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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
THE STORY OF our ExpoRTs.

Americas growing trade abroad is
one of the most gratifying signs of
times. The nation that sells more
than it buys is prosperous. Whatever
evils there may be in the distribution
of wealth at home, this remains true.
The British empire furnishes a graf
flying instance in which the balance
of trade is heavily in our favor.
Over billion dollars worth of
merchandise passed between the Unit.
ed States and British territory in the
ten months ending with October for
which statistics have been compiled.
The bureau Of statistics of the DEPART
ment of commerce and labor reports
that exports from the United States
to British territory In the period
named aggregated s759,0oo. 900 and i'm
ports therefrom $3.50, 100000, thus in
dicating that for every dollars worth
of merchandise imported from the
territory in question two dollars worth
of American produce are exported
thereto.
The growth Of American commerce
with countries and colonies under the
British flag has been steady and in
the case of certain countries, notably
Canada, very rapid In 1905 the ten
months record Of imports from British
territory was s2S9, 000, coo and In 1911
s3S3,00o,ooo, an increase of s94. o0o.-
coo. The 1917 figures are, however.
slightly less than the total for 1910.
when the ten months aggregated
s4o5,o0O, 900.
Exports to British territory for cor
responding periods OF the years nam.
ed meantime grow from $3.50, 900, 900
in 1905 to sT59, 100000 in 1911. an in.
crease of $17e,0oO,O0O. The share of
the imports into the United States
brought from British territory is about
80 per cent, while about 4511s per cent
OF The exports goes thereto, and of the
total foreign trade approximately Az
per cent is with British territory
This furnishes powerful argu-
ment in favor of peace While mater.
ial prosperity is not the only or even
the chief thing to be considered. it
remains true that 1t is one of the
chief factors in making happy and
contented people.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
1t Was the Ola Man

| United Press Leased Wire Service. /
ALBION, Mich, Jan. That Fl. M.
bearing, cashier of the wrecked Albion
National bank, who is charged with
having embezzled s144 900 of it's funds.
was entirely to blame for the whole
sale forgeries and not his son, Palm
er M. bearing, who is also under ar
rest charged with embezzlement. was
the statement of Miss Addie
HclIon, bookkeeper of the Cook Mfg.
Co, in which concern bearing saws he
sank the stolen money.
Miss Hollon admitted that she help
ed sign many notes on the banl, but
said she was told they were only put
in the bank to tide matters over until
the good paper could be collected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

| Quincy has walking club composed
of ladies who take walks through the
parks and into the country. Recently
fifteen of them walked two and one
half hours at stretch with an equal
number of men and showed greater
powers of endurance than their male
companions. AS form of exercise
walking is to be highly. commended.
City and town dwellers as rule do
not walk enough. There would be
fewer and smaller doctor bills and
lessened mortality if people generally
took more exercise In the open air.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
JAPAN,s LOAD OF DEBT.

Japan has Just struck its annual
balance sheet, and the figures tell
an old and sad story. Before the
war with Russia the debt of the
empire was only s206,625, 500. Now
1t is s1,10s.s61,5oo. or an increased
per capita from s5.12 to s25.75, A
billion dollars Of indebtedness is not
a heavy loan for such nations as the
United States. England and Germany,
but it is a staggering burden for such
a poor nation as Japan. And the
extent to which that burden is felt
is indicated by the fact that there
are now 10000 Japanese in prison,
while the number of suicides during
the year was 10000, these tragedies
largely due to the increase in the load
the people are carrying.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

Charles w. Miller, of Waverly,
member of the Iowa legislature, now
in Washington City, told a reporter
there the other day that two-thirds OF
the Democrats of Iowa are for Champ
Clark for President. He said that
Clark was always strong with Iowa
Democrats, but sentiment for him has
grown; that Clark would solidify the
Iowa Democrats, while Republicans
would vote for him in sufficient num-
bers to swing the state to the Demo
Gratis. Hope springs eternal in the
Democratic breast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
DENMARK.
= = = : . 49, = 49, =

