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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-22

Don't resort to stimulating toncs Such drugs
simply urge the already overworked stomach, to
renewed exertions
1t Is like squirting tired horse For moment
ne responds. Then outraged Nature, reasserts it,
self and he falls in heap. Sedatives are equally
ineffective. AT first they deaden pain but after
ward comes the reaction and keener suffering than
before.
What the stomach needs, is rest. To obtain 1t,
a substitute be found for the natural diges.
tive juices kodol is the only substitute, which
accomplishes Natures results by Natures own
methods
1t gives the stomach perfect rest by digesting
what you eat No dieting is necessary Eat all
the good food you want build up the system and
at the same time, relieve the stomach from all
responsibility. The rest will restore it to its
natural condition and soon effect a complete cure
This is the only rational and common sense
method OF aiding Nature.
Our Guarantee
Go to your druggist today and get dollar bottle
Then after you have used the entire contents of tho
bottle if you can honestly say, thatit has not done
you any good return the bottle to the druggist and
he will refund your money without question or de-
lay. We will then repay the druggist.
Don't hesitate alldruggsts know that our guaran-
tee is good. This offer applies to the large bottle
only and to but one in a family.
The dollar bottle contains ~ times as much as
the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol is prepared at the laboratories of e. G.
DE Witt & Co., Chicago,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-22
List If Winners

LIST Of Winners.
Elizabeth Megchelsen, Keokuk.
I. H. R. Rollins, Keokuk.
Joseph Geiser, Keokuk.
Jake Hubinger, Keokuk.
Louis Kloth, West Point.
Perva Smith, Carthage.
Joe M. Wood, Wayland.
John P. Morris, Kahoka.
John Armstrong, Cantril.
Mary NJ. Miller, Centerville.
James Brey, Centerville.
Martin Miller, Burlington.
G.. M. Palmer, Burlington.
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u.IOed in Getting Free at 1880
= Yesterday Morning by the Lit
tie steamer ottumwa
Belle. b
Inss1ss1PP1 RIVER NOTES
..,h Of Street Car Motormen and
conductors Went Fishing But
Luck Was Not With
the Crew.

encouraging reports have been re-
tod from the Diamond 10 Office at
E,hnoue Iowa, to the effect that the
nv north of there has risen consid-
[..h,a due to recent rains. and tenn
wary halt in the recession of the
Ilissssippi as far south as ST. Louis,
[,,b nossibly a slight rise. While the
[,ter will run out in few days un-
III there is more rain, 1t will make 1t
I,.sible to continue the steamer Du-
Iroue in the service for ten days or
r. weeks longer than anticipated,
Ia II is now probable that the boat
En- not retire until after November
anyway.
4 telegraph dispatch from New Or
I,ns saws: With the water in the
Mississippi only eighteen inches above
!, lowest record for thirty years, salt
E,ter fish are being caught daily off
il New Orleans dock, about 100
kiles above the mouth of the river.
he color of the river has turned from
muddy brown to green hue, due to
A. salt water of the gulf forced up.
ream by the tide.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-22
Motor Boat Speeds.

f Ii is reported that the fast motor
cst owned by A. w. Schwane of Chi
sgo which was in port Wednesday
ade the trip from Keokuk to Quincy
! two hours and a quarter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-22
River Season Soon Over.

