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The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

A great deal Is heard of the art Of
remembering. and but little OF the
fine art of forgetting.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Spearmint. Spearmint! What's
that? Nothing-unless it's WRIG-
lLEY,S SPEARMINT.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
ALITTLE COLD.

He caught little cold
That was all.
So the neighbors sadly said.
As they gathered round his bed,
When they heard that he was dead.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

The people who have the greatest
opinions Of themselves are frequently
the poorest judges of human nature.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Don't be common. It's the uncom.
mon man who causes the world to sit
up and take notice.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
Cruel.

isn't that a good joke? It's my
own"
Great Scott. are you so old a
that
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
Bears the
Signature etl<zZszex
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
very Funny,

say? Why. he had an appointment
with me here. That's very funny.
New Once Boy--Yes. sir: guess
he thought it was. too. Any ways he
was laughin' when he went out
Catholic Standard and Times.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
OF . Later Date.

Bess-That's a quaint ring you are
wearing. II Ia an heirloom?
Tess--Well. II dates from the Con.
quest.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

A pessimist by any other name
would be q fault-nnder Just the same.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
OR. J. Il. RlN0lAUe (speeIalist)
Eye, Ear. Noss and Throat
Fargo, n. q.

There Ia no use going into . politi-
cal campaign with any reputation. be-
cause you won't have any when you
come out.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

A man can't help feeling restless
when even his bills are unsettled.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

We PAY HIGH P0lCE FOR HIDES
and furs & sell guns and traps cheap.
n w. Hide X Fur Co. Minneapolis.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
This VIII Interest Mothers,

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children.
cure Teverishnesn, Headache, Bad Stomach,
Destroy Worms. They break mp colds In ~
Aours. Pleasant 20 take. and harmless - milk.
They never fall. A. al Druggists, DC. sample
lie Roy, N. Y.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

PILE1 CURED IN TO IL DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT u 9ua rxnterd 10 cure any case
y Helms Blind. nieeding or rrussudins Pfles In
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07
Quick m Wink.

II your eyes ache with smarting, burn.
ing sensation use PETTlTS EYE SALVE.
All druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, N. Y.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Happy smiles! White teeth. What
delicious perfume! WRIGLEY'S
SPEARMINT!
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Remember that q sound argument
doesn't mean loud talk.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Those who claim that q woman
isn't SO apt to indulge in crooked
work as a man evidently never saw
q woman try to drive a nail.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

ONLY ONE "BROlO QUINlNE.-
u. signature OF Y. W. 6ROyk- Usrd The World
over 70 Cure Cold In One LAy. &c.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA. safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that II
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Walt! The delicious fragrance d
WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT win sooE
al the air everywhere!
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

Seneca: Vices are contagious and
there b % trusting the ven al sieb
tegetheR.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1910-01-07

HEAD, RACK AND LEGS ACHE?
Ache all over Throat With chIllsf Thai IL La
Grippe. Perry Davis Pankiller viii break IL up II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
The Tribune,s Fake Poll.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Evidences
are accommodating that the poll Of the
Chicago Tribune on the tariff, speaker
ship and presidency was a very unre-
liable affair. The HawlS-Eye, at the
time OF the Tribune's solicitation of
answers to its questions, called atten-
ton to the unfair manner in which
the questions were put, they having
been arranged in such a way as to
almost compel the replies which the
Tribune desired or to suggest to the
mind of the recipient the statements
sought. Charges are now being made
that not only were the nature of the
answers solicited influenced by the
manner in which the Tribune asked
its questions, but the answers return
ed We're garbled, and the classification
of political headings was padded 10
produce the effect desired.
The Hawk-Eye has already indicated
several instances where Democratic
editors were classed as Republicans.
The Republican newspaper editors in
Speaker Csnnon,s district have joined
in protest against the garbling OF
their position with regard to Speaker
Cannon, stating that instead of ma
jority of them opposing Mr.. Cannon
all bur one are for him. Protests are
coming in thick and fast from Republi
can editors who have been misqnoted
or misrepresented by the Tribune
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat gives
voice to the general protest against
such attempts to create prejudice
against the Republican party and its
leaders, 1t says
An astounding mass Of falsity hal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
NOVEL REQUEST OF MINISTER'S.
Professor Holden Sends Letters to
Ministers Of Iowa Asking Them
to preach on Testing Corn.

