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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-23
NEW YORK CURB PRICES.

Quotations furnished by K. F. Hutton & Co.
members New York Stock Exchange; Il. Bowl
Chapman, manager. 1901 + st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-23

Under u. S. Treasury Supervision.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Children's non-shrinking Munsing
Underwear. Boys and Girls grey
cotton fleeced union Suits, ages 3 to II
years, medium heavy weight, drop
seat, sizes l to 6 ...:......... Csc
Ages IL to IA years, sizes to 75c
Underwear for boys and girls in
cream, white, drop seat, medium
heavy weight, age 3 to II years, sizes
l to 6.............. go. .... Use
Age IL to IA years, sizes to s5e
Children's non-shrinking wool plat
ed Union Suits. drop seat, medium
heavy weight feeced, non-i-Sitat-
ing ages to II years, sizes
to s ...... ..... ............. .$i.OO
Ages - to IA years, sizes to 8 SIPS
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Cbildrens non-shrinklng WOOL plat-
ed Vests and Pants, medium neaVy
weight, slightly aeeced and non-l III
tating .;,,1,>
Children's fine all wool non-shrlnk-
ing Union Suits, fine ribbed, non-lrr1-
tating, drop seat, in white and na1u[ AZ
al. Age 3 to II years, size l to oi.ov
AGE Ito IA years, sizes 7 to $1'fo
We carry the same quality as above
Union Suits in separate garments
vests and Pants at Csc and 9oc.
Youths Munsing Union Suits IN
grew cotton feeced, fine ribbed full
onen front. Ages IA to IS years, sizes
open 500
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems fine all wool Union Suits,
very fine ribbed, medium weight Tor
fall and winter wear, in natural gray.
All sizes ................. ......
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems extra weight wool onionl
Suits, fine ribbed, very elastlc' III
natural gray All sizes, per suit 80
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Women's fine ribbed all wool Vests
and Pants in white and gray, non
shrinking, each .............$ l.SO
Misses cream white, fine ribbed
cotton f1eeced Union Suits, drop
seats, in medium heavy weight, ages
IA to 10 years, sizes to 80. $1.OO
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems fine ribbed mercerized Union
Suits flesh color, heavy Wegnt 1or
fall and winter wear. LOOKS anu
feels like silk. All sizes. per suit 49,.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems Wool Union Suits, medium
heavy weight, fine ribbed, natural
gray, all sizes ...........:....
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems wool plated Union Suits, fine
ribbed, cotton feeced, non-irritating,
in natural All sizes ............
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Boys wool fleeced Wright's Health
Underwear in Shirts and Drawers. Per
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Women's Union Suits in bleached
cotton, fine ribbed, long sleeve. ankle
long and half open front, at a5c and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems Munsing Union Suits, non
shrinking, fine ribbed, very heavy
weight, cotton feeced in ecru. ALI
sizes. .. 9. ...........'
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems Wrights wool fleeceed shirts
and Drawers. All sizes. per garment
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems extra quality heavy wool
Shirts and Drawers in tan. Per gar1
ment ......... .......... ......... !
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-13

Mems heavy ribbed wool Shirts and
Drawers in gray. Per garment ....
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
Football Is Popular

Cedar Rapids Gazette: An Iowa
educator who says he is inclined to
the opinion that football ought to
be eliminated from the list of school
and college games, or so radically re.
formed that the danger to the players
would be removed, confessed In the
same breath that he liked to watch a
football game, that a fierce scrim-
mage on the gridiron made the blood
Jingle to his finger tips. He enjoys q
game immensely, and fairly aches for
the opportunity to take part in the
fray.
1t must be confessed there is some.
thing fascinating about football. May
be it is because it is a rough and tum.
bic game, and men and boys that are
real men and boys like a scrimmage
For that reason it will probably be
impossible to stop the playing OF the
game at any great number of institu.
lions. Here and there the pastime
Will be barred, but at the vast major
ity of educational institutions 1t will
continue in the sports curriculum.
Those who deplore the accidents
and deaths may have to content them
selves with attempting reformation
rather than with securing elimination
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08

Several Iowa papers are complain
ing about the postal department not
paying expenses, but running behind
several millions each year. The
Arlington News declares there is no
wonder that the department runs be-
hind in view of the amount of money
it pays for rural carriers. In the
same connection the News utters a
discordant note as to the relative val
ue OF rural delivery. 1t says:
We think the carriers run it all
right, but we also think the small
towns would be better off if half this
amount vas spent annually on the
roads of the country and the people
allowed to come to town for their
mail as they used to. We believe a
good many farmers would prefer to
have good roads and be obliged to
come after their mail. Most farmers
come to town once a week anyway
and that is as often as they care to
come. Other times they can send for
their mail by their neighbors. How
ever, we think the rural routes are
here TO stay"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.

