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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-08
Lima Is Coming.

PARIS, Dec. s. Madam Lima Cava-
lierra-Chanler has sailed for New
York to fill theatrical engagement
she denies having received an offer
OF $4,000 not to appear in New
York. from the Chanler family.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-08
EXPLOSION WAS
FATAL TO Bah =
One Child Burne1 to Death and Faith
and Mother Sent to the
Hospital

TEMPELTON. Pa. Dec Sin a
gas explosion that shattered the home
of John French and set fire to the
building today, one-year-old child
was burned to death. and French ana
his wife were SO badly burned that
they were taken to the hospital
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-08
ponular Farmer MlssIna.

STORM LAKE. Dec. s.-Henry
Reaser, popular farmer living near
here. has disappeared. He was last
seen on the night of November -. lie
was in bad financial condition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-08
Weather Conditions.

There has been snow, with high
winds. in the lake region, with the
depression from upper Michigan pass
ing to the st. Lawrence valley which
generally fair weather has prevailed
in all other districts.
A large field of high pressure ey-
tends from the northern mountain
region southeasterly to the gulf and
southeastern states, the temperature
continuing low in this area, and the
lowest temperatures are in the upper
Mississippi valley.
In the mountain region ,..e temper
ature is rising slowly.
Conditions indicate fair weather for
this section tonight, and probably Fri
day, with slowly rising temperature.
Local Observations.
Dec. BarTher, Wind Weather.
: pm. SO.19 % W Clear
am. Z. 3o.St - w Clear
River below low water OF 1864 l
foot 8 tentns.
Change in "a hours fall tenths
Mean temperature, Dec. -.
Highest temperature, 80.
Lowest temperature, 90.
Lowest temperature last night IL,
FRED q. GOsEWlSclI
observer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-08
EXPENSE OF
CONGRESSIONAL RACE
Republicans Spent the Most Money
But Democrats Got tne
House.

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The cam
paign committees filed the list of
contributors and expenditures for the
congressional campaign today as fol-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-08

Democrats, s27,771.22.
Republicans. S74,S73.75.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
SMALL ORCHARD EARNS MUCH
Than Large Farm Sown ExcIu-
sively to Wheat.

Wenatchee, Wash.-George Smith
has several hundred acres of wheat
land in Douglas county on Badger
mountain. His brother, L. w. Smith,
lives on a six-acre fruit tract adjoining
this city, four acres of which receives
the largest returns for the seasons
labor.
Two years ago the farmer had 200
acres of wheat, yet the fruit grower
received the most money for his crop
Last year the wheat raiser had $50
acres of wheat and still the fruit crop
brought the highest price. This year
the wheat grower has 500 acres OF
land in wheat with big crop in sight
and feels confident that he will win.
The fruit grower has one acre Of
apples which will net him $4,000. The
trees are nine years old and are of
the winesap variety. Last year he
harvested 1896 worth Of apr,.,.s and
the year before received $500 for his
crop.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Professor Of Experimental Physics
Photographs Light Waves In
visible to Human Eye.

Baltimore, Md.--Dr. Robert w.
Woods, professor of experimental
physics at Johns Hopkins university,
has made another remarkable discov-
cry. He has photographed light
waves or colors invisible to the hui
man eye.
Before the Photographic club here
Prof. Woods exhibited these photo
graphs for the first time and explained
the method of their making. They are
landscape photographs, in which the
mira red and ultraviolet rays never
before photographed and never seen
produce startling and beautiful effects
some like snow scenes.
The discovery is of value to astron-
-on1y as we'll as photography. Mr..
Woods has already taken pictures OF
the moon by his new method.
Professor Woods is the discoverer
of a method of color photography. OF
the fisheye lens. of memory-refect'
ing telescope that promises to solve
many difficulties In the astronomical
line: of a screen which. placed be
| fore an ordinary, incandescent light
mases the light appear like that o.
Lordinary day, and of method OF m
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
The Real Test.

