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PAGE FOUR Is t Ism 8? I It KT-.V KF- 1^ D.ULY. GATE. CITY, PUBLISHED BY THE UAl'UJ Uii'i GUMP AN C. F. 8KIRV1N Manager SlSS.V s»= fo»t^ttpfei)ald terms In »Jv»|1«e,tlll, Ail BUDBuripuon orders ah°uid t(iv P. u. address and BCAte wuei^er it new or renewal order. 11 Q£ jjiu dress is desiredt state botki tne ol new audress. „,riBP «. Remit by postoitloe money orae press money order, registered letter ui draft at our risk. ... p*ch The date printed on the address paper notes wneu the subscript atuJscribers falling to receive their pa pers promptly will confer a tav givuiu notice of the fact. At* ess all communication* THJfi GAXK OlTK OUMtfANX. Ho. 18, Aorth Sixth St.. KeokttK. Iowa. THE GATE CITi is.on sale at the fol lowing news stand*: ,„.,n.OQ Hotel Keokuk, cor. Third and Johnson C. H. Rollins & Co., taa Main Street. Ward Uroa.. 625 Main Street. Depot News Stand. Circulation Guarantee This Certifies that the circulation of the KEOKUf DAILY GATE CITY uas Oven audited and is guaranteed by ihe Advertiser's Certified Circulation Blue Book CifcttwitM Anvory 5 Otcrbcn S' Cbcoro This Paper has proved by investigation that the circulation records are kept with care and the circulation stated witb such accuracy that ad rentiers may rely on any statements of saint made by the publishers umler the ownership and mnnqement io control April 16. 1808. & The Association of American Advertisers (New York City) has examined and certified to the olreolation ol this publication. Only the tignrM ol circulation oontalned in Its report an guaranteed bjr the AssociatloiL. Nowbe Keokuk, Iowa February 22, 1909. TO THE FLEET. Old Moro and Corregidor And Santiago's rugged height Commune through shadows .,1 sea, It! the thy Their theuc the triumphs might, Of war's alarm and crashing guns, The storms beneath them shout again. Of battles that the sea winds know 4 Of crumbling hulls that long have lain TJpon the ocean's sanded floor, Brought by thy righteous, Iron arm, To dire distress and helplessness To save thy children from their harm. Now sing the seven seas in joy, Thy journey done,, thy errand run. Thy track unsplotched by human blood— For cause of peace a triumph won, cease, Leading the nations farther on To reign of universal peac\ Long may thy arm admonish such. And justly deal if must be war, Returning proudly as today With flag borne high, without scar. —Perry C. Ellis in Quincy Whig. Geronimo lived to oThe good die young. be eighty-six. Peoria boasts of the first sira of iB,ake spring in the saape of a robin with rubber boots on. It is probably a rel ative of the one seen in Keokuk the first of last week wearing a fur over coat. A California man was not awak ened by his wife's screams, which frightened away a burglar. Which leads a contemporary to say that some men have presence of mind in their sleep. The supreme court of Illinois has decided that a majority of the stock holders in an independent telephone company can not sell put the inter ests of the minority to toe trust. The ruling is a righteous one. A bill has been introduced In the legislature providing that no candi date in a -r'mary election shall ex pend as campaign expenses more than 5 per cent of the salary for one term of the office to which he aspires. Pros pcctive candidates would do well to take notice of this threatened restric tion of their privil^es. The Burlington Hawk-Eye of Sun day morning contained portraits and sketches of three people—Mrs. Emily Collins. Dr. G. Walter Barr and Law rence Reiner. The first named has won fame as a singing evangelist, the eecond as a medical man and pop ular author and the third as an alter- The New York Lunacy Commission has ordered a study of metoods for the prevention of insanity as it found that 60 per cent of the insane in that state have hereditary tendencies. It ls believed that much may be done in modifying the environment so as to defeat the tendencies in certain fam ilies in which lunacy runs. The head of the commission says toat they pro pose to make such improvements in the food, occupation and education of "^r,-«T,'v .JJm '«..«:• "*-i^---:-.'i. ~.r ..- \i.- -, ^\-.,-,x. .• -'iViy, .--As -i"i: -. \v-. •. .•• .".V f.. '-'^V .• .-V fV.\- •.'