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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

1t is very generally supposed that
woods in October is caused by the
frost. Indeed one botanist of some
reputation printed the statement in
his journal not so very long ago that
'tae frost is the magic dye-stuff which
gives the trees their beauty" But is
that quite true? The best of botan-
lists nowadays declare that it is not
true at all. They say that frost has
nothing to do with the coloring, except
as it stops the leaves from growing;
the coloring would come quite as sure
ly, If not so early, If there were no
frosts at all. And certainly the ex-
perience Of the year seems to sup
port their theory There has been no
frost yet, not enough to injure the
most delicate vines in the gardens
Yet the splendor of the autumn woods
has not been SO marked for years.
Take a walk through Ridgewood,-
through any of the woods nearby and
note the exquisite glory of the Vir-
ginia creeper encircling the tall oaks.
glowing like flaming pillars on the
crests of tle ridges where certainly
there has been no frost et all. The
sumacs began to show scarlet leaves
as early as the first week in August
and continued TO grow more wildly
beautiful until the last of September.
The best ant richest autumn color
ings are found IN the years when the
weather Is cool and moist but VITA no
frost. Unfortunately such years come
only a few times in ones lifetime. II
the summer has been rainy and the
autumn Is cool with frostless nights
the deep dyes have wondrous charm,
and they persist on tae twigs for
many weeks, Tightening AMI glorify-
ing the season of autumnal beauty.
The next best tints are seen in the
autumns such as We have had this
wear when the weather has been rath-
err warm but without frost The tints
are not so deep, neither do they re-
main so long. bat they are neverthe-
less beautiful. The poorest season OF
all is that when killing frost comes
in September; the leaves then turn
brown and fall quickly with very lit
tie coloring. Sometimes very hot day
in October does much to bleach out
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
WILD WEST NOT A cIRcus.

WILL WE0t MI ~ OIhGOS.
A Texas statute imposes license
tax on circuses and other exhibit
lions where any equestrian or aero
batic feats are exhibited The West
Publishing Company reports an in
teresting decision on this enactment,
involving the question whether wild
west show is or is not circus The
case was one in which the STATE of
Texas was plaintiff and Colonel Cody
defendant. 1t was commended by the
defense that wild west show, where
in rs portrayed actual instances that
had occurred in the west, and lack
ing most of the essentials of the lat
ter-day circuses, could not be taxed
as one Judge Fisher, of the Texas
court of civil appeals, by some mys-
ferrous method having managed, as
he says, to raise sum sufficient to
procure a ticket upon the arrival of
the circus in town, was enabled to
gain a better idea of the merits of
the contentious, and noticed an alb
sence of the lady with the paucity If
garments, the trained hog, the bare
back riders and last, but not least,
that genial artist that delights ones
soul by obligingly photographing our
country cousins as they appear upon
the scene. There were few eques
trian feats. unless horses hauling
artillery, riding horses in battle, o.
using them in an attack upon Indians
or stage-robbers, were so termed
The conclusion was that the per.
Torrance did not constitute 4 circus,
and that it was improperly taxed as
one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

A retired Illinois teacher makes a
brief talk in the columns of the
Cairo Bulletin on the subject OF
Uncle Joe Cannon He says that no
one need have any fears as to Uncle
Joe's future in this world; that the
United States, outside of the Dan
vile. H., district may combine
against him. but his district will stand
by him. He has placed Danville on
the map Of the world, and her citi-
zens are grateful for this. 1t is fur
Their pointed out that they like him
for his good personal qualities, as a
man and neighbor. He is not two
faced; everybody understands wher :
he is all of the time. He is the re-
freshing opposite of the trimmer
sycophant and hypocrite, personal
ity rare and honest enough to com
mand the admiration of those who do
not concur in his views
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

Washington advices say that Justice
Moody of the United States supreme
court is so Ill at his home at Haver-
hill, Mass, that he viii probably not
be able ever to sit on the bench again.
Governor Hughes of New York and
Judge Smith Mcpherson of this
state have been mentioned for the
succession in case of his retirement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

Somebody should be thoughtful!
enough to tell those Moors that they
have been conquered by the Span
iards. They do not seem to have had
the slightest intimation of it as yet
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

a Frenchman who claims to have
toured this country says he found the
most beautiful women in Ohio The
presumption is that he did not get
any farther west than that state.
Everybody knows that beginning at
the Atlantic seaboard women become
progressively better looking until the
Missouri river is reached.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

A valuable theological Joint is
brought to public attention by the
Quincy Herald in the remark that our
sins have a way of finding us out.
which is perhaps better than finding
us in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

A Des Moines milkman was MUIR
Keokuk milkmen should take warning
and not accumulate enough money to
tempt like fate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

