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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Renovatlna Painting.

Often the beauty of a painting ia
lost because it is so thickly covered
with dust. To remedy this follow
these suggestions:
Brush the painting free from dust
and wash the canvas with water, u.s.
ing sponge. Now take piece of
shaving soap and rub 1t over the en-
tire painting, leaving 1t on a very
short while. Scrub off with brush,
and when it Is thoroughly dried, rub
the canvas with a piece of linen which
has been dipped into benzine. Do not
use this too freely, however. If the
painting appears dull, a little olive oil
will benefit this. A coat of thin, col
orless varnish is now applied, which
protects the painting and keeps II
bright for q long time.
To brighten gold frame. boil some
onions in water until soft, mash them
fine and use the fluid that is extract
ed.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
RECOGNIZING People.

Data have been gathered In Ger
many with reference to the distance
at which persons may be recognized
by their faces and figures. If one
has good eyes, the Germans claim,
one cannot recognize person whom
he has seen only once at a greater
distance than 80 feet. If the person
Is we'll known to one, one may recog-
nize him at 800 feet and II it is a
member of ones family, even at 500
feet.-6cientif1c American.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
For Cleaning Sewing Machine.

First place 1t near fro to gel
warm that the CONCEALED oil may
melt, then oil 1t thoroughly with par.
ann Work 1t quickly for few min.
utes, then wipe of all the paraffin and
dirt. Treat 1t to very little of the
machine oil, and after the application
of little more kerosene wipe II
again and it will be ready for use.
People often shirk the trouble OF
cleaning their machines like this, but
a clogged and heavy machine undei
this treatment will become like new,
and It's easy working will be ample
reward for the trouble incurred.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Hose or Hosiery.

A New Rochellite whose yard need
ed fall attention, called at the hard
ware department of New York store.
Il am in need of some lawn hose" he
said. ''Try the hosiery department,
second floor" responded the young
lady in charge.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Rolled Bib Roast.

Have the backbone and ribs removed
and utilize them for making stew
for lunch. Tie the meat into round
shape and sprinkle 1t with salt and
pepper, then dredge with -four and
place In a dripping pan. Have the
oven hot when the meat is first put
into it, in order that 1t may be scared
over quickly to prevent the juices
from escaping. Then reduce the heat
and haste often with the fat in the
pan. When done place on a hot Plat
ter and surround with ric~d potats.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02

A large picture hung by one wire is
hard to keep in place so that 1t will
always appear straight, as slight
jar or gust Of air may shift 1t. An
Improvement in the hanging can be
made by attaching two wires as
shown in the sketch. The hanging
can be better accomplished and the
picture held more firmly in place in
this manner-Popular Mechanics.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
seven Pounds Of Toothache.

A keeper, who was attracted the
other day by trumpetings and loud
roarings from the elephant cage in a
menagerie at Woodbridge, England,
found one of the elephants in an
agony of toothache. He was unable
to relieve 1t, and later heard thud
on the floor. 1t was found that the
elephant had cast tooth weighing.
1t Is stated, about seven pounds.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Human Haste.

From a series Of experiments re-
Gently made 1t is evident that the
average person can taste the bitter
of quinine when one part is dissolved
In $4,000 parts of water. Salt was
detected In water when one part to
$40 of the liquid was used. Sugar can
be tasted in 22S parts of water, and
common soda in 48. In nearly all
cases women could detect a smaller
quantity than men.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
MOTHER OF
LARGE FAMILY
Tells How She Keeps Her
Health Happiness For
Those Who Take
Her Advice.
Scottville, Mich. -"I want to tell you
how much good Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg

etableCompound and
Sanative Wash have
done me. l live on o
farm andhaveworked
very h ard. l am
forty-five years old,
and am the mother
of thirteen children.
Many people think
it strange that l am
not broken dow n
with hard work and
the care of my fam
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Harm In Extremes.