.' V. -v'*hlW--F. :v persons suspected of hereditary taint as to cause them to leave off all dis sipation. The clergymen engaged in toe work of curing the sick by the sug gestive process known as the Em manuel movement have now adopted a new set of rules to meet the crit icism of the public in general and of the doctors in particular. The chief points are: That no one shall be re ceived for treatment without having one-hundredth anniversary first been examined by a physician who approves of the mental treatment that the consent of a person's own physician must be obtained before he can be Assigned to a religious special ist that all patients not under the care of a physician must choose one before receiving instruction in the new movement. On this basis the movement asks the moTal and mater ial support of the medical profession. greatly admired and which were all law longer than this state, the world seemed to possess of the poem. They had been used some time previously by Professor Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin as a preface to an essay on "The Influence of the Frontier on His tory." They were credited to "The Foreloper" by Rudyard Kipling, but this was all that was known or could be learned at the time concerning them. Every effort to round out the fragment proved futile, as the collect- ed editions of Kipling's works made reference reference Giving the world, In globe-girt tour, !They commended themselves to Pro- The message that the wars shall "The fessor Foreloper." Having his interest in the matter aroused Professor Meany contributed a letter to the January Century rela ttve to his search for the poem. The response was immediate. Scarcely had the magazine reached Seattle before it fell into the hands of a reader who possessed the poem. Thig was Mr. D" Mllls' a real e8tate a*ent' wbo ho/4 nl 1 nTl/vyl 4 Vt a nn «. v* «... ... had clipped the verses from a news paper years ago. Since their publi cation the verses had been in his scrap book. He sent the poem by first mail to Professor Meany. In its complete form It is as follows: The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. I shadow of' new skies. Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand. His neighbours' smoke shall vex his eyes, their voices break his rest He shall go forth till South is North, sullen and dispossessed. And he shall desire loneliness, and heels And&he'shall a thousand wheels, CO me back'in his own 8 with hatchet and bran nlre"Bbulwark" ^tind I ing"^niiumerable""incident:T"oi?"tlieadd operations of an establishment in inets. during or Immediately following a nate to the naval academy at Annap- his secretary replied that "the lines gin to seem tawdry to him, his better jng fact that many laws to-day olis. lowing years until, as a member of 6 and setting up further than they must, Washington towns were in attend pay for whatever damages they mayi^c^ cause. Construction News tells of aj ,• decision to this effect which was I PRIMARY IS A SUCCESS. handed down a few days ago by Jus- a suit brought by Joseph Jones, presi- f0jl0W8. dent of a speedometer company ted the unlawful acts of pickets. a "THE FORELOPER." The tice Mills in the supreme court in ^{on jac^ jn White Plains, N. Y., who holds that Ljje Wisconsin senatorial primary law labor organizations which picket a jjag ^een and employes must pay for such ex-jthe pense. The decision was rendered In lUnc against George M. Maher, president successful in attracting the most the local lodge of the machinists' votes, but as yet has failed to realize union, and several members of the jon the proceedings, admits the use of union. Justice .Mills further finds |$107,703 in the pleasant pastime of that the lodges Involved and the men persuading the people he was of sen directly concerned by giving and tak- atorial size. One of the candidates ing pecuniary support aided and abet- The interesting fact has just been tto $42,000. Still another candidate ad brought tn light that Rudyard Kipling 111*he once wrote a poem which ranks with !!Bonroth ng over $30,000. As a means ,, :1 ... of putting monev into circulation the the best of his literary products, but he has lost all recollection of when froni experience drawn out in and where it was published and even of the work itself. Credit belongs pri marily to Professor Edmond S. Meany of the historical department of the sustaining for his campaign than con University of Washington for the dis covery. For several years he had Conditions are not as bad in Iowa! JUDGE GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, iget-rlch-quick schemes about which Prank B. Cole, formerly of this city, they have no authoritative informa writes us that that venerable and tion. There are also some wonderful grand old man, also formerly of Keo- ly fine short stories in this number, kuk, whose life