Esther Binderman who has been In
bed for months from the after effects
OF infantile paralysis is very low
again.
Mr.. G. Hamm and family have
moved back to the farm east of town,
Mrs. Nora Gibson Alexander left
for a visit with relatives in Des
Moines county, before returning
to her home at Fairfield. Iowa, yester-
terday afternoon, having spent some
time with old academy mates here.
Mr.. Mark Riddal is entertaining
relatives from Nebraska.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Chas. Bogar is very sick.
Special services or communion ser
vices at the Congregational church
next Sunday with the special prepar
itory services on Saturday evening,
The doors OF the church will be open
at that service and several will be
added into the church.
Mr.. Chas Woodroffe Of Sawyer
spent yesterday with home folks
ME- "a. >. Hem and Mr.. Joy aro
very busy hauling hay that the former
bought at the Woodroofre sale
At the present prices of food stufs
especially hay. butter ought to be
selling at sixty cents per pound. in
stead OF twenty-five cents. There
would be great squeel if butter was
that price, but 1t is what the farmer
ought to have to come out even on
feed and work.
On Friday, December 30 at 10
M, three robins were caroling in the
tree here, and also seen Teasing On
some of the apples that still hang %
the trees, having been caught there
In the freeze last fall. Where are tns
robins now, and how do they happen
to make such mistakes? Sir and Lad'
Red Bird come these mornings for
their parched corn and then give thelf
thanks in bird language.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
Youthful Reasnnlnn

A Maryland assemblyman says the
boys up his way begin to learn poll
tics as soon as they leave the cradle.
BY ten" he states, "a boy knows
the game pretty well. For instance.
one day In school the teacher was
asking the pupils about South Amer
lea. Explain the government of ten
Oh the countries down there. she
said to one of the little fellows
They're republics he quickly replied
what are the other three p Demo
Gratis"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

I4afe Young believes that President
Taft will be renominated and also re-
elected He expects the opposition to
the President will make a final effort
TO center upon Colonel Roosevelt, but
he does not believe the latter viii be
a candidate. Mr.. Young is warm
personal friend o. both the President
and the colonel and is well informed
concerning the situation. His judg-
ment is entitled to great weight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

Commissioner Barney Of the state
food and dairy department has issued
Instructions relative to the enforce.
ment of the law as to weights and
measures in Iowa. The inspectors
will give no certificate if the scales or
measures are found correct. The de-
partment has no authority to seal
scales, weights and measures. In cases
OF short weight or measure, where
the use of false weight or measure
cannot be proved and where the com.
modify Or container of which is not
labeled, branded Or tagged as to
weight or measure the purchaser
may bring action through the county
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
Extends to Fort Madison.

This winter the concrete is made
with water heated to Ito degrees, and
sand heated by falling through steam
coils to the mixing machines. Made
in this way. the concrete is as good
as that made last June.
Put onl; part of the building OF
this greatest water-power plant on
earth at Keokuk is going on near
Keokuk. 1t already extends almost to
Fort Madison.
Several hundred men are clearing
1000 acres OF timber off of islands
and lowlands between Montrose and
Fort Madison, to keep the trees which
would be killed by the water from.
floating down and becoming snags to
the peril of steamboats,.
Work is Just starting on a boule.
ward to be built from Keokuk to
Montrose, skirting high along the
lake shore. This will be after New
York's model and will be the fines,
stretch of road in the middle west. 1t
is hoped that the circle will be com
FA~s~N ~ q tOdu dtOHR the
Illinois shore of the lake, from Nau.
VOC to Hamilton.
The water-power company has
bought about all the land it will neeo
along the river for some time to
come, on account of the overflow,
and Wallace G. Humphrey, who has
been at Niota, attending to that de.
tail, has been called into the general
offices at Keokuk for other duties, IN
lhS legal department. Of which w. E..
Blake, of Burlington, is the genera,
counsel for Iowa.
At the close Of the year 1911 Chief
Engineer Hugh L. Cooper finds his
work a few months ahead of schedule.
and the cost somewhere below the
original estimates. Old 1911 looks
pretty good to him, no doubt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
secretary-Mrs Guy Feree.

