The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-06

pie can make the new sanitary laws
a success. The Times-Journal of
that city quotes him as follows:
He suggested that II people would
pctronize only those dealers who
comply with the law all dealers would
be forced to get in line for self-pres-
ervation. That is the key to the stu
alton. The dealer who violates the
pure food regulations is not as much
afraid of the law as he is of finan-
cial loss.
THAT MoUsETRAP QUOTATION.
IF man can write better book.
preach better sermon, or make a
better mousetrap than his neighbor,
though he build his house in the
woods, the world will make beaten
path to his door,
Readers of Tie Gate City will re-
call the pursuit Of the elusive author
ity for the above quotation, the prog
ress Of which has been frankly con-
fided to the public. At last what APP
pear to be the facts in the case have
been determined through the indie
fatigable efforts of the editor OF
Vests Docket, issued by the West
Publishing company of st Paul, to
which we are indebted for the infor-
nation that follows.
The first assumption that the quo
tation was from Emerson seemed in
capable of yerification, although pop
ular fame had given him credit for it
for a quarter of century. That
snapper-up OF unconsidered TRIES,
Fra Elbertus, of East Aurora, seem
ed to think that, if it lacked an owns
er, he might as we'll take 1t for his
own; but his amiable willingness 20
father it found some difficulty in ex-
planning the fact that it had been
credited to Emerson by Mrs Sarah
| S. B. Yule In book entitled Dor
rowings," compiled in 1889, whereas
Mr.. Hubbard's "Philistinea was not
begun until 1895.
Mr.. Hubbard being disposed OF,
and the claim as to Emerson seeming
to be beyond proof, another claimant
appeared in the field, and for the last
two years the caption, That Elmer
son Quotation Located at Last" has
appeared in number of papers in
all parts of the country. The mys-
|tery was pronounced solved by at
tributing the quotation to DR.. John R.
Paxton, who was pastor of the
West Presbyterian Church, New York
City, from 1882 to 1898.
The credit for this discovery has
been given to Mr.. Calvin Dill Wilson,
of Glendale, Ohio, and the editor of
the Docket, in pursuit of exact infor-
nation, corresponded with Mr.. Will
son in the hope of securing concla-
siye demonstration o. DR.. Paxton S
authorship Mr.. Wilson was unable
to refer to any copy of the sermon,
but he was confident that it had been
published in the Treasury Maya.
zine" In 1889, publication now out
of print, and that It occurred in a
sermon entitled THE Unhidden
Christ" The Docket then appealed
to the librarian OF congress to make
| examination of the files Of the
Treasury" for 1889: and the chief
photographer of the library reported
4 that an examination of the magazine
1 failed to disclose the quotation In
/ question, the nearest approach &c
that sentiment in DIR. Paxton's ser
Il mon being the foIIowinp.
You may begin business in any oh
tscure place, but II there is ability
power, and a mastery OF affairs In
4 you, then all the steamboats, in the
river viii whistle for you, and the
railroads say, Come over and man
age u.s. You cannot be hid On the
other hand. IL you have nothing the
world wants. ii you have no power &c
paint picture. or manage business
} you are hidden already You may
live in your front windows, and drive
on Fifth avenue; but you are hid
The confident assertion of thu
newspapers that the quotation hal
: been located can hardly be said t,
stand the tests which lawyers ar,
| trained to apply to testimony.
/ But now appear the Journals o
! Ralph Waldo Emerson. never hereto
fore published. Mr.. Hugh K. Wac
ner of st. Louis, Mo. sends us a clir
) ping from st. Louis paper, the as
e tute editor of which has been readin
7 the Journals to good purpose. for Of
? page 52S of volume s, covering Emei
: sons Journal. written in 1855, appear
I the following memorandum jotte
down by the Sage of Concord:
"lf a man has good corn. or wood
S or boards.\ or pigs, to sell, or ca
Y make bettes chairs or knives, cruc
9 bles or church organs. than anybod
!. else, you will ind broad hard-beate
), road to his house, though 1t be in tn
= woods. And II a. man knows the Law
J people VIII find ID out, though he Nv
e In pine shanty, and resort to him
f1nerson's so-called Journals wer