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GATE OITY ruBuaaaaj wnr STHB GATE CITY COMPANY c. F. Bklrvln 1 JAXL,T BT ^KrxnonuJ^::.5 EEnf0?^lA"^XP~tattle. a. '•w®nd oIam matter, Po*tmf9 prepaid* Itnwi to All jubcortptlon order* JET .^«mV ofvSS«ijB»jsg» TfSSil jfis/s S5SS! SS*j£ "•"JSS«»%jsss ESS •xpresa £»on«y o^er, ncisieraa J« 01 draft, at our rtalc. •xplrea. Bubaortb*** 1f.r.., of talVnf fb*» arwsu paper* promjrtlr will eonfer »vor ssi™m $.5 Sapot N»w» b' "B^hff£«aS«L j-Ka 14 North SbrthJSt, K*ok«k. lew* THH OATB crrr ta sa. Keokuk, Iowa July 20, 1915 MY 80N. I that had yearned for youth, my own, again, And mourned the wasted hours of younger days, I that had sighed for spring, for sum mer, when The snows of winter covered all my ways— I that had prayed for years, for only one, Have found that prayer answered in my son. He is myself again, with hopes of old. With old temptations and with old desires He Is myself again—the clay to mold Into the man, and all the man abpires. Who. jays that youth returns to us JJriho more? He fa as was in the days of yore. tn my*own days, In my own days of youth. Ah, how wished a comrade and a Mend!— To help me keep the quiet path of truth And through temptation my own feet attend. So shall I journey onward by his side, His father—yet, his comrade and his guide. I that have failed shall shape snccess in him, I that have wandered point' the prcrper path, A signal when the signal lights are dim, A roof to fend him from the storms of wrath— 6o we shall journey upward, I and he, -And he shall be the man I meant to be. —Douglas Malloch In American Lute berman. THOUGHT FOR TOOAY. "Never borrow trouble. The inter est you have to pay for the accommo dation lg excessive." "SihmeapoHs boasts of its eminence as a tombstone market. The total mechanical power in the United States Is estimated at 120.000, 000 horsepower. Salt Lake city reports that the tour ist procession breaks all records the briny gateway. Ten thousand pantsmakers are on promises. a strike in New York and prosperity's ft keeps hut on€ pants bag at the knees. orders, and that "it must he remem lered that only the few derive enor mous profits from war orders." People who are, surprised at the mivdneas of Mr. Bryan's criticisms of t''e artralnistration should remember John Paul Jones, Rryan has SH h^gun to fight." When ho will ZS? I tel1 "hat he W,H teU But. some day, gross* habits form a .prison th,at cannot be broken, anl at: life is narrowed down by hateful bond iace and early death. I The pace that kills offers many The treasury- statement at the closa ducts. Mexican stock-men increased of the week, Saturday, July 10, show ed a net balance. In the general fund of $73,963,615.58 as compared with a balance of $136,343,G11.17 on the same day, two years ago, under republican administration. Revenues to July 10, of this fiscal year amount to $14,064, 907.80, and disbursements $26,306, 064.26, leaving a deficit for the first ten days of this fiscal year of $11,241, 156.46. In the August Strand Magazine will be a v^ry timely and interesting article on Mr. David IJoyd George, the first of a very Interesting series of great interest to the reading pub lic Just now on the British Cabinet Ministers. These articles, as will be seen toy the first paper on Lloyd George, will pertain more to the hum an side of the men who are leading the destinies of England in the great war now waging. They are written by a man very high In British official life who, however, prefers not to have his name made known. But the articles carry with them the guaran tee of The Strand Magazine to be cor rect and truthful In every respect. Other articles of especial interest in clude "Some New Discoveries in Nat tural History," describing a duel of male sticklebacks, by John J. Ward, F. E. S. "The Art of Mimicry," as told by the leading mimics on the stage. "THE PACE THAT KILLS." A once charming actress is report ed dying in a New York hospital from "the pace that kills"—an everyday event—a mere drop of water In the boundless ocean of disaster from the same cause, says the Quincy Journal. The pace that Kills does kill. It does not always kill quickV/. More's the pity. The only escape fron its killing effect is suicide, and suicide is but one of its methods. Suicide may shorten the run of the pace, but doss not baffle it The devil must laugh in derision ot the victim who foolishly seeks to escape the penalty by leaping head long into his pit through suicide. The devil may be cheated of some chance to torture that victim on earth, but he has him safe enough, just the same. But what the devil must like best is for the pace itself to kill—to