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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07
parts cars at 500.
Straw car at $12 per ton.
st. Louis Horses and Mules


ST. LOUIS, No.. Aug. 6.-Horso,
Southern horses tosfind a satisfacto,-
outlet had to be finished, qualitias
and well broke, as those were tbrsa
points that buyers insisted upon TN
tops sold for $40 up to $3.50 per haas
with the bulk from $125 to s14o TN TN
out-classed kinds sold ruinously low
q large percent clearing from s25@sn
and some even below SIS. A FAY
good work horses sold to an eastar,
buyer from $50 to SITS per head ana
some palmer ones from 500 10 s1os
Mules Prices continue unchangaa /
from week ago and the demans
about the same as last week, that i
for miners under 1874 hands and cot 4
ton mules Is to 1914. Big mules ar
not wanted Good cotton mules "a,
and of the right ages and size will
bring UP to $275 and something real
fancy more.
Is to II hands. .$1656 an
Is to 1914 hands. .......... 115@22s
10 nanuS .............. 75@1n
IA to 141a hands. ..-...... 60@1s5
IL to 1874 hands. ESQ ss
Foreign Exchange Market.
EUnited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Foreign er
change market opened irregular. De-
mand Sterling was off to s3.s7.
francs off .0006 to .0732; lire, .O5ls
up .0003; marks, .0218, up .0OO2.
Foreign exchange held steady 4,
the close. Demand Sterling wa,
quoted at s3.66A. off 1h; francs de-
mand declined to .073. while lire shoy
ed a slight gain at .0517 and marks
at .215.
Daily Stock Letter.
limited Press Leased Wire Seryicel
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE New
York Evening Sun financial review
this afternoon said:
There was little to command in.
terest In today's short session of the
stock market. Trading was quiet and
the undertone firm most of the time,
Railroad stocks huctuated narrowly
and failed to disclose any defnita
tendency. Sentiment was good under
the influence mainly Of the easing OF
the European situation in connection
with the Polish-Russian struggle.
Pressure became more pronounced IN
mid-season and some substantial de.
clines were noted. but this was large
Iy relaxed before the closing. The
market was scarcely to be described
as weak nor yet strong.
Liberty Bond Market.
NEW YORK, Aug. Liberty
bonds were quoted today as follows:
BIS, 90.96; second as, S46S; first
4As, $3.50: second 414s, S4.76: third
AS, 1854; fourth Ans, S5.16; Vic
tory 3As, 95.68; Victory 4As. s5.G
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07
Robbed of S1O4.OOO.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. Three
bandits held up J. H. Ross, collector
for the Standard Oil company and
robbed him of 100000.
Inc bandits, who escaped in an
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07

In Japan the sewage and refuse of
every house is collected nightly and
carefully used in agriculture
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07
Chicago Cash Grain.

CHICAGO, Aug. mo. req
$2.451s @2.47; No. 2, red, $2.45; No.
3 hard. $2.43@2.45; No. hard. $2.4S;
No. spring, $2.43.
Corn-No. / yellow. $1.55@1.56;
No. 8 yellow, $1.541a; No 6 yellow,
$1.51; No. white, s1.55k @156; No.
2 white, SISSY: No. / mixed, $1.54h
@1.55; No. mixed, $1.541s; No. 6
mixed. $1.51.
Oats-No. 8 white. 74,z@7s1kc.
Chicago Live Stock
CHICAGO, Aug. Hog receipts,
5000 head; market steady, slightly
higher. Bulk, $14.9e@16.25; butchers,
$13.50@16.30; packing, $13.50@1435;
light $15.25@16.10; pigs, $4,000
1875; roughs, $13.50@13.90.
Cattle receipts, 1900 head; market
steers strong, others 25@50c lower.
Beeves, S8.75@1o.50; butchers stock.
$5.5o015.25; Gamers and cutters,
81. o007.e0; stockers and feeders.
$4.50@11.00, COWS, s5.00Q12.50;
calves, $13.0O@15.25.
Sheep receipts, 1000 head; market
steady. Lambs, $7O0@14.25; ewes,
s3.25@1.25.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 4.-Cat'
Receipts, GOO head. Market
steady. Native steers, $9.0o@16.50;
cows and heifers, ss.75@15.50; stock.
ers and feeders. s5.50@12.00; calves.
S7.00@13.50.
Hogs-Receipts, ESQ head. Market
steady. Bulk, s15.40@15-70; heavy.
s15.e0@15.65; medium. $15-25@15.70;
light, $15.00@15.50.
Sheep Receipts, 400 head Market
steady. Lambs, s1l.0o@14.25; ewes
s6.50@S.0O: stockers and feeders
ss.50@12.50; grass wethers, 5000
900.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. Cattle
Receipts, 300 head. Market, nominal
Steers, s7.00@16Oo: COWS and heif
ers, $3.50@1150; stockers and feed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07

Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. Cattle
Receipts, 300 head. Market, nominal
Steers, $700@160o: COWS and heif
ers, $3.50@11.50; stockers and feed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07
Will Declare Strike.

BERLIN, Aug. IA general rail-
way strike will be declared through
out Germany if the French attempt tc
send troops across this country &c
Poland, 1t was reported today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-07

Liberty Bond Market.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Liberty
bonds were quoted today as follows:
BIS, 90.96; second as, S4.6S: first
4As, $3.50: second 4As, s4.76: third
4As, 1884; fourth Ans. S5.16; Vic
tory 3As, 95.6S; Victory 4As. $3.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
A UNIQUE. BIRTHDAY GIFT

EGENDS concerning Presidents and
- Presidents elect are quickly manufac-
tured. IL was encrgetically proved, for in
stance, that Mr.. Wilson'S career and the
fateful number thirteen were in intimate
relationship. Probably if some other num-
ber had been selected series of equally
striking condolences could have been re-
vealcd.
In Senator Iiardings case. however, the
myth manufacturers are unnecessary. The
President elect Is the recipient OF what Is
perhaps the most Tremendous birthday pres
ent ever known. Fifty five years ago yes
terday Warren G.. Harding was born in the
little town of Corsica. Morrow county, o.
il is supcrnuous for the American people to
reiterate the wish that he has had d happy
birthday. Their sentiments, concretcly ex-
pressed in ballots, constituted the unique
gift.
Seldom, indeed. have the dealers in au-
gurics been SO freely furnished with an in
contestable basis of solid, happy fact. That
Mr.. Harding on the d5y Of his inauguration
will have attained almost precisely the aver
age age of American Presidents entering
Office completes the remarkable posture Of
circumstances
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
NOT MUCH OF A vARE VICTORY

A MOTHER such victory as the Wares won
- In the First Councimanic district yes
tcrday will be their ruin.
Charles j. Pommer has been elected by
plurality of about 1000. The late William
y. Finley. whom he is to succeed, was elect
ed year ago in the same district by
plurality of $4,000, polling a vote Of % 900
in year when only men had the franchise.
The women voted this year. Yet Mr..
Pommcr has received only about %, 900
votes, or 1000 less than were cast year
ago.
Three candidates ran against Mr.. Finley
last year and their total vote amounted to
only GOOO.
James Gallagher. Mr.. Pommer's oppon-
ent. received the vote Of nearly $4,000 cleo
tors yesterday.
The result is most encouraging. II shows
that remarkable progress has been made in
the campaign Of education. All that is
necessary now to change the 1000 Ware
plurality in the district to an effective anti
Ware plurality is to continue that campaign
Tor the next three years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
ONE PERFECTED THING

A LII claims made by party managers yes.
"A tcrday were based upon hope. No one
really knew, what might happen. The de-
cisi0n was not made by campaigners. candi-
dates, cliIues or clans. 1t was rendered by
the people, who had in their hands the only
perfect mechanism ever devised for tho OK
preston of popular opinion and the conduct
Of popular government.
The country had a free choice. 1t could
have had Socialist President, a Single Tax
President, a Prohibition President, a Re-
publican President or a Democratic Presi-
dent. The election, involving az It did men
and women and the greatest number of free
citizens ever listed in any country at any
time. was an impressive spectacle In more
ways than one. Each voter acted or had the
right to act. accord ng to the dictates of his
conscience.
What better system can be imagined? By
what other method could the collective will
OF the people br better expressed or the
desires OF nation be made manifest?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

