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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
W ANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills
Minneapolis, Mimi. - was a great
sufferer from female troubles Which

caused Il weakness
and broken down
condition OF the
system. | read SO
much of whatLydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women /
felt sure it would
help me, and / must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
D1inS all left mo L
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
PUBLIC SALE

Undersigned will sell at public auction
at his nlace 5& miles south and mile
east of Il Xira and mile west and Ia mile
south OF the old Natty Hatulin farm, or
the place known as the Charley Hawk
EN- ifll on
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
PUBLIC SALE

Having sold my farm and will move ia
Idaho, Will sell at public auction at my
place miles northeast of Atlantic, IL mile
BraytOn on - "
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
PUBLIC SALE

Having rented my farm and will quit
farming, l will sell at public auction at
my place and IL miles northeast OF Extra
and mile east and IL south of Greeley
Center sChoolhouse on
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
Monday, February !, 1909

i have been breeding pure bred Duroc
Jerseys for several years and this will be
my third public sale. The entire lot con-
condition. and Mr. Farmer, | will be glad
to see YOU on sale day. Don't stay home
and let the other fellow get the bargains.
sows and IS gifts all to be safe in pig to /
of the best bred boars thae | could buy,
La Toilette Again by La Toilette, Proud
Wonder by Crimson Wonder Again
Chiefs Advance by Savannah Bells
Chief.
Sale held in tent. Free lunch 30. Sale
begins at 1890 sharp Ter1ns-Cash or
bankable note bearing per cent interest
from date Write me for catalogue and
be sure to come. Everybody come.
c. \. RASMU SSEN.
o. l.. Mossrnan, Auct.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28

N. E. Crane and wife of southeast
OF Hamlin were consulting DR.. Koob
Tuesday, the latter being quite i'll
with cancer OF the stomach.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
PUBLIC SALE

OF pure bred Duroc Jersey bred sows, to
be sold at the Clover Leaf Stock Farm, IL
miles east of Harlau.a miles west and 3
miles north of kiuloallton, 10 miles west
and miles south of Audubon and miles
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28

sets buggy harness, l single harness,
heating stove, and many other articles.
JOHN PORTER, JR.
Charles Hockenberry, Auct.
Otto Witthauer, Clerk.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
PUBLIC SALE
Saturday, January 30th

Having decided to move to Dakota, /
will sell all my property at Closing Out
Salt, at the Park Barn on
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28

There is no case on record of a cough,
cold or la grippe developing into pneu-
monia after Foley's Honey and Tar has
been taken as it cures the most obsti-
nate deep seated coughs and colds Why
take anything else. Nick Doliing.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28

Insure in the Continental III
ance Company. THBo. PATTY, ~
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
Tuesday, February ID. 1909

Commencing at 10 O'clock:
IS head of live stock: 2horses-I pray
mare and gray horse.
10 head OF cattle-l0 mich cows, > wear
ling steers, yearling heifers 2-vear.oid
meters, " head OF calves-9 of them steers
30 head of fall shoats.
Farm machinery 3-section Lever
harrow, low down seeder, wagon, hay
rack, : cultlvators-one riding and walk
lnS, some potatoes, 800 or 1000 bushels
good corn in crib.
Good tree lunch at noon. Usual terms.
JESSE E. MILLER.
Otto Mitthauer. Clerk
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-28
PUBLIC SALE

The undersigned will sell at public auc-
ton at the old Cartwright place 6 miles
northeast OF Extra, Il mile east of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

President-elect Taft favors per-
manent, semi-judicial commission of
tariff experts to collect evidence of
tariff conditions for the benefit of con-
gress. Further than this he is I'M
willing to go in that direction. In a
recent letter to Chairman Serene E.
Payne of the ways and means commit
tee of the house, he said:
"a tariff commission would be harm
full or useful as its functions were de-
scribed in the bill Ny own ideas have
been that there ought to be a per-
manent commission Of tariff experts
to keep themselves advised by I'll the
means possible of the cost of produc-
ing the articles named In the sched-
ules, in foreign countries and in this
country. | think what we lack is evil
dence, and some such means might
very well be used for the purpose of
securing it. I should be the last to
advocate a commission with any power
to fix rates-if that were constitu.
tional, as it would not be-or with anv
function other than that of furnishing
the evidence to congress upon which
from time to time, it might act''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
Lincoln. Super.Man,

