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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
POINTER FOR MR.. PICKETT

A Waterloo paper reports Congress
man Pickett's return home after voy-
aging to New Orleans with President
Taft and party to the deep water
ways convention and adds:
The transportation question of the
great Mississippi valley is considered
by him to be one that is to receive
a great deal of attention in the future
and will mean thousands each year to
shippers and producers, who will be
benefited to the extent of saving of
from six to eight cents per hundred
on all freight sent out of the great
valley. Mr.. Pickett was enthusiastic
over the project and feels that the
movement made by President Taft in
going over the route where the i'm
provements are proposed to be made
is the first great step toward start,
ing the work"
Mr.. Pickett represents the Third
district of this state In the national
house. The Dubuque Times-Journal,
taking note of his utterances as set
forth above, suggests to him that after
consulting his constituents in the
eastern part of the district he will
be expected to reserve his enthusiasm
for the improvement of the upper
Mississippi from St Paul to the
mouth of the Missouri, which can be
accomplished at cost of $4,000, 900,
according to the estimates of the
army engineers; that if congress
takes up the deep waterways project,
Chicago and ST Louis scheme, the
Improvement in which Mr.. Pickerts
constituents are primarily interested
must be postponed indefinitely.
Wherefore the Dubuque paper goes
ON to say;
.IIe will fra tte- re-ts... o,,t =. .-i-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
GASOLINE MOTOR CARS.

Gasoline motor cars are in success
1 full use on the st. Joseph & Gran
Island railroad. of which Mr. j. Bel
lingett is general manager. Tha
gentleman was recently asked for
statement of his experience with sucl
cars and replied as follows:
ST JOSEPH, Mo-. Nor. 4.-Dea
Sir: Replying to your letter bel
to enclose herewith copy of perform
aflce of one of our McKeen gasoline
motor cars for July and August.
We placed one OF the McKeen 5
foot 200 horse power cars, with &C
Communications for fiftv-five passen
gers and seven-foot baggage com
partment, in service in June. We
added one additional seventy-foot Nc
Keen car, with accommodation for
| eighty-five passengers, in October.
These cars have given entire salts
faction SO f. adhering to their sc. ed
Iule reliably.
"One of the cars in local service
out of ST. Joseph makes stop, pick
ing up people at highway crossings
as we'll as at stations. in fact ger
forming what might be called inter
urban street car service. The other
car is on a longer run, and makes
station stops and performs service
more in the nature of limited train
service in and out of our country
towns between St Joseph and Han
over, a. distance of 12S miles, making
a round trip each dav.''
The statement of earnings referred
to by Mr.. Berlingett makes very
encouraging showing. The earnings
of one car running between st. Joseph
and Highland, Kas., are thus sum
married:
Total number of passenger car
led in July, 01T.
Total number of miles run, 79S.
Average receipts per mile-59.4S
cents
Cost per mile for gasoline-o4. SO
Cost per mile for os17
cents.
Miscellaneous costs-01.77 cents.
Total cost per mile--15.33 cents.
For August the earnings and ex-
penses were as follows.
Total number of passengers car
rleu-0, zSb.
Total number of miles run-1,T4o.
Average receipts per mile--73 55
cents.
Cost per mile for gasoline-oS.S7
cents.
Cost per mile for wages-os. 80
cents.
Miscellaneous costs 49 cents.
Total cost per mile 14.6S cents.
Mr.. Berlingett says that a good
demonstration OF the performance of
the cars can be witnessed by visiting
st. Joseph and seeing the cars in
service. The argument for the gaso-
line motor car is that it is operated
at sixty per cent of the cost of a
steam train in the local service and
attracts more business.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

end of the district is in favor OF i'm
proving the natural streams first and
taking up artificial waterways after
wards if the improved natural
streams develop a commerce demon
strating that the deep waterway
would get the business in COMPETE
ton with the railroads. Neither
Dubuque nor Waterloo is interested
in a deep waterway, the failure of
which to develop business would
mean an immense waste of public
funds and the success of which, prior
to the improvement of the upper
Mississippi, would intensity Chicago's
advantage at the expense of Iowa
cities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
Calls Gate City Impertinent.