has been an inspira tion to the Pacific Northwest, Judge! "Let the buyer beware!" John Parr George H. Wiliams of Portland, formerjsays Is the watchword of the Wall United States Senator and Attorney street manipulator. His article In the General of the United States in Presl- March Everybody's is called "The dent Grant's cabinet, made memorable Stock Yards of New York," and is the the Lincoln Day ceremonies at the second shot fired against the ruinous Portland Commercial Club on the practice of margin gambling. It shows of Abra- ham Lincoln's birth Judge Williams was a friend of both Lincoln and Douglas, and he told his audience that it was in 1847 that he first met Lincoln, at or a it to in coin, he described most vividly the trip to Springfield. The courts are rapidly upsetting the when it is known that he is now*, in of people who believe that for.In. elghtyseventh year, and ft. mor employes can Interfere with the A better appreciation of judge Wil-' UvIde member of either of the cab.jmeil a A a S Waterloo Reporter calls atten- cesses, one a factory and thereby put the owner tojticuiar is in the amount of money the expense for guards for his property can particular great success. That par- ^i(jates put into circulation during campaign interesting details in 0 this claim are submitted as je who came close to the possessed six vagrant lines which he |yet. hut Wisconsin has had a primary present opportunity for criticism. a reduction since 1873 of over fifty per cent in toe death rate of the In fantile portion of the population. It is obvious that the probable lifetime y®aT'1t almost ed about He shall fulfill God's utmost will un- tistics as these are certainly striking knowing his desire: commentaries on the advance and And he shall see old planets pass and triumph of medical research for It' authority now possessed by the state alien stars arise. jS beyond cavil that this progress hoard is not only undesirable, b.it And give the gale his reckless sail in jlas j,een dependent primarily upon I dangerous. the knowledge gained in the laborator- THE CURRENT MAGAZINES. Uppincott's for March is as fresh and vigorous as the month's bracing Ual bu1k ls given a man who could write such stirring crooked "promoter" throw an interest- The Dally Gate City by tl,e personal an( and eighteenth centuries the death laws aim at anarchy in such matters, rate throughout the civilized world They want to turn the clock back sev ranged from 50 to perhaps 80 per 1,000.1 eral centuries. They seem to think Meany because they were pecul- Todayjn London, Berlin and New York, that in order to make certain that no jBut iarly appropriate in the discussion of the average lies between seventeen individual suffer unjust restraint the influence of the frontier, and he and nineteen. This great decrease in it is justifiable to abolish restraint en found them stimulating to him in yearly mortality Is due principally to tirely. That theory was abandoned ai I studying and lecturing upon themes protection from infectious diseases! the outset of organized government, of history In that far-away old Oregon now afforded to children during the' Injustice to the individual Is to be country. first five years of life. deplored, and that criticism whi"h In New York City there has been'keeps administrative bodies on their has increased coincidently with the prevention of diseases to which chil- fare are the desideratum, that, to se dren of tender years are especially cure the revocation of powers, it is I susceptlWe Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, not sufficient merely to show that such of the New York city health depart ment, has estimated that "the ex pectation of life at blrto in this city in 1866 was only a little more than twenty-five years, while In 1903, cal- critics of the state board of heaith it culated on the death rate for that would better take a day oft and th.nk les, the harvest of persistent invest!