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leokuk postof1ce, uncalleu for. for
week ending September 6, 1913:
Ladies'.
Mrs. Frances Bash
Mrs. Maggie Barnes
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick j. Campbell.
Miss Nora Dolan
Mrs. Pearl Flint
Miss Hattie George
Mrs. Ida Gillian
Miss Lard Hitchcock
Mrs. George E. Kimball
Mrs. j. S. Marshall
Mrs. Bertha Malone Cd
Mrs. s. j. Martin
Mrs. s. e. McClymonds
Mrs. Sallie Munsen
Mrs. Freeda Painter
Mrs. Bertha Penn
Mrs. c. NJ Rankin
Miss Sara F. Ricketts,
Mrs. ]. B. Scott
Mrs. Carrie Smith
Mrs. Edith Thomas
Mrs. S. D. White
Mrs. Z. A. Wells
Gentlemen.
Mr.. Hubby Brown
Mr.. A. C. Bawmhauer
Mr.. George Braenloch
Mr.. VIM. Bennett
Mr.. Alvin Becker
Mr.. c. w. Biels
Rev. H. T. Bolden
Mr.. j. B. Buckley
Mr.. H. F.. Caron
Mr.. Charles Cook
Ray Cooper
Mr.. Ed Downer
Mr.. Jordon Diyron
Mr.. Roy S. Ecknardt
Mr.. John Finch
Mr.. James Goffney
Mr.. Leo Hilton (2)
j. NJ. Hawley
Mr.. J. James
Chas. Kekos
Jas. F. Krauer
Harold Larson
Mr.. NJ. j. Lippitt
Mr.. T. J. Maxwell
Otto Madison
Mr.. w. H. Moore
p. H. Morris
Mr.. Theo w Ohmann
Mr.. Bennett R. Parker
Mr.. John Hickey
Chas. Rathford
MIR. Albert Reed
Mr.. J. B. Scott
Mr. Herman Sanders
Fred vansice
Walter Jay Warren
PERSONS calling for letters In above
list VIII please say they are adye,
.ised.
s. W. MooREHEAD,
Postmaster
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

Sixteen cases of typhoid fever are
reported on one milk route In Rock
ford III. The fact carries with it its
own moral
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

Keokuk was reported as the hottest
town in the country last Wednesday.
Just another excuse for a lot of PEG,
pie to refer to it as the dam town
observes the Waterloo Courier
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

Each rat in the United States is
said to cause an average damage Of
s1.S5 year ami to spread disease in
addition. Swat the rat!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

There are worse things than heat
and drouth The Hon Albert Jere-
NTH Beveridge delivered five
speeches in Maine on September 5.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

The Keosauqua Democrat tells Of
a Mississippi river sturgeon beins
caught in the Des Moines river near
that place recently and that Other
strange fish are now to be found in
that locality. 1t thinks their habitat
has been changed by the big dam at
Keokuk and the obstruction of the
river.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

How hot is it?" a voice inquired
of a telephone operator the other
day. Hotter than-I can't tell you,
I'm lady" was the answer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

Anyway, as long as Harry Thaw
figures so largely in the press dis
patches there is less room for any,
thing about Huerta.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

"Bonehead Bill" is the title of ar
article In an exchange. Cut it out!
The baseball season is at an end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

Ad extra hazardous occupations:
Riding on the New Haven railroad.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

According to abe Martin. after a
girl pencils her eyebrows these days
she is half dressed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

A modern critic says that one trou-
Bile with men is that their wishbones
develop faster than their backbones.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

The progreSS1VeS are beginning 10
rattle the skeleton of their party"
observes the sibley Tribune.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
it is barely possible that our currency
laws do not need much revising.
"seventy-cent corn Is not likely to
make the Iowa farmer less prosper
GUS" says the Iowa City Press.
A conceited man is described as
one who wants to talk about himself
when you want to talk about yourself.
mexico hasn't money enough to
fight a setting hen, let alone nation
like ours" says the Washington Dem
ocrat.
The vinton Eagle confesses that
Senator Kenyon's late conduct is a
disappointment to great many of
his friends.
The Iowa City Press says it looks
as if Senators Cummins and Kenyon
might be paving the way to organize
a party apiece in the near future.
The Boone News-Republican sug.
gests that the fellow who Is kicking
about the increased tax value of land
in Iowa ought to sell out and leave
the state.
/ For country that wants to be at
peace with the world, we certainly
have been kept pretty busy holdin2
the dove On the perch says the Man
son Journal
"A community that maintains and
supports a first class chautauqua as
sembly,' says the Ida Grove Pioneer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
Ignorance is the mother of suspi
cion.-W. R. Alger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08
THE DAILY GATE CITY
"is sure to be a good community
which to live

