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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25

PARALLELS were the favorite de-
vice of the greatest Teacher of
moral truth the world has ever
seen. He could impress a lesson
upon His hearers by means of the
story, for the parable is nothing
but a story, as He could in no 9TH
er way. And we were lately told
a story which, altho it was from an
actual happening in real life las a
parable need not be- is so much
like a parable in it's fulness of
moral content that we offer it to
to our readers in entire confidence
that it will have no difficulty in
making the application.
AS the story came to us, the
man who cheated himself was a
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25

Smith. Here is the deed. make
a present of it to you.''
Smith was profuse in his thanks,
but as soon as he could he hurried
from his employers mansion to
outer darkness and there swore at
himself.
We do not know whether or not
Smiths disgust transformed his
character, but the chances are he
cheats with less enthusiasm than
formerly.
We all have difficulty in repress-
ing our laughter at Smiths folly,
but how many of those who laugh
are every day of their lives COM
hitting the same folly? We can
make Smiths mistake a thousand
times without being once hired to
build house for ourselves thinking
it is for the man who hires US.
We cheat ourselves every time we
cheat anybody.
The man who lies to injure
rival may or may not hurt the
rival (more often not). But al
ways he hurts himself. Uncon-
sciously, he traces the brand of
Ananias across his face, his charac-
ter, his life, so plainly that he who
runs may read. And the day
comes when he is not believed even
tho he is telling the truth and it's
being accepted as truth is necess-
airy to save his fortune, his happi-
ness, it may be his very life.
How woefully man cheats him
self when he takes a mean advan-
tage of another in a business deal!
He profits a few dollars, but he
loses his self-respect, his love for
integrity and nobility of soul, and
sentences himself as surely as did
Smith to live in house of shoddy.
When a thief robs another's
purse, he takes what he might
have got with twice the ease by
honest labor and in exchange gives
up for it the most precious thing
in the world-character.
In short, every soul on earth is
by daily and hourly life building
house to live in, is in other words
constantly forming character. And
in evey case it is self that is cheat
ed if in the building there is not
an honest endeavor to follow the
plans and specifications given us
in the Pattern life. that of Jesus.
In no life which disregards the
noble, life-enriching, life uplift-
ing ethics of Jesus is there free
dom from patch work and shoddy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25
TWO CHAPS

One chap was attired in the latest regalia,
Blossoming bright lily or dahlia-
Wearing the dizziest kind of cravats
Swell from his derby clear down to his spats
Nothing wrong in the way that he dressed
All of his garb was the newest and best
He could win girls praise
And could make her heart throb;
He could hold girls gaze
But not mans job.
The other was not remarkable dresser
He looked at first glance like small town
Professor
His elbows we're shiny, his collar old STYLE
And he plain derby instead of tile
In the same gray sack suit he appeared every day
With any old necktie, tied any old way
Though lightly he spurned
All fancy veneer,
IT'S said that he earned
Twenty thousand year
Selected
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25

carpenter in a little city. in the
state of New York. He was a
master carpenter, that is, who
took contracts for the building of
dwellings and had many well-to-do
customers. One of these, the
rich owner of an estate, in whose
hire he had been for many years,
called him one day and said to him:
Smith, Chat is what we shall call
him) you have been looking after
my houses for a long time and
have done good deal of work for
me and have done it in the main
very satisfactorily. But l have
never been far away while the
work was going on and l knew
that nothing could 60 seriously
wrong while l was there watch
ing. But | have been called
to Europe on business which may
detain me many months, perhaps a
year. l had planned to build a
house. l wish still to carry out
the plan, and start the
work at once, but shall be
obliged to depend on you entirely
to look after the thing for me. /
wish it to be a very good house
better, to be frank, than we have
been in the habit of building.
When you come back here to-mor-
row, l will give you the estimates
and plans, and you will let all the
contracts and see. that everything
is of unusually high character.
The specifications call for the very
best materials that can be had
from roof to cellar. Nothing cheap
or shoddy is to be used anywhere.
And l am going to trust entirely
in you to see that the specifca-
tions are strictly lived up to-"
The rich owner went to Europe,
and for months the carpenter (the
story is no reflection on carpen-
tiers IN general; Smith might just
as as easily have been plumber)
did not hear of him. Meanwhile
the work on the house progressed
rapidly, but not according to speci-
fications. Smith compounded"
for brides of trifing amounts with
the dealers doing the work and
furnishing the materials, and al
lowed them to put in shoddy
materials, whenever and wherever
there was an opportunity. The
house when completed was one
which outwardly seemed goodly
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25

