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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-06
New York Stocks.


NEW YORK, April 6.-The down
ward movement the first few minutes
started with selling about $4,000
shares by London. causing some SUBJ
stantial losses in leading International
issues. Taese declines induced gen.
eral selling and for a good part of the
first hour the list ruled generally
weak. Near the end of an hour pric-
es rallied. Government bonds UNI
changed; other bonds firm, active.
There was no important change in
the conditions after noon. Some spec
ialties marked up. attention being at
tracted to aggressive basing of Wis
consin Central issues, Common ad-
vancing over two points, and preferred
making a material gain.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
ID KANSANS
THREE MEN PARTICIPATE IN THE CARNEGIE HERO FUND
 DISTRIBUTION.
FIFTY PERSONS WERE REWARDED
A Garden City Negro Receives Bronze Medal and Cash for Bravery In Saw Ing Llfe-Two Cimarron Men Re- membered.

Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 5.-The Carne- sic hero fund commission rewarded 50 heroes and heroines with medals or money, in most case both. George (. McCue. negro of Garden City, Kan, received a bronze medal and $500 for his bravery in saving Jac- llelyn K. Herman and baby, two years old, November 19.190S. The commis- sion finds that the mother of the child dad left it in it's cab within few teet of the Atcnisoa, Topeka & Santa Fe tracks wbile she went Into the ex- press office. A wind blew the can up- on the tracks in front of a special srain that was making 50 miles an aour. McCue had only time to reach the baby carriage and hurl it and the child to one side and fall off the track himself as the train passed by.
 Clarence M. Thompson of Cimarron Kan, received a silver medal and sl,000 for his work in trying to save Lhe lives ol Eugene G. Davis and Nell son c. Thompson, his son, there May IS. 1909. Davis and Nelson Thompson were digging well on the Davis farm l2 miles from Cimarron. They set off blast. Five hours later they started to enter the well when Davis fell to the bottom of the well and was seriously injured Young Thompson climbed down the we'll and hitched a rope about Davis and had two women above hitch mule to the rope to pull him up, but the derrick at the top of the well was toppled over, leaving botk men in the well, which was not yet rid of gas. The elder Thompson well. tied ropes about both of the men and had them dragged to the surface, though they were dead. Thompson was rescued two hours later. more dead than alive
 William A. Bayless of Cimarron, Kan. received silver medal and $l,- 900 for his work in the rescue of the older Thompson at the Davis well ac- cident. Bayless reached the well aft CT the bodies of Davis and the young CT Thompson had been drawn up and tried to get some answer from the old CT Thompson. Bayless was lowered into the well and tied rope around the unconscious Thompson and signal ed to those at the windlass to noise him. The rope was s-.en lowered again and Baylass had scarcely strength to tie 1t around himself and call to be hoisted.
 Deeds of heroism in the flood at Athens, O.. March IA, 1907, received the greater part of the attention of the commission. The acts or courage, in cluded saving children from trains, rescues from flooded rivers, stopping runaway horses and carrying persons from burning buildings.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
WOMAN AND THE occupArlons

WOWFN f@Ng HE OOCQPA HONS.
 There has been a considerable amount of discussion of late in the press and in the magazines in regard to the number of women who are en tering the trades and professions Prof. Thomas. who is connected with the University of Chicago, has writ ten very remarkable. thought-provol, ing series of articles for the Amers can Magazine and he devotes himself to consideration of this subject Part is as follows:
 'It is Idle, indeed, to speak of ina exclusion of women from the occupa, tions. They are entering them from the top and from the bottom of the ladder. The ill-conditioned are being forced into them and the welI-condi. t'oned--those whom men have been educating while deploring the use ot their education are already en. tering them at the top in considerable numbers. And they are finding new and characteristic ways of giving to society that reserve of affection and nurture which they have heretofore reserved for the child and the home. In the year 1900 there were more than e.Q00,000 women gainfully employed in the United States tas against 2S.753.. S36 mem the rate of increase between 1890 and 1900 of the number of wo. men so employed was much greater than the corresponding increase for the employment of men (for women 32.s per cent. for men 219 per cent and the number of women gainfully employed increased more rapidly in the decade than the female popula. tion. So, whether we wish it or not, the old order is already changing rap idly. It Is too late to theorize on this point It means simply that the old idea that all women should live on the activities of men and should limit their own interests to the bearing and rearing of children has gone to pieces.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
NO CHEAPER SHOES.
Prices on Fall Footwear Are Quoted Just Same as Year Ago--Free
 Hides Bringing No Reduc-


