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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
A Day at the Dentists.

1 went to the dentists to have tooth
filed.
He sorted his tools with an ardor that
thrilled.
He opened my mouth, till heard my
jaw crack
And bored large hole down the small
of my back,
He bored out my skull and he bored
out my jaw;
He put in a tunnel in search Of a
flaw.
He put in a blast and he put in a
stump;
He mined and projected with clatter
and thump.
he drilled into fragments my aching
backbone
And hoisted it out never needing my
groan.
He worked at the hole till 1t grew to
cave,
A chasm, canyon. With eagerness
grave
He said, Now I'll fill IT, And mixed
up with care
Some acid and pepper and mortar and
hair.
He cooled off my mouth with tobasco
and then
He filed up that pit with the strength
of ten men.
He pounded and prodded; he beat and
he tamped.
He mauled and he hammered; he
slugged and he stamped,
Till the hole he had dug to the roots
of my feet,
Was filed with carload of solid con
at is finished" he said as he rose
from my knees
And got down from my collarbone.
Two dollars please"
Which I paid with a will as l put on
my lid
For l don't think twas much for the
work that he did.
George Fitch in Peoria Herald
Transcript
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
You Can Search US.

Des Moines News: Here's some
thing that comes mighty close to us,
fellow editors.
Why do beautiful women marry
ugly men?
The question Is proposed by the
Chicago Tribune man, who had motto
ed the fact that in very many cases
the beautiful wife has an ugly looking
husband, and put it UP to some learned
professors of PHYSIOLOGY. Professor
H. F. Cameron, of McGill university,
Canada, says that it is because those
beautiful women are obsessed with a
blind psychic impulse" and Prof
Geo. Foster of Chicago university
says that the aforesaid blind i'm
pulse" is mystery.
We are not psychologist enough to
even tell why a dog turns around
four or five times before lying down
and we wouldn't be able to recognize
blind phychic impulse even if we
met it coming down the street with
our best extra edition in its hand. but
we've got some unprofessional, horny
handed notions that answer this ques-
ton in a large number of instances
at any rate.
Stroll up Fifth avenue, New York
City, for instance, some fine Sunday
morning, about church time and note
the little ugly, ape-faced, dudelettes
mincing along beside beautiful young
wives Money Some beautiful wo-
men would marry anything masculine
on two legs for dresses, iewelry, au
tos, palaces and that consideration
concocted by the Devil, called SO.
cial standing"
Again, in IS per cent of the cases
a beautiful man has only his own
beauty to recommend him, and the
women know it. Such man is usual
ly 80 per cent conceit, per cent sell
fishness and the rest just male sex
Unless such one has money enough
to warrant the odds against her, the
beautiful woman, even the one with
only modicum of sense passes him
by. She knows he's pretty much all
self and that one beautiful woman
will not for long fill the bill for him
It's the ugly ones who have character
and who will stick because they APP
preciate their ugliness
But there's something else A man
may be as ugly in outward form as n
frcst-bitten hedge fence with moultins
turkeys roosting in it. and still be
nobly handsome Masculine beauty is
not matter of facial or bodily sym
metry. It's the heart the character.
the principles, the soul. This some OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
Or. Moerke,s RESIGNATION.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Dr.. A. G.
Moerke, president of the state board
of health, this week announced his in
tention of resigning. DR.. Moerke gives
as his reason the fact that the board
is unable to accomplish anything in
the way of legislation or reform on
account Of bitter opposition The
board is allowed by the legislature
$4,000. Three thousand dollars of this
goes to the secretary. The remaining
$4,000 scarcely provides means for
publishing the boards literature. DR.,
Moerke expresses himself as profound
ly disgusted with the whole matter.
and viii quit and further efforts in
state work
The Gazette believes DR.. Moerke is
justified in complaining concerning
the treatment the medical profess
sion has received in answer to it's eff
forts 10 better the health of the state.
The profession has had to contend
against an unwaranted prejudice, and
that prejudice has been encouraged,
from time to time. in the legislature
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
$500 REWARD. 800.

