The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-27

the publication of his portrait is not
nlodesty, by any means. There are a
few men who try to prevent the pub
lication Of their portraits, but instead
of this being a trait if modesty, it is
a form Of advanced egotism-thoug
they don't know it. 1t analyses out
that way, however Every other man
of Hugh l.. Cooper's rank in the world
has had his picture in the papers;
this makes Mr.. Cooper different from
the Others, it gives him additional
distinction. Such photographers sub
consciously feel this and are surprised
when some brutally frank person tells
will surprise Mr.. Cooper.
No doubt he would admit that he is
ambitious, and glory in it. He is only
about forty-five years old, was born
nowhere in particular in frontier Wis
consin, and he made his first money
raising pigs from a SOW he acquired
when a boy. 1t takes lot OF ambi-
ton to elevate man from that be-
ginning to the pinnacle on which
Hugh l.. Cooper stands today. The
really controlling reason why the
Mississippi is being damned at the
Des Moines rapids is that a compar-
atively young great man saw in it
some satisfaction to his ineXorable
ambition which ambition enabled him
to attain the impossible over many
difficulties with men of much money.
What Keeps Him Awake Nights.
Not that as an engineering prob
lem did it bother this engineer much
] have managed to shove out from I'M
der the rose this remark; Mr.. Cooper
made it the other day:
My wife scolds me sometimes for
lying awake at nights, kept awake by
what's bothering me. Not the build
ing of this dam-that is child's play
for me-but am worrying about what
I'll do when this dam is done, in q
couple Of years"
Another such man named Alexander
the Great is reported to have actually
shed tears over the same difficulty of
finding new and greater things to
conquer
The more one knows about en-
cheering, the more one realizes that
it will be hard to find a greater en-
cheering feat to achieve than the
building of this greatest water power
in the upper Mississippi-not only as
eli engineering problem, but in all the
tremendously beneficent economic
forces it will produce.
But when Hugh l.. Cooper ceases to
search for still greater things to do,
there will be immortelles on his coffin.
Painted in Paragraph.
A man of tremendous dynamics
both mental and material, great am.
bition, laurel crowned in his profes-
! sion, who really is interested in the
tooth his neighbours baby is cutting
and with all mankind for his neigh
/ bors; a man who translates eternal
mathematics into eternal concrete
! and places poet above the multi
millionaire; a man whose diplomacy
/ gives him checking account of scores
Of millions of dollars and make every
| farmer he meets his friend, because
it is the. diplomacy of genuine sin
cerity of thought, word and action al
1 ways; man who shuns asking ia
i yors, and showers favors upon every
body he meets: a man who can dc
| more work in day than anybody he
4 can hire, and who never seems busy;
q man who thinks in hundreds o.
! thousands of kilowatts, hundreds Of
millions Of dollars, and millions o
population, and who stops to pick out
the very finest and most delicate VIC
! let the flower girl is going to get ter
| prices for in minute; man who
I is more anxious for the good will anG
friendship of every farmer. merchant
wage Garner. banker and housewife il
! Lee, Des Moines and Hancock coun
/ ties than he is concerned about tn.
/ stage of-water in the river this sum
| mer that is the kind of a man Hugh
| u. Cooper is-the kind of man who is
accepting invitations to speak at meet
/ ings all over this section in cities anC
towns, not because anybody AROUND
here can be of assistance to him am
more, but because they have bee,
good to him during the last five years
and he earnestly desires to become &C
/ Quainted with them, neighborly Will
them, and to make them presents
4 of new potatoes and sweet radishe.
over the garden fence desires then
to get all the benefit possible out o
this almost incomprehensibly bis
thing he has brought them and laic
down at the foot of the rapids in the
great river.
Many ills come from impure blood
Can't have pure blood with faulty di
gestion. lazy liver and sluggish bow
.e's. Burdock Blood Bitters strength
ems stomach, bowels and liver. ant
pufifies the blood