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DAILY GATE CITY.
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Keokuk, Iowa June 7, 1909.
The pastor of an Omaha church is
attempting to remove an obnoxious
barn by the power of prayer. The out
come of the undertaking will be await
ed with general Interest
A Chicago man has sued a surgeon
for robbing him of cuticle while under
the influence of ether and using it on
another patient. This is the most
flagrant case of graft that has come to
public attention for scime time.
A Washington correspondent refers
to the disappointment of an office
seeker as "his nonappointment." This
Is aptly characterized by the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat as the very refine
ment of courtesy and the very flower
of delicacy.
Iowa registered nurses in state con
vention at Dubuque last week went on
record in opposition to the woman suf
frage movement in sthls state. This,
too, in the face of the fact that the
movement is in urgent need of the
services of a nurse.
Two milion acres of agricultural
lands In Idaho, Washington and Mon
tana and 150,000 acres of irrigated
lands on reservations in the last two
states will be thrown open to settle
ment by the government this year.
When under cultivation it is figured
these lands wlll-%gmjjjpct%350,^000 per
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OWNERSHIP
WS
It remained for a New York paper
to_state the case -truthfully^ concisely
and dramatically as follows:
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life, goes on like a song,
But the man worth while is the man-'
who can smile
When the telephone rings and he
answers it and says "Hello!"
and the operator says, "What
number?" and he says, "The
bell ranE," and she says, "No
It didn't."
There's the rub.
The Lincoln Journal declared the
other day that if there be a better
state than Nebraska it is the future
state, toward which we are all head
ing with more or less precipitance,
The Sioux City Tribune approves the
sentiment in the abstract, if not its
application in this particular instance,
It recalls the Texas editor's remark
on General Sheridan's statement that
if he owned Texas and hell he'd sell
Texas and live in hell: "Damn a man
who won't stand up for his own state."
The improvement in mail facilities
Jn the rural districts within the recol
lection of the editor of the Iowa State
Register and Farmer is made the sub.
ject of ap article in that paper. He re
calls that forty years ago when he
lived "away out on the prairie" he got.
!his mall when he drove ten miles for
It. Later a public road was laid out
toy his house and ho felt as if he were
"living in town." Then came the star
route, which carried closed mail, but
the carrier was permitted to carry
outside mail for patrons. Then came
the rural free delivery and now the
carrier has an automobile. He is won
dering what next.
George Fitch furnishes weekly hu
mor for the Literary Magazine of Des
Moines, and nothing better appears
anywhere. Speaking of first basemen
in the current number he says:
?•. "Adrian C. Anson of Washington,
was the, first and greatest first uase
man. He played the position from the
time of Cleopatra until the reign of
Cleveland. He was succeeded by
Frank Chance, who is six feet and a
good deal high and can reach up and
scoop a ball out from under the eaves
of the milky way when necessary. No
first baseman has ever become Presl
dent, but some of them have been
greatly beloved by the peopie and
have received railroad parses and
other marks of extreme favor
It has just become known that the
Harriman system has in contempla
ticn one of the largest electrification
projects in the history of American
railroads. If the projects contemplat
ed are carried out they will involve
the abandonment of steam locomotion
on three of the important lines
through the mountain regions of the
west and the substitution of electric
motive power. It is understood ti.at
the project contemplates the complete
electrification of the Central Pacific
from Ogden to San Francisco, with a
mileage of 78G miles, and of the
Ogden Short Line, from Salt Lake
City to Seattle, with a mileage of
945 miles. The San Pedro line, 7S1
miles long, is another the electrifica
tion of which is in contemplation.
serwft
An important doctrinal step was
taken by the Presbyterian General As
sembly at its recent annual meeting
in Denver. The Assembly adopted a
formal declaration that since 'the re
vision of the Confession of Faith in
1903 "it is no longer allowable to in
terpret our system of doctrine in any
fatalistic sense," and that they were
not-willing to admit that such fatal
istic Interpretation was ever warrant
ed. At the same time it was declared
that "no acceptance of tie doctrine of
the church is required of any com
municant beyond personal faith in
Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the
Savior of the world and a sincere ac
ceptance of him as Lord and Mas
ter." It is held in some quarters that
this is equivalent to repudiation of
the doctrine of predestination. In
any event it brings the Presbyterian
church a long step forward along the
line of modern thought.
OF CHICAGO TRIB
UNE.
