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Keokuk, Iowa Oct. 15, 1912
WHICH WAY DIO SUMMER GOT
Which way did summer go?
But Yesterday I called her mine,
I felt her breath like new-made wine
Fall soft upon my waiting lips
She pledged her faith, and yet she
slips
Away from me, leaving no sign
O, winds that blow,
Which way did summer go?
VjThich way did summer go?
,0, warm "brown hills, you saw her
pass:
Her swift feet bent your dreaming
grass
That lies half shadowed, half In
light
I clasped her close but yesternight
O, half stilled brooks, you saw her
pass,
O, birds, j-ou. know—
Which way did summer go?
—Floremce Jones Hadley.
If King Peter of Servla will put on
the Balkan firing line the men who
shot his predecessor into a premature
grave, the world at large woald take
more than languid interest in the
progress of the slaughter.
The solution of •'he high cost of
living,
BO
long sought by economists
and politicians, is at hand. Burbank's
spineless cactus is proclaimed the
eleventh-hour remedy Cut out sir
loins smothered with onions. Chew
Bpineless cacti and be happy,
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Separated for forty years after a
'quarrel in Kalamazoo, Mich., where
they lived, Mark H. Woodruff, 64
years old, and Mrs. Mary E. Jones, 72
years old, were married in Brooklyn,
after coming face to face accidental
ly on a city stjeet a few days before
Anna Collins cooked for the Wil
sons at Sea Girt, N. J., this summer.
Farmer Albert Weirraan brought the
vegetables to the kitchen door. Now
she is lira. Weirman, and the first
stage of the wedding journey was
made in Governor Wilson's automobile
—lent for the occasion.
John Jay McBevitt, who spent $1,
800 seeing New York in one day, says
he will erect a monument to himself
in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and dedicate it
02 Thanksgiving day. He has earned
some money running a little cigar
store, and he Intends to spend it on
•ira
memorial that will keep his fame
alive for future generations.
Gene Debs would tax his memory
jsome to discover when he did a job
witti his hands instead of his mouth,
still he chides his opponets on their
From which it is to be Inferred that
"all three" at the present time are
running away from a Job.
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Right on the heels of the declara
tion of all three parties In New York
In favor of submitting to the voters
the question of woman suffrage there Men's League, to
has been organized In New York City! Woodrow Wilson
the Anti-Nagging society, composed of
married women, the object of which
1s to have breakfast ready on the
minute, dinner on the dot and cease
questioning the customary lodge
meeting excuse. A year or two of
that brand of cheery happiness in*
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jobless careers. "Take all three of!fix responsibility and this community
them," be says, "and not one of Is sufficiently well informed to prop
them ever had to look for a job."
obnoxious that pro­
tests developed into the necessity for
certain citizens to start a clean-up
campaign, is not calculated to add to
the luster of a commissioner of pub
lic safety as a sagacious, efficient or
precocious official. This community
is not being deceived. It has known
and known for months that no inter
ference with gambling and illegal
ment from whom action was expected
and justly so. Men who are in the
liquor business in a legitimate way,
who by law are required to periodical
ly deposit their license money for
permission to operate under the
mulct provisions, have had no protec
tion from that arm of the local gov
ernment enforced with power to act.
This city does not want any dirty
game In politics to interfere with the
correct application of the commis
sion form of government. The cardin
al virtue of the commission plan is to
erly place blame.
There Is a judgment day coming.
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Appeal to Young Men
BY JOHN HAY
[NOTE—This Republican classic, written by the late John Hay,
author, poet, diplomat, statesman and lover of humanity, has an espe
cial value in this campaign, when millions of young men voters will
cast their first vote. Its words of wipdom should be read and heeded
by every young man.]
I WANT TO SAY A WORD TO THE YOUNG MEN WHOSE PO
LITICAL LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING—
Anyone entering business would be glad of the chance to become
one of an established firm with years of success behind it.
Everything great done by this dountry hi the last 50 years has been
done under the auspices of the Republican party. Is not this a price
less asset?
Lincoln and Grant, Hayes and Garfield, Harrison and McKinley—
names secure In the heaven of fame—they are all gone, leaving small
estates in worldly goods, but what vast possessions in principles, mem
ories, sacred associations! It is a start in life to share that wealth.