!. In Edrope ortolans are small birds. gar
den bunting9 esteemed rs table deiicn-
cies. In America tho name is given to
boblinks creed birds) and sora rails
Nelher Of these has the slightest reia-
tion to true ortolars but both are small
bires much sought after by eplcures
;. The right Of primoRcniture is the right
II succession 10 the first born esDc
cinllY the feudal rule by which II,
whole estate OF the intestate passes To
the eldest SON.
3. Karma is n Ruddhistlc doctrine, The sim,
Of a persons actions IN one OF the sue
cessiVe states OF his existence is vjc,voj
ns deciding his fate in the next Tba
word is also used In the sense OF des-
tinv.
Republican party was In power wns
twenty four yenrs--fIrm 1851 10 1873
). The longest period in which the Demo.
cratic party was ever IN power wa =
forty vears--from 1901 to iS4i "'
c. Charles DICKENS wrote "The Uncommon
cial Traveller"
7. The great painter Velasquez was n natjvs
OF Seville, Spain
in England was 1858 The result was
tho overthrow OF tn" Stuart dynestv
and the accession OF William and MARY
In 1889.
O. Frederic Cuvlcr was a celebrated French
naturalist and founder OF the science OF
c0lnrnrative anatomy. His dates ars
1760-tSS2.
10. Romnio IN the vernacular IN modern
- Greece. II is derived from ancient
Greek subject to many Influences
Slavic, Italian etc. =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
THE POLICE MADE GOOD

VEsTERDAY police uniforms and police
= clubs were not used to intimidate voters
at the city polls. A detested and detestable
job forced upon the men at other elections,
when Mayors and Directors of Public Safety
made no secret of their belief that raids and
brass knucklcs might properly be used to
swing q ward or a district, was not put to
the police on this occasion.
Mayor Moore promised to keep the men
out Of politics. He kept his word and saw
to 1t that none of the coercion that ordinarily
would have been applied in some areas was
permitted even in the midst of a contest
upon which much of the success of his
administration may depend.
The friends of Mr.. Pommer filled the air
with rumors Of impending police interference
at the polls. But the police. even when
they appeared in great numbers, kept at a
distance, maintained order and conducted
themselves impartially and with consistent
restraint. For this the Mayor, Mr.. Cortel-
you and the men themselves deserve infinite
credit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

holes, pedestriAns victimixed By mud splash
ing can hardly be expected to grasp this
complete picture OF efficiency all at once.
Intentions, however, decidedly count for
something, and II the city is actually en-
barked on the enterprise of redeenling the
long disgracefully neglected streets, me pub
lie will await the Transformation with more
than an academic interest.
Heretofore Il was despair rather than
philosophical patience that characterized the
general attitude, and now that betterment Is
forecast, gratitude for some realization will
be profound even though swift, sweeping
miracles are not forthcoming. That the
administration is aroused to elemental ne
cessities Is q cheering thought.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
What Do You Kno,v?
QUIZ

l. What sometimes causes the e,ncto-o,
vote or state to be split in q presi-
Dental election?
.. What hamplonship has been decided bv
the victory OF the schooner Esperanto
over the Delawana?
3. How should the surname of Samuel
nounced? NV
:. In what century did Pcpys live?
b. What were the "Contemptlbles' in tho
world war?
O. Senator Harding Is said to have spent
part OF n recent Sunday i,i reading
SuctOnius" WHO was Suet 7nius and
what was the subject OF his famous
l. What is tho capital of New. Zealand?
s. What Democratic candidate opposed the
reelection Of Abraham Lincoln In
1864?
0. Who wrote God made him and there
fore let him pass for n MAN.?
10, What Is the origin OF the word
punkum?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
BOOKS
MY DAYS among the dead are passed.

