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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
Sioux City journal Snap Shots.

A lover without Imagination is
cold proposition.
When one puts his foot in it, i'm.
preston is left OF the size Of the shoe.
One way TO avoid getting hot under
the collar Is to leave IT off
Women are the weaker sex. but
they can raise the devil.
After one has had the time of his
life he doesn't much care what hap.
pens next.
A new piano suffers from the heat.
The way to raise the wind is to bor-
row an automobile ride.
crying baby spreads suspicion
against human kindness.
Under cover of darkness the girle
are loud
When one stops thinking about n
vacation he is in the way OF being a
useful citizen
u is pleasure to the girls to gel
up on their high heels.
The automobile market makes /,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

The proposition that the people u
southern California should give Onl-
ted states Senator Frank z. fhne
some very definite tokens OF their ap.
probation of the work he has done LOT
his constituents the people OF thae
state and more particularly that very
large number who are Interested ~
citrus fruit growing. is splenaiu one'
Frank P. Flint has made good ana tne
people of California would do wen u
show that they realize the fact
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
Air.

Mt Vernon Hawk-Eye: There are
good many peple who could give them
selves a vacation every year by very
simple method and altogether without
expenses. All thai is necessary for
them to enjoy the actual health bene-
fits Of such ali outing is simply to
open the windows wide and let the
fresh air into their homes. The more
of tais. the more like nature it is and
the better. The compaign against
tuberculosis is based upon the theory
of fresh air. and the hospitals for the
treatment Of such afflicted are erected
with the fundamental idea of making
living in them as nearly like living out
OF doors as possible. It is equally
effacious with the sick or the well. 1t
makes the former better. and with tae
latter they are made more well still.
/ Try it on yourself
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
eAsELEss ASSUMPTIONS.
Comparative Power of West and Eas'
In Congress.


Charles NJ. Harvey in Les'ie's
Weekly: The absurdity OF the as
sumption that the east, i'll It's own IN
terest, frames the governments laws
and shapes the governments pohcS
can readily be pointed out. Every
President who has been elected since
buchanan entered office over haif
century ago, has been a western man, |
except Cleveland and Roosevelt; and
Roosevelt, though in an emphatic de-
gree a national man, without any sec
tiopal bias or leanings of any sort.
has done more to advance the vests
interests than any other President
whom the country has had, not even
excepting Lincoln, who signed the
homestead act in 1862. The speaker
of the house is from the sunset side
of the Alleghanies, So are large
majority of the Republican members
/ of congress. So, likewise. are large
majority of the heads of the commit
tees of congress. II the west has any
particular interests separated from
! those of the east, its sons In the Pres
idency and in congress for the past
few decades were capable of promot-
ing them. new state was created
in the west year ago-Oklahoma
with five members in the popular
branch of congress. Two more west
ern states Arizona and New Mexico
will be created in the next few
years. In the allotment OF members
of congress which will be based upon
the census of 1910. the west will make
gains as compared with the cast. and
thus further increase its lead over the
east in house and senate.
Take the case of New York which
some persons in the west imagine die
!, tates the selection of Presidents and
the framing of laws for the country.
! New York had ninth of the mem
] hers of the electoral college as recent,
ly as 1860. when the Republican par
! ty elected its first President New
\ York had less than a twelfth of the
I electoral college which sent Taft to
the white house. In the vote Of 1912
which will re-elect Taft or somebody
9 else, New York will probably have
only q thirteenth of the electoral col
= 1ege. In general way this
shrinkage Of New York's relative
. strength in the choosing of President.
II and members of congress shows how
= the east is losing even that small sem
- blance of ascendaDcy in the ma
tional balance which it had within TIL,
y early recollection of the younger ele
ment of the men who cast their ballots
on November 8, 1908.
q The center of the country's popula
"A ton is in Indiana: the center OF tn
countrys manufactures is in Ohio
Each is moving westward. Chicago
p Cincinnati and St Louis are grea
=. manufacturing centers The west
= growth in the industries gives it a
= large an interest in the tariff and 1
~ the maintenance of sound currenc
- as the east has or ever had The lie,
islation along these lines can no Ion,
~ er be charged with sectionalism. ST
y verism in tho shape which II ha
= when the first Bryan convention me
has no longer any standing in the ives
The old prejudice in the west agains
:. national banks. prejudice whic
- goes back as far as Jacksons assau
-. upon the centralized United State
n, bank of his days near It's end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
concaErE USED BY ROMANS.