Hurley Moore who was injured in
the switch yards two weeks ago, is
still confined to his room at the Gra-
ham hospital, but is getting along
nicely.
Miss Gladys HAZEL of Hannibal.
came up Saturday and accompanied
Mrs. Guy Blakeslee and children to
their home in Hannibal.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Sennett are st.
Louis visitors this week.
Miss Helen Young of Augusta was a
holiday visitor at the country home OF
w. B. Robinson.
Oliver Craig is a st. Louis visitor
this week
Doris. the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Baxter, has been suffering
from an attack Of pneumonia.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
keokuk, Iowa

LIFE.
Life is too brief,
Between the budding and the falling
leaf,
Between the seed time and the golden
sheaf,
For hate and spite.
We have no time for malice and for
greed;
Therefore, with love make beautiful
the deed;
Fast speeds the night.
Life is too swift
s Between the blossom and the white
SHOWS drift,
Between the silence and the lark's
uplift
For bitter words.
In kindness and in gentleness our
speech
Must carry messages of hope, and
reach
The sweetest chords.
Life is too great
Between the infants and the mans
estate,
Between the clashing Of earth's strife
and fate.
For petty things.
Lo! we shall yet who creep with cum
bered feet,
Walk glorious over heavens golden
street,
Or soar on wings!
Margaret E. sangster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
A Big Chunk Of Concrete.

| While the work of the Illinois diyi-
sion Is somewhat monotonous with
its steady progression of the dam
spans out across the river, the
| changes in the Iowa division works
are so rapid that they are evident
even day by day to visitors and spec
tators on the observation platforms.
In this thirty-fve acres of river bot
tom coffer-dammed off, are the sites
| OF the power house and lock. The
power house substructure is solid
chunk OF concrete over a third of a
mile long, half a city block wide. and
higher than any building in BurIin,
ton-and this is only the basement of
the thing, remember. The upper end
Dof 1t stands high in the air, and it
tapers off to the south like a wedge
for the work here is progressing
down stream and terraced. At the
lower end is the great chasm, cut
deep in the bed rock of the CONT
mentor the bottom of this power
house rests &c feet below the natural
bottom of the river.
The upper end is not yet done, for
the floor OF this giant power house
VIII be away UP in the atmosphere.
Just under the high trusses of the
four travelling cranes which railroad
passengers see standing like four
hlgn mountain bridges in the works.
ana on top of that will be built the
power house walls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

If the Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can is correctly informed. David
Palmer of Washington, Iowa. CON
templates doing considerable spring
blowing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

attorney. The commodities generally
sold by measure, which have a stand
ard of weight in the statutes, may be
sold by weight or measure, but If sold
by measure, the commodity must be
equal to the weight specified in the
standards.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

Frank @. Stuart, one OF the old
time leaders in Democracy, has come
out with timely advice to the Demo
Gratis to nominate Bryan. There is
he thinks, no other name whereby the
Democracy can be saved 1t certainly
looks that way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
From Dry to Wet.

+, United Press Leased Wire Service I
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan. S.-Iickinp
the scene of the Carl Ether.
ington lynching, has changed from
dry to wet in local option election
me wet plurality is estimated at IN.
wards of 1900
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

The Republicans of South Dakota
in state convention at Huron
adopted strong resolutions endorsing
the administration of President Taft
and declaring themselves for his re-
nomination and reelection. The
event of the meeting was an address
by Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson, the keynote of which was the
inauguration of vigorous campaign
for President Taft. Secretary Wilson's
defense of the Taft administration was
the first in what is termed az the
"enemy's" country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
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HAMILTON, ILL.

