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That would be no business of the federal
guardian of pure food. But woe betide
him If caught venturing step over his
state boundary line,
AS far as the oyster is concerned DR..
Wiley has let his army of experts and in
spectors mark time hitherto. to give the
industry ample opportunity to adopt clean
methods and clean equipment But the
armistice has now expired and the gaunt-
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times making it SO distinct as to denote
certain sarcastic intent-but he won't
give voice to cutting utterances before
he does so.
If man ever does entertain the fool
ish suspicion that the operator ''rubbers''
on his telephone conversation he keeps
that suspicion to himself; I've never been
accused by a man of doing that in my
seven years of service. 1t may be that
men, after all, are more innately crafty
than women, despite the contrary impress
sion, and that they don't say things over
the phone that they wouldn't care to
have overheard by the operator; OF It
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NY7z2YG OE7ZE1z2S

inspection. o. which DIR. Wiley is the
chairman. has just ruled that this wash
ing must not continue longer than the
minimum time for washing and chilling.
Even while dashing over the continent
in the fast express trains delivering them
to western marts further bloat was
being added by placing ice in the cans
in direct contact with the biNalves. The
fresh water from this they greedily drank
until the new regulation went into effect
requiring the ice to be placed In an ogter
receptacle. a precauton aimed especially
against pollution, samples OF ice found
In contact with oysters in transit have
been found TO contain surprising amounts
of filth.
The containers In which oysters arc
handled must hereafter be sterlized and
live steam under pressure is being adopted
by the enterprising oystermen. DIR. Stiles
cobwebs dangling from the ceiling; dirt.
filth and flies galore. He rs advising
their displacement by structures of stone
brick or cement. which can be readily
cleansed. and their equipment with proper
toilet facilities.
expectedly at various oyster beds or oys-
ter wharves, taking their samples and
sending them either to Washington or
the nearest of the twenty -one branch food
laboratories now scattered over our en-
tire domain. If the laboratory test shows
pollution or adulteration, they go into
court and have the product seized. The
owner can then appear to defend them
at hearing at which the bacteriologist
making the test will testify as an expert
witness. If this evidence is strong enough
the court orders the oysters condemned.
and the United States marshal proceeds
to destroy them. Criminal action may
then be taken against those responsible.
In fifteen cases criminal prosecution has
already been recommended since this
season opened
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"Great" Men.

