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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-14
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PERSONALS.

James Ayres, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. j. Ayres. left this afternoon for
Bushnell, to attend the fine horse
show now in progress there and to
visit with Mrs. J. e. Kinnet.
j. 0, Boyd has returned from a
business trip to Columbia, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman T. Rutledge
have departed for their future home
in Burlington.
Mrs Mary c. BaiIy left for her
home in Clay Center, Kan, after a
visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. w.
Dickinson.
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Both Boys Saved.

Louis Boon, leading merchant OF
Norway, Mich, writes: Three bot
ties of Foley's Honey and Tar abso-
lutely cured my boy of severe cough,
and neighbours boy, who was so Ill
with cold that the doctors gave him
up, was cured by taking Foley's Honey
and Tar" Nothing else is as safe
and certain in results. Wilkinson &
Co., ]. F. Kiedaisch G Son.
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Up Before the Gar.

N. H. Brown. an attorney, of Pitts.
field. VT, writes: I'VE have used DR..
Kings New Life Pills for years and
find them such good family medicine
we wouldn't be without them For
Chills. Constipation, Billiousness or
Sick headache they work wonders, Csc
at Wilkinson & Co., and J. F. Kie-
daisch & Son.
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The Inward Effects of humors are
worse thas the outward. They en-
danger the whole system. Hoods Sar-
saparilla eradicates all humors, cures
all their inward and outward effects.
1t Is the great Alternative and tonic,
whose merit has been everywhere
established.
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Y.W.C.A. NOTES

Tle Bible class taught by J. o.
Boyd will meet this evening in session
from to s o'clock
Any wishing to take up the study Of
French are requested to be present at
the association this evening or send
in their names by seven o'clock.
The fall opening of the Y. w. G. A.
on Saturday evening will be for both
ladies and gentlemen. The social
committee are planning for a big time
on that date
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THE DAILY GATE CITY

They are in receip. of letter from
one of their customers who has writ
ten to number of other Keokuk job
bers, complaining of the delay in re-
ceipt of goods and urging that the
postmaster go to the proper authors.
ties in person if necessary to explain
matters that we may have service.
A customer of the Keokuk firm at
Pleasanton, Iowa, states that it took
from five to seven days in the past
four weeks to receive goods at that
place and if such service continued,
he would have to look elsewhere for a
different market for supplies.
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To Go in Person.

IL further complaints are register
ca and train No. II keeps coming in
DAY after day. all the way from ten
minutes to two and three hours late,
the postmaster and delegation of
business men will go to headquarters
With the matter to see what can be
done.
When the train is two hours late
and over, 1t is impossible for the city
carriers to get the mail up and in
the hands of the business men before
early afternoon, when as matter Of
fact, with proper delivery in train
service, the mail should be distributed
by 1890.
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brane resulting from Catarrh and drives
away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores
the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size
80 cts. at Druggists or by mail. LIQUID
Cream Balm for use in atomizers rs cts.
Ely brothers, Sc Warren Street, New York.
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lopbers and shippers association, the
heokuk Commercial club, S. P. Pond
CO.. Irwin-Phillips Co., S. Hamill Co.,
were addressed to Superintendent
West, all demanding that conditions
be remedied at once.
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Celebrations Interfere.

