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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
How is Your Digestion.

Mrs. Mary Bowling of No. 22S stf
Ave, San francisco, recommends 6
remedy for stomach trouble. She says:
"Gratitude for the wonderful effect o.
Electric Bitters in case of acute in
digestion, propmts this testimonial.
am fully convinced that for stomach
and liver troubles Electric Bitters is
the best remedy on the market today
This great tonic and Alternative medi
cine invigorates the system, purifie.
the blood Ind is especially helpful il
all forms of female weakness. SOC a
Wilkinson & Co., and j. r. Kiedaisct
&k Son drug store.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
Manual Training.

Has manual training usurped the
r1ghtful place of science In the high
school curricula?
That is the question that is vexing
the science teachers of Iowa and was
admitted at the meeting of the science
teachers at the Plymouth Congrega-
tional church
The conditions and demands of the
times for the practical in education
as manual training and commercial
courses has pushed mathematics and
sciences back until they have become
elective studies in most of the high
schools of the country. The practical
has become a poer over the cultural
benefits of these higher branches of
education in the estimation. Manual
training was introduced into the
schools for it's cultural value and sup
planted the sciences Principal Maui
rice Kicker of the West Des Moines
high school in his paper recommend.
ed that instead of maximum of
mathematics be placed on the curri-
cula that there be the minimum
amount. Science has lost out over so
per cent in the past few years, said
Principal Kicker The commercial and
industrial had entered into the school
life as was shown in the report from
high schools in many large cities
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30

xANY INTERESTED
st,te Meeting Of instructors at
Dies Moines This Week is
Getting Down to
Business.

The teachers of Iowa may ask Tor
state pension system, drawing 1ts
s,.pport from public funds for all SUI
! neranuated teachers.
The executive council of the teach
ers association in session at Des
Moines yesterday approved the recon-
nendation made to it by the special
committee which had under advise
ment this question for the past year
and has made extended investiga-
tons.
Instead of teachers private iIsur-
ance agency, the committee believes
II becomes the duty Ut the state to
care for those teachers who have
served in the public schools for more
than twenty years and are retired for
disability or old age. The council may
90 farther than merely adopting reso-
lutions and recommendations and go
On record for the first time in the his
tory of the association and outline that
II secure legislation along this line at
the general assembly this winter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
An Interpretation.

He then began his Interpretation
and explanation of The Messiah" Tho
time consumed in this interesting talk
Illustrated by music in which he play
ed passages from almost every part,
lasted fully an hour and was greatly
enjoyed He brought out the entire
story portrayed in this composition
and the various phases We're made
quite plain.
Every part that will be presented to-
morrow evening was explained by Mr..
Bently by brief talk and ten or
twelve measures of the piece. The
basso, tenor. alto, soprano and other
parts We're distinctly brought out, and
the people who heard him this morning
will be greatly benefited in under
standing the great work tomorrow
evening.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
KEOkuK LADIES
SAY IT IS
WONDERFUL
IN SPEAKING OF THE RESULTS
OBTAINED FROM X. C. BAk-
ING POWDER.
Tomorrow Expert will Make and Serve
Many Dainties During Session
at Free Baking School.
AT DUNcAN-scHELL FURNITURE
CO.'S BIG STORE

Put health in the good things made
from -four: let the sunshine through
them; make them light, sweet. whole
some and digestible by using X c.
baking powder, now on sale at every
grocer's in Keokuk. That is what
thousands of women are doing here
AID elsewhere every time they pre-
rarc food with the X C baking pow
der. Get X c tonight for the morning
biscuit and you will understand why
they will take nothing else. It's a
wonderful revelation of efficiency and
economy. Mrs. Briggs at the free bak
ing school will be glad to help you, il
you need her help to learn how tC
bake well every time you try. You
really should not fail to get her help
full suggestions. At Thursdays class
there will be made and served sponge
nut cake, raisin pie, tea biscuits, muf
fins.
Please bring in your certificates as
soon as possible and get your Cooks
Book" Your grocer has K C Ash
him to send a can at once. Try il
while the baking school is here. You
are sure to be glad that you tried it
X c never dlsappoints.
Tomorrow's session will be the las
Glance you will have to see the mos
proficient baker and teacher who evel
gave a clinic in keokuk. Don't miss
this last chance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
The Teacher in Business.

