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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

A Chicago Judge has ruled that the
owner of a flock of chickens which
show fondness for meandering into
neighbor's garden and smashing the
proprietors hopes to smithereens
shall give good and sufficient bonds
for the good behavior of his fowls. So
Tar SO good Now who is to deter
mine the exact amount of damage
done by trespassing fowls? Let us
Rhave this question of world-old stand
i ing brought to complete settlement
while We are at it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

According to shoe dealers, the feet
of Kansas City women have doubled
in size during the last twenty years,
and excessive hill climbing is attribut-
ed as the cause. The theory seems
quite plausible There are practically
no hills here in Keokuk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The opinion prevails quite generally
Throughout Illinois that the recent cy-
clone that did SO much damage at
Springfield must have been under the
impression that the Illinois legisla-
Iture was in session
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

A Kansas City washerwoman who
pricked her hand on a pin while do
ing a washing, sustaining a severe in.
jury. sued for $4,000 damages. But the
circuit court there held that it is just
as much the duty of washerwoman
to look for pins in the clothes she Is
washing as it is of the housewife.
Thus another age-old question takes
its place among the has-beens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

THE LOST CHORD.
Seated one day at the organ,
was weary and i'll at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys;
know not what was playing,
Or what was dreaming then;
But struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of great amen.
tt flooded the crimson twilight,
Like the close of an angels psalm,
And it lay on my fevered spirit,
z With touch of infinite calm.
Fl united pain and sorrow,
Like love overcoming strife,
h seemed like harmless echo
From our discordant life.
It linked perplexing meanings
Into the perfect peace,
And trembled away into silence,
AS If 1t were loathe to cease;
have sought, but seek it vainly,
That one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the or
gan,
And entered into mine.
ft may be that deaths bright angel.
Will speak in that chord again,
1t may be that only in heaven
| shall hear that grand amen.
Adelaide Anne Proctor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
Ten thousand chickens were

Ten thousand chickens were con-
sumed at Louisiana, Mo- at the Pike
County celebration in honor of Speak
er Champ Clarks Homecoming. That's
the way the Missouri Democrats meet
the question of the increased cost of
living in actual practice, whatever
they may say on the stump or in the
newspapers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

/ II President Taft wants to make
himself solid with Iowans with
Eout regard to party or faction all he
thas to do is to declare In favor of
big crops and more of them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
set the effect of one of Billy Sundays
sermons

set the effect of one of Billy Sundays
sermons.
But what If Canada should decide
to annex the United States?" suggests
the Webster City Freeman-Tribune.
Had you thought of that?"
The Davenport Times says that
Pinchot appears to have gone to Alas
ka to gather ammunition for La Fol
lette, and Fisher to get facts for Taft.
No tariff schedule can help or
harm man whose expense account
is always greater than his income
says the Marshalltown Times-Repub-
lican.
The Manchester Press says 1t would
rather trust the judgment of Presi-
dent Taft as to the merits Of the pend
ing arbitration treaties than that OF
ex-President Roosevelt.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
says that cooperative stores fail be-
cause the co-operators want the big
end of the deal ut takes money to do
business" the Times-Republican adds.
1t is announced that Senator La
Toilette will begin series of public
addresses in October. Begin is not
the word" comments the Ida Grove
Pioneer; they should have said that
he will continue his speeches"
Simpkins always was soft-hearted
This is what he wrote:
Dear Mrs. Jones-Your husband
cannot come home today because his
bathing suit was washed away.
Up. S.-Poor Jones was inside the
suit
"If the price of whisky should go
up as the price Of sugar has gone up"
says the Cedar Rapids Republican,
mo one would make any fuss about 1t.
The fellows who drink 1t would pay
the price and think that they were
getting their moneys worth. There is
difference"
/
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The clerk of Marion county, In
ldiana, (Indianapolis) gives away a
cook book with each marriage license.
HE is evidently determined to do what
he can to minimize the causes of d.
NORGE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

7 Upton SinclaiTs father-in-law says
he is on "unripe persimmon." This
tends to confirm the popular belief
that what Upton most needs is a
eevere frost"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

you bet your life' was once
sslang expression. Now it is what an
aviator does every time he makes a
flight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The apple growers are urged by
Rhe Sioux City Journal to convert
their surplus into cider and let it
work for them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

( A Waterloo bank clerk has gone
hwrong, and from the same old cause
-autmob bile appetite in conjunction
with a wheelbarrow income.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

Abe Martin is convinced that the
girl that wears a hobble skirt wouldn't
stoop to do lots of things.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

pronounce It 'Gahby Dayleese,' -
says the owner OF it. Still better,
Icall 1t rotten and let it go at that.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
The American hen added $500 600.

