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The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-16
WONDERFUL CHANGES OCCUR IN THE
HABITS OF FOREIGNERS IN AMERICA
but met support at the lower level
Amalgamated Copper lost /
The market became very dull at a
slight rally
Bonds were steady,
New York Money.

New York Dec, 16-Prime mercau-
tile paper 5a5 IL per cent. Sterling
exchange firm with actual business In
bankers bills at IS4.25a35 for sixty
days and at 4SS for demand.
Commercial bills iS3 1-2alS4 IL Bar
silver, 30 5.S
Mexican dollars 1ic Government
bonds steady; railroads steady.
Money on call firm. 1-2a5 per
cent; ruling rate. closing bid and Of
fered at 7-S per cent Time loans,
easier; sixty days, 4 l-2u4 81 per
cent; 90 days and six months offered
freely at 4 1.2 per cent
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-16
CHICAGO Close,

Chicago. Dec. -Wheat-Decem-
Der. LA rs: May. Ill 3-4@1.11 rs;
July. 100 rs
Oats-December, 4S IL; May, A IA;
July. ~ 3-S
Corn-December, 61 3-4; May, &c;
july, 45 1-2@455-S,
Pork-Januafy. 22:2o; May, 2225;
July, 21.95
Lord-December, 1850; January.
1&.O2 1-2@lS.o5; May, 121o; July.
l205.
Ribs-January. 121O; May. 11.57 IL
@1l.60, July, l1.55,
Rye-Cash, n.
Barley-Casb, 5000.
Timothy-March, 1886.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-16
PRAIRIE MAKES ITS
SECOND START FOR COLON

Philadelphia, Dec. 16.-The trans
port Prairie, with 200 marines and
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-16

Q O @ O G o @ Q Q O 9 Q G @
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
LICENSING DRINKERS

Liquor drinkers in the state of
Washington will be forced to carry
licenses, embellish> 4 with their photo
graphs and other data of Identification,
and an.one will be permitted to en-
gage in the liquor traffic without the
payment of fees, if the measure now
before the legislature of that state in
session at Olympia is adopted. The
purpose is to revolutionize the ex-
existing saloon system and settle the
liquor question.
Under the provisions of the pro-
posed law as utlined in the Spring
field Register, license to drink any
thing stronger than ginger ale, pop
and the various other stickless con-
coctions will cost IS a year. There is
no sliding scale. The ragged individ-
ual with battered dime and camel's
neck thirst will then occupy the same
status as a newly made millionaire
with a sudden fondness for crystal
bubbles rising on the juice Of the
grape. The licenses will be non
transferable and will permit the hold
er to buy drinks only from dispensers
in the county where the permit is
issued
With the view to encouraging tenn
perance. it is provided also that the
penalty upon conviction for intoxica-
ton shall be forfeiture of the license
for period ranging from thirty to
sixty days, at the discretion OF the
trial Judge, and that the license shall
be declared permanently forfeited
upon the second conviction. Similar
penalties are provided for selling liz
uor to anyone not possessing a permit
or to intoxicated persons with per
mits.
Senator Whitney, who fathers The
measure. is rcT orted as saving thai
there is strong sentiment in favor OF
such law. and, he adds. there is
chance for its passage { ring the pres
ent session if the local option fighl
does not carry it off the calendar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
CHURCH ATTENDANCE.

