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catarrh Cannot be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they
cannot reach the seat OF the disease Ca
,arrh is blood or constitutional disease
and in order to cure 1t you must take In.
taken internally. and acts directly on the
blood and r7slcous surfaces. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is not auack medicine Ii
was prescribed by one Of the best ply
sicians IN this country for years and Is
regular prescription. 1t is composed
Of the best tonics known. combined with
the best blood purifiers. acting directly
olnation Of the two ingredients is what
produces such wonderful results in cur
ing Gatarrh. Send for testimonials free
=. j. CHENEY &c Co. Props,
Toledo, o.
Sold BY Druggists. price &c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constIoa
ton
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New Source Of Wealth

The tests in the gas producer at the
government plant have shown that
many fuels of such low grade as to be
practically valueless for steam furnace
purposes. including slack coal, bone
coal and Ignite, may be economically
converted into producer gas and may
thus generate sufficient gas power to
render them of high commercial value.
In this way Ignite beds underlying
from 2o,0oo,o0o to 3o,Oo0,0o0 acres Of
public lands, heretofore supposed TO
have little or no commercial value, are
shown to have large value for power
development This Is of Importance
to the west and makes possible great
industrial development.
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WHALE sTRAkGLEs ITSELF
Meets Death as Result Of coIIidine
With Wire Rope While
Feeding.

From Seattle comes a remarkable
story. brought into port by cable re-
pair ship. This ship had been sent
north along the coast of Alaska to re-
pair the cable, because during the
last winter difficulty had been expert
enced In sending and receiving mes
sages.
The vessel picked up the cable con-
Meeting Valdez and Sitka few miles
OF Cook inlet not far from Sitka. The
crew never had such a time hauling
cable on board as they did that day
on the Alaska coast Finally the cause
of the great weight was found.
Some time during the winter q
whale, feeding on the bottom of the
ocean with wide-open mouth, collided
with the wire rope
Unable to shake the big wire from
the mass of whaiebone in its jaws, the
big fish turned turtle" rolled over
once. turned round, rolled again and
dived
In these few moments the fish proved
himself his own hangman, for the
cable was twisted tighter about the
head of the whale than any mortal
could have twisted 1t with the most
powerful machinery.
The whale drowned and the carcass
was devoured on the bottom of the
ocean by other fish. The crew of the
cable repair ship hauled up an I'm
mense load OF whalebone. and found
a great twist In the government cable
that had been the cause Of the un-
usual difficulty in sending messages
to and from either end of the rope.
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facts which Indicate how great this d.
rect saving Is. will also make more
plain the vast difference between the
cost of transportation by rail and by
water
Through the 500 canal at the out
let OF Lake Superior there were car
ried in 1907. 5S.217,214 tons of freight.
This was carried an average distance
of 82S.3 miles at an average cost OF
8 Of one mill per ton-mile. II this
had been shipped by rail at the aver
age railway rate for that year (7.82
mills, its transportation would have
cost 1898. 633,364 more than was paid
for its carriage by water
The total freight carried on all
lakes that year was, in round num-
bers. 100, 100000 tons. This vast ton.
mage was carried for $3.50, 100000 less
than It would have cost to send 1t by
rail- and the improvements, which pro
duce saving large enough to pay OF
the national debt In less than two
years, cost only ss5 5000, 600.
Proof Of Good Results.
Wouldn't you call that pretty fair
dividend on the investment! And don't
you think 1t would pay to improve all
our waterways as fast and as far as
we can?
But" says some one, what reason
is there to suppose that improved riv-
ers would give anything like as good
results as have been obtained on the
lakes" That is proper question and
is entitled to an answer.
The only waterway In this country
which has been improved as a whole
is composed of the four lakes above
Niagara Falls, but there are many I'M
proved rivers in Europe. From care
full study of the results obtained on
these rivers the army engineers esti.
mate that when the Improvement OF
the Ohio river Is finished, freight can
be carried thereon for one-half mill
per ton-mile. That means that the
dollar which will carry ton 1271s
miles by rail and 1880 miles by lake.
will carry it 1.2oo miles by river.
Cost Of transportation will vary on
different rivers with depth. width.
swiftness of current, etc, but the es-
timated cost on completely. improved
Ohio river can be increased by co per
cent. before 1t will equal the average
cost on the lakes In 1907, and there
Is still margin Of nearly 400 per
cent. before you reach rate one-half
as high as that by rail. 1t will Fay to
improve our rivers.
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SAVING OF MILLIONS
WHAT COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM
OF WATERWAYS IMPROVE
MENT MEANS TO FARMERS.
FIGURES TO SUPPORT FACTS
On Shipments Of Grain Alone the d.
rect Return Would Mean $fo0, ooo,-
600, and Proportionately All Other
Products Would BE Affected.

