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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Old Men Must Hot ElIrf.

Chicago-Judge Goodnow has de-
cided to give Frank Hughes, 81 years
Old another chance In the court OF
domestic relations Mrs. Hughes testi-
fed her husband took girls out riding
in his automobile, one named "Tootsie"
being q frequent occupant of the car.
While the judge remarked that There
is no fool like an old fool" he did not
feel like sending Hughes to the Bride
we'll and let him go. with an admoni-
ton to cease flirting.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Gives Life 70 SAVE ssS.

Fishkill Landing, n. Y.--Mrs. An
drew Reilly, 35 years old, was burned
to death in her home near here. She
was alone. When her house took
fire she escaped. Remembering she
had left Sos in it, she went back. The
woman, with her husband, came hc-e
three weeks ago from New York. The
husband was employed as a black
smith on the New York Central rail-
road.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Cuts New Teeth at Age Of SO.

New York.-Jonathan II. Cole of
South Plainfeld, N. j.. celebrated his
eighty-ninth birthday with unusual
glee because, he informed his friends,
he is cutting new teeth.
Twenty years ago no procured a
set Of false teeth and had no trouble
until three weeks ago, when he suf-
fere1 severe pains.
A dentist removed the false teeth
and began treatment. but three days
ago discovered that the pain was due
to the cutting OF full sets Of tsw@
and upper teeth.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Why COWS STOOD N "
Artistic Limitations Responsible n
Characteristic Attitude q the
Humble Bovine.

In north OF England town thera
was shlftless man who would never
accept gifts outright. although be wag
always depending on charity, says Al
Priddy In his book Through the
MIL" relates the Youths Companion.
He painted landscapes, and my. aint
when benevolently inclined, IA
hire him to decorate our waNa ~
rural scenes, highly colored insglalnH
tlnts. as II nature had turned color
blind. Not one stood on the vivid
green hills.
"Joryey," she remarked to the old
man, why do you always put the cows
In the water?"
ITS this way, Mrs Brindin," the old
artist responded. You see, ma'am,
never learned to paint hoofs"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Says Boy Fired Her Dress

said they had seen no strange boy
around and ventured the opinion that
Elsie had been striking matches while
coming down the Stairs and had set
her own clothes atre. The halls of
the house we're not lighted at the time.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

People who complained Of the heat
during the pest few days should have
their attention and memory directed to
the records OF year ago. Having re-
called the temperatures of that tor
rid interval they will be duly thank
ful that they are alive this year.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Students OF the University of Chi
cage have been forbidden to use tooth.
picks in public. If this sort OF thing
keeps up, Chicago will soon be de-
prived of all its distinguishing charac.
eeristics.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

New York fisherman claims that
deep sea turtle swallowed his hook
and dragged him to the bottom of ia.
mRica bay. He admits that he was
soused with sea water, but there are
those who harbor other suspicious.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

1t is said that girl scouts must learn
to bake bread, wash and iron, do sim
pie cooking, build a coal fire. darn
socks and take care OF babies. But
what's the use? Girls who can do all
OF those things don't have to do any
scouting.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A denizen Of a Detroit boarding
house demands that his room rent be
returned because he has been forced
20 kill $4,000 bedbugs. II he does
not have a care he will be arrested for
hunting without license.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Music TO Drown crIea.

South Norwalk, Conn.-Miss Sarah
Davenport, a wealthy resident of this
city. has hired a man to play the
phonograph on her front porch every
night from ten to three to drown the
cries OF a neighbours baby.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Over in New York an allmony claim
for $2S,445 was sold at auction for
800. This does not sound like
sporting proposition. 1t looks more
like a donation.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

There are nearly 10000 lawyers in
active practice in New York city. No
wonder some OF the people there pre-
fer to settle their disputes on the
streets with revolvers.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A Pennsylvania farmer says he has
q flock of hens that can run the mu.
steal scale. but what we want in our
hens is less artistic temperament and
more egg laying ability.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A New Jersey man has been fined
Tor allowing mosquitoes to breed on
his land. But how can a man dispense
~ flock OF Jersey skeeters unless he
be armed with a gatllng gun?
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

One pleasurable form Of summer va
,cation is to apend two weeks on one OF
those scout cruisers now engaged In
hunting iceberKs.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A French town has proposed grad
uated tax on fat residents, those under
135 pounds being tax free. The weight
OF opinion is against It.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
OF the Bird Kind.

Say, pa?"
What Is TT"
rs an aviary a hospital for avia-
torsH
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Is the large increase in business
shown by the indianapolis postofice
for the fiscal year evidence Of the In
dustry of Indiana's authors2
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

We are becoming a spry and spright-
Iy people, science finds. A reflex, no
doubt, of the agility acquired in dodg-
ang automobiles.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Woman Refuses TO Run.