The ministers of the churches IN
Iowa have been asked by Professor
Holden of Ames to preach on testing
seed corn. A lettsr, mailed to every
pastor in Iowa, reads as follows
ITO the Pastors of Iowa: Here is
a subject that is interesting farmers,
manufacturers, business men. travel
ing men-everyone. 1t commands the
attention of colleges short courses,
institutes and the commercial clubs OF
our great cities. It ought to interest
you. 1t is seed corn
THE subject of seed corn, its vital
ity and its relation to the next har-
vest is of intense Importance to every
citizen of this state. 1t is not only a
material consequence but of moral
and spiritual significance as well. Why
cannot the pulpit of this state by a
thoughtful, practical and spiritual pre-.
sentation of this theme emphasize the
crisis that confronts the farmer who
neglects to test his seed, and ignores
the peril of crop failure? There is a
seed corn gospel There is an evil
/ dent moral significance. Failure or
success is not alone to be measured
i'll dollars and cents. Count the re-
suits in better ideals in the home;
! consider the hopes of education cher
ished by son and daughter; measure
the effects on our citizenship. a dis
couraged, disappointed, disheartened
man. with hunger of body and lean
ness of crop, will affect every ideal
for state or social retirement. Better
1 farming means better living.
Whatsoever a man soweth,' etc,
| and What shall the harvest be?' are
good texts Cannot you, minister OF
1 the gospel of Christ, the gospel that
recognized the relat' n between SOW
ing and reaping, take this need and
! condition of the hour and preach
practical and spiritual sermon that
shall stir the whole man to thought
fitness and activity, and that at once?
! Will you do it? Will you add your
influence to the many agencies that
are working in this state to prevent a
partial crop failure in 1910? BY SO
doing you will render valuable ser
vice to the people of the state. Con
slider well the many phases of this sub
iect, practical. ethical, moral, spiritual
and act at once. Why not make
termination box as described in the
enclosed circulars, take it to the pull
Il pit to use in illustrating your sermon!
| If possible, put the seed over to sprout
eight days before the box is to be
used"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
THE POPE AND MR.. FAIRBANKS.

! Alas for the good Pope! He is al
ways conscientious in his dealings. but
not always lucky. He was not for
tunate, as Harper's Weekly sees it,
In the exercise of discretion which led
him to deny an audience to Mr.. Fair
banks of Indiana, lately vice President
of these States, because the eminent
Hoosier tourist had engaged to speak
in the American Methodist church at
Rome. Mr. Fairbanks could not e
up his engagement with the Methodist
brethen, and SO it had to be broken
to him that the Holy Father would be
unable to grant him an audience.
There are two explanations One is
general-that the Pope does not re-
ceive any visitor to Rome who of
ficiates in any church that is not
Roman Catholic. The other. offered
by Archbishop Ireland, is particular
that the Methcdists in Rome are per
niciously active proselyters, and that
the Pope could not receive visitor
who seemed to give full approval to
their work. The Weekly goes on to
say:
Either explanation is sufficient.
What one might wish is that the good
Pope might have better appreciation
of the usefulness of PROSECUTING Meth
odists both in Rome and everywhere
else where the Roman Catholic church
| is strong and all-pervasive. Nothing
/ seems to be SO useful to that church
as lively Protestant competition
| Wherever it has it it thrives: wher-
/ ever it lacks it it gets into trouble.
The spirit of man demands an opposi-
ton. or at least religious alternative,
I to the Roman Catholic church The
/ great mischiefs that have come on
that church have come from the de-
4 NAL of that alternative. Heretics were
driven out of France and killed out
i OF Spain to such an extent that Protes-
4 tanism is weak in those countries. and
the inevitable opposition to the strong
Roman Catholic organization has to
line up with atheists and haters of
christianity. An infusion of active
Methodists might do both of those
countries. and Italy too enormous
good, and incidentally might improve
the position of the Roman Catholic
church in Europe. If the Pope. with
propriety, could subsidize the Meth.
odist association in Rome it would pay
to do it,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
cove oysters, twenty-five cents can,
now three for nuarter ,,