Fhe readers of this pa er will be
pleased to learn that there is at lea ST
one dreaded disease that science has
that is catarrah Hail Catarrah cure
Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh ,eing
q constitutional disease. requires a CON
stitutionG! treatment. Halls Catarrah
Cure is taken Internally acting directly
upon the blooG and mucous surfaces Of
the system, thereby destroying TT foun-
dalton OF the disease and giving ID )
patient strength by ui.dlng up the con-
stitution and assisting nature In doing
It's work The proprietors have so much
IA n In It's curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollors for any case
that II fails to cure. Send for lists OF
testimonials.
Address r. J. CHENEY & CO.. Tole-
do. o.
Sol by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

According to a news paragraph 60
Ing the rounds of the press the COM
missioner Of pensions has ruled that
after next August all pensioners may
be paid at their homes without hunt
ing up notary public, whose SER
vices will no longer be necessary after
that date. The vouchers will be sent
direct to each pensioner, with an at
tached blank wherein two neighbors
certify that the pensioner was alive
on the quarter day for which pay
ment is thus made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

At recent annual meeting of the
envelope manufacturers of the Unit
ed States in New York one of the
speakers told of the growth and out
put of envelopes in this country dur
ing the past year. He estimated the
increase in output to be more THAI 10
per cent He also stated that this
country is now producing upward of
one hundred million envelopes daily.
Something of an industry, that.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
SAN D..

SAND,
I observed locomotive, in the rail
road yard, one day;
1t was waiting at the roundhouse,
where the locomotives stay;
1t was painting for the journey, it was
coaled and fully manned,
And it had a box the fireman was
filling full of sand.
1t appears that locomotives cannot
always get grip
On their slender iron pavements,
cause the wheels are apt TO
slip;
So when they reach slippery spot,
their tactics they command,
And to get grip upon the rail they
sprinkle it with sand.
its about this way with travel along
life's slippery track
If your load is rather heavy, and
you're always sliding back;
If a common locomotive you COM
pletely understand,
You'll provide yourself in starting
with a good supply of sand.
If your track is steep and billy, AMI
you have a heavy grade,
And if those who've gone before you
have the rails quite slippery
made,
Ii you'd ever reach the summit of
the upper lakeland.
You'll find you have to do it with
liberal use of sand.
If you strike some frigid weather,
and discover to your cost,
That you're liable to slip upon a
heavy coat of frost,
Then some prompt, decided action
will be called into demand,
And you'll slip way to the bottom if
you haven't any sand.
You can get to any station that is
on life's schedule seen,
If there's fire beneath the boiler of
ambitions strong machine;
And you'll reach place called Flush.
town at rate of speed that's
grand
If for all the slippery places you've
good supply of sand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
" such doctor haters as G. w. Miller

by such doctor haters as c. w. Miller
of Bremen county.
II the people who are prejudiced
against the doctors could have their
way. there would be. an appreciable
increase in the states death rate.
Fortunately the knockers are not all
taken seriously, although enough at
tention has been paid to their knocks
to hinder the campaign against dis
ease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

The Des Moines Capital accuses
Congressman Prouty of not standing
by his former tariff utterances. The
Cedar Rapids Republican, in explana-
ton of his course, advances the in.
genious theory that perhaps the Sew
enth district congressman is afraid he
might be called a standpatter if he
stood for his own previous utterances.
Sounds plausible. A real insurgent Is
liable to do almost anything.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

A Des Moines man in an interv, W
in the Register and Leader suggested
that the enactment of law charging
s25 for marriage license would do
great deal to check the marriage of
undesirable people and would have
the effect of lessening the number OF
divorces. The Ottumwa Courier en-
tiers protest in these words:
For the love of Mike, hasn't this
man any pity on the poor bridegrooms,
who have hard enough shedding as it
is without raising the ante to this
prohibitive figure? Why not, instead,
raise the price of divorce DEGREES to
a mark that only our plutocrats could
afford?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

John D. Rockefeller would 60 bros'
If he should spend his entire income
trying 10 prepare better medicipss
than Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera anu
Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea'
dysentery Or bowel complaints. 1t y
simply impossible, and so says ever
one that has used it. Sold by ~
dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

While assisting his wife to beat a
carpet Charles Mckinney, a Logan
stock buyer, was overcome by the
heat and the exertion and became
unconscious for some time Ordin-
airy prudence the commonest kind
dictates that a man should let his
wife beat the carpets without as
sistance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
Warning to Railroad Men.

e. S. Bacon. II Bast ST., Bath, Me,
sends out this warning to railroaders:
"A conductor on the railroad, my work
caused chronic inflammation of the
kidneys, and was miserable and
all played out. A friend advised Foley
Kidney Pills and from the day com.
menced taking them, began to re,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

Burrell of the Washington Press
answers the question, what do they
do for seasickness,' by saying, 20,
just the usual thing hang over the
rail and let her go Gallagher What
else COULD one do?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

the beautiful women realize and 1t is
why some of them are found with
husbands whose visible lack of beau
ty would keep a goldsmith repairing
the family clock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

