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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-16

Mr. and Mrs. I. w. Buckler. who
have been visiting Mrs. Bucklers sis
ter, Mrs. J. E. yanatta, returned to
their home in Oskaloosa today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
The Gubernatorial Contest

Definite announcement was made yes terday that State Senator R. E. Sprag- ins of Huntsville will not be in the race for governor.
 This leaves the issues in the guber- material campaign squarely between Elm met O'Neal of Florence and the rest of the field. Mir. O'NeaI is the only can didate truly representing the anti amendment issue of the recent cam paign, and it now appears that the com ing fight will turn on the principles in- volved in That conflict
 MT. O'Neal stands boldly for preserv- ing the state and bringing it back into safe channels; he stands for the prin- cples which were victorious at the polls last fall by ma ajority of over 27,- 900. and it behooves all who are in sym pathy with those principles to put heir shoulders to the wheel. get behind MT. O'Neal and carry the issue.
 MT. O'Neal is an able. fearless and conscientious man and deserves the support of the savers of the constitu- tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
Waiting for the Verdict

The supreme court of the United States Wall street will be relieved of seares from that source until the court reconvenes. For the fnanciers of that locality are more afraid of a strenuous decision from the supreme bench than they are of any, thing that the President or Congress will be apt to do.
 In the case of the American Tobacco company and the Standard oil case from St. Paul, both before the court, the scope and effect of the sherman antitrust act are involved, and all feel that they will be definitely made known when decisions in the two cases are rendered.
 Neither the Taft programme nor the revolt against Cannonism affects the Wall street markets seriously if at all but ffepidation in that stret is considerable whenever the possible decisions of the highest court in the tobacco and Stand ard Oil cases are considered.
 And yet when the adverse decision of the great court was rendered in the Northern Securities case the effect was but temporary. So it may be in the two pending cases. At any rate, no one thinks the two decisions will reach any aggrega- ton of capital that is not monopoly for example, the United States Steel cor poration, which does not make much more than half of the steel of the country. The object of the Sherman act was to prevent monopoly in the restraint of trade. and the coming decisions of the supreme court certainly will not affect combinations that are not monopolies, and that are not op- erated in restraint of trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03

accept the earlier date and get ready to meet the insects next year with other crops.
 The panic that prevailed in Louisiana when the pest entered that state will be uncalled-for here if we get ready in good season for it's coming. Perhaps the best remedy for two or three years in the black belt counties consists in the ex- elusive growing of corn. By cutting out cotton altogether the insects cannot stop lest they starve to death They lay eggs in cotton bolls only, and they feed on no other plant.
 A general altruistic determination to plant corn only in the black belt would certainly minimize the trouble in this state, and every bushel of corn grown can be marketed at good prices.
 Congress will not do much towards les sening the ravages of the insects, and the farmers must meet the scourge and grap- pie with it themselves. They can starve it to death. and they can do this without lessening their own profits if they will grow corn either according to the Will liamson plan or the plan of the govern ment demonstrators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
Enlarging House Rules Committee

The republicans are trying to get to- gether They are agitating the adoption of a truce during the present Congress- The insurgents are to be cajoled into this hy the promise that the rules committee phall be enlarged to Il members and all Important factions will be given repre- usntation on it. The Il are to be elected hy the House At present the five mem bers are appointed by the speaker and he Himself is one of them. The speaker is Q be excluded from the proposed new committee.
 This change would enable the insurgents . go to their respective constituencies with the claim that they had accomplished something toward the downfall of Can- nonism, and they can claim that the new Congress will do the rest. And no doubt | will, for it will be democratic.
 The administration is demanding truce ef some sort, so that it's programme can he advanced. At present not a step has heen taken toward the carrying out of the Taft programme except the presentation h the Senate of postal savings bank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
ProtaGtiOl and High Prices

