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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

the sum OF S12, 200 for the pur-
pose of building water works,
The election was held recently, a
light vote being polled, 264 for to
IL against.
The Lagrange Indicator offered
a years subscription for the best
stalk of corn brought in and the
prize was awarded for a stalk
fourteen feet three inches tall,
bearing two ears weighing a
pound APIECE.
The Christian churches of Nod
away county are expecting to
send carload of provisions to
the Orphans Home at St. Louis,
the car TO be loaded at the Wa
bash depot in Maryville about
November 1st.
A t-pound baby, eight and one
half inches long, was born the
other day in Nevada and is doing
well. What's more, she probably
will live to marry some 300-pound
man and train him till he's as do
cile as a house cat.
The little 3-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lum Clay, who
reside near Cave Spring, got
choked while eating an apple,
on Thursday, September IS, last
and died within an hour after
ward.-Alton Record.
A man near Sarcoxie cleared
Sc, 900 cash on his peony field this
last spring, He had fifty acres
of them, half blooming at time
and it made so wonderfully beau
tiful a sight that people fol
many miles around went to see it
After the death Of his wife, sew.
eraI weeks ago, William Blain, 7S
years old, the owner of a largt
farm south of Excelsior Springs
tired Of life and a few mornings
ago hanged himself in the barr
on HE farm. His body was founc
by his step children, who livec
with him.
Every now and then one of thu
state bureaus at Jefferson City
comes along with some statistics
that are not dull reading. FoI
instance, excerpts from the cen
sus report shows that there ar
141 men in Missouri to every on,
hundred women. No excuse TO
old maids in Missouri.
Enraged over a dispute with
neighbor woman con noerning tn
latter's chickens, Mrs. lilo Stead
man, a widely known resident
shot and fatally wounded Mrs.Iri
Patterson, at Springfield. Bot
women are about 95 years old
and the victim of the shooting
has six small children. Mrs
Steadman is the mother of four
Richard Mallow was murdere,
by some person while out hunt
ing in Reynolds county by beinI
shot in the head with a shot gun
He was accustomed to carryinI
several hundred dollars in cas-
on his person, and evidence wa
secured showing a robbery ha
probably led to the murder. Chas
Miller, a young married man, i
under arrest on suspicion Of com
mitting the crime. He paid S42
spot cash for a team of mules g
the time the murder was commit
| ted and had q big roll of bills lefI
but was known to be financial
3, EN- barassed prior to that date.
| A white deer is reported !
Shannon county, Henry Veg
ner, who owns a ranch in tn
eastern part Of that county, say
that the white deerhas been CON
ing with his horses into the col
raj each time they entered it, an
was no more wild than the horse
1t was doe and has pink eye
nd haa haan namad UAlhinn
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10
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'ROUNDABOUTTHE STATE.

Cleaned from Exchanges--Mad by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal, Some Credited, and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

A new record, s3S an acre. for lease
sales of Oklahoma lndian oil land, was
made In the acceptance Of bids Oh
1874 acres OF 0eage lands by the In
dian bureau. The highest heretofoTs
vas So an acre ~.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

A rat with the bubonic plague has
been found at the Miller Produce CON-
pMy, at Seattle, Wash. Laboratory
tests make this certain. 1t is feared
more rats are there. Workmen are
razlng the building.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

Mrs Ida May Keller, charged with
killing her husband and 7-year-old
daughter Margaret was convicted of
murder in the first degree by a jury
at larrlsonyille, Mo, and her punish
pent was fixed at life imprisonment In
the state peuitentiary, The jury took
but one ballot.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

None of Harry X. Thaw's treaty
rights as an American citizen was vio-
lared when Canadian immigration su-
thoritles forcihly deported him a few
weeks ago. That was the ruling OF
Solicitor Joseph W. Folk Of the state
denartment.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

Fighting was resumed near Sahinah.
Mexico. The Constitutionalists re-
oeived reinforcements of 1000 men. ,
The death list is mounting. In places
bodies are piled on one another. Town
after town is being destroyed BY are
and dynamite.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

William o. Lucas, formerly cash er
OF the Kansas City branch Of the
Cudahy Packing company, was
charged was embezzlement In a state
warrant. Lucas was arrested and held
for investigation.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