 You thought you were going to get cheaper shoes when the free hide clause was incorporated in the tariff bill, didn't you?
 But you're not--not right away, at feast. Go down and price the new fall shoes and you will find they cost just the same as last fall.
 And not only do you not get cheap CT footwear. but the retailer doesn't buy them cent cheaper from the fac tory. In fact, they are quoted little higher to the retailer than year ago Tt is rather embarrassing to ex plain things" said a retailer. "to 8 customer who comes in expecting to get shoes l5 per cent cheaper because 15 per cent duty was taken of hides"
 The reason given Is that the hide market of the United States is con trolled by the meat trust, and the quantity of hides that can be spared from other countries is not enough tc overload the market.
 q look for shoes to come down only little, if at all" said MT. Bayne Of Allen Baynes dry goods store, today But free hides will steady the mar ket and undoubtedly keep shoes from going any higher"
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
HER THREE ESSENTIALS
smartest Looking Girl at Resort Gave Most Attention to Hair, Feet
 and corsets.

You're about the smartest looking girl on this piazza" remarked the old bachelor to the bronze-haired girl at nearby summer resort How do you manage it?" As he knew she worked for living 50 weeks in the year, she didn't mind.
 "Ill tell you" she confessed. "be- cause you can keep secret and you know I don't have much money to spend. I have just two good points and I make the most of them. And then I always wear fine corsets."
 "Huhn he calculated. What are the alleged good points?"
 She smiled cheerfulIy: "Hair and feet"
 He instantly surveyed each and nodded his approval
 "So," she went on. "as I can't afford much ill the way of gowns. etc, blow myself on shoes and stockings. which are much cheaper and quite as noticeable."
 Yes" he asserted; the way you wear them"
 Then she continued serenely, T ret the latest style of hair the min. lte 1t comes out. That keeps people to busy looking at my puffs they don't hnve time tp notice my dress
 But the CT c0rsets?" he suggest ed. as she rose to go.
 "An absolute necessity" she smslc'i back at him.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
Trade in Chinese Girls.

At Chaotong, city of some 10000 spuls, was told that one of the brisk est directions of local trade was the sailing of female children into slav- cry, and at the time I passed through prices were fairly high, girl who could boast good looks fetching the alarming figure of 300 taels this wal tAe highest figure reached-while small children could be had for any thing up to 20.
 This wholesale disposal of young girls, although the traffic in some quarters was emphatically denied to exist. is one of the chief sorrows of the district. And well it might be, for thousands of children are annually dis posed of for few taels by heartless parents who watch them being carried away as so much merchandise to be converted into silver.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
NEW yoRk TO IMPROVE ITS
 MORALS.

Immoral moving picture perform ances, hooche-kooche and other inde- cent dances, joy riding in automobiles, and the treatment of youthful offend CTS as criminals are all under the ban of the new laws which went into eff feet in New York state September 1.
 One of the new statutes makes It a misdemeanor to admit to kineto- scope CT moving picture show injur- ious to health or morals, any child less than l6 years of age. unless ac- companied by parent or guardian Assemblyman c. F. Murphy was re- sponsible for this measure.
 The Hill bill is designed to put an end to joy-ridng. This is done by add ing new section to the Penal Code which reads as follows:
 Any chauffeur or other person who without consent of the owner shall take or cause to be taken from gar age, stable or other building or place an automobile or motor vehicle and operate or drive or cause the same tc be operated or driven for his own pro fit. use or purpose, steals the same and is guilty of larceny and shall be pun ishable accordingly
 Another new law is expected to prevent immoral dances. Owners and lessees of theatres where objection able performances are given. will be considered equally guilty, in the eyes of the law. with the managers and performers
 The penalty for Kidnapping Is in creased. by new law. to a maximum of fifty years in prison. instead oi twenty-five years as formerly. An other measure in effect provides that no child under 16 years of age in this city or state may be treated as crim final. No matter what felony it com mits the child will be known and dea'i with only as juvenile delinquent | commitment is necessary. it will bs to reformatory or charitable in stitution. The object of the law is tC save the child to the home and to ac complish this, if possible. without com mitment. This will save much none, to the community in prison mainten ance.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
VACCINATION FOR TYPHOID.

