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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

This is the wild and woolly May
weather we read about-and swear at.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
The Servant Problem, Plus.

But" says the lady of the house to
the applicant, you really should not
ask such high wages from me. when
you consider the conveniences with
which my house is equipped--electric
cooking range, electric washing and
ironing machines, vacuum sweepers
and busters, pneumatic parcel carriers
from and to all floors and rooms,
phones and annunciators In each room.
sanitary wall and floor finishes, A.
tered air. filtered water. antiseptic re-
frigerator-"
Yes, num-" interrupts the appli-
cant; "but the likes of you ought to
know that scientific expert draws a
lot more money than kitchen mo
chanic. Judges Library.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

muti,ated corpses to the grave; in the
aggregate 100000 c,ipples, and 100000
dead, drenched in blood
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
States Rights and Monarchy.


When Elihu Root, in 1906, made his
speech pointing out the rapid centrali-
cation of government at Washington,
the rapid wiping out of state rights,
Mark Twain commented in his auto
biography:
He did not say in SO many words
that we are proceeding in steady
march toward eventual and unavoid-
able replacement of the republic by
monarchy, but l suppose he was
aware that that is the case. He notes
the several steps, the customary
steps, which in all ages have led to
the consolidation of loose and scat
tered governmental forces into form
liable Capitalization of authority, but
he stops there, and doesn't add up the
sum-
Human nature being what it is. l
suppose we must expect to drift into
monarchy by and by. 1t is sadden-
ing thought; but we cannot change
our nature; we are all alike, we hui
man beings; and in our blood and
bone. and ineradicable, We carry the
seeds out of which monarchies and
arlstocracies are grown; worship
Of gauds, titles, distinctions, power.
We have to be despised
by somebody whom We regard as
above as, or we are not happy; we
have to have somebody to worship and
envy, or we cannot be content
In America we manifest this in all
the ancient and customary ways. In
public we scott at titles and hereditary
privilege; but privately we banker aft
er then for cash and daughter
And when we get them the whole ma.
ton publicity CHATS and scoffs-and
privately envies-and also is proud OF
the honor which has been conferred
upon US. We run over our list OF
titled purchasers every now and then
in the newspapers, and discuss them
and caress them, and are thankful and
happy.
Like all the other nations, we wor-
ship money and the possessors of it
they being our aristocracy, and we
have to have one We like to read
about rich people in the papers; the
papers know it, and they do their best
to keep this appetite literally fed
They even leave out football or bull.
fight now and then to get room for all
the particulars of how according to
the display heading, Rich Woman
Fell Down Cellar-not Hurt The fall.
ing down the cellar is of no interest
to us when the woman is not rich !;
but no rich woman can fall down eel
lar and we not yearn to know all
about it and wish it was US. :
Il suppose we must expect that un.
ayoidable and irresistible circum.
stances viii gradually take away the
powers of the state and concentrate
them in the central government, and
that the republic will then repeat the
history of all time and become a
monarchy, but I believe that il We OBJ
stract these entertainments and stead
4 lily resist them the monarchy can be
I postponed for good while yet"
Railroad Funerals.
In the work quoted is drawn this
picture Of the mortality statistics Of
American railroads:
u had dream last night. 1t was
an admirable dream, what there wa:
of it.
In it ! saw funeral procession;
saw 1t from mountain peak; | saw
1t crawling along and curving here
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
Railroad Funerals.

In the work quoted is drawn this
picture Of the mortality statistics OF
American railroads:
y had a dream last night. 1t was
an admirable dream, what there was
of it,
In it | saw funeral procession; I
saw 1t from mountain peak; | saw
1t crawling along and curving here
and there, serpent like. through a
level, vast plain. / seemed to see a
hundred miles Of the procession; but
neither the beginning Of II nor the
end Of it was within the limits Of my
vision The procession was in ten
divisions, each division marked by a
sombre flag, and the whole represents
ed ten years Of our railway activities
in the accident line. Each division
was composed of $4,000 cripples, and
was bearing its own years 10000
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
DAILY BY MAIL.

DAILY BY MAIL.
One year. $500. .s3.WFour months. .Sl09
Six months. -. L5GIOne month";. 70
Entered In Keokuk postoffice as second
class matter.
Postage prepaid; terms in advance.
All subscription orders should give the
r. o. address and state whether 1t Is q
new or renewal order. If change OF
address is desired, state both the oio
and new address.
Remit by postoffice money order.
express money order, registered letter
The date printed on the address Of
each paper notes when the subscription
expires. 49,
papers promptly will confer favor py
diving notice of the fact.
Address all communications to
THE GATE CITY COMPANY,
No. lS North sixth St, keokuk, Iowa
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the
following news stands:
Hotel keokuk. cor. Third and Johnson.
c. H. Rollins & Co., 6.g Main street.
Ward Bros, 525 Main street
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
Mark / vain S Serious Side
Outflow of Humor Hedged by Thoughtful Reflections
Parchment Life Well Lived Conveys to Posterity.

To a limited extent Mark Twain
shared the common heritage of humor-
ists-the public hesitated to take him
seriously when he was serious. The
early public measure taken of him.
from newspaper stories, THE Jumping
Frog and ''Innocents Abroad were
difficult to modify. When he became
soberly serious and whimsically philo-
sophie in his later years, the eXag-
gerations that were the basis of first
impressions marshaled mental bat
talions in defense. The amused public
demanded more amusement and heed
ed not the tradition wrought by
wears of worldwide observation. Bulb
bling wit and apt illustration continued
to the end, but were hedged with
searching and instructive reflections.
On matters of deep human concern
commanding his attention, wit was the
weapon, reason the hand which di-
rected it.
This phase of the authors lifework
was illumined by Dr. Van Dyke in his
funeral address. The mark of higher
humor,' he said, is that it does not
laugh at the weak, the helpless, the
true, the innocent; only at the false,
the pretentious, the vain, the hypo-
critical
Mark Twain laughed many of the
worlds false claimants out of court,
and entangled many of the worlds
false witnesses in the net of ridicule.
He touched the absurdities of life with
not unlindly mockery, and made us
feel somehow the infinite pathos of
life S realities. No one can say that
he ever failed to reverence the purity,
the frank, joyful, genuine nature of
little children, of whom Christ has
said, OF such is the kingdom of
heaven
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

RIGA ror foicrar,on.
Think not that thy word and thine
alone must be right.-Sophocles
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Sioux City Journal observes
that it was a French Lick Tom Tag
CART got
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

The Cedar Rapids Gazette says the
only thing it has against Governor
Hughes is his whiskers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
Good Life a Preachment.

MY mother lies buried out in the
beautiful city of the dead overlooking
the banks of the mighty Mississippi, .
he said in a sermon in the church at
Hannibal. AT this age of mine she
cheers me. She was a support to me
during life. Her preaching did not
perish when she passed away, but
goes on and on with me. Although
they are many long silent in the
grave, they have not ceased so to
preach. They did not stop when their
mouths were closet in death See that
your preaching, when alive, be of such
character that, when you are dead,
others may reap the secondary effort
of what you did. Let 1t be good, not
bad. 81
Preaching when dead is not lost
Washington died 100 years ago, but he
still breaches. His character, service
and words still live. Every day ma
tons striving for liberty fully appre
ciate what he did. Words sometimes
perish, but conduct is lasting"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03
lynch Law.

Lynch Law
In the speech put into the mouth
OF Colonel Sherburn, addressing a
cowed Arkansas mob, in "Huckleber-
ry Finn Mark Twain eXcoriates GER
tain phases of southern lynch law in
this style:
The idea of you thinking you had
pluck enough to lynch a MAN! Be-
cause you're brave enough to tar and
feather poor, friendless women that
come along here, did that make you
think you had grit enough to lay your
hands on MAN? Why, a MANS
safe in the hands of ten thousand of
your kind-as long as it's daytime and
you're not behind him.
DO | know you? | know you clear
through. | was born and raised in the
south, and I've lived in the north; so
know the average all around The
average mans coward. In the north
he lets anybody walk over him that
wants to, and goes home and prays
for a humble spirit to bear it. In the
south one man, all by himself, has
stopped stage full of men in the day
time, and robbed the lot Your news
papers call you brave people, so
much that you think you are Drawer
than any other people-whereas
you're just as brave, and no Drawer.
Why don't your juries hang murder
ers? Because they're afraid the
mans friends will shoot them in the
back, in the Oakland it's just what
they would do.
So they always acquit, and then a
man goes in the night with hundred
masked towards at his back, and
lynches the rascal Your mistake is
that you didn't come in the dark and
fetch your masks.
Now the thing for you to do is to
droop your tails and go hons and
crawl in hole. If any real
lynching's going to be done it will be
done in the dark. southern fashion
and when they come they'll bring
their masks and fetch MAN along.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

In the view of the Sioux City Trib
une, no man is entirely past redemp
tion until he is deserted by his dog.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

When the wreck is cleared away
Carroll will be found serene and unin-
iured,' says the Fontanelle Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

Petroleum, Oil
and Products Placed on free usi
President Taft and other good au-
thorities have asserted that tie pres
ent tariff law is the best we have ever
Lad, and this statement seems to he
fully substantiated by the results At.
tanned SO far during its operation
From a revenue-producing standpoint
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

The Denison Review says it is glad
its brand of Republication is the
kind that does not rejoice in every
Democratic victory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-03

The Des Moincs staats-Anzeiger
contends that W. J. Bryan and Joseph
w. Folk both belong in the prohibi-
ton party.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
Bank Makes Fine Showing.

The Bank of Crescent City closed its
first year of business on Oct. 3lst
On the following day at full meeting
of the board of directors Cashier King
made a report of the years work, in
which it was shown that the net earn
ings of the bank for the year had been
"A per cent. From this the directors de-
cided to pay the stockholders an s per
cent dividend and place the balance TO
the surplus and undivided profits &C.
count.
The directors also passed the follow
ing resolution:
Whereas, the report of the affairs OF
the Bank of Crescent City show a net
profit of "A per cent, and, whereas this
is an unprecedented record for any bank
TO make in its first year OF eXiStencei
therefore, be il
Resolved, that we extend our congra:.
lions TO the officers on the splendid
showing made, evidencing as it does
wise and economical management and
painstaking interest in the affairs OF the
bank.
And this is just what the people OF
Crescent City are all saying about their
bank-they are proud of its success and
are congratulating the modest Mr.. King,
the cashier, to whom the credit for this
magnificent showing is due. The bank
has been great convenience TO the pub
lic and the coming year will! show an
even greater advance.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
A Great PLAYER.

Sir Walter Parratt had an extraor-
binary memory. Some eight-or ten
men were assembled one evening in
one Of the lodges attached to st. Mi
chael's college, Tenbury. Sir Walter
Parratt and Herr Won Hoist played in
turn upon the piano such music as was
asked for. This went on for some
time until at last the chessboard was
brought out Sir Walter then proposed
to play two men at chess in consulta-
ton. still remaining at the piano and
playing from memory what was de
manded either frem Bach, Beethoven,
Mozart, Chopin or Mendelssohn. With
out even Il glance at the chessboard
he won the game in an hour.-London
Globe
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
LAKE COMO.

D. B. Raybon visited Palatka this
week.
Iohn A. Hart has returned from WISH
to Titusyille; he left here quite ill, but
hos returned looking greatly improved
in health, which is pleasing news 10 MS
host of friends.
G Fulton has returned from bust
moss trip TO Barlow at which place he
sold his former home.
The many friends of Mrs. A. r. DC
yyoIi are sorry to hear of her serious Ill
ness, and hope she will soon recover
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gates are ex'
acted This week, from Cleveland. Ohio,
20 The delight of his hosts of friends.
DE, Dusenberry is having a water
tower erected at his beautiful nome
All-View cottage.
Mrs. Claude Monjar and daughter
Miss Cleo. and Katherine Sullivan, Wers
visitors at Crescent City recently
Mr., and Mrs. J. F. Gable are expected
home this week from Seabreeze,, Wher'
Nv have been visiting their children
NJ and Mrs. w. l.. Diggett, for I'M
WI, fonr months. They will be &C
p poonnanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Diggett AM
SON, Dawson, who will spend Inc moh''
here
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
Big REAL
ESTATE DEAL
M; II. Read Buys Entire Realty
Holdings of Hon. James r.
Howe, in Crescent CITY.

A deal was closed last week whereby
MIR. Mathew H. Read of this city be-
comes the owner of all the real estate
holding of Hon. James r. Howe in
Crescent City.
This includes the valuable tract
known as the Crescent Hill subdivision,
one OF the most beautiful residence To-
cations in all Florida, all on high
ground and with a frontage of more
than a mile on beautiful lake Stella.
Besides this there are some 20 grove
lots of 5-acreS each, suitable for groves
and farms.
1t is Mr.. Reads purpose 10 put all this
property on the market at prices bound
to attract the attention of actual settlers.
Since coming into possession of the
property Mr. Read has decided to deed
to the town 10 lots, each 81 feet wide,
and running through the entire south
end of the Crescent Hill tract from east
to west and along the north line of the
Williams grove. This will make wide
boulevard to connect with RoSsville
and will make another outlet to the
junction. Mr. Howe had already ar
ranged for the deciding of four lots TO the
town-two blocks north from Summit
Street-but Mr.. Read has added six more
lots, thus opening the street through the
entire tract.
The county surveyor has just COM
pleted survey of the new road through
the Williams grove to connect with the
Seville road through Crescent Hill, and
when this road is completed it will
prove decided advantage to people
living west of Prospect street.
That there is to be an active demand
for Crescent Hill lots Mr.. Read can at
test. Several new homes have recently
been erected and number of other lois
sold. This is undoubtedly TO be the
growing part OF the town, and all will
concede that ii is the most slightly and
beautiful
Now that the property is in Mr.. Reads
hands and he is on the ground personally
to look after its sale it is safe predic-
ton that it will not be his fault if pros
pective settlers are not located.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
Big Electric Plant,

Among the recent instruments filed
IOf record IN the Office of the county
r q is 100000 mortgage from the
Florida Power Company to Augustus
o. Peabody, trustee, of Chicago. This
Is lot the purpose Of constructing a
uam across the Withlacooche river,
10 the southern part Of Levy county
sAiea when completed will be used
wi furnishing electric power for sew
efal cities in Levy and adjoining coun
ues, and also to be used in the phos
pna'e Industry in those sections.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

what we must do" Numbered the
politician, walking rapidly down the
street beside his bored acquaintance
what we Englishmen must do is to
put our foot down firmly on these for
eign imports" And, to show that he
could practice as well as preach. at
that moment he put his foot down on
the skin Of an imported banana. And
his friend walked on alone.-London
Globe,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

Irrspular bowel movements lead 10
ohronic constipation and a constipated
habit fills the system with Impurities
HERBINE is a great bowel regulat .,:
II II nnrifies the system, vitalizes the
Mood and puts the digestive organs so IN
fine vigorous condition. Price rice i 2Cc'
Sold by Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co.
"a il HaughtoD.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
Shot Out.

Rev Mr.. Watersheds at bll, pu pun,
ley. for instance. 1t was Tue "a low
rum that made him the one eyeu. n ,Uw
browed sot that he is today. NE IL
Charley-Not altogether parsoh' cot
U rnohhe made him a low browed so ,e
INIT II was me that mace III"
oved -Judge.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
Moth.rs-in-Iaw In Bethlehem.

The married women Of Bethlehem
are renowned for their remarkable
headdresses. They are large and en-
tirely conceal the hair was told that
the foundation is fez, stiffened and
covered with cotton. Chains Of silver
on which are strung rows Of silver
coins ornament the front, and a great
white veil made of cotton gives the
finishing touch. Strongly built and
active, the matrons of Bethlehem look
very imposing should scarcely think
they live in great subsection to their
husbands. That they make alarming
mothers-in-law can well believe.
There is a proverb in Palestine, "Were
the mother-in-law to love her daugh'
ter-in-law, dogs would go into para
."-Century.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

Put porus plaster on the chest and
take a good cough syrup internally II
Won would treat d severe case OF sore
lungs properly. Get the dollar size VIZ
BAfIARD'S HOREHOUND SYRUP.
With each bottle there il free n E ~
KICKS RED PEPPER POROUS
PLASTER for the chest. Sold by Alex
erman-Stewart Drug Co., and j. h.
HaupbtOn.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

Some discussion is taking place over
the birthplace Of Wyllie, the famous
"Herd Laddie," probably the greatest
checker player that the world has
known. According to one authority,
the. late Mr.. ]. Hedley, who wrote a
biographical sketch Of Mr.. Wyllie's ca
reer in 1869, he was born in Piers
hill Barracks, Edinburgh, or "Jock's
Lodge" as it was known locally, in
the year 1922. His father was a SER
geant in the celebrated Scottish regi-
ment of horse, 1.-THE Scots Greys," and
this regiment was stationed in the
above barracks shortly after their me-
morable engagement at Waterloo, and
remained there for a number of years.
London Graphic.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

Stop coughingl you rack the lung
and worry the body. BALLARD :
HOREHOUND SYRUP checks lrrlta-
ton, heals the lungs and restores com.
Portable breathing. Price 25c 5Oc and
500 per bottle. Sold by Alderman
Stewart Drug Co., and ]. Fl. Haughion
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

Regulate the bowels when they fail
to move properly. HERBINE is an
admirable bowel regulator 1t helps
the liver and stomach and restores a
fine feeling of strength and buoyancy.
Price SOC. Sold by Ackerman-Stewart
Drug Co., and ]. H. Haughton,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
A Love Passage.

"roye. Alb, lover cooed thI oo,ld
mental maiden. Il feei as
live on nothing but love , .o+rrn.
"A ,ns ardent youth at her side -h0S
ton Transcript
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

prb n sore throat with BILLIARDS.
Wv 5tEV EMINENT. One or two az
niications will cure it completely
P Price 25c, SOC and $500 per bottle
SdiS nv Alderman. Stewart Drug Co..
and ]. H, Haughton'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

whoever sincerely endeavors , 10 40 40
N the good be can will probably "a, az
~ - Sas ,nore than be imagines or VIII
svsr kpow.-Miss BOwdlsr'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
tn. Marriaae Rate.

IN this country the marriage rate Is
found to ductuate with the rise VI "
l lUu of exports and of employment
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

~, Don't think that piles can't be cured.
Thousands of obstinate cases have been
cured by Doan's Ointment. 90 cents
atany drug store.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11

WANTED-To purchase a large lot
OF cypress cross ties, inspection and set
Element at point of loading on Atlantic
Coast Line Ry. Address Cress Mfg.
Company, Jacksonville, Fla. S-19-9w
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-11-11
Notice of Application for Tax Deed Under
section of Chapter 1855, Laws of Florida.

Notice Is hereby given that r. L. Becks,
purchaser of tax certificate No. l05,
dated the 4th day of July, A. n, 1905, has
filed said certificate in my office, and has
made application for tax deed to issue in ac-
cordanee with law. Said certificate em-
mated in Putnam county, Florida, to-wit:
PIT of Sell, Becks Homestead, section 20,
township 10 S, range 26 e; ~ acres.
The said land being assessed at the date OF
of p. J.. Becks.
Unless said certificate shall be redeemed
according to law, tax deed will issue there-
on on the 18th day OF December, A. d. 1910.
Witness my official signature and seal this
the iith day of November, A. D. 1910.
, TSeall HENRY HUTCHINSON.
Clerk Circuit Court Putnam o., Fla,
By Henry Hutchinson, Jrp d, y,