cove oysters, twenty-five cents can,
now three for a quarter
Mr.. Webster went on to say that
grocery stores in the seventies were
not the business institutions they are
now. The grocer had coop where
he kept few chickens which he
bought from the farmers, paying for
them in trade He could handle only
few chickens, few eggs and little
butter at time. and the farmer who
got to town late had to peddle his
produce among the people as the groc-
er would not take the chance of keep
ing them over night especially in, the
summer time. THE cost of living to-
day" declared Mr.. Webster in conclu-
sion, lis much less than it was thirty
years ago, and wages are, twice as
high. So where can the public have
any kick coming?" The real trouble,
as Secretary Wilson recently pointed
out, is not the higher cost of living
SO much as the cost of higher living.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28

been published by the Chicago Tri-
bune in the shape of so-called poll OF
Republican editors in regard to their
attitude on the next congress, ques'
lions of tariff and choice OF speaker.
From every part Of Illinois, Indiana
and other states the protest OF edltorS
who have been absolutely mlsrepre-
sented lin the Tribune's yamped UP
tabulation. The Tribune's figures are
bogus and it's investigation a snam.
It has circulated a gross falsenood
about hundreds OF Republican edltors
and Is hearing now from the men OF
the press 1T has under taken TO victim
ize. Why newspaper supposed TO be
rational and responsible should thus
fling it's credibility to the winds and
commit a base offense against other
newspaper men cannot be explained
unless it is due to passion for de-
,nented sensationalism. The Tribune
has long been eccentric in its politi-
cal course, but now 1t has wantonly
borne false witness against the Repub-
lican editors of the middle west and
| issued a pretended summary OF their
views. The table was contrived to
give an appearance Of support to the
| Tribune's erratic theories and child
ish vanities of opinion, no matter how
much a great body of Republican
1 editors should be misrepresented and
| left to struggle with the task of cor
4 rection as best they can. The Tri-
1 bune expected to be leagues away
4 before the truth could ove,take 1t, but
hundreds of hot denials are pouring
4 in and 1t begins TO feel that those
whom 1t has outraged are not de-
fenseless."
The Tribune is a great newspaper
/ but 1t has lowered itself in popular
i esteem by its relentless political pref.
udice This last exhibition OF that
unfortunate tendency ought to bring
la severe public reproof
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
PRICES THEN AND NOW.

Fred A. Webster, who was in the
grocery business at Nation, H., for
twenty-five years, recently told a
newspaper reporter something about
prices from 1870 to 1880 that are OF
more than passing interest in view of
the general complaint of the high cost
of living. In the course of his CONVEX
sation Mr. Webster recalled that forty
five years ago he Graded wheat all
day in the hot sun for seventy-five
cents. A dollar a day was considered
high wages and Went only to the ex-
perts who could swing the blade
through the tall grain twelve hours
day and avoid the stumps and rocks
that wrecked many a scythe. Now the
farm hands get from 81 to $3.50 day
with machinery to do all the heavy
work. The ordinary farm laborer got
fifty cents a day then, and Mr.. Web
ster said he had plowed corn many
day for forty cents. Further illuminat-
ing comparisons were made as fol-
lows:
ION the books which | kept when
i opened little grocery store, ]
charged many customer thirty-five
cents gallon for coal oil. Some OF
them owe me Yet, but those who did
nav gave up thirty-fiye cents a gallon
for oil which was not nearly as good
as that which the Standard OIL com
pany today sells for ten and twelve
cents a gallon. You can go into many
drug and cigar stores and buy as
many matches for penny today as
YOU could get for dime then, and the
matches are better now.
You remember those old sulphur
torches? Lighting one Of them was a
family event Everybody ducked out
side the chimney corner when one was
to be lighted, except the person who
was to build the fire and he held his
nose until the match started and then
ran. These matches were regarded as
great Injuries, and | remember what
great Joy there was whsn we got 200
for a dime Now YOU can get thou
sand for nickel.
Canned salmon was luxury In the
seventies. Cost forty cents a can.
People only bought it when company
came Now, when the housewife Is
going away she leaves a ten-cent can
OF salmon as a cold, cheap lunch for
the family.
Farm products were cheaper in
those days. but everything one had to
buy in a grocery store was 30 and 100
per cent higher Than the prices to
day
MY observation is that the average
cost of living today is less than It wa
when wages were half as large.
When | began selling groceries
-four was So to 1913 a barrel Now
you can get better -four for 50 hun
bred, wiich is about half as much
Currants were twenty cents pound
but now YOU can get two pounds fol
quarter. Prunes were twenty cent:
pound and now you can get three
pounds for a quarter; navy tobacco
seventy cents pound. now twenty
FIVE cents; tea 81 a round now thirt7
to eighty cents; cinnamon, 81 80
pound, now sixty cents; cloves, seven
! leyffye cents: allspice and pepper, fit.
;, cents; now less than half; tomatoes
,, twenty-five cents a can. now three 70
a quarter; canned peaches. fifty cents
now fifteen to tbirty,five cents an,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
Raise a pig.
If you wish to own an uto tnat Will
travel fast and far,