CONCHEl JOEL
Many well-intentioned persons says
Cement Age, with no knowledge Oh
building whatever, and apparently y
norant of the simplest customs OF con
crete have brought about failures
which have caused not only the loss
of property, but the loss OF NE also.
These failures on the pracucai sue
have greatly increased the budget OF
the theorists. and, consequently, we
learn from time to time what takes
place in the mind of the man VINO
does his building in his imagination.
We are told that concrete Is llaple 10
disintegration of various kinds; that
water will dissolve it's substance; that
it may be asphyxiated by escaping
gas: that it can be weakened by cleo
tricity. and it can succumb to an at
tack Of electrolysis; that its success
* entirely dependent on the proper
and permanent setting of the cement,
but nobody knows how long cement
may stay set.
To controvert the idea that con-
! crete is a new and umtried material,
and that it must be left to the future
to demonstrate it's powers of endur.
ance. Cement Age shows photographs
| of some concrete foundations I'M
/ earthed in the Roman forum and on
| the Palatinc hill, Ali the concrete il
Illustrated dates from about the begin
ming of the Christian Era. and is
therefore but little less than two
thousand years old.
That the Romans we're very familiar
with concrete, and gave considera
ton to its use. examination of the con
crete work in the Forum clearl,
shows. Their concrete contained gen
orally only two kinds of stone-tra
vertine and selcie-in equal parts
Selcie is a hard. closely knit rock
very similar to our bluestone or ira
rock, in color as we'll as quality. Trs
vertine Is volcanic rock. not s
hard as selcie, considerably lighter i
color and was desirable on account {
its porosity. which insured a GOO
bond with the cement. In all the r.
man work the combination of the tr
vertine and the selcie is clearly eli
tinguishable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

The row between Clifford Pinchot
and Secretary Ballingef over conser-
walton. says the Washington Times
calls attention to the fact that in
recent years there has not been man
in public life in Washington who serv-
ed the public more jealousy in the
particular branch in which he is in
terested-the forest reserye-that MIR.
Pinchot. He is wealthy and does not
need the salary. But more than that,
he has not hesitated to help along the
woro of the forest service out Of his
own rocket 1t is fact well known In
washington that Mr.. Pinchot has done
this. Such is his enthusiasm Iof lne
extension and preservation OF 'ne
forests tllat he had not stopped 70 use
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Senators Deliver and Cummins have
endorsed Colonel Hepburn for posi-
tion as judge of the court of custom
appeals. He is amply competent to fill
the place. Just now there is a strong
desire for him to again make the race
for congress in the eighth district and
many of those who opposed him dur
ing the last election have signiied
their desire TO support him for re-
election. Like grape-nuts- there's a
reason.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company has perfected elaborate
mans for conducting a fight against
tuberculosis not as philanthropy,
but as a cold business proposition.
Permission has been asked of the New
York state authorities to establish
large rural sanitarium for the benefit
of their policy holders. The company
will spend 100000 a year on this pro-
| iect
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
easy to squeeze the water out of a

easy to squeeze the water out OF
bank account.
The young man is successful who
has the precaution to say his touring
car will be a. her disposal
Social obligations are slow pay.
A servant without reference should
commence as book agent.
People like to read without effort,
but not many of them can.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

protection of the natural resources
is a question that is receiving consluei,
alton from all parts of the oniteu
states. 1t is a momentous one, worthy
of the hest thought of the best minos
III the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