In former article we gave facts and
figures to prove that, If the compre
hensive plan OF waterway improve.
ment advocated by the National Riv.
ers and Harbors congress were car.
ried out, the direct return to the farm
ers of the country, on the single item
of grain. would certainly be 500. 900.
600 year-and probably would be
more than twice that sum.
But grain is not the only item on
which the farmers would receive 8
benefit The fact is that for the farm.
ers-and everybody else, for that mat
ter-the cost of transportation influ
ences practically everything he buys
sells, eats, wears or uses in any way
whatever, except water. air and sun,
shine The average man is inclined to
laugh when told that he pays out more
for transportation than he does for
taxes or because of the tariff-but his
laughter does not alter the fact In the
least
There are three principal methods
OF transportation, the wagonway, the
railway and the waterway, and there
is SO great difference In the cost OF
transportation by these different meth.
DDS that 1t is worth while to study the
matter a little. The experts Of the
good roads bureau estimate the cost
of hauling ton of freight one mile
by horse and wagon on the average
road in the United States at rs cents.
The cost on thoroughly good, smooth
road might be reduced to 10 cents.
Poor's Manual gives 1872 mills per ton
mile as the average price received By
the railways In 1907, while the official
records kept at the 500 show that the
average rate on the freight carried
into and out Of Lake Superior In the
same year was only 8 of one mill.
facts IN utsheiI.
You can better understand what
these figures mean If they are stated
In another way. They mean that II
you have dollar TO spend In shipping
ton OF freight you can send 1t 4
miles on an average road, 10 miles on
first-class road, f271z miles on rail.
road. and 1850 miles on lake vessel.
1t is very easy to see that good
roads arc lot better than poor roads
but that transportation by horse and
wagon rs too costly at the best to be
used except for small loads and short
distances. SO far az interstate traffic
is concerned the wagon road must be
left entirely out Of consideration. 1t
IL Just as easy TO see what a great
benefit would result from the building
Of q railway into a region where there
was none before, and that a still
greater benefit would result from 30
improving river that 1t is made
dependabiy nayigab.e when IT was not
20 before
Waterways increase prosperity In
three principal ways, viz: direct say
Ing. indirect gaving. and by what may
be called a creative effect The direct
saving is that which occurs on goods
actually carried By water, and some
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NOTICE FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that the pro-
posals for the erection of school
house In the Nashville Independent
School District, No. 6, In the County
of Lee. and State of Iowa, will be re-
ceiyed by the undersigned, at his resi-
dence in Montrose Township, in said
county (Montrose. Iowa, r. F. d. No.
-. where plans and specifications may
be seen, until one "a o'clock p. m.
September 9th. 1910, at which time the
contract for the repair of said school.
house will be let to the lowest respon.
sible bidder. The board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids. Dat
ed August 10, 1910
L. D. BOYD. Secretary.
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The EnaIish Character.

We English pride ourselves upon
being faTd-headed and practical peo-
pie. though. as matter of fact, we
are just the reverse. In politics we
are the slaves Of catchwords In NOR
ala we exhibit all the gusty passion
Of the prude. In philanthropy We are
swayed by fits OF emotionalism, but
are caiious 10 real need when inc emo.
tional fit is absent. Sheffield Tele-
graph
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For Quick Relief From Hav E.v.

For Quick Relief From Hay Fever.
Asthma and summer bronchitis, take
Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t quickly
relieves the discomfort and suffering
and the annoying symptoms disap-
pear. 1t soothes and heals the in
TANNED air passages of the head,
tfro4t and bronchial tubes. 1t con.
tatns no opiates and no ha. lful
drugs. Refuse substitutes. Wilkin.
son & Co.
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ne snre ana take a hnttIe nf chan

Be sure and take bottle OF Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy with you when starting on
your trip this summer. 1t cannot be
obtained on board the trains or
steamers. Changes OF water and eli.
mate often cause sudden attacks OF
diarrhoea, and it is best to be pre-.
pared. Sold by all dealers.
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FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
Keokuk Aerie. No es3-Meets first
and third Wednesday OF each month at
Eagles hall, corner Eighth and Main
Visiting brothers cordially invited
Frank Moeller. w. President: c. A.
Noaks. Secretary.
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KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF SECUR.
lTY. KEOKUK COUNCIL No. 1893.
Meets the first and bird Monday Of
each month. at A. o. U. w. hall at
5 o'clock. &. u. Hawkes.. president;
e. Whitmarsh. Financisr; Mayme
9. Schenk. Secretary.
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ORDER OF OWLS.