COL. ABE GRUBER, at a dinner AZ
~ Saratoga during the convention, gave
"a good epigrammatic definition of a great
man.
"A great man. he said, lis one with
the ability to gather round him a multi
tude of industrious and intelligent SUBJ
ordinates who will take the blame for all
his failures and give him the credit for
all their successes"
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HE oNS CT OF inter
state C o m IN e r c {
must henceforth be
very, very good. or
DR.. Wiley-he will
get him.
The bad bivalve
may Sicken and kill
citizens of his ma
tive commonwealth
TO his hearts con-
tent if the local an
thoritieS are lax.
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But a worse offense than aduiteration
lies at the door of the oyster floater The
streams at whose mouths his floats are
placed arc commonly the outlets OF pol
luton from cities and villages built upon
their banks. DR.. Wiley has had DR.. Stiles
in the field making d sanitary survey of
the principal oyster beds and shocking
establishments along the Atlantic and
gulf coasts, and that bacteriologist has
come back with an interesting collection
of photographs. showing sewer outlets d.
rectIy over oyster beds, the dumping of
garbage into streams flowing past floats
and filthy ''shucking houses without
plumbing leaning over waters in which
oysters arc being ficated.
The oyster is not Il scavenger, accord
ing to Dr.. Stiles. although the popular
notion is TO the contrary. 1t must drink
the water that comes TO it. and when
that water is poHuted il is poWerlesS to
move into medium that tastes better.
From ID to % per cent of its natural
food consists of an order of alSae known
as diatomS and which are sometimes
used as polishing powder. In addition to
these the oyster prefers small amounts of
pollen from plants and the microscopic
forms of animal and vegetable life found
in clean water
Now the amount of rise and fall i'm
the tides. the prevailing winds, the
amount of sunshine. the extent Of the
rainfall. and the proportion of salt in the
water, also its depth and currents. are
all being studied by Dr. Stiles i'm connec-
ton with pollution They all combine to
make the water of the oyster beds good
or bad, and each locality has it's own pc
culiar combination of such forces.
The gantlet that the poor oyster must
run is indeed a long one. First polluted
by advancing civilization. he is next
''hoated'' by his grower. Then the boat
man who buys him drinks him some
more by dumping him into shallow water.
where he lies and bloats further till the
next tide starts him on the ebb. After that
the shucker takes hold of him, and after
ripping off his shell subjects him to
new indignity. which the trade calls soak
ing" and second dose of which he often
gets in the establishment of the retailer.
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Nine times ont OF ten-yes, ninety-nine
times out of hundred-its woman
who snaps Il don't believe they re
busy" at the operator. Men are not an
gels on the phone-anythins but that, d
good many OF then,-but they do think
twice before coming right out and calling
a girl a-weH, stOry-teller.
II is such an absurd thing for anybody
To say TO an operator, too Never once,
in all the tine I've been an operator,
have ] ever told anybody that the line
busy when il wasn't SO. And | never
knew any other operator To 90 it. either
The accusation j. as ridiculous as it is
we'll, '-catty" il the best word know to
describe il. Why should an operator say
- ulat the line is busy when i; isn't? Our
bustx,e s. is to dispose of call, without
friction. the instant We get IL. We Ger
tainly do not like TO be ''barked at" Is
it reasonable or sensible TO suppose, as
hideously weary as We become of hearing
that snappish Il don't believe remark
that We would put ourselves in the way
of hearing it repeated if We could help
ii? Before / became an operator L did
not believe that men were more reason
a ole than women. Now / know that
they are. / hate to acknowledge il, but
it's the truth. Yes, and, taking them all
more patient than women. They are on
the phone, anyhow.
When woman takes the receiver off
the hook her point OF view seems To be
that everything should stop, commerce
put up the shutters, the world 90 on
strike. until she gets hef cal through.
She doesn't want 10 wait even d fraction
OF minute. she won't wait. She
wants what she wants when she wants
i'll think the man who wrote that
song must have had some woman he
knew in mind. and not basso-voiced
man at also Instantly, not to say in
stanter. that she becomes peevish and I'M
reasonable all III the winking of an eye
If it's impossible To give il TO her right
off the reel, as the men say That >
why we all 50 dread telling Il woman
that the number she wants Is busy. We
know what cCmIn-. IL l.ss az eV>r fails.
And il becomes 50 diabolicalIy tireSome
Often. after "a long, hard day at the
board i hear the raspy voices of petu-
liant, snappish women in my sleep with
tuat II Ion .e-itNe rafting ,IiTOu- h
my disturbed rest like a Xylophone out
of tune. 1t is so much easier To put up
with the Occas. OnaI -TOV ltas aI., grum-
bling of the men on the wire. because the
men nearly always are amenable to rea-
son. and. after they explode. it's over and
done with. and invariably they feel
ashamed of their little outbursts and say
so frankly But I've never heard a wom-
an express regret for having said mean,
"catty" and unjuStifiable things to an
operator; apoloSizing is something they
can't or won't do.
don't say all women are disagreeable
tn the operator. mind. That wouIdn' I
b. fair Many of them are very nice,
and sweet, and patient, and reasonable,
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most before 1 had finished speaking
You're not attending to your business,
that's what's the matter, You're sitting
there reading some trashy novel, or
primping your silly pompadour. or some
thing, and paying no attention to any
body that calls. Give rae my number at
once,'
But you have not told me what num-
Der you wish,' / said to her.
We are used, you see to that scream
ingly ridiculous accusation that we spend
our time reading novels and fussing with
our hair and primping, when We should
be attending to subscribers calls; wom-
en- are always charging us with those
things; and there is no use getting work.
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Just three minutes later she called up
again. and her husbands office wire still
was busy. OF course L had to tell her
so. Then she fairly ragged at me.
You are trying to get even with me
for calling you to account for your neg
lectfulness, that's what you are doing.'
she said TO me. II shall get my husband
on another phone in this building and if
| find that you have been deliberately
lying TO me l shall attend to your case,
miss. If ! have TO go in person to the
president of the companyi'
Now, that's a sample conversation. Sc
we're? Why, no. It's quite an ordinary
instance of the way we are nagged, day
i'm and day out, by some women.
II Is common thing for some of them
to accuse us of being ''revengefur' and
of trying to get even with them when.
after they have snapped at us in that
way, we still are unable to give them
tie number they want. This, of course.
Is absolute, rank nonsense. Operators
simply don't have the time to be IRE
VengefuT' or anything so delightfully."- HUI
man and natural, even if they had the
inclination. We're too busy. The grind
is too incessant. We get to know the
voices of the pills on our set Of pegs,
of course. but we are too utterly busy
every second Of the time and too keen to
Keep them from making their foolish and
unreasonable complaints to the 'rlan-
d6ef ever 10 tnlnR or trying 10 get hd OK
at them, rs some of them express il.
The creature who answers my phone
has grudge against me- is one of the
commonest complaints some women make
when, after they've been unable instantly
to get the number they want they de-
mand the manager and are switched on
to the chief operators line. AS a mat
Ter OF fact the creature they complain
about may be a different operator nearly
every time the complainer uses her
phone, Tor the board stations are being
changed constantly, different operators
are on watch at different hours, as during
the lunch hour, and SO on. But aside
from all of this. as 1 say. none of the op-
orators has the slightest chance in the
world to indulge in the luxury of a
grudge,' for the simple reason that she
is too busy answering incessant calls
and striving to hold down her job salts
factoriiy and successfully to do anything
of the kind.
Another strange hallucination firmly
held TO Dy great many woman users OF
the phone Is that the operators caves
drop on their conversation
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K0RzDS RUGEaT QT2ZEB1 HEET
sREZZNIzE H4RDQR,

