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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
Elephant In Ball Room.

NEW YORK, Feb. 20.--A three ton
BABY elephant led the grand march at
charity ball given at the hotel Aston
last night for the benedt Of th, New
York Association dor the Blind.
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Great scheme.

DIES MONIES. Iowa, Feb. 2o.--J. Fl.
McConologue, of Mason City. member
OF the tax commission, wants the state
10 relieve a man of taxation on 5000
'or every baby he has. in an effort
70 discourage race suicide.
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rrua HappIness.

"The happiness of a man in this
life does not consist in the absence,
but In the mastery Of his passions. -
Tennyson.
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Rat causea Trouble.

ITHACA, N. Y. Feb. 20.--A rat
that gnawed the insulation from one
Of the main wires of the power plant.
lied UP the trolley system for several
hours.
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|IN 81

from the altar of st. Peters church,
the names Of all parishioners, old or
young, found dancing the turkey trot
or ANY similarly vulgar dance
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He Is for TAFT.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa. Feb. 2o.John
=. McDevitt, the millionaire for a
Jay after returning from a visit to
me white house, announced he is an
ardent Taft supporter.
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Faithful lover.

NOBLEsyILLE, Ind. Feb. 2o.--Af-
ter courtship that lasted so years
without a break, James B. Sturdevant
and Anna Earl have been married
Sturdevant called on Miss Earl twice
a week for 20 years.
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at $3.50 p. m. for final rehearsal with
Dean Bentley tomorrow, Wednesday.
The Colonial.

The Colonial.
On the firing lines Of Tripoli
without fear or favor she lives and
Iabors for humanity, Red Cross
martyr. Amid shot and shell she adj
ministers to the wounded and dying
and gives UP her life with her lover,
an army aviator. A sacrifice to the
Moloch Of war. This grtat picture
has been secured by the Colonial
theatre management at great ex-
pense and everyone should turn out
to see this big attraction. You Will
see the aeroplanes, the dash to death
the great battle scenes, and they will
hold you spellhound from beginning to
end. Only three shows will be given
at Z. 5 and g.. You better go early il
70 want to see this.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20
sibyl sammis.Mcnermid

Sibyl Sammis- McDermid
Seats may be reserved at Horna-
days. A large attendance is expected
and it is we'll to reserve them early.
All chorus and orchestra numbers
will be at the Congregational church
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-20

Daily Turkey Trot item.
HAvERsTRAW. N. Y, Feb. 20
rather Mcclure said he would read
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Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2o-Hog receipts
so, 900; market slow. Mixed and butch
ers. s5.S5@6.221s good heavy, $4,000
625; rough heavy, s5,9o@6.1o; light
s5.So@6.2o; pigs, s425@5.90.
Cattle receipts 5000; market weak
Beeves, s465@S.5O; COWS and beifers
s2N0@640; stockers and feeders,
81. S0@s6.10; Texans, s4.50@5.65.
Sheep receipts $4,000; market
steady. Native, $3.3O@4.75; western
sS.eo@4.so; lambs, $4.so@6.75, west
ern, $4.75@6.So
ST. Louis Live Stock.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Feb. 20.-Cattl,
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Cause Of Failures,

CHICAGO. Feb. 2o.-"Failure in
business and failure in life is newt
ably traceable to lack Of trust in
God" is the declaration of Rev. John
stone Myers in a sermon to his Good
Friends society of jobless men.
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Chicago Cash Grain.

CHICAGO, Feb. o.-wheat-No.
red. 991a @$1 oo1s; No. 3 red, 97ss q
s1.o0; No. . hard, $1.oo@$10S; No. 9
hard, 97@$1o1; No. spring, $1,000
s1O5.
Corn-No. 3 e214@6sA: No.
white, 63A @69k1a:: No. 2 yellow, $50
6sM: No. 4, 5S@59a4; No. white,
5SA 900: No. yellow. 59A @G0.
oats-No. white 51A @521z; No, 4
white, 4S@51& standard, 52A @53.
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A Bio Gift.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2o.-Francis L.
Leland, president of the New York
county bank, surprised the directors
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by
giving the institution s1,O20,oO0 in
bank stock.
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was Dead Two pays.

DULUTH. Nina, Feb. 90 We
days after she was prepared for buria
the three year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Maholechek was
found to be alive. The child had
drowned in bucket of water.
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Only Had a Dollar.

DBs MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 2o.-Divid-
ing his last dollar among his fifteen
children, Owen Gavin, negro, killed
himself with a shotgun. He had been
warned to leave the county lest he
become public charge.
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Rum In caskets.

