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New-York tribune., 1910-06-12

FAR out of the track Of ships. in the most desolatc
stretch to be found in the North Atlantic walled
round with the ceaseless thunder of the surf and
walled about continually by innumcrable seabrds the
iset thrust up its bleak rocks beneath pale unfricnd-
" sky.
1t almost all rock this little island gray pinnaces
Of rock edges upon ledges Of rock and high sunrise
facing cliff of rock scanned with transverse crcvccs and
shelves. Only the genter southwark slope was the
rock frame Of the island a little hidden Here had
gathered few of mean sandy soil dotted sparselv
with tufts OF harsh grass which struggled into grecnness
at the bidding of a bitter and fog blighted June.
But this remote sterile isle, Stunned even bv the
whaers because Of the reachery of its environnp reefs
and tides, was by no means lfeless. Indeed it was
thTonged, packed clamorous. screaming, with life 1t
was very paradise Of the nesting seabirds Every
meager foot Of II, rock and sand was precmptcd and
occupied by the myriad battalions of pulins, skuas
aukS and saddlchacks. The inccssan camor of their
voices harsh and shrill OVERRIDE even the trampnp of
the surf.
Within the crowded little domain each tribe had its
territory. he pulns-or sea parrots as some of
the sailor folk call them because of their huge hooked
beaks-occuped the sandy slope where they had their
nests in deep burrows for protection against the obber
skuas and saddlebacks The auks had a corner of the
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12
By Charles @. d. Roberts
Drawings BY Charles Livinss.7a Bull

quiet in strange contrast to the ear ing Foll--
of their neighbOrS
At the extreme left Of the terrific. Il the Prr-z
where the rocks broke abruptly. a ,,~ s.tu- Of '- Z
made room for lust one nest. The r..- 10 puilIs
had their burrows here were CO~r--. .'FtlF tSoltt
being some eight or ten feet apart from tle Co, Il,
ranks of their kin. Their one big s-. had been - -
hatched. The ridiculous chick. 81" --.02 og@H og1
naked belly. the one object OF their MAKE SOM
thriving and hungry accortirg -. the ms 49,
ditions OF infant puttinhood. TIL. .r 1t .1Z .-~.
ment was on guard at the mouth o .rrroH; 80. -
SOlcmnly erect on his webbcd feet - .>S OF pr 81
and his stiff short tail while the nm ..- was away
ing beyond the white turmoil of -r. 90 -.
Surely the most curious figure OF - The (eau-G -
his, For the body it not So TAR .u. "L tl'
about the size of a big and Stu-'. ,1t!o' ,,s
below and blackiSh brown above, t.- me iNy 80
and dIngy white collar the neck ..t "eoo'- t-r
duck. the stiff short tail of r.. gum No.z z Fs
strong wings. and Il round head. Hu- che oeIA oar
a gaudy CariCaturc. Curved from base -' Up IN -.
rot $. 1t as long and high the t ~ Nl = --
TO overweight, and adorned apparently 1'''eSSs hi.
exaggerated horny ridges. Over y-." eye |%|bs,,r
wartlike horn and at each corner a. ' 'e@Nt e@Nttf sv
IOincd the skin of the face. vtNl0 -e. Nii.N N AS
CreSCcnCc, IN shape sort Ot ~o~S,.. '. t,,,r
ScrviCeabc, TO be sure. tins hyLN was, 5.-
whether for burrowing, fighting or H-''nE - =. Office
It could be imagined as pcrtor0fnE . '-., .:.,., O.
equally well without It's monSrr'u~ e,''"'''
adornment. LF,>
Evcrlwhcre in front of the cliff fays over t'' {y c
:
the smooth leadcn gray rollers. the Jr |'E.,,, |'E
whrling and beating wings. These were ~ w. nor
the giant gus and the SkulS The 9c..'~ "'e T.. irc
flying than was necessary, swift Jn. ts,l vi-,
their nests out to the fishing grount-. @n u" trlc
their prev to the nests Above ,-,.r HJt y a. -Ise
therefore the honcycombed south ~.'o.1t uS- foa.
were no soaring or whirling wings, save .'. ttr
pirate SkuaS on the watch for q chance '. ''''>'
TT was of these maraudcrs that the waiting Pu s
his nest door on the outskirts %, the Io1.so -sos
most dread Tie was wise old bird. of sever5 T., Ias
experience and many Il successful 'aJl'' -, ,1r
that the light darting skua though not iu'' lilibs
half the size of that bully of the cliffs che Sure ,,e
was much more dangerous than the latter w.
much more courageous ,,g IN t
An inpatient croak from the hungry ne9.I+T9 9rrsfa
burrow made him poke his big beak inside ,lIlI iW
low chuckling admonition. When ne "itnI.s ~ nso
head and looked up ne lufci the feathers OF russ
and opened his beal angrv. y large SNu,' , =. bass
notified black all over. with long JIiI ana ''"9
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12