Should school man be business
man was the question that was
brought directly home to the school
men of the state at the executive
council The special committee in its
report decried the fact that the bust
ness standing of the teacher was at
low ebb in a community in the esti-
nation of the public. Better that the
teacher stick to his school room with
the assurance Of pension in his old
age for the best good of that school
than. to invest in gold bricks and MN
Ing veins was the concensus of the
/ opinion OF these school men. If Presi-
dent Eliot could retire from Harvard
on pension it would be no reflection
on any teacher in Iowa to serve the
state schools for minimum number
Of years and receive a life annuity at
the close of his usefulness in the
schools, say the teachers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30

director i'll charge. states that only
those consumptive members who are
durable, or whose lives may be pro-
longed for a considerable length of
time will be admitted as patients. The
wisdom of this rule is apparent Rig
id medical examinations as a condition
precendent to admission will be insist
ed upon in every case, and special
blank forms have been prepared for
this purpose.
1t is expected that another colony
CT sixty tents will be ready by July
1909, and that acceptable patients will
be ready to occupy it in full by that
time. A movement is already under
way to equip the second colony plant
Each tent. completely equipped repre-
sents an expense of $3.50, and num-
Der of local camps or lodges of the
society have decided TO donate tents.
AS there are over 10000 local CO
of Modern Woodmen and over 1,OOO,-
600 members, it is anticipated that
several colonies will soon be equipped
in this way.
The last official Woodmen reports
show that during the years 1S91-19O7
inclusive. 14.5 per cent of the total
mortality, or 5,156 deaths, were due
to tuberculosis and that 1879 per cent
of the total insurance losses in those
co 0eS mn cd f,-p, dc
cause. AS the mortality experience Of
tho Modern Woodmen society has been
remarkable favorable being but 20
per cent of the expected at all ages
under the National Fraternal congress
table. death rate of but go per
,000-or but 49S per 1000, if the eX-
perience of the first five membership
years be included-the much heavier
insurance losses inflicted upon other
societies experiencing higher NOR
talty may be conservatively approx
mated.
Which prompts this question: Ii
the Woodmen society, with its eXcep-
tionally favorable mortality, finds it
to be good business" as well as good
fraternalism, to fight consumption in
this way, why should not other frater-
nal societies, life insurance companies
labor organizations, the national
church bodies, ETC., find it profitable
| from the viewpoint of business, or
| both. to take such action?
Each life saved to the Woodmen So
ciety by means of this sanitarium,
will. it is stated. represent a saving
Of s1,700-the average amount of the
] Woodman policies in force-at an ex-
pense for treatment of approximately
one-twentieth of that sum. In the
broader sense, each life saved means
the preservation to the family of
1 its head and bread-winner and to the
/ state of useful self-sustaining citi.
zen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30

seven children On the north side of
Chestnut street, between Fifth and
Sixth. in the east half of the double
brick. The italian has always been
industrious and has had habit of
boarding his money, leaving his family
with the impression that he was bare
~ making a poor living for them.
Unbeknown to the family he had
been playing his own banker, burying
his money in the rickety old stable
back of where he lived A few weeks
ago he decided to rent better barn
for his horse and secured the Theo
Morrison barn, a few doors east of
where he lived To this barn he re-
moved his grip filled with $3.50 in
gold and buried it in the ground. but
now he says someone must have seen
him, for yesterday morning, when he
went to take a look at the rich vel
low eagles after a lapse of fifteen
days, he was thrown into a nervous
hit by finding the grip missing. Grab
bling shovel he tore up the earth in
various places about the barn think
ing that he had mistaken the exact
spot of burying his treasure, but the
money, he says, was gone. Convinced
that he was robbed of his savings, he
hurried to a drug store and purchas-
ing box OF rat-biskits, he ate the
contents and on being taken with a
vomiting fit and his family learning
of what had taken place, summoned
DR.. Reticker. who administered to him
advising him to let him know his con
dition later on. Dr. Reticker. at the
time he saw Lento, did not consider
him TO be seriously i'll. Since then
the physician had not seen Lento nor
heard anything from him.
This morning Lento left the house
in company with Antonio Cento the
barber at 1923 Broadway, and the
supposition was that he was going to
tine hospital. but instead he has been
spending the day at his nephews
home on Broadway, the nephew re-
porting him to be quite i'll and rest
less, refusing to stay in bed
Mrs. Lento, becoming alarmed over
her husbands absence from the house
this morning, had a neighbor send for
the police and Officer Bumster re-
sponded, the robbery then coming to
the knowledge of the police for the
first time. Thinking that Lento might
have gotten UP in his sleep night be-
fore last and changed the hiding place
OF his money officer Bumster dug in
to the earth in several places but he
failed to come across the missing
money.
Yesterday evening Lento visited the
fortune teller on North Eighth street
and was told that man and woman
had seen him bury his money and had
taken it. A part of it would be re
turned, the fortune teller said con-
solingly.
Asked whether the rat-biskits which
I.ento had eaten would prove fatal,
the fortune teller replied that he didn't
! think they would.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
BURIED WEALTH
HAS DISAPPEARED
Quincy Man Mourns the Loss of His
Savings and Took Rat Biscuit
to End His Worry.