In his latest review of commercial
and financial conditions Henry Clews
says that in many respects the gen
eral outlook is very satisfactory, and
owing to the unequalled prosperity OF
the agricultural classes the promises
are for at least another year or two
Of good business. On the other hand
he cautions against overlooking the
fact that the country is working upon
an abnormally high price level; that
interest rates are permanently high
er; that the speculative mania is diff
ficult to control, and that our pros
perity is very unevenly distributed
and decidedly lop-sided. Mr.. Clews
says in this connection:
Some process of equalization is
due. and just how this will come can
not be predicted. The steel trade
cannot keep up its present acsiv-
ity indefinitely; neither can the
cotton industry go on without some
relief to it's present difficulties. Time
alone will solve these problems, but
they are sufficiently complex to war
rant spirit of caution in all COM
mercial and financial transactions af-
fecting the future. One effect of pres
emit high prices is the growing sub
stitution or adulteration of one ma
,rial by another of inferior grade or
less cost. Short weights and short
measures, too. are often resorted to
In order to squeeze out profit which
high costs prevent"
Mr.. Clews holds that our center of
gravity has been raised too high, and
lasting stability cannot be expected
until equalization has restored the
equilibrium and prices generally
come down to less speculative basis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
London is Not in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Republican: There is
no need of women in Iowa initiating
the methods of English women in
agitating the suffrage question. Lon
don is not in Iowa. In England during
the past year or SO every one has had
the shivers. Mr.. Carnegie, upon his
return from London, made the state
ment that the condition of fear in
which England is living is pitiable.
They actually believe that Germany
is going to steal the whole island
Mysteries are the order Of the day.
The women who believe in suffrage
have caught the prevalent fear and
they have gone into Mysteries head
over heels. It is a psychological and
pathological condition in England and
there is no reason why we should i'm.
itate her crazy demonstrations for
first one thing and then another. The
suffrage movement in Iowa has moth,
ing to gain from violence and from
assaults upon the state house, after
the London style.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08

A propos the discussion as to the
exact location of the north pole and
whether DR.. Cook reached 1t or not
NJ. Flammarion, the French scientist,
comes to the front with the announce,
ment that the poles" of the earth
are not fixed, but constantly vary,
oscillating from year to year, from
month to month, around an average
position at which in reality the pole
is never exactly to be found. He pub
fishes an elaborate chart or diagram
to illustrate the manner in which the
earth is said to wobbie and showing
that not only the poles are shifting,
but that ATTITUDES are constantly
varying over the whole earth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
Improved Waterways.

Omaha Bee: elimination of all the
recent agitation for improved water.
ways seems to show the United
States virtually committed to the pro-
lect, for which. under the unanimous
pressure that will be brought to bear,
congress will be ready enough to vote
the funds even in til face Of the dec
laration OF the President that spork
barrel jobbery As t0 ba eliminated.
But having deoidedaso pfosecuts the
work, congress- should turn All the
details OF development over tus a DOM
mission competent to master the en-,
gineering and commercial problems
involved.
Various sectional claims win nat.
urally offer themselves for first con.
sideration, each locality regarding its
needs as the most immediate. The
project, however, should be APP
preached as unit; Mr.. Taft IS IN
questionably sound in his argument
against piecemeal apportionment. The
plan for a great waterway highway
from the lakes to the gulf is as much
single enterprise. regardless Of inn.
mediate local ambitions in any part
OF the valley, as is the Panama canal.
The mighty rivers waywardness will
be found difficult of control. and its
complications must be handled solely
with an eye to the permanent estab-
lishment of the future whole. Every
step taken ought to be with due con-
slderation for each succeeding step,
every stage of the work a bulwark of
the complete design. Individual and
community interests will best be
served If the commission in charge
of the work be absolutely unllampered
by local restrictions, so that from its
inception the undertaking may be a
national and not a sectional affair.
accomplishing as it grows the greatest
good to the greatest number within
the range OF the tributaries developed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
A Town Without ! GRAVEYARD

Davenport Democrat: LeBeau is a
South Dakota town which will have a
place on the map hereafter. It wants
the world to know that people don't
die in South Dakota 1t did happen a
day or two ago that man was killed
In an automobile accident near La
Beau. and they brought what remain
ed of him into the town and wanted
to bury him. But LeBeau had no
graveyard. and had no intention of
having one started just because the
auto had made slip. So the man
had been held at the barber shop or
some other center-they have no un.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
win be q pink tea compared to the
lot of the legislator If the plans go
through as announced.