"If any man doubts perpetual mo-
ton let him observe cows tail at
milking time during the playful sea-
son of the flies" suggests the Esther
vile yindicator and Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

"Seventy-cent corn is not likely to
make the Iowa farmer less prosper.
ous," says the Iowa City Press.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List of let ,rs remaining in the
Keokuk postofice, uncalleu for. for
week ending September 6, 1913:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

A conceited man is described as
one who wants to talk about himself
when you want to talk about yourself
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DAILY BIZ MAIL.

8. :. sklrvin Manager
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

THE progressives are beginning tc
rattle the skeleton of their party
observes the Sibley Tribune.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-08

The Cedar Rapids Republican says
it is barely possible that our currency
laws do not need much revising.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-21

teresting detail on the subject This,
taken together. constitutes a very vivid
picture, as well as a completely authentic
one Of court amusements turned to the
ships. An admirable supplement to the
history Of the period.
THE HOUSE OF THANE. BY Eliza
beth Dejeans, author Of The Far
Triumph" etc. illustrated by Fred
erick c. Yohn. Philadelphia: J. B.
LippincOtt Company.
The American self-made man, such as
comes under the head of ''magnate." is
now a fixed feature OF current novels.
The formula for his making appears to
run something like this: A pinch Of
Rockefeller, q grain OF Morgan, a dash
Of Hartman, dust of Hill, flip Of
Carnegie and q lot of Just man. The mix
ture under certain individual manipula-
tions by the author comes out as some
variant Of the American financier. Such
is John Thane. the hero of this story. or
better. the story itself. Mrs. Dejeans
goes to a novels length in painting por-
traits of John Thane. Front face. side
face, the man standing, sitting. reclining,
full length and half Mood after mood,
trait upon trait, come to the surface
under this painstaking and 1nsistent
artistry To be sure .. o'h th,p Pso Pannep
II.
events befall, but these are only so many
lights turned on John Thane. Wife and
son, friends and mistress, BUSINESS am
billions, disappointments, losses recoV-
cries, are but measures OF the man.
gauges Of his nature, and otherwise or
no consequence. 1t is a workmanly story:
dramatic. realistic, entirely focused and
consistent An intensely modern, wholly
American story.
rxyr srapv.rT RIDER. BY Bertha
Runkle. author Of 1.-THE Helmet or
Navarro" etc New York: The Cen
fury Company.
The Isle Of Wight would appear TOO
small by half to make harborage 1or all
the exciting doings of this romantic tale.
At the bottom Of the lusty adventure
the DYNAMO Of the whole compiex-is
mysterious highwayman, the scarlet
Rider Here is a rascal who takes toll
of the unwary wayfarer with such elegance
of manner as to wrap even the Vlcuih Al
a glow of distinction. and with such thor
ouohness as to leave no doubt about MS
single-hearted devotion to his calling: 70
mnravel the mystery of the Scarlet Rlder
is the absorbing task here An exceed
ingly well managed masquerading at the
with two double-and-twisted mysteries
refusing to be uncoiled until one pays
free and ungrudging tribute to the IN
genuity of the author Besides. ca
PRECIOUS romance unfolds, romance LOOK
ing two ways at once, still further adding
tn the general puzzle. The author set
ting the story back to the time OF the
American revolution and the general per-
turbations Of King George and his realm,
secures almost 100 years OF perspective
will so far as the making of lawless ad-
ventura ia concerned Taking full ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-21

