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, neat sum Of thirty-six dollars was

neat sum of thirty-six dollars was
realized.
Robert L. Kemple, the monologue
artist Of the Lyceum Bureau, Chicago,
lectured at the opera house Monday
evening, Dec. 10. The American BOY
was the subject of the fine address
One of the largest reunions that has
occurred for some time was held at
the Clingman home at Middletown, la.
recently. Ransom Clingman celebrated
his eighty-third birthday anniversary.
He is the father of our fellow towns
man C. r. Clingman, Dinner was
served in the dining room. Everything
was perfect in preparation and the
tables fairly groaned with good things
to eat. The table decorations were car
nations. The children, grandchil-
dren and great grand children were
present
The Episcopal Sunday school has
planned to have fine Christmas tree
well laden for their teachers and
scholars.
Hugh Cameron Of Keokuk, former
resident of this place, was called
here to select lot in the new ceme-
terry for the removal OF his relatives,
as the water will submerge the old
cemetery.
| Cottage prayer meetings of the M.
E., church are in progress and much
good is being effected.
Miss Lillian Judd who has been criti-
cally i'll is seemingly better.
The new furnace installed at the
Episcopal church is keeping the con-
gregation quite comfortable.
/ After the session OF the Royal Neigh
bors lodge Thursday evening, the Or.
acle, Mrs. John Franklin, served re
! freshments to the members. Mrs.
| Franklin is an expert In the culinary
art, the menu consisted OF three
course dinner, coffee and doughnuts
bananas and assorted cake, ice cream
and chocolate cake.
Mrs Essie Ward complains OF moi
being well.
P. L. Bowen has resumed his duties
as night telegraph operator at this
place.
4 The merchants all have pretty dis
play windows and the stores are nicely
! lighted with gasoline lamps. John orer
has lighted about fifty houses and the
stores with these lamps. He comes
from Minneapolis.
1 Miss Viola Keith who is teaching
the Billiard school in Jefferson town
ship, will arrange a Christmas tree
and program next Tuesday evening a
the school house.
i Mrs. Mary Cassidy of FIT. Madison
is guest at the home of her daushsAr
! Mrs. John Sprott.
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MoNTRosE.
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Some weeks ago the bishop of
Davenport appointed Father Town
er 10 the parish at Pennington, String
Prairie and Montrose. The Rev Town
er said his first mass at st. Joseph's
church at Montrose, Sunday, Deem
Der 1. Members at Montrose were
sorry to part with Father Ryne but
we think they we're amply reimbursed
by getting the present priest in charge
Mrs. Ella Classy, who is one of Lee
county's splendid educators, at Fort
Madison. recently visited old friends
at this place.
Edward Orph, the progressive res.
taurant and short order man has
bought an engine and will manufac.
ture Ice cream of all kinds at his
place of business in 1914.
Isaac Glasford, a veteran of the
civil war, has been sick for several
days.
w. j. Criswell transacted business
at Keokuk Tuesday and visited with
his brother and family.
-Aio' Lula Soillhs mas Deen guest
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Donald
Wilson at Burlington after which she
was enroute to Mediapolis to visit her
sister, Mrs. Mary Fifer.
Thirty bodies have been removed
from the old cemetery to the new, az
the old will be submerged by the Mis-
sisippi Power Company.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. David Skinner were
transacting business at Keokuk Mon
| day.
| Some sneak thief stole lap robe
out of lack Ovens buggy Saturda,
night.
The Presbyterian church people
are planning to have the interior O
their church painted and papered.
] Sunday the pulpit of the Presbyter
ian church will be filed by new min
lister. Mrs. P. w. Bowen, choir leader
will have special music.
At the Johnson home miscellaneous
shower was given by the neighbor
and friends Saturday afternoon ii
honor of Miss Elizabeth johnson VIII
will be united in marriage to Ralpl
Curtis, December 25. 1913 at the HON
of the bride Many useful and beaut
full gifts were left to remind the brid
to-be of the esteem of those in tn
community in which she lives.
The Presbyterian bazaar and chicl
en- pie social Saturday night was
success The fancy work table wa
presided over by the Westminste
, Circle. The apron table by Mrs. Ges
Duty, who was the drawing card o
sales. Fifteen chicken pies were d,
mated and to say the least, WASH
enough for the large assembly. Tb
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As she couuettishly answered: M
no sabe yes all right"
HIshban Not Neglected.