Washington Democrat: The Keo-
kuk Gate City, always an imperti-
nent paper when it comes to discus
sing Democrats. says that probably
the reason Samuel J. Tilden once laid
his hand on William Randolph HOSTS
head was because he had no ak And
besides, If we had any suggestions to
make, we would advise laying on of
hands at some other part of the
anatomy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
Farm Labor Now Skilled Labor

huntington Hawk-Tye: Strange, the
ne cple who realize that man can
iicl go into printing Office or a ma
chire shop or a dry goods store. IN
less Ec knows sorrsthing Of the BUSH
ness, are OF the opinion that anybody
can go out into the country and farm.
even though he may never have placed
a harness on team and never have
guided a pillow. While some OF the
wise men in tae cities do not realize
r. far~ wrrk has hoccn,e skilled Ia
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

That sort of thing is simply robbing
the land, 1t is living up the principle.
Farmers coming into this western
country know that as the country set
ties up their land will enhance in
value and they are dependent upon
the increase in the value OF the land
to make them rich, rather than in
proper methods of farming.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

The Muscatine Commercial club has
taken up the matter Of securing
names to a petition for :, special cleo
ton in that city to vote on adoption
of the commission plan. Recent de-
velopments show that large num-
Der of people there are in favor of
the plan and it is believed major
ity of Muscatine voters will give it
their endorsement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
How Father Fixes Thinas.

How Father Fixes Things.
Last week our clock got out o. fix
| An pa took 1t one night
An said he'd tinker up its ticks
So it would work all right
Ma said he'd better send it down
To some repairin' man;
Pa said: IF anyone in town
Can fix this clock / can
At fixin things pa has a knack-
But there's two wheels ae cant put
back
When our front door lock wouldn't
work
Pa got his box O tools
An took the lock out with a jerk
He said that folks is fools
That spends big money for repairs
That anyone can do.
He swore, an was sent upstairs
Before the job was through,
An Mr.. Jones, the locksmita, he
Sold US new lock an a key.
An when our kitchen sink had leaks
Ny pa said: Don't you send
For plumbers. They will work two
weeks
Before the leak they'll mend
He got his monkey-wrench an tried
To twist the pipe around
An tlen he had to run outside
For fear that he'd be drowned.
The plumber says the pipes won't
burst
If you turn off the water first.
Once pa put in window pane
Or started to, until
He broke the glass an. cut vein
An let the putty spill
Down on the carpet, an upset
A chair an broke its back,
An yelled for heavens sake to get
Tie word to DR.. Black.
So now when things is broke, my ma
Says: Children. don't you tell your
pa
Chicago Evening Post.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
Noting that the newlp.elected mayo

Noting that the newly-elected mayor
of Cleveland Ohio, was born in Keo-
kuk, the Knoxville Express considers
1t safe to say he could never have
been mayor of Cleveland if he had
stayed in Keokuk, Certainly not;
but the honor that would aave been
his would have been none the less
keokuk is no mean city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
NOTES AND COMMENT.

