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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
Iowa corn production is but thirt'

Iowa corn production is but thirty
one bushels to the acre. IF we will
put as much time and legislative at
tention into agricultural education as
the legislature is giving to tommy
rot reform the corn yield could be
doubled" suggests the Iowa City Re
publican. But just think of the polit-
ical ambitions that would die abornin'
if the members of the legislature were
to neglect them for agricultural edl-
cation or anything else. The general
assembly has long been a maternity
home for that sort of thing and t
isn't going to change its character and
functions all at once
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
A Bio Bunch Of Advice.

Sheffield Press: Stop grumblins
Get up two .nours earlier in the morn.
ing and do something out of your reg.
ular profession. Mind your own bust.
ness and with all your might let other
peoples alone. Live within your
means. Give away or sell your dog
Go to bed early. Talk less of your own
peculiar gifts and virtues and more o,
those of your friends and neghbors.
Be cheerful. Fulfil your promises. Pay
your debts. Be yourself all you would
see in others. Be good man and stop
grumbling.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

1t is the common custom to speak
of Judge Taft as President-elect, but
he has not yet been elected and will
not be until the house and senate at
Washington meet in jc'nt. session in
the house of representatives on Feb
ruary 10, canvass the votes OF the
electors and declare the result. The
attendant ceremony is quite formal
and is an essential part of the present
electoral system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
THAT smi,. Of FeeIy's.

Waverly Democrat: II you nave
never seen Guy Feely smile you ought
to make the effort. 1t is worth com
ing miles to see. When his ace Is lit
up It makes the gilded dome at the
state capital look like yellow pump
kin. That smile has been variable
asset to Guy. for without 1t he would
now be sitting in the back row Where
he was two winters ago, for he liter
ally smiled and glad handed his way
to the position he now occupies, which
down here, is regarded as second In
Importance only to that of the gov
ernorship itself
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
THE CURRENT MAGAZINES.

The February issue of Lippincotts
contains a powerful tale of army life
by General Charles King. 1t is entitled
"Lanier of the Cavalry" and por-
trays army life with the same vigor
and naturalness which characterized
THE Colonel's Derghter," Captain
Blake and other famous books by
this author. There are some excep-
tionally good short stories in this Is
sue. including "A Friend of Jimmie's,
by Eleanor Mercein Kelly. whose The
Girl Who Forgot" in the January
Lippincott's was probably the most
talked about story of the month.
Elsie Singmaster contributes one of
her inimitable OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
stories, "Elmina's Living Out Will
Lexington Comfort one of his mastery
theatrical tales-'The Crudity;' and
there are others by Adele Marie Sh' ",
Wilmot Price and Jane Ellis JOY
For general attractiveness and live
" interest The Red Book Magazine is
heartily commended. The leading ar,
ticle "old Souls in New Bodies, OF
fers a series of startling analog1es be-
tween the careers of certain great fig-
ures of antiquity and other great
personages of our present day. Notable
is the case of Caesar and Roosevelt
Moreover, every woman will be INFER
ested in Mabel Herbert Urner's article
"Desirable Husbands" in when the
statement is frankly made that deep
in her heart every woman wishes Don
Juan were her husband. Among 1ne
writer's represented are Arcnloalo
| Marshall. William Macleod Raine
Fannie Heaslip Lea, Harrison Rhodes
and William Chester Estaorook. lne
Issue opens with new and delightful
series of portraits of Miss Mauoe
Adams in her latest Barrie play, 'Wha'
| Every Woman Knows
The most vital article that Every
bodv's Magazine has published since
the "Frenzied Finance" DAYS is ht
Poison of the Street" by Frederick >
Dickson. in the February NUMBER.
strikes blow, and telling one, d
margin gambling in Wall street ahe
echoes the cry of the many VINO nave
tried their luck" and been iured OF
/ 10 destruction. The article is stralgn
from the shoulder and authoritative
Charles Edward Russell has an article
"Tbe Stun as a National Asset, con
trasting the conditions Of our owl
congested and noisome tenement dis
tricts with the healthy and happy con
ditions prevailing in German cities
particularly Berlin. Opera and tn
People" is the title under which Mar
Garden characterizes opera in Amer
lea. its present status and It's pros
poets for the future. The article J
delightfully."- illustrated by specia
posed portraits OF well-known singers
The story of Ex-Governor Napoleon I
Broward's picturesque career, and nj
efforts to push along the work 9
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Congressman Lorimer has intro.
duced a bill in congress providing for
commission composed of three SEN
ators and three representatives which
shall make a general investigation Of
all the deep waterway projects now
before that body. Mr.. Lorimers chief
idea is to secure federal cooperation
with Illinois in canalizing the Illinois
river and starting the lakes to gulf
deep waterway
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