~ ..
It was George AIDE his Sultan of
Sulu who sprung the proposition:
The constitution and the cocktail
follow the flag" The highball is given
place in the official songs of the
Carabao, one verse being:
Here's to the glorious highball that
fills you full of vim.
Here's to the Scotch and Rye, fill
your glasses to the brsm;
Let jollity reign supremely. and drive
away all care,
Then fill your glasses, fellows, with
the beverage rich and rare.
The above quotations are from only
a few of the songs of the Carabao. In
his present belligersnt mood it is
probably just as well that President
Wilson hasn't complete copy of the
work at hand.
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DENMARK.
, = : : = : . = $50 - I

Mrs. Chas. Davis who has been sick
is now able to be UP again Relatives
from Fit Madison are with her, car
ing for her and her little son.
Mr.. Howard Van Tuyle OF Ksokuk
is business visitor In Denmark.
We do not see the need Of anyone
going to California this winter for
we have the weather brought to our
doors.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Fischer autoed to
West Point, Ia, with Miss Sniff who
is taking the X-ray treatment for
cancer. Of DR.. Meents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hem and son
of Des Moines, New Mexico, who
have been visiting here, left Monday
for Wellman, Iowa, for an indefinite
stay at the parental HEM home
The friends here OF Mrs vanetsen
were saddened to receive word of her
death. Inter1nent was made at Fit
Madison.
Ths w. c. T. U. Will not hold a
meeting during the holidays. The
/ next meeting will be Jan. % at the
home of Mrs. Clara Mckee.
/ Mr.. Chas Burton OF California who
was visiting his old home and climb
ing nut tree, got 20-foot fall, is
still confined to his bed at the home
of his sister whsre he was taken i'm
mediately after his accident. The in
jury seems to be to the spine
School will close at the academy
Dec. 10, but at the public school not
till Dec. %, as the public schoo
teachers wish to make up two days
they lost earlier in the term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Howston and
daughter Florence and Mrs. Bowder
autoed to Burlington last Saturday.
The yearly church meeting is on to
day with dinner in the church dining
rooms. This is the annual church
nesting
Miss Bernice Howston is at the
hospital In Ft Madison where she
recently underwent an operation TO-
:. appendicitis. We are glad to repor
she is doing well.
q A Christmas tree at the Congrega
tionai church Wednesday evening
Dec. "a
A Christmas concert at the Congre
gational church Sunday evening. Dee
2s.
: The next number on the lectur,
: course is Jan. 6, 1914, by Varney.
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THE MARSH lNTERuRRAN.

1t would seem from recent develop
ments that the building OF an inter-
urban line from Nauvoo to Quincy is
not as much of certainty as the
public hoped and had been led to be-
lieye The general understanding has
been of late that the money neces-
sary to build the road has all been
subscribed in France and only awaits
Promoter Marsh's signature on the
bonds to become Immediately avail
able Recent statements in a number
of local newspapers have tended to
confirm this impression Of the status
of the matter. Now comes the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye with an entirely
different version of the case. Accord
ing to the HE. the construction OF
the line is still 'in the air." depend
ing upon the success Of Mr.. Marsh
in convincing the French capitalists
that the investment would be good
one. This new aspect of the case Is
thus stated in the Hawk-Eye:
The Hawk-Eye is unable to say
!. whether the interurban will be built.
It is greatly to be wished that it may
be; but Mr.. Marsh frankly stated in
his visits to Burlington that while
the Philadelphia house that is nego-
tiating to provide the funds has en-
tered into contract to do so, 1t
would be necessary for him to go to
France next month and submit to the
French capitalists all the data upon
which the enterprise is based. II he
can make a satisfactory showing OF
the Feasibility Of the road and It's
ability to meet the interest on the
: bends and pay operating expens es
Mr.. Marsh was confident the required
f capital can be secured. Until this
vantage is established the enterprise
is necessarily in allegiance
1t is to be hoped that Mr. Marsh
confidence is justified and that HI
. will be successful In his efforts t.
get the money. Until It is In his pos
session the building of the line mus
remain matter of doubt, notwith
. standing all that has been printe
4 about its certainty.
q From the same source 1t is learne
:, that the Marsh project is likely t
have competition for It's ambitious prt
gramme to extend It's line fror
Quincy to ST. Louis. The Rock Islam
"a Southern Is said to be In the fie;
N for an extension OF Its line frol
A Galesburg to the same city Tn
,e Walsh brothers are jumping in
or pre-empt the ground They alread
n. have surveying party in the yicinit
of Beardstown, studying line fro1
Monmouth to Quincy and headed Il
rs st. Louis. 1t is not probable thu
is both roads will be built south {
at Quincy. 1t would therefore seem
OF be lively race between the tw
90 competing interests
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Royal is the only Baking
PoUder made from Royal
Grape Cream of Tartar.
These mothers have total Of thirty