kill piecemeal. He must delight with truly infernal fiendishness to see the exceptionally bright young man or woman slowly but surely turn dullard, and active become sluggish, the ambitious lose heart and hope and faith, the pros perous feel the pinch of poverty. He must delight to see the glow of health give way to the fever flush or sickly pallor, the bright eye turn bleary, the firm hand tremble, the (destruction. Poor^Morgan would cer annnv1n* i7oi^ hew^nma aranr fl tainly rub his eyes in amazement were he to see the beautiful blown springing gait become a stagger or a shuffle. How the devil must laugh to see self-control, power, self-respect, prldo, hope, manhood steal away, one by one, leaving the victim to sufTer out a miserable existence, to be hearts 1 in the midst of gayety and to die alone in the midst of life. Surely nothing can delight the devil more than to see his victim take the tempting bait and the barbed hook and then to pay with him as the cruel sportsman plays with the game trout, knowing he is secure at the end oi the line. It is fine fun for the devil, but poor profit for the victim. Vrhat a wonderful thing the law of compensation is. We may Juggle with the laws of na ture for a while, but the good old laws continue In force Just the same. We can't alter or evade them. The pace that kills has its allure ments. It has Its enjoyment tor a while. -It kills. THAT FATAL TARIFF. Fathers who neglect their families If the American farmer has a fancy in Philadelphia are sent to the stone-1 for figures, he can find some Interest- pile for exercise and reform. {ing facts set forth in statistics con tained in a pamphlet just Issued by In Chicago there is an electric pie-' the department of commerce under To What Purpose? making machine with which six girls |the title: "Trade of the United States! Louisville Courier-Journal: The can turn out 28,000 pies a day. I with Other American Countries. 1913- Vice President Marshall says he Is' deal with a fiscal year, and not with I^rpd with ronnM.emocraUc nut Knows.hc UttUUag story. their sales in the United States about $5,600,000, Argentina farmers aug mented their incomes to the extent of $7,000,000 by sales of grain nearly $6,000,000 by sales of meat and dairy products anu $2,000,000 by sales of wool. Agricultural producers In these and other countries were aided in selling other products In American markets, but tha items mentioned above give the larger amounts of increased sales and serve to Illustrate the manner in whioh reduced tariffs on agricultural imports throw the American farmer into competition with farmers of oth er nations. The war in Europe served to give those other countries a more profitable market than the United States, but the increase of $42,500,000 in agricultural. Imports from three na tions, in a period of nine months of the new tariff, indicates what still greater injury would have been suffer ed by American producers had not the war intervened. HEALTH EXHIBIT. If the spirit of John Morgan, tl.o pirate, should take the seas again and overhaul the United States auxiliary ship "Caesar," as it sails through the waters which he once Infested, that long deceased pirate would beho) 1 the most wonderful prize cargo which ever fell into his hands. If the boxes containing the exhibit which is consigned to the U. S. Public Healta service were broken open, strange and varied would be the ob jects which would be found thereia: many of them illustrating subjects which were undreamed of in Morgan's day. There would be a small theatre in which would be shown by beautiful paintings the story of a typhoid bac illus carrier and how she innocentlv spread typhoid fever and -brought sorrow and death to many. Other models would show how the same dis ease is spread by files, oysters, an3 water, and still other models woull show the influence of the improve ment of public water supplies on the spread of. the disease. There are mosquitoes in this strange cargo, mosquitoes as large as eagles, lifeless to De sure, yet showing in every do tail the life history of this disease carrying insect from the egg to adult mosquito-hood. There would be fleas which would strike terror to the heart ot the looting pirate fleas hig as dogs so exhibited as to demonstrate the manner in which they carry plague from rats to man, and speak ing of rats, there would be the model of a ratless ship in which no rodent 's permitted to take passage, and in order to further discourage th's ubiquitous enemy of man, the ex hibit graphically shows the varicn methods which may be employed in its 0 lls glass models of the germs which pro duce the various diseases of man, and