Pasadena, Cal,--Maintaining that her
first duty was to her children Mrs. A.
l.. Hamilton has refused to run for the
assembly on the Prohibition ticket.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Why bother to water the plants
while wife is away? It's much easier
TO buy her a new set Just before she is
expected home.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

When a small boy can go around all
day attired in nothing but a cotton
bathing suit the amenities OF civillza-
zion do not greatly bother him.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Perhaps If the weather bureau will
take an interlude in its prediction OF
showers, the perverse skies might IA
Vor us.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A historian claims that the liberty
bell is a myth, but our English broth
rem have reason to suspect otherwise.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Conflicting emotions sway the girl
who is delight to the eye in a bath
ing suit but who freckles in the SUM
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Airship or aeroplane. They can
both become engines OF death when
the unforeseen happens.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

y An Austrian count has gone into
bankruptcy with assets OF $3.50. 1t
looks as II some American heiress
might get bargain there.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

New York has again given evidence
of its dislike Of dead ones by avert
ing the hearse drivers strike.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Not until his wife goes away on
vacation does a man fully realize the
Joys Of poker as a summer sport
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A suit brought in 1925 has Just been
settled. There must have been some
of the laws delays in the good old
times. too.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Another way to avoid sunstroke is
30 let somebody else do the political
wrangling.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Mark the returned vacationer. BY
his tan ye shall know him.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

In Germany, too, the birth rate is
declining. Is the whole human race
going to commit suicide?
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Air pockets continue to cause trou-
Die, but nobody ever tries to pick
them.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for Childrcn
teeth!ng, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. ESQ n bottle.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

A London suffragette who donned
male attire had her shins kicked by
a mob. Even the hobble skirt has It's
advantages.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

The tides ebb and flow in political
battles. but the dy gets swatted all
the time.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
PUBLIC LEDGER.
A. r. cuRRAN, Publisher.

Bathing suits are made to 1T the
occasion.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Some people go on picnics and 9th
urs get their shower baths at home.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Old General Humidity Is once moro
In supreme command of all the forces.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10
Not So Dumb.

Are you a friend OF tho dumb
brutesq" -'You bet am. That's why
! just bate cats and parrots"
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Another sign Of reverting to the
savage period OF the race is intimated
in the suggestion offered by members
Of the physicians meeting chat Kissing
DO abolished by lawIag sanitary and
. saintation by ru5 ses or fore.
heads be snbstltul ance seems
20 be advancing backward
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Known Species Of Inseets.
Considerably more than 100000 sep
arate species Of lEDsSts are knoWn and
classified.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-08-10

Not every fortune hunter is good
shot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
a RATIONAL CALENDAR.

The calendar and the hours of the
day seem to most of us almost like
part OF the natural and immutable
order of things, and however much
trouble the present indefensible sys-
tenn caused, men have felt that 1t was
rash-almost. impious-to suggest a
change in it. Give us back our eley-
en- days" cried the mob when the
Gregorian calendar was introduced
into Great Britain. From the days Of
julius Caesar to our own, he has been
a bold reformer indeed who would
suggest changes in the disorderly pro-
cession OF the months.
Now enters Moses B. Cotsworth OF
Victoria, B. c., with a proposal for a
rational calendar. He would divide
tie year into thirteen months, each
of twenty-eight days, which would
leave one extra day In the year. and
this he beautifully plans as a free
Gay for every one-free from interest
charges ON money, the necessity 70
work, the wage scale, etc. Then each
month would commence on Suuaas
and TIE hrs. eighth, fifteenth and
twcrtysccoac days of each month
would be Sundays. President Hadley
of Yale is quoted as saying that the
month of four weeks will come as q
commercial necessity The adjust
ment to the change would be very
small compared to that necessitatet
| when standard time was introduced
on trans-continenta1 railways. Mr.
| Cotsworth has literature to distribute
poking fun at the present system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06

Cedar Rapids Republican. 1t seems
that the President kept one good piece
of news from the newspapers last
spring, when the army was sent to the
Mexican border At that time Colonel
Roosevelt wrote letter to the Presi-
dent Offering his services, at the head
of a regiment of cavalry, to invade
Mexico. The colonel made only one
condition and that was that he should
be allowed to select his own sub
ordinates.' In other words, the whole
sonal one, at the whims OF the rough
riding colonel and his confederates.
He was not to abide by any rules and
regulations OF the war department and
even the President as commander in
chief was not to be given a great deal
OF discretion or control, the whole az
fair was to be Rooseveltesque, wild
and woolly.
President Taft realized the serious
ness of the Mexican situation, for he
took large part OF the American
army down there, to keep peace on
the border. He did not want to invade
a foreign country with an American
army, unless 1t should be absolutely
necessary. The President in that mat
! ter showed the calmness and the wis
dom of wise man in high office
A noisier man in the Presidents chair
might over night have fused us into
lot Of trouble.
After thinking it over and studying
the situation, President Taft wrote
Colonel Roosevelt. thanking him fol
the proffer OF his services. but saying
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
SAVE IOWA CORN CROP,