II you wish to own an uto tnat Will
travel fast and far,
Raise a pig;
If you have dear desire for splen-
did private car,
Raise a pig;
II your daughter yearns for jewels
that will make a lurid blaze,
Or your wife would b leader where
some other matron sways;
If you wish to give up toiling and in
comfort spend your days,
There's a way-don't overlook it
Raise a pig;
If you're sick of serving others and
are longing for change,
Raise a pig;
If you wish to gaze at wonders that
are far away and strange,
Raise pig;
L your son would like to squander
money on chorus girl,
If you yearn to own castle having
walls inlaid with pearl.
If your darling daughter wishes to be
married to an earl,
There's a way--don't overlook It
Raise pig;
II within the senate chamber you
would like to hold seat,
Raise pig;
If you wish to be untroubled by the
rising price of meat,
Raise pig;
II you wish to get from under the big
burdens which you bear,
If you wish to go to Wall street and
create a Juror there,
If, in short, you have longing to be-
come a millionaire,
There's way-don't overlook it,
Raise pig;
IS. E. Kiser in the Chicago Record
Herald
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
The Little Country Paper.

When the eyenin' shade is fallin' at
the endin' O. day,
An d Teller rests from labor smokin'
at his pipe O clay,
There's nothin' does him so much
good, be fortune up or down,
AS the little country paper from his
OF Home Town.
1t amt a thing OF beauty an its print
amt always clean,
But it straightens out his temper
when feller's feelin mean:
1t takes the wrinkles off his face an
brushes off the frown,
That little country paper from his
OF Home Town.
It tells of all the parties an the
balls of Pumpkin Row,
Bout who spent Sunday with who's
girl an how tn crops'll grow,
An how it keeps Teller posted bout
who's up an who is down,
That little country paper from his
OF Home Town.
Now ! like to read the dailies an the
story papers, too
An at times the yaller novels an
some other trash-don't you?
But when want some readin' that II
brush away frown
1 want that little paper from my
OF Home Town.
EXCHANGE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28

A Walter /. Smith club has been
organized in Council Bluffs with Dr.
Henry b Jennings. formerly of Keo-
kuk, president, and w F schnorr.
secretary. AT the initial meeting held
last Friday evening the membership
roll showed upwards of t,2o0 signers
from about one-third of Pottawat.
TAME county. It is expected that the
club will have from 1900 to 900 mem
bers in the county when the returns
are all in. The speakers Of the even.
ing were Gen. GrenGille NJ Dodge
Senator c. G. Saunders. ]. P. Hess
and John NJ Calvin General DodTe
urged the necessity OF party loyalty
and elected repeated applause as he
SPOKE of President Taft and ex
President Roosevelt and their work
ii is evident that Council Bluffs Re
publicans are preparing TO give goot
account of themselves both at the
primary in June ard at the genera
election In the fall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
Taft Means Business.

