The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-20
THE DAILY GATE CITY

TE
JoTTlNGs FROM THE
SAGE or SEVEN PINES
Philosopher Discusses a Number OF
Subjects Pertinent to Civil
and Moral Activities.
In all the political confusion of the
year, Missouri escaped the affliction
of having a governor of the name OF
Cow-herd.
Till at length small green feath,
er from the earth shot slowly upward,
then another and another. So sang
the story of the origin OF corn, In the
famous legend Of Hiawatha. The
small. green feathers developed into
immense foliage banners with great
stalks and heavy ears of we'll matured
grains and the corn crop OF the year
will be the chief concern and value
of all the affairs of the republic.
Whether the gold dust twins, Wealth
er Prophet Hicks or Mary Ellen
Lease is elected president of the Uni
ted States, the country is too great
| t. be shaken by the change.
In this album of paragraphs will
omit my account of the fine voyage
on the good ship G. w. Hill from
| Warsaw to Hannibal and return, for
that history is a specially within It.
4 self The good friends will all have
a place in the hall of fame Of that
/ day.
The great julius Caesar declared to
! the conspirators in the Roman SEN
ate that as he had lived long enough
4 for nature and for fame he defied
them and said he had no fear. Some
great characters lived little too
/ long for fame, if not for nature. The
great general Vaspasian said that a
king should die standing, that is, at
1 his best Sometimes the sublime and
height of great sermon or speech
is lost by the speaker making some
weak remarks in closing the address.
Of all the means of road reforms
/ and road building, | should pronounce
the automobiles the best promoters OF
improved highways. They are effec-
tive Jewelers. of the road surface and
are true refiners,
! Comet A, 1910, and Halley's comet
have both vanished into vast space
/ far beyond the orbit of Jupiter, yet
two or three political asteroids are
revolving over the United States for
the admiration and entertainment OF
audiences. People, however, don't
/ appear alarmed when Bryan and
Roosevelt get between US and the
sun.
4 Quite number of writer's have
been making public declarations as
to the proper name for the great lake
above the dam. The logic of the sub
ject appears easy to the writer. 1t is
Lake Keokuk. This Is the one illus
trious title, and all other names men
toned are very superficial and tame
Keokuk Is a name of worldwide sig
nificance and fame and is well known
all over the globe. There was our
good friend Chief Keokuk who fished
and hunted and smoked his killik
nick, and enjoyed these forests and
lands and riverside scores of years
before the pale faces ever knew Of
the waterfall or the city named in
his honor He should be entitled te
the extra glory of having the fine
body of water have the far-famec
; rank of celebrities.
It is an awful condition of human
life when the heart gives forth me
talic sound and penurious dollar mari
emblems appear on the countenance
: Astonishing indeed is the develop
ment and manufacture of motto
) vehicles in use in the United States
, Twelve years ago the number didn'
: exceed eight thousand in use il
4 America, whereas the total numbe
i up to May reached six hundred an,
a sixty thousand. The daily production
3 of pleasure cars during the past yea
4 reached the surprising aggregate Q
2 seven hundred per day, and this viii
: be exceeded at the present rate TO
/ 1912 One leading company maxim
t ten thousand cars each month, or a
: the rate OF complete car every mir
= ute and twenty-one seconds TIL
Y manufacture of motor driven vehicle
o is now one of the chief industries Q
= our country. Like the American re
: public the auto car Is not retreatine