MUsKOGEE. Okla, Feb. 2o.-Auth-
critics have discovered "bootleggers'
are shipping whiskey in collins An
attendant posing as an undertaken &C.
companies the bodies to their desti-
nation.
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Angel Germs.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2O.--In an adj
dress before the mems Bible class OF
his congregation, the Rev. John HI.
Wiley, of Christ NJ. r. church, said
that every mans body houses an an.
gel germ.
The Press., 1912-07-24
s.v.d Ann puekinq.

A colonial shrew who was threat ened with the duckng stool was once saved by this plea:
 "You wish to duck Ann Willott to cure her!" her defender declared. "NOw, if she be not cured where Is the gain in ducking her? And if she be cured all the women who now keep a guard over their tongues through distaste to be likened to such a known, notorious and contemplate scold as Ann will do so nu longer; but. although it is not like any should become such as she. yet all will scold a little more than now they do. the check of her exam pie being removed Now. it is better that Ann. being a single woman with out family to afflict, should go unpun- ished and unducked, but despised by all. and wag her tongue as she will. standing therein for the whole town. than that she should be silenced and the tongues Of other women run more free"
 This argument seems to have pre- vailed, for Ann WIllott was never ducked.
The Press., 1912-07-24
SPOKE HIS OWN DOOM.
la spits of His Caution an Innocent
 Remark condsnnOd Him.

Ia epfto of His Caution an Innocent
 Remark Condemned Him.
 The father of Gueau de Reverseaux had been a distinguished lawyer. and through his influence he held impor- tant offices under the government When the revolution began he gave up his oflce at La Rochelle and retired to Chartres
 From the time that the revolution began Gueau de Reverseaux devoted his attention exclusively to preserving his own safety. He wrote no letters. H would receive no letters He saw 10 visitors and paid no visits He spoke to no person and allowed no one eo come near him. It would have beer impossible to be more prudent than he was.
 However, he wanted some sheds built on hls farm near Chartres and ven tured to consult a carpenter. The car penter told him that he could not un- aertake the work immediately. as Gueau de Reverseaux wished. because most of his workmen were drafted to join the army at once
 Gueau de Reverseaux replied: "The workmen need not go They can send substitutes" .......
 This remark was heard by the work men. but only the first phrase made any impression on them They reported everywhere that NJ. Gueau de Rever seaux. who must be good authority. had said that they need not go. The kr> hnn nrke hn Gnnnr de Reverseaux declared that the draft cd workmen need not obey the gov ernment. This was considered to be conspiracy, and he was condemned to death and executed.
The Press., 1912-07-24
S0eino DistancAa-

About POO miles in every direction is the distance a man can see when stand ing on clear day on the peak of the highest mountain-say at a height of 26,668 feet, or a little over five miles above the level of the sea. An ob- server must be at a height of 6,667 feet above sea level to see objects at a distance of hundred miles. The dis tance in miles at which an object upon the surface of the earth is visible is equal to the square root of one and one-half times the height of the Ob- server in feet above sea level. Some allowance has to be made for the eff feet of atmospheric refraction, but as the refraction varies at different heights and is affected by the various states of the weather no precisely accurate fig ures for general purposes can be given Probably from one-fourteenth to one tenth of the distance given by the formula would have to be deducted owing to the refraction of the atmos- phere.
The Press., 1912-07-24
THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Care With Which It Is Guarded From
 Fire and ThieV0s.

Care With Which It Is Guarded From
 Fire and Thieves.
 It is very doubtful whether the Brit. ish museum could ever be burned down. It is more likely to be swamped first There is enough water stored there in tanks to last for many days continuous pumping in case by any chance the ordinary supply gave out
 Every policeman on the premises. too, is also fireman, being especially trained before he takes up his duties. There is not a nook or corner in the remotest part of the building which could not be deluged in two minutes If necessity arose.
 Not only is there little chance of the museum itself being burned down. but also any building near it. for that mat ter. for the museum looks after them. too. hardly less carefully.
 Thieves have just about as much chance as fire has. Immediately after closing every gallery and every room in the building is gone through. search ed and locked up, and then the whole process is repeated again an hour lat CT, this precaution being directed against fire rather than thieves.
 1t is a full hours hard work merely to lock or unlock all the doors in tho building.-PearSon's Weekly.
The Press., 1912-07-24
AMERICAN CORN.
In Its Sturdy Visor R Is Representa-
 tive of Our People.

