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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
How the Game is PLAYED,

davenport Democrat: OF course
there are many genuine and legitimate
factories that are looking for locations
and will move when the desired places
can be found. Some cities have better
shipping facilities. cheaper power,
larger educational advantages, main.
tain higher standard of order than
Others. All these and numerous other
points have their weight when it
comes to moving.
Moreover there are some small in
dustries whose owners are looking for
more money and do not care where
they go if what they want is offered
still others that are playing the game
Tor what 1t is worth to them. ANY
town or city almost that is given a
place on the map can secure offers.
and if wanted the propositions can be
cultivated until they come by the
mail sack full. There are some elm
ping bureaus that make it business
OF attending to the correspondence.
One of them writes thus: AT the
earliest possible moment we can nut
you into communication with more
concerns seeking new locations for
their factories, or who are dissatisfied
with their present locations. than vol,
can secure in any other way" After
much more of the same nature it is
stated in the circular letter that the
information will he sent for So
month, or $50 year.
One of these professional factory
movers fer consideration adds
grain OF honesty by confessing that
if does not claim that every item
means a new industry. To be sure.
The only object is to pick up the SO
a month. CT $50 year thousand
towns, small and large. can have the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

WHERE THE WEST BEGINS.

WHERE THE WEST BEGINS.
Out where the handclasp's little
stronger,
Out where a smile dwells a little
longer,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the sun is little brighter,
Where the SHOWS that fall are trifle
whittier,
Where the bonds of home are wee
bit tighter,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the skies are a trifle
bluer,
Out where friendships little truer
That's where the West begins.
Out where fresher breeze is blow
ms
Where there is laughter in every
streamlet flowing,
Where there's more of reaping and
less of sowing
That's where the West begins.
Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts with despair are
aching
That's where the West begins.
Where there's more of singing and
less of signing,
Where there's more of giving and less
of buying,
And man makes friends without
half trying
That's where the West begins.
Denver Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
Swat the Fly.

Bes Moines Capital An Iowa ex.
change observes that one dead av in
May is worth more than regiment
or an army of dead flies in Septem.
Der In other words the time ia swat
the fly is right now. Don't give him a
chance to carry germs about all sum.
mer and don't let it be possible for
flies to produce millions more flies be-
cause we are not awake to the gravity
OF the fly evil.
The University of Connecticut re.
Gently examined fly and found g.
100000 germs each of which was can.
able OF producing fatal illness if placed
sr the right sort of sell. Sounds
startling, doesn't it? Moreover. scien.
lists assert that forty to fifty thous.
and deaths are caused in the United
States each year through the agency
OF the fly A fly can lay 120 eggs in
four hours and lay just as many the
next day. Ninety-eight per cent of
them are laid in stables. The othe, .
per cent are laid in garbage and fltb
When you see a fly walking across
your bread and butter or taking
swim in your cream pitcher YOU NAV
rest assured that he is leaving behind
nm trail Ct germs not only disgust.
ing but dangerous.
These are facts vouched for nv
scientists. DR.. Kepford, state lectpr.
er against tuberculosis, recently is.
sued a statement in which be arsarted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05


In the July number of the Annals
or Iowa, published by the state his
torical department, Johnson Brigham
state librarian, tells the story of Hon,
John A. Kasson's long fight for the
capitol building at Des Moines. In
mentioning those prominent for and
against the proposition Mr.. Brigham
makes this reference to we'll known
citizen of Keokuk long since gone to
his reward: "Mr. Kasson in after
years especially mentioned the re-
doubtable John P. Irish of Johnson
county and the witty Pat Gibbons of
keokuk as among his most service
able allies. =" The measure finally pass
ed the state senate with only one soli-
tary vote to spare
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
DRUNKENNESS AND lNToxlcA.
TtON