The Chicago .Tribune is the great
est newspaper in this country, which
Is equivalent to saying that it is the
greatest In the world. Considerable
public interest therefore attaches to
its ownership. The matter was
brought to the front at a recent pub
lic meeting In Burlington in opposi
tion to the commission form of city
government now under discussion
there. Mr. C. O, Holly of Des Moines
made an argument against the adop
tion of the plan by the city of Burling
ton. When he had finished President
A. G. Oberle of the Burlington Com
mercial Exchange made a shorr. re
ply in which 'he asserted, among
other things, that the Chicago Trib
une in an editorial about a week ago,
urged the members of the Coon coun
ty delegation at Springfield to sup
port legislation which would enable
!ie smaller cities of ii,inniq put the
commission plan of ^ver-irront intf.
operation in place cf the iiwwnt,. un
satisfactory council method of govern-,
ing cities the Trlbune.addlng further
that while Chicago could not have it,
it hoped that the members from Cook
county would support it anyway. In
reply Mr. Holly declared: "Why, of
course, the Chicago Tribune is In
favor of the commission plan of gov
ernment Why? Because it is owned
by British capitalists." With a view of
getting at the truth of the matter
Mr. Oberle wrote the managing edi
tor of the Tribune, inquiring If Mr.
Holly's statement was correct or not.
In reply he received a letter from
Managing Editor Keeley which is a
fine specimen of vigorous English.
Mr. Keeley goes-directly to the point
and does not hesitate to use the
"shorter and ugHer" word The full
text of his letter, printed below, will
be read with general Interest and ap
preciation:
CHICAGO, 111., June 4, 1909.—A. G.
Oberle, Esq., Burlington-, Iowa.
"My Dear Sir You may say to
Mr. C. O. Holly, and to anyone Inter
ested publicly, privately, at any time,
at any place and In any manner that
seems fitting to you, that the state
ment made by Mr. Holly that the Chi
cago Tribune is owned by British cap
italists is a lie. It is a lie in whole
and in part. It Is a lie old enough to
be the father of a multitude of false
hoods.
"The stock of the Chicago Tribune
company is owned by the estates of
three former editors and owners of
the Tribune, all Americans and all
Chicagoans by a former editor of
the Tribune now engaged in newspa
per work in New York by two form
er editorial writers, and by the
estate of a foreman of the Tribune
press room the three last named (so
I am told) having secured a small
amount of stock when there was
some little difficulty in meeting the
weekly pay rolls. One or two shares
are owned by relatives of the late Mi
Medlll.
"These stock holdings of the Trib
une have been maintained for, lo
these many years (twenty-five, thirty
or more, I believe) the only tran
fer of stock in the last fifteen years
has been that one share from one
member of Mr. Medill's family to an
other.
"Betting is not much of an argu
ment, but I am willing to wager Mr.
Holly any reasonable amount of
money up to $10,000 or $20,000, at any
reasonable odds, say ten to one,
that he is a liar, and that his state
ment is a He, and that there Is no
foundation for the allegation that the
Tribune is owned by British capital
ists. And I am in dead earnest on
this proposition because, although it
is considered unethical to bet on a
sure thing, judging from the positive
ness of Mr. Holly's statement, he is
thoroughly convinced of the correct
ness of his position that he will
absolve me from wagering on a cer
tainty. Yours sincerely.
"J. KEELEY, Managing Editor."
As the matter stands Mr. Holly
is presumed to be entitled to all the
rights, titles, privileges, immun
ities and distinctions of a full-fledged
member of the justly-celebrated
Ananias Club.
FACTS ABOUT FLIES.
Some facts about flies which every
body should know are set forth in
brief in a late number of Harper's
Weekly. The fact cannot be repeated
too often or emphasized too strongly
that the common house-fly Is a carrier
of disease. Typhoid fever, diarrhoea,
dysentery and tuberculosis are car
ried by flies. Flies feed on food and
also on filth. They go from the one to
the other. In this way they carry dis
ease germs to the table. One fly may
convey six million bacteria. It is im
portant, therefore, that everybody
should know and act on the knowl
edge that—
Flies breed in manure heaps, out
houses, refuse, ash-pits, and all decom
posing animal or vegetable matter,
and unclean places. Do not allow de
caying material of any sort to accumu
late on or near your premises. If such
exist, cover with lime or kerosene oil,
and remove as early as possible.
See that your sewerage System Is in
good order.
Screen all foods cover food after
meal burn all scraps and refuse.
Screen all windows and Coors.