Howard A. Burrell in the Washing
ton Gowa) Press: Probably it will
never be exactly known by American
and English peoples just what the pop
ular estimate of Lincoln would have
been, and would now be, if he had not
ended as he did. Martyrdom sets its
own distinctive seal on person, and
it detaches him.
Who, for example, can rightly esti-
mate Joan of Arc, and feel that 1t is
the true estimate? Martyrdom gilded
her memory, embalmed her in pity and
glory. Her church lifts her now on
nigh and sets her as a faint in the
niche that has waited for her near
five centuries.
The air of martyrdom always
creates a mirage, and no one is sure
of seeing things in true relations. Do
we see the real Lincoln, or an image
reflected, refracted, perhaps distorted
| by passions of one sort and another
/ Do we see the real face, or an ideal
sketch? No one knows, for example,
what the face of Jesus was ike, yet
J the world is full of pictures by this
artist and that, each one of whom has
tried to uraw his conception.
Could it be possible in us to see Lin
coin as he exactly was, after all we
have read, heard and dreamed about
him? When men review his life, his
! troublous executive work, see the
crushing weights on his sympathy the
hopes dashed, the disappointments in
men not able to make good, the harsh
criticism of his motives, the cruel inn
J patience of those who wished to be his
l friends, and see the end OF his long
/ travail of soul, see the apotheosis OF
him in the final hour Of victory, and
suddenly see him stricken down In his
supreme hour-why, in all that center
of lights and shadows, of shooting
/ stars and aurorss and black tempests,
| he is not one man, but suggestions OF
MANY men. We zee him from too
many angles and bfaurities; we can
not see him in tr'le rocus; we honor
him, pity him, e admire and sorrow
and somehow, as a result of it all, he
has become a character quite indie
Unable.
We have no illusions about a Presi
dent like Jackson, or Jefferson, OF
! Grant, and certainly none about the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
FIRST SYMPTOMS OF TUB.Rcu.
nCIc

AS tuberculosis is durable in its
earliest stages and becomes hopeless
later it is highly important that 1t
should be reco lized in it's incipiency,
am properly treated at once. At the
request of the New York State Char
tiles Aid Association, which is con-
Quoting a campaign for the prevention
of tuberculosis in cooperation with
the board of health Of that state, DR..
Herman M. Yiggs, general medical Of
ficer of the health department OF New
York City, has prepared a statement
of the first symptoms of the disease.
1t is evident that unless persons who
have incipient tuberculosis recognize
that something Is wrong, and seek
medical advice, treatment will begin
too late 70 secure the bcst results,
and DIR. Biggs describes, in simple
terms. within the comprehension OF all,
what physical evidences which might
seem lnimportant, are liable to be in
dications of the beginning of the dis
ease. 1t is suggested that any of the
following symptoms should lead one
to consult his physician and have his
lungs examined and sputum (spit)
tested:
/ A cough lasting a month, except
whooping cough.
2. Poor appetite Especially IN the
morning), and Indigestion, loss OF
weight and strength, and pallor (gen-
orally run down.
3. Hoarseness, lasting several
4. Splitting, especially in the morn,
5. Night sweats,
| 6. Splitting blood.
7. Fever in the afternoon, shown
! bv flushed face and tired feeling.
| Any. several, or all o. these symp-
toms. coming after a severe cold
grippe, bronchitis, whooping cough
measles, typhoid fever, or any other
acute disease, my indicate tu5ercu'
/ losis.
| Two or three or more examinations
! should be made The germs may no'
he found the first time the sputum is
examined. and II is very difficult dis
ease to diagnose even in a physical
examination.
Too much publicity cannot be given
to knowledge of this klnd, Whlcn may
be the means of saving untold sorro"
i and suffering, and thousands OF lives
besides.
The board of health of every com
munity in the state.should endeavor te
conye, this life saving information te
every citizen within it's reach, and lts
! imnortance should not be overlooked
by any one interested in the prevent
i've work of the, anti-tuberculosls cam
ipaign.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