The state senate has passed bills
giving sheriffs additional duties with
regard to the enforcement of The laws,
requiring the placing out at interest
of county funds in the hands of coun-
ty treasurers. requiring lights on
steamboats, in Iowa, exempting den
fists from jury service and giving fifty
dollars for burial expenses for old
soldiers. The house would do well to
give assent to all these measures.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Clarence Antonsen. twelve-year-old
Clinton lad, picked up box of dyna-
mite caps and set a match to one to
see it go off. He saw it, all right,
and now he is in local hospital with
both arms swathed in bandages. Three
fingers were blown from one hand and
the other hand was manned and
bruised. Ocular demonstration is !
costly experience sometimes, but
some boys will learn in no other way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
Possibilities of Hunters License.

Clinton Herald: AS an Indication
of what Iowa might receive for the
enforcement of the state fish anl
game laws by the passage of the pro.
posed resident hunters license bill,
may be quoted little abstract from
the. report of receipts of the staee
game fund in Illinois. For the past
two years there was paid into ttis
fund by the hunters of that state tie
sum of s293.152.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Iowa is eighth in the amount of mon.
ey contributed TO the Red Cross fol
the Italy earthquake sufferers, 81 q
complete list received by Governor
Carroll from the department at Wash
ington shows. The Iowa contributors
totaled sS19072. New York heads the
list with s3o6.61z13. California is
second with s119oS7 The total
amount contributed was 1901 ,131.03,
which does not include the amount az
propriated by congress, but is whd
was voluntarily contributed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil prop.
erly tells the people of California that
1t will be the part of vision for them
to keep on very friendly terms with
Uncle Sam. 1t counsels them that the
time may come when that state will
want protectio.- from something that
may be quite as destructive as an
earthquake, and about that time it
will be looking for friend at court.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

A st. Louis court has decided that
hotel is an inn as regards RESPONSE
bility for property lost by guests The
mere fact that the hotel does not serve
meals is not recognized as releasing
the keeper from responsibility.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

The late Hon. William NJ. Evarts
has long been credited with the au-
thorship of the saying that the first
duty OF lawyer is to get on, the sec
ond to get honor and the last to get
honest. 1t now develops that the same
thing was said, unknown to Mr..
Evarts, by an English barrister as
long ago as 1916. 1t is bright say
ing. whoever first uttered it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
Roasts the Rock Island.

Vinton Times. If the Rock Island
persists in sending bum engines out
on this division some of us fellows will
be forced to chip in and buy the bloom
in railroad
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

The Marshalltown -Repuf lican
truthfully says that there is as much
sense in draining wet Iowa farms as in
retaining arid tracts in Arizona, and
a great deal better returns to those
who own the lands
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

critic designates "salome" as an
1odoriferous masterpiece of psychol-
ogic art" 1t must be even worse than
most people had been led to suppose.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
Senator Root said true thing am

Senator Root said true thing and
q wise thing when he declared:
There is no reason TO believe that
the citizens would perform their duty
in the direct election of senators or
in voting upon the initiative or the
referendum any better than they per
form it in the election OF members
of the senate and the assemblies Of
the state
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
A Good Selection.

Oskaloosa Herald: When Governor
Carroll appointed Major Mahon. Of
Ottumwa, to represent the Sixth dis
trict in the national conference to dis
cuss the tariff question, he picked gu,
good man. Major Mahon represents
the highest type of American citizen
ship.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Several of the heavy earthquakes
recently registered by the seismo-
graphs have not been located. 1t need
not be said that that kind of an earth
quake is the best kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

The Missouri legislature is another
horrible example. 1t has been in ses-
sion for month and is only now ready
to begin work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
IL Will.