differences in degrees of intoxica-
ton are recognized by the Texas court
OF criminal appeals, in case in which
the court adopts this dictum:
is extremely difficult to draw the
! line on drunk There are various
stages, such as quarter drunk, half
drunk and dead drunk. There are
the stages of being vivacious, foxy,
'tipsy, and on high lonesome and
it is about as difficult to determine
When a young lady is an old maid as
1t is to tell when man has taken
enough alcoholic stimulant to pass the
line between jolly sober and a
'gentlemanly drunk. -
writer in Vests Docket points out
that these statements are in lire with
testimony reported in another Texas
case that there is generally recog-
nized difference between a person be-
ing drunk and being intoxicated. A
person may be intoxicated, and not be
drunk, as it is ordinarily understood.
A person is intoxicated to a certain
extent when he takes one drink, yet he
is not drunk. One drink will not
ordinarily make a man drunk. 1t will
to certain extent intoxicate him.
Defendant had the appearance of
man who was drinking some. though
to what extent ! cannot say. He. was
not down, but was able to attend to
his business The trial court, not
able to discover the recognized diff
ference. found him guilty, but the
court on appeal held that he was not
drunk
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

would specify that these fans were
built in two designs and many vari-
cites, and that one design was for
operation in vertical position and
the other for operation in a horizontal
position. Another foible of the techni-
cal man is the omission of the article
whenever possible. This has clari-
flying effect and is not ungrammatis
cal. The language of precision differs
almost as much from popular termino-
logy as the precious speech of the
seventeenth century differed from the
ordinary language of the street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
The sIeepers.


Say, what you got that fog,horn
for?" inquired the farmers
maid
To wake EN- up, to wake EN- up,
the busy farmer said.
And do you think It's loud enough q
inquired the farmers maid.
have my doubts, | have my
doubts" the busy farmer said.
But I've tried the best alarm clocks,
and it amt bit of use,
And went and bought a bugle that
was louder than the deuce.
And I've gone and got this fog-horn,
and I'm going to turn it loose,
When try to get the boys up in
the morning."
Suppose the fog horn's not enough?"
inquired the farmers maid.
III go and get a cannon next the
busy farmer said
I've seen 'em sleep through worse
than that" returned the farm
er's maid.
We'll. then I'll try a lyddite bomb
the busy farmer said;
For the cows are in the stable, and
the pals are empty still,
And the horses want their breakfast,
and the piggies want their fill;
But the boys are sleeping soundly,
and guess they always will,
When we try to get 'em walked UP
in the morning"
Well, can get the fellows up" re-
marked the farmers maid.
/ bet you can't, bet you can't the
busy farmer said.
I'll simply ring the breakfast bell"
explained the farmers maid
/ never even thought of that" the
busy farmer said
For you ring 'em UP to breakfast,
and they'll make it in leap,
'hough the bed is mighty comfy and
the slumber mighty deep
or the thought of cakes and coffee
wakes the LATEST from sleep,
When we try to get the boys up in
the morning."
Berton Braley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
THE LANGUAGE OF PRECISION

The $4,000 or more electrical and
mechanical engineers in the United
States are having marked effect in
starting a new school of writing. The
language of the engineer is the Ian
guage of precision. and this applies
especially to the electrical engineer.
The last census shows that in the dec
value of machinery and apparatus
used in the generation and utilization
of electricity increased, in round num-
bers, from $105,oo0,0oo to s243,0Oo,Ooo
or $50 per cent. For the interchange
of ideas On all of these vast enter
prises there are thirty-three technical
papers dealing with electrical science
and the electrical trade. In addition
to this, much matter is prepared in
popular form for the daily and week
ly press. The experts in the various
departments of the Croker Wheeler
company exhaust themselves in eff
forts to explain the nature and uses
of some of their larger electrical in
stallations to popular writer's, but the
difficulties are immense. The big in
stallations of this company, the gem
eral Electric, Westinghouse and others
command public attention on account
of their size. but even the largest are
frequently misunderstood Everyone
, knows how the digging of the Panama
canal is progressing. Few people know
that million dollars worth of cleo
trical machinery was installed there
last year, and what it is being used
for
We have been accused on this side
of the water of being careless and in
accurate in our mode. of expression.
The scientific departments of our col
leges and universities have outstrip-
ped the academic departments and
this may prove the salvation of our
language. SO minutely and conscien.
tiously accurate Is the man with a
technical training that may" has al
most entirely replaced "can" in his
vocabulary. even when no condition
is implied. No truly conscientious en-
eineer would state that machine
must operate continuously with lit
tie attention since there is no com
pulsion, and the machine might never
be started. He might possibly com
nit himself to the extent of saying
that a machine must be capable of"
continuous operation. In describing
electrical machinery every item must
be individualized. If large electric
fans are constructed for operation in
either horizontal or vertical posi-
ton, the electrical engineer would
deem it inaccurate TO state it in the
foregoing fashion unless the ma
chimes built to operate in one of these
positions were absolutely Identical in
construction with the machine built to
operate in the other. He has hor-
ror of collective or generic terms, and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
ST. FRANcIsvlLLE,,Mo
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children's day will be observed Sun.
day, June %, at the M. p church.
Mr. Tibbs, who is under the doctor,
care is able to sit up. -
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Wilson of WAY.
land attended the decoration day
services here Wednesday.
DR. iiarter lost valuable COW last
week George Brown also lost fine
horse.
Joe Baily was a business caller in
heokuk last Friday. s.
z. W. Springer was papering at
the Eugene Wells home Thursday and
Friday anu
" w Orr attended the funeral Of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