In lts Sturdy Vigor k Is Represents.
 tive of Our People.
 Indian corn is native of America. The Indians cultivated 1t when the white man first came, and their legends carried 1t back to Manitou. or Great Spirit, from whom it came as his choicest gift to man. says the Wash ington Post. Without 1t the earlier settlements would have perished.
 It grows in all parts of the United States and in it's every stage presents varied charms and attractions, more alluring to the eye than waving fields of wheat or rice, the white cotton or the splendid sugar cane, with which it vies in stateliness and outranks in it's gorgeous and changeful hues of green.
 One-third of the human family lives on rice. but 1t is not the third that counts. The date palm is everything to the desert dweller. So Is corn to the American. although often indirect ly. He eats it on the cob and of, makes of 1t innumerable kinds of food and turns 1t into hogs and cattle.
 In it's sturdy vigor Indian corn iR representative of the people. It strikes it's tap root deep into the earth. while the lateral roots reach out in every di rection. It droops under the long drouth, but given two or three rains toward caring time it yields a harvest that puts the gloomy prophets to shame
The Press., 1912-07-24
Aped 9 yrs g mos.

Aged yrs 9 mos.
 Daniel T. son of Daniel 6 Sophro- mia Shaffer died Mar. 2, 1894. Ae. II months.
 George D. son of Daniel & Sophro- mia Shaffer died Nov. 25, 1861, aged III yrs mos 19 days.
 Timothy B. son of Charles & Can- dace Hanover died Sept. 30, l838. Aged months.
 Henry M. son of Charles 6 Can dace Hanover died Dec. 28, 1883. Aged 16 years.
 Thomas A. son of Lemuel J. & Ruth M. Childs died Sept. 25, 1891. Ae. 4. Also an infant daughter of MT. 6 Mrs. Childs died Jan. 28, 1887.
 Thomas Johnson died May 80, 1870. Ae. 55.
 Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Johnson & daughter of Ralph Cummings, born in Durham, Eng. March I7, 1878, died in Wilmington, Ct. Dec. IT., 1872. Bethiah, wife of Joseph Hull died Dec. 10, 1860, aged 69 y's mo.
 Joseph Hull died March 26, 1871. Aged 83 years.
 Burt l.. only son of Hermon T. & Jane l.. Hull died Oct. l2, 1858. Ae. 17 y'r 1 mo.
 (End of inscriptions in Wilmington,
 Old cemetery.)
The Press., 1912-07-24
A Solemn Dance.

They have a singular kind of dance conducted on the greens of country will lages in Russia. The dancers stand apart, a knot of young men here, a knot of maidens there, each sex by it. self and silent as crowd of mutes. A piper breaks into a tune; a youth pulls off his cap and challenges his girl with a wave and bow. If the girl is willing, she waves her handkerchief in token of assent. The youth advances, takes a corner of the handkerchief in his hand and leads his lassie round and round. No word is spoken and no laugh is heard. Stiff with cords and rich with braids, the girl moves heavily by her self, going round and round and never allowing her partner to touch her hand The pipe goes droning on for hours in the same sad key and measure, and the prize of merit in this "circling," as the dance is called, is given by specta- tors to the lassie who in all that sum- mer revelry has never spoken and neV- CT smiled.
The Press., 1912-07-24
Who He Was.

A traveller saw a woman take man by the collar. yank him up the steps into a railroad car. jam him down into a seat, pile up a valise and two big brown baskets with loose covers and long handles at his feet and say:
 ''Now. sit there until l help Mary Jane on the car, and don't move till l come back"
 When the woman reached the door the traveller said to her:
 ''Is that man your husbandT'
 "Naw!" roared the woman. He's my daughters husband. and she hasn't spirit enough to say her soul is her nww
The Press., 1912-07-24
Old Time Verdicfa.

A certain medieval jury, as related In the Oxford and Cambridge Review, sitting upon the case of a man and his wife who had been struck by light ming. returned the reasonable verdict. "No one is suspected" In another case. when the body of a man similarly killed was first found by his wife. the jury was gratifyingIy definite in it's
 finding that ''she is not suspected" Tn modern days the verdict in a case of self inflicted death is apt to be ''tem- porary insanity" This was beyond our medieval predecessors. but their formula showed a glimmering of the idea that a man must be mad to take his own life, verdicts in such cases often being that the victim had acted ''by temptation of the devil"
The Press., 1912-07-24
The C,anny Sailorman.
The Raldhsadsd E.oI..