These mothers have total OF thirty
one children.
The sums are paid from the audi
tors office on the first of each mon h.
The amount that each child shall re
ceive is fixed by order OF the court
and may be any sum per week not to
exc aed $500. The conditions are that
the widow be poor and unable to
properly care for the children from a
financial standpoint; that she be a
proper guardian; and that the home
shall be a good place for the child.
The allowance for the children shall
cease after they become IA yeas OF
age.
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81 CHILDREN ARE
HELPED BY COUNTY
WIDOWS Pension Act Proves q
Benefit to Fourteen
Women.

One OF the state laws of the Thir-
ty-hfth general assembly of Iowa pro-
vides for widows pensions' and pro
vides that under certain conditions
and restrictions. each needy widow
hall receive from 81 to 80 per week
for the support of each OF her chill
dren. At the present time. County
Auditor A. p Meyer pays ont money
regularly to fourteen Lee county
widows who come under the provis-
ions OF the act mentioned above.
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sociation here today to be forwarded
at once to Secretary of Agriculture
Houston, asking notifications in the
game laws which prohibit hunting
along the Mississippi river between
Memphis and Minneapolis.
The subscribers to the petition ar,
spoItsmen from Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri. Dozens of other petitions
with signatures aggregating tens Of
thousands are being sent in from
other river towns, St Louis, Keokuk,
Burlington. Cedar Rapids, Davenport,
Rock Island and Moline. All request
a repeal Of the prohibitory law or
an opportunity for a hearing on mod.
fication.
It is expected that the secretary
soon will set a date for hearing.
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December 10, 1913
GOING HOME.

GOING HOME.
lust to go home when the days work
is over,
Just to go home when the sky's get
ting gray,
That's best of all, if a mans home
Just to go home with the laddie to
play:
Just to 90 home to the wife who is
waiting
What of the cares that are past or
to come
When it brings sweetness. the tired
heart elating,
Just to go home?
Bright visions fade and hopes buoyant
must perish,
No man may live without sorrow
and pain,
Yet, if life's one dearest gift we but
cherish,
Love brings the dreams and hopes
back again.
Knowing our loved ones are waiting
to greet US,
Troubles must melt like the bub-
bles in foam;
Sorrow and loss OF content cannot
cheat US,
When we go home.
What good world is this world
which we live in?
What good life is this life which
we lead,
Weary We grow in the race which
we strive in,
But the reward is repayment in
deed,
Long is life's workday. but sure is thu
guerdon
When stars awake in the darkenin,
dome;
Gladly we live and toll on with tn,
burden:
Just to go home.
Lee Shippey, in the Kansas City Star
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Santa Claus.