Fourteen passengers were killed and
rs injured when the express from
Kiev to ST. Petersburg coilided with a
stalled locoGotye lCSr the station at
Dyinsk, Russia.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

Nome. Alaska, has been almost de-
stroyed by storm. All the south side
OF Front street is gone. The sandspit
Is gone Two miles Of territory next
to the sea was destroyed, No lives
were lost, although 500 houses were
destroyed.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

After a year Of almost continuous
fighting in the Balkans, military men
are now certain that a third war is
imminent In the near east, Greek
troops are moblizing at several points
On the frontier and all reservists have
been called to colors by King Constan-
tine.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

The village Of Tomosco, In the west
ern part OF Panama, according to a
report as yet unconfrmed. was totally
destroyed by an earthquake. Tonosi
had a population of 300 persons.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

There are more than 1000 cases OF
malignant smallpox in Coahuila, Mex
leo, according to Capt, Joaquin Torres,
refugee arriving at New Orleans,
The town of Sabinas is in a fearful
plight, he says.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-10-10

John G. Hehnlng Of Chicago was
arrested at Minneapolis, MINI, and is
held as a fugitive from justice. He Is
said to be wanted In Chicago on a
charge of conspiracy growing out Of
the Lorimer senatorial trial.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
MAKING Words Fit Cases.

New York Post: People familiar
with negro dialect tendencies are of
ten as much amused by the evidence
of sort Of guilefulness which ami
mates, or seems TO animate, negro
perversion OF words. There is joyous
satisfaction TO be had out of all such
words as .suhvigrous," which means
a little more than vigorous, "wuller-
ups for "will-'o-the-wisps,' "lallygag'
in such phrases as coax and lally-
gag. iounce" as a halfway woro be
tween bounce and jump. "sauinch" for
tquench.' 'petterfacktid" for ''petri-
fed = "wizzle." which is as good as
"weazen" and "shrivel'r put together,
and SO on. But better still is the
flexible and seemingly purposeful on
omatopoeia back of the negro moth
er's word-making in the following
case:
She had come to the calaboose to
plead with the keeper OF her son
Lige. who, for obvious reasons and
By devious meanderings. had landed
there from neighbours hen-house.
The mother was a tremendously pop
ular woman with the whites of the lit.
tie town, who were accustomed to sec
to it that for the sake of her worth
as woman and worker the law went
leniently with 'Lige. When. on this
day. she put in her plea. the ca.a-
boose keeper. joyial man, who could
never resist drawing out the evidence
OF her wit, said to her: New. Aunt
jimmy, you know that we've got TO
have gLige up in the supplementary
proceedings
"Yassah." she broke in; ian !
knows dat whin yeh git tboo wild all
dem dar splendilempty p'ceedin's Use
gwine nab my boy back, go why cay'nt
yeh des tu'n eem oyeh to inch hyeh
an now"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Blue Sky Law Looks Good.

Cedar Rapids Republican We are
told that some people have kept the
. wires warmed up sending in objec-
tons to what is known as the blue
sky bill. We can not imagine who
they are II we understood that law
there is nothing in it that will seri-
ously hurt Iowa, but there IS much In
it that will help materially This law
simply provides that promoters can
not come into the state and peddle
stocks and bonds which represent
nothing That sort of thing has
been going on in the state for great
many years. IL all the worthless
stocks and bonds that have been pur-
chased by Iowa could be gathered In
one bundle 1t would make a. big bon
fire and it would represent enough
wealth to build the half of the good
roads that we are talking about. to
say nothing Of few interurbans that
we need. These sales began way back
in the days of mining operations in
the west
Under the new Law these men can
! not 90 about the state peddling such
securities. Before they sell them
they have to ask the permission OF
the secretary Of state and they must
show him that the stocks and bonds
they are offering for sale really rep
resent something What is there that
IS wrong about that n man has
anything that is worth while he will
not be afraid to submit his proposi-
ton to an investigation and If 1t is
really worth selling. or worth buying,
he will be greatly aided by holding
a certificate from the secretary o,
state to that effect. Good things will
be salable in Iowa and there will be
more moneys for such good things
when the worthless things can not be
sold.
/ We hope that the scope Of this Jaw
is wide enough so that it may include
worthless lands which are sold in
Iowa for two or three hundred dollars
an acre. in small tracts. We know OF
one case In which lands were offered
for sale TO Iowa in such small tracts
for si25 an acre. when the lands had
been purchased in bihk for few
dollars an acre and they were really
worthless for small farm purposes
because there were not water enough
/ to irrigate them, If they were al all
capable OF irrigation, which Is doubt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
An Indian Name Symposium.