Already river men who have an in
krest in steamboats, plying on the
Essissippi between Dubuque and ST.
mis are making preparations to
Ming the season to clcee BY the
(st of November MR. .Ne boats
bit be laid UP for the nd will
Err'- IN winter quarters Until early
Put the steamers Keokuk
IA Sc will not be fastened by an
(rroach of winter as November 1
I'm bring but will remain in the SER
He until along in December.
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war department were many crates Of
battleflngs captured from southern
armies. At the suggestion of the ad-
iutant general Mr. Cleveland ordered
that the flags he returned to the states
from whose regiments they had been
captured. Certain Grand Army posts
became so indignant that they passed
resolutions strongly censuring the pres.
idcnt, with lnsinuatlons against him
because he had employed substitute
instead of going into the army during
the war This incident which took
place in 1887, was intensified In It's acri-
mony from the G.. a. r. side because
the president had vetoed civil war pen
sion bills I'm hundreds OF individual
cases wherein he believed the applicant
was not entitled to pension. He had
become known as "thc veto president, ="
as he had been the veto mayor and the
veto governor. SO harsh was the clam
or evoked by the battlehag order that
the president issued frank statement
resembling 1t, explaining that he had
acted without looking up the legal as
pect OF the case and that in his opinion
any direction as to the final disposition
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safer ] have always thought that her
prayers had much 10 do with my sue
ccss"3. | sha;! expect you to help me In
that way.
Governor Cleveland was precisely
like Mayor Cleveland He was n bust
ness governor. 1t was said OF him that
he ran the state as he would have run
Il railroad, mastering the details of the
business so that he could run II well
The same writer declares that che not
only preached economy, but he made
the state officials practice 1t. He We
iocd bills until the legislators were
wild with rage, and he forced through
civil service reform"
Grover Cleveland was cordially
dislikcd by the politicians In his par
ty. But his reputation among the peo
pie as plain, practicable, busincsslike
executive had grown so wide that in
the summer of 1891, before the explrn-
'tion Of his gubernatorlal term, there
was All insstcnt call for him to ac.
ccpt that "high political prefermcnt"
which i'm the letter to his brother he
had declared was not I'm his head
The great mass OF the Democracy
throughout the country believed that
Cleveland was honest and that moth
ing could tn Il him aside from n course
which he Dclicved to be right lie was
nominated for president at the Chica-
80 convention Of 1884, his Republican
opponent being James G. Blaine. Mr..
Cleveland received n small plurality of
the popular vote and an electoral ma
iority of thirty-sevcn. For the first time
since 1856 the Democratic party had
carried the presidential election. A
man who two years before was I'M.
known beyond his own city and coun.
ty, a painstaking, laborious lawyer, n
pondcrous. heavy set "old bachelor
had entered the lists and swept to de
feat "the plumcd knight" OF twenty
years national rcnown.
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Though Mr.. Cleveland never possess
cd in very apprcciabc degree that
quality which we call personal mag
nctism, he was undoubtedly the most
popular American of his time when he
began his second term as president.
When lie closed that term and retired
permanently to private life he was one
of the most unpopular Americans for
the time being. He had cut loose from
his party ana become that amazingly
unusual thing executive iudepend-
cnt of the powers which made him.
The great struggle for the maintenance
OF the gold standard against blmetal-
liSm which SignaliZcd the campaign of
1886 was taking definite shape. The
president set himself oDstinately to-
ward maintaining the gold standard
In the summer of 1893 he called an
extra session of congress and pushed
through the repeal of the Sherman act
of 1880, under which the government
was required to purchase large quanti-
ties Of silver bullion. The Democracy
at largo was amazed and cnraged at
this action, though n very considerable
portion Of 1t stood with the president
on The issue.
To maintain the gold reserve Presi-
dent Cleveland from time TO time made
large issues of government bonds. The
placing Of some of these bonds with
New York bankers aroused cyclone
of adverse criticism. Mr.. Cleveland,
of course, was In the exact storm cen
ter Several years after his retire
mcnt Mr. Cleveland wrote statement
explaining the bond sales, defending
his own course and declaring that hc
recalled these executive acts with the
greatest satisfaction.
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| him. England drew In ner horns and
accepted the situation gracefully.
Grover Cleveland for the time was Il
great popular hero. However, his de-
feat for denomination in 1896 had he
desired the honor was Il forcgone con-
clusion. Tariff as an issue was tum-
blcd into that condition which years
before Mr.. Cleveland had described as
"innocuous dcsuetudc." The free coin
age of silver was demanded by the
Democratic majority. Mr. Cleveland
supported the Palmer and Bucliner
"gold Democratic" ticket When he
handed over the governmental reins to
President William Mckinley, March 4,
1907, he stepped out of Office forever.
Mr.. Cleveland settled for himself the
problem as to what TO do with an eX-
president by retiring gracefully to
Princeton. n. j.. in the shadow of the
great university which he as a poor
boy vainly had hoped to enter Here
he built home and grew old with his
family of bright young children grow
Ing up about him. Two more girls
and two boys were born.
During and after his presidential
terms the Cleveland fishing and duck
hunting expeditions supplied much ma
tcrlal TO the press.
In 1908 Mr.. Cleveland was iniroduc.
ed In St Louis aa "thc most distin-
gulshcd private citizen In the world"
BY that time his political opponents in
both of the great parties. generally
speaking, had como to look upon him
as historical figure and by the vast
majority OF Americans the venerable
cx-prcsldont was regarded as n true
patriot, an honest publIc servant and
an able chief executive.
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He was not particularly active in poll
tics after his retirement.
In the meantime history was making.
Harrison anu high tariff were in the
saddle. The Mckinley act of 1890, in.
crcaslng the tariff on wool, tin plato
and other products, was followed by
high prices for the poor mans nccessa-
rlcs of life. Events rapidly were shap.
Ing themselves toward a vindication Of
Grover Cleveland. The cX-prcSidcnt at.
tended to his law work, and the
people did the rest. with the polti.
clans, as Of old, mostly I'm opposi.
tiOn, the independent Democratic vot
ers forced the selection of Cleve.
land delegates to the national Demo
ocratic convention of 1892. held I'm
June. -Four more years of Grover"
was the campaign cry Though the
New York delegation opposed him, Mr..
Cleveland was nominated for the prcsl.
dency the third time in succession on
the first ballot. President Harrison
again was his Republican opponent.
Cleveland was elected, receiving 27T
electoral votes against 145 for Harrison
ana 30 for General Weaver, Pcpullst.
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"the veto mayor" lie vetoed many
"Ntravngant appropriation bills and
saved his city mt least $1,00000O
The state of New York soon heard
much of this veto mayor He had been
in Office less than a year when the
Democrats nominated him for govern
or. New York had not elected Dem
ocratlc governor since before the civil
war. The Republicans nominated
Charles J. Folgcr, secretary OF the
treasury In President Arthur's cabinet.
Mr., Folger was regarded as partlc-
ularly strong candidate, yet Cleveland
was elected governor by plurality of
l92,S5l over Folger and by n clear ma
jority of 15l .742 over all the candi-
dates. Just after he voted on election
day he wrote to his brother, the Rev.
William Clcveland:
II mother were alive, I should be writ
Ing to her. and feel II 1t wcro n time
FOR mo to write to some one who will be-
first of all others the policy / intend to
adopt. and that is to make the matter
business engagement between tho people
ana myself. I'm which the obligation on my
sid" Is to perform the duties assigned me
with an eye single to the interests of my
employers / shall have no idoa OF re-
election or OF any high political prefer
mcnt In my head. but be very thankful
ANA happy If serve one term as the pco-
plc's governor. Do you know that II
mother worc alive l should feel so much
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was disposition to hclp others Whenever
possible. knowing that II was great
favor to me to have my poems copied
neatly ana lcgIhly he offered to perform
that service for mo. and | several times
aVailcd myself of his aid.
One day the principal of the school
upbrnidcd the blind woman for using
the clerks time in that way. Grover
told Miss Crosby that she had perfect
right to employ him I'm that capacity,
inasmuch rs her poems were used in
the school ana also helped to make the
institution better known. He advised
her to give the principal some plain
prose" the next time he should re.
proach her. When the official remon-
stratcd a second time, Miss Crosby
stood for her rights and won the battle.
When Cleveland was about eighteen
years old, he paid a visit to an uncle
living I'm Buffalo. The Hnclc in
duccd the boy to remain and help him
I'm compiling the american Herd
Book" Grover assisted in several cdl-
tions Of this work, studied law and
was admitted TO the bar at the age of
twenty-five. His first official position
was that of assistant district attorney,
which lie held for three years, during
the civil war. Two of his brothers
were I'm the army. Grover was helping
to support his mother and sisters His
salary was small. When he was draft
ed to military service, he hired n sub,
stltute and remained at work Later
he was candidate for the district at
torneyship, but was defeated Then he
settled down to law practice. In 1870
he was induced TO run for sheriff and
was elected. serving for three years.
After another interval of private
citizenship, assiduously devoted to
his profession. this bachelor lawyer of
forty-fom years was nominated for
mayor of Buffalo on the Democratic
ticket In 1881. He had become known
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torN-that OF being elected president,
rrnominatcd and defeated and again
rcnominatcd and elected. He had
served one full term, with all the ex-
pcricnce in national and international
politics which that service cntailcd.
In another ana more popularity inter
cstnG sense the second advent of
Cleveland was different. lie was now
Il thorough family man. The Cleve-
lands had baby, little Ruth, born in
New York oct 3, 1891. Her death n
few years after her parents retire
mcnt to Princeton. \. j., was mat
ter OF %"n"ral regret. Mrs. Cleveland
durin% The second term further endcar-
Cd herself to thc American people
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-07-01

