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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

THE White Rats"
Finest holly at Wolfe's.
THE White Rats" Christmas.
Holly and wreaths at Wolfe's.
Get your fine holly at Wolfe's,
Malaga grapes at D. Johns.
All fresh candies at Oak Hall.
Doll cabs and go-carts at Wolfes.
Skate tonight at the Roll-a-way-
sure.
Celery, cranberries, oysters and
fruits at Dan Johns grocery.
Before you buy that fine box OF
chocolate and bon bons, see Sutlive
Bros
Two big matinees at Dodges'
Theatre Christmas afternoon. Seats
now selling.
Basket ball game Christmas p.
m. at o'clock at Y NJ. c. A. Adj
mission. Is cents.
Have you reserved your seats for
the big Christmas matinees at Dodge
Theatre? Better hurry.
Tell your neighbor about getting
complete newspaper for ten cents a
week. The Daily Gate City contains
all the news.
Justice Burrows gave a stranger
by the name of Peter Jackson thirty
days In the county Jail today for hav.
ing been drunk and disturbing the
peace
Don't miss The White Rats
Christmas.
For the consideration OF $1,000
William Weirather has sold to f. N
Publisky. lots and 6 in block s and
all of block ! in Messengerville addi
ton to the city.
See the Its of feature acts o
The White Rats" announced OF
eighth page of this issue.
Nothing more suitable for Xmas
present than good talking machine
We have both cylinder and disk. 10
inch disk selections for SIC. what 20,
have been paying Coo for. High clas
Finch selections for 80 and 75c. In
desrtuctible cylinder records, the bes
ever, Csc. Fit any machine. Sutliv'
Bros, 312 Main street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
Internal Parasites of Sheep.

Internal parasites, such as the stom-
ach. tape and other worms, according
to George H. McKerfow of Wisconsin,
are the greatest enemies the sheep
men have in raising mutton. He says
the trouble is to be prevented rather
than cured. Relating his experience
Mr.. McKerrow says: We use the
hurdles. a system carried on almost
exclusively in Great Britain. with ex
cellent results. BY using this method
you have your lambs on fresh feed
every day. They do not follow the
ewes and become infested. If YOU dc
not use hurdles, keep your lambs or
fresh pasture-clover, if possible-anc
be prepared for the dry season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
New York Stock.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23-The market
continued active with a generally
strong tone through the first hour,
but with diversion of aggressive buy
ing to issues not yet made material
advances. At the beginning of the
second hour prices reacted on heavy
realizing and a good deal of the early
gains were lost.
Governments bonds unchanged
other bonds irregular
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Strength
again developed afternoon and entire
list Joined in upward movement Har-
riman stocks We're in better demand
and Steel Common sold up TO "a.
Atchison ....... 91B
Aerican Smelling .... So5s
Amalgamated Copper 1879
Anaconda Copper 1874
Baltimore and Ohio ...... $3.50. 1922
LB.,R T. -, -. -, ..t .o4f2
canadian Pacific -. ~. le2A
&c. and o. -. -. oS
Erie ~ -. ~. 54Is
Illinois Central .l46A
Louisville and Nashville ...l22
Missouri Pacific ........ 63A
New York Central - l201s
Northern Pacific -. 49,, la
National Lead - 81. ..,..,7SA
Pennsylvania Railway - -. 1905
Rock Island -. 25A
10 preferred 49, . .... -. 80 "a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

Feeder. never go to roost
without sufficient food in their crops,
and the timid and weak hens have an
opportunity to feed at the hopper,
whereas, at trough mob they for
merly had little or no show at all.
The fowls do not like the dry hopper
feed we'll enough to overeat and crowd
out their weaker neighbors.
The hoppers here shown, taken from
the Orange Judd Farmer, are designed
to prevent any waste of the mixture
caused by the fowls scattering it on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
Good Winter Feed.