MEMORIAL DAY DOUBLE HEADERS
Boston at Brooklyn
New York Philadelphia
Cincinnati Pittsburgh
St. Louis Chicago
AMERICAN
Cleveland at st. Louis
Chicago Detroit
Philadelphia" New York
Washington Boston
We that Minneapolis and St. Paul are now engaged
in their first series of the and this is written the
Mlers have walked off with the first games in handy
fashion, We presume they will also have series about
Decoration Day this is the usual custom
If weather conditions right large crowds will un.
doubedy be the rule everywhere The fans have had very
little real base ball weather far this only one
or cities has the attendance been below normal.
According to Kansas City writer of the ex-Feds
the team have made good and they have been turned
ad However, the real bulk of the Fed talent was snapped
up by the majors and quite number of them still drawing
their pay regularly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-05-25
PENDENNIS CHAT
OBSERVATIONS ON TIMELY AND INTERESTING
TOPICS BRIEFLY AND ENTERTAINMENT
DISCUSSED
A CHANGE OF ATMOSPHERE
BY Mr.. J. S.

A CHANGE OF ATMOSPHERE
The Romancer in days of DID,"
Thrilled with tales of knights bold
And laid meath bamy skies
The OF Romance's witcheries
Cad Cooks! POUNDS! And ladies fair;
Alack Alack! All with a lordy air.
The scribe of our modern stripe
Doth merrly with machine type
Great tales of dogs and supermen
Who dwell beyond ken,
Amidst forests, ice and snow
Where the rivers northward flow.
But All! it if askance
These moderns have missed Romance
And given place fiction,
Machine typed in hasty diction
And made instead just tales
Valued by the number of their sales.
Putting the punch into magazine fiction has knocked
of the ideals of literature.
Probums sovable, salute the solution that
fifty marchers paraded in New
York City demonstration of preparedness The spirit of 76
still lives and moves among the people.
If the range messages continues increase
length receiving station the by simply stop
ping them as they encrce the globe.
In regard to the controversy the Appam, may
said that there doubt the nationality of the who
on the shlps bridge, Ut the the helm
when that ship came into the limit of neutral
The boys of this country getting opportunity
than their fathers had city thirteen
dred boys received the public preparatory manual
training That the kind of preparedness count big if
the day of need comes
Roumania has flour sell. The other around
her border offering price flour The
other countries the Roumana has
Mop1 +,o
Wheat will not grow battlefeda Roumania peace
and has flour sell.
Sea warfares in the future will be terrible affairs War
land has but surface of the land and
the ahps which ground has three
planes nhe waters the air above the
waters, and the mysterious depth beneath the
The nations today in of the which hide
in the depth of seas.
Whether it is five cents the copy"
five copy, splitting
The point whether the buyer the goods
"a copy the copy The copy more dignfed but
copy surely considering the thing Of many.
sequeny would be giving in the matter
and, therefore, dramatically sufficient
49,
Team work is what in the for victory when
several individuals engaged the doing of anything
ship good if the leader has the qualifications ead
but the leader does not the work rest he be-
comes mere boss Most people do like idea of being
bossed and bossing all the harmony any effort kills all
hope OF success by
>~~~
The farm upon which Abraham Lincoln was born will be-
of the people of this sometime Sem
TENDER. Who that Republics are always unorae
fu?"
All the great of the past this country have
been remembered with bouniful appreciation
of them that has been forgotten.
Maybe the who said "Republics are always unorate
full did not know what real republic perhaps had nv
clear idea of the manner of men who in republics
This republic is only in the beginning of it's life and vet
has displayed memory appreciation far greater than como
of the robust monarchies
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-19

HANGS SELF up TO DRY
New York, Oct. 19. - The zoos
tahr, or tree-climbing goat that has
mustache, has become so numerous
that four of him is to be deported.
This bird or beast is so ambidextrous
with its horns that it hangs itself out
to dry whenever it takes a bath.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-19
JOHNNY HAND DEAD

Yesterday marked the passing of
another old timer = Johnnie Hand,
Chicago's veteran bandmaster. He
was almost SO years old and has been
near the end for 10 months.
The funeral will be a quiet one
from the family home, 433 Webster
aV., Saturday afternoon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
DEATH SUMMONS
]. GAL HAGNY
stroke d Paralysis This Morning At
Three O'Clock, Proves Fatal
to .keokuk
Resident.
WAS BORN IN KEoKUK
incident Was Eldest Son Of Simon
/. and Nancy eorland Hagny-
was in Undertaking Bust
ness Here.