even at The cost OF war between
the United States and England. Great
Britain had refused to submit to ar
bitration certain boundary dispute
with Venezuela. President Cleveland
advised the appointment of q com
mission to determine for itself the
boundary line between the two coun-
tries with view to enforce an ac-
ceptance of this line by Great Brit
ain The Monroe doctrine having been
accepted from the moment of its pro-
mitigation by Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams rs part and parcel of
sacred American pOlity, the entire ma
ton stood by the president in his
plucky stand. Congress also stood by
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To White House bride flew fast and
thick, the president having sent elab-
crate bouquets to Miss "Franliie" Fol
som on the occasion of the young wo-
mans graduation from Wells college.
Frances Folsom was the daughter of a
former law partner OF Mr.. Cleveland
In Buffalo. After her graduation she
Travelled I'm Europe. On June ., 1886,
shortly after her return to America,
she was married to the president in the
White House.
Unusual obstacles beSct the prcslden-
tial pathway of Cleveland from the
moment of his Inauguration. Shut out
from executive favor for practically Il
generation, the Democratic politicians
were avid for Office The president
sought to adhere to Il policy opposed to
removal from Office OF competent Off
cialS except rs to heads of divisions
and other important otliccholderS, but
the JNckSonian cry "To the victors be-
long the SpoilS." became so inSiStcnt
that the president was induced to mod
iIy his policy to the extent of remov-
ais for offensive partiSanship," n
phrase coined by him which speedily
became famous. In the light of his
tory 1t must be admitted that "offcn-
sivc partisans" in federal Offices were
exceedingly numerous in those days
Republican poStmastcrs were slaugh-
tered by wholesale.
In Storchouse connected with the
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alicnatc that large wing of the De-
mocracy which believed in high
tariff for the support of American
Industries was greeted by the Brit
ish press with profound admiration
Eminent political economists in the
United States declared this message to
be one of the aDlest of presidential pa
pers. The presidents stand for roduc-
tionS in the tariff on Il revenue only"
sion pro and con for many years fol-
lowing.
Mr.. Cleveland received the Demo
cratic nomination for president In 1883,
but was defeated in the election by
Benjamin Harrison of Indiana. Many
Democrats attributed his defeat to his
tariff message of 1887. After Mr.
lIarrison's election and the CONSEQUENT
TRADE of criticism from members OF
the presidents own party Mr.. Clcvc-
land sent for the speaker of the house
Of representatives, John G.. Carlisle, q
Democrat, and said to him, "If every
other man In the country abandons
this Issue, / shall stick to it,"
Accordingly in the last message of
his term he "stuck to" his stand Oh
the tariff problem, urging congress in
1850 to enact laws in line with his
suggestions of the winter before.
Cleveland retired to private life
March 4, 1880, and settled in New
York city for the practice of the law
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s2Ee