MY DAYS among the dead are passed.
1N1 Around me behold.
Where'er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old;
NV never failing friends are they
with whom converse night and day.
With them take delight In veal
And seek relief in woe.
And while ] understand and feel
How much TO them I owe,
Nv cheeks have often been hedewed
With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Ny thoughts are with the dead. With them
! live in long past years.
Their virtues love. their faults condemn.
Partake OF their griefs and fpnrs.
And from their sober lessons find
Instructions with humble mind.
Ny hopes are with the dead Anon
With them my place will he,
And with them shall travel on
Through all futurity
Yet leaving here a name, trust,
Which will not perish in the dust
Robert Southey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
Reflections Of a kaw Valley PhIIosopher

From the Kansas City Star.
The world never moved so fast before. We
nave winter ice on the Fourth of July, spring
vegetables on Christmas; we buy our straw
hats in February and our felt hats in Au
gust; we get our Sunday paper on Saturday
night and our magazines month ahead OF
time. If we telephone a man in San Fran
cisco from New York he hears our voice
about four, hours before we speak. and II
some one in japan sends us n cablegram
tomorrow we get il today
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

While the internal revenue laws must be
so revised as to free business Of all un-
necessary hampering restrictions, the Gus
toms laws must be modified SO as to adjust
them to the new conditions brought about by
the war. No tariff theory on which any
other Republican Congress has acted will
serve next year, because the conditions on
which those theories were based have ceased
to exist.
When we were debtor nation we could
regulate imports without regard to any
thing but the protection Of the domestic
market. But we are no longer a debtor
nation. The greater part of the American
securities held abroad have been brought
back home. We have lent SIC, 1000, 900 900
to Europe on which the interest must be
paid every year, and arrangements must be
made for the payment of the principal. And
the balance Of trade with foreign countries
is now running at about 81, 900, ,O0O, 600 a
year.
Our customers cannot pay us this enor-
nous sum wholly in cash. We cannot con
tinue to sell to them unless we make some
arrangement by which they can make set
tlcment of the balances. ... .....
The situation has arrived which Mckinley
foresaw nearly twenty years ago when he
made his last speech in Buffalo, urging such
a modification Of the tariff policies as would
permit the exchange Of American goods for
foreign goods and thus develop the export
trade.
The export trade has expanded enormously
without such arrangements because Of the
necessities Of the countries devastated by
the war. 1t will contract as those countries
recover, but it will continue large for many
years. The surest way to destroy 1t would
be to pass an old fashioned high tariff law.
The Republican legislative leaders cannot
be unaware Of this, for they are accustomed
to facing the facts. There can be no doubt
that they will do their best to frame a
scientific tariff suited to existing conditions,
confident that the American producers can
hold their own in all markets provided
nothing Is done to handicap them.
Senator Harding will assume the presi-
Dental Office disposed to co operate with the
leaders Of his party in the formulation of the
policies Of his administration. He will un-
doubtedly summon to his cabinet the nblest
men available, so that that body will be a
group OF real advisers. Fortunately, there
is no lack of able men from which he can
choose. and it is fortunate also that he is so
constituted temperamentally that able men
will be willing to sit at table with him
to thresh out the policies to be adopted.
We are to have responsible party govern
ment for the next four years. II it is sue
cessful the country will indorse 1t for an
other four years. But il 1t fails to function
satisfactorily, the supreme power, which
James Wilson said was vested in the peo-
pie, will dismiss It from Office and try the
opposition party again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Phiadepians on Subjects They
Knotv Best

their views and in government. state or
municipal work the policy which offers
plenty OF emp loyment, consciously or un-
consciously, gains favor. If every one keeps
ms eyes open and applies or advocates the
extreme measure of determination only
where absolutely necessary, and disturbs
the equilibrium which Nature has established
as little as possible, the better off we shall
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
STREET REDEMPTION