Too much noise deafens us; too
much light blinds us; too great dis
lance or too much of proximity equal
ly prevents us from being able to see;
too long and too short discourse OBJ
scures our knowledge of subject;
too much of truth stuns us.-Pascal.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
When Your EYES Need Care Try Murine Eve Remedy

No Smarting-Feels Fine-Acts Quickly Try
1t for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes aud Granu-
lated Eyelids. Illustrated Book in each Pack
age. Murine is compounded by our Oculists
not a patent Medicine"-but used in sue
cessful Physicians Practice for many years.
Now dedicated to the public and sold by
Druggists at 25c and Soc per Bottle. Murine
Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes, 25c and soc.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
One Disadvantage.

Speaking of the announcement by
scientists that people may become
energetic by eating raisins, the Chi
cago Record-Herald puts In the COM
ment that the trouble is that most
of the energy produced by eating raj
sins has to be expended in removing
the seeds.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Consent Always Obtained.

A court of common council of Lon.
don, England, found after informal
investigation Of charges made that
mo officer Of the corporation ever
played golf in business hours without
the consent of the head of the depart,
ment."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Fond of Walking Sticks.

OF all people perhaps none is more
fond of canes or more skilled in their
use than our fellow citizens Of Porto
Rico. The walking stick in that is
land would seem to mark social dis
tinctions among men as fans do
among women.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Cultivate Presenc. a, Mind.

Presence of mind is greatly depend
emit on knowing what is best to be
done under conditions or alarm or
danger II this knowledge is acquired
a very moderate amount of courage
and some common sense will enable
persons to act with discretion and
consequent safety in very trying cir
cumstances.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02

Those who are opposed to the CIV
Ing of wedding presents will hail with
approval the step taken by a very
wealthy Chicago society girl When
her wedding invitations were issued
they contained this sentence: ut is
special request that no gifts shall
be sent" Probably there are others
who will follow her example.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Wo Exceptions,

The music master says very affably.
Nov, you see, children, in a march
We always have four beats to a meas
ure, to accommodate the step; for l
don't know anything that has three
feet, except, perhaps. milking STOOL"
"Or yard stick" adds a bright girl
In the back row.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Right to Keep Pigs in London.

The freedom of the city of London
carries with it. nominally, at any
rate, the right to keep pigs in the
parish Of st. James, Piccadilly. But
even were any one disposed to avail
himself of this liberty, and if the SAN
itary authorities failed to object, land
in that part of London is somewhat
too costly for profitable pig farming.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Wanted Il Located.

At an inquest In Ellinwood q doc.
tor was testifying: where did the
motor car strike him?' the coroner
asked. "At the junction of the dorsal
and cervical vertebrate" replied the
medicine man. "Will you please point
that out on the map?" said the cor
oner, pointing to map Of Barton
county on the wall-Kansas City STAR
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Argument for veqetarlanIsm.

Vegetarianism has been claimed as
part OF the wisdom of the east, and
1t clearly has its uses, for two CEN
turtles ago an Edinburgh physician who
weighed S2 stone "by regular adher-
ence to this regimen reduced his
weight to almost a third, became
strong, cheerful, active and healthy"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Lightning's Freak.

A strange freak of lightning is re-
ported from France During recent
thunderstorm the lightning struck
three byres in a village in the depart
ment of the Loire, killing off the COWS
in each byre that were lying down.
16 in all-while III those standing UP
escaped unhurt.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
One of ITfe,s Reurets.

Among the lesser regrets that min
gle with graver sorrow for the friends
cf an earlier generation we have lost
are our omissions to ask them SO
many questions they could have an
swered SO easily and would have
been pleased to be asked-O. w.
Holmes.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Had Approval of Clerk.

An Atchison business man, who has
small store, recently hired a clerk
who was very shiftless. He didn't
half attend to his duties Il think I'll
have to hire another clerk" said the
business man. "You ought to-" was
the reply, there's too much work
here for Just one clerk"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
A Destructive sucoess.