rs n careful, hard
working, but not
brilliant, lawyer.
He had no pyro-
technic, ornancn-
tai side. lie sim
ply attended to
business. Though
the Rcpublica II
state ticket car
rlcd Buffalo by
more than 1,GO0
votes, Cleveland
was elected may
or by Il majority
of $3.50. Early
In his term he be-
came known no
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-07-01

first name and become known in world
history as Grover Cleveland, twice
president of the United States ana for
the remainder of his life "ihc most dis
tlnguiShcd private citizen in The world. -
The Rev. stephen T. Cleveland and
l!3 wife, who was Ann Neal, daughter
of Baltimore merchant, had Il large
family of children. Three years after
Grover was born the family migrated,
as preachers families are wont TO do.
ParsOn Cleveland became pastor at
Fayetteville, y. y, ana latcr at Clin-
ton, y. y. The father died when
Grover was In his sixteenth year. The
family home was then and until the
widow Cleveland died in 1882 ut IIol-
land Patent y \.
Grover Cleveland attended academies
Mt Fayetteville" and Clinton. lie had
IN carly ambition to go through Prince
ton college. but lacked the funds. He
became clerk ana later assistant teach
or In the New York Institution For the
Blind, New York city.
Fanny Crosby, the celebrated blind
hymn writer, was Il teacher i'm tho same
school. She ana Grover lccumc warm
friends. In her "reminiscences Miss
Crosby writes:
lie seemed a very gentle but intensely
ambitious boy. Among other very pleas
ant characteristics which noticed In him
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-07-01
The First Presidency of
Grover Cleveland
His inauguration In March, 1885, His Marriage
TO Miss Frances Folsom, His Removals For "Ot-
Jensi0e ParhSanship," His "Taritf For Revenus
Only" Plan and Tqoo Presidential Cambaiqns.