THE promise OF paving reform which has
4 just been made by Chief Dunlap, of the
Bureau of Highways, is magnlicently com.
prehcnsive. Within one month, declares Mr.,
Dunlap. all the principal streets Of the town
will be put IN good condition. After the com
pletion of the new municipal asphalt plant,
iixrd for January |, the city Is to do it's own
repairing aud hope il held out that the
present state of degeneration will never be
sssched again.
Motorists tormented by ruts and deem
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
Sign Of Prouress

frVn the New York Herald.
The French Government hos presented
an army tank to Nassar College in recogni-
tion of the "inoral and physical contribu-
tions made by Vassar graduates to the cause
OF the Allies" The world has moved since
the early days of Vassar, when good many
persons considered higher education for girls
unbecoming and unmaidenly. No govern
ment would have thought half century ago
OF giving an engine of war to female
academy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

We venture the guess that the fishinx-
boat cup race will grow IN Importance with
each succeeding year. and that II win take
the place Of the international yacht race.
which became uninteresting as the rules b..
came fnicky. i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
An ExpensIye vIotorv

From the Kansas City Star
This new German tax we read about,
which virtually amounts to confscation,
probably will be taken by the German people
as just another evidence that they won the
war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

One cannot but feel that the campaign
had little to do with the result Of the elec-
tion /; that the election was decided before the
campaign began.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
Herbert He

Herbert Hoover says $500. 600 children
in Europe will die of starvation unless
America comes to their rescue. Hoover Is so
constituted that ho thinks this
matter more Important than politics.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Perhaps there was. as has been alleged,
little interest in the election. but what about
the damp enthusiasts who watched the bull
lctin boards in the ran last night?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03
Effect Of Habit on Some peooIe

From the Dallas Nrws
a West Dallas widow says that the only
reason WHY she would ever take another hus.
band Is because it Is so hard TO ston marry
ing when once begun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Negro women have been refused vots
In Georgia because the state law requires
registration six months before election. Tho
reason Is n perfectly valid one-but ono
wonders what the excuse will be next time.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Because 1t irriteted her. woman suf-
fcrer from cancer in a Utica. n. Y, hos
pital threw away a bandagc containing n
mlligram Of rndium valued at $1,000
Apart from its value In cash its loss in
terms OF possible cures Is incalculable. Is
norance is at once the villain and the VIC
tim In LIES romance. S'sE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

The attitude of mind Of the majority Of
Americans today is that they should neither
crow nor blow over the result of the cleo.
ti,n-but they're kind of glad things turned
out the way they did.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

The Short Cutter walked on his heels
sported n flower that a nice old lady gave
lin for standing aside 80 that she might
east the fiji st ballot Of the day in their pre-
CiuCt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

! New Yorker with sense of humor
threw an iroIworker into the North river
and later comnlained that some people can't
take Joke But the comedian was mistaken.
The pol ice can and do. He was the Joke
they took.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Yesterdays experience may cause
county commissioners to use whisky barrels
instead Of garbage cans for ballot boxes in
the future. .|
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

1t was simply an easy transposition tho
people made In the morning their slogan
was Elect Harding President" and In the
evening 1t was President elect Harding.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

The closing of the saloons yesterday
prevented several busy voters from becom-
ing half of l per cent drunk and disor.
derby.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Example is better than prcccpt." said
Senator PcnrCse MS he voted a straight Re-
publican ticket. But he was not voting in
the Gallagher Pommer district at that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

And the rain turned the landslide into
mud for the Democrats.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Esperanto, like ballet dancer, talked
with her legs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

The trees continue to cast their ballots
for winter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Not even an election could keep the
auto accident off the first page of the news
Iapers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Mr.. Bryan, incidentally, exercised his
undoubted right to vote a secret ballot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Senator Harding went golfng yester-
usi his score.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Here and there while the local omelet
was being made Democratic chicken poked
its head out Of its shell and cried Peep"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Yesterday demonstrated how quietly big
issues may be decided.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Straw votes look insignificant now that
the hay crop has beer gathered in.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

Perhaps voters will now have the time
TO read the covenant of the League of Ma
tionS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-03

The fool killer continues to consider he
hunter fair game.
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SHORT CUTS
We told you so!

Brindell had a bully time while d
lasted.