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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
The BUSINESS SITUATION

Among the signs of betterment
noted by Henry Clews in his weekly
letter is the announcement of about
100000, 200 new bonds and short term
notes by five of the leading railroad
systems. chiefly those in the west.
Considering that other issues are eX-
pected to shortly follow, this move
ment must be favorably interpreted
on the ground that it shows at least a
partial revival of confidence among
banking circles. Mr.. Clews holds TO
THE view that no such financing as this
would be attempted unless leading
/ financiers were convinced that condl.
tions are improving. In other direc-
tions he also sees signs of improve
ment. or one of these he says:
| THE home political situation Is
much less threatening. Extreme rad
iealism Is abating under persistent re
buke, and realization of it's injurious
effect upon business. AS long as II
| continues business men are sure tc
postpone new enterprises. This means
slack trade. diminished employment
and an increase in the unemployed
This is something which labor doe:
not always realize when listening te
4 the appeals of radicals who simply
4 wish to win votes by playing upon
class prejudice. 1t Is true the polit
ical situation Is by no means clear
and we must remain exposed to un
pheasant surprises at least until afte
the conventions When these are on
of the way it will be more possible t.
draw conclusions as to the final out
come of the presidential campaign. NJ
important tariff legislation seem
probable, particularly since the Demo
Gratis are not likely to offer any bill
that President Taft will sign
Still another favorable development
having strong bearing upon the mar
ket indirectly is the better under
standing developing between Englan'
and Germany The latter is regarde'
by Mr.. Clews as highly signiican
from an international standpoint
not only removes all possibility of
conflict between England and Gel
many, which not few seriously mine
ed statesmen apprehended, but
also enables two of the greatest pow
ers in the world to modify their e,
travagant expenditures on army an
navy Should it be possible for Ems
land and Germany to come to an agree
ment whereby this waste was Unite
the result would be a vast step fol
ward for civilization as we'll as an il
calculable economic gain; for none
which hitherto has gone into unprc
ductiye directions for ironclads an
armies would be turned into profitabl
: channels. The significance of thi
: peace movement is shown by the rapi
. rise in British consols, which hay
long been considered the premie
security of the world.
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tropical climates for long periods.
without break, except at the cost
mental decay.
Seasonable changes, says Hellpach.
are as important as climatic changes.
Men sleep best under the greatest air
pressure and greatest atmospheric
electricity Work Is worse at the
point where the heat curve reaches
its highest point. It is 8 mistake to
regard winter as tlas. Of decay
and death. Attentiveness and mem
DRY are strongest from October to
January and lowest in summer, the
muscles are strongest in late autumn
and early winter, and the highest
suicide and insanity rate is reached
everywhere in May and June, despite
favorable weather conditions and the
dimunition OF the hardships of pow
erty and unemployment. Hellpach,
however, shows that there are re.
curing periods within the human
body and mind which modify season
able changes. The lives OF Goethe and
other great men indicate that every
seven years the individuals desire for
the love and affection Of the oppo-
site sex rises and then declines until
another seven years has passed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
INK
ll,,ys(liI:e3lIEII5