"Old Home Week cost Knoxville
s1,46s.17, and every bill was paid in
full.
A modern pessimiest declares that
more correctly speaking, bank rolls
the staff of life.
According to the Sioux City Tri-
bune, boys appetite is what makes
SO many things taste like those that
mother used to make
1t Is noticed that those high schools
whose students play football only by
written consent of parents don't cut
much figure on the gridiron.
Always carry your pocketbook in
your hip pocket, advises writer In
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. "Tken
you are sure to have it stolen sooner
or later-sometimes both"
LIE Beau, S. D., is so proud of the
fact that it has no cemetery that when
stranger happened along in an auto.
mobile and ran over himself, his diving
within the town limits was resented.
1t is suggested by the Omaha Bee
that the man who was run over by
three autos before he could scramble
out of the dust is entitled to demon
strate to any class in English the
exact meaning of the phrase, Sin quick
succession"
DR.. Eiker OF the state board of
health who went as a delegate to the
convention held at Raleigh, S. c.. to
study the proposition of how to treat
pellagra, was made member OF the
committee on permanent organiza.
ton. He is now on his way home and
will stop at Peoria, H.. to furtaer
study some cases of the diseaee there.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has
given it out that he doesn't take any
stock in the bank guaranty law of
that state. 1t took only one bank fail
ure down there to make lot of
politicians in that infant common
wealth break for cover.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Prohibition is in force in Lincoln,
Neh. How it works in practice is in
dictated by the fact that by actual
count 267 half-pint bottles of whiskey
and sixty-five pint-bottles of the same
beverage were dug UP in drug store
one day recently in raid on the
place by the police. The incident
gives a severe jar to the theory that
abolition of the saloon abolishes
tairst and the sale of intoxicants.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
/. Reassurinn

Iowa City Republican,: To Anxious
INQUIRER: It Is not likely that any
iowa insurgent will go to Washing
tor to organize mob to hang Can
non when congress opens. Unless his
clgars XII him. Cannon is likely ia die
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

The Chicago Tribune contends that
butterine is better than poor butter,
but wants to know where the grocery
man is that will admit that he sells
poor butter. The Waterloo Reporter
suggests that he doesn't have to adj
NIT it. The good housewife will point
it out to him all right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
The Reincarnation Of Lee.

The Reincarnation Of Lee.
He looked startlingly like Robert e.
Lee, as we in the press gallery saw
him slowly marching down the cen.
trail aisle, Without ever having seen
him before, one knew at once that he
was really great man, whatever cir.
cumstance and opportunity had given
him of success. Local people OF
whom enquired said he was teach
er. So. Robert E. Lee would have re
manned a teacher of equal rank with
this Burlington man, If the civil war
had not been
What that broad high forehead, that
large, strong face, those fine, strong
white whiskers-where was there SO
much character il whiskers as Ia
those Of Robert E. Lee?-that mus.
cular physique, firm carriage and dig.
nified step, that face both firm as
marble and soft as good woman's,
and those eyes that could flash light
ming or be soft as a gazelle's- with
that whole figure and face that justi-
fed the south in seeing real ma
| jesty In the greatest general who ever
fought on the. wrong side of great
cause, SO this double of Robert q.
Lee approached the platform of the
tabernacle.
/ stood staring at him, struck mo-
tionless by this reincarnation OF Lee
marching down the long aisle, fired
with a great and fixed purpose, as Lee
must have looked in the middle of a
great battle. But did not under
stand the hush that came upon the
whole audience. why all the workers
in the crowd paused and looked to
the front, why in minute there were
dozen handclasps, followed by a
cheer that rose to a roar that seemed
to push the roof upward, as this man
reached up his hand and his .determin.
ed face to Mr.. Sunday.
They soon told me. That man was
as strong force as | had estimated
him to be as he marched forward
down that tabernacle aisle. Previous
ly all his force had been exerted
against Christianity. He was perhaps
as strong an opponent as orthodoxy
had in Iowa. For forty years all eff
forts to convert him had been futile
and that was why the people in that
tabernacle cileered so ioyously in that
last hour of the Burlington campaign.
The fact was even more dramatic
than the picture We saw as he march.
ed to the front.
He has died since then. In the last
last hours of his life he said he felt
that he was sweeping through the
gates of the new Jerusalem, washed
In the blood of the Lamb. / never
saw him sxcept for that one dramatic
i've minutes. But can never forget
him. And at any time can shut nv
eyes and see that scene in the Bur.
lington tabernacle which was the
setting for one of the most dramatic
incidents in the life work of Wi lam
A. Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

The Connecticut courts have decid-
ed that 1t is no evidence that a
woman is insane if at the age fof
seventy-nine she is married to man
of twenty-one. The groom's sanity
was not before the judges for adjudi-
cation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