his own money when congress felt IN
able to appropriate for work he felt
ought to go on. The history OF the re-
republic does not teen with instances
Of this kind. Waen Mr.. Pinchot says
he proposes to fight on in the cause
of conservation it may be taken ~
granted that he means it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Don't forget that Keokuk merchants al,
are entitled to your patronage. ine
.ast 1yav To have a prosperous city is
- have prosperous merchants and the
way IL have prosperous merchants Is
- have the home trade done at home
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

president Taft is level headed on :
the question of good roads "hien no
shows by saying that there IS no
movement that will have more di-
-act effect to alleviate the difficulties
and the burdens of the farmers NE as
mat which fayors the establishment OF
good roads throughout the country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Political rumors are emanatins ire
ouently from the capital. 1t is an 9, un,
nsnal season when the poiiticai
donesters at Des Moines fail to CIR,
culate political gossip. Much IS sala
but little believed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

The value of interurnan failt , ia
continues to be the chief topic ~ - =
many newspapers and nagazines. ne ~
controversy might as well cease 50
far as this city is concerned, heo-
,suk has been converted long ago
What is needed most is more inter-
urban
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Governor Carroll is already reported
to he candidate for governor ano
congress and the senate. Tho cover
nor is worthy to hold all the places
mentioned. So far tae governor mas
not declared himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

buying newspapers, bribing children
and enriching mite boxes Changes
in coinage are very expensive and
therefore wasteful when there is
really no sufficient reason for chang
ing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

The placing of an order by the hoeh
,s,snd railroad for 5000 freight cars
80 "a locomotives would indicate
that that line at least had fallh ~
The future. Railroad investments are
safe barometer Of coming soou
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

From many parts of the country
come reports Of serious need OF rain
in order to assure the crops. wien
favorable weather conditions there
will be bountiful yield
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

And to add to the discomfofture one
occasionally meets the fellow VINO
has the termerity to inquire: IS
this hot enough for you?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

1t is remarkable how much women
can see across the street through
window shade.
When house is divided against it
self it becomes double house.
1t takes considerable salt to keep
flock together when the shepherd
is away.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Tae irrigation congress has voted 10
ask congress for an appropriation OF
ten million annually for FIVE years lot
irrigation purposes. Now to get con-
gress to acquiesce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

This particular section could use
the rain maker to good ad0antase
right now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Burlington Gazette: Every one
hopes that Senator Cummins will
postpone his war until after the Their
mometer finishes its high jinks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
DAILY BY MAIL.

LII 49, -
m. ys.r SsooIFour Months ...$l-M,s
Six months 80. 1.bolone month /. sc: (. second
Entered In Keokuk postof1ce as seSoe
Postage prepaid r terms sh in ads gys
q address and state whether u 10
new or renewal order II change ahs old q and
dress is desired, state both Inc oAN
hf Remit 0i By postoce money order der, e o.
press money order, registered iee'e
The date printed on the address s,o 9, ea ex.
paper notes when the suoscrip''o
pires. ..,,e their pa
pers promptly VIII f font
Address al e ecmmq G1fY tie eso5M Fan
No. IL North Sixth ST.. Keokuk. Ao"A
ruE CATE CITY is on sale at the fol-
lowing news stands: I,hnson
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third n ANS, ana ! .3rsas
G. III. Rollins & CO., 62s Main seree
ward Bros, 525 Main street.
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
TRAVELLING MEN DECLARE WAR.
Resolutions Denounce Iowa Hotel
Keepers for Opposing lnspec-
ton Law.