and which he explained to be a product
of sea-weed added to beef broth. quickly
hardened. forming yellow stratum at
the bottom of the receptacle. Some clever
bacteriologist once discovered that mi
crobeS take to this broth as greedily as
youngsters take to sweetmeats, and ever
since 1t has been the favorite medium
for growing germs in incubators.
With little glass tube. graduated
along the side. DR. Stiles measured out
a minute quantity of his oyster liquor
solution and dropped an equal amount
into each saucer of cold BROTH Then
he put the circular lids on the saucers
and placed them in his incubator where
they were to be left at blood heat until
the germs-if present-might grow into
the colonies in which they gather when in
a f1ourishing condition.
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OF water. solids. salt. etc. External APP
pcaralce also gives the clue. for oysters
taken directly from salty water are fatter
than those given the fresh water cure.
Some day. perhaps. the gullible public will
be educated to the fact that this fiat
oyster has just as much tissue and
much nourishment his bloated brother
formerly of equal size.
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The oystermen have been given months
i'm which to get ready for the full opera
ton of the law. At first many of them
claimed that the reforms were impossi-
BILE, but now most of them are co-operat-
ing, although a few have to be driven.
Those who are enterprising realize that
the improved conditions by restoring
public confidence i'm the oyster will vast
ly increase its consumption by the peo-
pie.
One progressive grower of this class
one of the best known oystermen of the
sast-has lately gone so far as to install
.,ftct0..rt> iN-.i bol atory in his ware
house. Under midnight oil he is porting
over text books on the science of germs.
and already brother oystermen are COM
ing to him from miles around, open-eyed
and open-eared. And the state she'll
fish commissions are commencing TO in
stitute such laboratories, while I'm some
commemorative they have lately exclud
ed certain oyster beds showing evidences
OF pollution. +.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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BY soaking is meant the adding of
fresh water to unsheiled oysters. Here
again the ostensible purpose is to cleanse
the mollusks. but DR.. Stiles found that
many were allowed to soak over Sum
day. But the board of food and drug
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ed up over such nonsensical things and
trying to reply to them.
How dare you tell. me L haven't told
You the number l WANT my "pill'' lady
said to me. You get me my husband S
office this instant, or else give me the
manager"
But what is your husbands Office tele-
phone number. please?" / asked her.
She fairly Kissed the number at me.
The line was busy. j told her so. or
course, she said she didn't believe it.
My husband never uses his Office
phone at this hour of the morning." she
said to me in her raspy way. He knows
I always call him up at this hour of the
morning.
But, | told her. somebody else must
have called him up
II don't believe anything of the sort!''
she said. Nobody ever calls my hus-
band up at his office at this hour Of the
morning. You are simply too lazy or
Indifferent or something to give me my
number. Let me have the manager this
Instant
L 'pegged' her on to the chief oper-
ator. who told her. of course, that her
husbands Office wire was i'm use. She
accused me to the chief opera tor of being
''impertinent'' and ''snippy'' and insult
ing"
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Copyright. raIo. ty John Enrrtn Watkins
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be good enough to stop 'rubbering' on
my conversation, if you please. is a re-
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DON'T BELIEVE