The lateness of the arrival of train
No. % at Burlington each day was
reported by Supervisor Adams to the
Rock Island officials and after max
ing an investigation of the matter,
they stated that the many carnivals
fairs and other celebrations that were
taking place interferred greatly with
schedule time being made but now
that these were about concluded, they
felt safe in assuring those concerned
that they would deliver the Albert Lea
train at Burlington on time hereafter
But instead, as is well known, of get
ting better, conditions since about the
first of the present month, have as
sumed worse form than ever.
A record of the arriving time Of
train No - from the first of October
to the thirteenth of the present month
has been kept. Following is a record
of the arriving time of No. IL for
those thirteen days:
October j, Is minutes late.
October 2, IL minutes late.
October 3, j hour, 50 minutes late.
October 4, 2 minutes late.
October 5, hour, 16 minutes late.
October G, As minutes late.
October Z, 20 minutes late.
October 8, % minutes late.
October 9, 2 hours 80 minutes late.
October 10, So minutes late.
October II, "a minutes late.
October IL, hours, IA minutes late
October 13, / hour, 80 minutes late
October IA, ON TIME.
Additional Letters.
Postmaster Moorhesd sent the
above arriving time records to Super
intendent West. calling HIS attention
to the fact that conditions are worse
than before.
Additional letters from business
men, the jobbers and shippers, the
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EXPLAINS TO
THIN LADIES
A Simple But Sure Method Of
Developing WelI-Round-
ed Bust and Figure.

Get separately two ounces gly-
cerine. three ounces Of rosewater,
one ounce tincture cadomene com
pound, mot cardamom) and five
cents worth Of borax. Mix the
glyceripc with tincture cadomene.
shake and let stand two hours.
then add a tenspooDful Of borax
ana the roHcwater. Apply to the
parts needing development morn.
ing and night, rubbing until thor
ouRbIy absorbed: then wapi of
with hot water and sonp and dry.
IL IN believed by expert d, rma-
tologists 10 be the most effective
prescription eyer conceived for the
purpose,
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If South bound Line Train Continues to be Laie
Each Morning Postmaster and Delegation
WIFI Visit the Headquarters
MATTERS GETTING MUCH WORSE
The Morning South Bound Line Train Some
lines Neatly Three Hours Late Because
of Poor Rock Island Connections.

With the late arrival of X line train
No. IL from ten minutes to two hours
and some times two hours and half
almost every day OF the week, Keo-
kuk's wholesale merchants, shippers,
jobbers and in a large measure, the re-
tail men of the city, are finding the
situation very unpleasant and as a
result of the continued offense, are
what might be termed figuratively up
In arms against the late arrival of the
mails which are carried on the south
bound morning train AMI are probab-
ly the most important of all.
In The Gate City, time after time,
have appeared articles telling of the
postmaster, the business men, the COM
mercial club and other organizations
protective of the interests of the mer.
chants of Keokuk, taking the matter
up with the highest authorities. Sew.
erai times, a mere stab at remedying
matters has been made by the Rock
Island officials to correct the matter
but after several days or weeks as
the case might be, the same old eondi-
lions again came INTO existance. and
the train has kept getting later each
morning OF all blame with the ex-
ception of one or two instances the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road, can be exhonorated from all
blame and @. officials have stated that
would the cars be delivered to them
at Burlington on time by the Rock
Island road, they would get the mail
to keokuk OF. schedule time.
The situation has no doubt been
made clear in previous articles re-
garding the matter and the history of
the whole affair will only be repeated
here briefly; for to explain fully
would only be rehash of the whole
affair of which all business men of
keokuk are fully aware and which
conditions they are making strong pro
test against at the present time.
Began Last Fall.
All last fall there was trouble in get.
ting the mails here on time on account
of the poor connections at Burlington
made by the Albert Lea train with
the @. rhe train is through one
from st. Paul to ST. Louis. tie Rock
Island handling the cars from the
northern city to Burlington and from
there the Burlington handles the cars
to st. Louis. When business men com.
menced to complain last fall of the
late arrival of their morning mail, and
protests were sent to the superintend.
ent of railway mail service and others
by Postmaster Moorhead and other
business men, the Rock Island put on
two trains. one running from Mime
apolis to West Liberty and the other
being through train to Chicago,
while the other was brought to Bur-
lington, where the X line brought the
nail and passenger cars through en-
route to ct. Louis.
This arrangement however did not
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The Daily Gate City.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Moistenina the Air.