he Greater Des Moines Committee
is mailing letter to newspapers,
bankers and business men throughout
the state appealing to them to help
save lowa's 1912 corn crop which is
seriously threatened because OF poor
seed. The seed corn situation is de-
clared to be the worst it has been in
twenty years. 1t is asserted that not
over half OF the seed corn that has
been tested SO far will grow at all.
Many farmers who saved their SEED
carefully last fall, find that only rs to
10 per cent will terminate, and in
many of the corn cribs not a single
ear will grow. The letter goes on to
say:
If the iowa farmers wait until
planting time. and use the seed that
looks good, without first testing it, so
much OF the corn is bad that there
will not be half crop in the state.
and the loss will be at least $4,000
900. Il will be statewide calamity.
The Iowa farmer will have to find
his seed on his own farm, or in his
own neighborhood, because the short
age of seed corn is general. Ohio
/ has a shortage. There is little sur
4 plus in Indiana. 1t is going to be very
] difficult to find enough in Illinois to
plant her own fields. Minnesota.
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri are facing the worst seed
corn famine they have ever known.
Seed corn should be selected and
termination tests made at once, as it
will take most farmers two to three
weeks TO select the seed they will
need. Tests made SO far, indicate
4 that 1t will be necessary to make a
termination test of every ear. In
testing 100 ears, from ten to seventy
ears may be found that will be safe
to use, These can be saved and an
other lot tested until enough has been
found. 1t will take about 1,200 good
ears to plant seventy-five acres.
1t has been found that the uppe,
two.thirds of some ears will grow ant
the lower third Is dead. In some lots
one side of an ear will grow, while the
other side is dead. In many ears {
4 patch or two is dead. while the res
OF the ear is good. Corn on the out
side and at the ton OF the crib vii
sometimes grow, while that in the
center is dead. The seed is unusually
freakish even, for bad year, and in
testing for termination, kernels should
be taken from each side of the ear
some from the center and agait
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
BAD BREATH.
It's Your Duty to Get at the Cause
and Remove Il. A Word TO the
Wise, You Know.

Or. Edwards Olive Tablets. the
substitute for calomel, will positively
do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath
find quick relief through DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. The pleasant sugar
coated tablets are taken for bad
breath by all who know them.
Olive Tablets act gently but firmly
on the bowels ana liver, stimulating
them to natural action, clearing the
blood and gently purifying the entire
system Of impurities
They do all that dangerous calomel
does without any bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, sickening,
gripping cathartics are derived from
Olive Tablets without gripping, pain
or disagreeable effects of any kind.
DR.. F. M. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years of
practice among patients afflicted
with bowel and liver complaint with
the attendant bad breath.
Olive tablets are purely vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil.
| Try oliveyTablets today. Take one
every night for week and note the
effect.
Every little Olive Tablet has a
movement all its own
| 10c and Csc per box.
! The Olive Tablet Company OF Co
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ident.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
FRANKLIN.
|, : 80 = = - = . 80 .

Phillips Weiss, who had been a pa
tient sufferer for long time with
dropsy and carbuncles died al his
home in West Point Thursday, we'd
50 years, months. He was the son
of Judge Weiss, born and raised in
Mannheim. Germany, where he was
married. In 1878 he came to West
Point township where the family have.
since resided. The funeral tool
place from the late home Sunday af-
ternoon, the remains finding their last
resting place in the family lot beside
those of his daughter Mary, who was
buried two weeks before. He is sur
viyed by his aged wife, four sons and
three daughters. His one daughter,
Mrs. Al Halbasch was unable to at
tend the funeral on account of illness.
Died: Mrs. Lizzie Tadlock OF Sc
ward, Kansas, February 90 Besides
her husband she is survived by her
aged father, four brothers and two
sisters. She was born in this town
ship where she grew up to woman
hood. Her father and other relatives
reside in this county.
Mrs. Nick Rotter died in hospital
at Iowa City Friday afternoon, the re-
suit of an operation. Mrs Chas. Timpe
who underwent an operation on the
same day, returned home Sunday.
| VIM. Roemermann, an old respected
citizen Of this town had paralytic
stroke Sunday
Arthur Avis and Miss Emile HRS.
chler were married at Keokuk We'd
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
When Roosevelt Wanted
to Invade Mexico