The three hundred thousand mem
bers of fourteen travelling mems or
CARNATIONS have combined against
the hotel keepers OF Iowa because
they, or some of them, are opposing
the Iowa hotel inspection law, enacted
by the last session of the legislature
and the knights of the grip nave
given it out fiat that they are gong
to fight to finish whatever the cost.
At the annual meeting of the inter-
national Federation Of Commercial
Travellers Organizations held recenty
in Mackinac. Mich, resolutions Were
passed in which the travelling men on
the entire country disapprove OF tne
attitude of the Iowa hotel owners. Anu
few days ago the directors OF the
Iowa State Travelling Mems associa-
ton, one of the largest organizations
j of commercial travellers in the world,
some more resolutions were passed
in which the travelling men denounced
the recent action Of the Iowa Hotel
Mems association. which was inssru-
mental in enjoining Hotel Inspector
Higgins from inspecting the Sabin
house in Des Moines.
These resolutions are to be mailed
to Attorney General Byers, who, ac,
cording to Secretary l.. G. Deets Of
4 the Travellers association, has deciaf
ed the hotel inspection bill to be con
stitutional, which is contrary to tbs
contention of the hotel owners. Ono
of the best law firms in the state
have been. retained to represent thu
hotel owners in their fight against TN
the new legislation, and lively tim'
is looked for before the matter i
settled. The resolutions passed b.
the travelling men are as follows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

This is 4 most excellent time to
Keep cool.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Columbus Junction Safeguard:
When we hear poor lecture given
by a high-priced man we wonder
that more men do not enter the lee
ture field
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
out Door Religion.

Out Door Religion.
The wood and dales
And the hills and wales
These are the church for me.
The chorus sweet
That the birds repeat
And the paeans of the bee
The rustling prayer
On the still sweet air
or the leaves on the kindly trees.
The light divine
or the soft sunshine,
And the woodland harmonies'
The sturdy strength
OF the mountain length
AS It stretches athwart the sky'
The fresh clean thrill
or the mountain rill
AS it runs a-whisperins by
The perfumed scent
or the meadows blent
| With the pine of the oaisS"
boughs;
And the sweet wild rose,
And the elder-blows
And the grain in the brinlniips
mows;
All speak TO me
! Or the majesty
| And the glory of God above
| Who made the hills,
And the dales and rills.
And taught them to sing MS 'ote'
John kenarlcK fant .
1t is astonishing to note how mao.
some girls with the slenderest hiiiu :"
waist can eat. :,
i The prescription druggist is w.,
! formly III favor Of sending Tor . u0S
tor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Iowa City Republican: Iowa Re
publicans have never gone Demo-
cratic when national issues were in
yolved, and they are not likely to do
so, not even to please so agreeable
gentlemen as our two senators.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16
x.okuk Iowa August is, 1909.

Rain, Mr.. Rain. and do it now
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Fl. Dodge Messenger: 1t is said
that sweet corn is raised in France
in the department of the Seine, on
the roofs of houses. We doubt if it
can be excellent corn. but the story
certainly makes our broad highways
grown up to weeds seem pretty
wsateful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Clothes are expensive, but not al
ways high,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Williamsburg Journal Tribune:
How sweetly sweet 'twould be TO
hear the patter of the rains wet feet
upon the leaves of corn, or dancing
jigs upon your bedrooms roof when
you wake at early morn. Egad the
very thought of all of this is music
to the soul-until we gaze adown the
busy street and see the dust clouds
roll.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Waterloo Courier 1t seems to be
the hobby of department chiefs to
leave their impress upon the memory
of the country by changing coins and
postage stamps Roosevelt aroused
great deal of displeasure by taking
..In God We Trust off the gold coin
age Much as Lincoln is revered, the
Indian head on the penny is unop-
trusive and satisfactory me penny,
says an exchange. is only "a counter
that is handy in postal transactions,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-08-16

Ainsworth Clipper: Many farm
ers work too much and study and
read too little. Learn the easiest,
best and most economical way of do
ing the farm work. Hard york won't
make YOU rich unless it is backed up
bv good, intelligent management.
Always be on the lookout TO learn
the best way OF doing things. Be a
good reader and be a good observer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18