This morning at 300 o'clock, at
the home OF his sister at Sand Prairie,
occurred the death OF j. Cal Hagny,
fifty.three years OF age. Mr. Hagny
suffered a stroke OF paralysis early
this morning, and did not regain con.
sciousness. He had been i'll at his
sisters home for two years.
j. Cal Hagny was the eldest child
Of Simon i. and Nancy Borland
Hagny. He was born In Keokuk
August 10. 1863. He made Keokuk
his home for practically all of his life.
For seventeen years he was engaged
in the undertaking business In Keo-
knk as assistant to z. ID. Hawkes..
Deeedent was a thirty-second de-
gree Mason and was a member of the
order in Keoklk. He was affiliated
with the Woodmen OF the World, the
Maccabees and the Knights and
Ladies of Security. He was a mem
her of the Westminster Presbyterian
church of Keokuk.
Two years ago when he first be-
came i'll, Mr.. Hagny was moved to
The home OF his sister, Mrs. Madalean
Strosnider. at Sand Prairie. He liv-
ed here until the summons came
Everything that could be done to
bring back his strength was done, and
he was given every attention possible.
He is survived by three brothers
and one sister: Harry J., of Wichita,
Kan. r. G., OF Wichita, Kan, and
Earnest of Rayton, New Mexico, and
Mrs. Madalean Strosnider Of Sand
Prairie.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made. but will be announced
later
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
TRAVELLING MEN
" WANT RULING
Iowa Drummers Appear Before Rail
road Commission to Seek Change
in Baggage Plans.

Representatives of the travelling
men of Iowa, in an informal confer
ence with Inc railroad commission
yesterday afternoon at the state
house, asked for more liberal terms
for carrying baggage by the railroads
in Iowa.
Formal application for an investi
cation of baggage rates will be filed
today. The commission announced it
will fix the hearing early in October
The travelling men ask that:
First-Iowa railroads be compelled
to carry 200 POUNDS of free baggage
with a full fare ticket, instead of $50
pounds as at present.
Second-Free storage Of CONNER.
cial baggage at depots from Friday
noon until Monday noon, or over holi
days.
c. R. Rohde of Waterloo, Page
Morrison of Council Bluffs, J. S. Irish
of Des Moines and Ralph Jordan OF
Burlington appeared before the com
mission representing the T. P. A.
George Wrightman of Des Moines
represented the Iowa Manufacturers
association, and r. O. Green of Fort
Dodge was present in behalf of the
Fort Dodge Commercial club.
The committee told the Iowa
commission that Nebraska, Missouri
Indiana and illinois travelling men
enjoy greater privileges with refer
ence to carrying of commercial bag
gage on railroad trains than the Iowa
travellers. In Nebraska the roads
carry 200 pounds of baggage free.
Missouri has longer storage privi'
leges.
The travelling men made good
presentation ce their case. The rail
roads were not present. They will
be given an opportunity to answer the
travellers at the formal hearing. 1t Is
understood that the roads will pro-
test.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
IOWA APPLE CROP
HALF LAST YEARS
About $4,000 Bushels l. Estimate
Of Wesley Greene, state Hortieul-
turist From County
Reports.
PUT IN COLD STORAGE
Many Commercial Growers Are TAX
Ing Advantage Of Those and
Can Hold Crops For
Good Prices.
PUT IN COLD STORAGE