he would be compelled to decline
them as the situation would not war
rant any demonstrations against the
Mexican government, at that time.
We are told that that was the last
time that Colonel Roosevelt wrote to
Mr. Taft, or had anything to do with
him. He must have looked upon that
refusal as q sort OF gratuitous insult
to him. Wasn't he able to judge of
what was needed on the Mexican bor-
der as we'll as the man he had helped
to make President? The man who
was to have been one of the 'subordi-
Mates was Col. Cecil Lyon Of Texas,
the politician who is M W trying to de-
liver that state to the colonel. 1t was,
no doubt, something that President
Taft hated to do, to turn down the
ambitious colonel, but what could he
do ard be true to his own Office? He
did not want to organize for Mex
lean invasion, especially not one with
Colonel Roosevelt at the head.
incidentally, one may ask what Col
onel Roosevelt would have done had
he been President at that time? With
his love for invasions, he probably
would have involved this country in
war with Mexico, the kind OF a
picnic that rough riders would have
enjoyed to the limit A pretty how-dy-
do we might have had in this country
If a man less. calm and les; wise than
Mr.. Taft had been in the Presidents
chair OF course. q Mexican invasion
would have suited all the rough riders
who were to he called out by the col
onel, but Is that what great nations
are organized for?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
federal bureau of education to study
vocational education.

Col. James Hamilton Lewis de-
plores the continued insurrection in
cited by prominent public men against
every law and order of government
He declares there is only the spirit
Of rebellion against all orders and
regularity and the voice OF defiance to
all official judgments. 1t does begin
to look as If some preferred instabil-
ity to stability in government. If they
continue to SOW the wind they must
expect to reap the whirlwind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
A SAVIOR OF SOCIETY.

it Was we'll said OF the late Lord
Lister, born plain Joseph Lister, in
1927, but raised to the peerage in
1897 for his eminent services to
surgery, who died in England last
month, that he saved more lives than
Napoleon took in all his wars. Lister
has been called the founder OF mod
srn surgery and is justly regarded as
one of the great benefactors of the
human race.
By his discovery of antiseptic sur
seiy he made possible operations that
we're considered impossible under
TIE cd procedure, and he rendered
perfectly safe many methods that
We're thought to be dangerous final
resorts. This he did by recognizing
that in nine cases out of ten danger
to the patient resulted not from the
mechanical features of the operation,
but from subsequent infection by
bacteria. By disinfecting wound, in
struments, bandages, and everything
connected with the operation, he
killed the germs and obviated the
unpleasant or even fatal consequences
once SO inevitable. More recent pro-
Icedure has been aseptic rather than
tantiseptic; that is, care is taken to
exclude germs by scrupulous cleanli-
ness rather than to poison them when
they have gained a footing. But any
procedure of this kind must rest up
on Listers original discovery, and he
lis Justly entitled to gratitude as a
physical savior of society.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06

this month: March will have rough
and cold weather until the 20th, RON
20 to %, severe cold spell, remainder
heavy frosts at night with thaws dur
ing the day. The predictions for the
past two months were correct.
Another bad snow storm struck this
community Saturday, showing all day
and during, the evening strong wind
began to drift the snow. making tray-
Ell impossible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06

nesday. The bride is a sister of G.
w Hirschler of this town.
Mrs. H. Streab Of Burlington, is in
town looking after q house to move
back.
Jacob Mehl made a business trip to
Fit. Madison Friday.
According to Mr.. Ground Hog, win
ter will come to sudden end in two
weeks, but our Deutsch- Hannovericher
Kalender predicts the following for
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
about one and half inches from both

about one and half inches from both
butt and tip
Recipients OF the letter are urged
to take UP at once the testing OF seed
with all the farmers and business
men in their respective communities
and endeavor to create such public
sentiment that every seed ear will be
tested and full stand secured in
every field The matter is one of
vital importance to the prosperity of
the state and should receive the
prompt and earnest attention it de
serves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-06
keokuk, Iowa
Will 4 Rum?

WILL / RuN7
will run" now chuckles Teddy,
If they hand the chance to
me?
If you hand leg Of mutton to a
bull dog will he eat?
Will a tramp pass by the counter
where the lunch is labeled
.free'?''
If you say ice cream TO Mabel
will she beg you not TO treat?
will ! rum now chuckles Teddy,
will duck refuse to swim
II it finds lake is handy; will
an actor spurn boost?
Will lawyer take big fee that is
handed up to him?
Will a convict take a pardon when
the hangman's knot is noosed?
Twill run, says T. r. smiling,
twill surgeon operate'
Will bank clerk overlook a chance
to take holiday?
Will Bill Bryan spurn the offer OF an
other lecture date?
Will a small boy find the jam jan
when his mothers gone away.
will rum" now chuckles Teddy
IF they hand the chance ts
me?
That is foolish question nineteeI
ninety-four;
Don't make me laugh this morning
for my lip is cracked, you see
I'VE been running for year or tw'
or more. .
Detroit Free Press.