State Treasurer w. w. Morrow has
notified the counsy auditors of Iowa
that they must return the entire 81
hunters license fee to the state treas
ury. Some of the county auditors have
been keeping out the cost OF the
drafts. One auditor kept out an
amount SUFFICIENT to purchase a book
In which to keep the record Of IL
censes issued and others have kept
out few cents from each fee to
help pay the cost of making the col
lection. In all such cases Treasurer
Morrow has returned the drafts and
insisted that the full amount be sent
in, and this is now being done There
has been paid to the state in hunters
licenses thus far $49,543. It is be-
lieved that the amount will be very
much greater before the close of the
year. The money is turned into
fund which is used by the state fish
and game warden in the interests of
the fish and game of the state
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08


One of the most interesting speech
es made by President Taft in the
South was at the Mississippi Girls
Institute, dealing with marriage and
suffrage. He said he would be glad
that he had no property to leave ais
sons, but that he would scrape to-
gether all he could to make his daugh-
ter Independent so that she would
marry only when she chose and not
because of circumstances. He wish
ed every woman in the world might
be so situated AMI added "the great
trouble has been that we have not
given the women fair show Presi-
dent Taft said he was not "a rabid
suffragist,' and would not favor the
suffrage for women until convinced
that all the women desire it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
Judge Bank at Mt. Pleasant.

Mt. Pleasant News Judge Bank
during his work here has made very
favorable impression on the court
room frequenter, who has not seen
him preside before. To most of the
attorneys he is well known and liked
and his methods on the bench were
not new. Judge Bank has made many
new friends here during the past
month. Mr.. Chas. Smith, court re.
porter with Judge Bank, has also
many new friends tc his credit which
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
dertaker-until someone will take
Indian Summer.

Macomb Journal: Just as the Jour
nal has always told you, my son. All
you have to do Is to be a little pa
tient, and the most salubrious, most
enjoyable, most glorious autumn
weather and Indian summer will hov,
er over, settle down and abide with
the people OF Illinois, than anywhere
else under the orbit of the sun. 1t
may look little 'skeery" at the start,
and appear SO precarious and post.
poning that it will not come; but you
simply keep the faith; it is sure to
come. as it has come and is upon us
now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08

Inc Erie Railroad is investigating
new automatic signal system which
includes telephone arrangement by
which all trains would be in constant
touch with stations and other trains.
There is brush arrangement which
connects with third rail and instru-
ment In the cab which will bring the
train to stop automatically the mo-
ment it enters block where there
is any obstruction. A push button
in every station will stop any train
along the track for miles and the en-
gineer upon telephoning the station
master can ascertain tae trouble and
receive orders. Frederick Lacroix
is the inventor and trials so far made
near New York have been success
full.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08

A reader of the Ottumwa Courier
contributes a delicious bit of humor
TO that paper in the form of com.
hined inquiry and protest involving
Speaker Cannon. He wants to know
If 1t is true that Mr.. Cannon SHORES
IN sleeping car and says he is very
anxious to learn the truth of the mat
ter His reason is thus stated:
Up to this time, | have not object
ed TO Uncle Joe's stand on the house
rules, or the tariff, or the waterways.
or organized labor, or the ways and
means committees and few other
trifing matters, but | want II under.
stood that / am against him If he
SHORES in a sleeping car. I can nut
up with the other things, but never
with that. If he is a snorer. / am
anti-Cannon.'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08

R. H. Underwood of Texas has
as the result of an investigation into
the prison systems of the various
states and Canada, that Minnesota
has by far the best prisons to be
found anywhere. They are not only
self-supporting and have a fine sys-
tenn of discipline and industrial edu-
cation, but have paid better salaries
to employees and have netted prof
it of s5,o00,D00 in the past fourteen
years. This profit, he says, has not
gone to few individuals. but to every
grain grower in the state who has
used binder Irvine, this being the arti-
Gle mostly made and sold by the pris-
on factories. Mr.. Underwood has
found that the penal systems in Ave
states are self-supporting. and that
conyicts generally are well cared for.
The parole system has been found
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
II the Iowa susfragettes really expe

II the Iowa suffragettes really expect
to initiate their London sisters at the
next session of the legislature they
are liable to get cold feet" in the
view Of the Cedar Rapids Gazette
which thus forecasts results: Some
gentlemen from the country occupy.
ing the high and important position
of representative will rise In his place
and move that the sergeant at arms
clear the galleries and close the
doors. Then the legislature will pro.
coed with its ordinary business and
the suffragettes will visit with each
other out in the snow. That is. any
one familiar with the way the equal
suffrage question has been handled IN
Iowa heretofore, may reasonably ex-
pect something like this to occur. /"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08

mortality. is the ratio of deaths of
infants under one year of age, not to
population but to the number of CHILD
rem born alive during the year. This
most important ratio should be read
lily available for the comparative study
OF deaths of infants in all of our
states. In the great majority of them.
unfortunately, the registration OF
births is Worthless. and ratios calcu-
lated upon the returns would be de-
ceptive and unreliable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
IDLE CARS PUT TO WORK.