The attendance at twenty-siX Protes-
tant churches in Des Moines on Sunday,
January 10. was counted by the Reg
lister and Leader. There was an at
tendance at all services of 4,756 adults,
SOS women and 1928 men. The day
was stormy and unfavorable to large
attendance. Morning services drew
/, 421 women and 500 men. evening
services 973 women and 100 men. The
average was slightly more than 100 for
each service, some churches not hold
ing evening service.
A minister interviewed thought the
poor attendance not due to certain
reasons often assigned, such as dry
sermons. poor music, the church's sup
posed lack of sympathy with the
workingman, etc. The Dubuque Times
Journal makes his view the subject of
thoughtful comment as follows:
He is right about it The causes are
growth of liberty and decline Of faith.
Men not believing that eternal dam
nation or the condemnation Of neigh
bors can be avoided only by attending
church do as they please about t, and
it pleases them to stay away unless
attendance is necessary to please 9th
er members of the family or unless
they feel a genuine interest in the
church, the service M both,
Women have less liberty They have
more obligation as the SAFE is pre-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
Once a King Now Servant.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
The Iowa farmer reads nth wonder
the multifarious uses to which the
South Sea islanders put the cocoanut
tree and its fruit, probably without
thought and possibly without complete
knowledge of the various uses of his
own principal crop: for corn is to the
American very much what the cocoa
palm is to the islander.
The Iowa farmer may put corn
sugar in his morning cup of coffee and
cover his matitutinal corn cakes with
corn syrup after he has spread them
we'll with corn butter having, let US
hope, previously washed his hands and
face clean, which he may and generally
does do with soap for which corn fur
!nished the oil. He may use the same
oil in a different preparation to dress
his salad when he eats il, for the olive
has small advantage over corn as a
producer of Olive oil" were it not for
the pure food laws He may not care
for corn cakes or other food in tbs
morning if he tarried long over the
intoxicating products of corn the night
before.
The good housewife may have
cooked the breakfast over a denatured
corn alcohol blaze. She may insist on
having out the automobile and running
into town on power furnished by the
same cornfields. The boys may saw
wood or grind corn into feed with an
alcohol engine while the old folks are
4 in town And the newspaper the
rural delivery carrier drops in the box
may be printed on cornstalk paper
Corn was once king He is a handy
man of all work today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
The Matter Of Clean Mill

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The dow,
man who is scrupulously clean N ban
ding his product will hardly object :.
anything that will compel other MIN.
producers to be Clearly also. The f.,
low who is filthy has no right ia lio,,
he is entitled to no consideration Ais
when he AYERS that compelling him -
be clearly will necessitate rise II
the price of milk he makes a stron.
bid for membership in the Anani,s
club. 1t costs no more to be cleanl,.
than it does to be dirty. There have
been increases in the cost of milk 10
the consumer; possibly these increases
have been justified; everything e,ss
has gone up: the dairyman ought Il
know whether he can afford ia son
milk at certain price or whether h.
is entitled to a higher price. But clean,
Illness is not one of the things an
which to a price when the dairv
man is counting the cost of prod,c;n,
and delivering his product.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

worth more and she knows it.
A lot of stenographers ought to be
washing dishes; as long as these are
used as lever to pry down the pay of
competent girls. while the incompetent
are considered in competition with the
competent, there will be trouble with
the notes and the gum and the boy
in the next office will receive more at
tention than the poultry business or
whatever business the fair young thing
is supposed to look after. Why not?
One doesn't expect silk for the price
of prints, does he9
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
Wireless, the Wonderful.

Waterloo Courier: Fog closes down
on the entire sea. The sky, the hor-
lion, the waters below have been
swallowed up in tie binding, suffo-
eating mist, the fog. Sound Is clear
true. but it cannot be located. A
whistle may be one or eleven miles
away. Suddenly great black prov
looms ont of the dark. 1t cannot be
stopped Behind it is the weight OF
thousands of tons. With deafening
din of splintering timbers and
screeching iron. the great point has
entered the side of the ship. In
stantly. it withdraws and is lost in the
fog Our ship is again alone In the
impenetrable fog. But now she has
a great wound in her side through
which the sea water is rushing. There
are over thousand souls of US. we
are sinking-no help is in the binding
fog.
What is our hope? Electricity. In
the frail looking instrument there is
a power, immaterial, battling. 1t is
more potent than the great engines of
tho ocean steamer that have been the
admiration of a great era. The news
of distress is licked in subtle, intangi-
BILE waves that fash into space with
the speed of lightning. Vessels nifty,
one hundred miles away which have
this wizard sense at once learn OF
the danger. They are steamlng away
from the wreck. Immediately, their
great bodies change their course and
are soon retracing the backward path
On they speed sensing their way in
the choking fog for miles ahead
They reach us in time and our floating
CITY is saved with all its inhabitants
We stand by then and watch the old
hull sink relieved of its load of many
I hundred passengers now safe and dry
! This is a chapter in the story OF
an invention which developed in the
confines of an obscure laboratory. II
/ was Marconi, an Italian inventor, thai
/ gave this priceless secret to mankind
! Had Marconi never done more thai
I save the Republics passengers, his
( name would be worthy of record witt
I the list of the immortal great. But the
benison of the child OF his brain vii
he over them tina go TO sea In ships
/ evermore. Blessings on Marcon!.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
The Republics Cantain