Burn pyrethrum powder In the
house if flies should gain entrance.
If there is no filth there rfill be no
flies.
NO ELECTRIC HEADLIGHTS.
Governor Hadley of Missouri has
vetoed the bill requiring railroad com
panies to equip all their locomotives
with electric headlights of 1,500
candle-power. He refers in the veto
message to the practical test of var
ious headlights made at Jefferson
City, which resulted in an agreement
being reached between the represent
atives of engineers, whose influence
had secured the passage of the law,
and the representatives of the rail
road companies, which had opposed
it, though agreeing that there was a
necessity for an improvement in the
headlights in use at this time.
The agreement entered Into, upoa
which the veto is based, was sub
scribed to by all trunk lines in the
state except the Alton, whose execu
tive officers were absent from the
state when it was reached. It pledges
the companies to equip and k^ep
equipped ready for use on all loco
motives used In main line service,
headlights of power that will outline
the figure of a man on or adjacent lo
the track, plainly visible at a distance
of 800 feet, preceding the locomotive.
The visibility herein mentioned
Ir
understood to be measured by and
under ordinary night Conditions, and
for the normal sight of a person hav
ing the usual visual capacity required
of a locomotive engineer at his place
in charge of a moving locomotivo.
The conditions of this contract are to
be earried out on or before June 1,
1910.
A CAMPAIGN TO HELP NEGROES.
For the announced purpose of ob
taining equality in civil rights and In
education for the colored race in
America a national conference on the
status of the negro, held in New York
last week, resolved to organize per
manently as the National Negro Con
ference. Attention had been drawn
to the convention in advance by the
refusal of several prominent men to
take part. Seth Low would not sign
the call because he did not think it
helpful to emphasize only the points
of offense against the progress of
the race. Thomas Wentworth Hlggin
son replied that he had always thought
it unwise to grant the suffrage to the
negroes as a class, a cause of fric
tion between the races and an injury
to the negro himself. Although he
was one of the early abolitionists,
commanded the first black regiment in
the civil war and had been a supporter
of negro education ever since, he,had
reached the conclusion that "no white
community will ever consent to the po
litical supremacy of the black man
or the yellow man." He felt that to
form such an organization at this time
might embarass the new administra
tion In Its efforts to get In touch with
the "more progressive class of South
ern white citizens."
Among those attending the confer
ence were: Professors Ferrand and
John Dewey of Columbia, Wilder of
Cornell, John S. Bassett of Smith,
Du Bois (colored) of Atlanta, William
Lloyd Garrison, Bishop Walters of the
Zion Methodist church, Edwin D.
Meade of Boston, Mrs. Celia Parker
Wooley pf Chicago, Jane Addams,
Judge Stafford of the District of Co
lumbia Supreme Court and Ida Wells
Barnett, the negro woman editor
whose presses were destroyed in Ten
nessee by a white mob. Resolutions
were adopted denouncing "the ever
growing oppression of our 10,000,000
colored fellow-citizens as the greatest
menace that threatens the country"
and demanding a complete system of
education for the negro. They regard
with grave concern "the attempt mani
fest south and north to deny to black
men the right to work and to enforce
this demand wlta violence and blood'
shed," this referring in particular to
the Georgia firemen's strike.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
The Des Moines Tribune remarks
the fact that last year's June brides
are this year's perambulator pur
chasers
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The New York World says that be
ing a Democrat is a state of mind. If
present conditions continue the Omaha
Bee anticipates that it is likely to be
come chronic melancholia.
Swinburne left an estate valued at
$125,000. The Chicago Record-Herald
says this will tend to confirm the
judgment of the critics who insisted
that he was not a great poet.
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DAILY
are decidedly perplexing even to the
Almighty. The Record wonders what
He had to do with leaving the poison
in reach of the child.
According to the Buffalo News, al
most everybody who goes into a drug
store and doesn't want to buy a post
age stamp wants to borrow a bicycle
PUOtp.
Noting tiat Frank Gotch is to be
married the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
concludes that Cupid evidently dis
covered a device with which to over
come the toe hold.
"It is somewhat peculiar," says the
Creston Advertiser, "that the section
of the country which has prospered
most under Republican protection
should furnish the Republican con
gressmen who are most vigorous in
their attacks upon the existing (tar
iff) law and upon the measure which
has been framed to take its place."