Here is is an observation by Emer-
son: "Let anyone beware of propos-
ing to himself an end. / say to you
there is no end so large, that pursued
sor itself, will not become carrion and
an offense to the nostril." This means
that the all-important things are how
and now. Ones destiny is the present
moment. What is he doing and what
is he thinking about? are questions
that constitute ones fate, it makes no
difference how high his purpose or
aspiration.
Somewhere Carlyle says: ITO see
an ideal, not sleeping in ether like
a bird of paradise, but roosting like
the common woodfowl do" 1t is the
everyday level that determines the
end, and not the dreams and ideals
that are to materialize by and by. We
are not living among the birds of par
adise. but among the woodfowl, where
we meet the common conditions of
life, which we must turn to good &C
count now-do our best now, and say
our best now, think our best now,
and let the ends take care of them
selves.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
More important.

The eagle-eyed, Mrs. Gladden. sat In
her front window, as usual, ogling the
door of one of her opposite neighbors.
Presently a friend burst in upon her
vigil
? MRS. Gladden." cried she, did you
hear what happened?"
NO." replied the watcher, without
removing her eyes from the opposite
way. what happened?"
why, a few moments since Mrs
Crowley's house on the next street
caught fire, and Mrs. Crowley barely
escaped with her life! I'm surprised
that you, of all others, weren't over
there!"'
1--WE Fypern,-s more importaHt On
hand"
"What is it?"
, 1.-THE woman that moved in the op-
posite house this morning has just
gone out with a pail, and / think II
was for beer!"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Sensible
Mans
Ideal
Woman
By BLANCHE BRUCE

keep them shape day evening? They would then realize the
having they could pin tight place they wanted
them My hair comes down to knees but wear rat and pu just
the When nature has enough
pus ought not to be forced advertise the loss
more than those forced sign, g" earning only
ffteer week."
Men fall In love with the afaites 1t is the brilliant
the that attracts the bee to the honey And
sweet at heart right be artificial attract her the
she While ush the attractive girl and marry the
ulain one the right of plain girl doesn't under these
custan ccurshp shn Of all halo and should not win her.
and such only too likely crush" attractive girls after marriage
innocent enough for when it innocent enough
babies make beautiful at night without
ones guessing why beautiful have known girls who painted
for daytime fuy that their girl friends who also painted
lat night could detect paint very easily would not believe that
paint when told Surely paint not Objectionable
such tM
has right to take to win if she is will
be equally strenuous to make him happy after marriage
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
MANY PENNIES IN A BUsHEL
Mint Experts Guess That IL Would
Take $4,000 of Coins to Flu
the Measure.

ENTHUSIASTICALLY 1t is esd
mated by officers Of the United States
mint that a bssEel of copper one-cent
coins will contain about $4,000. ON
cially the director of the mint refuses
to discuss the matter. A Pittsbure
man has written to the mint bureau
asking the officers to give him an est
mate as to the number Of copper one
cent pieces in q busheL 1t Is pre-
sumed that he desires information to
assist him In a guessing contest. A
letter has been written to the Pitts
burger stating that the officers OF the
mint are too busy with their Official
duties to make count and give &C
cuf&ae information as to the number
or pennies in a bushel, and they are
unwilling to hazard guess. but their
curiosity having been aroused few OF
the experts got together and guessed,
not for publication, that 1t would take
about $4,000 pennies to all a bushel
measure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
SAVES SHEEP FROM COYOTES
Government Report Shows New Kind
of Wire Fence Prevents Raids
on the Flocks.