Texas Democrats are opposed to
the recall. In state convention at
Houston they voted with only one dis
senting vote for a platform containing
paragraph against injecting the
initiative, referendum and recall into
this campaign and one favoring the
avoidance of radical expressions as
to free raw materials. 1t reaffirms
the Denver platform, favors presiden-
tial primaries and direct election of
senator's
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

If the principle of liberty is extend
ed to business men and small bank
depositors, under natural law of
equal protection. for all, the big inter-
ests VIII not absorb exclusively bank
Ing accommodations or borrow where
less prominent agencies or individu-
ais are denied. Reform of the pres
ent banking system means safety and
protection for all commercial, manu-.
featuring and agricultural interests.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

The chief Iowa enterprise is print
ing, according TO bulletin issued
by the census bureau at Washington.
For every creamery in the state there
are two printing offices. and for
every bake shop nearly three estab-
lishments devoted to the production
of printing. There are ! 40 estab-
lishments in the state devoted to the
printing and publishing of newspa-
pers, books, music and periodicals, job
printing, book binding and blank book
making and lithographing This is
almost one-fifth of all the manufac-
turing establishments in the state,
and more than twice as many as are
recorded for any other industry. 1t
has been suggested that perhaps this
accounts for the unusual low percent
age of illiteracy in Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
Or. Wiley as a Daddy.

st. Louis Globe Democrat: DR.. Wi.
ley has been sent to bed by his inces-
SAINT care OF the baby. There are as
yet no symptoms of puerperal fever
in his case. We trust that while he
is abed Mrs. Wiley may enjoy those
sweet delights SO dear to the heart of
a new made mother. If the press dis
patches do not misrepresent the doc
tor ne is a fussy puss in pants, dis.
posed to rob women of their most sa-
cred rights.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

Some idea OF the rate at which land
values are advancing in northern Iowa
may be cleaned from the sale of a
farm near Belmond, in Wright county,
reported in the Bows Advocate. j. a.
Wilson and DR.. j. George purchased
the farm in 1910 at $50 per acre. Last
February Mr.. Wilson sold his interest
to G. w Finn at SIS per acre. Three
weeks ago Messrs. Finn and George
sold the farm at 500 per acre, and the
gentlemen who purchased it at that
time last week sold it for s116 per
acre-the land having doubled in
price in two years with two dollars
per acre to the good for commissions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

One Memorial Day speaker advised
the election of a President with a
cool head, because this government
is no more indestructible than the Ii
tanic was unsuitable" Such advice is
especially timely just now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

liquify the tough mucus and make \
easier to expectorate. 1t has been US.
ed successfully in man. epidemics ana
Is safe and sure. For sale by Wilkln'
son & Co.. pharmacy, and j. +.
kiedaisch C Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

list by paying for Call at any news
paper Office. ask for bundle OF old
exchanges, and start scheme Of
your own.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

An Illinois mayor has suggested the
establishment of a school where may
ors-elect may be instructed in the
duties confronting them. Such an ar
rangement would seem to be a decid-
ed Improvement on the present plan
CT educating mayors in the costly
school Of experience-at the public ex-
pense.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
AS Many View II.