600 to the wealth of the country dur
Fang the past year. 1t can be truth
fully said of her that she is more
helpful than all the calamity howlers
land muckrakers combined.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

Prohibition is still the Maine aues
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The foregoing may well serve as a
horrible example of the undeveloped
and unsatisfactory condition of liter
allure at it's best in the eastern states.
Stacked up alongside some of our
western, and particularly some of our
Iowa-and still more particularly
some Of our Keokuk productions-it
reminds one involuntarily of FREELY
in attempted competition with the
MONDAY sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
NOTES AND COMMENT.

THE movement for La Toilette has
no purpose to strengthen the Republi-
can party says the Eagle Grove
Eagle.
The Scranton Journal says that La
Toilette can't be nominated unless
there is political earthquake in the
near future
The Des Moines Tribune observes
that in a city with tai-end baseball
team there is always a warm greet
Ing for the news that football practice
has begun.
Boston high-brow proclaims that
there is no place in the universe for a
hell But the Des Moines Tribune de-
clares that it will take much more
than mere assertion like that to off
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
A FEMALE SCAMP.

It Is with large measure of regret
that the admission is made that all
the veally effusions of amateur poets
do not get their first publicity through
the columns of this paper. The num-
Der and variety of such contributions
doubtless long ago led the average
reader Of this journal Of civilization to
believe that he was reaping the bene-
fit of the entire output, but the
simple honesty and candor for which
this paper Is distinguished prompt the
acknowledgement that now and then
the production of some budding gen.
ius finds its way into other columns
than our own. Of course the authors
of such exceptional effusions are but
feeble imitators Of Poet DINNER the
Sweet Singer of Michigan, the Bard
of Red Oak and other we'll known
literary lights. AS showing the crudi-
ty Of their work, in comparison with
the finished productions contributed
directly to these columns, the follow
ing lines found in an eastern paper
are reproduced in all their rawness:
When my heart was broke by a female
scamp
wept till my Sunday shirt was damp.
Then ! grit my teeth and my feet did
stamp,
And against the bit Of fate did champ
Till my soul was free from PASSIONS
cramp;
Then forth l set on lonely tramp,
My health and spirits to revamp;
In the Dismal Swamp 1 pitched my
camp,
The lightning bug my only lamp:
And I deem the wiles of that female
scamp
Well swapped for the snakes that
haunt the swamp.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
Ointon's Storage
1inton's Transfer

Merchandise, Machinery. Furniture
Stoves, Musical Instruments. Pictures
and everything In tho Storage line.
Large, clean, safe warehouses. Prices
reasonable Including Insurance.
TRANSFER LINE IN CONNECTION
Office 62s eiondeau. Both 'phones IS
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
Perfect happiness is good health, a
clear conscience and a capacity of
hppreciation.-Presi Eliot.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

keokuk, Iowa Sept. 20, 1911
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The Davenport Times says that
Pinchot appears to have gone to Alas
ka to gather ammunition for La Fol
lette, and Fisher to get facts for Taft.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