Chicago Evening Post; In the ma,-
ter of Indian nomenclature we have
had conspicuous instances linking in
diyiduals with beasts in unaccustomed
moods. Thus we have come to know
Sitting Bull and Kicking Bear among
the Sioux. whose fancy in christening
has been to give infants names based
either on nature taking or on associa-
ton with animals Young Man Afraid
Of His Horses was the last OF the
hereditary Sioux chiefs. IL recollection
is accurate.
The government pay rolls have
brought out new and odd names, in
Guiding Mary Full Stomach, John
Brings Home the Baby. Susan Howl
ing Horse, She Paints Her Shoes,
Likes Water and Edward Useful
Heart.
Here is the influence OF the white
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
MUNICIPAL THEATERs.

The legislature at its recent session
: passed a bin providing for municipal
opera houses. The idea has the en-
dorsement of the Christian Science
Monitor, high class newspaper
!, which says of it.
/ The American lump is slowly blu,
surely being leavened with the idea
OF civic support of the drama as an
educational agency worthy of main.
tenance at public cost. When move
ment gets the backing that enables
the Drama League of America to an
4 nounce such a program for it's third
annual meeting as participants in next
weeks conference in Chicago will en-
JOY, when city after city becomes the
center of experiment with theaters
that follow ideal ends and that are
supported by public spirited patrons.
and when universities and colleges
adjust their courses of study and in
struction so as to prepare students
either fer play seeing or play writing,
then it is only question of time when
what is now a privately initiated af-
fair VIII become public charge.
How long that time may be. who can
SSts IL Will v al HUH Will IONdlitiCss
with their respect for traditions and
their general attitude toward educa-
ton and taxation Northampton,
Mass. is well on the way now, thanks
to the generosity of citizen who has
provided theater which saves the
taxpayer the largest item of initial ex-
nense with Wisconsin university en-
listed as it is in development of
dramatic talent among playwTights
and players of the Badger state it is
cnly question of time when an edu-
catfonal process will have been finish
ed that will lead some community or
communities to put the town recrea-
ton hall beside the town school and
library Time was when collective
action and taxation for each of those
agencies of education was question
ed. Even now in large sections of the
country there are no public libraries.
This comment has been provoked By
the announcement that the legislature
of Iowa is inclined to authorize local
elections TO determine whether com
munities shall tax themselves for
local theaters or places of amusement.
How MANY towns stand ready to do
this is not stated. But that the de-
mand exists is clear, else no such
scheme would have been urged. AS
an innovation 1t is the more remark
able when the source of the demand is
considered. Iowa is not center of
play production. and its people are
not Of sects hitherto inclined to look
with favor on multiplication OF play
houses
A municinal theater. like a city
school or library, could become spoil
for the politician and CRATER: and
because it could. some citizens viii
argue that ii would better be forbid
den. More sensible would be shaping
of law SO that, when localized. the
theater could be administered as most
public schools and public Libraries
are. namely, under the direction OF
unpaid public spirited citizens. with
ideals. It is thus that the Northamp-
ton theater has made its way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Gassssl :.2 eSgEsD
sk1ElKJh
keokuk, Iowa ........ April %, 1918
THE LITTLE OLD TOWN.