DIES MONIES Sept 13-Iowa's
apple crop this year will total about
100000 bushels, which is only SO
percent of the crop last year when
the total yield was around 100000
bushels. This Is the estimate made
by Wesley Greene, secretary of the
state agricultural society.
Not only Is the crop in Iowa short,
but throughout the middle west gen
orally. The apple crop Of the entire
country will by no means be up to
that of a year ago.
Commercial apple growers in Iowa
who have taken good care of their
orchards, however, have satisfac-
tory crop this year and as usual with
these men the quality of their apples
is high. They will get good prices.
Commercial apple growers in this
lions as producers of high class fruit
do not need to hunt for market.
Buyers who know their products hunt
them out about this season of the
year and bid up good prices for their
output
The Iowa apple has flavor which
is not equalsd by the apples of the
west, although the latter are often
larger and more handsome. If the
trees have been sprayed in the spring
the fruit grown in this state has bet
ter keeping qualities than that grown
in the west.
Iowa now has a sufficient mum Der
of cold storage houses SO that the
apples can be placed in cold storage
and held for a satisfactory market,
in case the prices at gathering time
are not satisfactory. The commercial
growers quite generally take advan-
tage of these cold storage plants.
In recent years the commercial
growers have become as expert in
sorting and packing apples as any Of
the western experts. Many Iowa
growers put out their apples in boxes
and in barrels, we'll sorted, and care
fully packed and in this way get the
top of the market for them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
|DRESS-UP WEEK
PLANS PROGRESS
Announcement That Local Merchants
Would Participate In Movement,
Was Received With Wide
Spread Satisfaction.
TO FORM ASSOCIATION
Local Organization Which viii Help
to Promote Week, VIII be
Formed as it is in
Many Cities.

The announcement in last evening S
Gate City that the merchants of Keo-
,kuk had decided to participate in the
nationwide Dress-up week was re-
ceived with approval by the people of
this city and will be good news to
those living in the nearby towns and
country. There are good indications
that the event will be carried for
ward with snap and interest that
will make it worthy of attention and
the fullest cooperation. Just what
plans the merchants will make are
not fully known but it is a safe bet
that the Keokuk stores will be decid-
eddy attractive during the week of
September Is to 80.
Dress-up week should not be con-
fused with bargain days or any
event that has been formerly staged
in this city. It will be week devot-
ed to the display Of the highest class
of merchandise and will emphasize to
the trade that there is no necessity
to leave home for trading purposes.
The late fashions, the reliable goods
and the kinds Of materials that the
trade desire will be given prominence
in the various displays that the bust
ness men will make.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
Restraining the MexIeans.

George Marvin in the Worlds Work
tells the following interesting story
of Candida Aguilar who is now sec
rotary Of foreign relations for the
Carranza government, but was, in
1914, when United States troops un-
der General Frederick Funston were
occupying Vera Cruz, commander of
the Mexican army lying between that
port and Mexico City. In his own
name, as general Of the constitu-
tionalist forces, he several times de-
manded, two years ago, the immedi-
ate retirement Of General Funston
and his brigade from Vera Cruz.
Finally, Aguilar sent his messenger
with a note to Funston which ran
approximately as follows: I am sorry
to say that am no longer able to
restrain my troops and | therefore
take the liberty of suggesting your
immediate withdrawal
General Funston withdraws very
poorly. But even though he cannot
walk Spanish he speaks the language
fluently. He turned the dispatch
around and wrote across the face OF
it: My Dear General: If you can't
hold your own troops, allow me to
help you. because ! can. Funston"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
BAND CONCERT
FRIDAY NIGHT
Program Will Be Given Starting
Promptly at 1915 O'clock,
II was Announced.

The John il. Kindig band concert
which will be given on Friday even
ing, will commence promptly at Sis
O'Clock, 1t was announced today. The
concert will rot start before this
hour, but will commence promptly on
the hour.
The concert will be given on Blon-
deau street between Sixth and Sew
enth streets, and the street will be
roped off to automobiles. The band
stand will be placed in front Of the
Elks club and there will be plenty Of
room for everyone.
The concert is free to the public.
Chairs will be placed for those who
wish them, and a small charge will
be made for these. 1t will depend on
the interest taken in this first con-
cert as to further activities by this
splendid organization.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
FRONTENAC is
WISHERD BOAT
General Excursion Agency Buys Craft
Which Has Been Excur-
sion Boat.