DON'T BELIEVE
they're busy"
Don't I wish /
had one bronze
penny for every
time I've heard
that during the
seven years | We
been 'pegglng d
board Id be
wealthy enough
TO quit work and
stay home and
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These cOlonies-as shown to me in other
glass saucers that had been left in the
incubator for some time-appear as round
spots, sometimes an eighth of an inch
across, sometimes larger They always
indicate that microbe of some kind was
present in the oyster liquor tested, and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28
VACUUoPATHY
WILL CURE HIVES
Something New From Quincy is Guar
anteed to be of Great
Benefit.

A new profession has been born
and Quincy, only lately honored by
the unearthing and interment Of Her
nando De Sofas remains, has again
been honored as the birthplace Of this
new discovery. "Vacuuopathy' is the
dignified name of this new profession,
as distinguished from either home
opathy" or "allopathy", though it re-
sembles homeopathy in that you
ought to be at home when you take
a treatment, and is like "allopathy"
/ in that the treatment is based on
the principle OF substituting some
thing totally unlike any thing else
for the remedy. The name "yacuuo-
pathy'' is justified as one befitting
the dignity of the treatment, and it
| is all the more warranted when its
derivatives are considered. The term
owes its origin to the Latin wade in
pace meaning to depart in
peace and the Greek 'pathos',
meaning suffering Thus the users
OF this remedy are "sufferingly de-
parting in peace, or, more properly,
Sin pieces
The genius who made the discovery
of this wonderful new remedy which
she claims will cure any old thing,
requests her name withheld until the
system and name have been patented
and copyrighted, but suffice it to say
that she is member of one of
Quincy's most prominent families. She
mind you, it was woman this
time, instead of some bewhiskered
old scientist or laboratory fiend-
made this world-changing discovery
more by accident than by intention,
and did so in innocently trying to
cure a troublesome attack of hives.
The only thing required for cure
under this new system is a one
horse power house vacuum cleaner.
Relief is instantaneous when once
the suction tube of the cleaner is APP
piled to the afflicted parts. The hives
or anything else that's there, includ-
ing the skin, instantly disappear,
lust as a man can easily cure his
corns by letting a street car run ov-
err his toes. You cannot beat such
treatment, and no doubt it will be
used to such an extent that many
dentists, BARRIERS and physicians will
be forced to become professional poll
ticians to make living. Just think
how handy 1t will be if you have
toothache--all you'd have to do will
be get out and apply the vacuum
cleaner to your jaw, and the pain,
as we'll as the tooth. will instantly
disappear. Or If little Willie gets the
stomach ache during green apple sea-
son, the simple remedy may be APP
piled with equal success. Men can
use 1t to pull out their beard every
morning, instead of hacking up their
countenances with safety razors
and housewives can press it into ser
vice in pulling their husbands legs
/ for vacation money.
The Herald predicts world-renown-
ed fame for "vacuuopathy' and is
/ glad that its discoverer lives in
| Quincy-and is still alive.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-28

OPENED THE DAMS
Edwin Manning Ordered Captain to
Throw Gates in Stream and From
That Time Boating
Continued.