the section foreman along that grade
found the prints and dents where the
fianges Of the wheels had ridden upon
the top OF the rails for rod and then
"And still faster swept the car: Nose
had now stopped singing, for he could
not open his mouth against the terrlnc
blast that speed Of fully eighty miles an
the shocks when the car took a curve
that Nose without the slightest rear
of leaving the track, for he had Implicit
confidence in the white mans SCIENCE,
found 1t necessary to SIT down lest ,. .ns
be hurled from his standing place IKE
a stone from catapult. What kept II
on the track unless it was the hand Oh
Providence none has been able TO de-
termine for our running speed GOWN
that hill was limited to thirty miles an
hour-and q runaway car would easily
make three times that speed.
And them at length. when the terrinc
pace had reached a point where all Things
had lost their outlines and the entlre
landscape was but biur; when ~ ~ sse aaa
ed that the merest fraction more OF speed
would send that car to perdition, the DOT
tom of the grade was reached at Green
Hill siding. and laundering over the rusty
frogs of the switches at speed tney
had never felt before. Nose and his
caboose started up the haI-mHe srduo
that led to the valley. -.
land here his luck still stayed with him.
The countergrade swiftly checked the I'M.
petus of the car, but it had suficient
momentum to run to the top OF the
grade. AS it paused there moment, pc
FORE II started back down the short DE.
scent. Nose jumped out and ran to greet
the passenger train just then coming IN
sight down a straight piece OF track: Inc
engineer, who had spted the capo "sro
Stoned In wonder at ragged negro
Standing in the middle of the track WHO
~ and sleefully waving his arms Tor MIN
to halt. roe
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

SCHATZkASTLEIN DIES RHEIMS
CHEN HAUSFREUSDES. Won J.
+. Hebel. Edited with notes and,
vocabulary by Menco Stern. author
or "Geschichten vom Rhein." etc.
New York: American Book Com
pany.
THE REPUBLIC, A Little Book es
HO0esDsn Verse. BY Madison
Cawein. Cincinnati: Stewart. KiddR
& Co.
THE IDEA OF THE INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL. By George Kerschen-
steiner. Translated from the Ger
man by Rudolph Pinter. NJ. A.. PhD.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
RELIGION AS LIFE. BY Henry
Churchill King. u. D.. LII. D.. presi-
dent OF Oberlin College. New York:'
The Macmillan Company.
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR lvs
TERNATIONAL PEACE, Founded
December II. 1910. Year Book fer
1912. Washington: Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace. :.
THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING
1.-THE Ideal as a Dynamic Force"
etc Published by the author
BELIEvEsT THOU THIS. By A. p.
D.. author Of The Temple OF ths-
Living Christ" etc. Published by
the author.
A LATIN READER, Easy Selections
for Beginners. BY Frank A. Gallup.
principal Albany High School. AL
bany. n. Y. New York: American
Book Company. go
ECONOMICS OF BUSINESS. BY Norris
A. Brisc0. Phi D.. F. r. H. s.. Fellow
OF the Royal Economic Society. etc..
author Of "The Economic Policy OF
Robert Walpole" etc. New York.:
The Macmillan Company.
TACKLE AND QUARTER BACK, And
Other Athletic Stories. BY Leslie
w. Quirk. illustrated. New York:c
Mclaughlin Bros 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-21
INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright. 1913, by Frank Crane-I

The Chesterton case in England, where
Cecil Chesterton was convicted OF crlml-
nal libel in that he charged in his weekly
Newspaper that Godfrey Isaacs had ex-
erted improper influence upon the gov
eminent in regard to the contracts for
wireless telegraphie service, brought
forth from the mouth Of tho presiding
Judge q new pharse. "invincible ignor-
ance." a..
Only once In a while does a consummate
expression like Grants unconditional
surrender or Grover CIeveland's lin
nocuous desuetude," or Mayor Gaynor's
"Spissitude'' capture the ears of the
world. The felicitous epithet Is as
epochal as the great poem or the popu-
lar air, and as inexplicable.
Wherefore, re 'Invincible ignorance"
let US animadvert, annotate. gloss and
gently expound.
Item: The phrase In question means ig-
norance that cannot be conquered by evil
dence and reason. Query: Is there any
''vincible ignorance? Answer: There is
knows itself and Is hospitable to persua-
sion. verify it is not ignorance at all, but
wisdom of the highest type.
Item: While facts are proverbfaiiy
5CUODOrQ yet III THIS COHucCtlOi IL HiS III
be well to point out that non-facts are a
deal stubborner.
Item: The royal refuge and ermine robe
Of 'invincible Ignorance" is that gilded
humbug called "superiority." particularly
superiority Of blood. race or family
which is manifest in them that hold to
the following creeds:
That the Jones are all better than the
Smiths;
That negroes. Japanese and Chinese
are by nature inferior to American white
folks;
That civilization, Christianity and Gull
ture are coterminous with stovepipe hats.
pie and Wednesday evening meeting.
And that people who have money they
never earned, especially those who in
herit money, are of a better brand of
flesh than those who work for living.
The trouble with the man Chesterton is
that he is a Jew-baiter. When one let's
in race or class prejudice at the door, his
intelligence flies out Of the window
Item: Is 1t not curious that we can
not say ''invincible knowledge" for all
knowledge ID amendabls and teachablei
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-21