But what if Canada should decide
to annex the United States?" suggests
the Webster City Freeman-T Tribune.
Had you thought of that?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The Manchester Press says It would
rather trust the judgment of Presi-
dent Taft as to the merits of the pend
ing arbitration treaties than that OF
Roosevelt.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01
SOME BIG BILLS A REAL GOVERNOR
OBTAINED FOR PEOPLE IN OHIO

plan oscoa States senators
BY direct Of the people
Placing judiciary beyond party bosses b
electing all judges noapartlsan ballots
wokrnmens that
damages without expensive and tedious litigation.
public utility with authority Of
stock rates and service
will buying primaries and
electionS dangerous undertaking.
= ii~ftsd initiative and referendum Ohio
central board Of control for The
poyes This bill places subordinate the
civil
ballot aeoshna nsrpsry directors Of three
reform Of Ohio election prevent corruption fraud
TO delegates tho 1912 Ohio convention no
mated hy petition only and elected ballots
TO stimulate the agricultural Industry
taught IN all Ohio village and country Schools
Ratification Of the proposed federal
constitution.
Msneria4ina 70 oa pya for ba airsst
election . United sfsStors
nsurn5 the honest handling Of all money By dsposuna in banks
under the competitive bidding plan.
Creating fund Of s3ocoooo lo 70 Give Ohio
system Of improved roaaways BEST world
complete reformation tax 5osasvs e w
ard Will cmpe nnaibs pssr
that have hean lodging
small Included per cent -. sv
limit bill. - |
Providing for the construction reforatery ard ss
nG az girls n the state correctional institutions the esnro %
Public utilities hi corrupt practices initiative ass s
enduw passed both houses ef the
committee These bills will become laws satisfactory form
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

Of a market for prison manufactured
goods and the concentration Of author
ity over nineteen state Institutions Is
expected ~ add another 100000 to
the state revenues Thus was the sit
uation met and the state restored TO a
sound financial basis without any ad.
ditional burdens being imposed on the
people who are least able 70 be further
taxed
Voters like to support clean and
able men. rs has been dcnifvl trated in
many localities where the electors dis
played remarkable discrimination in
honoring exceptional men with an OK.
ceptional vote. This explains why III
strongly Republican state Judson
Harmon was elected governor Of Ohio
two years ago by plurality Of 1892
In the face Of Republican plurality
Of 69,J9l Ia the vote for president.
On his record as governor Of the state
J1dson Harmon was prepared to go
before the people and ask reelection
WIN lAEASh1nk H@NHtnt hii}t INT
election machinery against him, with
the president Of the United States, a
citizen of the same state. lighting him
for reelection and ia the face OF a
strong Republican sentiment TO COM
bat, Governor Harmon nevertheless
was given majority Of 10000.
Ohio repudnted her fayorite son,
William II Taft, president Of the
United States Governor Harmon
won the greatest Democratic victory
ID the history of Ohio OF of the mid
lie west. It was q crushing blow 70
the president
There are some things in OHIO more
popular than the Taft smile one Of
them is the Hon Judson Harmon,
who VIII countenance no frils and
who sits oH the edge Of q big table
that occupies the center of the gov
ernor's reception room aud chats with
visitors Common as an old shoe
Is the way Ohio farmers size UP their
governor after they see him perched
on that table swinging his feet, and
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

elins bad hean demanding and plead
luk fag in vain Tor decades
fae supwmely important achieve
Aea,s II ghe ohio Democracy under
th sadegshp Of Governor Harmon
mss IS divided into transactions aud
IS s'auons nrst. tor the elimination
Il esaIt, see0na such reform IN the
lax system as viii protect the Tux
lMNeg from the tax sgender and wlll
eompel corporations io stop dodging
taxes and pay along with all indi-
yiaua property owners; third, the APP
plieailep Of business methods and
epaomy m public expenditures, and,
tgNfih, the enactment 90 purely nou-
partisan laws fer the benefit Of the
eutire people irrespective Of political
parties, and designed 20 make rule by
interest seeking corporations extreme
III difficult ana rule by ihe people easy.
After Ne became governor two years
ago Mr.. Harmon quietly began his in
yestieation az the methods BY which
public money had been loaned by Re
publican state treasurers. He learned
they put interest earnings IN their
pockets There followed In rapid order
suits against the estate and bondsmeu
Of ". S. McNinnon, former state treas
urer s3r Sil6,1s5 and interest thereon
against former state Treasurer l. u
Cameron and his bondsmen for s2ll,
ri and interest thereon, They were
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