The staid, dignifed and homely bald headed eagle. the glorious emblem of the American republic, mates but once and lives with his one mate until he or she dies. If left a widower-even a young widower-the baldheaded eagle never mates again. He remains alone and disconsOlate in the nest on the rocky crag or in the branches of tall pine that formed his domicile while his mate was alive. No other female eagle can tempt him to foresake his life.
The Press., 1912-07-24
Makino Cheese In oIden Days,

Cheese was made by the old time farmers in the summer on the cooper Atdvs plan by which four cattle own CTS, owning. say. fourteen milk cows. received all the milk night and morn ing. according to the daily yield of their little herd Thus given two fam nies having i've COWS each, one with three and one with one. supposing that the average yield per COW was the same, in two weeks two owners would make five cheeses each; one would press three and one only one cheese. but this one would be as good and as large as any of the rest--NatiOnal Mag nKine
The Press., 1912-07-24
Punishment For Poisoners.

In ancient Rome poisoning was pun Ished by crucifixiOn. no matter what the rank of the criminal. although this penalty was usually reserved for slaves. A Roman of respectable station. hav- ing been convicted of poisoning his ward. was sentenced to be crucitied. but protested against the punishment as unfit for gentleman. The emperor thereupon ordered the cross to be painted white and otherwise made more presentable than those commonly used Whether the convict expressed himself as better satisfied Is not re- corded n-r-' s'.
The Press., 1912-07-24
The Madam P.antIna.

The younger Pliny tells us that the Roman lawyer. Regulus, had a habit of painting round his right eye if he was counsel for the plaintiff. his left eye if he was for the defendant. In our times if lawyer is pair d around his right eye it means that a witness on the other side has met him since court adjourned. If both eyes are blacked 1t signifies that he saluted him twice instead of once. That's all.- Los Angeles Express.
The Press., 1912-07-24
A Lonn ExeuaA.


 The magazine writer rolled in late a night and found his better half sittin. up awaiting his coming.
 What have you got to offer thi. timer she demanded. H "I can give you a 1.2OO word story, was the reply of the writer. who's. answer was dictated by force of habit New York Press.
 The Canny SaiIorman.
 ''It was a terrible situation" said Dubbleigh. There we were, hub deep in the sand and the tide rising. At the end Of an hour the water was up to the floor level of the tonneau, and then managed to get hold of an old cuss with a team of horses, and he hauled us out" By George, that was a narrow es- cape. What did you give the old fel- low for rescuing you?" said Higgs. "I offered the old dufrer $1O, but he was retired sea captain, and he at- tached the car for salvage" said Dubb- leigh.-Harper's Weekly.
The Press., 1912-07-24
lndoHNn& RoRainl,

Ross1ni was one of the most indolent men that ever lived, yet he wrote op- eras against time, as 1t were 1.-The Barber of Seville" for instance. was month. which fact gave rise to Doni- Zetti's rogent witticism. Upon being informed that ROssini had finished his opera in thirteen days Donizetti re. piled: ''It is very possible. He is so IaZyv'
The Press., 1912-07-24
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
July 25. 1889.

Items of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.
 w. H. Cooley's new house on East Main street is nearly completed.
 Steel rails are rapidly. taking the place of iron on our railroad.
 The girls library club have re-or- ganized for the season, choosing Miss Amer F. Converse secretary and treasurer.
 Born. In Stafford Srpings, 22d, 8 son to Charles H. Hobby.
 In Staffordville, 18th, a daughter to Charles Pezo
 In Ellington, (square Pond), 14th, a son to M. z. Winter.
The Press., 1912-07-24
Information Wanted,

Roy" said the man in No. B as the page entered his room. "go over to No. 20 and find out If that lady is moaning or singing If she is singing ask the clerk to change my room: if she's moaning tell the clerk to send for a physician" London Tit Bits
The Press., 1912-07-24
GRnARAMA

''So you are a bill collector" said Mir. Pinchpenny.
 "Yes. Here is one''-
 Keep 1t. my boy. keep it. You seem to have a nice collection there. Far be 1t from me to break 1t up."-Philadel- Dhia Telegram.
The Press., 1912-07-24
No Use For 6arh0ra,

Customer tin bnrl'erS chair,- So you haven't heard Von rruInper the world famous pianistIs Barber No DOzG bianists neffer batrOnize me. an 20 neffer batrOnize dem.- Exchange.
The Press., 1912-07-24
Not so EnioyabDe.