The country is still full of revolt against the high prices due to the tariff and its resultant trusts. The Englishman has his beef brought across the ocean and sold to him in the ships at to cents A pound less than the American pays for meat raised at home. The home beef trust is more generous to Britons than to home folks, because it has to compete among the former with Canadian, Argentine and Australian beef. It knows competition when it sees it, and it also knows how to destroy competition at home.
 Congressman Foelker of New York. a republican who lives in Brooklyn, pro- noses to find a remedy for the situation In a bill to suspend for one year the tariff pn meat supplies, including beef, mutton, lamb, pork and other meats intended for use as human food MT. Foelker does not admire the differences in meat costs in favor of London as against New York. He evidently thinks prices should not range from to 10 cents a pound lower Ln London.
 He is republican, and it will open his syes to see how the standpatters and Uncle Joe Cannon will pigeonhole his bill. and he will never hear from it again. This may lead him to become an insur- rent, especially now when insurgency is popular and almost epidemic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
should Take Action.

T feel that the Chamber of Com meree and other civic organizations of Jefferson county, including those at bes- semer, Ensley North Birmingham Woodlawn and East Lake, should take action requesting the Board of Revenue to build an adequate annex to the court house instead of a $5O,0O0 structure which will soon fall far short of the county needs,'' said a prominent real estate man yesterday q know that those who own property in any part of Jefferson eoun- ty will figure it out for themselves that cheap annex will be detrimental to all property, theirs included, as well as waste of the county's money.
 We have had experience in the penny wise policy before. Take, for instance, the present courthouse with all the im- provements which we thought at one time would be adequate for many years; the government building which we thought 10 years ago adequate; the Woodward building which people said would never be filled; the Brown Marx, the Empire, the Farley and in fact all other buildings. Each of these has fal- len short of space requirements and the courthouse annex will prove to be the same way.
 Let the Board of Revenue reconsider before letting the contracts for the pro- jeeted building
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
Certainly wOman's thought run before her actions.
 As You Like It.
Great Shipping Ports of the World

Secretary Pratt of the New York cham Der of commerce will soon submit his an- . nual TeYort. and in it ".ili be disclosed the net that New York has at last outdis-
 taaed London in the volume of shipping teHuge handled. and is now the great estfsrt in the world. London long had boen. &ut ioth New York and Antwerp now outrank London.
 The vessel tonnage entered in the for eign trade of New York is put by Sec retarv Pratt at 12,1547sO tons, and the other great ports of the world in order are Antwerp, London, Hamburg, Hong Kong. Liverpool Montevideo. Marseilles, Singapore. Cardiff, Kobe, Genoa and Buenos Ayres.
 The greatest increases in tonnage are recorded at Kobe, Japan, and Montevidee fin Uruguay. London shows an increase of 9 per cent, but this was not enough 4o keen it above New York and Antwerp. The rise of Antwerp is almost as mar vicious as the rise of New York. and the great increase of tonnage at Montevideo will be a surprise to nine readers out of every ten.
 When the Panama canal is opened fur ther changes will take place in the stand ing of ports, and possibly gulf port will enter the list of the worlds greatest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
HOW SHAKESPEARE SPOKE.

From the London Daily Mail.
 Shakespeare would find his lines as recited by the actors of today almost uninteiligible, according to Daniel Jones, who gave an address before the Elizabethan society
 To prove his contention MrA Jones re- cited The Seven Ages as Shakespeare himself would have spoken it. The eff feet was notch -potch of a dozen dia- lects of today. The broad "a's" justified the Lancastrian "feyther'' instead of father. and the Cockney nasal '1'' sounds found full satisfaction in words such as maid.
 Other of MT. Jones' examples of Eliza bethan pronunciation have no parallels in modern dialect. Watch was made to rhyme with catch, should with cooled brew with ney. Fifth and sixth he said, were pronounced with out the final 'th" sound, and the word sea was accorded a final sound equivalent to the French ''e."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
THE SKIN DRILL