general run of our Presidents, but Lin
coins personality, set in his excep-
tional lights, Is of that peculiar quail.
ity, and he worked in an element SO
peculiar, that it invites the mythmak-
Ing faculty to deal with it. Washing
ton is already partly mythical fig
ure. Lincoln is crusted with myths,
and concealed under apochryphal
stories like cathedral under ivies;
he is no longer mere man, but super
man.
No one is sure of his estimate of
Lincoln. If he mad gone on through
his second administration, and recon
structed the country on conservative,
just and sane lines, and aroused a
world of antagonism and passion, and
had finally died natural death in his
bed as an ex-president who can be-
lieve that he would seem at MI like
Lincoln? 1t was the Iathos of his
sorely beset life and the tremendous
tragedy of his taking off, that bring
to his memory halos wr' ught of pity
and tears. Because we are shaken
with sobs, and the yes that look at
his martyred face stream with tears,
our judgment Is inevitably affected.
For his fame, that grows as the years
pass, his death was, in circume lance
and date, the happiest possible. The
manner of his death reinforced the
sad beauty of his life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
IOWA LEADS IN LIVE STOCK.

According to statistics which the
department of agriculture has just
completed, Iowa has twice as many
swine as any other state in the Union.
The department estimates from it's re.
9OS,000 swine, valued at $63,264, 900.
Illinois, the next nearest state to Iowa,
is credited with only 4,42S,00O, valued
at $31, 066,000 or less than half the
wealth of hogs owned by Iowa farm
ers. Nebraska ranks third with g.
100000 swine, valued at $22,3O4 900.
The Hawkeye state also leads the
nation in the value of it's cattle. New
York alone exceeds Iowa in the num-
Der and value of her mich COWS, and
Texas stands first, with Iowa second,
in number and value of other than
mich cattle, but Iowa is ahead of them
all in total value of all classes of cat
tie. In mich COWS Texas ranks but
ninth, while in other classes of cattle
New York stood only twentieth among
the states. Wiscor in is third in
mich COWS, Illinois fourth and Penn
sylvania fifth Third place for all
other cattle goes to Kansas, fourth to
Nebraska and fifth to Illinois.
In number and value of horses
Iowa stands second only to Illinois,
with Ohio, third; Kansas fourth
Texas. fifth; and Nebraska, sixth. The
Hawkeye state ranks but twentieth
in number of its mules, having $4,000
head, according to the government
figures, valued at s5,152,000. This,
however is gain of per cent over
the preceding year The state also
made a per cent gain in sheep, rank
ing twenty-frst with 747,0 900 head,
valred at s3,436,000.
The total value of cattle, horses,
mules, sheep and swine on Iowa farms,
January /, is estimated by the govern
ment statisticians at s35S,37S,000. The
department of agriculture also fig
ured recently that the value of lowa's
farm crops the last year was S254,621,-
600, which, with the farm animals,
places a total of S612, 599,000 to the
credit of Iowa farmers. If the value
of poultry and dairy products, vege-
tables and fruit for the year were to
be added Iowas farm production for
1908 would reach a billion dollars. No
other state in the union can show
such richness of production from it's
farms
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
THE DEMAND EoR MEN

In a leading editorial article the
Wall Street Journal declares that back
of all standards of material value
whether in the form of money or of
commodities, lies the more ultimate
criterion of value in the form of men.
Man in the last analysis is the unit
by which we gauge the worth of dol.
lars, the cost of material things and
the price of prosperity
The article goes on to say that we
may seek to explain economic condi-
lions at the present time by subtle
analyses of the gold supply or by
gross expositions of agricultural
wealth. But in neither of these cases
can be found the real thing that gives
value to the products in question,
whether they come from the farm or
the mine. Man is the measure of
things. His worth is the worldwide
yardstick by which we rate the things
that are produced, distributed and con.
sumed for the supply of human needs.
Thus the situation discloses itself
when regarded intensively. Viewed
extensively, so as to regard the labor
market in its worldwide aspects 1t is
affirmed to be truer than ever that we
are on the verge of a universal de
mand for men. AS to this the write,
says:
The movement of gold to Argentina
the pushing of projects by single in
ternational contracting firm in South
America, involving s100.00000 of in
vestment in railroads alone, the wild
er opening of colonial Africa, the in
vitation of the Turkish empire to west
| ern capital on a safer basis of invest
ment, and the rivalry between China
! Russia and Japan about the parallelins
of the Southern Manchurian railway
/ together with the double-tracking o
the Siberian and the promise tt
complete the Panama canal by 1915
all these items represent an increasins
! demand for men which cannot be ig
nored.
4 1t is this sentative, semi-lat
ent demand for men that ha!
done more than anything else t.
I gives the times stability as com
pared with other periods wher
panic and prostration overlook the oc
equations of the people Heretofor,
the fabric of credit has tumbled dow
/ in similar periods There has beer
wreck and ruin. succeeded by SLOW
and prolonged upbuilding. But tn,
dominance of the human element il
enterprise, as distinguished from thu
mechanical, gives different STANDARD
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