The new preventive treatment for typhoid for inocuiation with dead ty phoid germs produces headache and malaise-sometimes even a bit of fever. But these symptoms soon pass, and are followed by a feeling of un- usual vigor and health.
 The so-called typhoid vaccine" can be obtained now by any physician from the Army Medical school at Washing ton. where 1t Is being put up in large quantities in tiny dramatically sealed vials. each representing one dose. The stuff is simply "culture" of typhoid germs in beef soup. the microbes be. ing killed by heat
 Two doses. given with hypodermic syringe, are supposed to render any body immune to the disease--puttine him. that is to say. in exactly the con dition for resisting attack that he would enjoy if he had really had ty. phoid fever and had recovered from 1t
 Col Russell, in charge of the Army Medical school, states that typhoid fever attacks about half a million people in the country annually, and kills 50.O0o- Very little typhoid. in his opinion. is conveyed today by water owing to the care exercised in pro tecting the drinking supply from in lection in nearly all communities. The house fly is much more important agent for spreading the disease.
 Typhoid in the Franco-Prussian war attacked 73.396 men and caused S.7Ss deaths among the German troops alone. In the Boer war 1t sickened 31 ,000 soldiers and killed 5S77. on the British side. During our brief wsI with Spain there were 20,730 cases and 15S0 deaths among 12,000 men, the bulk of the mischief being un doubtedly due to flies.
 European military authorities have taken the matter up in earnest, ant troops are being inoculated on $ wholesale scale. In this country the treatment has not been made compul sorry as yet. but a great many sol diers have voluntarily submitted te 1t. There can be no doubt that the discovery will enormously diminish mortality from typhoid in future wars New York World.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
A Skeleton Defined.

The superintendent was in the habit of dropping in to the different class rooms and demanding a recital of les sons from the pupils. One day her active mind hit upon physiology as the study for examination. But the little girl to whom the first question was put so bewildered the superin- tendent and made her lose her pa tience that there were no more ques- lions of a similar nature asked. Tell me- said the superintendent, what a skeleton is.'' The little girl thought for a short time "A skeleton?" she asked "A skeleton? Why a skeleton Is q man with his insides out and his oatsides off"
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
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The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
Advance In Microscopy.

The wonders revealed by the ordi- nary miscroscope are increased a hundredfold hy a recent invention. which enables the use of high-power lens as large as six inches in diameter
 thus bringing the whole of obiecta instead of details only under observa ton By this means common house fly is magnified not In parts. but all Ht once. till 1t appears 10 be as large as an ostrich or a condor, and, being inclosed in an open space, where 1t is kept directly within the field of the glass and yet has ample room, consid- ering its size. to move anout and en- gage in its usual occupations. the op- poftunity for studying it are immense ly in advance of anything previously enjoyed by scientists. Vast worlds of microscopic life, hitherto only dreamed of. are suddenly open to the gaze of mankind. and discoveries of immense value nau doubtless be made
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
TANMANYS DEFEAT
FOR FOUR YEARS NEW WORKS GOVERNMENT WILL BE ANTI
 ORGANIZATION.
BUT DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL
Republicans Will Have but Four Votes In the Board of Estimates, Which Win Have tho Spending of Vast Sums of Money.