Washington.-A successful barrier
against the inroads of the coyote In
the sheep fiocks of the west has been
found, it is believed, in the coyote
proof fence. Experiments with this
fence have been carried on during the
last year by special agent of the
forest service at Billy Meadows, Wal
Iowa forest reserve in Oregon, accord
ing to bulletin just made public.
One of the greatest enemies OF
the sheep industry is the coyote. In
keeping him out of the pasture the
chief purpose for which this fence was
designed has been accomplished. Coy
otes came to the fence nearly every
night for 95 days, and occasionally fol-
lowed it for several miles, but not one
succeeded in passing over or under ex-
cept when the snow was deep enough
to give him an easy jump.
"The coyote-proof fence" says the
report, was entirely successful as =
protection against coyotes; not sue
cessful against bear; still problematic
against bobcats; not successful against
lynxes. and of course not successful
against badgers" :
The damage done by bears, bobcats
and lynxes is small when compared to
the large losses from the coyotes. It
was apparently easy for the grizzly to
pass through the fence between the
woven wire and the first barbed wire
or between the top two barbed wires.
simply by pressing the wires apart
The report relates an experience Of
an elk with the fence. A big elk
struck the fence on dead run. APP
parently not having seen it. The fence
collapsed at the spot, but elk hide and
elk hair remained to show what had
happened. A trail of blood led across
the pasture to show that the elk had
not got off unscathed. Moreover, he
had his eyes open when he struck the
other side, and his tracks showed
where he jumped the fence on the run.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
DESIRE FOR THE TWILIGHT
"Day None Too Short, Night None Too
Long, But All Too Narrow the
- Edge Between"

There are only "a hours to the Cay
to the day and the night! And how
few are left to that quiet time between
the light and the dark! Ours is hur-
ried twilight. We quit work to sleep;
we wake up to work again. We meas
ure the day by a clock; we measure
the night by an alarm clock. Life is
all licked off, We are murdered by the
second. What we need is day and
night with wider margins--a dawn
that comes more slowly, and longer
lingering twilight. Life has too little
selvage; it is too often raw and raw
eled. Room and quiet and verge are
what we want, not more dials for
time, nor more figures for the dials.
We have things enough, too, more than
enough; 1t is space for the things, per-
spective, and the right measure for
the things that we lack-a measure
not one foot short of the distance be-
tween us and the stars.
II we get anything out of fields
worth while, it will be this measure.
this largeness and quiet. 1t may be
only an owl or a tree-toad that We go
forth to see, but how much more we
find in things we cannot hear by day,
things long, long forgotten, things we
never thought or dreamed before.
The day is none too short, the night
none too long, but all too narrow is
the edge between.-Dallas Lore Sharp
in the Atlantic.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
MUST KNOW 1T ALL

Have you a whist drive, and If not,
where is the nearest one?
What is the climate of Winnipeg in
October?
Do you supply guests for parties?
How can one obtain permission to
visit board, private and high schools
during holidays?
Who is the duke of Connaught's
equerry?
Which is the route to be taken
bicycling from Guildford to Ilford
without crossing London?
Where was the earth put that was
taken away for the central London
railway?
Where can get French government
lottery tickets?
The nearest place to get my shoes
BACKED?
How can I telephone to the Bank
of England.
Where can share register be
seen?
Where is the king to-day?N
Try to find lady shooptLg! The
only description given over the tele-
phone berg that the lady had blue
eyes and wore large veil. They
phor I'd at $3.50 o'clock for us to tell
'-er to be at the foreign Office in
Whitehall at four O'CLOCK.
What are the principal races at
Trouville this weekend?
A pension at oster.d to which a girl
can go unchaperc,ned?
Where is there a Moravian church ?
Particuls..s about being married at
regisf -lar's?
no is the solicitor to the German
consulate?
Where is Lady Muriel Paget stay
ing?
Where are the Salvation Army bar
racks in which women may attend
the evening service?
Address of woman In Belgium who
does very fine embroidery?
When and where is the morning
change of guard?
How much import duty is there Il
pay for taking a mongrel into New
York? s
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01