''What has become of that man who
said Mars is habitable?" HE made
the mistake of convincing too many
people. There wasn't enough skSpti-
cism to keep up fairly interesting
controversy"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
pink Eye" Is Epidemic In tho Spring.
Fry Murine Eye Remedy for Reliable Relief.


Tourist-So you've stopped motor
car speeding? How did you do TT
Heavy fines? Native-Nope. Every
fellow who was pinched had to take
the judges old maid daughter out for
q 6-hour ride.-Puck.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
II Cures While You Walk.

Aliens Foot Ease is certain cure %,
hot, sweating, callus, ana swollen, ach
Ing feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price
26c. Don't accept any substitute. Tria
package FREE. Address Allen s. Ohm
sted. Le Roy. N. Y.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Il Doesn't Help.

It is mistake for the man who
gets up In the morning with a bad
taste in his mouth to attempt to get
rid Of 1t by quarreling with his wife
or whipping the children.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02

Lame back and Lumbago make
drudgery of all work. Drive the pain
out with Hamlins Wizard Oil and your
work will be ten times easier.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
Hood s
SarsapariIIa

Will purify your blood, clear
your complexion, restore your
appetite, relieve your tired feel
ing, build you up. Be sure to
take it this spring.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
tablets called Sarsatabs. 100 Doses 81.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow' Soothing Syrup
the best remedy to for their children during
the teething period.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02
onlv One i" sRoMo ouININE"

That is LAXATIVE BRoMo QUININE. Look
for the signature Of Il. w. GROVE. Used the
World over to Cure Cold in One Day. 25c.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02

Just as the sun shines brighter after
shower, so Old Gilt Edge Whiskey
tastes better after other ordinary brands.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-02

II you think constipation Is Of triflins
consequence, just ask your doctor. He
will disabuse you Of that notion in short
order. Correct il at oncei" he win
say. Then ask him abou, Ayers Pills.
A mild liver pill, all vegetable.
Made BY the J. O. AYnR co., Lowell Nass.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
Why Not a Prison Farm

Davenport Democrat: The sugges-
ton OF a prison farm as an addition
to the penal system of Iowa is worthy
OF the consideration of the state leg
islature at its coming session. Iowa
is essentially an agricultural state.
and 1t would be appropriate that its
solution of the prison problem should
be found along this line. The state
would not be a pioneer at all, for 9TH
er states have already instituted
prison farms and found them no. only
self-supporting but decidedly profit
able. Their experience ought to be
duplicated here. AS to the safety OF
the investment, there could be NO
question. Iowa farm lands will al
ways be worth every dollar that the
state might put into them, and more.
Under state control, a prison farm
could be an experimental farm as
well, and could be improved into a
magnificent property and fine asset
and advertisement. for the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
! NEWSPAPERS MERCHANDISE

The advertising columns of a news.
paper are its chief asset, bu. there
are many people who think otherwise
There is no concern doing business
that gives away so much of its asset
as the newspaper There is not a
charitable or philanthropic institution
but gets valuable publicity free. That
is one of the tenets of the newspaper
profession which is feligiously OBJ
served. Yet if these same institutions
desire hall to exploit some CHART.
able project, or wish bill posters. etc.
in nine cases out of ten they viii
have TO pay for them.
4 Publicity is what a newspaper has
TO sell. 1t is commodity marked
the same as any other ware. but it
never enters the head of some people
that such is the case. 1t never oc-
ours 20 them that the publicity they
seek and which they think the news
paper ought to publish free is costly
in editorial work. composition, use OF
metal, printing presses, etc. There
are men who think they ought to
have the use of the columns OF a
newspaper free on any and all occa-
SONS who would be he last in the
world}lto give something for nothing
II az ted TO do so. The man who
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
The Man Who Wrote "The Night
Before Christmas"