Davenport Democrat: Were mo-.
soul-stirring words ever spoken in
time of imminent danger than these
OF Captain Sealby Of the disabled and
sinking steamship Republic, address.
ing to a muster of the entire crew.
II am proud of you. You have acted
like men. There is no coward on tbis
boat. Tho passengers have gone and
you have the right To leave the shin
1t may sink; 1t ma: not, | cannot saw
You have done yoar duty and more
and the boats are at your disposal
With such captain every passenger
who started on the Republic would
like to sail with him again.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
The yellow Press Menace.

Iiduilpdl journal: That the yellow
press of today is a menace to the
home circle is claimed by many think
ing men and women, and that the claim
is based upon sound and logical
reason is an undisputed fact. These
sensational wallowers in the mire of
Misrepresentation and distortion, in
their eagerness to place dollars in their
coHers. invade the family circle, taking
advantage of every opportunity that
presents itself to give publicity to So
called news matter that can please only
the craven taste of the vulgar And
that there are legions of such readers
ieads TO the query: rs the American
reader of today man of prostituted
taste, and does the volume of sensation
lnongers outweigh the lovers of legiti-
mate literature and news stories?"
Inc more prominent tile family that
tails heir to unavoidable misfortune
the more copious the drafts of the SEN
satlonal slush in the columns of the
iatter-day scandal dispensers. enron
eously called newspapers. The only
cure for this state of affairs is SO pro-
nounced a public disapproval as to
make showing in the debit column of
the yellow" journals ledger, for it is
money and money alone they seek
The only way to reform them is to
prove to them that journalistic de-
cency pays better than the present
system of sickening, sensational pub
locations. and this remedy can only be
applied by the reading public. In other
words. the public conscience must
assert itself and apply the boycott to
such so-called newspapers. for moral
| suasion among the men who conduct
these publicity scandal mongers is as
foolish and ineffective as would be the
preaching the doctrine of the Child
of Bethlehem to Satan's most devoted
and faithful followers.
Only recently the family circle of
! distinguished citizen of this coun-
try, at Lincoln Neb., became prey to
the American sensation scribler, and
all based upon the fact alone that his
| daughter had made an unfortunate
contract and was seeking to annul the
bonds through legal channels. At
once the yellow press" jumped into
the breach and began to smear it's
j pages with stories of the different
members of the Bryan family that
have no more to do with the divorce
in question than has such so-called
journalism to do with decency and re-
speciality. The family fireside was
dragged before the public and the only
regret of these publicity buzzards is,
perhaps, the fact that they could find
NO ghost lurking in the Bryan closet
All they have accomplished is the
heartache of a father and mother de
voted to their daughter to that ex,
tent that they lend their help in rid
ding her of an unhappy marriage.
And the Bryan case is only one Of
thousands as basis for sensational
and naueating rot of this class OF
INSCRIPTIONS journalistic pirates who
sail upon all seas in search of victims
dle innocent suffering as we'll as the
guilty.
AS suggested, the only remedy lies
with the reading public. Danish the
yellow journal from the fireside ant
it can no longer exist. The responsl
bility rests upon the reader. Will yot
apply the knife and cut from the so
cial anatomy of the country this fes
tering sore?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

A Kansas man who. while drunk.
killed his wife and mother-in-law and
then committed suicide has been
buried with half-empty bottle of
whisky in his coffin. The Des Moines
Tribune suggests that a full bottle
would have been too great a tempta-
ton to grave robbers. Possibly
his friends were afraid to trust him
with any more, even after rigor mortfs
had set in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

The United States stepped out of
Cuba yesterday for the second time. 1t
is entirely within bounds to say
that such course would not have
been pursued by any other country
under any circumstances, but it was
the only course open to this country
after it had pledged its faith to give
the Cuban people a government of
their own. The honor of the nation
was at stake and nobly has it been
maintained
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
The Business Mans outcry.

