The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-11
/. The sixth Commandment
~. .,,o the Answer Causes as
Much Excitement as Nov
Ing the Tracks.
h, !. BETs DECLARED OFF
y. public Librarian Knows the
r. -, Answer and Other Keokuk
High Brows Get Into
Big Dispute.

rsat is the sixth commandment!
That simple question which every
Ia. .s school boy or girl is supposed
s'l ~ able to answer with mouth
n II chocolate creams, has caused
IS Of CONFUSION in the high
s.0w and religious circles OF keokuk.
s' mo man bet fifteen cents on his
.sa,er Maid the bet, later became
ssa,inced that he was right and had
~ san and finally convinced his oppon-
y ~ and the stakeholder that he had
satb won and lost and got his fifteen
tents back
involved in the discussion are such
nan as G. Collingwood Tucker,
,surcbman and vestryman and insur-
snce company secretary; ]. 0. Boyd,
s,torney for the water-power company
"a prominent in half dozen church
.,tivities: DR.. G.. Walter Barr, author,
lbrary trustee and secretary Of the
hoard of education, among other
Kings. who was brought up by pious
Methodist parents; ]. c. Grove, Jr..
ssief clerk of the water-power compa-
n and so highly educated in the east
nat he has given classical names like
Agamemnon to office boys down there;
ne librarian of the city library: and a
company of bible students of all kinds
scattered all over town. And the dis
eassion waxed pretty active for day
or twc
All Bets Are Off.
Nv this time, the reader may have
guessed that that simple question
about the sixth commandment has all
lie wheel whirling qualities of the
problem about the age of Ann, wheth'
er the man goes around the squirrel
| on the tree, and if the third of six he
three what will the fourth of forty be:
Not to longer keep up the suspense
it may be said now that all bets are
OF.
The sixth commandment is two
very different things.
1t is the prohibition against murder
and also 1t is the prohibition agains
carrying fFtations too far.
Expert Legal Opinion Wrong.
The story of the recent keokuk in
restigation and discussion of the mat
ter will explain the thing better thai
any other way.
play billed for this town was callel
The Sixth Commandment and tn
advertising carried the subtitle, Tho
shalt not kill The other day, MI
Grove asked Dr. Barr what is tn
sixth commandment, and as constan
reader of the newspapers the latte
answered from the theatrical advel
tlsement Mr.. Grove said it was til
one against adultery and in a minut
a fifteen cent bet had been made wit
the office boy as stakeholder and re
cree.
The Office boy found Bible in th
ONCE of Attorney Boyd, lying on to
the drainage laws of Iowa, and ther
lhe ofiice boy made a fatal mistak
instead of counting the comman
ments himself, he put the problem u
% Mr.. Boyd. The latter set la
Clerk to work hunting for the cor
mandments between Genesis and Re
Citations, and they were finally four
IN the twentieth chapter of Exodu
rhen the lawyer told the office be
mat the sixth commandment W;
against adultery.
Where Can | Find Bible?
The office boy decided that DR.. Ba
mad lost and paid Mr.. Grove the thir
cents. Attorney Boyd went up to t
:. NJ G. A. and told bible class the
apout the lack of theological know
cage of the writer-physician. Ever
oooy there laughed and went nor
and looked up the commandments
the Bible.
men the real cataclysm of cont
SION began. Collingwood Tucker Sc
word to DR., Barr that he had real
won that bet without knowing it, II
'ne man who bet another could r
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