The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-28

SlanddrdS OF DaHhiHS uonois onu ~
chew temptations. they need not have
unwise laws forced upon them.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
The Des Moines Capital has an idea
Iowa is going to see something doing
In the interurban line pretty soon.
Attorney General Byers occupied
Presbyterian pulpit at Des Moines-
last Sunday, urging more and bet
ter church work.
A Kansas paper says the way to
get the weight of a piece of ice IS to-
multiply the length. breadth and thick
ness and divide by tairty.
The Council Bluffs NonpareK de-
clares that by voting for higher rates
in the tariff bill. certain congressman
are making free exits for themselves.
The Iowa City Republican comedies
that the Smithsonian Institute may be
back OF the Roosevelt hunting trip.
| but says that at this distance it reads
like butchery.
The Usage News predicts that the
tarir Law, like all others, will not
work as badly as its enemies claim,
nor so well as its friends profess to
believe 1t will
The Burlington Gazette believes that
Bwana Tumbo could get almost as
much fun out OF being mayor Of New
York as he did during his seven years
| in the White House.
The Des Moines Register and Lead
err observes that the walking craze
does not seem to be taking many able
bodied men out into the country
where farm hands are needed.
. The Sioux City Journal suggest
that President Taft should have mad
J 1t luncheon instead of breakfast O
the ground that the natural breakfas
. tendency is toward grouchiness.
The census bureau statistics 9
electric lighting, electric traction an
telephone companies shows gros
!, income for the three industries !
the United States of $3.50. 100000 !
1907.
The Marshalltown Times-Repubiica
= predicts that within year from tn
date a lot OF fellows who are no
= losing sleep over the tariff will forg'
Ii whether congress revised it up
It down.
= A German physician claims TIL
= suffering can be cured II perse
sr will keep his mouth closed until
has clearly in mind what he wish
x to say. The Iowa City Republics
10 foresees that this rule would prove
= some persons from speaking at all.
" Welker Given has presented to q
r. historical department OF the state
hospital sheet which was carried
10 the Seventy Fourth Ohio infantry.
- has the blood stains Of Union soldie
ON 1t. and thus makes it one OF 7
er most interesting civil war relics
ne the state.
!, The Des Moines Tribune, speak,
=, OF vacations, suggests that men shot
90 not SO overwork as to make an
nual vacation a necessity. D
w should so live says tae Tribul
u that their strength would not fl
~ They should not expect to liquid;
the debt to nature in two weeks Oh
az month. The accounts should be
Tor tied from day to day. They sno'
re relax at the end of every working
nd and get themselves into shape for
next days work. Men should look
-. ON their summer vacations as pie
Ter ure and not necessity.
mt
he Tae story is told of an Engl
army examiner who once had bel
him stupid candidate. The car
date being apparently unable to
p. swer the simplest questions. the
,o, aminer finally grew most impatit
and in burst of sarcasm demand
cot LET it be supposed. sir. that
not were a captain In command OF inl
.ec. try. that in your rear was an imI
of sable abyss; that on both sides OF
sin there rose perpendicular rocks
ak tremendous height; that In front
Of you lay the enemy outnumbering
IL ten TO one What, sir, in such
eak emergency, would you do?
II Sir responded the applicant
uid military distinction, q saould resi-
nd ----.---
IT, Got Old Enough Quickly.
mr.. Grinnell Register: We had an
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