Quincy Journal: Like the man over
In Schuyler county, who, a few years
ago hid $4,000 in chimney, where
il was destroyed one day when the
house burned down, Sam Lento, a
local fruit peddler has learned the
sorry and costly lesson that after all
the bank is the place to deposit mon
ey for safe keeping.
Lento, whose relatives here go by
the name of Cento, was formerly in
the fruit business at Twelfth and
Vermont streets. More recently he
has been residing with his wife and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
Ten Years Of Eczema

Reports on eczema dating back ten
years show the value Of external
treatment. Druggist McGrath Bros,
this city, can tell any sufferer what
reports they aave been getting from
patients VIII used oil of wintergreen
thymol and glycerin4 in liquid form
whether any person cured as much
as ten years ago has hao another
IS compounded in D. D. o. Prescrip'
ton. 1t would be interesting to know
touch of the disease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
A Unique Creation Of

fecting { complete reorganization OF
the rural districts into convenient
units whose administration is to be
vested in an elective board 1t thus
places the council in accord with the
report of the educational council which
has recommended county unit sys-
TEN ard is an endowment of that
report.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30
STANDARD TO ASK
A MODIFICATION
of Decree oustine the Company from
State of Missouri-Justice Lamm
Suggests 100000 Fine.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. so The In
diana Standard will ask modification
of the decree of the Missouri supreme
court ousting it from the state. Jus
tice Lamm in concurring opinion
suggested the Standard be fined a mil
lion and allowed TO continue business
1t is believed the company will ask
modification of the finding along
these lines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-30

You needn't suffer with sick head ache, inc
restion, constipation or any other troubles ar;
ng from a disordered stomach. DIR, Caldwell
;yrup Pepsn will cure you and keep you We
- i.-keep 1t on hand the year around.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Say, all you Democrats who want
to see Folk elected to the United
States Senate get out and vote.
And you people who want to see
Stone, the best man for the place
be reelected. you must get out and
work or the Folk people will win
Of course all who vote for eithel
Stone or Folk are morally bound tc
vote the straight Democratic ticket
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

The trusts and monopolies must
be destroyed or they will destroy
the government. The Republican
party has built up the trusts and
gives the country such laws as will
make them stronger. Hence you
can never hope for any relief from
trust rule at the hands Of the Re.
publican party.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

If you want to continue paying
tribute to the trusts and monopO-
lies and want to inflict the same
punishment upon your neighbors
vote the Republican ticket; but on
the other hand if you desire that
capital and labor each get theil
legitimate reward and all the PEG
pie to prosper vote the Democratic
ticket.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

the millionaires? No. Then who
are the millionaires? 1t is the meh
who have been given special legis-
lation which permits them to col
lect tribute from all the people. No
man who made his money farming
has become a millionaire. The
prosperity the farmers have is not
caused by the Republican laws but
in spite of them. Give the farmer
and laborine man an even chance.
That is what Democracy stands
for.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Go to a bank and try to borrow a
$1,000 without security and see
how quickly the banker will tell
you no. and he is right. On the
other hand if you deposit a $1,000
or any other sum in the bank you
should have security that you can
get the money when you want it.
Vote the Democrat ticket and fol
making the banks secure
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Hadley lis pulling both ends of
the temperance question. In tenn
perance localities he talks without
out committing himself to any poll
cy, like he is for temperance. but in
brewery circles and in the citiss
where they desire a Wide-open Sun
day they know that Hadley is their
man. q
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

1t is costing the people three
hundred dollars per day to carry on
the Republican campaign for Taft
by cabinet officers alone. Each
one, and Teddy has them all upon
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Cowherd is a man of great ability
a man of honor and integrity, a
man who win enforce the laws, a
man who stands for Justice and
right, a man who believes in jus
tice to all and special privileges to
none, a man among men and a
man worthy the support of all good
men.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Hadley has made a do nothing
record as Attorney General and yet
our Republican friends want to re-
ward him for this by making him
Governor.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