There is no better winter breakfast
for the stock than equal parts, by
weight, of bran, middlings. ground
oats, corn meal and meat scraps, to
ahich add it's bulk in cooked cut
clover hay, and five per cent of lin
seed meal. Mix the ground grain with
the tea made by cooking the clover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

C, should be placed and the hook
pounded close 10 prevent the link from
Slipping out. d is a small clevis and
pin which is hooked through the link
and placed over the end of the hard
wood stake E. A hole is drilled in Il
an inch from the top through which
the clevis pin is inserted. pole of
this description, says Prairie Farmer,
can be easily removed when desired
and is durable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
POULTRY NOTES.

When feeding ground grains use q
proportionate part of bran.
After hens are two years old the!
will not lay enough eggs in the winter
to pay for their extra keep.
AS geese live on pasture every farm,
err should raise them. Ducks can also
be profitably grown on the average
farm.
Every farmer could easily raise d
good flock of turkeys. The prices paid
during holiday seasons will be salts
factory and amply repay all trouble.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
FOR THE KICKING HORSE.
Method of Placing Pole Between the
Stalls.

A plan for securely fastening pole
between two kicking horses in a stall
is shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton. A is horseshoe which is spiked
to the center of the manger, through
which the top end of the pole is
slipped b, rod four inches long, is
driven into the other end of the pole.
Into the hook long link of chain,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

Hawkes. hall this evening.
flls afternoon in the office of Jas.
.. Burrows, justice of the peace, oc-
CURED the wedding of William Joseph
McNear of st. Louis and Miss Ethel
Matticks of Carthage, III.
yesterday afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock
la double wedding took place at the
nome of Justice H. C. Landes. The two
couples came up from Ellsberry. Mo-,
and after securing their licenses. went
to the home of the iustie, who per-
formed the ceremony They departed
on the evening train for their home.
lIhey We're James A. Cunningham and
Georgia A. Myers and Ernest C. Watts
and Edith l.. Cunningham, both coup
les being young and good looking.
Thirty couples enjoyed roller skat-
ing party at the Wilmering and King
iRoll-a-Way last evening. The affair
was very enjoyable for those who at
tended. The. hours from 8 to II being
enjoyed by the skaters. The rink hall
was prettily decorated in holiday fes.
toons, the chandeliers being draped
IN red crepe paper and large Christ
mas bell being suspended from the
ceiling made a pretty effect. Music
for the occasion was furnished by the
5oth Iowa band. During the evening
excellent punch and macaroons were
served. Francis McGrath and Milo
Phillips We're the sponsors for the
party
The Happy Circle Euchre club was
entertained last evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs Sherman Kirk 1906
concert street at dinner party in
Ilonor of Miss Lulu Kirk the occasion
being the young lady's seventeenth
birthday and the affair being very en-
loyable one for the members of the
club, the fifteen members of the club
sitting down to an elegant three course
dinner at eight o'clock The pretty
iii-iAo iooiii was IdSISAully QSCOTdl6u
In green and red this color scheme be-
ing carried out on the tables and the
chandeliers being prettily decorated
With streamers of red and green Ever.
green was also used and the effect was
very pretty. The menu consisted OF
three courses. The first course was
ham sandwiches, princess oysters, OIL
ives and pickles. The second course
chicken, dressing, cranberry sauce
peas, jelly, slaw, Strawberries and
peaches. A relish of beet salad, piccs
lili, celery and pickles We're served IL
lemon cups on lettuce leaves. The
third course, ice cream, cake and wine
AT each guests plate was a pretty
hand painted card attached by ribbons
from the center of the table. Each
guest received little token of re
membrance. Four hand euchre was
the chief diversion of the evening an6
the guests departed at a late houl
wishing Miss Kirk many more happy
birthdays. During the evening Miss
Kirk was presented with a number Of
handsome presents, the club present
ing her with handsome piece of Hav
liland china.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
Guilty of counterfeitinn

Passing counterfeit money is no
worse than substituting some un-
known worthless remedy for Foley's
Honey and Tar, the great cough and
cold remedy that cures the most OBJ
stinate coughs and heals the lungs.
Wilkinson G Co., and j. F. Kiedaisch
& Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

duction of the hop
per method. The
old-fashioned way
of preparing and
mixing a wet mash
each day is now
well done away
with, on account
of its tediousness
and needless eX-
pense of time and
labor. The hop
per is filled with
a variety of ground
grains and placed
where it is access
sible to the fowls
at all times. With
this arrangement
the hens need
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