"A progressive," says the Washing
ton Democrat, "Is not a Republican at
all, but a species of Democrat, and
ought to quit posing as a Republican
and -come over into the party of tariff
reform and lower taxation and income
and inheritance tax and everything
that is for the common man as against
greed and grafted spoliation." ,,
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George Signed All Right.'.
Clinton Herald: There was a liar
rlage a few days ago down at Mont
clair, N. J. For want of better names
the contracting parties may be known
as George and Mabel. They were
married by a justice of the peace,
and before the fateful words were
spoken Mabel insisted that George
sign an agreement in the presence of
the justice. Geotge signed and the
ceremony proceded. forthwith.
It is related that George hesitated
some time before attaching his sig
nature to the document which was
promptly pocketed- by the bride, as
soon as it had been duly attested by
the justice of the peace. Ant', here
Is the agreement: ,,
TIever smoke cigarettes.
Never use profane language.
Never attend parties without wife.
Never dance without her permission.
Be good to her mother and small
brother.
Be home each night at 9, unless out
with wife.
Hand over his pay envelop unopeu
ed each week.
Beat carpets each spring without
protesting.
Smoke but three cigars week
days five on Sundays.
Help care at night for any.. chil
dren.
Drink but three glasses of liquor
annually at spring cleaning.
And sis we look over the agreement
we are inclined to believe that Mabel
is a most sensible young 'woman,
possessing many of the qualities of
foresightedness that cannot be claim
ed by all of her sisters. If Mabel is
just as successful in keeping George
to that agreement as she was in in
ducing him to sign it, their home will
be a most happy one.
The recipe for a happy home Is a
splendid one and it would not be
a bad idea for all the young women
to adopt it.
Water Power Nearing a Certainty.
Warsaw Bulletin: The Bulletin is
not disposed to make its readers
weary with water power talk, nor
bring the subject into discredit, but it
does want to keep them advised as to
the facts as they develop and treat the
matter as its importance demands. So
much has been said and written that
the public has come to accept
it all as idle rumors, and hence,
when something of real Im
portance manifests Itself there Is a
disposition to accept it as of no sig
nificance. Last week Engineer Hugh
L. Cooper, of New York, with a party
from (the-.east,. Including J- H. Free
ro«m, w*jo was one of the four who ac
companied President Taft on the trip
to the Panama canal, were in Keokuk
and went over the route from Burlipg
ton south to the former city. Mr.
Freeman was along in the interest/of
capitalists, and while he did no talk
ing for publication he. said that he
found things exactly as represented Wy
Mr. Cooper. Nor did Mr. Cooper In
dulge In promises or predictions. The
entire .party treated 'the matter as
men dealing with a ibig business prop
osition—as men accustomed to deal
with such propositions and while
they did not break out Into any ebulli
tion of enthusiasm, they impressed
those who came In contact with them
as men not only appreciating the
financial as well as the engineering
magnitude of the problem but reason
ably confident of being able to meet
the one as well as master the other.
The water power seems to be drawing
closer to a certainty.
Someone asked recently, "Why do
men live Des Moines?" The Britt Reflections of a Bachelor.
Tribune declares that it is as simple as New York Press: A woman seldom
selling turnips. "The doctors, under- brags about her. brains when she
takers and hearse-drivers have each hasn't any.
organized so that none but a million
aire can afford,to die, and they won't."
Near Hamptbn the other day a three
year old child got hold of some strych
nine pills that had been carefessly left
lying around the home. At the
funeral the good minister laid the
whole blame of the death of the little
fellow upon the Almighty. In touching
pathos he repeated the oftime quota
tion: "The Lord glveth and the Lord
taketh away blessed be the name of
the Lord." The Cedar Falls Record
does not pretend to be able to fathom
the mind of Divinity but it thinks
there must be some occasions that
A man's good deeds don't live after
him because they are only his imag
ination.
When a man says he had a boresome
evening the nigat before, he means he
stayed home, Ci
It makes a mail terribly sorry for
himself to have to stand anybody else
in the family being sick.
When a man can't blame his wife
for something he did and that went
wrong, It's because he isn't married.
Shocked vs. Shaken.
Houston Post: We will agree thit
Chicago was shaken by the earth
quake, but shocked by it? Nev^r!
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Fancies..
When you hear a redbird calling,
Don't you want to follow, follow
Over hill and over hollow,
Through the sunshine and the sbad
ow
Past the creek and ., through the
meadow,
Drinking deep sweet scents of clover,
Feeling life is good all over?