From the Washington Post.
 "The skin drill, in this December wea- ther, is the only sure preventative of cold" the doctor said. "The skin drill Is the morning bath.
 Every morning. we should take a cold bath not more than a minute long. We should take it in warm room, and aft erward we should rub ourselves with a rough towel till we are red and dry and glowing.
 "This constitutes a skin drill-the quick closing of the blood vessels when the cold water is applied, and the prompt dilation of the vessels of the skin as the flesh is dried.
 ''The cold bath is an anticold drill. It is the training of the skin to that prompt and glowing reaction after chill, which keeps colds off. AS the fists under a boxing teacher, learn to ward off solar plexus blows so the skin, under the daily bath, learns to ward off the cold that is too often the forerunner of pneumonia or consumption
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
DECIDEDLY MEAN.
Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 The Rev. William H. Leslie. a Congo missionary, was talking in the salon of the Yaterland about a mean Belgian ivory trader
 "The man is so mean, said MT. Les lie, that l can only compare him with Saunders MePherson of Peebles
 Saunders visited his rich cousin Frazer In New York, staying seven months. Frazer one day led him into cigar shop, saying:
 "'Come in and have cigar, Sandy
 Frazer bought two 10-cent cigars gave one to Saunders. and proceeded to light up. As he did so, Saunders said to the salesman:
 These cigars sell at three for a quar- ter, I believe?
 "'Yes, sir,' said the salesman.
 Then said Saunders, laying down a nickel and at the same time opening his cigar case, I'll take the third one. If you please v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
WOMEN OF ORIENT
They Are Revolting Against Restric-
 lions of the Harems


 fiOns of the Harems
 From the Travel Maga zine
 Oriental women are casting aside their veils. Even the rank and file of them are reyoltlng against being penned up in harems.
 ihe word harem is Arabic. and means privacy. seclusion. The confining of women in harems, that is to say. seclud- ing them and denying them the privilege of talking with or coming in contact with men, excepting their husbands or nearest male relatives, is Mohammedan custom, and harems are to be found existing in every country where the in fuenee of the Moslem has been domi- nant. The downfall of the harem is the greatest good that modernism is accom- plishing in Asia, and with it is dying polygamy.
 A new order of womanhood is spring ing into being in all quarters of the Ori- ent. Masses of Oriental women are will ing, nay. eager. to share the responsibili- ties of public life with men. Moreover, they are willing to work with them shoulder to shoulder.
 In every Asiatic country you see the new woman conducting special schools for esrls and neighborhood centers for women of comparatively advanced ages. These institutions are designed to edu- cate the present and rising generations of women to properly discharge their va rious duties. In these schools Oriental girls and women are taught what con- stitutes their real rights. Here they are also inspired to unflinchingly, asS steadily labor to obtain and maintain these rights
 Paradoxical as it may seem, the most favored and successful manner in which the Oriental woman carries on her propa- gsnda work Is through the channels of the newspapers and even magazines In various parts of Asia, especially in China, India and Japan, women are conduct ing publications to further the cause. In. Japan the Twentieth Century Woman, a radical monthly magazine, is edited by a woman, and many of her contributors are women China has three fourishing pub lications edited by and for women. In Hindustan is also magazine for women. It is printed in English, and, started some two years ago, 1t has a large and growing circulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
Rabbits as Cheap Food

Western rabbits are some aid to res- taurants in the matter of food as to prices just now" said a patron of cafes.
 ''The rabbits are served one-half at about 25 cents, with chicken at B cents to 50 cents for same portion and turkey even higher.
 ''The western rabbit is larger and has much more taste Gin fact when properly prepared f approaches venison), than our southern rabbit which regard as without taste excepttthe seasoning used in cook ing. One of the most appetizing ways of serving the rabbit is in German dish called harsenppeffer. It is vinegretted and it takes two or three days to pre- pare this dish.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
QUEER sWEETENING
the Washington Post