Although he lived to be eighty
three years of age, and although he
contributed seyerai volumes to his
countrys literature, DIR. Clement c.
Moore, apart from such celebrity, as
his Visit From st. Nicholas brought
him, made very small impress up
on his time says Joseph Jackson,
in the Worlds Work for December.
''Dr. Moore was the only son Of
wealthy parents His father, the
great Bishop Moore of the Episcopal
church, was also president of Column
bia College. DR.. Moore's mother was
Charity Clark, daughter of Major
Thomas Clarke, a wealthy retired Off
Ger of the British Army, who before
the Revolution purchased a tract of
land extending from what now is
Eighth Avenue to the Hudson river
and from the present . Nineteenth
street to Twenty-fourth street, in
New York city. There he built man
sion which he named Chelsea after
the widely-known army hospital in
London.
Clement C. Moore graduated from
Columbia College in 1916. On his
fathers death, the country place.
Chelsea, came into possession of
Doctor Moore, and from part of
this splendid inheritance he gave a
block, from Twentieth to Twenty
first street and from Ninth Avenue
to the Hudson river, to the General
Theological Seminary of the Episco-
pal church. He thus became one of
the founders of the institution. When
it was opened Doctor Moore became
member of its faculty, assigned to
the chair of Oriental and Greek lit
erature. He retained his chair until
1850, when he was made emeritus
professor, position which he held
until his death, at Newport, July 10,
1859"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08

trust control but with the government
having adequate and intimate super.
vision of it; for independent banking
units: for the equality of all banks,
national and state, both as to stand
ards and as to functions; for the
utilization and fiuidity of bank as
sets: for the scientific development OF
exchanges: for foreign banking as an
adjunct of our foreign commerce, and
for taking the treasury department
out of the banking business.
Here is a program of real financial
craftsmanship. Cannot congress, at a
time when its division of control be-
tween political parties forbids the de
velopment in legislation of really po-
litical policies, do something to make
cur banking and currency system bet
ter? Let the patriotic leaders of all
parties get together and, laying aside
personal prejudices and partisan aims,
legislate not for party policies merely
but for the general welfare.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
Macveaah on Banking and Currency

l"oSSSdStl ou 0dHnlH9 anu currency.
Chicago Inter-Ocean Secretary
Franklin MacVeagh rightly puts bank
ing and currency reform and its urg-
ency at the forefront of his annual
report on the finances of the country.
delivered to the speaker of the house
Yesterday. Of the situation as it is
the secretary of the treasury pungent-
ly remarks:
The system under which we are liv-
ing not only will not prevent panic,
but after certain point in the gener-
alton of panic conditions is reached
will make it inevitable. So that, as
long as the financial system created
by our federal laws remains unchans-
ed and unreformed. the government
will be exclusively responsible for the
commercial, industrial and social dis
Iasters which flow from panics.''
For the faults of our banking and
currency system the business world
lis not responsible. 1t is not system
built up by private financiers. It has
been imposed upon the business world
by federal law 1t had it's origin in
the narrow-minded jealousies and the
Democratic extravagances and the
JacKsonian period. 1t was finally fas
tened upon the nation in efforts to
meet the emergencies of a great civil
war
Secretary MacVeagh congratulates
the country that the banks were able
even in the face of European war
land a heated political campaign. to
supply funds for the autumn crop
movement and for a general business
expansion without having to call upon
the treasury for aid.
He declares that the treasury would
have assisted the banks had it been
necessary, but is glad it was not, since
the treasury reserve is the only trust
worthy one we have But it is not
the kind of reserve we should have
and of this truth Mr.. MacVeagh gives
this pointed illustration:
Taking large sums of actual money
out of the ordinary financial use and
locking it up as dead mass in the
vaults of the treasury is a proceed
ing as unreasoned and unscientific as
any other part of our unreasoned and
unscientific banking and currency sys
TEN. But until that system is changed
so as to provide a trusty system of
hank reserves. the treasury performs
as incidental TO its very bad share in
the banking and currency system.
some functions as reserve center of
very great value.
Secretary Macyeagh outlines as the
general features of the reformed bank.
ing and currency system we need to
bring about financial stability and
prevent panics:
Provisions for never-failing reserves
and for neyer-failing currency, and for
the perfect elasticity and fexibility OF
both; for the permanent organization
and organized cooperation of the
banks, which are now suffering and
causing the nation to suffer by reas-
en- of their unorganized state: for a
central agency to represent and act
for the organized and cooperative
banks, securely free from political or
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08