My good Republican brother, we
live in the best state in the grand
est country the sun ever gave the
light of day. Prior to 1776 the peo-
pie who lived in the British colo
MES firing of the yoke put on them
by England for the benefit of favor
ed few in England and America
rose up and after a terrible struggle
of eight years won their independ-
ence from this slavery. For this
and their Declaration of IndeDend-
ence written by that great Demo-
crat Thomas Jefferson, the Ameri-
can people have received the plau-
dts of the world. Be it said to our
shame that the United States is to-
day holding the Philippines in the
same way and for the same pur-
pose that England held the Ameri-
can colonies. And yet that is not
all, the chains of slavery are to be
heard clanking on the great COM
mon people, the bone and sinew Of
our country at home and we are all
forced to pay tribute to the great
trusts and monopolieS. The time
has come and is now here when
these great trusts and monopolies,
which unjustly take each day more
from the people than all the high
waymen take in centuries do by
coercion, intimidation force their
employees to vote for that political
party which gave them the unjust
laws which enable these law
less corporations to unjustly take
your money and mine, Democracy
stands for laws which will give to
the laboring man, to the farmer, to
the capitalist, to the corporations,
justice and no more. On the other
hand these giant monopolies which
are formed for the sole purpose of
taking unjustly have grown up I'M
der Republican rule. You desire
relief. Certainly you cannot expect
any relief when we have the same
laws under which these giant enc
mics of humanity have fattened
and thrived off of you and the
whole American people. Democra-
cy stands for the relief of the peo-
pie from this oppression. Democ-
racy stands for equal rights to all.
Democracy stands for the plain peo-
pie, of whom you are one. l am
one The Republican party has
stood and continues to place the
dollar above the man. The Re-
publican party gives to the great
trusts and monopolies such laws
as permit and encourage them to
take more of your money and of
mine than is of right theirs. De-
mocracy is for freeing you from the
clutches of these enemies of hui
man rights the great trusts and
monopolies. Why should you cast
your vote for the Republican party
and thus vote for stronger chains OF
slavery on your self, your children
your neighbors? Think seriously
my brother before casting your vote
AGAINST yourself.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

The man or men who attempts to
carry election by coercion, intimi
dalton and fraud is a criminal no
matter whether he be a multi-mil-
lionaire or pauper and deserves q
place behind prison bars.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Democrats, 90 to the polls next
Tuesday, take all your neighbors.
Do not by any act of yours permit
Missouri to again fall into the
hands of the Republican party.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Hadley is bidding for and will re-
ceiye the votes of the brewers,
Standard Oil and other trust and
monopoly people, the fellows who
want wide open Sunday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

High tariff does not add one PEN
ny to the amount of money you re-
ceive for your products, my farmer
or laboring friend; but on the other
hand it does add to your cost of
living.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Remember that Herbert S. Had
ley absented himself from the Re
publican National Convention and
that Nelson Crews, a Kansas City
negro took his place.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

The election of Hadley means
much pie for Missouri niggers. His
record as an officer in Kansas
City justifies this statement.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Have you forgotten the time Re
publicans were in power in Mis-
souri,. If so refresh your memory
a little before election day.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

An important battle is to be
Anoleht next Tuesday. Democratic
Ieets m ccess means equal rights to all
but md special privileges to none. Re-
tened olblican success means the people
the littlust continue to pay tribute to the
GOOD. SITS and monobohes
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

The lawless trust magnates are
no better, yea not as good as he
who steals to keep soul and body
together. u
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Hadley should have prosecut-
ed the Anhauser-Busch Brew
ing Association as he had the
sworn evidence that they did
violate the law.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

The Standard Oil Co.'S attorney
of record in Missouri is Charles
Nagel, the Republican National
Committeeman. from Missouri.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

If you took part in the Democrat
ic primary Aug. a you are morally
bound to support the entire Demo-
cratic ticket.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

A vote for the Democratic ticket
is vote for a government of the
people, for the people and by the
people
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Are the farmers the people who
are the millionaires? No. Are the
labbring men who create the wealth
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Vote the Democratic ticket
traieht from top to bottom.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

w. c. T. u. will meet with Mrs.
J. M. Bailey next Tuesday at ESQ
p. m.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Take your watch or clock to
Dimmitt's Jewelry Store for repair
guarantee work
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

vote Inc hlen tari1 does not oenen'
Ia, single farmer or working man.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

: A vote for the Republican ticket
vote for trust and monopoly
- lie.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

side Stone as Senator can do more
,nieeeod for the people than can Folk
You the same position.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

ant Cowherd is much the superior of
OF Iadley in every respect.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

poetryWe don't believe the people of
If the ssouri are going to be foolish
for Miough to elect Hadley.
ducad
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

All kinds of watch and jewelry
repair done at Dimmitt Jewelry
Store by first class workman.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

be n High tariff makes the cost of liv-
Iortlg higher and does not increase
&maees one cent.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

o. ' Vote for equal rights to all and
:. )ecial privileges to none. That is
1emocratic.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

!. The people will not rule if Taft is
Iected president.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

moi Our Republican friends place the
delOllar above the man.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

nige Place all trust made or trust
tor ontrolled articles on the free list
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Go to Dimmitt's Jewelry Store
when you want a watch and have
him show you one of those special
made watches. Guaranteed for Is
wears
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

al Every Democrat should vote
rlaext Tuesday.
in
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1908-10-29

Shall the People Rule"