Friend fonr wedding breakfast was a delightful affair. Mr Honeymoon with sigh' Yes. but we've mad oth. CTS since
The Press., 1912-07-24
IF YOU ARE ILL

from any disorder of the STOMACH, LIVER or KIDNEYS, or if your bowels are inactive at times, or you should suffer from headaches, geta 50 cent bottle of SEVEN BARKS of your druggist. Ifyou are run down and don't feel as young and chipper as you used to, give SEVEN BARKS fair trial; twill purify your blood, clear your system and brain, and make life worth living. It is absolutely harmless, is highly palatable, and will not disturb the most delicate stomach.
 For sale at druggists at 50 cents per bottle. Don't fail to try it. Address
 LYMAN BROWN, 6S Murray St., New York, NY.
The Press., 1912-07-24

FsHTBy HtVb pVOStUt~HI HtHI bH IUS
 mother Of safety Burke
 Worry pOisons the mind just as much as deadly drug p0lsOns the body and just 0s surely.
 Deafness Cannot b0 Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion Of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness and that is by cOnStitu- tiOnal remedies. Deafness ia caused by an in- named condition of the mucous lining of the +Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inlamed you have rumbling sound or imperfect hear. ing, and whom it Is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and. unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to it's normal condition, Rearing will be deGtFOyed forever {; nine cases. ont or ten are caused by CataFrf, which is nothing but an in1lamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness teaused by CataFrh) that cannot be cured by Halls Eatarrh Cure. Send for circu- laFs free. F.J. CHENEY CO, Toledo, O.
 sold by Druggists, 76c
 Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Press., 1912-07-24

Early and prOvident fear ia the uIOtbtr Of safety Burke
The Press., 1912-07-24

Place q cake of chocolate dn q "Wedv-Eps sducepdn lCftllottt grating. Without dddtilQ lOdter melt over q totO Nrc, sDtth0ut sttsTfe1g. Chocolate tCtU rot burn,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-30

Armour. the great packer Of Chicago
10 said to bs back Of the plan.
The idea 10 70 buy up certain fran.
chises In the State Of New York. q.
pecially to get an entrance into New
York City. and 70 give 70 the eitissns
the benefit Of tslsphons competition
and OF actually cheap service.
The idea Of cheap telephone service
10 going TO grow In Tie United States.
and eventually Il 10 going 70 b real.
ised, despite the power q any mon
opoly or the profits Of any sroup el
individuais.
Il costs less. or under proper nan
agement would cost Lee. % send Q
telephone message than % send Q
lsttsr.
There wss Q tine n The United
States when private individuals q.
plotted the mails and vhsn The siti.
sen writing Q letter paid from ten
cents TO . dollar O. moro % have
It delivered. Government ownolship,
economical. businesslike methods,
have reduced the price Of sending 1T.
tsrs to two cents al over the United
states-svsn In the Klondike. whore
the letters are carried on dog sledges.
And sane. businesslike administra,
ton Of the telephone system Of this
country. with the latsst up-to-dats 90.
tomato methods. would make tsle.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-30

viG1sa I ths ordnance sailiAs t. -
vaG1oa evsy 1ve ysasA
1AGy want % keeD ~ DeoDlo WAss0
tAsy have them % that they saAt -
away.
TIE ~sxpsft" On pages los and ~
q Ais report apparently Soels much
Gympathy for The company - this ~
~
VIM the aldermen chow any syD,
paxhy tor ~ pssVssi
he tslsphoae monopoly IN Chicago
AAs grown % - an unbsarable nuis.
aAaA.
TAe oeeviee 70 rottsa.
ne scandal attea6aAt o. the pass
80 q the telephone ordnance By he
esaasil I've ysars ago b not forgot
~
1Ae passage Of the present ordi.
aAAee win result In something more
thaa scandal for the faets viii b
sa1isg % gst at.
Any alderman who votes for IN In.
sesass Of rates win b branded - hs
SaGAt 70 bs.
The Chicago American Of June 36
seatained the following vigorous a..
Ueao On he subjsct o. Q merger:
Th0 New YORK Times announces
ut tAsrs = hope Of tslsphoas oom-
Dsel&aaa In New York city and hat
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-30

his big army Of friends predict a
easy victory for him.
James J. Townsend has . walkaway
for member Of the Democratic STATE
Central Committee from the NintA
District. Everybody b with him.
The men who are opposing Lewis
Rinaker for States Attorney are TIE
fellows who either want the Job for
themselves or some man they can nee.
No man or set Of men can use Judge
Rinaker. He 10 Q big man who win