Iowa City Republican: If the col
onel gets the nomination at Chicago,
the initials of the next Democratic
candidate may be w. j. B.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

z When your child has whoopiny
cough be careful to keep the cough
loose and expectoration easy by giving
chamberlsin's Cough Remedy as NAV
pc REQUIRED. This remedy will also
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
Noted Woman Dead.

/ United Press Leased Wire Servicel
NEWARK, N. J., June 5-Mrs'
Margaret e. Sangster. authoress, edl,
tor and poet, for many years dis'
tinsuished contributor to the MORO
of letters, died at her home In Maple
wood today, as the result OF acute ID
digestion. r.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

Down in the vicinity of Springfield,
Mo, several hundred cars of straw
berries are rotting in the fields on &C.
count of lack of pickers. Too bad.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05
Certificate Re-extending
Charter
Treasury Department,

Treasury Department,
Office Of the Comptroller OF
the Currency,
Washington, D. c., May %, 1912.
Whereas, by satisfactory evil
dence presented to the undersign-
ed, 1t has been made to appear that
THE. Keokuk National Bank" To-
Gated in the City of Keokuk. in
the county of Lee. and State of
Iowa, has complied with all the pro-
visions OF the Act of Congress ito
enable National Banking Associa-
tions to extend their corporate ex-
istence, and. for other purposes"
approved July IL, 1882, as amended
by the act, approved April 10, 1902;
Now, therefore, |, Lawrence o.
Murray, Comptroller of the Cur.
rency, do hereby certify that THE
Keokuk National Bank" located in
the City Of Keokuk, in the County
Of Lee, and State OF Iowa, is author
lied to have succession for the
period specified in its amended
articles of association: namely, I'M
til close Of business on May Is.
1882.
In testimony whereof witness
my hand and seal Of ONCE, this
25th day of May. 1912.
(Signed)
LAWRENCE o. MURRAY,
Comptroller OF the Currency.
Extension No. I'LL,
Charter No. 1892.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

lHdla IdII VIII De renOmlnated, but not
reelected
The Ames Times suggests that one
way to make Iowa a greater Iowa is
to talk less and do more actual work.
Abe Martin has noticed that it is
almost impossible to make clerk I'M
derstand what you want if he hasn't
got it.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald CON
fesses that Governor Wilson's chances
of securing the nomination at Balti-
more are not bright.
Perhaps the most astonished can.
didate of the whole kit and billing is
Champ Clark says the Marshalltown
Ilmes-Republican. The fact is that
Mr.. Clark had no idea he was SO popu-
lar. -
The Waterloo Times-Tribune says
that Bob LaFollette can lose one bat
SiC oiiu othi ilSHt III " iOSS duOIQST
one with less show of concern than
any other insurgent or insurrecto on
earth.
Only one man is on record who
gives his mother-in-law credit for
Wit. His son swallowed a penny, and
a few days afterward she wrote the
family inquiring if Ernest was over
his financial difficulties.
The Sioux City Journal cleverly
calls attention to the fact that when
you take to riding in automobiles you
must surrender the privilege of seeing
the violets by the wayside and of
nearing the birds sing in the hedges.
1T is dull day when some Re-
publican does not invent new style
of face to make at some other Re-
publican. Quite percentage of hot
headed Republicans" says the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye, would do well to
wear masks"
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Read The Daily Gate city. y
cents per week.
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MOTIFS AMp coMMEN1.

