Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
lust COMMON TRICKS.

One of the commonest tricks of The
| dollar bill and count both ends. In the
/ theatrical profession an impression OF
/ mighty armies is made upon the audi
! ence by a half dozen men who march in
! at one stage entrance and out at an
| other, a stage trick common enough, but
! effective. There is an ancient story OF
1 the mistress Of a boarding house who
varied the menu of her establishment
thus: She had coffee, bread and butter
/ for, breakfast, bread, butter and coffee
for dinner and put butter first on the
! supper list. 1t is somewhat after this
! fashion that the keokuk Gate City pro-
! poses to count the commerce of the up
/. per Mississippi to the confusion of the
! Times Republican by quoting special
: dispatches from the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. thus:
Keokuk, Iowa, May 12.-Ten Brock
UP with eight barges. Dubuque passed
up. Silver Crescent and Eloise made
their regular trips.
Burlington, Iowa, May 12.-The Flo
Use and w. j. Young in and out from
Keokuk and Davenport respectively.
The Dubuque is due UP tonight.
Hannibal, Mo-, May 12.-The steamer
Dubuque passed up this morning with
large cargo Of freight for st. Paul.
The Flying Eagle was at the wharf this
afternoon.
Dubuque Iowa, May 12.--Boats pass
ing the draw today were the Glenmont,
Park Bluff, Juniata and Gypsy, up;
Eclipse, Everett, Ben Hershey and Phil
Scheckel, down.
Quincy, Ill.,, May 12.-T1p: Dubuque.
Down: Ten Brock, Flying Eagle and
Silver Crescent.
st. Louis, May 12.-The Sidney
brought 700 head of stock yesterday
morning, breaking all previous records.
She left for Burlington last evening
with a good patronage In both freight
and passenger departments.
The Gate City shows marvellous COM
mand over its features when it contin-
ues gravely: THE foregoing and SINH
lar items of river intelligence do not
tend to confirm the statement of the
Marshalltown Times-Rcpublican that
steamboating is played out The list
of boats is by no means complete. but |
will answer very well. On the lower
river several times as many boats are
engaged in active and profitable trade.
One swallow or half dozen do not
make summer. Neither do two or
yhree real steamboats, and a bunch of
rafters represent the good old summer
time" of the flush river days. The con-
tention Of the Gate City Is remindful OF
the good chicken shooting Hank Jones
had on his farm. He could go out any
day and shoot until he tired of the sport
Until stranger came along and
killed the lone chicken he had been
shooting at. Casual study of the dis
patches will bring the conviction that
If a cyclone were to destroy half dozen
boats on the upper river the Gate City,
like Hank, would find game mighty
scarce about keokuk. The Gate City I.
has misread the T.-R. There was no in
tent in the article published in this pa
per to cheaper the magnificent possi-
bilities of the great waterway that {
washes the somewhat sreckled feet of
Keokuk. That this splendid water thor
oughfare may in time be developed and
a thousand smoky tunnels crowd for po-
rfYiop az lnpo jpac IF IauSir >u oro,yoad s
with the warehouses of mightier Keo- t
kuk is dream that the T.-R.. in COM c
non with the Gate City, wishes may {
come true; but the T.-R. confesses, with a
that 1t finds sleep impossible b
n daytime. S