BUT WHAT YOUNG MAN WOULD NOT RATHER BELONG TO
THE PARTY THAT DOES THINGS, INSTEAD OF ONE THAT OP
POSES THEM TO THE PARTY THAT LOOKS UP, RATHER THAN
DOWN TO THE PARTY OF THE DAWN, RATHER THAN OF THE
SUNSET?
For 50 years the Republican party has believed In the country and
labored for it in hope and joy
Has reverenced the flag and followed it
Has carried it under strange skies, and planted it on far receding
horizons.
Has seen the nation grow greater every year and more respected
Has seen the country extend its intercourse and its influence to
regions unknown to our fathers
Yet it has never abated one jot or tittle of the ancient law im
posed on us by God-fearing ancestors. The Constitution of our fathers
has been the light of our feet. Our path is, and will ever remain, that
of ordered progress, of liberty under the law.
But we are not daunted by progress. We are not afraid of the light!
The fabric our fathers butlded will stand all shockB of fate or for
tune.
While there will always be a proud pleasure in looking back on
the history they made, the coming generation has the right to anticipate
work not less important
We who are passing off the stage bid you, as the children of
Israel encamping by the sea were bidden, to go forward. We whose
hands can no longer hold the flaming torch pass it on to you that its
clear light may show the truth to the ages that are to come.?:4K
VINDICATION FOR EX-OFFICERS, than does any other living person, as
Judging from recent developments
tbe statements made by ex-Officer ®fn
the
sales of liquor has been made by that present prosperity politically assured
department of the municipal govern-
a, graduate of Harvard, 1884, when
asked by the Woodrow Wilson College
contribute to the
campalg fund.
sures the bosses of the house all the proud. But, as a Harvard man, I feel
ballots they can stuff Into the box.
wrote an emphatic declination. He
said:
"My failure to contribute is not at
all from any lack of esteem for Gov.
Wilson. He is an eminent represen
tative of the scholar in politics, of
whom Princeton men are Justly
constrained to give all the support
within my power to that son of Yale,
Every voter in Keokuk and other whose sturdy, judicial and statesman
Iowa cities who erpect to exercise like qualities as demonstrated by his
the right of franchise on November 5'record in public offLce, have
must register in orfler to do so. Each him, beyond all other presidential
presidential election year requires an! candidates, the exponent of thai
entire new registration. The first spirit of Harvard which
day of registration will be Thursday,
October 24, the registration boards
•convening in each voting precinct in
the city on the morning of that day
and continuing in session for three
days—Thursday, Friday and Satur
day, October 24, 25 and 26. The hours
of session are fixed by law and will
be published in due time in the city
papers. Make it your business, Mr.
Voter, to register at your eUrliest
opportunity. Don't put it off, then
forget it and thereby lose your vote,
which you are quite apt to do if you
don't take advantage of the first op
portunity to get on the books. Mo
registration is required In the coun
trv precincts.
bulwark of our constitutional gdv-
men^ a?aI«st
Fuqua, and later confirmed by ex- advocated by those who
Chief of Police Schevers, are being blindly plunge down the path leading
substantiated. The Indictments by inevitably to a tyranny, either of
the grand jury of several well known monarchy or democracy, for this na
gamblers and the raid Sundr~ on the
Wheatley place, only go to confirm
what every one who has any knowl
edge of civic operations
tion."
impracticable and
I vicious innovations, heedlessly and
APPEAL TO BUSINESS MEN.
John Wannamaker of Philadelphia
has known has issued 'a statement addressed to
for many months, that gambling and "the merchants and business men of
illegal sales of liquor have been of th United States," in which he urges
the most flagrant kind and advertised
in almost every publicity vehicle but
the newspapers. Only Commission-
er of Public Safety Gray seems to tinent-wide rally of the republican
have been uninformed. To let a civic
condition grow
The situation narrows down to thlB:
1. Taft and the top wave of proa,
perity or
2. Destruction to industries.
3. The whirligig administration of
an unbalanced president in a "star
spangled robe with arch-angeno
wings.'*
Why exchange humanly speaking
Wchers
WILL 8UPPORT TAFT. other side of the sea. With a new
Rome G. Brown, of Minneapolis, and
tari"
thl?ugh and.
the fantastic, un-American projects of
the
of new
JL,
party?