ual and in national affairs o the nation.
of the matter:
Earnest and belief divine guidance derooted faith that even
apparent evils ultimately good upheld the found
England through that elsewhere utterly destroyed settle
ments"
The stronger this recognition the higher the stronger man.
nation the trials of adversely but also IN the
dangerous trials prosperity And here find an argument lor
Christianity which that not have noticed For the more
clearly the personality of God the stronger ones confidence IN
guidance may and thence the greater the
achievement
Ours Christian nation because majority of citizens are
members the Christian church, for they but because its found
Christians because its dominating principles have been Chris
tan But consitutonay not Christian Hebrew anything
|of UNCONVENTIONAL kind 1t simply recognizes God higher power
and that all unite Thanksgiving day just that 1t
the only religious holiday that belongs properly the whole nation and
all the people, Christmas which provided for by most of the states
lis for Christians; and Sunday the Christians sabbath the g
purposes which Jews others have part But here
la festival in which all may participate freely.
And matter what the festivities engaged in whether the
family abroad the world sports pleasures
entirely fail to be touched its influence very reminder
lof what to the Most High, -
and ofener far oftener, than SzRz1Zx<Z@z~ SIZz>
know thanks given in his "secret =
Ichamber" of the soul. n
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Hot planets.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nep
tune-the four outer planets-are hot
ter than the earth. Recent observa
lions at the Lowell observatory. Sc.
cured in the form of photographs OF
planetary spectra, show that there Is
oxygen in the atmospheres of all four
and that in the cases of Uranus and
Neptune, hydrogen and perhaps he
lium are unexpectedly present. The
outer planets have water vapor as the
principal constituent of their atmos
pheres. They probably consist OF
nucleus hot to its surface, yelled IN
dense, unbroken clouds, floating in ar
atmosphere largely composed of steam
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
The Mother Of Invention.

4, An insurance man in small town
was giving dinner to friend par
ticularly high up in insurance circles.
Alas, he recalled at the last moment,
his friend smoked. 1t was too II .se
Every cigar stand was closed. wha,
could he do? An idea o. ,rrad 70
him and he went out ~ tho hall
There hung his FIR .ns.a n'o ovorcoa, r
might con'a' The was now searching
tne poo -xets. In a moment he bretsgh
~srth O cigar,
NonchalaEtly he returned to the L
brary. 'Ah," he said. pausing on tn
threshold, here Is an unusually i'm
cigar. Will you not try it? dom
smoke, you know"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
The erand Canyon.

It is, of course, possible that the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado may
have been a crack" in the earth
caused by earthquake action, but in
the books of geology we are given
to understand that it is the result OF
the wearing down of the strata By the
action of the waters of the river 1t
n impossible to get at anything like a
definite conclusion as to the age OF
the Grand canyon. The figures OF
the biologists differ. but all agree that
the mighty gorge has been many tens
q thousande Of years in the making
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Bureau of Information in London
Store Has Hard Task.
Few Samples Of the Multitudinous In
quiries to Which Correct Replies
Must Be Given-Women
Are Encyclopedias.

London.-Two or three of the bus
lest young women In London are en-
ployed at the bureau of information
In the big American department store
in Oxford street. They are living
encyclopedias. On occasion. they are
required to do a little Sherlock
Holmes business. For instance, the
other day an old lady called at the
bureau in a state OF great mentai
distress. She had LETT ner hO,v.,
where she was staying with rela-
tive, mingled with the great crowds
Of London for awhile, became abb
sorbed in the sights, and suddenly
realized that she had forgotten the
name of the hotel and everything else
that migth lead to its discovery. The
information bureau TOOK the matter
up, and very shortly afterward was
able to restore the old lady to her
hotel, her relative and happiness. =
Here is list of SOM -, ,bo aues.
tons that ere asked at the bureau
=. .sforniation. very many of them by
telephone:
What is the time in London when
1t is IL noon at 's1adivostok?
What is the present address OF two
women who used to be dressmakers
at cer' ain shop and have since
started on their own account p.Jme
who re In or near London!
When did parliament IL. st sit in tn
chapter house of West. Minister Abbey
Find a laundry IN London, probabl
near Baker str Get, which is run by a
actress. privately?
Tine of a billiard match betwee
Stevenson and Inman?
! What is peculiar about insect life i
the Himalayas?
What liners carry the Marconi al
paratus?
When the lease of a house expires
Is the landlord responsible for dilal
ldations?
Who is the president of the Won
ems Tariff Reform league?
What wood was used in the Can;
dian or colonial sections at the Fral
o-British exhibition last year?
Will there be any special music
!. st. Anne's, Soho. on Good frida
!. morning?
81 Where can you learn to shoot wit
revolver?
Where is the Puzzle club?
81 Who won the Great Metropolitan
FL Where is the bow of kimono worI
: What is the number of Sir Juli'
a Wernher's box. at the opera?
4 When will the strangers gallery
open at the house of commons?
4. Which is the cattle market IN
near London where they have speci
days for selling curios? How do "
= get there?
y Is there q Caravan club In Londol
n Which number of an Americ;
n magazine contained an article
n Cant. Ransome of the Baltic?
'i What is great CROSSE"
'e Which are the buffer states?'
IL All particulars about making
win?
Of Cont your store supply mourne
d for funerals?
1t Who is Lord Tara?
u How to get to Shoot'Up hill?
ussr- a, An. .sRSof NJ ,0u1is.sl
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01