Marshalltown Times-Repubican In
a Des Moines newspaper two more OF
less prominent business men take
fall out of the stenographers. Each
employs ten stenographers. or says he
does. which for the present purpose
is all that is necessary. These men
are having trouble finding the class OF
stenographers they desire. they fali
to spell. some of them get their own
notes mixed, altogether there is trou-
BILE and the stenographer takes the
blame as she usually must. Other
business men in Des Moines find SIM
liar trouble. The call is for competent
stenographers.
This business mems symposium
should be followed by another The
girl should have her chance. Until
we know somewhat about how much
the business man is paying his stenog-
raphers it will be impossible to know
whether he is getting all he pays for
or is trying to get more than he is
willing to pay for. The fact is that III
this country men can usually get what
they want if they are willing to pay
the price But they find it hard to buy
diamonds for the price OF glass or to
hire ten competent stenographers at
! a range of wages between s. to 81
week
The fact is that no work Is Wors ;
I underpaid than that OF the stenogra-
pher Track the wages down and the
average girl in the kitchen can count
more money than the average stenog-
rapher If there were anything be-
/ yond clothes and a quid of gum in it
the wage would fall; for the business
man who is putting up this cutlery
makes the wage of the incompetent
/ the standard whereby to measure that
of the competent, and permits the
( willingness of one girl to board at
home gratis and take enough wages to
buy three suits a year, to give incomr
potency and ignorance an immense adj
vantage over real workers who know
or are willing to learn how to conduct
his correspondence. Imagine bringing
in the 81 week Office boy to conduct
the correspondence of business big
enough to employ ten stenographers
and complaining that he fails to spell
correctly, gets notes on the poultry
business mixed and generally doesn' t
earn three TO five times as much as he
Is paid
When men assume that they can not
get competent help it is a pretty fair
assumption that they are not entirely
willing to pay what such help costs in
the market. Men may be willing to
pay ell the business will afford" but
in all competition this doesn't always
buy the best or even the average
Farmers found themselves bidding
against the manufacturers and Others
to keep their hired help from the fac
tories and farm wages are consequent
ly "high as a cats back for the best
and most competent help, the man
who can be left to take care of the
farm. who knows how and wants te
do it whether some one stands owe,
him or not. And the farmer who Is
read to pay for the best gets the best
The one who is ready to make the $1t
month man the standard. doesn
have s35 a month man looking aftel
his interests. Neither need the bust
ness man expect to hire stenographers
who smell better than he does and take
quick grasp and ready interest "
his business, for 81 week. She
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
The Town Of Nogood.

TIC TOWN. VI INSSOod,
My friends have you heard of the town
of Nogood
On the banks of the River Slow,
Whele blooms the Waitawhile flower
fair,
And the Sometimeorother scents the
air,
And the soft Goeasys grow.
1t lies in the valley of Whatstheuse
In the province of Letherslide;
That tired feeling is native there,
It's the home of the reckless Idontcare.
Wholc the Giveitups abide.
1t stant, at the bottom of Lazyhill,
And is easy to reach. ] declare,
You've only to fold up Jour hands and
glide
Down rhe slope of the Weakwill's to-
boggan slide
To be landed quickly there.
The fowl is as old as the human race.
And it grows with the flight OF
years;
1t is wrapped in the aas of the
idler's dreams,
It's streets are paved with discarded
schemes
And sprinkled with useless teas.
The Collegebred fool and the Rich.
mans heir
Are plentiful there, no doubt,
The rest of the crowd are a motley
crew,
With every class except one lii view
The Foolkiller is barred out.
The town of Nogood is all helged
about
With the mountains of Despair
No sentinel stands on its gloomy
walls,
No trumpet to battle and triumph
calls,
For towards alone are there.
My friend. from the dead alive town
Nogood
If you would keep away,
Just follow your duty through good and
i'll,
Take this for your motto, II can
will.'
And live up to it each day.
w. e. Penney in New Haven Register
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