Mrs. j. Ross Miller LEFT Tuesday for
2 months visit with her parents at
Shreveport La.
MRS. II K Denton pleasantly en-
lertained the Electa club at her home
Wednesday a-ternoon. At this meet
ing the following officers were elect.
ed $500
sident-Mrs. Neal Daugherty.
vice president Mrs. Geo. Barber
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

rock with their trunks; travelling
cranes are placing big buckets OF
concrete. exactly where desired; 10.
comotiyes are darting around like
the snake-feders of ones youthful
days at the pond; the lenses OF tran
sits reflect yards of blue prints and
everywhere there is orderly hustle
and hustle in this smoothly working
machine covering thirty-fve acres.
And that Galesburg man asked
whether they had started that dam at
Keokuk yet. Great Hercules, Vulcan
and Tubal Cain!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

When it was 10 below in Keokuk
It was 40 below at Duluth. 1t is an
exceptionally cold day in this latitude
when there isn't something to be
thankful for.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

i he NEWS OF The WEEK.
1 The week promises to be prolific Of
interesting news relating to politics
1 and public affairs. The Democratic ma
4 tional committee will meet in Wash
Iington today to fix the time and place
for the national convention. Coin
cident with the meeting of the com
mittee will be the Jackson Day ban
Iquet to be given tonight at the Hotel
Raleigh and which will have among
Its speakers all of the leaders whose
names are mentioned in connection
with the Democratic presidential nom
nation
The subcommittee on arrang ements
for the Republican national convention
of which Harry S. New of Indiana is
chairman, will hold its first meeting
in Chicago Saturday
The senate committee which is in
Investigating the election of Senator
Lorimer will resume its sessions in
Washington today, when Mr.. Lorimer
will take the witness chair and testify
in his own defense.
Attorney General Wickersham is ex-
pected back from Panama early in the
week. His first work, it is expected.
will be directed towards reaching a
basis of settlement OF the govern
ment's two biggest pending trust
cases--those of the International Har-
vester company and the United Shoe
Machinery company.
Important decisions are expected
from the supreme court of the United
States when 4. reconvenes today after
the holiday recess.
A special election will be held to-
morrow in the Seventh congressional
district of Kansas to select the sue
cessor to the late Representative E.
NJ. Madison.
Georgia will hold special election
to confirm the results of the recent
primary election for governor. The
legislature will meet January "a to
receive the returns and Joseph NJ.
Brown, the new governor probably
will be inaugurated the next day.
A convention will assemble at Co
lumbus to frame new constitution. for
the state of Ohio. Many important
questions will be brought up, including
the initiative. the referendum, the
recall and liquor licenses.
During the week the legislatures Of
New Jersey, Virginia, South Carolina
and several other states will begin
heir regular sessions.
The Dominion parliament, which adj
ourned early in December for the
holiday recess, will resume its SEES
'ions tomorrow
The important event of the week |
4 Europe will be the general elections
or members of the German reichstag.
The elections are regarded as the
most important since the formation of |
he present German Empire. The
main electoral issues are Morocco and
he foreign policy of the government,
he high cost of living, demand for
revision of the tariff, reform of tax
tion with the introduction of an in
leritance tax, and a curtailment of
he power of the Catholic Centrum
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

Professor Holden will discover that
politics is great little game. but this
knowledge is likely to come to him
too late to be of any use.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
A Giants Wash Bowl.

But there is plenty accomplished in
the power house basement to keep
the visitor busy for couple Of hours
climbing over it. ),
me method of construction here is
70 nuiid out of good lumber forms
win smooth outsldes, well braced In
SIDE, for all the many tunnels, tubes
ana chambers and after building the
forms IN place, to dump many thous-
ana tons OF concrete in, over and
around them. After the concrete has
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

Abe Martin says that every time he
sees a stylishly dressed fellow he
wonders how he ever finds time to
do any work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

DR.. Frank Crane has no use for in.
surgency. He says that noise is a
foolish waste
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