Liverpool closed-Wheat, so I'D
lower; corn, 1s@ I'd higher.
Chicago Hogs, receipts, 35 600;
market closed sc higher; top, So IS.
Cattle Receipts, 21,0oo; market
closed steady
Chicago Car Lots.
Wheat-12; graded No. 2, L corn,
27S; graded No. ,, 3; oats, 10S; graded
No. 2, 6.
Minneapolis-W Wheat, 219.
Duluth Wheat, %.
Estimated Receipts for Tomorrow
Wheat. 81; corn 299; oats, 1888;
Hogs, $1,000.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. % Cat
tie. 1000; steady steers, $1,000
7.25 stockers, So .O0@5 25.
Hogs-1o0oo strong; SC higher;
bulk, So 1905 c5; pigs, 81 oo@5.oo.
Sheep 1000; steady; muttons,
81 25m5 co. lambs, S.. oo@7 40.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec 23.-Cattle, d.
600; steady; 1oc lower; beeves, So. Is
@7.7O; stockers. 50 5oa4 10.
Hogs-34 $4,000; strong. Sc higher;
light, 81 S5M5 so; heavy, So 5515. 50;
pigs, So 75m4.9o
sheep-2o 10000; steady natives,
SO 50@4 80; lambs, 81 5o@7 co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
WANT COLUMN
WANTED.

WANTED-50o men to fesrn barber
trade and take positions waiting
our graduates, Few weeks completes,
Constant practice furnished, scholar
ship include tools. instructions,
demonstrations, examinations and di-
plomas. Write for catalogue. Moler
Barber College, st. Louis. No. IT,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
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LOST.
TODAY'S MARKETS

Furnished by Bennett G Co., Com
mission Merchants and Members of
the Chicago Board of Trade-W. -.
Gwin, Local representative, 312
Johnson Street.
Daily Range of Prices.
Open. High. Low. Close
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23

Tais afternoon in the office of Jas.
s. Burrows, justice of the peace, oc-
CURED the wedding of William Joseph
McNear of st. Louis and Miss Ethel
Matticks of Carthage, III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
DRY FEEDING OF POULTRY.
How a Down-East Farmer Manages
the System.

Poultry feeding has been much i'm
proved and simplified by the intro
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
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"A private dancing party will be
enjoyed by number of couples at
Hawkes. hall this evening.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
TOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Lyon Healey PiaEola,
First class coalition, $125.oo. AS
High
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
FOR RENT.

ROOMS for light housekeeping at 92S
Bank. Iowa phone 4S5-B. If
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-23
CITY NEWS.

Adeste Fidelis-S School.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08
When a Girl Marries.

So many women find matrimOny a
little disappointing, and though many
confess the fact, they rarely see that
they may themselves be to blame.
When a girl is engaged she is always
careful to look her best, that her lover
may admire her She often fails to do
the same for her husband. This Is a
mistake; men like always to admire
their wives and they will do 50 all the
more when they see that other people
4lmlre them, too. The untidy, dowdy
woman may have solid virtue, but one
has to remember the fact as an excuse
for her appearance, and the man who
is mentally apOlogiZlng for his wife's
shortcomings is in danger Of finding
some one else more attractive than she
is.
Then 1t Is a mistake Of young wives
to drop their old friends and expect
their husbands to do the same. The
married lovers may for a short time be
intensely happy in each others society,
UuL 6OUuCA VI lhlGl OubSlhS i4''Ni N'9t'
will be missed, and if happiness is to
continue they must both mix with their
fellows and take their share In the
pleasures and the work of the world.
Wider interest will not make either
less fond of the other, and the woman
who wants to keep her husbands love
will never do 50 by tying him to her
apron strings and expecting him to
spend all the time he can spare from
his business within the four walls of
home.
A wife should not merge her indi-
Vlduality In her husband. An echo
may be sweet, but it is always monot-
onous so she should have her own
ideas and opinions. She need not ar
gue-that's fatal, but little tact
prevents the necessity.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08