compelling all Ohio political divisions
to purchase such supplies as they
need from The penal Institutions,
Employers and employee locked in
a struggle over a worklngAens com
pensaiion act. aud when !t scetnea
there would De no bill passed Soy-
erner Harmon stopped IN aud acted -
arbitrator Al bin was framed aua
drafted itat has been approved by
both employees and employers.
The compulsory provisions which
made the New York ACT uncop4lltu.
iianal were not Incorporated lplo Abe
Ohio act lnstead The employer could
elect either o ray Into the compensaa
ton fund or nos 20 pay II he should
not avail himself of the law however
the employee may sue for damages fof
Injuries, or hls legal representative IN
case Of death may maintain the action.
And IN such suits the employer IS dc
nriyed OF the common law defenses OF
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01
GOVERNOR JUDSON
HARMON OF OHIO
~ a. " ABERNET THY
4 Nial

~0LpAfRUS. . Esnesial
Maea she heesgg chaggos
- against members us ihe 0hN
gcnesA assembly exploded vljh
the s8slaeuugss aaa fove ef 0ema
AL seat >eeces IS haht tog lswyevS
Governor 1uesm flaun,e gooA tAC
sasne view as The Personality q epai
thAs he dsa when 81 geitesssd So Tres
iaeUt Roosevelt shag pAw Merton y
member og bis eahlaet had heSu gp1sy
~ grantiug rebates while aN efiieeg
Of fhe Santa fe railroad. s1ait Is
always personal said Harmon q
Roosevelt, ana be resigned his conF
mission 10 Investigate whating he
Cause Teddy was inclmed to shield
Morton.
A few hours after the bribery charges
were filed The Ohio executive seut out
sn order that no man should be spared
III the legislative hoodling inyestlga.
tion. Party and even persona friend
ships must be SET aside, the governor
said and the entire situation cleaned
up
Throughout nineteen years OF con
tinuous control Republican state nd
minisirations. when charges Of irree
ularitias were made involving members
of their party. assumed the attitude
They are our thieves, aud we must
defend them. There Is an Ohio stat
ute which grants Immunity TO every
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

BEAUTIFUL HAIR
Color and Beauty of tbe Halr
Preserved With q Harmless
Remedy Made from Sage

rmreists are wAert continent On Ias y.
fset tbat thuY afe ssllinE large 4 qlahl, Az
tlea az sage fer mgsing oia-iashi'Ds,
assxs tea such as was used y cas
Vrandmothars for prgmonns me sioN.D
N thelf hair, maEIpg i flaffy zhs VfAa'
f!ful ara restoring ~ rAtafal eo'of
Ths semana for this well known heIe ,'
for tits purpose has been 70 great ihAs
ens manufacsurer hha taken edvantags
81 sbs fact and hag placed o. The market
NJ iaeal "fage tea," containing solghaFs
valuable remedy ior daaafuff sAa
soslp rashes and irriistiens, calleH
wreth's Sage end Sulphur Hair Remedy.
The msnataef1ers q IBIS remedy
authorize druggists 20 yell it gader guar
ausee that fhe money VIII be refunded x
Il falls % do exactly ss repreaentea
T-hls preparation y Offered 70 mo
publle at fifty cents bottle sud ls
recommended and sold By al druggists.
ageaa Agent 0wl ineg ~ D'
ia Oklahoma ave
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

one who testifies before q legislative
committee, and this law. together with
d whitewaeh brush had prevented any
Republican law ylolaior from bcine
! hailed before a court Of jnstice.
Naturally there was great rush by
distraught members for legislative
immunity. But Governor Harmon
promptly pulled the plug OF the i'm.
munity bathiub and prevented amy
one bathing ia iis soothing waters by
insisting that no legislative inyesdgat.
ing committee be appointed and that
the Inquest Of the grand jury be the
only probe
Indictments were returned against
seven members Of the general assem-
bly, and the eergeantat.arms OF the
senate, and these cases will take the
aame course Oh that Of the most hum
bic citizen who becomes involved ia
criminal charges a cotcrie Of Demo
Gratis who bad been lighting the gov
erncrs bills were among the members
indicted.
In less than three years Of his adj
ministration Governor Harmon has
nada q record Of accomplishment mn
psralieled in the History Of Ohio poll.
tics. He has wrought more progress
for the people than was accomplished
III the forty years that preceded him.
There has been written into the stat
sltas legislation that the enlightened
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