Don't you want to follow, follow
Over meadow, hill and hollow
Wnen you ear "a ..redbird calling?
When you hegp a. Drgwu^tbimh sing
ing
Don't you want to linger, linger
Near the sweet, ^home loving singer
On a red haw hough a-^winglng,
Wondering what it is "he's saying
To his mate a-neBtlng yonder?
Don't you wonder, don't you wonder,
When you hear a brown thrush sing
ing?
When into thfe- silent twilight
Of the woodland steals the dove note,
'Steals the low, heart reaching love
note
Don't you want to guard her, guard
her,
In her Sweet and tender ardor?
Don't you feel your heart grow warm
er
Don't you pray that naught may
harm her,
Her you hear and her you dream of,
Her whose eyes there comes a gleam
of
When the dove, note, when the love
.note, ''f[Zr
Steals Into the silent twilight?
O, the woods are teeming, teeming.
With the things which start you
dreaming,
Nature ever there rejoices.
Lifting sweet, a thousand voices,
Every creek Js full of fancies',
Every glade of necromancies, i-s?
Every squirrel's cheery chatter
Has some meaning which may matter
Every bloom and bird of passage
Bears for* you some pleasing mes
sage—
For the woods are teeming, teeming
With the things which start you
dreaming.
—Kansas City Times.
Interurbans'and Real Money.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
The report of its year's business has
been made to the state executive coun
cil by the interurban railroad operat
ing between Des Moines and Boone
and Ft. Dodge, and it furnishes a sug
gestion to all other communities In
Iowa which are in need of interurban
service and lack the nerve to build
the roads. The net earnings of the
Ft. Dodge, Des Moines and Southern
for the past year were $1,500 pet! mite
and three-fourths of the gross receipts
were from passenger fares.
Now, interurbans in Iowa can be
built and equipped for approximately
$24,000 per mile. The state law permits
a bonded indebtedness of $18,000 per
mile. The fixed interest charge at 5
per cent would be $900, leaving $600
per mile, or 10 per cent net on an
equity of $6,000 per mile.
Any community wishing to build
thirty miles of interurban could easily
get a tax aid of $3,000 per mile, which
would leave an Investment not to ex
ceed $3,000 per mile to raise by stock
subscription. Here is the Des Moines
Ft. Dodge experience promising 10 per
cent on "this equity to encourage busi
ness men and farmers to build their
own interurbans. If our promoters
could get away from the construction^
company graft of trying to gobble all
the equity in a railroad as the con
struction company's profit and get
down to everyday business methods of
investing real money In Interurban
equities, there would be roads built in
half a hundred Iowa communities
which would pay fair returns while
building up their towns as no other
Institution could possibly do.
River Improvement.
Burlington Saturday Evening Post:
There is a feeling now in the public
mind that the commerce of the coun
try can be carried on water for lesa
outlay than upon land. Railroad ex
tortion is really at the bottom of the
present general demand for the im
provement of the country's water
courses. At the same time, from the
conspicuous examples furnished by
the old world it has been plain to
thinkers that the waterways of Ameri
ca would bf» utilized for highways of
commerce. Iowa has three rivers that
will be opened to navigation. They
are the Des Moines, the Iowa and the
Cedar. These three streams have
been inspected by Government engin
eers who will report favorably upon
them. Congress will do something in
the way of an appropriation, the state
can do the rest. The result will be
that barge lines will bring out much
farm product which will find Its way
in the same hulls to the markets in
Chicago and St. Louis.
Preaching and Practice.
Iowa City Republican: When the
mayor of Keokuk was a candidate he
made a speech In which he said: "We
Chermans must to -gedder stand, side
by each, or noddings we get." When
he came to appoint his police, the
Chermans noddings got.
Iowa is All Right. .£
Burlington Hawk-Eye: At I"owa City
the Masons are planning a new tem
ple that will represent an Investment
of $50,000. At Boone the Elks are go
ing to Invest $25,000 in a new building.
Woodbine Is going to have a new li
brary building that will cost about $8,
000 without site and furnishingB. New
churches are going up everywhere.
Evidently there Is nothing the mat
ter with Iowa, and confidence and
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CAPITAL, $100,000.00.
William Logan
Geo. E. Rix
J. F. Kiedalsch, Sr.
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Keokuk
A. E. JOHNSTONE, Fres.
H. L. CONNABLE, V. Pres.
prosperity reign Jiere, for all such
Improvements could be deferred a
DEPEW A$yiSg$ MARRIAGE.