If it is true that no sensible man wants
a wife who wears high heels, corsets, artif-
cial puffs and who powders and paints, it is
more true that every sensible woman abb
hors man who is SO effeminate as to die
tate to her how she shall dress, keep house
and bring up children. 1t is mistake to
put woman who loves clothes on par
with man who goes in for green suits,
canes, and the like, It is woman's duty
to be beautiful, while it is mans to earn
a good income.
Have the masculine kickers ever tried
To make a half-dnzen nnffs and then To
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Hanging of
Criminals !.
of No
Benefit
By HENRY E. NorHoMB

square, where people witness the awful
heart? Such conclusion would be absurd Executions
obedience of the law recognized
publicity regarding them harmful rather have
prohibited the publication Of the details.
The bare possibility Of executing innocent man. pos
of executing who temporarily posi-
by condemning to death who has been
all sufficient grounds doing away capital pun
ishment
poor unfortunate fellow without and without friends has T.
swing
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01

Those who have studied law are famil-
iar with the assertion that it is nc. the Sc
verify of punishment but the certainty of
punishment that deters those about to COM
NIT a criminal act. This statement is
accepted as truth by those who have
given thought to the matter, and taking it
as a fundamental basis one must naturally
ask the question, Why is it necessary to
execute at all?
Why are they necessary? What good
have they done? Do they scare people
into obeying the laws? If SO, why not
then have the execution out in the public
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Aliens Answer Good.

West Chester, Pain the Chester
county court, while the application Of
certain alien for naturalization pa
pers was being heard, his honor.
Judge Hemphill, asked one of the
vouchers of the applicant If he was
steady and Industrious. The vouch-
er, evidently not hearing the Ques-
ton distinctly, answered:
Eyes, your honor. he las five chil.
dren."
There followed a ripple of laughter
through the courtroom.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Recognize
Deity
Sincere Belief
in Divine
Guidance
By h. CLINTON HAY

OT ALL MEN are Christians But all men OF sound reason
believe in creator and preseer of the universe Inc u
verse itself compes such belief Life constantly flowing
in from some hidden source however careless man may
be- modest and recent in such matters deep down IN MS
soul he must feel and believe that this is higher tnan
himself and in some is God. Sound reason tells MIN
of his dependence upon this higher power and teaches MN
the necessity of learning and observing its laws This
ton some form is of fundamental Importance to the nd
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Colors That Man Never SaD

tensifying the colors of oil and water
color paintings and giving them the
same relative strength they have in
nature.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
Penny Credit Costs Job.

Bryn Mawr, Pa.-Because he gave
penny credits to the rich and refused
to desist, John Dwyer has lost his
Job after serving IL years as the
agent for a news company at the
stand where are sold newspapers and
magazines at the Bryn Mawr station
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Rather than do away with the
"tick" system he maintained for the
convenience of the wealthy residents
who gave him much patronage, Dryer
resigned. -