- The Huns and Vandals of Legislation gation. his desire shall bring novel-'A Knight Errant ln Broad- iated by the disposition of that body Hard on Ins way by Rupert gargeut Holland whose track and by his scarce cool: was well received a couple of years becomes a scourge, when business oi camp' ag^. Mr. Holland takes as his theme Jail kinds waits In Idleness and unrest There he shall meet the roaring street, the career of a rather commonplace for it to adjourn, plainly it Is time the derrick, and the stamp and not particularly scrupulous young'that the people should rise to their For he must blaze a na^* ?n sma jj coun He The lines Professor Meany so great- cally lawyer, he is rapidly succumbing legislation twenty years ago. Of late ly admired were the last six, the to the evil influences which surround years the legislatures have approach missing ones the first eight. When him when a young girl comes into his Kipling was communicated with on life—a young girl who is sweet and |0f law-making in either a spirit of jest the subject early in the investigation pure. Somehow his old associates be- |or jn to which you refer are his, but he can- nature asserts itself, and in the end |{orce }n Iowa are revenge laws and not remember when or where they he roves his manhood and his entire :gplte were published, or what the rest of worthiness^ to wed the charming jzealota the poem is." It seems strange that Rhoda. The transactions of the lines should forget all about them, ing side-light on one phase of life In #«.„»« Professor Mil.,™ tte „oem modern Got!™. Despite the was written by Mr. Kipling during his I vigilance of the post office authorities, resumed early residence in India, and that af-! it is safe to say that there are still ter publication in the oriental paper it numerous enterprises as dubious as I found its way to this country. What ever the circumstances of its first publication, it is a valuable addition •o the literary treasury. 1 winds. More than half its substan-!are endeavoring to procure through up to tpe complete ,ways man who comes to New York from a prerogative as masters of the situa- e( c^ing of actual cases how the big speculators beat each other out of money that they have wrested from the unsophisticated outsider. The air of the jungle, the breath less mystery of the haunt of lion and Tol-ja^clf" rh ™Cer?.! are ln I Bryson Taylor's "Jhe.. Afrlc.a- that. Roo8evelt will See." It is illustrated by very .Washburn Child describes a sterner for of sport In liams' participation may be gained. .... nr William Han- Stalking the Biggest og Big Game"—the human animal. It Thom ^Aa fWRfiivpa" anl womm ln8[0ad o[ kI hpa was Ike gtephen80ni who nomination separated himself, according to the statement filed, from $28,500, and enough bills have come in since the statement was filed to raise the sum use of the modest amount of stf)te wlde prlmary law ig a succesg „me otll _t_ „Th^ woman'o in- ari Rheta Chllde Dorr, and "The Players" contains some specially posed photographs of those who have made this season's theatrical sue- Another feature of this issue Is 'he frontispiece—a portrait of President elect Taft with "An Appreciation" by James P. Brown and Professors Wil liam James and Hugo Munsterberg give their views upon the lately com pleted series, "The Shadow World." A Dangerous Proposition. Council Bluffs Nonpareil: If the present Iowa general assembly dis turbs the state board of health, or in any way emasculates the present sal utary laws for the administration of affairs pertaining to the public health, it had better never been because all the good that it may accomplish along other lines would not compensate for this blunder. The general assault on the board of health, the medical profession and the health and quarantine laws of the state seems to be the outgrowth of a personal grudge nursed by one of the the legislative investigation in Wis-1 members of the assembly. The leglsla-jTo brighten the gloom of consin a candidate will attract more ture as a whole surely will not permit attention if he has something more itself to be swept from its feet in any such manner. It. is not to be said that actions circumstances do not frequently And intelligent criticism can do no harm. But an institution which on the whole is good,'excellent, indispen slble, should not be abolished because PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Dr. John C* Torrey writes interest ingly and informingly ln the current imperfections exist. The powers with Harper's on how preventive medicine 1 which the board of health is clothed has prolonged life. He advances the necessarily are powers which are claim, and substantiates it, that dur- capable of being abused. But thft lAnd I see the lights as we're drifting ing the past fifty years preventive does not alter the fact that they are down, medicine has done far more to alle- powers which, for security and wel- The lights of home In Rock Island vlate suffering and to prolong life fare of the public, must be possessed town! than the average man is aware. It is by some administrative body. The Vi&a-Y.Is estimated that during toe seventeenth present violent