The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-31

VIE Want TO Knowles, we really are
d the condition Of the chap in Dickens
HE said he wanted to know, ron know"
Nov, We want to know, But We hope that
desire for knowledge on our part won't Ok
ercise The public q that other inquirinx chAp
exercised the Scion Of the House OF barner
cle. But We want to know. And yet tnis
isn't An adve rsisement. Itisn't signalling
of the public in the nature OF an 'isFohAi
rros WAITED to be inserted four weeks
among the Especial Notices. That i the
vay the do when some model wife has run
away with the hired man, or An Insurance
Agent. Or when an apprentice has disap-
peared over night, and his christian master 10
anxious to get him back to kick him, and
cuff him, and fog him, and starye him, and
otherwise show his great regard for him. Or
when some dutiful son Who has been trained
in the way he should go, proves It and reflects
credit ON his parental bringing up BY running
avay from, home. Ur when some Democrat
;c candidate for Congress gets instead an ap
Monument as Minister to South America, and
Gets lost on his way there and is never heard
If more, Or when some Boot-and-ahoe
man invents new way of taking advantage
Of the Bankrupt Law, cuts dirt and runs As
though the Old Harry wasn't after him. They
advertise in such cases. But our wife hash.
run away; neither has our apprentice; nor
any boy Of ours. And we haven't lost =
member Of Congress in the way recited; nor
vet auy Boot and Shoe man. And this ism =
an advertisement. II anybody says it IS Wen
deny il. For our friend - is a very mod
est man. with a morbid sensitiveness about
being made a spectacle of, or getting up 9
SENSATION. And if, when he comes back, it
eo,:ld be said TO him swell. -, your friend
- of the GATE CRY advertised you" he
would feel IS badly as though he were run
away wife or lost Congressman, or ste-
daddling Boot.and-shoe man. And now,
that YOU know this isn't an advertisement,
We want TO know what has become OF him
He is in tie habit Of going oil IN queer and
snannouneed way. For instance, there was
AuDtDSr lTleHu Ut QAis VIZ was cus niA'th6
one afternoon last summer, and seeing our
friend -- on the sidewalk, invited him to
take ride with him, and he did, ard they
drove about town, and happening to take the
l.evee in their way, our friend - suddenly
said. "I'll get ont here, and he did, and
without any further announcement crossed
The river. went East, and wasn't seen again
II, keokuk for many weeks. II he had a wife
re a like to see him cut up such tantrums, or
90 OF in thai spasnodic way. And this last
time. he has been gone, two or three months.
Ne, ard some more Of us that sit at the same
table are his family, and yet he went with
oat letting va know anything about his going,
or his staying. or his returning. And We
b tyn't heard Of him since bis familiar form
disappeared from among us. We submit
that that's treating US shabbily-that it's no
good way Of doing. We are distressed by
his absence. II this meets his eye, We hope
he will make haste to return. We occupy
his vacant place ut the table. We are anx-
ious to yacate in his favor, and take our
wonted chair at his right hand. In his abs
seuce we harn't any body to talk democracy
to u.s. His ways had grown dear to u.s. If he
would take our biscuit, he at once ordered
another for Us, and himself, too. 1.-The help
ed himself,o our steak. he was ve:y pleas
ant about it. aud Immediately told the waiter
to bring two steaks. one for us and one for
himself. fine made free with cur dish Of
oysters, be never hesitated to order that il
should be repienished and his own as well.
II we lift thus the curtain and disclose these
pleasant little domessicities, it is only to
show what Happy Hotel family We have
been. and to add force to our regrets at his
prolonged absence. Douglas, come back 10
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