THE LITTLE OLD TOWN.
There are fancier towns than the Lit
tie old town,
There are towns that are bigger
than this;
And the people who live In the tiniel
town
All the city excitement may miss
There are things you can see in the
hweaithfer town
That you can't in the town that is
small
And yet, up or down.
There is no other town
Like your own little town, after all.
Il may be that the street through the
heart of the town
Isn't long. isn't wide, isn't straight;
But the neighhors you know in your
own little town
With q welcome your coming await.
On the glittering streets of the gilt
tering town.
By the palace and pavement and
wall,
You Will long. you will long.
For your own little town, after all.
II was here by the stiIe in your own
little town
Father courted your mother. maid.
Il was here in the vale in your Own
little town
That he builded house in the
Il is here on the hill in your own lit.
lie town
That the school and the book ycu
recall
Every step OF the way,
So your memories say.
It's your own little town after all
For it isn't By money you measure a
Or the miles that It's border ex-
tends.
For the best things you gather. what.
ever the town.
Are content, and enjoyment and
friends.
Il you live and you work and you
trade in the town.
In spite Of the fact 1t is small.
You viii find that the town,
That your Own little town.
Is the very best town after ali,
Douglas Mal1och.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
RAILWAY BUSINESS FOR FEBRu
AIRY

Railway business in the United
States for February vas slightly
greater than for the corresponding
month of 1912. This Is indicated in
statistics compiled BY the bureau OF
railway economics from the reports of
steam railways. operating over ninety
percent Of the mileage OF the country,
TO The interstate commerce commits
sion.
The returns for February average
as follows per mile Of line: Total
operating revenues per mile amounted
10 si,Df5, which is 50 per cent great
er than IN February 1912. operating
expenses per mile amounted to s75G,
or 81 per cent greater than in 1912;
net operating revenue per mile
amounted to $3.50. or "a per cent
greater than in 1912. Taxes amounted
70 SAG per mile, an Increase OF 81 per
cent Operating income, which Is
what is available for rentals, interest
on bonds. appropriations for better
ments, Improvements, and new CON
struction, and for dividends, after the
I payment Of operating expenses and
taxes, amounted IN February to s212
per nile. This represents an Increase
eyer February 1912 Of less than four
dollars q mile. or II per cent.
As February contained twenty-nine
DAYS in 1912 and but overweight
days In 1919. the returns for this
month Of the current year. other
things equal would be somewhat less
than for February 1912. A comparison
q operating income on the basis Of
income per mile per day eliminates
Inc effect Of the extra day in 1912. on
ms basis operating income per mile
per day averaged $7.58 in February
lsl3. s719 in 1912, and $6.49 in 1871.
The railway returns here presented
are for the month ending February %,
and do not reflect the recent impair
ment OF railway operating conditions
on account of floods in the middle
west and south 1t win not be nos
sible to trace the effect Of these inn
paired conditions in the railway rec
ord until the returns for March. Apri
and later months are available
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Use Of ouinine.

DR.. W. A. Evans in Chicago Trib-
une: To spread malaria the anopheles
mosquito must bite a person in whose
blood the malarial organisms are
ready for the mosquito stage In the
blood sucked up there must be malar-
ial parasites, for not every blood cell
nor even every hundred cells contain
parasite. The mosquito must live
for ten days while the parasite is get
ting ready for man again, and then
the mosquito must discharge the
young parasite into the blood Of a
susceptible man.
To render the blood OF men unsus-
ceptible to malaria small daily doses
of ouinine are used In the Panama
canal zone the three grain chocolates
of quinine are kept on the eating
tables. OF the 10000 people in the
zone 10000 use this prophylactic qul-
nine daily. The quantity taken is
nine grains-three grains three times
day.
The proper plan is to begin taking
quinine this way when the mosquito
season opens and to keep 1t up until
the mosquito season closes The tan
nate and other tasteless forms OF quiz
nine seem to work just as we'll as the
bitter forms
Bartholow says that in the civil war
Virginia took measure OF quinine
and a Tiger OF whisky every day ana
that 1t was good neither morally nor
physically" The Judgment OF tn.
men in charge of the malaria CAM
paigns in Italy. Algeria. and in Pan
ANA is that Bartholow was wrong. at
least so far as the quinine was con-
cerned.
To the International Congress on
Hygiene Cell. speaking of Italy, said ::
The prophylactic administration Of
nuinine has reduced the malaria rate
to the minimum.
Sergent, from Algiers, said In Al.
geria the government distributes three
grain auinine tablets free Of charge. /.
Ruge, from Kiel. advocated the pre-.
Z FenuVe use oil Qulnlne.
i Gorgas, speaking Of Panama. saws:
! 'Prorhylactic quinine is furnished
In three grain doses either in soIu.
ton in the form of tonic or In pills
It is placed on the table at. all the
messes, given to any employe who
applies for It. Besides we have from
one to three dispensers in each die
trict. who go around TO all employees
who will take it, We look upon pro,
phylactic quinine as most import.
ant measure
They use about 500 pounds OF qui
/, nine year in the canal zone.
The question arises. by whom
should prophylactic qninine be taken
4 The answer is: Everybody living in a
highly malarial district IL any one
{, stays behind screens every night dur
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
Great Wealth and Religion.