A ? S'no 4 = n BY ! his is
brother ana
sister, GROW q l.
Cleveland slipped
quietly into Wash
ingtOn March .,
1888, and on the
4th was inaugu-
rated as president
OF the United
States. succeeding
Chester Alan Ar
thur. II W q II t V
eight years had
passed since Il
Democrat had talk
ell the oath OF Of
flee us president.
Miss Rose Eliza
ID G { h Cleveland,
t Ii q presidents
Younger s S t er,
WAS mistress OF
the White House
and therefore first
lady of the land"
during the first
fifteen months Of
t II @ administra-
ton. During this
period rumorS as
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of the captured
flags should orig
mate with con.
SrcSs. Since then
many flags have
been returned.
President Clcvc-
land in his mes
sage TO congress
in December, 1887,
cnunciatcd his Gel
cbratcd prop oS l.
tion of "tarlt for
revenue only"
This was the most
notable incident of
his first term in
office. The mes
sage, submitted on
the eve of the
presidential NOM
nations of 1888,
amazed the nation
by its bold stand
against the so call
ed protective tar
if. Mr.. Cleveland
was known to be
In n willing mood
for denomination.
His fearle ssness
In thus daring to
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President Cleve-
land in 1894 en-
hanced his innC-
diatc unpopularlty
by sending gov
crnmcnt troops to
Chicago ito pre-
vent the obStruc-
ton OF the mails"
during the great
railway S trik G,
against the pro-
test OF Governor
AltgCld of Illinois,
who declared that
he was able to
cope with the sit
uatiou without aid
from the federal
government. This
WAS one of the
III oSt sensational
acts of Cleve-
lands career. In
1898 he sent to
the senate Il mes
sage relating to
British claims in
Venezuela which
DriStlcd with bull
dog determination
to insist upon the
upholding OF the
Nj OnrOe doctrine
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-07-01
The Early Tears of
Grover Cleveland
His Birth In CahfqoeH N. j., His School Days,
His Legal Career, His Rise to the Governor
ship Of Ncqo York and His Defeat of James
q. Blaine For the Presidency In 1884, -
KNY II EN- the

w F" pasior !; ! { h Of E
the Pres
bytcrian church in
the little town Of
Caldwell, n. j., in
1887 bestowed up
on one Of his ba-
bics the name Of
the Rcv. stephen
Grover, Il prCdc-
ccSSOr In the same
pulpit, he proba-
bly, entertained
not the rcmOtCSt
dream that the
boy would grow
up to discard his
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-07-01
The Second PRESIDENCY Of
Grover Cleveland

His Fight For the Gold Standard, His Bond
Issues, His Defiance of Great Britain OUer the
pe"e@uela Boundary, His Support of Palmer and
Buckner and His Home Life In Princeton -
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-11-12
Tho Ax;aI Rotation of Venus.

For over two centuries it was gcner ally accepted that. like the eartli. tll' planet Venus rotated on It's axis Iii little less than twenty-four hours, bu since Schiapareill after long and car,' ful observation of the planet suggest ed that the actual rotation period wa: between six and nine months N>tr"n omers have devoted much attention ts this matter. Ia the Observatory NJ Dennlng sums up the available eVi dence on the point and car only co' clude that this particular problem st;i defies solution. Life on Venus woU,( be very different from life oh the eay;i should the planets avial rotation h'1 as Schiaparelli asserted, identical w't' the period of it's revolution round ~, sun, as Ill that case the s>tlne hem. sphere would always be turned to tb' sun and enjoy perpetual day, wdiie t!4' opposite hemisphere would be doom@' to eternal night