Fairfield Ledger: President Taft
has convictions, and he has courage,
too. No on can dispute either prop
osition after reading his New York
speech. He tells the Interests" what
they may expect from his administra-
those members OF congress OF his own
party who are standing against the
measures he advocates He defends
the tariff law. declares that II largely
meets the demands OF the Republican
national platform. aud speaks as one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
The Mystery.

The Mystery.
"Tain't me- says the farmer,
Who's gettin' the stuff.
:. 'Tain't me-, says the packer;
Il just get enough
To pay a small profit,
AS fair as can be-
And all of them chorus
Together, "Tain't me-"
"Tain't me-" says the tanner,
who gets the high price
For high shoes and low ones,
For slippers and ties"
'Tain't me-" says the rancher,
81 live and that's ALL
.sTain't me- says the dealer;
MY profits are small.
'Tain't me- says the Gamer;
my margins the same"
"Tain't me- says the huckster,
Who's bracin' the game
"Tain't me" says the gardener;
I'm poor all the time
sTain't me- says the grocer;
Il amt seen a dime"
It's surely puzzle
To know where it goes;
No maker or seller
Or any of those
Partake of high prices,
So they all agree;
And I'm a consumer;
I'm certain ''tain't me-"
II. w. Foley, in New York Times
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
THOUGHT For The DAY.

Spare me from the bitterness and
the sharp passion of unguarded
moments. May not forget that pow
erty and riches are of the spirit. And,
although age and infirmity overtake
me, and come not within sight of
the castle of my dreams. teach me
to be thankful for life, and for time
olden memories that are good and
sweet, and may the evenings twilight
find me gentle still
Can anyone tell us who is the
author of this beautiful sentiment?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28

Directing to the order of the Iowa
railway commission requiring it to
make continuous rate without trans
fer charges for express packages
shipped over two lines of railroad,
the Wells-Fargo Express Company
says that the enforcement of the rule
would compel it to operate at a loss
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald re-
calls that this is the same company
which, fortnight ago, declared a
dividend Of eco per cent, and suggests
that if the liar killer is anywhere
around, there is here opportunity for
distinguished service.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28

LIVE STOCK AND MEAT RATES.
The Clinton Herald, one of the we'll
informed and levelheaded papers in
the state, has paragraph TO the FOL
lowing effect:
Every important center in the state
of Iowa ought to have packing house
and all the hogs that are raised IN
this state ought to be packed IN the
state. 1t would result ultimately IN
the benefit to the raiser and the con-
sumer.'
Amen! The same paper in another
connection says:
Iowa sends 10,OoO,000 hogs to Chi
cago every year But the big packers
tare not satisfied with this They want
| all the Iowa hogs sent there. Recently
they attempted to have the live STOCK
rates to Chicago reduced, but IN this
they were not successful Now they
have induced the railroads to increase
the rates on dressed meats from MIS-
souri, river points, which will Iave
practically the same effect Every ef
! fort is being made to kill the independ
ent packing houses in this state
and force the shipments of the en-
tire output of the Iowa farm to Chlca
go
Happily the condition here. com
planned of Is about to be corrected
thanks to the Interstate Commerce
/ Commission, which has ordered thu
railroads to restore The rates OF
dressed meats which were in effect be
fore the increase was made. 1t vii
be interesting 10 note what tactics thu
Corn Belt Meat Producers Associa
ton, which is the tool in Iowa OF tbs
big Chicago packers, will resort t
next in its efforts to put importan
Iowa industries out of business. Per
haps it will content itself with tryi1s
to put Clifford Thorne on the boart
of railroad commissioners as the sue
cessor of David ] Palmer. MI
Thorne. is the attorney of the gan.
who are trying to destroy the indie
pendent houses in this state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-28
Mr.. Taft VIII Win.
Before
,ux Fails Argus eader:

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: Before
another year shall have passed, Presi-
dent Taft will surely be accepted as
the admitted leader Of his party. and
1t will not then be so popular TO
knock him as 1t has been in the past.
No one who knows the wisdom, integ-
rity and industry of Taft need doubt
the success of his administration. The
President has had some hard luck
but the sun Is shining now.