makers buyers and sellers in all of mer
cbandise are hedging conserving their capital, re-
ducing their forces and limiting output and stock.
1t is ticklish moment for the inefficient. There's
a candidate out on the street planning displace
you.
Not an incompetent who couldn't make good at
his old job, but first class well trained, eager. in
tellgent expert who has had the ground cut from
under his feet and is thinking harder today than
before in his experience
The boss knows that he is there even if he can't
tell where; he won't put up with much negligence,
stupidity, and clockwatchng this year as he had to
overlook when talent wasn't begging for market;
and you'll be pounding the pavements if don't strive
hard to maintain your situation as hundred are
planning to obtain it.
All conditions of folk are undergoing their first
experience with penury and idleness. Wits are
sharpening the hone of necessity; men are finding
themselves and if you aren't exercising will and
brain to hold what you have you won't long have
what you hold. Copyright by H. Kaufman.
The mirror., 1915-02-25
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

There is education that comes to the soul
from vital faith in God and power for good upon
society that abstract right give that in ahe-
istic or agnostic morality set upon pinnacle of
altruism, is utterly unable to supply.-George A.
Gordon
The good never dies. Evil dies. Cruelty. self
ishness, oppression, greed-these die, but nobility
love- sacrifice generosity, truth thank God for it,
small as they are, difficult 1t is to discover them
these live forever; these eternal-Frank Nor
ris.
[ believe freedom to be the first condition of
moral life. 1t needs, however, to be accompanied
by much instruction 1t is like money in this
that in order to profit by it one must know how to
use it properly.-Julia Ward Howe.
The mirror., 1915-02-25
TRADING JOE
James WhitcOn.b Rileu

Pm one O. these curious kind o. chaps
You think you know when you don't perhaps!
| hain't no fool-nOr don't p'tend
To be so smart could rickommend
Myself fer congressman, my friend!
But Pm kind O betwixt and between, you know
One O. these felers at folks calls ''sow."
And I'll say jest here I'm kind O. queer
Regardin' things at l see and hear
Fer I'm thick O. hearing sometimes, and
It's hard to get me to understands;
But other time it hain't you bet!
For don't sleep with both eyes shet!
I've swopped power in stock, and so
The neighbors call me ''Tradin' Joe'-
And Pm goin' to tell you about a trade
And one O. the best ever made:
Folks has gone so fur's to say
AT I'm we'll fixed in a worldly way.
And bein' So, and a widower
It's not suprisin', as you'll infer,
Pm pretty handy among The sect
Widders especially, rickollect!
And won't deny that along O. late
I've hankered heap fer the married state:
But some way O. mother the longer we wait
The harder it is to discover mate
Marshall Thomas, friend o. mine
DOM some in the tradin' line,
But almost too young to know it all; Is
On'y at picnics er some ball!
Says to me in banterin' way
AS was a-loadin' stock one day:
You're huntn' wife, and want Won to seq
My girls mother at Kankakee!
She hain't over forty-good lookin' and spry.
And jest the woman to fill your eye!