A high church dignitary, asked to
preside at a meeting of organized
friends of labor, to protest against the
sentence of officers of the American
Federation of Labor, for contempt of
court, has declined, giving reasons
which ought to be Illuminating, even
to the warmest advocates of the cause.
He says while the sentenced men have
the sympathy of II friends of abor,
the case is not yet ended and until
the law of the case is decided, the
courts must be respected If the law
is correct, it must be obeyed If it
is at fault, 1t must be corrected
Americans, he says, have it in their
power to bring about just laws by the
ballot, and should use that power, re-
membering in union there is strength
Here is wise and temperate advice
which seems fully to cc7er the situa-
ton, especially from the moral side
of the duties of citizenship
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

There is a story of Mark Twain's
of a Mississippi pilot who had the
dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. While in that condition, at first
not appreciated by his fellows in the
pilot house, he carried his vessel, on
a pitch dark night, over a most dan
gerous reach of the Mississippi and
finally tied her up III safety without
waking. Thereupon one of the breath
less spectators of the remarkable feat
drew this inference: If he can do
that go1d-mounted, jewel-studded pilot
ing when he is asleep, what couldn't
he do if he was dead?" If Mr. Bryan
had been in public life at the time
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

A representative OF the department
of agriculture seized 900 cases of
canned peas valued at $1,000 at Daven-
port the other day as being in violation
of the national pure food law. The
peas We're IN the possession of Smith
Bros. & Burdick Company. Davenport
jobbers, and were the output of the
Wisconsin Canneries company of Man
itowoc, Wis 1t is said to be the larg
est seizure of canned goods that has
been made under the new law The
action is based on the fact that the
cases are labeled 'twenty-four cans,
two pounds each and weigh but
twenty-four ounces each, or eight
ounces short on each can Grocery
firms generally would do we'll TIC be on
their guard against wrongfully labeled
food products.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
everybody would have suspected
Twain was driving at that gentleman
and his financial theories.

The big millers of the country have
decided to comply with the ruling OF
the department of agriculture that
flour must not be bleached, on the
ground that the bleaching process is
accomplished by the use of ingredients
that are Injurious to health. Under
the new order, the flour, according to
the food experts, will be made from
wheat that has not been robbed of its
nutriment by the bleaching process
and the general health will be i'm
proved 1t will be interesting to note
how the bakers, confectioners and
take to the innovation
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
The Matter Of Lonesomeness.

Washington Democrat: A farmer
was in town few weeks ago, serving
on the jury. He said he didn't like
it in town, as it was too lonesome. He
said he never had any idea that a
town is as lonesome as it seemed to
him. Here are 5000 people, yet 1t
was more lonesome to this farmer
than it is out on the farm where he
is a mile away from the nearest neigh
Dor. But does it occur to a farmer
that the city is the lonesomest place
in the world? And the larger the
city, the more lonesome it becomes.
Go to Chicago and you would die of
lonesomeness. Nobody knows any.
body, everybody looking out for him.
self and the devil take the hindmost
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

shall, with headquarters at Burlington
and with Judge Alex. Brown of Keo-
sauqua as his clerk, that decided the
boy, more than anything else, to go
back home with his father, after being
discharged because Of under age.
Interest in the Rutledge family is
very properly reviewed at this time,
when the whole country is recalling
the incidents pertaining to the life of
the Great Emancipator, and this in
cident will no doubt tie read with es.
pecial interest by the people of this
county.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
Key to Character.