which tells OF how F1nerty helped his
general along In his wOoinS, and also
the story Of THE Oxen That Ran Away.
Ffnerty discusses polticaI questlons ana
women's rights and other issues OF the
day in an inimitable fashion. Those VINO
have never met the quaint Ir1sh sand
house keeper have now treat IN store
for them.
PARROT 4 CO. BY Harold MacGrath:
author of 1.-The Man on the Box.
etc: Illustrations in color by
white by Arthur William Brown.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Aerrtn Com
pany.
Parrot & Co. consisted Of q tall, bearded
man and . turbaned Eurasian servant
and a little green parrot in cage They
were known throughout india by this
title alone, save that the head OF the
firm was sometimes mentioned as the
man who never speaks of home" 1t Is
considered bed form. along those from
about the reasons Of such reticence and
so Warrington, which was the name he
signed when he had to sign something,
remained a mystery. Then came romance
through a chance meeting on an IRA
waddy steamer, and with romance came
serious complication. Mr. MAc0rath tells
this tale Of love and adventure as he al
ways tells such stories, directly. strongly
to the end when once started.
THE DEBIT ACCOUNT. BY Oliver
Onions, author OF In Accordance
With the Evidence" etc. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
A few months ago appeared a novel by
Oliver Onions entitled I'm Accordance
With the Evidence" which told the story
Of an Englishman's commission Of
crime which he regarded justified by the
higher laws OF society. That story was
ward when he had passed apparently all
possibility Of detection or disclosure ano
had gained affiuence and an influential
position in the world. Now comes So
Quel. not SO designated but quickly iden-
the settlement Of the debt incurred in the
commission Of this crime. Mr.. Onions has
not been entirely fair to his readers IN
that he does not plainly enough set forth
the circumstances and motives leading to
the taking Of human life by James JEFF
fries. He assumes the reader Of THE
Debit Account" to have read and remem-
bered In Accordance With the Evil
dence." But assuming such q connection.
tives. "The Debit Account" finds JET
fries married to the girl for whose sake
he broke the law. His conscience ID easy.
his affairs are prospering and happiness
Is his. Then suddenly, he meets one who
knew him in earlier days, Q woman who
has had a misfortune and Is now free OF
her troubles. a woman keen Of mind and
shrewd in her deductions, who has guess
ed Jeffries' secret. but. loving him with
out ever letting him know, has kept It In
violate. Ultimately retribution comes. a
punishment 80 just. 80 dramatically ap-
posite that even he who regards the
crime as justified must accept its retri-
button.
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Union Square Flower Market.
from the New York World.

From the New York World.
With the passage by the board Of alder
men of an ordinance providing for q
flower market in Union Square. this en-
terprise, which the Central Mercantile
Association has been long working for.
appears likely to be realized before tho
month is out. The movement has many
supporters and few, If any. opponents.
The merchants of the district wish 1t as
a new attraction for their section Of the
city. Flower growers wish 1t as new
opportunity for the display Of their goods
The public wishes 1t as a new ornament
to the park and as a place where flowers
of price not beyond the reach Of the
everyday income can be had In abundance
and in large variety. Such a market
should have been set up long ago. 1t is
a safe prediction that within a short time
the square would be one Of the chief show
places and most attractive resorts of the
city, not merely rivaling the Madeleine
in Paris and Covent Garden in London,
but surprising them.
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TEHJE WILD. RIDE OF OLD NOSE