Why, whatever is that for?' asked
caller of a Harlem housewife, as she
sighted a deep pan. holding about two
quarts OF water, which was steaming
merrily on top of the steam radiator in
the parlor
That is to keep the furniture from
falling apart and the piano from going
to rack and ruin replied the house
wife. 1t is something learned in the
natural gas country, and if other peo-
pie did the same they would not suffer
so much with headaches when they
are shut in hot steam-heated apart
ments these cold days, nor would their
furniture warp and crack or The glue
dry up and fall out of the joints. Steam
heat is as dry almost as natural gas
heat, and where natural gas is used a
pot or pan of water must be kept on
the stove or fireplace, the steam aris-
ing from it keeping the air moist"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
COMPENSATION FOUND IN COLD
Has Stimulating Effect on the Brain
According to Writer.

| have often asked to be told why
it is that a man with a cold in the
head feels himself to be a superior
sort of being to the man with no cold.
You must have observed for yourself
that this is the case. Take indeed.
Your own cold. You refer to it. thirty
or forty times a day, as My cold"
You feel quite sure that everybody
you meet will know that you have a
cold, and that everybody will be in
terested in its progress You will find
yourself, when in the full enjoyment
of cold, airing opinions that you
would certainly keep to yourself UNI
der normal conditions, and casually
contradicting the statements of those
Tor whom, as a matter OF fact you
cherish very sincere respect. There
must be some simple physiological eX-
PLANTATION for this, and | should be
greatly obliged if some medical reader
would put me in the way of under
standing it. Is it that the cold acts
in some soothing way upon the nerves.
thus freeing the self-conscious man.
temporarily, from his timidity? Or is
1t that the fever accompanying a cold
has stimulating effect upon an other
wise slightly torpid brain?
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
STRANGE, YET HAPPY FAMILY.
Extraordinary Happening vosched For
by Truthful Sailor.

Happy families!' said the sailor.
There amt no man hvin' ever seen
the happy family once saw seed,
rather
1T was at La Barte, the port O.
Bayonne, where the bayonets come
from. | was strollin' acrost one O.
them there salt medders full o. small
white snails when all of a sudden
gasped and cast anchor.
"A COW on hilltop was bein'
MIXED simultaneously by a pig, a
snake and dog.
Il watched that milkin' several min
utes. The COW enjoyed it-cows allus
do, you know-and the happy family
MIXED away ravenously.
Miss Snake got Uneasy first. She
let go her holt and droppin' to the
grass, slid off
Then Mr. Pig got enough and trot
ted away with a satisfied grunt. Last
to so was the dog.
I've saw queer sights all over the
world the sailor concluded. "but the
queerest of EN- all was that there
happy family takin' its milk at La
Barre"
The druggist laughed coldly.
1t wasn't milk" he said that you'd
been taking at the bar I'll wager"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Our Serious Younn Men.

One OF the things that strikes me
as so very curious about your young. ;"
remarked a visitor from Canada, is
the expression of extreme seriousness
that they wear when entering or leav-
ing place like this, and he waved
his hand, as if to take in the restaur-
ant at one comprehensive sweep.
Since | have been sitting here proba-
bly, twenty young men. nice, hearty
looking lads. have passed us, and they
all have worn the same expression
as II the responsibilities of running
the whole world We're on their Shout
ders. Not one of them has smiled. al
though they We're in parties clearly out
TO enjoy themselves, and as for laugh
ing, that seems unheard of What on
earth is the matter with them, do you
Think"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
EVIDENTLY WASN'T A LlNeuIsT.
Lawyers Question Brought Truth
from Puzzled Witness.