According to the dispatches. the
Chinese revolutionists have assassi-
mated the taotai of Canton. The Os-
kaloosa Herald cannot make up it's
mind whether this is the town pump
or the mayor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

ural thing in the world for woman to
do is to scream
The st. Louis Globe-D Democrat is
happy that it can now have baseball
without goose pimples.
The Harvey News-Tribune thinks
that many a man who Is calling loud
ly for Justice would be in Jail If he
got it.
According to Abe Martin, "ther
haint much difference in bein' in to
hands o. your friends or in tn hands
o. q receiver
1--WE thought Prouty was great
reformer, but we find he is, after all,
made only of clay like the rest of us, :"
says the Washington Democrat.
1T will be a sorry day for this
country says the Quincy Wing, IF
the time should ever arrive when diff
ferences would be settled by dyna
mite"
Alex Miller has noticed that the
boys who go fishing with the crooked
homemade fish poles are just as apt
to catch fish as those with fine, bam-
boo poles.
The editor of the London Times
says he shivers every time he reads
an American newspaper Then he
understands how the American graft
er feels" remarks the Quincy Wing.
The man who puts in two hours a
day working a garden may not be
quite as stylish as if he were chasing
golf ball over a 200-acre COW pas
ture; but he Is getting probably as
much physical benefit the Cedar
Rapids Gazette concludes.
Davenport has adopted the fusher
method of cleaning the streets and
the city councilmen of the city claim
the nuSner is so rar ahead OF the
work done by the hand sweepers that
there is no comparison
Wesley Greene in his May report
on the condition of fruit in Iowa says
that anthracnose has reduced the vi
tally of raspberry plants in many
places in the state. He states also
that the principal crop of peaches will
be seeding. trees and not on the bud
ded trees, as the latter were affected
most by the severe winter
THE protest comes too late" says
the Fairfield Ledger, commenting on
the report that 300 northwestern
farmers will visit Washington to pro-
test against Canadian reciprocity
The chances are that great many
of these very farmers have been
clamoring for tariff reduction and 9th
er things which have led directly up
to free trade with Canada If they
had looked far enough ahead they
would have been saved this journey
to Washington"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

When one is onto his job" the
raragrapher Of the Marshalltown
Times -Repu ,lican says he is Johnnie
at the rat hole" Isn't anything new
under the sun, isn't there?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

Baltimore girl complains that
she took out license to marry the
wrong man. Her experience was not
exceptional Lots of girls make the
same mistake every day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

A New York philosopher has come
to the conclusion that there are two
ways to get up in the world. You can
build your own ladder and climb it,
or you can find some fellow who has
left his to chase butterflies and climb
that.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

gain my strength The Inflammation
cleared and | am far better than
have been for twenty years. The
weakness and dizzy spells are a thing
OF the past and | highly Recommend
Foley Kidney Pills" Wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

Abe Martin has noticed that some
body always gets the worst of a
compromise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
THOUGHT FoR The DAY.

Judge not thy friend until thou
standest in his place-Rabbi Hillel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

Uneasy lies the head of a cabinet
officer, also
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

Meanwhile, put up the screens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
His Reckless News

Wrong idea of HE, has heR" i'Yes.
He thinks a fve.dollar bill was made
to be changed "--Harper's Bazaar.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
DAILY BY MAIL.

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All subscription orders should give the
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

Eve thought Prouty was great
reformer, but we find he is, after all,
made only of clay like the rest of us, !"
says the Washington Democrat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15
NOTES AND COMMENT.

In Ed Howe's opinion the most nat
ural thing in the world for woman to
do is to scream.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat is
happy that it can now have baseball
without goose pimples.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

The Harvey News-Tribune thinks
that many man who Is calling loud
ly for Justice would be in Jail If he
got it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

According to Abe Martin, "ther
haint much difference in bein' in tn
hands O. your friends or in tn hands
o. q receiver,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-15

1T will be sorry day for this
country says the Quincy Wing, IF
the time should ever arrive when diff
ferences would be settled by dyna'
mite
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-16
June 9-16-23.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON FINAL
ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTRIBU-
TON