The Washington Democrat predicts
that Taft will be renominated, but not
reelected.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

Abe Martin has noticed that it is
almost impossible to make clerk I'M
derstand what you want if he hasn't
got it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-05

The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald con-
fesses that Governor Wilson's chances
OF securing the nomination at Balti-
more are not bright.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-31
Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and

Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and
Sheridan.
We of the north know that at that
great turning point of the war, the
battle of Gettysburg, it was the acci-
dent of battle more than superior skill
that determined whether Washington
or Richmond would in the end be
captured.
Not until one has gone down into
the valley of the SHADOW of death
does the individual experience the full
possibility OF human sympathy, and
the same is true of nations. The
civil war, with all its horrors, was
worth its full sad toll because it
awakened sectional sympathy and
opened the way to sectional love and
admiration, now becoming manifest,
and thereby furnishing a new bond of
nationality that must increase as the
years go on.
There is no lost cause" but a new
cause for patriotism and sympathy be-
tween those of the north and of the
south that has sprung into being with
out the volition of man, and so we
sing the songs of the Blue and the
Gray and We sprinkle the flowers
upon the graves of each with hands
that know no partiality.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-31

mel Roosevelt made two addresses here
yesterday. One at the Memorial day
services in the National cemetery, and
later he addressed a gathering of rail-
road engineers.
At the cemetery Roosevelt said ):
1--WE should concentrate ourselves
anew, trying practically to apply to
the issues of today the spirit and lofty
idealism- and homely common sense
wherein Lincoln worked
Referring to the civil war, he said:
THE war could only have been fought
by people showing the mixture of
lofty idealism and sound common
sense which is essential to the nations
success. either in peace or war. 1t
could only have been fought by a peo-
pie imbued with the highest idealism.
The true test of mans worth and the
respect in which he should be held is
not the position he holds, but the way
in which he does his duty in that posi-
ton"
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-31
MO "LOST CAUSE"

Looking back through the per
spective of fifty years, it is evident
that there is no lost cause" but that
we of northern blood and YOU of the
south have become joint inheritors of
the glory of the two grand armies,
each of which struggled for princi-
pies which tradition had made almost
instructive.
The specific points for which the
south contended were defeated on the
battlefield with glory to both sides,
but the merging of the north and
south by the destruction of the inter
vening obstacles, gave to us COM
mon cause, and led on to this day
when Lee and Jackson and Johnson
and Pickett are recognized by us all
as American heroes, as truly as are
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-31
MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE
REVEALED BY many

The Memorial day observance of the
valley centered at Imperial yesterday,
where services were held under tie
auspices of the Grand Army of the
Republic and the WOmen's Relief
Corps.
The graves of Union and Confeder-
ate soldiers in the cemeteries at FL
Centre and Imperial were decorated
with flowers, but in the towns of the
valley there was unusual quiet, bust
ness houses generally being closed in
observance of the day.
At Gettysburg
CBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
GETTYSBURG, Pa, May 31.-ColO.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-05-31
$. ~. Harris
General Contractor
Residence Cos Brighton |
NOTICE Fur PUBLICATION

(Not Coal Lands-Serial No. O15417
Department of the Interior, L. S. Land
Office at Los Angeles. Cal, April "a,
1912.-NOTICE is hereby given that
LORNE NJ MEYER of FL Centro Cal.
this office his application to enter under
the provisions of sections 23O6 or 23O7 Of
the revised statutes of the United States,
Lot 8, Sec. 4, r. 16 s., r. II E, S. B. NJ
Any and all persons claiming adversely
the land described, or desiring to object
because of the mineral character of the
land. or for any other reason. to the dis
posal to applicant, should file their af-
fidavits of protest in this office on or be-
fore the 10th day of JUNG. 1912.
FRANK buren,,
may 81 Register
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-03-20
Mrs. Judge Burdick.

Mrs. Rowena Burdick, former
resident of this city, died on Friday
at Bethesda hospital, st. Paul, from
epilepsy, and the remains were
brought to DEBORAH Monday for bur-
ial, interment being in Phelps Gene
terry, Rev. NJ. WillelC officiating.
Rowena Davenport was born Dec.
10, 1880, in Brattleboro, VT. In 1855
she was married to Silas w. Parker
and moved to DEBORAH and then died,
and in 1864 she married NJ. V. Bur-
dick, a lawyer and at one time
county judge, who died some years
ago. The deceased lived in DEBORAH
between 1855 and 1873, and again
between 1897 and 1907, since which
time she has lived with her son w.
A. in st. Paul. She had many friends
here who will remember her as a
good friend and neighbor.