Regular meeting OF the Order OF
Owls the first and third Tuesdays Of
each month at their hal ia the schlitz
building, corner Third and Johnson
streets. third floor. Visiting Owls are
csrdially invited. Chas. on. worthy
president: Paul T. Pechsteil. secrs.
tary.
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G, q. 4 Q. RAILWAY CO.

Trains leave from Union n.no
6erths and tickets, Fifth and IoS us
son streets.
South Round.
NO. 8. St Louis ard south
Ma ss1 ................. 12:ls IN
NO. II, st. Louis and Kan.
sas City and west, south,
tedvo .............. S.lAan
no. 4. Quincy. Hannibal q
81 Louis. arrive 1:15 D. M.
.Ma ~ :;:............... l:2o pm
M :, al,lve .............. $50 pm
- 4oAves ............ $40 pm
North Bound.
NO. z. Chicago. st. Paul ana
points west. leaves 49,. a.ss am
No. 10. Chicago. st. Paul
and points west, arrive :. 7:ao nm
No. Is. leave .... 7.an nm
NO. 8. Burlington, Chicago
~ east. ieave .......... LIS pm
~ !. burnngton, leave ;. 7:a5 an
No. 81, Donneliscn. c.. B. G.
n. G.. and North Road
ase 1890. .......... $3.50 IN
no. %. from Donnellson,
o.. B. & X. c., & North
Road arrive 11.an am
NO. ], x. & w. west. leave 1855 In
NO. Centerville. leaves !. 7:so.n
No. 4, from CentervilIe and
points Intern adiatc. arrive 1:15 pm
No. 2. from Centerville and
west, arrive .... e:1t, nm
No. 8, Centeryille. leave :. $40 pu
''No. 8. from Centerville.
Daily.
DAILY except Sunday.
s'Sundays only.
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When the digestion Is all right, tns
action OF the bowels regular, there =
a natural craving and relish for 1000.
When this is lacking you may know
that you need dose OF chamberlain ;
stomach and Liver Tablets, Tney
strengthen the digestive organs. I'M
prove the appetite and regulate tns
bowels. Gold by all dealers,
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3. =. o. MyS.

Keokuk Lodge. no. 106-Meets 4irst
and third Thursday nights at Elks
hall, Gibbons opera house block. Sixth
AMI Main ntreets. Club rooms open
daily. VisitinS brothers cordially To-
vited. L. ]. Wolf. 2. r.; Villa Ie.ni
bold. Secretary.
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When your baby cries, when your
child won't eat or play. investigate the
condition OF its bowels. II 1t is con
stipated car bilious give 1T DrnCaid-
wells Syrup Pepsin. Price SO cents or
VI at any drug store.
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Train 473-Leaves Keokux. TAO an
Train 741-Leaves Keokuk. .2:55 pm
Train 472-Arrives keokuk. .8:l5 pm
TRAIN 47o-Arrives Keokuk. .l:o5 pm
Local Freight Trains.
Train 86-Arrires Keokuk. $50 pm
sTrain S6-Leaves Keokuk 300 am
xDaiIy except Sunday.
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From Sickness to Excellent Health"
So says Mrs. Chas. Lyon. Peoria.
ILL.,: Il found in your Foley Kidney
Pills a prompt and speedy cure for
backache and kidney trouble which
bothered me for many months. am
now enjoying excellent health .-hicn
owe 10 Foley Kidney Pills. WiIkin-
son G. Co.
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FRATERNAL CARDS
MASONIC,

Hardin Lodge. No. 20 Holds It's reg,
uiar monthly meetings the second
Monday evening OF each month.
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MODERN woDMEN OF AMERICA
Gibbons Hal.
Keokuk camp, No. 622-Meess every
Wednesday evening at 1880 p. m. Our
latch string Is out to neighbors. John
Wustrow. v. c.; J. A. POLLARD. Clerk.
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Herman Lodge. No. lie Germany.
meets regularly every Wednesday
evening at o'clock. A. n. Linnen.
burger. N. G.: Albert Kiesor. Rec.
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Puckechetuck Encampment, No Z
meets first and third Tuesday evenings
OF each month. Otto Absolute, Scribe.
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bride he was in constant motion and
very playful. He was a fleet runner
at short distances
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Puckechetuck Lodge. No. 43. meets
every Friday evening at s o'clock.
Geo. W Sweeney, N. g.; Geo. w. I'm
megart, Permanent Secretary.
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A. o. U. w.