Truly We do not need to go away
from Denmark for good music for
we have SO much good talent right
here at home. A band is a big thing
for any town, but for as small a place
as Denmark to have band able to
give such an entertainment as they
gave us last Friday is a big thing.
They had good leader and teacher
in Mr.. Grant, but there was also
good material and very good ma
terial for the teacher and leader to
work with. Take the cornet solo
by Frank Dobson; that was simply
grand, and the same can be said of
the trombone solo by Paul Houston.
the coronet solo by Mr.. Grant and
the vocal solo by Mrs. Wharton. All
those who gave solos responded to
encores. The whole entertainment
could not have been better.
Mr.. Trowbridge is a Burlington
visitor today.
| Mr.. and Mrs, Trowbridge have
word that their little grandson at
West Point is quite sick.
Mrs. Fred HEM and Miss Clara
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
DEN MARK
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Rev Hem was TT. Madison Wis
itor Friday.
Rev. Lyman was business caller
in FIT. Madison Tuesday.
Our town seemed deserted last
Wednesday; nearly everyone was at
tending the Klophenstein sale west
of town. The Ladies' Union service
lunch. 1t was good sale.
The sawmill is at Mr.. Davis to-
day.
Mr.. Ase Houston is having a frame
for sixtyfoot octagon barn sawed
out. He plans. to build a new barn
on his place east of town this spring
/ The w. C. T. U. will meet with
Mrs. Harrington on Feb. 2Sth Topic,
Fresh Air in Sleeping Rooms and
Home Hygiene" by Mrs. Goss and
Miss Ruth Park: All are welcome
to these meetings
/ About thirty young folks were en-
Itertained at the Samuel Hazen home
last Friday night at a leap year and
valentine party.
Glen Hazen Of Burlington came
home Friday for an over Sunda,
visit with friends and relatives.
The concert given by the band
assisted by the orchestra last FRIDAY
evening was very fine, indeed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
cRoToN.
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Miss Lola Raines very pleasantly
entertained number of her friends
Wednesday evening. The young peo-
pie enjoyed themselves in playing
music and games. and left at late
hour, reporting jolly good time.
A great number of young people
from our neighbor town, Athens, at
tended prayer meeting here Sunday
evening. We appreciate these attend
ances, and hope that they may come
again.
Miss Florence Wells who is attend
ing high schools in Pennington, and
her friend, Miss Blanch McOmber,
spent Sunday with home folks.
Rev. Hamilton OF Pennington filled
the pulpit here Sunday at 800 p. m.
Miss Bessie Lewis and Mr.. Isom
Hufford attended prayer meeting here
Sunday evening.
Mr.. w. H. Bultin shipped car load
of hogs to st. Louis Tuesday.
Mr.. Bryan Christy of Revere, Mo-,
visited Monday in our city
| T. R. Sawyers made business trip
to Kahoka recently.
Mrs. Eta Graft and son Of Fort
Madison have returned to their home
after spending few weeks with heI
parents, Mr.. w. M. Bultin and wife.
! Mrs. Louisa Smith and daughter
Bessie. we're the guests of her sister
Mrs. Jno. Davis, and also visited a,
the Henry Springer home Thursday
Mr.. Guy Heath of Revere, Mo-, trans
acted business in town Thursday.
Miss Susie Reed of Keokuk was thu
guest of her friend, Miss Audrey Bat
tin, Thursday.
j Mrs. Henry Myers is reported yer,
sick at this time.
i Mrs. Dora Gordon Of Athens. Mo
was shopping In town Tuesday, ant
also visited with Mrs. Addie Harlan
! Mr.. Harry Bedin of Athens, Mo-, at
tended the sale at Louis Parsons
"Wednesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

er. and that all his support comes
from men high in the ranks OF the
Taft opposition, but not particularly
close to Roosevelt either.
For instance, the Chicago Tribune
has no use for Roosevelt. dislikes
him in fact, and used to conjure up
ugly looking stories about his revol.
yer carrying habits, but now the
Tribune has given up La Toilette as
dead sheep and is trying to work
up enthusiasm for Roosevelt The
Tribune has been claiming great re
suits on the basis Of straw votes, but
received a disheartening blow at the
recent Chicago convention, when
Roosevelt was turned down by an
overwhelming vote and Taft was en-
dorsed.
Roosevelt II nominated can never
be elected Only the crisis of inter
national peril can ever overturn the
third term sentiment In this country
and that crisis does not exist, and
Roosevelt would not be turned to II
1t did
The enemies OF Taft are in the
slough Of despond.
1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
THE SET OF THE TIDE.