The Arlington News declares that
all the talk about opposition to Gov
ernor Carroll for the customary sec
ond term is nonsense. 1t says Iowa
has not had more business gov
ernor in many years He is not seek
ing some higher office or making
speeches all over the state and Unit
ed States. But
He is looking carefully after the
business end of the states affairs and
is saving the tax payers money and
that is what the state needs more
than anything else. There is morn
ing daily in Des Moines which has
had it in for Governor Carroll as it
has for President Taft But both
will be renominated and reelected
and without opposition"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

When Roosevelt comes home and
endorses Taft number of foolish
Iowa editors will look six ways for
Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

Major Rathbun quotes in his Mar
ion Register the statement of The
Gate City that "the fate of the poll
tician who hesitates is the same as
that of a woman who celebrates, .
but complains that this paper did not
say what the fate of the celebrating
woman is. Addison stated it in verse
many years ago in Cato, act w
scene I:
when love once pleads admission to
our hearts,
Gin spite of all the virtue we can
boast),
The woman that celebrates is lost. .
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

The pleasant purgative effect exper-
fenced by all who use Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets, and the
healthy condition Of the body and mind
which they create, makes one feel joy
full. Sold by Wilkinson & Co., and J..
f. Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

publican: 1t was Eugene Fields, was
it not, who said that ne liked any color,
so long as it was red? Anyway, that is
true of rather large part of the
genus homo and perhaps it is the
reason why so many rise to rapture
over the glories of the autumn color
ing of the trees though they seldom
notice the more delicate tints of the
woods in May. But there are other
reasons In October the glory of color
comes in such overwhelming waves
that it will not be unnoticed. Little
color fires light up the dark places in
the woods; they burn and glow until
whole hillsides are set aflame. Up the
trunks and big branches Of huge old
oaks whose leaves may yet be glossy
green, the Virginia creeper bursts into
flame, as II the heart of the old
tree glowed with spiritual fire.
Naples on the hillsides face the de-
scending sun and in their shelving
foliage of red and gold all the dis
titled splendor of thousand perfect
sunsets has been gathered to fill mans
heart so full of gladness that he can
not help but worship the Author of it
all. Look where some great, -ase-
shaped elm stands alone on the river
bottom, or near the brink of the
creek, all its leaves turned to bright
yellow, as If Hebe had filled a huge
goblet with golden wine and set it
there as loving cup for the annual
feast of the gods. Ceaselessly, the
bright leaves fall-as if the trimming
goblet were spilling sparkling drops to
the emerald cloth beneath Not every
elm has such pure coloring, but
now and then one may be found clad
in almost a pure yellow
October is the month of gorgeous
colors. The wonder of it all never
dies. The splendor never cloys-it is
SO varied and yet so evanescent. Each
day has glories that were not observed
yesterday and cannot be seen tomor-
row. Each year we take note of the
wondrous alchemy which manifests
itself in charming game of tints,
the same series on the same trees,
though not the same degrees of in
tensity each year. And the weather
here in Iowa is always--it is safe to
say always--so perfectly in keeping
with the spectacle. The air is so keen
and fresh tha sky en- hrioht1y h1,,o
and the wild strange waves of color
are SO rich and so glorious, dull in
deed are the senses which do not feel
it, cold is the heart which is not
thrilled by it. Every hill is clad with
glory, from every dale beauty calls her
worshippers to many wondrous
shrine. There is peculiar luminosity
in the foliage which takes away all
somberness and sadness from, the
season. The tinted leaves reflect the
light and make the earth a paradise
of sweetly blended colors. Over the
valleys and the crests of the far ridges
hangs the mystic haze of autumn and
over all is the dome of cloudless blue
What wonder if some hearts find
more of God in scenes like this than
in any temples made with human
hands. What wonder if they deem 1t
waste of time to listen to human
voices telling of God while in tae
great out-of-doors God Himself is
speaking.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11

The Washington Democrat affirms
that half the interest In baseball
game is In the talk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
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nish many excuses for fat Offices, and
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keokuk, Iowa ..... October II, 1909.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-04-16
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The Falls City tribune., 1909-04-16
Long ago the Scotch learned this.