were he a scientist of today he would go into raptures over the deli cately tinted glass models showing the lower forms of vegetable life which transmute foul and dangerous sewage lntg harmless materials. Then* is a model showing the money whi~b flows out of Uncle Sam's pocket every year to pay the bills for wholly pre ventable diseases more money than Morgan took in his famous sacking ot Panama, a sum far greater than the total amount of his lootings. When this exhibit Is installed at San Francisco it will Include a model municipal laboratory which will be en gaged in the examination of watr furnished by common carriers to pas sengers in Interstate traffic. Theie will be models and charts and draw ings to illustrate the ravages caused by yellow fever, smallpox, tuberci" osis. rabies. Rocky Mountain spott-d fever, typhus fever, and diphtheria: and moving pictures will show th? various methods employed by the pub lic health service In protecting the health of the citizens of the United States. This is the most extensive exhibit on hygiene and sanitation ever created in the United States, and 's expected to play a very vital part tn the dissemination of knowledge which the average citizen can utilize as a health asset fflce yice president of the United 1914." Unfortunately, the statistics states is one of honor and dignity. a fatalist. Then, of course, he Is re-'a period fixed by changes in economic the vice president may succeed the signed to the defeat which next ye»r. policies. The figures regarding lm- president In the event of his demise, has in store for him. ports deal with the year ending with gut while he is vice president, the an June 30, in each instance, whereas receplent of the honor is not active Scientists of the department or aeri- tile new tariff law, which exerts so in administrative affairs. Surely the culture, after pxtensive study, have large an influence upon imports, went threateners of ice President Mar docided that the moon has no effect1 Into effect early in October, 1913. ball are extremely weak-minded per on growing vegetation. It is therefore apparent that the sons. Mr. Marshall Is somewhat statistics for 1913 include a fall prone to. discourse, but Is a kindlv If Senator Kern fs rieht and Wilson twelve months under a republican man who eats no fire and breathes really "will have no more enthusiastic tariff whi!° the figures for 1914 cover jno smoke. He "never harmed a hair supporter thun Bryan," what a fro--t' three months of repuWIcan tariff and of anyone's head and never will. To the second Wilson campaism will be! nine inonths of democratic rates on the idiot asylum with those who can 'imports As the Baropr»an war did be convicted of having sent him an- Wllson's proclamation asking sup-' not breax out until August. 1914. the onymous letters. tort for the negro historical and in- romtnercial transactions covered by dustrial exposition is conched In terms this bulletin were entirely free from European 8plte. of such frigidity that it is to he used |any •war infV'en'*'". A few ilhsstra-1 Lafe Young, In Leslie's Weekly: I «t the expositon to chill watermelons. tlor»" ff !ti farports of form have called the present war in Ku products will be illuminative. rope "The American-European War.' In 1896 Mr. Lansing was one of the In 1913 Canadian farmers- sold to [From the campaigns carried on in £old democrats. Hence, his selection b'lrnrs In the T'nited States cattle, "the states,"'! Judge it Is mora our to succoed Mr. Bryan may be fairly horses, she°p, etc.. to the value of a I war than anybody else's. The United taken1 as more evidence of the presi-jlittle more than $l.5«).000, but tn 1B14 [states Is the only country that tell3 dent's "entirely candid sympathy and thpy rut info the market of th»» Amer-jthe truth tn diplomacy and stands for friendship" for his ex-secretary of Iccn farmer to the extent of $11,000.-'a result after wars are over. We are state. '0o. That gain of $9,500,000 was the only people who spend mpney In 'enough to make quite a Jingle in the'beftalf of other people. It is suppMed One dollar to get married, 10 cents pocket of the Canadian stockgrower. that Uncle Sam Is rich enough to give to go to college and SO cents to gradu-i In 1913. Canadian farmer? sold in I every man a farm and also help to ate asow of the items in the npv American markets onlv $2.750.000! pay the expense of other people's regulation "governing the affixing of worth of grain and flour." but tn 1914 wars Therefore, I have christened stamps on certificates concerning hu- they were ahle to ship in enough of'this the American-European war. man affairs" which were recently pro- the same