Keckak Lodge. No. z56-nieots
every Thursday nigh. a. 1880 o'clock
at hall over Neokuk Savings bank.
corner Fifth and Main treets. Visit.
ing brethren cordially invited. Ed.
Vaughn. M. W.: -. A. Benr. Recorder.
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K. OF p

&. OF F.
Morning Star Lodge, No. 5-Meets
Fifth and Blondeau. X. Of P. building
Tuesday at 1880 p. M. C. B. LAKE.
Chancellor Commander: ]. A. Bur
CESS x. Of r. nd 8. Visiting Knights
fraternally invited.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
APPROVED.

The Public Service Commission has
acted with commendable promptness i'll
approving the Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company's proposals and in asking
the Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment TO take such action as viii enable
it TO proceed with negotiations. 1t IS
to be hoped that the board will be equal
ly prompt to act. IT has now only one
proposal before il, and of the principles
involved in that proposal the board has
given its tacit approval in its co-opera-
ton with the Public Service Commission
I'm the lafter's negotiation with the In
terborough company.
The plan now before the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment offers the
city really comprehensive system OF
rapid transit. more comprehensive one
than seemed likely to be realized: and
it provides n means by which the city
may make ii constantly more compre-
hensiye through the building of addl-
tions wherever required. Probably III
no other way could the city have
single great system operated at single
fare than by constructing needed extern
sions itself and guaranteeing the opera
tor against loss upon them, whatever
the financial consequences to the city on
such an agreement may prove 10 he.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-21

fore the courts. sending children 10
..school and keeping the regulations oi
1.-The Board of Health.
There is evidence that the unlettereu
Italian recognizes the value to hlmseii
of the ability to read and write. An
Italian parliamentary commission mas
recently completed an exhaustive study
Of conditions in the southern provinces
of the kingdom. The report. it is sald.
shows that the demand for schools IS
growing rapidly through emigration TO
the United States. Italians in this co'ln-
try are urging their relatives and friends
at home to acquire knowledge OF read
ing and writing. The public schools
being insufficient in numbers to accom-
modate those seeking admission. private
schools are springing up in order TO
satisfy. the demand Indeed, it Is not
necessary to go so far in order to ma
evidences of a desire to overcome the
disadvantages of illiteracy. There are
schools in New York where hundreds OF
adult aliens are acquiring knowledge.
These are an earnest of what might
occur in case of the adoption of the
literacy test
New-York tribune., 1910-12-21

however, be an easy task, to be accom-
plished on the same lines as those Of
treaties with other powers. The doc
trine of the most favored nation is use,
ful and often benefic mt. but il is not al
ways perfectly logical for universal ap-
plication. Equality does not mean iden-
tity. There are radical differences
among peers. We may ignore racial
contrasts. but there are other differences
which must be recognized. There are
social and industrial differences be-
tween the two nations which suggest
the propriety of stipulations in treaty
between them which would be uncalied
for where those differences did not
exist An agreeable feature of the sit'la-
ton is the reasonable and conciliatory
disposition which Japan has manifested
and her willingness to adapt herself to
the logical needs OF the case. Under
such circumstances the task OF treaty
making. though still delicate and ardu-
Gus, NAV be effected without enbarrass-
ing difficulties.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
THE NON-APPE4RANCE OF Nh
HYDE.

1t is time that City Chamberlain HFoe
appeared before the legislative lnvesu-
eating committee, which desires his tes-
timony i'm regard TO racetrack graft. 1t
has been seeking him for long While,
has been unable TO learn where he Is
and has no assurance that be will return
in time to give the testimony 1t requires,
since it expires by limitation the middle
of January.
Avoidance Of n subpoena issued by Il
legislative investigating committee ere
ates a disagreed bic impression. and Mr..
Hydes failure to assure the present conf
mittee of his intention to appear is Pc
culiarly improper, because he is public
official The people have a right TO re-
quire Of such man a decent regard for
public opinion and respect for the au-
thority of the various branches of gov
ernment. Mayor Gaynor is punctilious
in the respect he shows to the constitut-
ed authorities. What does he think Of
the cavalier. if not contemptuous. way i'll
which his old friend and personal APP
nointee is treating q committee of the
state Legislator
New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
OUR PLANETARY GUARDS.