tovKENuR HARMON CATCHES FISH as WE'LL
Az yorES.
were placed III single board of four,
while a single fiscal agent replaced the
nineteen stewards.
The advantage Of purchasing sup.
plies for an Institutions IN bulk and
the sduction in employers will save
the late 100000 a year. This law
makes II possible to utilize the work
OF prisoners and also creates market
for thelr manufactured products by
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01

iiIed 10 Dayton has never essHsed No
governor has evrr been oppressed ~ SO
strong o force as Governor Harmon
During hls ffsf term Of tw0 wears d
Republican general assembly io ds
credit him reduced thc treasury hai-
ance s2,o52 s5ses by making approprl
ations exceed revenues and also Great.
Ell obligations amounting % s20o000
more By deciding to build new siruc
tuFes for state Institutions. When the
feyenees were reduced N90QO9 4 gear
by voting oui saloons and aeycrai bum
drea thousands OF anpw gere added
to the wrong colunft NV the abolish
mont d prison lafhy cehlfaeis IInr.
mons arms were apparently tied and
his enemies laughed at hls discomfort
The governor promptly reduced public
expenditures Thpn, Instead of d gen
efal lcvy, Che proper enforcement of
The excise laws provided 100000 adds.
tional every year. The establishment
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01
4oN IUOsON HARMON, GOVERNOR Of OHIO.

Republicans Another graft investi-
CATION brought forth the exposure.
prosecution and conviction Of Mark
Slater, former Republican state print
er on graft charges in lesser degrees;
the settlement Of an interest claim OF
over $500 on funds carried in the
bank for former Republican state Au-
ditor walter u GuIlbert and the filing
Of a claim for over $3l 900 with the re-
celYcr Of q defunet bank at Columbus
as an interest charge on funds carried
IN that bank by Mr. Guilbert as au-
ditor
These revelations during the COVER.
nor's 6rst term awakened tho civic
conscience and paved the way for his
subsequent reelection. The Democrats
captured the general assembly &C the
lame time.
Then Governor Harmon renewed his
efforts in behalf OF certain bills two
Republican general assemblies denied
him.
Thc most notable achievement ac.
comnlished By the executive during the
legislative session was the enactment
Of the Wyman bin, including the Ore
ron plan Of nominating and electing
United states senator's.
A conference committee was appoint
ed 10 frame compromise senatorial
nomination aud election bill u would
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-01
SOME HARMON EpIGRAMS


peFsonaI
Ieus vote Republican United the people
declared for Republican, and would h proud 20 do H.
Tor would npiy be doing win Of the
emblem municipal elections aid 10 The ignorant
UPRIGHT intelligent cleo
parties off they kept out Of
munic
support the have conomizs Why
houd public do the Same?
rongdolns that brings shanNe
TO state,b but faau TO puka Q
broadly useful for lts
with things which have been devel
rreAt - ~~vgi
relief he interests which profit through
tariff HIa~sar III allowed to frame them
lawyers Is his and hand but his ever dis
crown him.
The daily sentinel., 1911-12-18
FALL ON NECK
CURES MAN Of
HIS EPILEPSY
John Riley in County Jail Tells of
Curious Surgical Phenomena
Had Fits Tor Years.-Feu
From Band Wagon.

The latest sure cure for epileptic
fits is good hard blow on the neck
at the base of the skull At least this
is the cure that removed traces OF the
diesase from John Riley, the pris-
oner at the county Jail. who today
pleaded guilty to the theft OF a drum
from the Salvation Army hall.
Morgan told of how many years
ago that he was subject to epileptic
fits in n terrible form, He stated
that on one occasion while he was
playing in the Sells-Flotu band that
he fell from the band wagon striking
on his neck. After that fall he never
had another attack Owing to the
peculiar nature OF the disease, local
physicians believe that the accident
was a wonderful one, but state chat
it might not happen again in years.