While the government engineers
are surveying the Des Moines river a
little side light into eally history of
the stream will not go amiss. The
days of the pioneer in Iowa. when
what chance did exist for navigation
of the Des Moines river was frustrat-
eu by the mill owners having dams
across the stream, led some of those
of the earlier days, whose names are
yet recalled as men who have achiev-
ed a place In the history of the state
to break UP this system Among
these was the late Edwin Manning,
father of Calvin Manning of Ottumwa
and perhaps the best known man Of
his time in southeastern Iowa. Mr..
Manning in an early day while ex-
banding his growing business inter-
ests, actually forced navigation of the
Des Moines, and for long time ship
ped large quantities of goods of var
ious kinds UP and down the river
from st. Louis and other points.
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His REGULAR Nightly Go.

Judge Hilary G. Guest, the temper
ance advocate, said in recent ad-
dress in Cleveland:
Alcohol makes some men pugna.
cious. A man of this type was
drinking glass after glass of beer In
saloon when his wife entered.
Jim, she said. YEARLY, it's after
II o'clock and you have got to get
up at five. Have you had your scrap
YETI
Nav. Jim snarled.
Then get it scrapped and hurry
on home, dol
".All right growled Jim. and halt
an hour later he staggered home with
the usual contusions and abrasions,
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Fought with Savage Bat.

Charles Gideon of Philadelphia was
aroused the other day by some crea-
ture biting his legs. He yelled for
help and William Saddler, fellow
hoarder. went to his assistance. The
men fought the creature. which flew
about the room, giving fight until they
succeeded in killing it. An investiga.
ton proved it to be bat, measuring
is inches between its outstretched
wings. Gideon was severely nipped
about the limbs and face.
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A Pioneer Trader.


Mr. Manning's first trade in Iowa
was for half-breed claim which con-
sisted of several acres of handsome
twenty-five town lots in Keokuk- the
whole costing about $50
In touching upon the different
epochs of the county's history, he stat
ed the first land sales were made in
1888.
The court house in Keosauqua was
built in 1S41.
The navigation of the Des Moines
was INSTRUCTED by dams until 1851
Flatboating from 1916 to 1851.
The speaker could boast that he
bought and sent from Van Buren,
county the first drove of cattle.
1t was himself and Uncle Sam
Wright" who had the honor of buying
and sending to st, Louis the first
drove of hogs.
He also opened out the first stock
of goods in the valley in 1889, and in
II he contracted to supply the gov
eminent fort at y > Moines with pro-
visions, which he did by chartering
a boat at ST. Louis and bringing his
purchases by steam.
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Read The Daily Gate city.
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Tells Story Himself.

the navigation of the Des Moines
was told by Mr.. Manning third of a
century ago. 1t was at a meeting held
by the Old Settlers of Van Buren,
county on the fifteenth of August,
1877 And these were substantially
his remarks on the occasion, which
will be interesting to large number
of the readers of the Courier. HIS
said.
He was sojourning in Missouri dur
ing the winter and fall of 1897, with
Captain Hall and other friends, all
looking for homes in the west. The
captain and himself engineered a
jumper ride on the river from st.
Francisville up over the smooth ice
and snow until they reached Keosau-
qua, which to their imagination, held
in embryo, a fortune for the ingenious
Yankee-hence the location of a town
there. But this was not all. They
made trip across the half-breed
tract to TT. Madison, and visited old
Black Hawk at his camp, located just
below the town.
The country at that time was near
ly all vacant. The settlements were
confined to the streams. Claims had
been made and even occupied up the
Des Moines for nearly hundred
miles.
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

LoWlTzrThe funeral of the late
3. S. Lowitz will take place this
morning, August %, from tho resi-
dence of N. S. Lowitz, No. sol North
Firth street. city, at 10 O'Clock
Friends OF the family and members OF
the Masons, Odd Fellows, Royal Arc,
anum, Iowa Legion of Honor, and
knights of Honor invited. Burial pri
yate. Kindly omit flowers.
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NOTICE,

NOflCE.
There will be an opportunity for ir.
regular pupils to meet teachers at
the high school during the forenoon
saturday, September 8, in order to
arrange matters SO that they can go
Immediately to work Tuesday, a. M,
September 6, at which time school
Will open for the fall terms's work.
WILLIAM ALDRICH,
Supt. of Schools.