Says Punctuality Is a Habit Which
Woman Cannot At
tain.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, June 7.—"Get
married," was the advice given by
Senator Depew of New York to the
graduates of Medico-Cblrurglcal col
lege at the commencement exercises
here. "Don't marry until you are
ready^- it is^wleked to ask any young
Woman unless you can support her
and yourself," continued Depew, "but
don't be misled by waiting until you
get too much money. It is amazing
how little you can live on, and you
will have a home.
"Don't waste your time either. You
will have little of it during the next
few years. Put In your spare time
reading In your professional line.
Punctuality is not a gift of nature, but
a habit which woman cannot attain.
If you are marfted you will have just
as much time as if you 'were single,
if you know how to find it. Your wife
will give you plenty of time waiting
for her. Don't fret and fume during
this interim—read. I have known
men to pick up a liberal education
reading while waiting for their wives
to get ready to go out." The senator
also urged his hearers to "join a po
litical party.
"Any old. party Is better than
party, at all,", he said.
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whether large.-jpr small. You are invited to call at our Bank at any
time and we will-be glad to talk the matter, over wjth you and explain
how we can be of service to you.
The State Central Savings Bank
Corner of 6th and Main Sts
DrFtEtTORS. jll
Jis. Cameron
Wells M. Irwin
H.O.Whitney
C. J. BODE, Cashier.
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-rf Both Nasty.
They are going to hang Junkin. If
ever a man deserved hanging, it is
Junkin, a negro who murdered a white
woman in Ottumwa. But hanging
people is a nasty business, neverthe
less.-r-Cerlar Rapids Times.
Crushing out the brains of innocent
young women is also something of a
nasty business.—Burlington Hawk
Eye. •..
What Kisses Mean.
Mrs. Kendal, the actress: We hear
a lot about kisses. To Bteal a kiss is
natural. To buy one Is stupid. Two
girls kissing is a waste of time. To
kiss one'B sister 1b proper. To kiss
one's wife is an obligation. To kiss
an ugly woman Is gallantry. To kiss
an old, faded woman Is devotion. To
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MONDAY, JUNE 7,1909,
si to $30 each
SURPLU8, 9200,000.00.
3ai, W. Huiskamp
C. A McNamara
D. J,' AyreB
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CAPITAL
aund
SURPLUS
Confidently believes it
can meet every require
ment of discriminating
depositors.'
F. W. DAVIS, Cash.
H. W. WOOD, Asst. Cash.
KEOKUK NATIONAL BANK
Affords every facility for doing your
banking business that any bank caq
Cook With Gasl:
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kiss a young, blushing girl Is—quit^
a different thing. Tp kiss olie's rich
aunt is hypocrisy. Kissing three girld
on the same day is extravagance. Ta
Jtiss one's mother-in-law Is
sacrifice.
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holy
Effects of Army Llfef
Deis Moines Register and Leadei
"I was impressed with the sugge
tion in the Register and Leader
the remarkable thing about the
soldier Is not that so many are drojj
ping away as that more than a
million of them are living," remarks
Major Byers yesterday. "If anyboj
had predicted at the close of the wl
that forty-three years later the!
would be a half million of the bo|
left he would have been looked on
p. visionary.
"This reminds me of what^was sa
to me once by an expert in such
ters. He said that .the four .years
posure in camp and field would
ten years to my life, or take ten yeai
off. In my case it s^ems to have ad|
ed rather than subtracted. I spen
practically four years in the opeq
sleeping nights in the rain on
ground srnd living generally' withoij
shelter. And yet I was never sif
more than two days during the wa
and have never felt any bad effeq
afterwards.
"For the men who were fortifl|
for it there was health rather
debility In the rough life of the armi|
That is why so many of the vetera
are with us and In such hale
hearty condition. In every walk
life you will find veterans of the unio
army actively engaged. I do not
lieve you could take the records
any church In Des IdoineB or of an
organization that keeps -a record
m'embersshlp and find as large a
centage of men after the same lap
of years active and Vigorous,
remarkable thing is that so many'
the old soldiers are with us, not
so many fire dropping off."
Causeandeffect.
Heboltssandwichandsomebeans,
Apleceortwoofpie
Andgulpsacupofcoffeedown
Whlleyoucanbatyoureye.
Then, later n, there comes to hlm^
A very common question
He wonders how it w»s that he
Contracted indigestion.
—Cobur:: Giant Talh