New York, Nov. 5.--Battle scared Tammany, which elected a mayor, but lost city, has taken the gloomy work of setting It's house in order for four years of ayowed anti-Tammany gov ernment in greater New York.
 An analysis shows that the election, which resulted in the defeat by the fusion forces of every important Tam many-Demoeratic candidate below the mayor, was more of a victory for the anti-Tammany Democrats, who had lined up with the Republicans under the fusion banner, than for the straight-out Republicans.
 Anti-Tammany Democrats, elected on the Republican Fusion ticket for four years, will be in absolute control of the citys purse strings They will have a clear majority in the board of estimate and apportionment. one of the most powerful municipal bodies in any city of the world. and therefore the right of spending more than s1,- 00000.00o of the city's money.
 AC bChAd VI Cotiiidl0s dn GtCGitug includes, besides Mayor Gaynor, who in the past has been strong anti-ma- chine man, five anti-Tammany Demo crats. and two Republicans. The 16 votes allotted the various members of the board are so distributed that be- sides Justice Gaynors three ballots, the anti-Tammany Democrats will have nine and the Republicans four.
 In this board, according to the anti Tammany Democrats, Is to be found nucleus of what they believe will make for a complete reorganization of the Democratic party in greater New York.
 Complete returns on the balloting in the aldermanic districts show that Tammany lost ground also in that body, and that the Democratic ma jority is but single vote.
 In addition to this loss, several of the nominally Democratic votes from Brooklyn districts are the product of fusion between the Democratic and the Hearst-Tndependent forcas, and are hardly to be depended upon to support their Democratic colleague in all h. stances.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
LEGAL NOTICES.


 RESTORATION TO ENTRY OF LANDS
 IN NATIONAL FOREST.
 Notice is hereby given that the lands de- scribed below, embracing 1fty-hxe acres, within the Arkansas National Forest, Ar kansas. will be subject to settlement and en- try under the provisions of the homestead laws Of the United States and the act Of Juno il. i9O6. GA Stat. 230, at the United States land office nt Camden, Arkansas. on Decerli~ Der 2S: 1909. Any settler who was actually and in good faith claiming any Of said lands for agricultural purposes prior to January 1, fgO6 and has not abandoned same. has . preference right to make a homestead entry for the lands actually occupied. Said lands were listed upon the applications of the per sons mentioned below, who have preference right subject to the prior right of any such settler, provided such settler ar applicant Is qualified to make homestead entry and the preference right Is exercised prior to Decenl- her 1S. 1909. on which date the land will bo subject to settlement and entry by any quaI- The NE'4 Of Lot tor the NE4 Of NEH Of Lot for the Flo of SEA- Of NWis}, the Stz Of SW1l Of Lot 2, the NEs4 of SNl4 of Lot ,. Section ', Township S.. Range ZS w, Fifth Principal Meridian, containing f2D0 acres. Said tract was listed upon the application Of ]. c. Aleshire of shady, Arkansas, List y-i6i. The SEA of NE4 of NEh, and the SEA of SWI4Of NEtl of NIt54. Section 2I. Township s.. Range 30 ". containing l2.50 acres, listed upon the application of Ida J. Mccauley Of Hartley, Arkansas. List 3-46. Fred Dem nett. Commissioner of the General Land Of flee Approved OctoberS s, 1909. Frank Pierce First Assistant Secretary of Interior 454t
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
Improving tho stomaoh.

It is said that society women, who are forever chasing fads. are eating less than is served on tables in the houses of the poor, and consequently stomach troubles are disappearing and health is gaining in every way. So better figures and more brilliant complexions are seen. Feasts are no longer fashionable, iuncheons and din. ners being so simple that the prob. lem of preparation is not worth con. Ridering. Afternoon tea, served at five o'clock or so, Is all some women take after the noon hour It is usually accompanied by toasted mullins and marmalade or jam or delicious sand. wiches and gives the stomach enough york until morning
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
Msn's Guardian Angels.