1. He who laughs inaudibly, is Sc
cretive.
2. He who smiles and smiles con.
tinuously, is foxy.
8. The man whosslaughs long and
loud at nothing, is fool.
4. He who laughs with the mouth
and not with the eyes, is villain.
5: He who laughs not at all is
either melancholy, revengeful, selfish,
or studious.
6. He who laughs with little sniff
at the end of the laugh is egotistical
Z. The man who laughs with eyes,
mouth, cheeks and sides, is a jolly.
easy-going fellow from whom you can
borrow money.
8. The man who laughs moderately
and shows his upper teeth, making lit.
tie, fine wrinkles at the corners of the
eyes, is a square, good-natured fellow,
and is a good man to tie to.
Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
A Lincoln Episode That Touched Van
Buren, County

Keosauqua Republican: Van Buren,
county is given to boasting and for
good reason-of the great men who
have lived within it's confines. The
greatest man this country has pro-
duced-Abraham Lincoln-who is be-
ing nonored this week all over the
nation, and whose birthday-Feb. IL
has been made legal holiday in
| this state-never saw Van Buren,
county. However, Van Buren, county
! is connected with a touching episode
of Lincolns life. 1t is perhaps gen.
orally known that Lincoln was en-
gagged to be married to Miss Ann
Rutledge, of Salem, H., where young
Lincoln lived, and that she died in less
! than half year after the engagement.
She was the idol of ais life and he
loved her with the whole love of his
great heart. Her death was a terrible
shock to him, and it is said that his
neighbors were much concerned lest
his mourning for her miglt destroy
his reason. His friends, who knew
him before and after this heart-rend-
ing bereavement, have said that the
melancholy that marked Lincoln in
after years and the fits of abstraction
and observation-disclosures that never en-
tirely ceased, all took their rise in the
lamentations over Ann Rutledge,
though these were strongly reinforced
by other causes later in his life.
It is this Rutledge incident
1885, which finally touched Van Buren,
county, for in 1899, AIMS mother, the
widow Mary Rutledge-for her hus-
band. James Rutledge, died few
months after tae death of his daughter
Ann-moved to Van Buren, county
with her son Robert B. Rutledge, To-
eating near Birmingham. Lincoln
never forgot this first love and when
President he is reported to have said
on one occasion, II love the very name
Of Rutledge" That the family was
not forgotten by him is manifest in
the fact that he appointed Robert Rut-
ledge, then a resident of Keosauqua,
provost marshal of this congressional
district, the commission issued In
/ a.
hand
This Robert B. Rutledge, or Bob
Rutledge as he was Familiarity called
became prominent man of this coun
" and is kindly remembered by many
of our older citizens. While in the
dry goods business at Birmingham he
was elected sheriff of this county
in 1859. and he and wife-who was
Miss Jenkins-moved to Keosauqua
He was reelected in 1861, but re
signed before his time was out in or
der to accept the appointment of pro
vost marshal and John T. Stuart was
appointed sheriff to fill out the term
After the close of the war Bob Rut
ledge moved to Oskaloosa, where he
engaged in the hotel business. Later
he moved to Harrison county, in this
state, where he died His mothers
home at the time of her death, we un
derstand, was in Lick Creek township
Van Buren, county.
: The senior editor of the Republican
remembers Bob" Rutledge well anc
always had tender place in his heari
for him. for when the former, as 6
mere boy, ran off from home to joi1
} the army and got as far as Bur
lington, where he enlisted in the FRS
Iowa Battery, and where ne was over
taken by demonstrating father, i
was the sensible advice and pleading
talk of Bob Rutledge, provost mar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

"Fletcherize the lint" is the latest.
It is more euphonious than Chew the
rag but it means the same thing.
Ebert Hubbard is responsible for the
new phrase.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11

Politicians seeking preferment are
said to be responsible for much of the
present anti-Japanese sentiment in
California. Tt would be good thing
for this country if Providence, in it's
wisdom, would remove a lot of that
kind of politicians from Our midst"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-11
Roosevelt's Warming
Trom message to Congress on Country Life.)

countrymen great recent progress
city life civilization
' Inc men and fundamentally
pest
country ultimately ability
ing
nat1ons
brains
development country, be
y and It's guiding controlling spirit of