The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-30
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Winter ccrditscns-rhe Mexican Ia
hcrers-Feed the 6Irds--A Good

hcrcr$-Feeo the 6srns-A Good
Word for Or. Cook.
To the Editor OF The Gate city.
The winter conditions are maintain
ing their supremacy in very pro
Hoaneei degrees High pressure
arsss come in from the Pacific ocean
and iayade the upper California coast
ard then move IorcefnlIy across our
continent These atmospheric move
HeEts are splendid refoFmeTs, driving
away noxioas gases and Impurities
which are not favorable to life These
high areas are little military affairs
which attack and disperse rebels
Gut along the great Santa Re line
sometimes have q few pleasant
hours in interviewing the Mexican
laborers VINO have been brought up
from our near republic TO I'LL va
caneies in certain lines of work By
the way, those brown fellows are
clear-hegded and wise, and they know
themselves well and are qualified to
perform good service They possess
strong national characteristics. and
they appear TO have preserved their
race identity in high degree.
bright Young man said to me that the
business interests of his country have
been improved since the republic
adopted the gold standard as the
standard of money. The Mexicans
like our country and its people, al
though our climate is too cold for
their comfort
Quite number of newspapers sp-
1 pear to be annexed to the dominion of
evil drinks, and some modern church
edifices being very droughty in real
spiritual christianity, make compro
mise Offering by annexing kitchen to
what should be sacred temple. A
person Or an organization can never
attain honor or fame by making COM
promises with evil in any degree.
Explorer Peary saws that he OBJ
served polar bear swimming in the
icy water thirteen miles from land,
and the big creature appeared to be
enjoying himself The polar bear
must be branch of the Democratic
party, as both are compelled to suffer
! a scarcity OF official food and endure
chilly environment most OF the time.
II one is inclined to be real mis-
sionary for good he or she may we'll
exercise this noble element of good
| ness by becoming an Audubon work
er when the severity Of win
ter season places many classes
of our birds in peril be-
i cause of cold and hunger. 1t is easy
! Ito help them and thereby bestow a
kindness upon them and aid in the
. way of heneftting agriculture, as birds
are very useful in keeping in check
many destructive agencies of plant
/ T life. Broken nuts, crumbs of bread
{ or fragments of meat placed in boxes
: or in trees-all these will be used by
; the downy woodpecker, junco. tree
sparrow, nuthatch, titmouse, hairy
woodpecker, brown creeper, cardinal
S grossbeak, and other classes of birds
' Pnlverized corn and meal scattered up
), on the ground will be relished by the
e gold finch and our native sparroWs
0 Try this branch of home missions and
you will be pleased with the influence
1t accomplishes for good.
n BY careful examinations OF the ies
o DR.. Cook ascertained that the thick
g ness varied between ten and twenty
II four feet north of latitude eighty-five
e This is some consolation to the PEG
s pie of Lee and Clark counties. 10,
a ten feet thick in the Des Moinei
S would give us food plain citizens SOM
uneasiness as to an Ice gorge or al
overflow, even with the immens De
Is Moines and Mississippi levee standing
h. as a great wall between US and tn
n state line stream.
n Having pretty well sunr -essed Gel
ri tain forms of outlaw activities, tn
a. Anti-Horse Thief society might nov
10 well turn their attention to some yer
10 domestic reforms. For example
Where is my rude son, tonight?
ID The water sprout writer's will hay
10 an awful hard job to coax commerce
,e to return to channels moving south
Iy ward.
IL America has the worldwide oppol
4 tunity to become the greatest powe
ID in all history The republics endurin
10 prominence will be due to the mora
,r excellence of its inhabitants.
n The editor of county paper VIII
keeps up an agitation On party polite
at is struggling away in the rear of tn
ri main army of progress.
"
ss am having much pleasure In reat
II. ing the daily records of Explorer d
ST Cook. All honor to him He is
60 great character OF fine literary attail
90 ments and scientific ability TIL
ca world is indebted to him for his gres
At achievements, and his fame is estal
lishad The discoveries which rewr ~