The steam sr Frontenac and barge
Mississippi, which took excursions out
of Keokuk last year and the prevf-
Gus year. and which will be remem-
bered by many. has been purchased
by the General Excursion Agency sew
eral days ago, according to reported
statement by Captain Wisherd.
The steamer did not operate in this
section this year. being engaged in
the excursion business north Of here
in conjunction with the steamers Sid
ney and st. Paul. The G.. w. Hfll is
owned by, the Wisherds line. and 1t
was Captain Wisherd who made the
bid which was accepted for the From
tenac and barge, the action being TAX
en- to pay of debts which have piled
up in the last several years. The
Sidney and st. Paul are owned by the
Streckfus company.
The Frontelac is about the size OF
the White Collar line steamer Black
Hawk. which is In trade between Bur
lington and Davenport at the present
time. The huh is 139 feet long, 80
feet wide and feet deep. 1t was
built at Wabasha, Mimi. in 1896, and
was used as a lumber tow for several
years After being rebuilt 1t went
Into the excursion business. towing
big barge nd was operated by the
St Charles Amusement company.
The barge Mississippi is practically
new one. having been built in 1911
by the company then operating the
frontenac. II makes an excellent ex-
cursion craft. the dance hall being
spacious, and it Is said to be the
largest on the Mississippi river 1t Is
iso feet long and 40 feet wide, hav-
Ing two decks.
The Frontenac will be rebuilt at
Wabasha by Captain Wisherd. and
when the boat is ready 1t, as well as
The barge, will be brought to Quincy
Tor the winter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
An Ex.mpIe Of sobrIety.

Wayne, Neb., Herald: Wayne is
worth considering as an example in
support of the movement to Danish
the open saloon. If liquor finds its
way down the esophagus of any
Wayne individual, it is not paraded
II drinking alcoholic tanglefoot is in
dulged in here, it is not done under
the public view. No open saloon
filings its odors to the breezes of the
business district or flaunts an entic,
Ing invitation to passersby. No one
is seen zigzagging along with an over
charge Of liquid spirits thrashing
around under his peritoneum. NO
woman or child hesitates to be on
Main street through fear Of meeting
a maudlin mutterer whose feet are
trying to go one way and his head
another. Wayne is a powerful example
of sobriety and orderly conduct, and
may well be offered in evidence.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13


ing Of De LaSalle council. knights Of
Columbus, last evening. They are as
follows:
Chester Schouten, grand knight.
Philip C. Finn, deputy grand knight.
F.. w. McManus, chancellor.
Ralph Schowalter, recorder.
A. J. Mullarky, financial secretary.
Joseph Sirkush, warden.
James H. Eagan, advocate.
Torrance Cavansugh, inner guard.
John B. Walsh, outer guard.
James T. Mccarthy, trustee.
The members of the order, of which
there was large number out, enjoyed
q turkey supper following the bust
ness meeting.
Definite plans were made for the
construction Of a Knights of Columbus
building here. These will not be made
public at the present time.
Arrangements are being made for
a tri-city initiation to be held here on
November 10. There will be candi-
dates for the second and third degrees
from Keokuk. Burlington and Fort
Madison. It is expected that there
will be class OF forty or fifty from
this city.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
Safely Unanswered.

Topeka Capital: One question prob
ably always will remain unanswered:
could the railroads have operated
.neir trains successfully despite the
suike order! But Miss Pandora Pub
nc Is content to leave the lid on the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
A Loea, press-up Association.

A new note which developed in the
Dress-up campaign OF, last spring was
the forming OF local Dress-up associa-
tons in several cities where the idea
took an especially strong hold. st.
Louis and Los Angeles organized
local associations which had general
charge of arrangements and they Sc
cured excellent results by getting all
OF the business men to cooperate.
Dress-up week in Keokuk can be
made wonderfully interesting and
successful IL all of the business men
join heartily into the spirit of the
event. And It should be remembered
that it is tosbe high class effort
that will reflect credit on all of the
participants and Of such character
that it will also attract to the city
those who are interested in the fall
fashions. E
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13
K, C'S ELECT new
LIST OF OFFICERS
Chester 3. schouten chosen Grand
Knight at Meeting Of the De
La Sale Council Last
Evening.
TURKEY SUPPER SERVED
Definite Plans Made for New knighss
Of Columbus Building Here
Arrange for Tri-city
Initiation.
TURKEY SUPPER SERVED

New officers were elected at meet
ing of De LaSalle council. knights of
Columbus, last evening. They are as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-13

The latest figures show that man.
ufacturing establishments in New
York City are producing approximate
~ $2,300,000,0o0 worth of goods a
wear