The Marshalltown Times Republican
shamelessly declares that "a bird in
the hand beats straight fush.s' 1t
looks as if Mr.. Sundays work at
Marshalltown would have to be done
all over again.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Russia isn't the only country that
has suffered great loss of war ships
In recent years. The entire navy of
Honduras was sunk the other day in
4 collision with fruit steamer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
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LOW RATES
From Keokuk, Iowa
$3.50 CHICAGO AND RETURN

from ke0kuk, Iowa
$3.50 CHICAGO AND RETURN
Dates Of sale Nov. 15, 20, 2s, 20, 80,
Dec. /, 5, and 6, of the following
occasions.
/ INTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK
EXPOSITION At the Union Stock
Yards. Nov. 81 to Dec. 10. The
greatest prize cattle and fat stock
show ever held. Muiic and enter
ment
UNITED STATES LAND AND iRRl-
CATION EXPOSITION Coliseum Nov.
20 to Dec. A. The greatest educa-
tional exhibit OF agricultural and
horticultural methods and products
ever held in the world. Biograph
lectures, paintings, model FARMS
Authoritative information on land.
opportunities.
NATIONAL FARM LAND CONGRESS
La Sale Hotel Nov 1920. Discus
sions and speeches b. experts of
national reputation anG great ex-
perience in irrigated, semi-arid and
humid farming and drainage meth.
DDS.
5000 OMAHA AND RETURN
Dates of sale Dec to
/ NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION
Auditorium Dec. sis. For i'm
provement of agricultural methods.
Unequalled exhibits of corn, oats,
wheat, alfalfa and improved meth.
DDS of agriculture. $4,000 in
prizes.
1926 COUNCIL BLUFFS. ia. AND
RETURN Tates of sale Nov. 1s, is
and IS.
NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL CON.
GRESS. Nov. 1920. Finest exhibits
Of practically every variety of fruits,
vegetables. flowers and nuts grown
in the entire country. Lectures
and discussions by experts on horti-
cultural subjects.
$500 SPOKANE, WASH, AND RE.
TURN. Dates of sale Nov. 8. 10. II.
/ NATIONAL APPLE SHOW
Nov. 1920. Greatest exhibit In
number and quality Of fruit ever
held
The h.g hest quality Of product Is what every
farmer orchardist and stock breeder ii striy-
inglor and all til sc occasions provide SD en-
aiu educational opportunities viii teach
,ained You can't afford not 10 atteui al
least one of these shows
G. r. coNRADT, City Ticket Agent,
Burlington Route.
Fifth and johnson SITS. keokuk, Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

The creator of "Billiken' gets only
$50 a month in return. 1t is the con-
sensus of newspaper opinion that she
should get six months at least
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Pine bark stew was one of the dish
tes served UP to President Taft in
the south. In the absence of definite
information on the subject it seems
safe to assume. that it was more
'.fillin than nourishin'.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
And the Result.

Oh. that congregation sat up and
took notice all right. They hardly
got back into the maps as the preach
er, the devil story finished, went on
to the eighty, ninethIy and 'stenthly
text
Monday morning, this preacher saw
the members of the session approach
ing the manse. Then he knew he had
made hit with his church. He tried
to decide quickly whether to gently
suggest that his increasing family
made him need raise of two hun.
dred or four hundred dollars In SAL
airy.
The session rang the bell and were
admitted with an air of becoming
modesty They informed the minis
ter that he was fired from that pulpit
to take effect that day noon. And
one of them further left on the study
table some circulars Of a Jag cure
sanitarium,
One Great Moment.
II was the last night of the William
A. Sunday campaign at Burlington.
It was the last hour Of that last even
ing. It was the last FIVE minutes that
Sunday worked on that Burlington
platform. Converts had been coming
in lunches, singly and in short
strings TO the sawdust space toward
which Sunday hent away over to take
their hands. And then the move.
Iaent OF the penitents to the front
had stopped. Sunday was exhorting;
ministers and layEens were scattered
through the audience: the chorus
choir was singing beseechingly; but
fbN hur-spn rt-sr,ss h-d eto-.r,c5 a,,S
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

There are said TO be more people
on the water wagon at ColfaS. Iowa,
than in any other town of its size in
the state. The claim is doubtless well
founded. Water is Colfax's chief
asset.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
Christmas.
It's but ten weeks,
By all the stars.
TO Christmas neckties
And cigars.
Detroit Free Pres
One Farmers Apple Crop.