An Irish lawyer who used to have
an extensive practice in the criminal
courts of New York was once engaged
TO defend a Jew charged with setting
fire to his store. He felt so confident
OF being able to have his client acquit-
ted that he put him on the witness
stand
Now, my good man. he began, re
member you are on your oath You
stand here charged by the people of
the state of New York with terrible
crime. want you TO look the jury
men in the face and tell them you are
not guilty of this cowardly deed. Are
you or are you not guilty of this
charge of arson?"
The Jew, who had never heard the
word arson used before and thinking
it was some new charge, tried TO save
himself. In thoroughly frightened
tone, he answered:
No, chudge, your honor l am not
guilty of arson. All | done vos to make
der fire
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Grow Old Atone With Me.

Yes, they are gliding swiftly by,
there's no two ways about it, We
sigh to think that We are growing
old, sadly, inevitably growing old !;
that the evil days draw nigh when
thou shalt say: Il have no pleasure
in Them" when the summer shower
of disappointment and of grief Shall
not pass as once it did, and the sun
come out again pretty soon as once it
did but the clouds return after the
rain, the bleak November sky of old
age when the clouds return after the
rain. Let them be hours of toll and
danger" if they must be- but. oh how
gladly would we detain them, There
is SO much for us TO do or ever the
evil days shall come. We are like
Lear that held his dead daughter in
his arms and cried aloud: "Cordelia,
Cordelia, stay a little! -Eugene
Wood. in Golfers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
No Chance for a Romance.

young woman living in the neigh
borhood of Thirtythird and Cumber-
land streets the other morning bought
at nearby grocery a dozen eggs On
one among them there was scratched
the name, with address, of young
farmer up the state. He had also writ
ten on the egg request that the per-
son buying it write to him.
The young woman wrote letter to
the tiller of the soil and received an
answer in which the farmer declared
himself pleased at having heard from
her, etc. He wound his letter up with:
Il hope you did not eat the egg, as
wrote that on it a year o.'-Phila-
delphia Record
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Novel Kite Game.

The manner in which kites can be
manipulated is well illustrated by the
game of Vakata. This game is best
played with squads of ten or less a
side equipped with ordinary Indian
kites of tissue paper and reels like
dumbbells
The game is to fly your kite so that
it cuts the string of an opponents kite
by saving it, rescues being effected
by Red Cross kites so manipulated
that they get underneath and pick up
the falling kite.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Poorly Paid for Great Work

Oliver Goldsmith was an underpaid
man from start to finish Fifty pounds
S25o) for The Vicar of Wakefield"
was bad enough, yet for The Travel
er" he got but $40 (s1oo) and e5
$3.50 for his English Grammar" For
The Deserted Village however. his
publisher sent him 100 guineas (s5oOl.
This he at once returned with the
message: 1T is too much; it is near
five shillings couplet, which is more
than any bookseller can afford or. in
deed, any modern poetry is worth. So
he died with $4,000 worth OF debts.
Was ever poet so trusted before?"
said DR. Johnson.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Ganerene of Caste in India.

Those who have not lived in India
nor have made special study of its
unique conditions can hardly UNDER
stand the differences and hatreds that
exist among the different peoples. Be
tween the Mussulman and the Hindu,
the Punjabi and the Bengal, the Sikh
and the Brahmin, and between many
of the smaller divisions OF religion,
race and caste there is no such thing
as cohesion or cooperation; and if,
to small degree, the rigid lines of
caste have been broken down here and
there so that labor and commerce un-
der modern conditions have been
made possible it is due in no small de-
gree to the efforts OF Great Britain.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Cataract
Guaranteed Cured.

GLASSES fitted to correct all sight
and guaranteed. HEADACHES cur
ed by glasses. Graduated Lids, Wat
cry Eye and Ingrowing Eyelashes
cured. atarrh permanently cured by
new method. The doctor will be
glad to have all former patients cali
at the Park Hotel. Examinations
free. Do not miss this opportunity.
Chss. Broadway Rouse, the great
New York merchant who died recent
ly had offered the the sum of One Mil
lion Dollars ($1 ,000,000} to have his
eyesight restored. He was afflicted
with optic nerve diseases and neglect
ed the warning of the early symptoms
of his eye trouble. No eye trouble is
bad at first but then is the time to
have it cured. If Chas. Broadway
Rouss had taken prompttreatment on
the first appearance Of eye disturbance
his eye sight might have been saved.
Optic nerve trouble is durable when
treated in time.
DR. Weber has cured many eases of
Optic Nerve Diseases, Catrracts, Cross
Eyes, Granulated Lids and Watery
Eyes.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
CONTEST BETWEEN HUMAN HOGS
Three Fat Men Get Away with SIS
Oysters and % Pounds of Steak.

