The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-01

ways got ahead OF the 0ccident IN
matters Of diplomacy. They win out.
trick white man every time simply
because they are older IN tricKery.
They are good people to keep a
long way Oft
| NOTES AND COMMENT.
The widow OF the inventor Of the
percussion cap is still living in Italy.
The Atchison Globe tells Of one
June bride wio already has her moth
er and two sisters living with her.
Senator W. Murray Crane began
his business life as a ragpicker, the
lowest position in paper factory.
The Washington Democrat wonders
why tree grows SO much better on
the north side OF the house where you
do not need It.
Automobiles and yachts are so COM
mon that new sign of wealth had to
be devised Now it is the ownership
| OF private aeroplane
What the Sioux City Tribune finds
difficult to understand about DR.. FL
lots list of best books is that it does
not include baseball guide.
The Marsha1ltown Times-Republi-
can declares that when Chinaman
becomes completely Americanized, =
it Is time for the woman missionary
to nee for her life
The Mason City Globe-Gazette tells
some of the boys that they should not
forget that Taft may be keeping tab
on whether they are his real friends
| or Just band wagon tourists.
| The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
Mrs. Howard Gould is "a type It
occurs to the Des Moines Register and
Leader that she didn't make a very
good impression during the recent
trial. however.
i THE year 1909 is standpat year..
says the yinton Eagle. 'The Repub-
4 lican party has always declared for
protection; will always declare for
protection, and will always stand for
] and by protection"
4 Down in Mexico Cinnamon are said
to be preferred as husbands by a GER
tain class of Mexican women. In that
tropical country the color scheme of
civilization is not married by the APP
pearance of nut brown family with
yellow trimmings Therefore, that is
far better place for the Chinese
laundryman to wash the yellow stains
out of his race.
Yes, sah," the Florida colonel is
represented by the Indianapolis News
as saying, sometimes we have a Re-
publican candidate in ouah deestrict.
Why, only last yeah Bill Truax was
a candidate fob congress. No, he
didn't attract many votes. The fact
!, is. sab. that he only polled two. And
now, sab, they are threatenin' to
|, prosecute him fob repeatin'."
Professor Starr says woman is a
barbarian because she smears her
person with powder. perfume and
paint. That's all the bachelor pro-
fessor of ethnology knows about IT,
says the Dubuque Times-Journal. 1.-THE
modern woman uses powder for spe.
cific purposes approved b ymen, per.
|, fume sparingly and paint not at all
unless she is to appear in amateur
theatricals."
THE Chinese and Jap mission bust
: ness in bi gcities is a thing that
; would better be given up" says the
Washington Press. Pretty green to
give money for such purposes might
as well try to Christianize wood.
chucks and other 'varmint.' They
have no heads for Christianity, and
what heather have? Foreign missions
seem TO be fads that would better be
thrown over the shoulder. Heather
: have got their religions-why not lei
: 'em alone? They can't and don't ap
preciate ours. =
Reports are being circulated about
! the state that the new pharmacy com
: mission appointed by Gov. B. F Car
roll win look closely into the liquor
business done by drug stores. New
blanks come into force July 4, and
these blanks will be furnished by the
county auditor and numbered consec
. utiye1y The law already requires a
druggist to report his purchases oil
liquor. Now with the sales numbered
consecutively the commission vii
, know whether all the liquor sold is re
ported. !.