To the Editor of The Tribune
sir. At present for New York and New
England. the giant planet Jupiter supple
n1ents the yellowish planet Saturn. the lat
ter setting at 2:45 a. m and the former at
S:,4 A m december 49, Thus 1t is evi-
dent that Saturn and Jupiter. taken TO-
eether shine upon US all night, excepting
for an interval of some thirty minutes
Giant Jupiter and yellowish Saturn are the
argest planets of our solar system, and
are worthy of more than moments in
terest and study.
Giant Jupiter. as a. planet. is much larger
than yclowish Saturn, although. including
his three rings. the latter possesses dia-
meter approximating 100000 miles. The
giant planet is. moreover of greater density
than it's rival, although Jupiter's solidity
equals only about that of King Sol.
Respecting gravity. or that force which
pulls objects to the surface and toward
the centre of planetary bodies. Jupiter sur
passes Saturn in the ratio of So-100 to
1900 Compared with regard to the time
OF their solar revolution. yeilowish Saturn
possesses the longer year" his revolu-
ton of more than 5000. .OOOO 900 miles being
completed in about 10.760 days.
AS respects the distance of these MEM
hers of our solar system from our sidereal
furnace IL is, roughly stated. in the ratio
of . to l. Saturn being at a mean distance
from our sun of. some $50, 900, 600 miles,
while Jupiter approximates an average of
4S3, 600 miles.
CHARLES MEYERS HOLMES
Boston Dec. 16, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
THE NEWS THIS AORNING

CONGRESS. - Senate: Martin A
knapp was confirmed as chief judge
OF the Commerce Court; the omnibus
claims bill was passed. - House;
The day was spent in consideration of
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill
FoRETGN-The Tribune's correspond
en+ i'm London SAYS the result of the
British elections has been to increase
the government majority from 12f TO
l2G. =- The French governments at
itude iii 3he railway strike was in
dorsed by the Chamber of Deputies
after a socialist attack = The trial
Of the Count de Catigny and his wife,
charged with having swindled the
Duchess de ChoiseuL formerly Mrs.
Charles II Paine. of Boston, out of
S1O6,Gae. was begun at Tours. France.
OOMESTIC.-A single and final gift of
S1o.sttsHob by John D. Rockefeller to the
University Of Chicago was announced at
the quarterly convocation of the univer
sity in Chicago: this makes total of
approximately S,5tsUetn that Mr..
Rockefeller has given to the university
- President Taft commuted to life
Imprisonment the sentence OF man
convicted Of murder at Honolulu. on the
ground that he was drunk when he COM
lnftte1 the crime. -- The Navy De-
partment awarded the contract for
building the battieship Texas to the
Newport News SfitDIlIulnS Company AT
Sa.S3no0e, the vessel TO have reciprocal
ing inst cad of turbine engines. - At
a meeting in Lexington. Ky. hurley to-
bacco growers from five states agreed 10
pool the 1911 crop and raise no tobacco
in 1872 The United States Court
o. the Eastern District or Pennsylvania
restrained the coal railroads owning the
stock OF the Temple Iron Company from
exercising further control -- A party
of, Mormons. who arrived at Portland,
Me. from Liverpool. England. We're de-
fained pending an Investigation of their
purposes in coming TO this country
CITY-Stocis were dull at small price
changes. == The Public Service Com
mission wrote to the Board of Estimate
that II approved the Interborough propo-
Sition for new subwayS. Controller
PrenderGaSt and President Mitchell of
the Board "f Aldermen said the city
should spend its money only for an in
dependent system. -= Edward NJ.
Shepard explained his views on the reg
a3lation Of stock and bond issues before
the Badley Commission -- After in
Vestigatinr the explosion at the New
York central terminal the Municipal
Explosives Commission decided to rec
tInmeDd prohibiting the storage of
pressure gas in the city
THE WEATHER--indicati for to-
ray: Unsettled and colder. The tenn
-Jserature yesterday: Highest. 80 degrees;
lowest. &c.