The Gate City is in full accord with
the view of an editorial writer in the
Buffalo News that nothing more GER
tainly proves the essential conserva-
tive quality of the people than the
steady set of the political current
toward Taft. He has made mistakes
from the politicians point Of view, but
such mistakes have been over things
of no concern and due more to lack
of imagination and defect of tact than
to anything else.
Little bluntnesses count against a
statesman at times, but they are held
4 to be of no more moment than is their
real nature when it Is seen that a
/ President is doing big things in a big
way as fast as such things need to be
done. This Is especially true when it is
noted that President has initiative
and does not just run along with his
party, Or with the times In which he
Lives.
A This paper also agrees that Presi
dent Taft has done enough splendid
things to make his administration
live in history even if it goes no furth
er than next March. Few Presidents
have done as much in any eight years
as he has done in three. The country
has made more real progress alread!
in his day and under his leadership
than it could have made IL Progress
sive of the most pronounced type
were in the White House.
; In a word, as the writer abov,
quoted points out, Mr.. Taft is tn,
truest kind of progressive He maker
no false steps and has none to retrac'
, when he has made an advance. Thu
! coolest critic even of the famous WI
mona speech of nearly three years ag'
{. cannot read it honestly and complain
of more than an awkwardness o
statement, putting the wrong thin
foremost and the right thing of TIL
argument last, forgetting that peopl
seldom read far into political speeche
7 SO that the unfriendly have ever
r chance to garble and misquote an
t misinterpret what is said and ge
. away with 1t.
III Is the perception OF the falrnes!
!. the great capacity of mind and the al
!. solute courage of his convictions tina
/ is winning the popular approval, fo
they found the President ideally hol
/, est long ago. 1t is even intimate
: now that the LaFollette men ma
; turn to Taft instead of to any othe
because they know where to find hi
d and that they can trust him to go TO
t ward even if not as fast as they Xix
t State after state falls into line fo
a Taft and every delegate thus ia
;. chosen is for him. There will be lit
l. else in the Chicago convention tina
Il sentiment for denomination.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
ARE YOU FREE
FROM

Headaches. Colds. Indigestion
Pains. Constipation, Sour Stomach,
Dizzinessa lfyou are not the most
effective, prompt and pleasant
method Of getting nd Of them is to
take, now and then. a desertspoon-
full Of the ever refreshing and truly
beneficial laxative remedy-Syrup
Of Figs and Elixir Of SIENNA. Ii is
well known throughout the world
as the best Of family laxative rene
dies, because it acts SO gently and
strengthens naturally without I'M
tatlng the system in any way.
To get its beneficial effects It i,
always necessary to buy the genu.
Inc, manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co., bearing the name
OF the Company, plainly printed on
the front Of every package.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
TURNING to Taft.

Iowa City Republican: Political af.
fairs are beginning to shape them.
selves with rapidity that is startling.
and everything looks to the renomi
nation of President Taft. One after
another the supporters of La Fol
lette are deserving him, and turning
in desperation to Roosevelt. The
Cummins candidacy is not attracting
the slightest attention outside o.
Iowa, and very little in the state
The disheartening feature of the
Roosevelt tentative candidacy is tina
the people, who are supposed TO idol
ize him, show no enthusiasm whatev
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
cosT 81 HAuLlNa PRODUCE.

1t is estimated that there are within
the United States approximately q
900, 900 miles of public highways. No
less an authority than the United
States department of agriculture sup
plies the estimate that annually over
these roads 200,o0o,00o tons Of Yarn
produce are hauled to market each
year.
The same authority supplies the
statement that the average haul of
farm produce from the farm to the
markets, or the railroad stations, is
ten miles. 1t is also vouched for that
the cost per ten mile for transporting
this vast annual agricultural product
lis approximately % cents.
To arrive nearer to the actual cost,
1t should be understood that in some
states where road conditions are more
favorable than in others, the average
cost is about Ii cents, while in some
other parts of the country where the
roads are in poor condition the cost
is as high as S5 cents per ton mile.
With the cost at the estimated aver
age. the expense of transporting Am
erfcan farm products to market over
the highways reaches the enormous
sum of SAGE, 100000 annually. This in
no manner includes transportation by
rail or water, but just the cost to the
people of public road transportation.
Best informed students in the mat
ter OF transportation, contend, and
with everything to favor and prove
their contentious, that two-thirds Of
this great expense could be avoided,
and can be done away with, by sim
ply bringing American highways up to
the standard of the public road sys-
where the cost Of road transportation,
owing to the most excellent roads, is
as low as and 9 cents per ton mile.
In the good roads question there
are involved economic principles that
not alone affect the farmers, who are
the producers of the products that are
transported, but vitality interests ev'
cry citizen of the land. This increases
the high cost of living to degree lit
tie considered by the average citizen
1t requires about two-thirds Of g
ton of food for the average person
during the year. Thus we find thai
for every one of the nations popula
ton the cost of road transportation
for the food supply alone is approx
mately SITS per year, or for the ma
tion, an amount in excess of 100000,
z GEO. This is expense, for two-thirds o
which there is no compensatory bal
ance. 1t is wealth that is unneces
sarily wasted. 1t all could be eliminat
ed by putting into effect a system o
national and state road betterment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
ANOTHER "HouN, pAwer SONG