Three members of the Manhattan
rat Mems club who are in training
for the forthcoming annual champion
snip eating contest met at 244 East
Third street to settle private wager
of $50 as to which of the trio could
get outside of the most food, the New
York World says. Here is what they
consumed:
Ex-Alderman Frank j. Dotzier, who
weighs $50 pounds, 275 oysters, S1s
pounds of steak, ~ rolls, IL cups of
coffee, three large pies.
Jack Gossman, who weighs 315
pounds, 21o oysters, six pounds of
steak nine rolls, ten cups of coffee,
three large pies.
Jack Probst, who weighs 800
pounds, 100 oysters, IL pounds of
steak, ten rolls, six cups of coffee, four
pies.
Peter Balvado, the referee, awarded
the $50 TO Dotzier, who had hard work
pushing the money into his vest
pocket.
dozen other members of the club
who We're present as watchers, got so
interested in the contest that their
mouths opened and shu1 automatical-
ly as the trio ate Finally they all
began to howl for some food for them
selves.
It's all gone" said Balvado. With
loud cries the IL rushed out to a res
taurant
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Nietzsche and the Invalid

An invalid lady who often met
Nietzsche found him the gentlest,
kindest and most sympathetic of men.
He "implored her with tears in his
eyes not to read his books Such was
his knowledge of women that he was
thunderstruck to find shortly after
ward that the lady at once proceeded
to read them all He was further
stupeted by the discovery that, having
read them, she was utterly unmoved
by the philosophers unanswerable
demonstrations that feeble persons
like herself had no right to live and
that women We're distinguished by this,
that and the other Objectionable at
tribute. 1t must have been blow TO
him
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
How We Learn.

Art is long. life short, judgment diff
icult, occasion transient To act is
easy, TO think is hard to act according
to our thought is troublesome. Every
beginning is cheerful the threshold is
the place of expectation The boy
stands astonished, his impressions
guide him; he learns sportfully, seri-
BUSINESS come on him by surprise. I'm
itation is born with us; what should
he initiate is not easy to discover
The excellent is rarely found, more
rarely valued. The height charms us,
the steps to it do not; with the sum
nit in our eye, we love to walk along
the plain.-Goethe.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
NO COMPROMISE WITH TRUTH.
Absolute Sincerity in All Things
Marks Men of Standing.

Sincerity is made up of two words
sine and cere-sine, without and
cere, wax; without wax. And it means
absolutely pure, transparent.
The human mind is constructed for
truth telling. This is its normal con
dition, and under the exercise of true
living and true thinking the character
becomes strong and robust
Wilderness, completeness, comes into
the life from truth from sincerity
but the moment we attempt to twist
the mind into expressing deceit it be-
comes abnormal and works all sorts
OF harm to the character
| have in mind a very brilliant
writer who exchanges his talent for
cash in political campaigns. He has
written some of the best campaign
documents for all political parties, but
the lack of sincerity in his character
SO discounts his personality and abil-
ity that he has no standing as a man.
He is recognized as a brilliant writer,
but as a man totally without convic-
tons
There is something in the mind it.
self which thrives upon sincerity and
which protests against all that is
false, against all sham. Nothing ever
quite satisfies this longing but abso-
Lutte truth. The mind quickly becomes
sickly and weak when forced to ex-
press what is false.-Orison SWEET
Marden, in Success Magazine.