Lincoln Journal: The piety OF the
Introductory paragraph OF Mr.. Nor
CAMS will proves to be it's most inter
esting feature. This places Morgan
at par with John D. Rockefeller n
this respect, uniting the two greatest
wizards of wealth the country has
known in common profession of re
ligious faith. The situation has many
suggestions. Not the least paradox
cal is the fact that these richest OF
men are found adhering to a gospel
first preached especially to the poor
whereas there is common complaint
that the poor themselves cannot now
be interested in religious matters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
A Hue and cry.

Boone News-Republican: The iowa
City Republican. OF which the
pugnacious David Brant is editor.
comes ont with full front page arti-
Gle and illustration. headed, Two
Million Dollar Land Grab Railroaded
Through Assembly" This article re-
fers to the bill passed by the legls-
lafure. adding tHenty-one blocks 20
the state capitol grounds and the
Iowa City editor surmises that It will
cost the state sf0O0J,ooO before It
gets through with it.
"stung for 10000, 000' is the way
he puts IT, He declares that the bill
was never printed. and members had
little Knowledge Of what was being
done. He says also tina. It was rushed
to the governor TO prevent reconsid.
grafton, and that the whole deal was
kept ont OF the Des Moines papers
and correspondents were induced to
cover up the facts
The Iowa City Republican Is some
what Of flrebrand. but the charge r
certainly worth looking into One
sure thing is that people were not
agitating for an extensive enlarge.
ment Of the state capitol grounds ano
that Des Moines will be the chief
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
THE NEEDED CURRENCY eero..

One thing has to be accented aa
the result Of conditions which have
been developed in the ffty wears, ex-
perience with national banking tina
system cannot be turned topsy-turrv
We cannot displace the thousands ~
banks, With their local attachnan+e
and connections, and establish one
great central institution win brsnc7a.
70 which all others shall be gubser-
vent or be crowded out OF existence
however such an institution might nc
associated with the government and
made subject 10 Official supervision
In view OF this fact. and with ne
vast extent Of the country. the nulti.
tude Of existing banks. and the great
variety Of local conditions and local
interests 70 be served Mr. amos
Fiske suggests in the current hummer
OF the North American Review that /,
Is necessary to have. not one comnre.
hensive association for the 2aole ma
ton or union q states. bu, severa,
associations within defined territorial
limits. united in a central association
to serve their common purposes.
Mr.. Fiske holds that there r. ?
potent reason why this Central organ
ization is essential One great defec,
in our banking system, he says. wFicf
has attracted little attention becapse
We have been so long Injured TO Il !,
the lack Of means for making com
mercial paper assets and bills Of OK
change LIQUID and transferable bv in
dorsement and rediscount Such
means could be supplied in a Unite,
way by districts or sections through
organized associations with their f
nancial centers: but as in the cas-
OF reserves, ii cannot he efTectivel
applied within such divisions Of teri
tory, because the purpose which it .
to serve cannot be so confined Fo
an effective means Of rediscoun
there must be central nationa
banking agency. not a score or NOR
of district or regional, agencie!
There is need, not only Of a means TO
the rediscount of commercial pape
which will tend TO equalize none
rates throughout the country and /
distribute reserve money according :
requirements, but there is need OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-28
full due to the stony condition Of the

full due to the stony condition Of the
SOIL
In the very nature of things there
are thousands of men who can not
investigate such things for them
selves and there are other thousands
who have visions OF easy money and
who reach out after such alluring
promises. There is no reason that We
can see why the state should not ask
that the man who wants to sell
stocks and bonds should submit his
proposition to an investigation by
competent men-that is duty that
the state can render and which every
man cannot, from the nature of things
render to himself.