The Department of Agriculture has
undertaken series of experiments in
tended to answer, If possible, the old
question, "How long can seeds remain
buried In the soil and still retain their
power Of germination?"
Many extraordinary stories have
been told of the prolongation Of the vi
tality of seeds during many years, and
even centuries, but very few actual ex-
periments have hitherto been made.
DR.. Beal has reported that he has
found seeds that responded to germlna-
tion tests after having been buried
twenty years The seeds buried by the
experts of the Agricultural Department
at the Arlington farm last year were
packed with dry clay in porous clay
pots, covered with saucers and placed
at various depths from 6 inches to
3A feet. There are 80 complete sets,
in 1854 pots, representing 100 spe-
cies, "a genera and "a families. Tests
are to be made at the end of one, two,
three, five, seven, ten, fifteen, twenty,
twenty-five, thirty, forty and fifty
years.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08
S~.~-oNN-o~NN~~

Black silk hats are frightened with
lace insertion, though always of the
very finest variety.
Black hats for evening, trimmed with
a mass Of scarlet feathers, are the
newest Paris wrinkle
Among the prettiest motifs in neck
dressing are tiny lace bows as long as
the finger, pinned by a brooch to the
base of the collar.
Don't worry Of your fur hat, muff,
coat and scarf don't match. The chic
thing is to wear at least three different
furs at one time.
There Is a strong tendency to boned
waists which follow the natural lines
Of the feminine figure curving over the
bust and tapering into belt set at nor
NAL position.
ToreadOr ties of green satin or silk
are fashionable, They are very ample,
quite filling up the front Of the jacket,
and 1t Is fad to have a belt of exactly
the same shade Of kid to matchs
French beauties have adopted the
jaunty three-cornered hat of felt, vel
vet or beaver, edged with gallon and
trimmed on the sides with a dashing
airgette rising from a ribbon rosette.
Posed smartly on the broadly waved
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08
Farm Notes.

Do not have the sheep pens too
warm. The natural coat of the sheep
makes it able to endure severe wealth.
er.
If the members of the poultry flock
which seldom or never lay could be
weeded out, the feed bills would be
less and the egg profits more.
Change the hog pasture often. Have
a small house built on skids SO it can
be dragged around to a new pasture
as desired. If hogs are fed long in
one place the grass is killed out.
One poultry raiser says he feeds
roupy chickens whole corn that has
been well soaked in kerosene, and
bathes the swollen heads and eyes
with mixture of equal parts Of kero-
sene and lard.
In. the highly fertilized garden the
aim is to keep crops coming on in as
rapid succession as possible. Plan so
as to have one variety ready to take
the place of the crop which has been
matured and harvested.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08
Good Sheep Barn a Poor one.

A good sheep barn is a poor one.
This may seem to be absurd, but the
facts support such a statement. There
is no question but that many focks are
rendered unhealthy and therefore less
productive by reason of too close
housing. In few sections do sheep need
more than windbreak and rain shed.
Some of our best shepherds have kept
their flocks for decades with only such
sheds as would prevent the flock being
exposed to direct winds, rain and snow
storms
The cut shows the type of sheep
barn found on the farm of success
full shepherd, which might be copied
with success. In this instance the
sheep are kept upon forage crops grown
in four adjacent lots. The flock may
be turned into any lot at pleasure.
1t is we'll to have this building
equipped with a large ventilating win
dow in the end near the gable or two
small windows such as shown in the
sketch. These, however, should be
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08
In the Home.

An open fire is certainly a happy
feature in it.
Readable books and magazines lying
around loose are one of the important
things.
Chairs that can be sat upon are a
more necessary essential than some
housewives think.
In the living room there must be A
softly shaded light placed low for
reading and sewing.
Stilted suits of furniture are a
good thing to avoid; also loud papers
ana highly colored pictures.
A carpet that can be walked on by
the family is much better than one re-
served for the sacred feet Of strangers.
As to tobacco smoke and dust-well,
there have been homes with them and
places without them that utterly failed
to be homes.
Cheerfulness and love and mutual ac-
commodations as to tastes go farther
to make real home than overzealous
spotlessness and everlasting oversight.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08
Roots for Fnrm Animnls.