Selma correspondence Keosauqua
Democrat: Mowery and Lewis of
0ttnmwa Skipped out car load OF
apples Friday from their farm across
the river known as the r. j. Davis
farm. Robert Cummings. who lives
on the farm, informs that they have
disposed Of $500 bushels of apples this
season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

1t Is reported that Mrs. Russell
Sage will follow Mr. Rockefeller's
contribution of Sf0oo.o0O to fight
the hookworm with 100000 to
fight tuberculosis, and that Mr.. Car
negie will devote like amount to
medical research with the purpose of
overcoming the most recently discov-
cred disease pellagra. Such employ
mert of money is wholly commend
able and should go far toward dis
arming criticism of those possessed
of great wealth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Sir Horace Plunkett chief OF the
department of agriculture of Ire
land, now in Des Moines in
attendance upon the National
Grange, says that James J.
Hill is right in saying that the ex-
travagant and wasteful methods of
American farmers are responsible for
the fact that the products of the
farms are not keeping pace with the
growth of the population of the world,
He told of his own experiences as
follows in a recent interview.
Il have seen farms on which corn
has been grown for twenty-five years
without rotation or the addition of
fertili-afion ~ summer rriIowino.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

a ratural death and get the usual
ellogies and family monument.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Dor and Of tae highest class, and
farming Is rapidly becoming the most
interesting Of sciences And, simple
as the operation looks, the man who
has not learned to husk corn, simply
canrot hnsk corr
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

Keokuk, Iowa 3. November, 70, 1909.
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And the Pr.shyterians.

This Presbyterian preacher with
the staid congregation had been some
thing of yellocustionist when he
was in the Philomathean literary so
ciety in college. The devil story was
like a fire bell to an old fire depart
ment horse. The preacher practiced
1t for five days and finally was able to
do it very well indeed.
The next Sunday. at the morning
service, he preached for twenty min.
utes to his browsing congregation. In
his little city, on the first seven sub
divisions of his text-and then sud-
denly sprung on them, apropos of
nothing much, that shivery, thrilling,
spine-creeping story Of the devil fly
ing into the swamp with the lost soul,
the scent of which had attracted his
nostrils to the cabin where the dying
man lay.
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Tales Of VIM. A. Sunday
Some New Stories of the Man and Of Critical Incidents in
His Evangelistc Campaigns

the end of the Burlington campaign
seemed to have come.
And then he came slowly down the
aisle-at that last minute, one OF the
most important converts Mr.. Sunday
ever turned around and started in a
new direction
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12

1t is noticed that those high schools
whose students play football only by
written consent of parents don't cut
much figure on the gridiron.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-12
The Devil Story.

He was Presbyterian preacher in
a state bordered by the Mississippi
river. He had been for years preach
ing doctrinal sermons on such cheer
full and dramatic themes as may be
found in the Westminster confession
of faith, such as predestination, fore
ordination, election and low to be
happy in hell. For years mis- congre.
CATION had been drowsily drinking in
the dryest of discourses on infant
damnation and the like Probably
they were Scotch Presbyter ans,
though ] am not sure about that.
This preacher heard Sunday tell
his devil story. Now that devil story
is as shudderingly dramatic as the
last rawlings of John Mccullough in a
photograph, and when Sunday tells it
in its proper setting, with the har-
monizing frame around it, it is worth
travelling hundred miles to hear.