Sioux City Journal: During the COM
ing few weeks we are going to hear a
great deal about what Lincoln said
and did And every item of it will
bear repetition
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Jacob F. Gmelich has been seated as
lieutenant governor OF Missouri and
the movement for simplifed spelling
has indirectly received another boost.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

An electric hen is the latest. But
1t can never supplant biddy until it
demonstrates its capacity TO lay eggs
as well IS hatch them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

1t is wise ground hog that knows
his own shadow when he sees it. Here
IN lies the only hope of spring within
the ensuing six week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
keokuk. Iowa February 2, 1909

The grounding saw his shadow and
there is but one recourse: C. @. d.!
c. @. D.!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Four pennsylvania children ignitea
three kegs of powder to see 1t pun.
1t puffed.
Sc stated that the $500 automo-
bile is better than the sS'ooo machine
a few years ago
The telephone business is 1 PICKING s.,,,s
IN in China. There are now i''0V suo'
scribers in Picking
Heaven help the church that !, !,
ms ,tae,f at the foot of the crowd
lhlo ,eiroa a' the petroit News. None OF
e 60 ayer think Of advertising the
sl seln.aa of light, but they do adver-
tise their music and their speciai'ieS'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

According to one of the pert para
graphers, man can read woman's
lace, and If she is wrinkled he can
read between the lines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

1t is now clearly up to some Iowa
legislator to introduce a bill abolish
ing the grounding.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Washington Star: 1t will be seen
whether the 100000 President is
twice as good as the $4,000 President.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

Although the average annual dam
age by floods in the United States
has never been accurately determined.
a recent government estimate places
the figures at $100,O0O,O 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

reclamation in the Everglades of
Florida is told in From Deck Hand
to Governor by Ralph D. Paine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

10 the Cedar Rapids Gazette one
night session of the Gridiron club is
as interesting as one-winter session
of congress,
According to one of the pert para
graphers, man can read a woman's
lace, and If she is wrinkled he can
read between the lines.
Although the average annual dam
age by floods in the United States
has never been accurately determined
a recent government estimate places
the figures at 100000, 900.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
the compulsory law ought to be ex-
tended so as to apply to every farmer
in the state of Iowa, requiring him to
take course of instruction in the
uses and benefits of the King road
drag.
Duncan SMITH maintains that the
keeping diary is a most excellent
practice. 1t cultivates observation and
continuity and a methodical habit. 1t
is also matter that provokes the hi
larity of the fiippant minded when it is
produced as evidence in court.
Important work for the uplifting of
the negroes of the south has been ac-
lively undertaken with the beginning
of this year by the Catholic church,
through its recently organized board
for mission work among the colored
people, of which the Rev. John E.
Burke of New York is the director gen
eral.
The next centenary of President
after the coming Lincoln observances
will fall on April q, 1922, the Tooth
anniversary of Grants birth. Lincoln
and Johnson were born within few
months of each other. So were Grant
and Hayes. Garfield and Arthur diff
fered but year in age. Roosevelt and
Taft were born within year of each
other. In date of birth the Presidents
have thus come in pairs.
An exchange gives the following
formula for getting rid of stumps
With two-inch auger bore hole per
pendicularly into the stump about two
feet; then pour into the hole mix
ture of nitric and sulphuric acid II
equal parts. Plug the hole up Tight.
with plug dipped in melted parafine
In thirty days the stump SO treated
will become a charred, pulpy mass
roots and all, ready to be spread Owe
the soil as fertilizer with a shovel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

The ground hog would be worthy of
more general confidence If he wasn't
zone of the Oldest inhabitants"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03
and their piquant topics. All this is
a sign of the end"

To the Cedar Rapids Gazette one
night session of the Gridiron club is
as interesting as one-winter session
of congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

threatened and the killing was iusti-
fable homicide. This is lesson that
police officers and others need to learn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
SILVER CHALICES
 GIVEN PARISH
Christ Church, of Norwalk, Benefits by Generosity of Mrs. Barnum.

South Norwalk Sentinel, Feb 16.)
 Christ Parish, of East Norwalk, was the recipient of two large sterling sil- lyer cI1aIices, handsomely engraved and tof a very ancient design. The pre- isentatior was by Miss Katherine Ed den, of Bridgeport.
 Some time ago there appeared in the Churcilman an article relative to these chalices, giving a clear record of their having been handed down through sev- eral generations. They were then the property of Mrs. F. E. Barnum, of Bridgeport. Mrs. Barnum realizing their worth and sacredness, and con- < vinced that they should become the property of some parish, but not know Ing what parish they would the most benefit, offered to give them to the parish whose application was first re- celved. Miss Edden, an ardent work CT or Rev. J. H. Browns Bridgeport parish, read the articL eand 1mdned- lately made application for Christ par 1s5n or East NorwaIk A few days later MISS Ridden was very agreeabIy surprised by the receipt of a package containing these chaliceS and a letter StaElng that her application was the first received, and that it afforded the donor much pleasure. to place in her hands for Christ parish of East Nof- walk this gift, which, she felt assured, would be highly prized by the parish.
 At the communion service which fol- lowed the regular morning service the gift was used and Miss Edden as an honorary reward for her thoughtful ness and kindness, was the first to re- neive oommlunion therefrOm
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
NORTHROP THREW
 CHECKS IN GUTTER
New Haven Man Acts Mil lion Dollar Kid on the Street This Morning.