If roots are stored in pit in the
field a high, dry place should be
chosen. If the ground is clayey the
roots should be placed on top of the
ground. If it is gravelly and drainage
is good shallow pit about feet wide
and of necessary length may be SHOW
eled out. The roots should be carefully
placed in gable shaped pile about 8
feet wide and as long as convenient A
thin layer of straw should then be
laid over the pile and this covered with
six or eight inches of earth Another
and thicker layer of straw and final
layer of earth will complete the work
Ventilators should be placed at inter-
walls of ten or fifteen feet, which should
be closed when sweating has ceased.
The pit should not be opened on warm
days in winter. A ditch for drainage
should be cut around the pit. Roots
stored In this way do not keep as well
as when stored In good cellar; there
fore, they should be fed out as early as
possible.-New York Cornell Expert
uent Station.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08

i431-Murder of James l. of Scotland.
525-Imperialsts defeated the French
at battle of Pavia.
l544-Diet of Spires opened.
l547-Coronation of Edward VI, when
only 10 years of age.
i5S7-Thomas Cavendish passed the
Straits of Magellan.
t621-Miles Standsh chosen captain Of
Plymouth colonies.
I746-Brussels taken by Marshal SAKE.
1776-William Scarborough, one of the
builders of the Savannah, the first
steamer that crossed the Atlantic,
born in Belfast, s. @.
1777-Col. Nelson, with a party of
American militia, defeated British
troops under Major Stockton. -.
American Congress commissioned Eve
major generals.
i77S-Lord North's conciliatory bill pre-
sented in Parliament.
i7S0-New York ceded her rights in
western lands to the United States.
TS1-Congress appointed Robert Morris
superintendent of finance
l793-British flag raised over Corsica.
1797-Trinidad captured by the British
under Sir Ralph Abercromby. -.
French and Austrians resumed hos
tilities in Italy.
i803-Ohio admitted to the Union.
lS09-Drury Lane theater, London, de-
stroyed by fire.
iS10-Andreas Hofer, the Tyrolese pat.
riot, shot by the French.
iS13-British and Canadian soldiers
captured Ogdensburg, N. Y.
1814-Henry Kirke Brown, who produc-
ed the first bronze statue ever exc
cuted in the United States, born at
Leyden, Mass.
iS34-United States concluded an in.
demnity treaty with Spain.
iS5S-City of Corinth, Greece, badly
damaged by earthquake.
1862" "Thad" Lincoln, favorite son Of
the President, died at the White
House. Jefferson Davis inaugural
ed President of the Confederate
States at Richmond.
i863-Arizona territory formed from
New Mexico.
iS64-Second Confederate Congress met
at Richmond.
1SG6-President johnson publicly de-
nounced the reconstruction commit
tee and declared Congress to be in
rebellion against the government Of
the United States.
1S67-Maximlian entered Queretaro.
1SGS-House of Representatives resolved
to impeach President johnson.
1S74-Business section Of Panama de-
stroyed by fire.
18SO-Attempted assassination of the
Gar of Russia
1SS1-Orange Free State declared to be.
neutral territory.
iSS2-Charles Bfadlaugh expelled from
the British House of Commons.
1SS4-Gen. Gordon entered Khartoum.
1SS7-Congress passed bill to retire
the trade dollar.
1S94-Capital of Honduras captured by
the insurgents under Ortez.
iS96-The Confederate States museum
dedicated at Richmond Va.
1898 Court of inquiry began its investi-
cation into the blowing up of the
battleship Maine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-05-08

equipped with a. sash that may be
closed in severe weather.
Many farms where sheep are kept
are equipped with a barn cellar in
which the flock has been kept with
varying success. The barn cellar Is
an excellent place for sheep If rightly
arranged. There should be plenty Of
openings to the south, allowing sun to
reach all parts of the stable so as to
keep 1t thoroughly dry. Thorough
drainage Is essential.
There must be ventilation at the
rear of the stable A bad practice is to
keep the sheep in stables on stable
manure, says Farm and Home. The
fermenting manure destroys the color
and texture of wool. A hint which has
been worth many dollars to me is to
use only long straw, hay or weeds for
bedding sheep. If short straw or saw
dust Is used it gets into the fleece and
Is an everlasting nuisance.