4 Dr. G. Walter Barr ins Burlington
4 Hawk-Eye:: The end of the year 1871
finds the Mississippi river at the foot
of the Des Moines rapids, its widest
strongest and most dangerous stretch,
SO changed that those who saw it last
i summer would not recognize the 10
cality were they dropped there from
i a balloon and scene of activity there
that is. paralleled nowhere else in
the whole domain of mankind except
on the isthmus of Panama
! The greatest dam in the world,
/ which is the key to the largest water
power plant in the world, providing
the prime mover for the largest ele,s
trical installation in the world, with
adjuncts including a new lock which
outranks any one at Panama, an i'm
mense drydock, sea wall to be top
| ped by the replaced tracks of the
Burlington railroad, and a thousand
and one incidentals each of which
would have been remarkable as a
single achievement here ten years
ago, is approaching completion suffi-
GENTLY for one to imagine what it
will be like when done.
Just after spending a half day
walking over the immense stretches,
and clambering over the mighty
heights of concrete in that largest
private construction plant in the
world, | went to Galesburg where
the second man | met asked me:
Have they begun work yet on that
dam at Keokuk, or do you think they
ever will begin it?'
Full of the tremendous immensities
of all that work being done in the
mighty Mississippi river, that was
one time when / was expressionless
and the first words that came to
my mind were profane. 1t may be
well to attempt to describe just what
has been accomplished at the site Of
that greatest engineering and indus
trial achievement of the century in
the United States.
Work on Dam is Far Advanced.
The structure OF the dam proper
the long line, almost mile in length
of arched spans looking exactly like
strong bridge-has been pushed
across from the Illinois bluff, far
back from the river bank, into the
river, until the current of the rapids
is forced into a width of only several
hundred feet, where it swirls and
leaps in long, great swells of fright
full force. About two-thirds of this
structure is done, for nearly so of
the 119 arches are complete in con-
crete.
The method of construction is to
build these arched spans clear across
the river first, allowing the river to
flow between the completed piers
while the last section is being put in
inside Golfer dam Then there is
cast in concrete the bottom of each
spiliway, in progression from east
to west. Next another layer of con-
crete spillway is built, and this super
posing Of layers will continue until
the spillways are built to their total
height. BY this means, there will be
no narrow chasm at the last through
which the river must flow like mad.
The bottom layer of the spilways
has been completed from the Illinois
bluff out to the river bank, which is
about a third of mile. Nearer the
Illinois end one finds three sections
complete and ready to slip
in the gates which top the spillways
in the arches.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

Anyway, there is no occasion to
worry over possible failure of the ice
crop.
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Read The Daily Gate City. 70
per week.
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THOUGHT FOR THE pAy

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
0 for man to rise in me
That the man that l am
May cease to be.
Tennyson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08
Work Coca on in Winter.


Nothing has been done yet on the
dry dock, which will be between the
lock and the Iowa shore. the latter
being over past the present railroad
tracks at the KeokuK bluff.
But on the land side OF the present
burlington route tracks. passengers
see great wall Of concrete rising
high, apparently to prevent Keokuk
from slipping into the river This is
the retaining wall, commonly called
the sea wall, against which the wa.
tiers OF the lake will lisp in the sum.
mer and press when the floods come
10 the landward and above its ton
VIII be the replaced tracks of the
railroad, high and dry and as perma !.
nent as the limestone bluffs. /.
rms winter, work is going on at a
rate that seems to the casual nh.
server TO be even more strenuous
than last summer. All over the Iowa
DIVISION, carpenters are CARRYING
pianKs, saving and hammering and
planning to make forms; quarrymen
are drilling six-inch wells to be
charged with nitro-glycerine to blast
out the bottom of the trough OF the
comment, not only to excavate h,i
the basement of the power-house Int
TO get rock to make concrete, steam
shovels are working for all the world
iiKe steel elephants lifting buckets OF
p
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

The subcommittee on arrang ements
for the Republican national convention
OF which Harry S. New of Indiana is
chairman, will hold its first meeting
in Chicago Saturday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-08

The senate committee which is in
vestigating the election Of Senator
Lorimer will resume its sessions in
Washington today, when Mr. Lorimer
will take the witness chair and testify
in his own defense.