The business man who sweeps
paper and refuse from his store into
tie street has no right to condemn
the city officials for no. keeping the
public thoroughfares clean. This is
a practice too common in many cities
and is true to some extent in Keokuk.
While we are demanding that the city
officials keep Main street in neat
condition the demand is equally APP
plicable to the business man. If you
are one Of those guilty of sweeping
PAPER into the street-quit it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
The Progress Of Science.

Algona Republican: Twenty-Five or
thirty years ago, case of smallpox
in the county or even in the state
caused a great deal of anxiety and
the doctors usually reaped harvest
vaccinating the people for miles
amound. Now, thanks to the progress
made by the medical profession, peo-
PIE pay no more attention to small.
pox than they do to chickenpox and
the disease is completely under con
troll.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
CLOSING a blind Pin

Madrid Register News; A bootleg
ging joint down near the river was
made short work of by members of
Howell's gang Saturday. It appears
that an Austrian preferred selling
booze to working for living and so
built himself shack on the highway
near the place where the bridge is
being built over the river. From this
building it is said that he conducted
a profitable business In wet goods,
until Foreman Howell became tired OF
his presence in the camp and ordered
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
MINERAL INDUSTRY in IOWA.

The Iowa geogolical survey in CO.
operation with the United States geo.
logical survey has compiled the sta
tistics Of mineral production for Iowa
for the year 1911. The total value Of
the mineral production of Iowa for
the year. was s2f,11I641, figure
which exceeds the value of any previ-
Gus year in the history Of the mining
industry in Iowa except for the year.
1910, when the record figure of s22.-
755,572 was reached. In 1911 coal
was the leading mineral produced its
value at the mine being s12,663, 5O7,
which is somewhat more than sixty
per cent of the total value of the
mineral industry Of Iowa. The five
leading coal producing counties in
order OF rank were Monroe, Polk, APP
panoose, Mahaska and Dallas. Next
In rank to coal came clay and clay
products with value of S4,436, S39.
or this amount drain tile contributed
more than fifty-five per cent. In the
production OF clay and clay products
Webster county ranked first and
Cerro Gordo second The value Of
the output of clay and clay products
for 1911 was considerably less than
that for 1910 There were decreases
also in the values of gypsum. lead
and zinc, sand-lime brick, mineral
water sand and gravel.
1t is gratifying to note that during
1911 there were in operation three
up-to-date Portland cement plants
and that the value of the cemen.
from these plants reached the lrnpor-
tant amount of s1,SS1,253. When it is
recalled that previous to 1906 Iowa
produced no cement it will be seen
that the industry has made rapid de-
velopment. Iowa Is rich in materials
suitable for cement making.
The stone and lime produced in
1911 had value of ss17.121, which
is more than twenty-five per cent
larger than that Of the previous year.
large part of the stone was used
for concrete and railroad ballast.
The following table gives the value
of 4he mineral production of Iowa for
1911. For comparison the figures for
1910 are also given
Mineral 1911 1910
Coal So, 663, 507 $1,000. 913
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-08
Inexpert Opinion.

Topeka Capital: Assistan. Surgeon
General Rucker, Of the United States
health bureau, is authority for the
statement tina. the bedbug is not a
disgrace" But 1t is dangerous to
have this rampageous animal around.
as he carries disease germs All good
housekeepers, however, will snort at
Gen. Fuckers statement. They are
higher authority by long shot than
surgeon general on domestic man.
agement.