The following beautiful allegory is told among the Turks: Every man has two guardian angels, one on his right shoulder and one on his left In do. ing good the angel on the right shoul' der notes it down and sets his seal mon 1t. for what is done is done for evsr. When evil is committed the an. gel on the left shoulder writes r down. but he waits until midnight be, fore be seals it. If by that time tho man bows his head and says: Ora. cioue Allah. have sinned, forgive mel. the angel blots out the fault, but ,f not he seals 1t at midnight and then the angel on the right shoulder weeps.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
A Hairs Breadth Escape.

Do you know that every time yon have a cough or cold and let 1t run on thinking 1t will cure itself you are inviting pneumonia, consumption or some other pulmonary troubIe1 hcn, | risk it. Put your lungs back in per- fees health and stop that cough with Ballard's Horchound syrup. Price 25c, 50c and sI per bottle. Sold by Glnnels Drug store,
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
Advice for the Worker Just Getting
 Start In His Career.


 When you get job, just think of yourself as actually starting out in business yourself, as really working for yourself Get as much salary as you can. writes Orison Swett Warden tn the Success Magazine, but remem Der that that is very small part ol he consideration You have actually getten an opportunity to get right into the very heart of the great activities of a large concern. to get close to men who do things; an opportunity to ab sorb knowledge and valuable secrets on every hand; an opportunity to drink in, through your eyes and your ears, knowledge wherever you go iu the establishment, knowledge that will be invaluable to you in the future.
 Every hint and every suggestion which you can pick up. every bit oi knowledge you can absorb, you should regard as part of your future capital which will be worth more than money capital when you start out for your self.
 Just make up your mind that you are going to be sponge i'll that in stitution and absorb every particle Of Information and knowledge, every sug gestion possible.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-11-11
TEE DlscoveRra OF GRAHAM
EAouR

The man who made the flour ts make the bread that made the name Of Graham famous was born in the Wooden Nutmeg State 115 years ago. He was the pioneer vegetarian. diet reformer and pure food crank" in this country. Sylvester Graham was his name, and suffield, Conn. has the distinguished honor of having been his native town.
 Graham was the son of an English clergyman who came to this country as youth. Young Graham early manifested his ability as an orator. and his father decided that he had a call 10 the ministry. He acquired some theological learning at Amherst and then set out to preach.
 He was carly attracted to the tenn perance cause. but his brand of tenn. perance included food as we'll as drink. Indeed he held that a vegeta- rian diet, persisted in. was the best cure for the cravings of the drunk ard.
 Graham practlced what he preached and adopted vegetarian diet, there by winning for himself the title of crank" and mad enthusiast" His own health, he declared. was greatly improved by the regimen he adopted. and he soon began preaching yegeta rianism as cure for ali human ills Like all roformers, he claimed too much for his own particular brand of salvation.
 He gradually established big fol- lowing of disciples. and brought out his Graham Bread" recipe. This was composed simply of unbolted wheat flour. He advocated this form of bread on the platform and in his books. ard it came to be one of the most popular articles of food in Amer ica.
 Up to the time Graham appeared workmen. and others, for that matter.
 
 thought the only way to stimulate muscular energy was to eat meat, but by Graham's teaching they soon learn ed that Rnscular strength does not depend upon the consumption of Ii flesh of animals. He paved the way for the larger and more extensive use for food of cereals and fruits.
 The consumption of meat and pas try fell off amazingly and Graham's followers were numbered by the hun. dreds in every town of note. This led to strong opposition to the vegetable advocate on the part of butchers and bakers in ail parts of the country and they looked upon the man as 6 dangerous sort of crank. who had no real knowledge of what he was talk ing about. hut had. however, ruined their business. Accordingly they or ganized crusade against the man and in lS47. while Graham was lectur. ing in Boston, with large audience of enthusiasts listening to him, a bowling mob attacked the outside or the building and threatened Graham's fife.
 Graham kept on lecturing until his death. which occurred on September II, 1851, at Northampton. Mass. He left many followers and his graham bread has not been lost sight of yet