From the Washington Post.
 The grocery clerk swallowed three or four Jumps of sugar.
 "In France, now" he said, "Id get fired if did that. The French look on sugar as frightful luxury. It used, you know, to be taxed something terrible.
 'Even now, though sugar over there Isn't really so very dear. the poor people in the remote villages can't get accus- toned to using it freely. I'll never for get peasant Christmas feast attended in Dax last year."
 The young man laughed scornfully.
 "When coffee was served, at the end of the feast'' he said, "a lump of sugar the size of baseball was hung by a string from the middle of the table, and everybody before taking a sip of coffee, put out the tongue. and licked the swing ing lump. That was all the sweetening their coffee got
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
AGE-HERALD ADVANCES
From the Birmingham Ledger.
 The Ledger conxratulates The

From the Birmingham Ledger.
 The Ledger congratulates The Age Herald and MT. Barrett on its advance to permaneEcy by the building of a home and moving into it, and all without missing an issue. That requires not only brains and skill, but experience MT. Barrett has placed The Age-Herald on a high and secure foundation, and getting it into 3 permanent home of it's own is it's most advanced step.
 The Age-IIeraid has done it's full share in the upbuldtne of the district and is now prepared to do even more. It takes a great city to make great paper, and Birmingham is becoming a great city as rapidly as city could grow. and it's great papers arc keeping just ahead of her and helping her on. The Age-Herald is receiving the congratulations of the state this week, and 1t deserves them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
LITERARY RECIPES

From Judge
 For hopefulness, read the emanatio from Lincoln, Neb. For clearness and simplicity, read one of Henry James sentences as rar as the iortI- third semicolon.
 For imagination, read Buffalo Bill and -oonel Prentiss Ingraham; also the mar ratives of Matt Henson and I-took-a- shoo.
 For the satisfaction of knowing that the age of miracles has not passed, read How Each of Us Beat Tother,r by
 70 Dock and Commander For an evening of light, giddy, frothy and frolicsome relaxation, peruse Dr. Eliots Five Feet of Fun, Fable and Fic- tion.'' For penetrative and exhaustive in7sS sight into the mazes of hign society, de-, your Miss Libbey's beautiful, saffron bound idyl, "Wedded to the Organ grinders Daughter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
PHOsPHoREsCENT FOREsTs

From the London Globe.
 The phosphoreseenee of certain agaries of Borneo has more than once demor- alized the superstitious natives and as- tonished whites. Some years ago a party of English engineers found 1t necessary to survey a tract of low lying country which was almost impenetrable, and to blaze the trail natives were employed to work at night, others during the day. The former came Into camp one night stating that they could not go through a portion of the bush or forest, strange Spirits" on the trees telling them that evil would befall them if they continued. The "spir- its'' proved to be magnificent display of phosphorescence emanating from agaries growing, upon the dead limbs of the trees These vegetable fire bodies were traced for a considerable distance producing a most remarkable exhibition the light In some places being so bril-
 The phosphorescence of certain agaries liant that 1t was difficult to believe that the forest was not afire. To test the brilliancy the men held papers near the most brilliant portions and read by the light
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
Increased WeeYll Fund Voted Down

The republicans of the House refused Np increase the appropriation for fighting the boil weevil. All amendments were voted down by a strictly partisan vote, and the demonstrators who are urging letter cultural methods will be con- fined to the old appropriation of s2o0. 600, and none of 1t will be available until Suly l.
 The meaning of this is that the insect wlil march straight across Mississippi on ehe latitude of Meridian to cross per nnps late this fall the Alabama line to nnter the black belt counties where 1t oan and will do great damage. Possibly " entrance in Alabama will be post rur1d until next year. but 1t is better to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
ALFRED sUTRo,s NEATNEss
"Orderly Nature" of English Playwright
 Observed by Friend
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 London.-Alfred Sutro, the dramatist, has rediscovered a flaw in the universe of fiction. He is lamenting the trend of young writers to whom the one great law is for the individual to develop in himself an acute sense for the fullest life.
 '.They are noisy souls" he says, ''al- ways protesting. and duty does not exist for them. Their heroines are not women, but superwomen. Their heroes never pause in lheir upward march to refrain from hllting the humber creature at their side
 Cruelty is the dominant note of this new school. The humber virtues are ruled out of court. Sutro finds life itself a mass of beautiful contradictions, having at it's root love-" Therefore he repudiates the young writers who are inclined to scoff at that root.
 Sutro's condemnation could have been prophesied by those seers who tell one s character from the state of ones bureau drawers. Sutro has an orderly nature" the dramatist asked permission to write a note to friend, and In doing so dis arranged the order of the blotter and its ''surroundine district on Sutro's sacred work tsble. As often as he threw a pen where it had no right to be, or a scrap of paper trespassed with equal serious ness upon the just-so-nebs of the scene. so often did Eutro restore the article to It's assigned place; and when the visitor had finished his furiously written epistle and had risen from the study chair his host went quietly over to the ruffled table and carefully ''tidied-ip. "as sis''ss
 Later in the day he found his visitor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
Large Population

