The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-23

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we'll worthy of serious considera-
ton by all. There is urgent need OF
greater care in railroad management.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
Alex Miller has noticed that con-
trary folks always get the worst of it
and then complain about it.
Every once in a while preacher
decides to take dose of his own med
icine-and gets married." observes the
Davenport Democrat
The Terre Haute Star suggests that
the eloquent nature of the bankers
last week was due in a large
measure to the fact that money talks.
1t is stated in the Memphis Reyeille
that w. P. Hall of Lancaster has clos
ed contract with the Barnum &
Bailey show to furnish them all their
horses for the next year.
The Creston Advertiser says that
while the average citizen does not
know whether he is in favor of CEN
trail bank or not he is convinced that
our monetary system is capable OF
great Improvement.
"Now this wrangle about who got
the pole is somewhat naaseating,"
says the Washington Press. IF Peary
says that Cook did not get there he Is
about as small man as the creator
ever put legs under"
The Washington Democrat says that
Nate Kendall, congressman from the
Sixth district, is all right and is nice
fellow, but that like the parrot that
got wooded all to smithereens by a
dog, he talks too damned much"
The Knoxville Journal says that a
central bank, If absolutely divorced
from Wall street and politics, will in
deed go far toward solving the ills OF
our present system, adding: But II
! VIII take d SIedL iSii - SNsAS..
! ton to secure it's adoption.
! I'VE seem to have. after ALL says
the Cedar Rapids Republican, "a Pres
ident who is not afraid to speak out
/ A President who is no dough-face. A
man who is not going through the
country speaking only the things thai
are agreeable in the various places.
Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, pub
Usher of the Register and Leader ane
the Evening Tribune, and president o.
the board of trustees of Iowa Wesley
an has subscribed $4,000 to the quar-
ter of a million endowment funt
which President Schell is now engag
ed in raising.
In the interest of morality" thu
chief of police of Nuremberg issued
formal order forbidding the public
wearing of "tight-fitting dresses of thu
scabbard, directoire or princess kind
Thereupon the women Of that quain
old German city all appeared in thu
obnoxious gowns. and rather than ex
pose the iails to tight fit, the cnle
took it all back.
"The President of the unitet
States" says the Des Moines Capital
'is not only a man of brains, but o
courage Those who have doubted
his courage will only need to keel
their ewes and ears open during TIT
remaining months and years OF his az
n,inistration. President Taft is goini
to be his own kind of President"
The decision of the Ohio Methodists
at the suggestion of Bishop McNeeiy
IN remove clocks from all the Metho
dist churches in that state becaus
their presence is an element OF dis
turbance," recalls to an old manuiac
turer an experience in his bushes
career I'VE we're manufacturing il
little New England town he said
"and in one department had onl
girls. A big clock hung where al
the hands could see 1t. The fore
man came to the office one day an
said that he could get more work GU
of his department If the clock was re
moved, because the girls spent 8
much time looking at 1t and waitin
for the whistle. 1t seemed strang
, proposition, but we humored hir
without letting the girls know why tn
3 time-piece was taken away, and tn
result proved that our foreman wa
right"
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N.eded hv the state.