Let ys rouse ourselves to keep oar
republican friends together and by
determined efforts scatter our ene
mies to the four winds.
No new government ought to
permitted to check existing prosper
ity or to begin new policies that
jeopardize the nation's future.
If we are ready to sacrifice tne
next four years of prosperity we cau
shut our eyes and jump in any direc
tion we choose, but in my opinion
were the phenomenal crops twice as
large It would make no difference ex
cept thlB particular year when the
crops have partially failed on the
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signified
in its motto, 'Veritas.' Because of his
unflinching adherence to truth, Presi
dent Taft deserves the support of
every Harvard man. He has stead
fastly refused to compromise with
error. He has kept to the straight
course dictated only by wise and de
liberate judgment, uninfluenced by
any selfish interests or by any mere
policies of parties or persons. He
has been true to his friends and trua
to his noble principles and high
sense of duty.
"Mr. Taft has fought and la still
fighting for th© cause of good govern
ment, for the cause of progress and re
form under our constitution. He
stands today in a greater measure
proposed to cure part
of the trouble of high prices the rail
road companies will not want more
rolling stock to haul the grain
corn, for the common or plain people
will be out of work and have no
money to buy with.
Mr. Wannamake* devotes the re
mainder of his article to a discussion
of the tariff, in which he draws ex
amples of the hard times which exist
re vi us at a
istratlons. He tells of industrial pros
perity under Harrison in 1892 ana
the dismal outlook in 1893 when Clev
eland was president. He draws on
Bradstreet's for Bupport. Ha then
made
^ow under McKinley national
prosperity ana confidence again ap
peared. He blames democratic ad
ministration and free trade agitation
for the starvation and unemployment
of 1894. He ends bis statement with
an appeal in which he says:
"Do American farmers, working
men, manufacturers and merchants
desire a return to the Cleveland con
dition? If so the way Is open by the
election of a free trade president and
a free trade congress."
Level Headed.
i/OUiBVille Courier-Journal: Secre
tary Wilson sees no hope ol beef get
ting cneaper. He is not a pessimist.
If you show him a doughnut he can
see the doughnut as well as the hole,
but, being a level-beaded individual,
if you show him a knot hole he doeB
not see a doughnut surrounding it.
V" THE daily gate city
In
the re-election of President Tqit.
part his statement follows
Nothing under heaven can stop the
havoc of desperate fighters but a con-
party able and willing to build in the
proper way and proper time on its
old stanch timbers as much progres
siveness as is safe for the country.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The, attempted assassination of ex
Presldent Theodore Roosevelt la ab
horrent. In a free and liberty loving
country, where personal privileges
are vastly In excess of that of any oth
er nation on the globe where pros
perity abounds and opportunity is
open to all mankind, it is Incredible
that any man other than a maniac
would attempt to destroy the life of
an illustrious citizen.' There always
has been, always will foe, a divergent
thought on political and economic is
sues, but in thiB country 6f liberty and
tolerance there is no cause for the
assassination of a public official and
"the attempt on the life of Theodore
Roosevelt is deplored by all men of
broad and healthy minds. This coun
try abounds with the highest order of
intelligence and political Issues have
always found a remedy in the applica
tion of brains and not violence. Dis
cussions wax warm and heaied argu
ments are common but murder solves
no economic problem. It introduces
anarchy. Every worthy citizen re
grets the attempt on the life of Theo
dore Roosevelt and hopes for his
speedy and complete recovery.
Time to Wake up.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The Amerl*
can people have rarely been asked to
decide political issues more import
ant than those now before them. The
Democratic party demands a revolu
tion in our fiscal system, which would
affect the whole industrial organiza
tion. The Roosevelt party demands a
downright revolution in our form of
government—a revolution to a social
istic centralization or a centralized
depotism.
Yet in the face of issues so grave
issues which lay the ax at the root of
every household's prosperity and com
fort—public indifference to the out
come of the contest is widespread and
manifest. It seems evident that mil
lions of voters have come to no defin
ite decision and are even indifferent
whether they reach any real decision
or not.