''The estimates of population are usual ly exaggerated,' said en old citizen, but taking as a basis the number of voters who paid their poll taxes for 1909 in order to vote in this years elections 1t is safe to say that Jefferson county's population will appear in the next cen sus over the 300,0O0 mark. Two hundred and seventy-five thousand had been con- sidered a conservative estimate, but if it does not exceed SO0,OoO I will be sur prised.
 AS for Birmingham's population, it is rather difficult to estimate, It will prob- ably reach 120.oOo and it may possibly run over 10000. Imperial Jefferson with 3O0,- 900 and the metropolis of the state with 130,OO0 will make a fine showing indeed and will cause the Birmingham district to be more in the limelight than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
WHEN WE THINK WE ARE TIRED
Prof. F. S. Lee in the Popular Science Monthly.

Prof. F. S. Lee in the Popular Science
 Monthly.
 One difficulty which we all recognize Is that of distinguishing between real and pseudo fatigue in ourselves or oth- CTS, and knowing when a rational de- gree of real fatigue has been reached Even the physiologiist, however exact ht may be with the muscles of animals, has no metho ods of measuring accurate ly the degree of fatigue in tine intact body of human being. Our sensations are not altogether a safe guide. We oft en interpret a temporary sleepiness, temporary lack of power of attention and uneasiness to be free from our task, as sings of real weariness and evil denee that we should stop our labors Yet we know that often a slight change O. conditions will seem to give us renewed energy, the feeling of fatigue is gone and we turn with freshness to our task; ; our supposed fatigue was only an il- fusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
THE INNOCENT SENATOR
From Eyerybody's Magazine.

From Everybody's Magazine.
 He reminds me of Smith and his bad fve-dollar bill," said Senator LaFollette, in speaking of corrupt politician who had come to grief. Smith went to New York for the Hudson-Fulton celebration. He had in his pocket a bad five-dollar note. One night after banquet he handed cab driver this had note by mistake. The driver gave him his change "a onc-dollar bill-and whipped up his horse. Suddenly Smith realised what he had done"
 Hey, there! Stopv he shouted after the man. That bills bad
 Its good enough for you! shouted back the driver. without stopping. 'sAnd Smith, examining his change un- der street light. found thetit, tea waA bad.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
nEFLECTIONs OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 What a woman hates about society Is when she can't set into 1t.
 An easy way to get Into trouble in an argument is to have 1t about politics,
 The more children man has the bet ter other people think they could raise them.
 Half the energy man puts Into his wnims would make him a wonder if put into his work.
 Hardly anybody iz such ansexDert liar as the man who says hs' ukte tQ work before breakfant sEs'e E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03
QUEEN OF PICKPOCKETS

est of international swindlers. Iautree
 had Belle arrested, but, admiring her E never as well as her beauty, did nos . prosecute her. allowing her to get away :, with some s2000. r
 The strongest of these women physi-
 cally was Della Mahoney, six-footn n Amazon, with form that would have > made a sculptor rave with joy. Della . was a singlehanded footpad, and held up people with a small and usually E empty pistol. Dora Donegan and May 9 Williams, however, were the real stars of the gang, and May is thought to be z the last of them still engaged in pirat-s teal oceupations