Jack Northrop. an agent for a New
 Haven fruit house. came over to
 Bridgeport. this morning, to finish LID
 a little spree which he had inauguraed in the Elm City. He had a big roll of
 bills in his pocket. At 10 o'clock he wandered up Fairfield avenue carrying a rain coat. It had cleared up, and having no present use for the coat he threw it in the gutter with the sang froid of multi-millionaire. He had a number of checks in his pocket, and as they were not collateral in this city he threw them in the gutter also. A friend had followed him from New Haven to this city and endeavored to get him home. but home was nothing like Bridgeport and Northrop conclud- ed to stay. Patrolman Peter Campana came along in time to see the perform ance and thought the station house was a good place for Northrop until he sobered up. Northrop explained to Capt. Hunt that he had won the coat at raff1e and some other details of his present situation. He will be all lowed to sober up before he is released on a bond which he is ready to furnish at any time. He was well dressed and carried over $10O in bills in his pocket besides valuable papers. He acted the million dollar kid to perfection during his brief appearance here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
SIXTY VILLAGES
 DESTROYED BY
 AN EARTHQUAKE
And Six Thousand Persons Are Reported as Killed
 in Luristan, Persia.
Shock Game January 23, But Absence of Communica- tion Delayed Receipt of NawS
Special from United Press.


 Teheran. Feb. 17.-Delayed messages received to-day from the provincial authorities of Luristan province say that sixty villages were destroyed and six thousand people killed in an earth quake January g.
 At least 12,000 cattle were killed and the inhabitants of the provinces of Luristan and Buruja are appealing for immediate aid. The devastation cov- CTS an enormous area of property in the country and every village in the province was engulfed.
 The delay in getting news of the quake was due to the inaccessability of the affected region and the state of terror that seized the people. Seismo- craphs all over Europe recorded the shock. The instruments showed that the quake was more violent than that which devastated Sicily.
 London, Feb. 1.-The province of Luristan is in the inaccessible noun tainous region of Western Persia. bord- ering upon ArdeIian and Khuzistan. It is watered by the Kerkha. The in habitants are chiefly Bakhtyrias. part of the Iranian people.
 The quake was so violent that the seismograph at Potsdam. Germany, was broken in recording it. The Ham, burg seismograph registered that the quake lasted over an hour.
 The government has already begun relief expedition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
Livingston Pleads Guilty Upon Four Counts Charg-
 ing Embezzlement.
Seventeen -Year-Old Roma na Gets Light Sentence
 Because of His Youth
Ball, for Setting Fire to Bot tling Works, Gets One Year in Penitentiary- Judge Bennett Sentences Law Breakers.

James A. Livingston. who was agent for a. number of local property owners and embedded the money he obtained from rents, on his hearing before Judge Bennett in the criminal Superior ] to guilty on four counts and was given six months in jail on each. Livingston took over the business, or pretended to take over the business, of the late J. s. Meade & O., real es- tate dealers. He put the money Ob- tained from rents to his personal use. When his assets became low he skip ped to Canada, but returned to this city on the advice of the local detec- tives.
 Michael Romano of this city, charg- ed with committing an indecent assault upon a sixteen year old girl, was given four months in jail. Romano is a minor, be1ng but IF years of age. He and a crowd of youths, with which he had become associated, while in an in- toxicated condition dragged the young girl along East. Main street one night last December and committed an as- sault upon her. It was brought out by the States Attorney that it was with the girls consent that sshe was led for two blocks into a side street. It was hecause of the nature of the case that the sentence was so light.
 William D. Ball, of this city, was given a sentence Of not more than two nor less than one year in States pr.is- on. Ball was charged with setting fire to the bottling works. which he owned, at the corner of Iranistan and Maplewood avenues, for the purpose of collecting the insurance.
 Henry C1uess of this city, charged with statutory burglary on three counts, was given six months in jail on each.
 Edward J. Cornell of Danbury, was given one year in jail for statutory Burglary.
 Nicholas Dissea Of this city, also charged with statutory burglary, was given one year in jail.
 John F. McGrinley of Stamford, was given three months in jail for theft and three months for robbery. .1
 Michael Reilly of Stamford, was given nine months in jail for simple assault.