The esteemed Jacksonville Courier
thus begins a leading editorial arti-
Gle:
AT this season of the year, while
we are living in the midst of rabbit
pie and country sausage, we should
not let slip our memories for single
minute the fact that we are facing
civic duties which will not be side
stepped"
True, true. but if it is real country
sausage ship some of it Immediately.
Never mind about the rabbit pie. but
send the sausage at once. without
fail. Bill, if any, by later train.
&C. @. D." &C. @. D." Also P. D. @.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

A bill has been introduced in the
House of Delegates in St Louis which
provides that persons arrested for
drunkenness may be fined SIS by ser
geant of police and allowed to go. If
the measure passes people visiting st.
Louis would do well to take an extra
IS along to satisfy the needs of any
policeman they may chance to meet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

A bill has beer introduced in .he
legislature providing ten dollar
fine for boys under sixteen smoking
cigarettes and the same for property
owners permitting them to smoke on
their premises. 1t ought to be entitled
"a Bill for an Act to Relieve Parents
of Responsibility for the Conduct of
their Children and Compensate for
Lack of Proper Home Training"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
A Good Recommendation

Omaha Bee: The postmaster gen.
eral recommends that railway mail
clerks be allowed travelling expenses
while away from home and in the dis
charge of their duties. There are
$4,000 of these employees, with average
salaries of s1,150 year of which
about $3.50 goes for travelling expenses.
AS they are the only employees of the
government who do not receive travel
ing expenses, the postmaster generals
recommendation would appear to be
well timed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

In common with about everybody
else, George Fitch has noticed that
boys who have just graduated from col
lege are wise enough to run the uni
verse. The reason why they don't do
it, he explains, is because they very
soon learn better.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

A prudent congressman will post
pone jumping ON President Roosevelt
until after March 4. Senator Tillman's
and Representative Willett's fate Illus
trates negatively the wisdom OF this
course.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

Alex Miller says in his Washington
Democrat that Joe Folk of Missouri
makes him tired. If Mr. Miller isn't
careful he will find himself on trial
for treason to the holy cause of Re-
form with a big r.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

The Iowa City Republican thought
fully advises against discouraging the
legislature from taking all the vaca-
tons it is inclined to enjoy. The
Republicans idea is that an adjourned
legislature is not half as bad as one
in session. Doesn't this verge on
lese legislature?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
Cut Them OUT

Knoxville Express: We often won
der whether correspondents do not see
our frequent reminders that we cannot
use inconsequential items like neigh
bors dining with each other or spend.
ing Sunday with friend or relative
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

A doctor has discovered that there
are three germs in the disease popular
ly known as a cold bacilli influenza
micrococci catarrhalis and bacillus
friedlander. Very good. Now will he
tell us what to do for cold?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

The Marshalltown Times-R epubli-
can suggests that if the Iowa weather
man who has been in charge of late
may be continued in Office Iowa will be
alternating her apple and peach trees
with orange trees and planting pine
apples along with pc atoes. But just
note what the weather is today!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
silly Sundays Ideal Players.

Waterloo Reporter: Billy Sunday
has been picking his ideal baseball
team from among the old favorites of
the diamond and now the sporting ed
itors are proving that every one of
them drank beer, played ball on Sun
day and did all manner Of evil.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29
The Daily Gate City

scribed by public opinion, more need
for the church considered as social
institution, and probably more spir
itual interest and sense of spiritual
need. Certainly as a whole they have
less to distract their attention from
religion as a part of life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-29

half mile away. Some keep send;n
such items, and they ought to cut tbaa
out. They may look like news h..
they are not. We hate to mark t, ~.
out but we can't use them; don't sena
them. s'u