The sturdy old Seotehman must be
abused at the recent "discoyeties' that
oa.neal is the best food in the world.
Dar scientific men have been making
experiments which prove that Ameri-
can at too much fat and grease and
me- enough cereals.
HE Stotehmen say; Look at cur
nation as proof. The sturdiest nation
ON nth" sill we have one good point
To make. We make better oatmeal than
,he scotch,
yasy buy Quaker Oats and consider
IL he leader Of all oatmeals to be had
anywhere. Ii You are convenient to
the tore Youth probably buy the
nc a'ar size package. For those who
live IN the country the large sire family
package is more satisfactory, Follow
ths example # the Scotch; eat a Quaker
Oaos breakfast every day,
The Falls City tribune., 1909-04-16

Ufrls IN he posial service q.
Russia have teo not iuto Il fcmI-
nine edition at the rather >mar!
dWss which Is Nern l., the male em.
p'2yts rs a gyUyFal thing Tie
Young women have submitted grace
e3)(1, Int many others rehel,td At
The GeselaN craze which puts them
1o,o the same ,lasS with sehee'
boys tram conductors and su,h like.
who must Near uniforms Whether
he enter Nj lead Il trouble n
mains u be seen. Mest things 90 IN
Russia, int Il the 3g0SS is (xomlag
she I . ladies Vii he very silly te
hf,k 1t ,Ae waAl "Na3form."
The Falls City tribune., 1909-04-16
pEDDlERs MUST pr
straes . BioH 81 oas Of fha Oldest
Professions

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dIaa aa1 requiring - take
D.t# license was nc cause q 4
scrap Ryan of Brown moved
tbat the eaactinq clause %
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10 agree Win bin and ffIooked
~ though Ire biII would die tie
death rigiH there when Gun.
nIagBam roc In Is defense and
made a notable address 10 The
Rladiatprs lie wanted II pro-
tee the people from the wlIes
al fie book agent and the frand
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from the 0Iini,trafioas oil the
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and organs oil tbc farmers Il
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= lfightlul blow t. the travelling
p'ddler, Automobiles, apricul.
tulaI implemeuts.nursery stock,
nj X. butter and eggs and in
fact most everything Is barred
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The Falls City tribune., 1909-04-16
els0l CURES CHRONIC COUSINS,
COLDS AND BRONCHITIS
Alter Other Remedies Eail

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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-08
SUCCESSFUL. CORN AND POTATO
RAISING.

One OF the Waldo County farmers who
makes success Of raising the field corn
Is ". >. Hillman of Troy. His yield Is
usually from $50 to two hundred bushels,
on the cob, to an acre. The past year
MS yield was below the average because
OF the dryness Of the summer, but ne
succeeded IN raising good crop OF fully
matured and thoroughly ripened corn;
lie plows his land for corn in the 1ail
and thoroughly harrows it. AS soon as
ne can get on to the land in the spring ne
spreads on about thirty double horse,
loads OF stable dressing to the acre, ana
then harrows this in and works the SOIL
until thoroughly pulverized. He usually
gets the land ready to plant somewhere
from May 10th to May 18th.
The rows are marked out three ana
one-half feet apart, and the corn is drop.
ped in hills which are three and one-half
feet apart. He drops from four to SIX
kernels, of ten and twelve row variety,
in hill, and never plants beans or any
thing else with the corn. He drops about
five hundred pounds of the best fertilizer
to be had in the hills before the corn is
dropped.
AS soon as the corn sprouts break
through the ground he begins to cult,
vate, using spring tooth cultlvater, and
cultivates both ways, lengthwlse and
crosswise. He can do this easily, as his
corn is planted in squares, and there is
plenty of space between the rows. He
cultivates it as often as he can find the
time, sometimes every day, until it gets
so tall that he cannot go through it with
out breaking it down.
When the stalks are about one foot
| tall, he goes through it both ways with a
horse hoe once, and this is all of the hoe.
ing he does. He never uses hand hce
on any of his crops except his garden.
He says life is too short and time to pre-
| cious to waste it in hoeing with hand
hoe. He says he became prejudiced
against the hand hoe when boy and has
never been able to form an attachment
for it since.
Mr.. Hillman is the kind of farmer
who raises four hundred bushels of Green
Mountain potatoes to the acre and
thinks it is possible to raise six hundred
bushels and is constantly striving to
reach that He never fattens hog for
market, IS he says it does not pay when
grain is as high as it is now. He simply
raises them and let's others fatten them
Bertha F. Hillman, in the American
CultiVatOr
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-08
HUMPHREYS

Humphreys' Veterinary Specifies
forthe cure OF diseases OF H orses,
Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Poultry.
IA. For FEyERs, Milk Fever, LUNG Fever.
3, B, For epRAINs, Lsmeness. Rheumatism.
G. C. For SORE Throat. Epizootic. Distempes.
D. d, For WORMS. Bots. Grubs.
E.E. For COUGHS. Colds, Influenza.
F.F, For collie, Bellyache. Diarrhea.
G. g. Prevents MISCARRIAGE.
n. II, For KIDNEY and Bladder disorders.
IL. For SKIN DISEASES. Mango. Eruptions.
TX. For BAD CONDITION. Indigestion.
Price, go Cents per bottle.
Vet. Cure Oil, for Stable or
Field Use, 81.
At druggists, or sent prepaid
on receipt OF price.
A5OO Page Book on the treat
ment and care of Domestic
Animals and Stable Chart to
hang up, mailed free.
HUMPHREY HoMEo. MEDICINE CO., Corner
TV,yu.,,, and Ann Streets New York
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-08
THE GOLDFISH.
What II Has Done for New England and the
Country at Large