taken on board, and the engineer glngeriy
felt his way down the short grade to the
foot Of the mountain. Here he founo
Noses caboose, which, after swinging to
and fro up the grades few times mao
settled quietly at the bottom. A Few
moments later the men on the pump car
came flying down the mountain from
Linden, looking for fragments. They told
their story to the train crew.
That bunch of worthless were doubtful
as they toiled up the mountain grade to
Lndon whether to reward old Nose Tor
his presence of mind In getting off the
caboose and hailing the approaching
train, or to tar and feather him for near
ly causing a wreck. Tar and feathers,
however, were not at hand, so they took
up a collection among the passengers
easy money in their thankful state-and
when Mose landed at Linden and relieved
our overwrought feelings with the news
that nothing had been lost, he had $685.
in his pocket.
But there was no doubt about the
viewpoint which the negroes back In
Rappahannock took of Moses escapade.
Not even his namesake, who crossed the
Red sea dryshod or went to heaven IN a
chariot Of fire-or was 1T old Moses VINO
did that stunt?-ever had such reverence
bestowed on him as was offered Moses
by his coored folks on his return to
Rappahannock. Ever since that day ne
has been an authority on every questlon
that arises among the darby folk, all
the way from the river to the Cobbler
mountains And Nose. shrewd blackamoor
that he is, keeps his fame alive by inter-
polating TN every conversation some ref
erence to before or after de time what
I rid de cyah down de mountin' faster n
what any man. white or black, ever rid
hafo
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he would-just how the thing might be
done. This story of Mr.. Benson's is a
familiar one, but no such narrator as he
| has hitherto appeared. His words beat
! like heavy hailstones. His sentences
pound like a rapid.firing gun. He talks
on the common mans level straight
across There is no one better than Mr..
Benson to give one just what the social
list does believe today, just what he is
trying to do for tomorrow.
REFLECTIONS OF A. BEGINNING
HUSBAND. BY Edward Sanford
Martin. author of Lucid Intervals"
etc. New York: Harper & Bros
become quite naturally, endlessly provo
cative sources of pause and reflection to
this beginning husband" These pro-
vide the medium through which he ex-
amines and challenges life BY means of
the one he qualities to give points on the
agitating woman question. and by way of
the other, to pass in sapient comment on
the troublesome business of education.
The resourceful energy of new job en-
lvens these reflections. The expansive
self-confidence of the new husband and
father swells them. In the light of Cor
della, the young man SeiZes the whole
woman problem, beating and busting it,
summing and airing it. He turns it this
size out 10 SHOW the ups ana QOWnS OF tne
old notion of woman as homemaker. Re-
verSfng it, he exhibits the heights and
depths of woman in business and politics.
He allows. too, wide border to the up
coming young women tall of whom look
astonishingly like Cordelia) that are
headed toward neither of these goals, but,
instead, are tremendously busy just but
terrifying about. AS yet. however, he
credits Cordelia with an honorable pro-
fession, that of ministering to happiness.
tn q
happiness, and Matilda cooks and does
all the other things that need to be done
in a fiat; and Cordelia ministers to my
happiness remarkably and l like to have
her stick to her profession When 1t
comes to his son the new father blossoms
into views about education. tracing, in
nocent-wise, the series of blind alleys in
and out Of which it, for the most part.
meanders from year to year. An ingenu-
Gus manner and amount of seeing things
as they are, with drOll and amusing use
of words. make very entertaining person
of:thls young man, who has any number
of worth while things to say.
THE TORCH BEARER; A Camp
Fire Girls Story. BY ]. T. Thurston,
author of THE Bishops Shadow"
etc. illustrated. New York: Flem-
ing H. Revell Company.
The Camp Fire Girls of America will
gather innumerabIe recruits out of this
good story alone. Any healthy, normal
girl reading it will be unable to resist
and, like bee to clover bed, will she be-
take herself in haste to the most near
by of the orders recruiting stations. The
story is that of group OF glris-real
girls and every sort OF girl-brought to-
gether under the truly beautiful ritual
Of the camp fire. and living in the light
and happy bonds Of the society. In a tent
life of the woods they divide work and