commodities to take away' miil^afed in China. ?l?.440,00n of cood American mon»v cost of millions. We are donating anto That is to tno gain of the mobiles at a cost of more millions. Tim Racine (WiB.) Journal-News Canadian. Leather added another $2 We are sending Red Cross surgeons wisely points out that "the stealv 000,000 to the ret gain of the Cana-' and R*d Cross nurses Into the remot business of peaceful times would he dian producer. Wool imports from est parts of the war zone. We are re far better in the lonr run" than war Canada gained $1.10^000 In 1914 as 'eivtng circulars by compared with 1913. dents of many of the countries that "oaefour classes of commodities,' are at war, asking for contributions. Rtitntfnr^' ffc 1' an1 w°o1- r°"-1A •nr v£i rtirt •v°"^at,on of agrlcul-. raartets0^^000-000 potential importance in that XV* are feeding the Belgians at a prntend 49 com" tarlff ,aws- trom res1* majority of the people in Europe they hates, the sight nf M„^anadlan "Pfoduoer a American. They discuss him spite in t* American irnTly when ha. mori on. Onr an very cofltrftmticns to the aid of those !tn distress are cited as evidence that iL nLt Canadian farmers I we are a speculative, unsympa-, removafif t^ff ^T,the re"«*ion or thetic, undoing eople. removal of tariff duties on farm pro-1 When these wars are over, a great Notables That Will Be Present at the Great Grand Army Encampment at Washington? WASHINGluN, July 19.—Clad In a reception gown of red, white and blue, the capital city will welcome the time-worn survivors of the once pow erful legions of Grant and Sherman, Meade and Sheridan at the forty ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, anjl the fiftieth anniversary of the grand ro view, the week beginning September 27. In the hurly-burly of patriotism at Washington on that history making occasion will be many conspicuous Qharacters of the greatest war in the preceding century. Cblonel John McElroy, past senior vice commander-in-chief of the Gk A. R., who is regarded by his comrades as a veritable living encyclopedia ct the civil war, its men and events. Is •compiling a roster of the'noted figures of the sixties who are expecfcd to at tend the big encampment. It is in teresting to note In this connection that the two surviving corps com manders of the civil war, Major Gen eral Granville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Major General James H. Wilson of Wilmington, Del., are ex pected to be present. General Dodge commanded the noted Sixteenth corp. General Wilson commanded all the cavalry between the Allegheny moun tains and the Mississippi river de tails of his troopers swept down through Alabama end foississippl at the close of the war and captured Jo" ferson Davis. At the head of the list of division commanders is Major General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, who has been liv ing for many years at Mannheim, Ger many. At the.time ot .the encamp ment of tfce G. A. R. h«t will come to Washington, to visit bis. ion. Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, U. S. N., and will greet his old comrades of fifty years ago. General Osterhaus stood among the splendid German officers who came to this country to serve the cause of the nnion. Another noted division commander who is expected to greet his former soldiers at the encampment is MaJ.?r General David McN. Gregg, who is auditor general of Pennsylvania. He commanded with great credit one of Sheridan's cavalry divisions. Major General Adelbert Ames, wuo commanded a division of the Tenth corps, distinguishing himself at Fort Fisher and who was afterwards gov ernor of Mississippi, and later senator from that state, Is living In retirement in Massachusetts, and is expected to come here during the encampment. many issues that were not in the case at the start will be in the Jury's ver dict. The Briton will awaken and learn to know that he is not a child of Providence to be taken care of without effort. The German will find out that a great civilization cannot'he built on militarism. The lessons to France and- Austria will be Incidental. They are a kind. Industrial people and their wish is to be let alone What ever shall be achieved for the right will be accredited to the valof, states manship and diplomacy of Europe. Whatever in the verdict shall be evil, will be, with one accord, accredited to the United States. The Republican Trend. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The re sults of the canvass conducted 'by the Washington bureau of the New York Sun, to ascertain the sentiment of the country in respect to republican can didates for president, are of interest more as an indication of the trend of thought and feeling within the party than as a revelation of personal pref erences and this notwithstanding the fact that the trend has been apparent to intelligent observers for months. Principles, in a democracy, are always more important than personalities, and It is the principles of the repub lican party that have won Its battles and achieved Its triumphs. It was an internal war of personalities that caused Its downfall in 1912. The foundations of the party were neither disturbed nor Involved until men rath er than beliefs became the overpow ering issue. And in the division which followed the differences of principle were more apparent than real. Fun damentally the progressives were nev er far away from the republicans. They developed some novel theories of popular and governmental powers and duties which were distinguishing decorations of a platform that retain ed the essential elements of republi canism. So it was that when the personal element of contention was removed by dual defeat they began at once to drop back into the places they had but temporarily vacated. They had never been, at heart, anything else than republicans, even in their bitter PRE8ERVE YOUR HAIR WHILE YOU HAVE IT Take care of your hair now, and keep It. Don't wait until it is gone, for can never be regained. Go: a bottle of MERI+OL HAIR TONIC use it according to direc tions, and you will ward off the danger of falling hair and baldness. We don't claim that it will grow hair on a batd head, but it will lo»ep your hair at its very best. We positively guar sntee that. Two sixes, 60c and $1.00. For sale by CITY DRUG STORE Others who are on the roster of prospective visitors are /Admiral George Dewey, who was one of Ad miral Farragut's young officers, gaia Ing distinction in the attack upon Po.-t Hudson Major General Nelson A. Miles, who entered the service as first lieutenant and became colonel of the Sixty-first New York volunteers, ami who as a brigade commander deliver, ed at Sunderland's Station, Va., the momentous blow that cot General Lee's last railroad connection anl compelled the surrender of Petersburg and Richmond Admiral Colby M. Chester, a young officer of Farragut's squadron Lieutenant' General 8. M. B. Young, who rose from an enlisted man to be colonel and brevet brigadier gen eral, and then- entered the regular army, being retired in 1904 wlth'the rank of lieutenant general. He is now governor of the U. S, Soldiers' Home at Washington. Colonel John L. Clem, quartermast er corps, U. S. army, the only surviv or of the civil war now on the active list of the army, is stationed a*. Washington, and is taking a lively In terest in the arrangements for the forty-ninth encampment of the G. A. R. Colonel Clem was baptized In the fire of battle as a drummer bay. in the sanguinary contest at Shlloh., Ha had many thrilling experiences, anl because of his undaunted valor in the "hornets' nest" at Chlckamauga Gen erals Rosecrans and Thomas bestowed upon him the title, "Drummer Boy ot Chlckamauga," which he proudly wears to this day. Prior to the bat tle of Chlckamauga he woce the cog nomen, "Johnny Shlloh." Another drummer boy of the rebel lion who will be present Is Abraham Springsteen, who was but ten years of age when he entered the service. He will have charge of a drum, fife and bugle corps of 100 sons and grand sons of union veterans In the grand review at the G. A. R. encampment. Major General J. Warren Kelfer of Ohio has promised to attend the en campment. He wore the double etars of his rank In two wars, and is still active. He commanded a brigade and a division in the fighting Sixth corps in the civil war, and was commander of a division of the Seventh army corps in the war with Spain. General Keifer served several terms in co i gress and was one time speaker of the house of representatives. He declar ed recently that he is ready and will ing to go to war for Uncle Sam If his services are needed. est moods, and they did not stultify themselves nor strain their con sciences by returning. And now, hav ing got together again, the party is, naturally, somewhat disposed to con servatism. This tendency has 4een apparent for some time and the Sun's inquiry tout adds another bit of evi dence of the trend. That is may re sult in the selection of a conservative candidate is quite within the range of possibility, but that personality will be subordinated to principles is as cer tain as the identity of the maker of little apples. The republican platform will not be built upon or around about a man, any man, next year. Whoever be may be he will be chosen because of his fitness to stand upon