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth. In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Jens c.
JOrgensen, Decedent.
The State OF Minnesota To All Per-
sons Interested In the Above Entitled
Matter: Whereas. John Nelson. repre-
sentative of said estate has filed in this
court his final account of his administra-
tion of the estate of the above named
decedent. together with his petition
praying for the adjustment and allowance
of said final account and for distribu-
tion of the residue of said estate to
the persons thereunto entitled: 1t Is
Ordered that said petition he heard.
and that all persons interested in said
matter be and appear before this court
on the Bird day of July, 1911. at ten
O'Clock. A. M. at the probate court
rooms in the court house. at Mankato in
said county. and then and there. or as soon
thereafter as said matter can be heard
show cause if any they have. why said
petition should not be granted; and that
this citatio be served by the pub
LEGATION thereaf in the Mankato Free
Press. according to law.
Witness the Honorable. Evan Hughes
Judge of said court. and the seal of said
court. this eth day of June 1911.
(Seal) EVAN HUGHES.
Judge.
Thomas Hughes
ATTORNEY for Petitioner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-16
June 16-23-3O
ORDER FOR HEARING ON SALE OF
REAL ESTATE OF MINORS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.-ss. In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Guardianship of
Cornelia F. Lewis, an incompetent
On reading and filing the petition of
H. p. Edwards, Guardian of the per-
son and property of said Cornelia F..
Lewis, an incompetent person for Ii
cence to sell the north nine co acres of
the northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section (24). township QO8)
North, range CD west; also, lots III
& 12) of block No. CD of Hannas addi-
to the recorded plat thereof, on file and
of record in the office of the register
of deeds, in said Blue Earth county,
all situate in the county of Blue Earth
estate of his said ward. And it APP
pearing from said petition that it is
necessary and would be beneficial to
said ward, and all persons interested
thereof should be sold.
1t Is Ordered. That the next of the
Kin of the said ward, and all persons
interested in estate of said ward, shall
appear before said probate court at
the probate office in Mankato, in the
county of Blue Earth, aforesaid, on the
Sth day of July, A. D. 1911 at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause
why license should not be granted for
the sale of said real estate.
And 1t Is Further Ordered That no.
tice of such hearing be given to all
persons interested in said estate by pub
ilcation of this order for three success
sive weeks prior to said hearing i'm the
Mankato Free Press, a weekly news
paper printed and published at the
county
Dated June Sth. 1911.
BY the Court,
(seal) EVAN HUGHES,
Judge of Probate
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-16
June 9-16-23
ORDER FOR HEARING APPLICATION
FOR APPOINTMENT OF AD-
MINISTRATOR

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth.-ss. In Probate Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Charles
A. Hemerlick, Decea sed:
On receiving and filing the petition
Of Hiram Memerlick of the county of
Blue Earth. representing among other
things. that Charles A. Hemerlick, late
of the county of Blue Earth in the
state of Minnesota. on the 29th day
of May, A. D. 1911, at the county of
Blue Earth, died intestate. and being
an inhabitant OF this county at the
time of his death. leaving goods, chat
tells, and estate within this county. and
that the said petitioner is the father
OF said deceased. and praying that ad-
mlnlstration of said estate be to l.. A.
Hemerlick. granted;
1t Is Ordered. that said petition be
heard before said court on Saturday the
lst day of July, A. d. 1911 at ten
O'Clock A. NJ. at the probate office in
the court house, in Mankato. in said
county.
Ordered Further that notice thereof
be given to the heirs of said deceased
and to all persons interested. by pub
fishing this order once in each week
for three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing, in the Mankato Free
Press weekly newspaper printed and
published at Mankato, in. said COUNTY.
day of June A D. 1911.
BY the Court
(seal) EVAN HUGHES.
Judge of Probate
j. E. Haycraft.
Attorney
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-06-16
June 2-9-16-'11.
ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS, AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.

State of Minnesota, County of Blue
Earth. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Hattie
y. Mcconnell Decedent.
Letters testamentary on said estate
this day having been granted to Will
lam w. r. Mcconnell.
1t is Ordered, That the time within
which all creditors of the above named
decedent may present craims against
her estate in this court. be, and the
same hereby is. limited to six months
from and after the date hereof; and
that Monday, the 4th day of May, 1911
at ten o'clock a. M, in the probate
court rooms at the court house at Man
kato in said county, be, and the same
hereby is, fixed and appointed as the
time and place for hearing upon and
the examination. adjustment and allow
ance of such claims as shall be present.
ed within the time aforesaid
Let notice hereof be given by the pub
LEGATION of this order in The Mankato
Free Press as provided by law
EVAN HUGHES.
Judge of Probate
Dated May 29th, 1911
probate Court Seal.)
Thomas Hughes,
ATTORNEY