He comes in the night! Ee comes in
the night!
He softly, silently comes,
While the little brown heads on the
pillows so white
Are dreaming OF bugles and drums
He cuts through the snow like ship
through the foam,
While the white flakes around him
whirl;
Who tells him know not, but he
findeth the home
OF each good little boy and girl.
Fills sleigh it is long, and deep and
wide;
1t will carry host Of things,
While dozens of drums hang over the
side,
With the sticks sticking under the
strings.
And yet not the sound of drum is
heard,
Not q bugle blast is blown,
40 hO AAouutS " lie Cliiuuucy tOp llhc
bird,
And drops to the hearth like a
stone.
The little red stockings he silently
fills,
Till the stockings will hold no more;
The bright little sleds for the great
snow hills
Are quickly set down on the floor
Then Santa Claus mounts to the ROOF
like bird,
And glides to his seat in the sleigh;
Not sound of a bugle or drum is
heard
AS he noiselessly gallops away.
He rides to the east, and he rides te
the west;
OF his goodies he touches not one,
He eateth the crumbs OF the Christ
mas feast
When the dear little folks are done
1 old Santa Claus doeth all that he can
This beautiful mission is his;
Then. children, be good to the it'll
old man
| When you find who the little man is
Author Unknown
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The Mt Pleasant Free Press prinls
the following paragraph which tells
its own story:
U. NJ Downing, the big, good ma
tured travelling man, who sells paper
and supplies for a Davenport house,
came in Tuesday morning to borrow a
copy of The Keokuk Gate City. his
home paper He used to live at Keo-
kuk and reads the Bible and The Gate
City, which would be good thing for
all Keokuk people to do.
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The Memphis Democrat complains
that the nearest Missouri saloon is
eighty miles from that place, and that
In the First congressional district Of
Missouri a man will have soon to go
to Hannibal to get a drink of beer in
the district In the light of this show.
ing it will have to be admitted that
the task Of editing Democratic pa
per in Missouri is becoming more and
more difficult and discouraging.
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cured and will be placed in the center
of Washington park. Several thous-
and electric globesglobes and cleo
tricity donated by the Union Electric
company-and elaborate trimmings
will mark the symbol of the occasion.
A musical program will be carried out
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A Fort Madison man fell down a
stairway while trying to carry a stove
up the flight. The stove landed on
top of him, breaking both his limbs. A
hardware man who attempted to come
to his rescue broke an ankle after
vaulting fence. The stove was I'M
injured
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A Des Moines councilman says that
"all politicians are liars. The decla-
ration Is somewhat broad. but it has
the support Of expert testimony
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10000 Names on Protest.

QUINCY, H.. Dec. 1s.-Ten thou
sand names were signed to petitions
collected at a meeting OF tho Missis-
sippi Valley Hunters Protective As
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The Galesburg Republican-Re Register
sees the situation as it is. 1t credits
President Wilson with many excellent
qualities, but says that the Caraboa
incident shows that he is pretty
grouchy.
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An Illinois man has got a divorce for
making light of his wife's biscuits.
How could he make light OF them if
they were heavy?
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Poets in the Army.