It's a rare treat to New Highlander
born and bred who has long since through
force of circumstances left his native
soil, to get hold of an eastern paper and
therein read an interesting Renaissance
of the old days, the pursuits followed
and the various ways of keeping the wolf
from the door through farming, coasting,
fishing, etc. Recently the writer came
across an article in the Boston Tran
script from the pen of a down-easter CIV
ing a brief history of the value of the
Goldfish in the old days, when it was one of
the standbys in food and an export of
great value to the community. We clip
the following from the article referred
to:
The place of the salt Goldfish in the do
nestle economy of New England can
hardly be realized in day of rapid COM
munication and of general distribution of
fresh foods. A quintal, pronounced ac-
cording to the local usage as "kental, "
of Goldfish was the general provision of
the winter in the city as well as the coun-
, try house. At least once week, if not
oftener, the head of the house, with a
stout knife and frequently Ratchet,
hewed off enough for the family dinner;
and this, after due soaking and boiling
of some hours, Constituted the basis of
the meal. Carrots and onions were
sometimes included in the component
parts of salt-ish dinner, but am in
clined to regard these as affectations.
Sufficient for an old down-towner, at
least, are fish, beets and potatoes, with
plenty of fried-out salt pork.
The man who first began to strip cod
fish for the market not only paved the
way for the frizzly stuff sold in paste
/ board, which looks like section of a
blond wig, but also deprived the United
States of the source of many a salty jest
which adorned the literature of a past
generation and is incomprehensible to
the present, which never saw the humor
of slap from the broad side of Yankee
cod. | am not sure that could be con-
fronted with a specimen of this justly
famed fruit in its ancient form without
the unbidden tear starting to the eye.
Strength and endurance were its two
glories. 1t was imbued with the essence
of hardihood, and the Drawn and brain
which it developed furnished the direct
ing force that turned the savage wilder
ness of the western country into smiling
farm lands that have added more to the
worlds portion than all the gold in Cali
fornia or all the diamonds of the volcanic
tubes of Africa.
The salt Goldfish was a type of man s
contest with the forces of nature in
wrestling from the depths of the sea and
from the forces of decomposition means
of hearty nutrition; mental triumph in
producing from something essentially
perishable substance well-nigh imper-
ishable and defying time, distance and
the chances of transportation. 1t modi-
fed the rigors of northern winter and
was sure defense, a potent shield, both
directly and indirectly, against the fam
inc which even our not very remote
fathers might well dread. The salt cod
fish should be the orifiamme of every
true New Highlander.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-08
FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE OF
REAL ESTATE.

Whereas, Ardria l. Brown of Stockton
Springs in the County of Waldo, State of
Maine, by her mortgage deed dated June 81
1907, and recorded in Waldo Registry of Deeds
Book 2S5, Page 6, conveyed in mortgage to the
undersigned, James F. Gerrity of Bangor in
the County of Penobscot, State of Maine, the
following described real estate, namely: A GER
tain let or parcel of land situate on Cape Jelli-
son, in said Stockton Springs, in said County of
Waldo, bounded and desctibed as follows viz:
Beginning at stake at the intersection of the
southerly line of Western avenue with the
westerly line of property sold to Eden F. Pen
Teton by John M. LaFolley by deed dated July
is, 1906, recorded in said Waldo Registry
Volume ESQ., Page 172; thence south, thirty
nine degrees east, on the said westerly line,
eighty feet to stake; thence easterly, forty
feet to stake thence northerly, eighty feet
to stake standing in the southerly line of
said Western avenue, forty feet in said line.
easterly from the above named westerly line;
thence westerly on the said southerly line of
Western avenue, forty feet to the point begun
at. Being lot numbered nine on a plan of the
Eden F. Pendleton lots on said Cape Jellison
surveyed for W. J. Dreamer by Frank L. Mars
ton, c. E., july 1906 and duly recorded in said
Registry. And whereas, the conditions of said
mortgage have been and now remain broken,
this notice is therefore hereby given for the
purpose of forecosing the same, as provided
by law.
Dated at Bangor Maine, this twenty third
day of June, A. d. 1909.
JAMES F. GERRITY.
By his Attorney,
3w26 MATTHEW LAUGHLIN.