critics of our health mettle to see that occurrences of the sort are kept down to the minimum, is desirable but that is enough. It long since was established, where good government and the general wel- powers may in some Instances be mis used and such misuse cause distress. If the general assembly has any no tion of following the loud-mouthed doubled, and equal- °.V^ T^nl!caHon^f 'exisri11" law forty-two years." Such sta-1 that some_ modification of jexlsiiii, la may t0 not be desirable but a measure sweep away substantially all Burlington Saturday Evening Post: Much unrest is felt by the business men and property owners in Iowa be- them 'cause of the provision or some of the measures which misguided persons |the legislature. The alarm Is accentu- to accept and enact the measures in book, "The Count at Harvard." question. When a Jaw-making body try town to seek his fortune. I tion. Iowa long ago had all of the finds "Tenderloin" life fascinating, jlaws she ever, will have any need of. I and as he is in the employ of a ras- I The state passed the borders of sane the solemn and responsible task one 0 reprisal. It is a humdliat in )aws pro cured into the code by of !s inrnpt one kind and another. It Is .ln. tllat tl hn 8 the "National Non-Refillable Bottle I Waterloo Reporter: The Des Company," and there probably always will be so long as there are people gullible enough to put their money into 'S.Sl When the Mississippi Was the Great Highway. (Dedicated to the Memory of Cap tain David Tipton and read at the Lincoln Day Banquet of the Rock Is land Club.) I'm a guest oh shore with "you gents to-night, Where the smoke Is thick and the wine Is bright, ago, And the river that sings to below! For the pulse beat fast and the heart was gay— When t.he Mississippi was the great highway! But my thoughts go back to the long ^ha™ township for »120 an acre. ireo. Dobson bought the eighty acres in Pilot Grove township for $120' an acre. Lewis Lambiight bought the north eighty of the 240 acres In sec tion 33, Pontoosuc township, for $115. 50 per acre A. W. O'Harra purchased the south eighty at $125 per acre the middle eighty was not sold. Chas. the sea Oh, I'll tell the story as best I can, For I'm only a weather-worn river man. But the world is sweet and It's joys are real, To the men who stand at the steering wheel And I've not forgot how it used to be, In the good old days that are gone for me, If I sigh sometimes for the vanished years, 7 '. And my eyes grow dim with the mist of tears, It's not because of the changing ways, And it's not regret for the river days But I miss the friends who have gone to sleep, Where the hill dips down to the waters deep And I mourn for one who In life was rare. For-old Davy TIpp who is anchored there! He was true to me as the stars are! true, I And his smile like sunshine sifted through. day— So, I dream to-night o'er my pipe andi glass, A dr,eam of the boats as they used to pass l| The song of the river's in everything, As the whistle blows for the bridge to swing, I Oh, I miss the crews no more, And I miss the laugh shore few sensible men "T "J"",' I 'in the general assembly do not recog-, on( Moines mothers' club with its twenty babies in one year deserves a special message to congress. 51 Jt £%. fj 1 in .VP that will sail i1 of a lass on pledge them al ling wine. tn the spark- As memory singeth of auld lang syne. And I drink to years ere the head was gray When the Mississippi was the great highway! —Robert Rexdale. Some Excellent Enemies. Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The state board of health appears to have some excellent enemies. Daddy Knows. Too often the young men of today, when they have reached the age of cigarettes, are heard to remark: "Dad don't know it all," and sometimes the girls wi/ien they reach the age of rats, powders and puffs, are equally ego tistical. But generally "Daddy knows," and William Allen White, the Kansas editor-author-philosopher, uses the Ruth Bryan Leavitt divorce case for the following lay sermon: "The moral for the Bryan girl's tragedy is that Daddy knows. He sees men every day In all of the as pects. He sees good men. He sees bad men who have some good in He sees designing men and weak men, and all sorts and condi tions of men. And he. knows. More than that, his heart is just as soft as yours, and if the man ls any kind of a man you will be happy, but,Daddy knows. "Trust him. Believe that if there Is any show for you at all. Daddy won't object. Daddy is not the crank he seems. Daddy wants you to be happy. He has