is by Gen. Charles A. Coolidge, and
"The Legend of the Carabao," sung
ia the air of Tit Willow" is by
Maj. Frederick Hadra.
The song that was sung in Wash
ington and caused all the trouble has
been frequently quoted 1t is sung
to the air of TRAMP. Tramp, Tramp.
etc., and the verse next to the one
that started things is:
Social wants are very few,
All the ladies smoke and chew
And do other things the padres say
are wrong.
Presidentes cut no ice,
For they live on fish and rice,
And the soldiers still will sing that
same old song.
CHORUS.
Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos,
Pock-marked, kakiak ladrones;
And beneath the starry flag.
Civilize 'em with a Krag,
And return us to our own beloved
homes.
| Kipling's masterpiece, The Road
to Mandalay, lends itself readily to
-parodists and Is the basis OF several
clever songs. In the first one the
parody on Kipling's opening verse
reads:
] BY the mud holes down at Naiac,
4 looking lazy at the bay,
There's a gugu girl awaiting; and |
Il think hear har cav.
Come you back, you malo soldier;
i come you back from DER the
sea;
Come you back and pay your jaw
bone. porque you jawbone me?'
This really requires few lines Of
explanation, being written in the
vernacular of the regular army, witt
a few touches of primitive Spanisf
. interjected.
For instance, "malo" is bad;
s'jawbone,'' about which the youn:
woman mourns, is credit: "porque
: is why" and, being translated, means
!, that the girl Is wondering why tn
Americana soldier had the nerve t.
talk her out of money due, the tall
: being indicated by thu army expires
: sion, "jawbone."
!, '.ship Me Of to IL or Texas
= In another Road TO Mandalay
u parody the most striking verse is:
u Ship me off to HI Or Texas; shi
70 me anywhere from here,
= For although we've whipped thes
y natives they've got US by tn
: ear, :.
~ And the insurrecto treasury has got
= bled all our pay,
~ BY the tricks well known to native!
u down by old Manila Bay
' Still another parody on Kfpling'
= favorite poem has this versa:
Her petticoat was pima,
And it had silken sheen,
Her name was BSmerelda don
Juanita,
st She was like a gypsy queen.
n And I saw her first a-smekin'
IN OF a whacking white cheroos.
Sc Ard wasting Christian kisses,
rs On a blooming second lieut.
n Some army officer from Detro
a wrote this verse for It mention
Woodward avenue and America
rs finest natural park, Belle Isle. Her
le IS the verse by which the author
:, located as a Detroiter:
- Tho walk with fifty white girl
I down from Woodward to Be-,
"a Isle.
u. AND they talk Of love and loving. an
ht even try to smile.
~ What do they understand, painte
&c face and chubby hands?
I've a neatsr, sweeter maiden in
10 fairer. greener land.
II. Another verse of this song write
ay by clever author, as yet unident
fed, is:
Is For her little feet ware shoeless ar
lie her pretty shoulders bare,
lis And the cocoa oil shone glossy fro
Id her mass Of raven hair,
How her dark eyes CLEANED wi
laughter, and her tseth gleal
ed pearly white,
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers
work, and fools reform, and mortal
men lay hold on heaven.
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Two more Iowa cities are planning
TO have community Christmas trees.
Burlington is one of these, and the
city council there has agreed to frrn-
fish the funds, and the Peoples Gas
and Electric company has agreed to
light the tree with electric bulbs.
Dubuque is the other city. The ar
rangements there are in the hands of
the local Woman's club, assisted by
the ministers of the city. The ex-
pense will he betrayed by popular sub
scription. A handsome evergreen tree.
some fifty feet in height, has been Sc
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BY giving state aid to the counties
in building roads in Wisconsin, 1880
miles of hard surfaced roads were
built in that state last year which
will be increased to 1,4O0 miles this
year at a cost of 100000. 1t is sug-
gested by the Dubuque Times-Journal
that there may be something about
these cut over stump lands that makes
it easier TO pay the same tax for the
same kind of roads on black Iowa soil.
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THE cARABAo SONGS.
Verse that Displaced President Only
One In Vast collec-
ton.

ST. Louis Globe-Denlocrat: Officers
of the United States army stationed
at Jefferson barracks and in st.
Louis, who have been entertaining
their friends for years with official
songs of the Carabao, are sympathiz-
ing with Washington members OF the
ordsr who sang but once and got into
trouble with President Wilson, who,
by way of being commander in CHEZ
of the army, is parsonage to be
considered.
The United States navy has poet,
a real one, named Stokes, and by
borrowing one OF his poems Gait,
Coghlan got into rough sea of
trouble when he recited ''Hoch der
Kaiser" as an incident of an after
dinner programme. which did not
look like much, but was flashed
around the world.
Officers OF the army have contribut-
ed literally to the literature of Cara
bao carols, and occasionally they
have borrowed a clever thing from
some soldier of the line. the whole
being compiled into volume which
contains sufficient cause for court
martialing every Caralbao,
The order was founded at Manila
November, 1900 There ara no honor
airy members, the list being lin ted
to officers of the regular and volun-
teer forces of the army who served
in the Philippine Islands between
May 1, 1898, and July 4, 1902, and the
eldest SON of such an officer, provid
ing he is of age.
The Holly chieftain., 1913-05-30
Mr.. winkIe's House to Go.

Two buildings in Birmingham asso-
ciated with Dickens have been de-
molishcd, and third. Mr.. Winkle's
house, is being pulled down.
When Mr. Pickwick asked the wait
er at the Old Royal where Mr.. Winkle
lived he replied: Close by, sir; not
above 500 yards, sir. Mr.. Winkle is
wharfinger, sir, at the canal, sir" And
Mr.. Pickwick found in "a quiet. sub
stantial looking street stood an old
red brick house with three steps be-
fore it. bearing, in fat Roman capitals.
the words. Mr.. Winkle.' Pail Mall
Gazette.