a platform now building In the minds of the peo ple. LEE SUPERVISORS SELL OLD LUMBER Supervisor Hosier Proves to be David Harum of Lumber Business and Wins Treat. Fort Madison Democrat: Saturday, the county uspervlsors disposed of some twenty-five thousand feet of bridge lumber which the construction force had salvaged from old joint county bridges and piled at Bridge port, Augusta and Wever. The lots were disposed of by auction, a little printers* ink and a good auctioneer proving a good investment and bring ing considerably more returns than personal sales would have brought, netting in the neighborhood of $300. The sale at Bridgeport was at 9:00 a. m.. at Augusta at 11:00 a. m. and at Wever at 1:00 p. i. Col. A1 Link spieled as auctioneer, his flather acted as clerk of the sales and Supervisor Hosier of Lee county. Supervisors Swallow and Fimmen of Des Moines county acted as official overseers. The Lee county representative had a little side transaction involving some personal gain, the deal coming out so successfully that he has taken justifiable pride in it. It seems that the idea of auctioning off the lumber met with a little hesitancy as it had not been tried before and some ef forts were made to sell the lumber by private sale. George Rogers, re tired Green Bay agriculturist and known bow to stern of the county, was the most likely purchaser *t We ver and Chairman Hosier approached him to talk sale. The Wever man was agreeable to thinking over the proposition and the chairmen quoted a prloe of $150 for the whole lot at Wever, later splitting' several differ ences and ooming down to $75. The prospect Insisted the lot was not worth the half of that and said the whole amount of lumber wouldn't bring over $75 at auction, lnadvertly backing up his statement with a guar antee of a treat, key capacity limit before January i, if Colonel Link drew an offer over that sum. Mr. j. Hosier is now making arrangements for a pleasure fest In acceptance of Mr. Rogers' generosity, to be held when Supervisor Young'B appendix Yes—We Have It And we honestly believe thai "95" TssA Hair Tonic is the best hair tonic on the market— 60o a bottle. Sold only by ua. McGratii Bros. Drug Co. avijnoo w»JnHq rl Win .x riS lm ExtensiM Three Names 8ugfleated. Bp-Stairs" With an extension telephone on the seo-. ond floor yon can call or be called without climbing the stairs. Residence 50 Cento a Month. le Doctor Says It Pays. IOWA TELEPHONE COMPANY THE WAGE EARNER find that by stea&ly saving a part of his income with the assistance we give and the 3 per cent inter est vro pay, he will have money when he needs it. WE INVITE him to ojpjen an account, The State Central Savings Bank Corner Sixth and Main Streets CAPITAL $200,000.00 SURPLUS $200,000.00 That New Flag Tonr neighbor displayed on the Fourth very likely came from The Keokuk Savings Bank' YoTt' fcail get one free by depositing $15.00 or nkire on. a new savings account. ..... KEOKUK NATIONAL BANK .ii affords every facility for do ing your banking business tbat any bank can/ Pfs? C£~AT- T/sV7£~ A/V£ V/YVo/PoS/rsA BUCK-REINER CO. Wholesale Grocers and Coffee Roasters DISTRIBUTORS FOB THE HART BRAND OF CANNED FRUITS v- AND VEGETABLES, 'DIRECTORS ABA*M BUCK, mrmmt. ALFRED K. BUCK, Vtco Rroat. TMOB. JOMM, Qocy. A Traoa. jom. m. BUB», aeo. •. TUOK.BR kiEOKUK, IOWA -INSURE IN THE- IOWA STATE of Keokuk FIRE UGHTNING WIND -Phone 160- gets bettef, for the lot went under the hammejc at 9104.60. topping George's gueiBS by $110.60. J. D. Grif fith ot Mt. Hamil was the purchaser. [United Press Leased Wire Seivice.] CHICAGO, July 20—The name of the probable successor to Archbishop Quigley Is on Its way to Rome today,! Ladies Can Wear Shoes with two others who have been prom- One size smaller after using Allen* lnently mentioned for the high Catho-: Toot-Ease, the antiseptic powder 11c post who were ehoaen Ftlday, it the feet. It makes tight or new sM® was announced today at a meeting of feel easy gives Instant relief to *orn consulting pastors of the arch-diocese. and bunions, prevents Blisters, They were ratified by the arch-dioce*-' and -Sore Spots. It's the greatest coo fort discovery of the age. Sold every where, 36c. For FREE trial address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le an bishops and sent to £bpe Benedict, sealed. It was confldenUy expected today that the holy father would pick one of the thrrt suggested. iii iiur"8 In a Clan by Himself. St. Paul Pioneer Press: If ^r* Roosevelt lambasts the president for not acting belligerently toward many, as he advises, Mr. Roosev^i will not remain a political leader. H* will be a political curiosity. Roy. Y. -V? i'j: