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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
CHARACTER in A CONGRESSMAN.

/
| Hon. c. A. Kennedy has one element
of strength in particular which is the
admiration of political friends and
foes alike, and that is his fine per-
sonal character. He is plain, I'M
assuming, candid, straightforward
man who always says what he means
and means what he says. He is also
an absolutely clean man and his can
didacy for another term appeals to all
rtght-thinking, self-respecting men re-
CARELESS of their political affiliations.
In recent issue the Keokuk Standard
paid just tribute to Mr.. Kennedy's
character in these words:
The mother of Congressman Ken
nedy is proud, no doubt, of the official
position her son has attained, but she
may be prouder still that he has spent
four years in the maelstrom of con-
gress without the least tarnish on his
fine personal character.
Moral, without Iretense OF Superior
piety; honorable in the extreme; of
genuine, heartfelt courtesy; without
even the minor vices SO easy to
. ChSeAh Al Tic bSSl SENSE aS GU-
piled to men today-all this and mora
makes the fine character of C. A. Ken
nedy
Taere is more than lesson for
youth in this. 1t is of great value to
everyone OF his constituents. Because
of this fine character. Congressman
Kennedy is in training like an athlete
all the time. It is the secret of his
accomplishing such an extraordinary
amount for his district in congress.
His brain is always clear. and he is
capable of a big days work every dav.
And a big days work every day is
exactly what he is giving TO his con.
stlnents, of all shades OF politics all
over the district.
of course it makes him popuIar.
out the fine character of Congress-.
man Kennedy does more than that
when one thinks more deeply abont
it. 1t makes him one of the most Of.
flclent congressman in the whole
country" Aote
The First district is fortunate In
having such man fo- its represents.
tive, and would do well to continue
him in that capacity
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
FoR RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS

1t has escaped newspaper mention
for the most part thar there arc two
candidates for railroad commissioner
to be nominated ~ the coming Jnne
primary The CONSENSUS of opinion
IS that one Of tEa nominees win ne
Col D. J. Palmer os WASHINGTON
county. Erss@rt chairman Of The
board There are number OF chg.
ent reasons whg Cosoaef Palmer
should be endorse. for aaother term
One Of these Is his value q man
Der OF the couRsfSsl11 groEfng out Of
his judicial qualities q mind his
familiarity wtra me york and his
experience in sd5udtceting differences
between the people and the raiIroa dis
another Is his thorough acquaintance
with conditions in ali parts of the
state and his demonstrated fitness for
the duties Of the position: still another
Is his splendid personal character.
and yet another Is his remarkable
record as q soldier In the civil war.
These things are known and con.
ceded BY Gate CITY readers and they
need not be dwelt upon in this con
nection.
For the second place on the board
there is no better man than James II.
Wilson of Adair county. Next to
Colonel Palmer, Mr.. Wilson is more
likely than anyone else to be chosen
as one of the nominees. He has a
vide acquaint nee throughout the
state among the old soldiers and citi.
zens generally gained through his
services as secretary to lieutenant
Governor John Herriott during his
offieial career. This position gave
MIN an insight into the business af-
lairs OF the state. which was still
iurther enlarged by his experience for
i elght wears as a member Of the board
/ OF trustees Of the College Of Agricul.
ture and Mechanic Arts at Ames.
Mr. Wilson served during the civil
war In the One Hundred and Twenty
4 seventh regiment. New York yolun.
tecfs' enlisting at the age of seven
zen After being honorablv dis
charged at the end of the war he
taiie 70 Iowa and located on farm
:, sida auar county where he has re-
a : ever since. His experience as
nr liner and shipper equips hin to
pins land lam. the farmers side OF ship
le HE controversies. He is making
Id HE r n,a,s on the square deal. as
I'd anra pa''orm, and there is every as.
II ed s ha ,nat If nominated ana elect.
is beforo wiz w, decide all matters corning
fairy 'a y, board intelligently and nd
sr, cand A. IN his announcement If bis
is ea nc he says frankly. q ms
he want d the Ca candidate for the reasor :
it to my Ia state stee' s6d can be Of ae 9
ar no grudge against az anI people soII | have
II desire the Office toy 10 h railroad which
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
The PROMISED LAND.

If Great Britain continues in doing
for women all it has set out to do. 1t
is only a question of time when all the
women will seek refuge in that coun-
try of misplaced lis. Eight bills, all
to improve the condition of women,
have been introduced in the House of
Commons, the bills to be known as
the 'Woman's Charter All provide
some measure for her betterment, and
the main point is to pay her wages.
The Charter proposes that a wife
who devotes her whole time to house
keeping and the care of children hall
have claim On her husband during
his life, and on his estate after death,
for sum calculated on scale not
exceeding the wages OF housekeper
in her station of life. provided she has
not received any other personal al
lowance.
Where the wife is wage Garner
she shall not be legally liable TO-. the
support of her husband, or of his chill
drea unless her earning or the income
of her property exceeds the minimum
necessary for her support.
Wives who work jointly in the same
business as their husbands shall be
regarded as partners.
Fathers aad mothers shall be joint
guardians of their children.
All universities or Institutes deriv.
ing revenue from the state shall be
open to women.
Finally. brutal husbands are to be
haple to heavier punishment than un.
der the present laws.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Some Plain Speaking
Right to the Point

Denison Review: Some one has
lied,
1t is a short, ugly word, but it fills
the bill.
Some one has lied.
Someone has been trying to make
US believe that the people are suf-
fering from Republican misrule
1t Is lie. Look about you.
Someone has been trying to make
us believe that there is a great deal
of idleness in the United States, that
the unemployed are many. and that
want is wide spread.
1t is a lie, Try to hire someone.
Someone has been saying that
wages have not increased as have
prices of the necessaries C life.
1t is lie. Denison pays S2.25 per
day for street work.
Someone has been telling us that
you can reduce the price of foodstuffs
without reducing the price of farm
products.
1t is silly lie.
Someone has been urging that the
Payne tariff law was not a revision
downward, that prices were increased
on account of it; and that it did not
redeem the promises of the Republi-
can party.
It is a lie!
The Payne law reduced the tariff
on 654 articles and increased the
tariff on 220 articles. The Payne
tariff law decreased the tariff on
gods the consumption value of which
was s4,951,S 7S,575, and increased the
tariff on goods the consumption value
of which was sS7S,756,074. A balance
of over $4,000, 100000 on the decrease
side of the ledger.
Someone has been telling that the
tariff is causing high prices.
1t is a lie!
Boots and shoes are higher than
ever before. But hides are on the
free list and the tariff on boots and
shoes has been reduced 60 per cent
Harness is still high but the tariff
was reduced 55 per cent. The tariff
on agricultural implements was re.
duced 25 per cent, on all iron and
steel products the reduction was from
16 per cent to so per cent On barbed
wire the tariff was reduced 81 per
cent. Petroleum and its products were
placed on the free list.
Someone has said it was a rich
mans tariff.
It is lie!
OF the sS7S,756,074 worth of goods
on which the tariffs were increased
s637 .903,540 come under the head OF
luxuries, articles of voluntary use
while s24O,S52,525 come under the
! head of necessaries. In other words
the user of Injuries pays three
fourths of the tariff Increases. On
the other hand. the nearly five billions
of dollars on which were decreases
were practically all on necessaries.
Someone is trying to make us be.
lieve that the farmer is the chief suf
ferer from the Republican system OF
protection as carried out in the Ding
ley and Payne tariffs.
1t is a lie,
During the past ten years the value
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Water In Ancient Times.

Over 1000 years ago an elaborate
system of filtration was established
by the Egyptians to purify the waters
OF the Nile. In both Rome and Athens
hot water was drunk in preference 10
cold by the small minority who USED
water for drinking purposes. Cham
pier, writing in 1860, notes that the
habit OF drinking hot water was
spreading among all classes IN
France. Some warm 1t by holding
over the fire: others dip burning bread
into It. Rich people plunge a bar OF
hot gold into their water before drink.
ing it, and the less wealthy bar Oh
hot iron, while the very poor are con.
tent to warm their drink with nVe
coal"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Ask Mr.. Rrnokhart

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Mr.. Brook
hart, who is seeking the Republican
nomination or congress in this district,
is a progressive" who is opposed to
the Payne tariff and to Speaker Can
non. He has declared he would have
voted against the bill if he had been
in congress when it was put on pas
sage. He is now conducting a speak
ing campaign preparatory to the pri.
mary election Of June Z. His audi.
ences ought to put this question to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Ancient Mirrors

A French investigator has lately
interested the French Academy of Sci.
ences in his researches concerning
the glass mirrors whicS were used in
ancient times in Egypt and in. Thrace.
they were backed with a highly pol
ished metal, the nature of which has
been In question. 1t has now been
ascertained that the metal was almost
pure lead. and it is believed that the
method OF manufacture was to pour
the molten lead on the concave sur
face OF disks cut from balloons OF
blown glass. In consequence of their
shape, the mirrors minimized the
images OF objects looked at in them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
Devotion Extraordinary.

The Grand St Bernard is one of the
most desolate spots that the mind can
conceive. Wild, rocky, bare, 1t seems
too desolate for living things TO in
habit. Yet here handful OF de-
voted men live cheerfully, giving up
everything, health, pleasure, family
ties, all that hen hold dear, that they
may save others from perishing. Our
Animal Brothers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

AS a preliminary to worldwide
peace Rev. Jenlin Lloyd Jones would
strip military life of its glamor and
military men of their attractive uni
forms. Regarding the latter he is
quoted as saying:
Take the buttons off the soldier
strip him of his gold lace, fasten his
clothes with hooks and eyes and the
charm OF the military will be gone"
To make assurance double sure il
might be well to require him to weal
-saaptia1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Speaking of good prices for Iowa
land, the old Black Hawk county farm
has just been sold for $4,000, or
$685. an acre. The tract comprises
seyenty-fve acres and lies on the
north edge Of Orange township, join
ing the southern border of the city
limits of Waterloo
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

This is a very forbearlng and for
giving old world, after all. Were it
not SO we would not still have with
us so many men who get their lair
cut in the barber shop on Saturday
night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

In the course of his address at tho
Sorbonne III Paris Colonel Roosevelt
illustrated his thought with little an.
ecdote of his life on the plains. Anon,
other things he said IF you would
steal for me, it's cinch you would
steal from me. Go to the shack and
get your time" Now everyone il
Paris is asking, What is cinch?'
and What is a shack"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

A Kentucky paper says that Mr.
Fairbanks is not ETAOINNI" The
Democratic Dubuque Telegraph Her
aid declares that there will not be any
dispute about that among those who
know the other forms of dessert. It
says that Mr. Fairbanks is an iced
sherbet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Food 5000 years old has been dis
covered in an Egyptian tomb. No
wonder there is increasing demand
for legislation on the subject of cold
storage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

A prominent barrister Of Johannes
burg, South Africa, named Williams,
who suffered from dyspepsia, recently
began testing Upton Sinclair's fast
cure. He is dead.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Detroit is worried over the ques-
ton Of finding places for the dele
gates to the National Elks' conven-
ton to sleep. Worry on that account
is wholly unnecessary. Elks are not
given to sleeping when away from
home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

A Kansas paper feels called upon to
explain that it was typographical
error in the Epiphany church notice
in its columns in previous issue
that made Whit Sunday read Whist
Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

The Sioux City Journal explains
that it is not that President Taft
has allowed himself to be surround
ed by insidious Influences that has
caused the trouble. The trouble Is
due to the fact that the President has
politely but firmly refused to be cur
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

The revised version has it that
singed celebrity avoids the limelight,
DIR. Cook, for instance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Thought for the day formulated bv
Alex Miller; Whenever men start
out to pose as reformers and as being
so much better than everybody else
It Is safe to put your hands on vonr
pocket books. They are out for the
goods, whether it be coin or politjca,
preferment, or position, or place o.
power =
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

There is talk of nominating Douglas
Robinson, brother-in-law of former
President Roosevelt. for representa-
tive in congress from the twenty
seventh New York district.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

A false alarm is described by George
Fitch as a man who was going to set
the world On fire, but who only burned
his own fingers. There are several
OF him in the public eye at the pres
ent time; Pinchot, stenographer
Kerby, ct al
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Kewanee. ILL.,. is proceeding along
the right lines to secure better wa
ter supply. 1t is boiling the water
and roasting its aldermen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Cheering thought; People will quit
talking about the comet after while,
--Des Moiaes Register and Leader.
Perhaps.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Complaint is made that Congress
man Pickett of the Third district is on
the fence. Where else should pick
ct be-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

New York will be 800 years old in
three years. 1t would seem to be
about time for it to drop the New"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Chicago White Sox seems to
the Des Moires Capital to need sup
porters of some kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

As Ed. Howe sees it, There is one
thing every married woman's ex-
preston seems to say, that 1 know
all about, and that is patience,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

Mrs. BENJAMIN Harrison is not an
equal suffragist 1T has always seem.
ed to me that women in our country
get everything they want without the
ballot. and why put that obligation
upon us-when it is SO well taken
care Of by our mem" The Dubuque
Times-Journal moves to strike out
everything after the dash and place
this remark on it's passage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

The vinton Eagle declares that
there isn't word in Senator Dol
hvers speech at Des Moines he could
not have used when the Dingley tariff
repealed the Wilson bill, and
yet the Dingley law opened factories
and enhanced the value of lands. Not
mill was closed or laborer thrown
out of employment or an acre of land
became less valuable BY the revision
of the Dinglev law The value of a
tariff Law IS not involved in the per
cents a senator NAV criticse.-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

The Bussey Press is responsible for
the information that Abba appeared
in suli dress to greet the P. E. O.
ladies'. 1t is WE'LL comments tae
Oskaloosa Herald; how shocking it
might otherwise have BEEN
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

The fly season also is late, which
helps balance the account.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-26

keokuk, Iowa ........ May 20, 1910
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-10-12
DEATHS.

Mark-At 1911 York avenue, Oc-
tober 8, Sarah j. Mark, 40 years s
months q days, of Bright's disease,
myocarditis contributor.
Talbot-At sos Shannon avenue,
October II, Mary A. Talbot, 81
years l month % days, of heart
failure.
Morrison-At 1884 Cora avenue,
October 10, Myrtle Morrison, 1
month IA days, of dysentery, mani
tition contributory.
Mucklenberg-At Spokane Cen
eral hospital, October s, Mary
Mucklenberg, II years, of cerebral
hemorrhages.
Henley-At Peaceful valley, Sep
TENDER 20, Patrick Henley, 35 years,
OF accidental drowning.
White-At 05O4 Toledo street. Oc-
tober 8, i'm White, So years, of
suicide, strychnine poisoning.
Schmidt-At st. Luke's hospital.
October s, Alexander Schmidt, 16
years, of typhoid fever, pneumonia
contributory.
Chapman-At E227 Cleveland
avenue, October 8, Fayette B. Chap.
man, rs years, of carcinoma.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-10-12
VITAL RECORD
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Charles Osborn, legal, Wenatchee
and Annetta Reid, legal, Wenatchee
John A. Nordberg, legal, Spo-
kane, and c. A. H. Allen, legal
Spokane.
w. Goodfellow, legal, Wallace
and H. Anderson, legal, Vancouver
B. c.
Oliver G. Taylor, legal, Seattle
and Marie B. Fisk, legal, Portland
William F. Lawson, %, Spokane
and Nellie c. Morris, 10, Spokane.
J. j. Osborn, %, Hartline, and
Maggie Stockton, 81, Hartline.
Jacob M. Schiffman, AZ, Butte
and Nellie E. Gee, "a, Westfield
Mass.
Philip L. Graves, legal, Spokane
and Winifred Holdren, legal, Spo
kane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-10-12
JUNIOR OFFICE BOY cRITIcIZEs
ONE OF THE NEW SHOW HITS
IN THE METROPOLIS.

new york, thursday-you've got
to hand it to george m. cohan, he
amt very pritty, and he sings out
of one side of his face, and the
music he perpetraits wont never
be played at no symfunny consents,
but george is the boy that can put
his stuff over pust the saim.
last mite dropped into the gayety
theater to see 'get-rich-quick wal
lingford,' the play that cohan made
out of book by guy named ches-
ter.
my goodniss but that is a swell
play. and beleave me it's one of the
best littel plays that ever was rit-
ten for new workers..
it's all about different ways of
skinning suckers out of there mum
ny, and you'd just ought to hear the
way the fellers in the audience
rores, and sum of the wimmin too,
when the see the boobs gettin
trimmed on the stage.
FRlSkERS IN FRONT ROWS.
there's pepel rite down in the
frunt rows every mite lie bet you
that could give get-ritch-quiCk wal
lingford and his pardner, blacky
daw, few good points on how to
frisk the villagers.
the plot of the play is that wal
lingford and daw go into a hick
town of about II 900 pepel where
everybody has mummy but nobody
will spend any
their gain is to throw the bull
into the rubes, rifle their jeans and
blow the burg with everything in
their gripsacks except the town hall
and few head of cattel
they git along fine, everybody
falls for their talk, and at the end
of munth there amt no cash any
place in the town except in their
offises
they have raised a hundred thou
send dOllers to bid a facktory to
make carpet tacks covered with
cloth, and have got the rite of way
for trolley line and have made a
big cleanup on reel estait that rig
when they sprung the trolley story,
''iCy hoNih6 e1Ol OPoIlluo vi oil JuC
land first
READY TO DUCK
now they are reddy to make the
big getaway, but oh how they hate
to go
each of them has got stuck on a
dame, and they are the mushiest
pare of loves:ck crooks you ever
saw
wei what do you think ,hoppens. a
Teller from a trolley SYNDICATE drops
in and gives them a milyen dollars
for there rite of way, and a poor
gink they had out takin orders fer
tacks Gums in with orders for a
hundred thousand gross
first thing they know they are
horribly ritch and PERFECTLY honest
though they dent intend to be at
all
SO they marry the gerls and all
the old guys that invested mummy
with them gifts ritch too, and the
town has real boom, and there they
stay doing the prominent sitazen
ack for the rest of there lives
the morrel is, a smart man who
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-10-12
MARKET BASKET
PRODUCE.


Best fresh home eggs, 4o@45c doz;
best local creamery butter, 45c per
pound second grade local butter, Ace
per pound; eastern butter, 800 Csc per
pound; LOCAL flour; $3.50 sack of 40
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, $1.5O q LIS per sack or IL
pounds for Csc; cabbage, &c pound;
turnips, carrots and beets, 3 to &c Id;
oranges, S5 q soc dozen. new apples,
soc to 81 box; figs and dates, TO- &c
package; peaches, soc to S5c crate;
bananas, 25 a 35c dozen; watermelons,
10G15c apiece; cantaloupes, SO 15c
each; crab apples, 81 box; prune
S5c basket; California Tokay grapes,
soc basket; pears. 81 a 1.25 box;
Pot roast, 1914 @15c; prime ribs,
15a zoe; chuck steak, 12hc; round
steak, 15c; sirloin steak, 1Sc porter
house, 22G25c; boiling beef, &c, Sc
and Toe Pork-Steak, 1Sc; chops,
10000; roast, 1S@20c; whole ham,
22c; ham, sliced, 25c; bacon, by strip
Mutton-Shoulder,.1 II ac; leg of NUT
ton, Ice; mutton chops, Is q 1Sc. Veal
Chops, 1S@ 25c; shoulder, 15c; loin,
2o@22c, Dressed chickens 25c to 3oc.
Retail-Alfalfa, $1s@1s ton; timo-
thy, $685. straw, $40; wheat hay, $50;
oat hay, $40; bran and shorts. 1928;
straight bran, s22; straight shorts,
$26; corn, whole, $3.50 cwt; corn,
cracked. $1.90; feeding wheat, 81. 20
cwt; oats, $1.S0 cwt; barley $3.50;
steam rolled oats. $1.s5 cwt.
FUEL.
Pine wood, $5@ cord, $2.75 rick;
fir and tamarack s7@7.50 cord, $500
rick; Rock Springs coal, $500 ton;
Sheridan coal, $500 ton.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-10-12
HUNT FOR
GOLD CHAIN
ray United Press Leased wlre)

VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 12.-Seek-
ing a massive gold chain, looted
from the Inca temples of the sun
worshippers on the Isle of the Sun
In the mountains of Bolivia, many
treasure-hunting expeditions are at
work in the Bolivian mountains.
E. Brown, young English rail-
road engineer, said:
There have been many treasure
hunting expeditions in Bolivia this
year. An Italian count had return
ed just before l left, and party
of four Americans were in the hills
The Americans had been gone
three months, and some anxiety
was felt for their safety. They
have gone in search of massive
gold chain, said to be no less than
80 feet long, with monster links
said to have been buried by one
Pizarro."