The registration in Chicago last
week is typical of the indecision and
sluggishness of the public mind all
over the oountry. Last spring, 445,000
voters registered in Chicago. So far
this fall less than 272,000 have put
themselves in legal position to express
an opinion on- the grave issues which
will be decided on November 5.
So far there has been almost a
total failure of the educational pro
cess that a national campaign should
be and always has been heretofore.
The Republican party is only just be
ginning to make a really active cam
paign. The Democratic party ip ob
viously trusting to luck and the Roose
velt bolt to bring It ah unearned vic
tory. Only the Roosevelters have
carried on what can foe called an act
ive campaign.
While the Rooseveltian reformers
by riot are a visible minority in the
country there is some danger they
may be an effective majority on elec
tion day because the people have not
been aroused and awakened to the
menace to personal liberty and prop
erty rights that Rooseveltism is.
It is time to wake up, lest a revo
lutionary minority gain control of the
government and through public indif
ference to the gravity of the issuet
plunge us all Into disaster.
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be
Larger, far larger than either of the
men before the country for the presi
dency is the one condition on which
the good times of the next four years
must rest.
Landed at Last.
A man who w^s much In need of
sleep rolled out of bed during the
night. The jar did not awake him
thoroughly, and his hand wandered
in exploration. It encountered the
mesh of some protruding springs and
a sturdy, iron corner post. "In jail at
last," he murmured as he passed away,
TOLD IN KEOKUK
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A Resident Known to all Our Read
ers Relatea an Experience.
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ReaderB of The Gate City have been
and told again and again of the merits of
that reliable, time-proved kidpey rem
edy—Doan's Kidney Pills. The ex
periences told are not those of un
known persons, living far away. The
oases are Keokuk oases, told by Keo-
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8outh
Thomas G. French, 200
Eighth street, Keokuk, Iowa, says:
"My bftCk was very sensitive and I
had pains in my head and neck. Re
cently, while suffering in that way, I
got a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills at
Wilkinson & Co.'s drug store. The re
sults of their use were so satisfactory
that I willingly give this public state
ment." *1
Mr. French is only one of many
Keokuk people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your
back aches—if your kidneys bother
you, don't Blmply ask for a kidney
remedy—ask distinctly for Doan's Kid
ney Pills, the same that Mr. French
had—the remedy backed by home tes
timony. 50c all stores. Foster-Mllburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "When
Your Back is Lame—Remember the
Name."—'Adv,
SAGE OF SEVEN PINES
phllospphlc point* Pertinently Placed
Before the. Readers of The
Gate City.
A member, of the greatest manufact
uring company in our country, recent
ly said to the writer that the moat
important subject in material affairs
is that of improved highways. Busi
ness demands certain and rapid move
ment ol commodities, and live stock
and grain should move to market with
daily regularity. As conditions now
prevail over the country districts,
roads at times become almost impas
sable, and grain and live Btock are
thereby held on the farms for
weekB.
Then, again, another factor of im
mense importance has entered upon
the stage of activities in rural alEairs
within the recent years, and
thiB
factor demands recognition and just
treatment. I refer to the automobile,
which has become a general means
of travel all over the country. Auto
mobiles must hive good roadways. In
Clark coonty at present there are par
haps a hundred thousand dollars In
vested in auto cars. The owners want
to use their cars regularly. But they
demand good roads. Timed will bring
changed and better road laws and
skilled engineers to build and main
tain good highways. The reform
should come speedily.
Invisible conditions govern, after
all. Last year the farmers of Lee,
Hancock and Clark counties labored
hard to secure crops which proved
only partially good, while this year
great crops of corn, vegetables and
fruits just decorated the country, and
all without much study or care. Man
kind can do somethings in the way- of
aiding, but the great creative prin
ciples prevail alone. ."
I visited a few days out along the
Santa Fe line, last week, and observed
how well that great railway maintains
its high rank in activity and busi
ness. There is«a constant movement
of pipe line material westward to the
oil fields, and agricultural machinery
goes in through trains. I saw freight
cars of the company Just new from
the manufacturing establishment out
on their first journey. They sang a
song of steel, clear and valiant, and
were out on the firing line for trans
portation of a thousand classes of
commodities. The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway line 1B about
perfect. It may well be named the
Mississippi of railway lines, for it ie
an affair of imperial majesty.