all the high hopes for you that you have for yourself, and' win en Daddy says so—Daddy knows. If girls would only remember that, this would be a brighter, happier world. For Daddy, who isn't of much use around the house, and Is generally supposed to be considerable of an 'it' one way or another, at home—Daddy, who seems to hlave forgotten all about the golden land of true romance In which youth lives—old Daddy's mem ory Is long, and his soul is wrapped up in you, my dear—Daddy knows." Mr. White's sermon is particularly applicable to the Leavltt case, in that Mr Bryan opposed thG match ai earlv ad- .. i.. P»™1 4 acend In the vailey or grief before we realize the wisdom that has come to him from experience. Good Prices for Illinois Lands. Nauvoo Independent The as slgnee's sale of the Riley Smith lands in this county, to satisfy the creditors of the defunct West Point bank, was held Thursday. Rachael Petit and Claude Bross bought the 117 acres In Myers bought eighty acres in section 4, Rock Creek township, $130 per acre. John Moyce bought eighty acres in section 8, Rock Creek, for $127.60 per acre. Wm. Kelly bought eighty acres in section 4, Rock Creek, for $123 per acre. Tom Singleton bought forty acres in section 11, Rock Creek, for $127 per acre, and a Mr. Burner purchased twenty acres timber and pasture land in Pontoosuc township for $45 per acre. The sales aggregate $79,300, and eighty acres of land un sold as stated above. The Intellectual Age. Harper's Weekly: The women of an Indiana town -ecently organized a literary club, and for a while every thing was lovely. "Alice," asked the husband of one of the members, upon her return home from one of the meetings, "what was the topic under discussion, by 5 a stormy When the Mississippi was the great •highway! SPianosinto b»t hi. d.ustt.r waB headstrong, and the culmination of her romance has been the divorce court, an end which more than all others the fatoer would have prevent ed, had It been in his power. Yes, Daddy knows, but sometimes we have to climb the steps of sorrow and de- ourtesy MONDAY, FEB. 22, 1909 the club this afternoon?" Alice couldn't remember at first. Finally, however, she exclaimed: "Oh, yes, I recollect! We discussed that brazen looking woman that's ii..» Look Out for Flood( 7^ ,F®bTry Have you an ac-T count upon which you will receive 3 per cent? Stile Central Savings Bank Corner of 8ixth and Main streets. CAPITAL. $100,000.00. SURPLUS. $200,000.00 Open Saturday Evenings Between 7 and 8 o'clock. IT. R. J. Ay res & Sons' JEWELRY AND MUSIC HOUSE^ Will continue to offer bargains for a limited time on all 4. goods the house until their stock is largely reduced. lf you want Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Cut Glass, and Musical goods, now is your opportunity. No $ trouble show goods at S? .if/-. T. R. J. AYRES ft SONS, 509-511 Main St., Ktokuk, Iowa 4. BOTH PHONES 1 Iff®! Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $100,000.00 Cook and 1 Maquoketa Republican- a weather forecaster of La Motte diets that Iowa as well as other tm mediate states will be visited by flood,' this year, the reason given being that we will get east standard wind 4alt 18, ,0r th* *'ho?year the wind direction being with the sundown. This he says, will These are characteristic traits to be found in business transac t'ons at The Keokuk SfjliSP WIS 8AVING8 ACCOUNTS bear three per cent In terest, fhe officers of the bank would be pleas ed to leet dealers and depositors. KEOKUK NATIONAL BANK Affords every facility for doing your banking business that any bank can $ bl freshet rains and floods, before after'the 21st of June, when the snj will again reach standard time h! warns people living in holloWg along creeks and rivers of the danger Small Quarters for Moses Donald is fond of Bible stories Hl« auntie was relating to him the story of Moses in the basket of bulrushes when he earnestly inquired "Did he ever grow to be a tnan'" "Yes," he was told. "A great big man?" "Yes." 4 Donald remarked incredulously "Well—I'd a thought he'd a busted th« basket."—Delineator. Holidays Enough, Bstherville Vindicator: An effort Is going to be made to make Good Friday a legal holiday in this state. The prospects are, however, the pe tition will not be granted. Iowa hat enough holidays already. Curt Dramatic Crlticltm. Dow City Correspondence Denison Bulletin: The show in Dow City last Friday evening entitled "Down Devil's Canyon" ought to have been left down in the canyon. It was bum. March 1st WILL BE OUR Interest Pay Day STsv'" Stiil 'SiP I I