The great surplus of cars on the
railroads of the United States, which
amounted to more than 100000 in the
worst of the after-panic depression, in
1908, has disappeared. The shortages
on some roads about balance the small
excess on others. The cars which car
ry merchandise are busy The best
railroad managers in the country fore
see that there will shortly be an i'm
perative demand for facilities which
the railroads now lack for handling
much greater quantities of freight
than they ever moved in the best
boom years of the past. The shops are
rushed with orders for new cars and
other railway equipment. The stu
alton thus disclosed is rightly inter
preted by the Cleveland Plaindealer
when it says:
This is proof enough, in itself, of
the full return of good times. The
railroads could not be so busy il the
traffic of the country were not at high
tide. There is no record of any such
activity in the Improbable movement
of merchandise or the transaction of
business which did not pay. 1t is
impossible to imagine such a revival
of railway traffic in any but prosper
GUS times
1t is certain now that Taft's admins
tration viii go into history as a period
of good times and rapid growth. 1t
will be linked with great natural ex-
pansion and money-making on an I'M
precedented scale That fact alone
will go far toward making it impossi-
Bile to Conduct successful campaign
against the President If he runs for
second term.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
Maxim Good


MY boy, you think that all you have
to do is to make hit
To catch the public eye and ear
then eyermore be it,,
You think one stroke sufficient 10,
one lifetime may be two;
That once man is famous, there
is nothing left to do.
hate to wake you, sonny, from
your irridescent dream
And keep your skiff from drifting
any further down the stream,
But here's what I've discovered: He
who does the best he could
Is merely obligated just to keep on
making good.
One little fights a promise that
you'll spread your wings and soar;
One decent jobs an earnest that
you'll do thousand more:
One leap to public favor is pledge
that you will stay
You can't do that unless you make
new mark every day.
The jump you made to wealth or
fame will do less good than harm,
II, by your desultory style, you
prove false Alarm
One well-directed arrow never made
Robin Hood;
One winning stroke but binds YOU
to the task of making good.
This world was not constructed for
the lazy man of dreams;
One flash is not nugget gold is
constant with its CLEANS;
The world keeps looking higher
than the level you've attained,
And thinks you retrograding till it's
certain YOU have gained
No stand still will tolerate: slide
back. and you will see
Your name among the .has-beenso
as a harmless ..used-to-be.n
The standard you established when
you did the best you could
Was but your affidavit that you'd
keep on making good.
Strickland w. Gillian.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-08
WASTE OF cHlLDREns LIVES.

American race waste more ser
ious than race suicide is pointed
out in census mortality bulletin No.
104, in which it is estimated that an.
nually in the United States from 100,-
900 to 200. GOO babies under five years
of age die fro.h preventable causes.
This great loss of life among the lit
tie ones at the period when they are
most loving and most lovable could be
prevented, is the opinion of Dr. Cressy
L. Wilbur. chief statistician for vital
statistics of the census bureau. For
the accomplishment of effective pre-
ventiye work in this direction, DIR.
Wilbur holds that the prompt registra-
ton of all births and the more care
flil and precise statement OF causes
In analyzing and comparing the
totals obtained in the compilation of
transcripts of death returns received
for the year 1908 by the census bu
reau from the entire death-registra
ton area of the United States, as set
forth in the bulletin, those for age
periods show somewhat increased
per cent of deaths of infants under
one year for 1908, although the ra.
tics for each of the individual years
from one to four are Identical for
1907 and 1908. OF the total mum.
Der of deaths. G91,574 returned for
1908 from the entire registration
area, 1t is stated in the bulletin
that nearly one-fifth were infants
under one year of age and over one
fourth of children less than FIVE years
of age. 1t is declared that the brute
force of the figures representing the
actual deaths is more impressive, how
ever than any ratios or than the rates
Of infant mortality, even If the lat
ter could be computed in the alb
sence OF proper registration Of
births.
More than one-eighth of a million
babies, under one year of age and
fully 100000 children, under FIVE
years of age, died among about one
half of the total population of the
United States in the year mentioned
1t is considered probable that fully
100000 more died in those cities and
states not included in the census bu-
reau death-registration area. In this
Connection DR.. Wilbur quotes Profeg-
sor Irving Fishers conclusion that Of
all the diseases of infancy, having the
median age one year, forty-seven per
cent may be prevented, and that Of
the diseases of childhood having med.
ian age two to eight years, sixty
seven per cent may be prevented.
The bulletin continues with a
statement that the general death rate
OF country is largely dependent
upon It's infant mortality, because
the death rates of infants and young
chlldren are high and they affect a
relatively numerous element of the
/ population. Exact study of the in
A cidence OF disease upon the in.
should be more effective registration
of births throughout the United
States for this purpose. Tie extreme.
/ ~ important rate known as infant