Among the real early writers of
pioneer history for local papers, was
A. W. Harlan, who lived near Croton
for so many years. Mr. Earlan served
some years in the federal army, and
one lonely day while traveling in
Arkansas, he met a forlorn looking
man who asked aid of Mr. Harlan. A.
W. said he had but few dollars himself
but being .generous he gave the poor
man a share. Then be asked his
name, and he replied It was David
Blines. Now, this same person had
escaped from the confederates who
had captured him while serving in the
dangerous mission of a spy, and his
day of execution had been appointed
At the close of the war David married
and moved to Texas, and his kindred
lost all knowledge of him. One art
icle which Mr. HarJan contributed to
The Gate City was upon the subject
of "The First Drove of Cattle to Pass
Through Lee County." A. W. Harlan
was patriotic, and one of his special
enjoyments was in writing pioneer
sketches for the local press. Honor
to bis name.
Along with the Santa Fe, we may in
clude nearby the Burlington. The
student of affairs easily notices that
the growing business of the Burling
ton line will naturally compel the
building of a second track between
Saint Louis and Keokuk.
The route of the proposed Des
Moines river canal passes or leaves
the, river just below Saint Francls
ville and joins the Mississippi a little
way north of Alexandria. The line
approaches near the home of the writ
er. Officials of the survey stated that
should the canal be established, one
great Influence would be that our val
ley would no longer be invaded with
floods from the Des Moines and Mis
sissippi. The canal would be so pro
tected as to prevent damage from high
water. Below Saint Francisvllle the
river Is a perpetual danger to all, the
flood plains on the Missouri side of
the stream as well as on the Iowa
Bide. The canal would be compelled
to leave the Des Moines at that point
on account of the absence of rock
bed. Between the low hill just wept
of the Buena Vista bridge on west to
near Saint FranciBviHe, the indurated
or stratified rock formation drops to
great depths. At the routy hill are
exposures of the Keokuk goede beds,
and fairly good specimens of these
peculiar class of rocks may be ob
tained on the south Incline of the hill
and along the bluff boundary of the
Dea Moines valley railroad.
The republic appears not to be re
treating. The ship of state sails ipn
in power and majesty. The little
waves from political voices fall feeb
ly away from the grand old ship.
The Missouri, legislature which
holds one of its biennial and comic
sessions this winter, will be a tame
affair, as there will not be a United
States -senator to be chosen. There
will be a feasting on lots by suppers,
passing a few laws in place of other
laws, and Anally, the best of all,
drawing ttjelj- WY being 4}«harg-
ed. In comics, the Missouri legisla
ture is noted all over the world where
ever the Anglo-Saxon and Irish
languages are spoken.
JASPER BLINES,
Seven Pines.
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If
you
world
nuts
Success.
TUESDAY, OCT. 15, fij
The Woman MakestheHome
She makes it best who, looking
after the culinary department,
turns her back resolutely upon
unhealthful, or even suspicious,
food accessories. She is econom
ical she knows that true economy
does not consist in the use of
inferior meat, flour, or baking
powder. She is an earnest advo
cate of home made, home baked
food, and has proved the truth of
the statements of the experts that
the best cooking in the world
today is done with Royal Baking
Powder.
have young children you as he did are beginning to understand!
have perhaps noticed that disorders
of the stomach are their most com
mon aliment. To correct this you will
find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv
er Tablets excellent. They are easy
and pleasant to take, and mild anil
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that it was about the only
which Mexico could be ruled.
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comes largely from the confidence we have In our Judg
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can have no confidence In ourselves. If yon wish to 9tart,
to save, $1.00 or more will do it with this bank.
The management of the
KEOKUK NATIONAL BANK
Endeavors to pursue a progressiva 't'
policy, to be liberal in its treat*
ment and to adhere strictly to the
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OFFFICERS
WILLIAM LOGAN, president, GEO. E. RIX, Vice President.
WELLS M. IRWIN, Vice Pres. C. J. BODE, CasHler.
H. T. GRAHAM,Aes't. Cashier. H. BOYDEN BLOOD, Ass't. Cashier.
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