AS already noted in these columns,
Missouri Democracy has adopted
They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg
Aroun' as an official campaign song.
The Ozark tune will be sung at the
state convention at Joplin February
20. All delegates and spectators will
be provided with printed copies
and will be urged to Join in the cho-
rus when the band begins to play.
Al new version of the production has
appeared as follows:
Wunst me N Lem Briggs n oil
Bill Brown
Tux a load of Gavin to town,
An oil Jim-dawg the onry cuss-
He je' nachelly follered us.
CHORUS.
Every time come to town
The boys keep kickin my dawg
aroun':
Makes no difference II he is a houn,
They gotta quit klckin' my dawg
/ aroun':
AS we driv' past Sam Johnsons store
PASSED. O. yaps ken out tn door;
When jim he stops to smell box.
They SHE'D at him bunch O. rocks
They tied tin can to his tail
An run him past tn county jail
IN that plump nachelly makes me
/ sore,
IN Lem he cussed n Bill he swore
lMe n Lem Briggs n OF Bill Brown
We lost no time in ajumpin down
An we wiped them ducks up on tn
groun'
Fer kickin' my oil dawg aroun'.
Folks say dawg KANT hold nj
grudge,
But wunst when / got too mucl
bulge
Them town ducks tried to do me uT
But they didn't count on oil Jimpur
Jim seed his duty thar an then
An he lit into them gentlemen,
An shore he mussed up the cote
house square
with rags n meat n hide N hair.
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Provision.

Provision.
cannot tell what way the years win
lead.
How hands may falter and how feet
may bleed.
What deep contentment shall have
or need
I cannot tell.
] do not know why the feet early
years
Should shake me with surmiBe OF
future tears;
Why golden suns should set In gloom
Of fears
do not know.
must not ask OF winter winds that
come
cold and dumb,
II | shall rest there well--of my last
I must not ask.
shall not shrink maybe I shall not
dread,
When time has slowed my step and
bowed my head.
To go away; to join the cloistered
dead,
shall not shrink.
! shall have hope, in spite of heavy
shame,
Among Gods pensioners to find my
name.
In Him who for the strayed and lost
ones came
] shall have hope.
Charles l.. O'Donnell in Ave Maria
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

In column article the Mt. Pleasant
Journal presents Captain Lot Abraham
of that place as a candidate for dele
gate to the national Republican con
vention from the First district of Iowa
Captain Abraham has had distin-
guished career and richly merits any
distinction the Republicans of the dis
trict can confer on him He will be
n strong candidate in the convention
and likely winning one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

Fourteen instructed Taft delegates
TO the Chicago convention We're elect
ed last week, bringing the Presidents
total score TO thirty-two. If there is
any real opposition to President Taft's
denomination it has not been made
manifest through the selection OF anti
Taft delegates. The delegates added
to the Taft column last week We're the
four from Georgia at large. and two
each from the First, Fifth and Ninth
Georgia districts, the Eighth Virginia
district and the First Tennessee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

The action of Calhoun county Re
publicans in declaring for Taft by de
cisive majorities continues TO be the
subject of comment. Political lead
ers at Des Moines declare that if the
Taft Republicans can make that kind
OF showing In the insurgent Tenth
district of Iowa the Iowa favorite son
contingent will have difficulty in hold
Ing the territory which has hitherto
been conceded to them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