Graham had been living at the Dixie rooming house for some months He formerly worked for the Bluff City Lumber Company, at Sheridan, Grant county, coming here about four weeks ago, He Cetired early Monday night and when he failed to show up at the office of the rooming house yesterday morning at the usual hour, Hood Bar ton went to his room and found him dead in bed. He had been dead sev- eral houts. Graham had some money. watch aud ticket to Vancouver in his possession at the time of his death, There were no marks of yio- fence on the body and nothiAg to in Iicate that his death was due to other than natural causes. --s-rs. ;.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18
MANY CATTLE DEAD FROM MPACTION" w. w. West, Well Known Resident of Wabbaseka,
 Sustains Heavy Loss.
DEAD GRASS IS CAUSE
veterinarian Saves l2D Head-No Rain There in Eight Weeks
 Other Losses. se rA

In the past two weeks more than eighty head of cattle, valued at s4 ,0OO and owned by W. W. West, we'll known $stockman at Wabbaseka this countY have died from 'impaction. ' and had it not been for the prompt appearance of Vete, ,'inarian 4FC. D. smith on the scene several days ago the remaining 12o head of stock would have died from the same fdisease.
 When Dr. Smith was Called to Wab- baseka last Sunday from this city by West, he found eighty head dead in the pasture and many more were sick He made an investigation and found that the cattle had been eating dead grass, as, no rain had fallen in that neighborhood for more than eight weeks. He hurried back to Pine Bluff and secured 100 pounds of medicine given in. impaction eases and after drenching the live stock managed to save them. Large steers were given as much as three bottle of medicine each Other stock dealers and farm CTS in the neighborhood have suf- fered similar losses in the past sev- eral weeks and Dr. Smith says that while he was driving from Wabba- seka to Altheimer to take a train to this city he saw dead cattle strewn along the road in numbers
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18
HEAT WAVE ALL
 ,< OVER THE COUNTRY

fHearst News Special to the Graphcl
 St. Louis, Mo-, Aug. 1.-The hot test weather prevailed throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas today ever recorded in Y.e to ten years. At Fort Worth the thermometer regis tered Ill by government reading, while the street thermometer was at 12O. At TeXarkana the thermometer was 1O7: Natchez, Miss, 105; Hot Springs, Ark, 110; Pine Bluff. 102, and Jack son, Miss. 100.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18
PINCHOT WILL LOSE : OUT IS PREDICTION

(Hearst News Special to the Graphic)
 Beverly, Mass, Aug. 17.-Gifford Pinchot will probably be submerged Tn fight against Secretary of In- terior Ballinger, because of the issue ger and Secretary of Agriculture Will son. One or the other, it is prob able, have to go. Taft today receved Ballinger at Spokane, but will do nothing in the matter until after their return from their western trip. Pres ident played golf in the rain today with Charles P. Taft and Charles Carr.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18
DONALD PfRSCH
 UNABLE TO GIVE BAIL

(Hearst News Special to the Graphic)
 New York, Aug. 17.-Donald Persch was today remanded to the Tombs in default of bail in connection with the abstraction from the vaults of the Windsor Trust Company of $100,000 of the stock of the Heinz company. Jerome declared it simple, vulgar" steal on part of Persch, and that the clerk had brought no evidence to him to duplicate the men higher up in the Windsor Trust Company. The directors of the trust company held a meeting and heard the report of Je- rome and eXonerated President Young of any blame in the transaction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18
SUTTON DECISION
 WILL COME TODAY

tHearst News Special to the Graphic.)
 Washington, Aug. 1.-The findings of the naval board in the Sutton case will begiven out tomorrow afternoon President Taft was informed of the finding today. In order to preserve absolute secrecy the findings of the court were written by hand by the judge advocate. The secretary of the navy has the right to review the case Brigadier General Elliott, commander of the marine corps, is strongly opposed to disciplining off, cers present at the time Sutton was killed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-18
FOUND DEAD AT
 HIS BOOMING HOUSE
J. E. Graham Dies During the Night at His Room at the New Dixie Rooming House.

J. E. Graham, about 50 years old, a roomer at the new Dixie rooming house on East Third avenue, was found dead in his room at that place early yesterday morning. At an in- quest held at Robinsons undertaking shop later Coroner H. E. Williams and the jurors decided that the mans death was due to heart failure. The body is being held until Graham's daughter. Gertrude Graham. who lives near Hot Springs, is heard from