The Wapello county primaries held
last Saturday were almost unanimous
for Taft. twenty-five township pre-
cincts instructed ffty-seven delegates
for the President, leaving three anti
Taft and three others doubtful. The
drift of political events is all in the
direction of another term for the
present chief executive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

Woodroffe drove to Fl Madison last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Chrisenson is slowly gaining.
She has been great sufferer for
year past.
Mr.. Miner is slowly improving.
The two younger children of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Van Huyle have
been very sick but are improving.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

In commenting upon Mr.. Edison's
prediction that there will be no power
to hundred years hence the Quincy
Wing points out that this gives the
Republican party longer lease of
power than the most optimistic par
tisan has claimed for it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

"Houn' dog song" is now further
advanced in fame by large red but
ton bearing the words, You've got to
quit kicking my dog around with a
small aluminium dog suspended from
the button. And yet. 1t has been
claimed that the people OF this coun
try are too intent on making money to
appreciate literature and music.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Courage and Hope.

The men whom have seen succeed
best in life have been cheerful and
hopeful men, who went about their
business with smile on their faces.
and took the changes of this mortal
life like men, facing rough and smooth
, alike as it came. Charles Kingsley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Kin Can.

Kin Hubbard has noticed how qnick-
" man who really knows something
can break up discussion Gate City
That may be, but Kin Hubbard
prove it?- Keosaudua Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Alpha and Omega Of Success.

Began by pushing wheelbarrows
now millionaire" is typical Amer
lean career In nutshell. But finished
by being investigated" is sometimes
the last chapter.-Louisyille Courier
Journal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

Sanerkraut has been recommended
by scientific authority as a promoter
of longevity. Scares the germs?
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

THOUGHT FOR. THE DAY.
The men who are lifting the world
upward and onward are those who
encourage more than criticise Eliza
beth Harrison.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-12
WATERPROOF PROCEED
 INGS OF SENATORS
(Continued from Page n.

speaking as he said "advisedly," as serted 'hat the Sloan administration had "stOien" d large amount of money in handling the affairs of the state gov ,.rnment. This incorporate statement brought sharp reproOf from Senator Hubbell. Tt is easy to make assertions of that sort the senator said. They are frequently made by men who don't know quite what they are talking about. If the gentleman knows that money mas been stolen it is his duty to furnish the evidence I call his atten- ton to the fact that the man who has evidence of a crime anl ronceals that evidence is himself d criminal
 Mir HubbelTs reproOf was administ- cred good natured1y; for of course he. as well IS everyone else, was aware of the fac, that the Yavapai senator's statement was dictated by MT. Woods well known liking for the sound of his own voice.
 This debate. which had to do with the Chevalon bridge matter and the money paid for by the various counties for road improvements finally drifted into political debate ill which the names If Champ Clark, George Hunt and Carl Hayden figured prominently. The mathematical sharps have figured that the senate has already spent enough money. at $500 a day, to have paid for the greater part of the cost of the Chevalon bridge. The amount asked for is $5500.
 The question of the removal of the industrial school from Benson came up again yesterday. The aiu was read the second time and was finally referr- ed to the expressing co mittee. The bill as it now stands provides for the purchase of the Cuff raucl in Graham county.
 About every conceivable proposition has been advanced with reference to this bill. When it was under discussion
Arizona republican., 1912-06-12

ought to make him have an appetite for week to come. The lady in the combination is pretty and cute but she will have torticollis if she doesn't stop trying to Wigwag the birdies in the tree tops with her chin At the end of their act Curtis and Le Van change clothes and sing ditty about the Coming Woman and the Going Man who is going going gone, but nobody knOWnS what he has gone on.
 Lynne and Klimet have minstrel act called The Slew Duck Stealers Minstrels," in which they do. num- Der of funny limitations, among them being a lot of baseball plays that makes every old fan in the audience sit up and shout. Their parody on the concert announcement which ali ways follows circus, is rich. They also take a Whack at the "Sufferin' Yet and proclaim that in the com ing day when woman gets her way, our country's flag will be talc,im powder rag.
 Curran and Edwards must need the