rving his argument into the realm o- the hypoJlelc
Il fancy | should choose some such means Of tul1--s
my mission.
You may fuse or melt lead or zinc concendei The
man who had met dozen adversarles on the heidi -r
maintain that courage, true courage, Is OF steel
Steel has its fusing point
If YOU Will pardon the criticism, the theory appez1
to me ridiculous Periet was still polite, but his az.
tagOnism was stirred, and he was not accustomed U
tenperIng his utteranceS-
COLONEL TREVOR leaned back 1T ease aga..E
- the embossed leather a. the back VI his seat rs
eyes looked away almost dream1ly. 1. VOICE was Ve-
quiet Ridiculous, Monsieur e Ca~lte. IS strong
word. he suggested
The Count dark face flushed suddenly and wave
Of absolute and icy courtesy. Il hardly ,uk chose -
wrong word though grant my EngI'-. 20 be dehrs1-
think it was the word intended 4. .-plOy.
Captain Faurette ScowIed bIacE.g. but Co017
Trevor was still leaning back ar ease ectrveIy c-F
ing his gloves through his slender finger He LooAecI
without excitement.
Nevertheless, | must request yoH -' Withdraw
find it an Objectionable word
Periet sat upright and REGARDED -. gentle "1
nodded face across the narrow ~labEs table Win s--E
thing like astoniShment- Perhaps -.- once ne e
something akin TO sympathy for the -- VINO was -1'
ing such reckless exception 20 his c-o.re % Worls
Possibly Monsieur does not know --, he sal1. .
am Jacques de Pcret and am seeking no d1ncr--!
Il must repeat my requirement that the W9r1 ot q
tracted. The reputation and per~o-a--r OF Mons1-
le COmpte well known to NE. v.~ the uncon'g[
missing reply ,a
Then" the Frenchman paused and shrugged b.
-rnrHasa gEE- i7
New-York tribune., 1910-06-12

cliff face where along every ledge they sat straight up in
pr1m, close array Ike 50 many dwarf penguins, each
couple occupied with its precious solitary egg. The
rest OF the cliff face mOnOpOlzed by the screaming
hosts OF the SaddebaCkS, those great maraudng black
backed gulls, whose yelps and wild ka-ka ka- kngs
made most OF the deatening tumut in which the rocks
Wrapt.
As for the skuaS men O war less numerous than
the other inhabitants of the island. they occupied the
lower edges and the rock crevces round the base of the
putns field. These the situations they preferred
IL they had preferred the territory of the punS the
auks or even of the big bullying saddIebackS which
were nearly twice their size, they would have taken it,
But they neither desired nor knew how dig burrows
like the drO little putfnS and they valued their precious
eggs too highly to wish to risk them the narrow cx
posed shelves of the cliff face. where there no room
to make proper nest. They took the places thev
wanted but, these places the other tribes
wanted, there was to feel aggrieved. Saddle
back aux and putin each tribe thought il had the pick
OF the island territory and felt altogether satisfied with
itself.
NOW the weakest of these tribes was the tribe of the
put1nS. But one great strength they had. which
fully made up for their deficiency in size and power
hey knew how to burrow deep holes for their nests
wherein their eggs and neStngS were safe from the
skuaS and the saddlebackS. Every available inch of
soil on the island tunnecd with these burrows like
a rabbit warren. At the bottom of each burrow was
ehcr bg solitary grecnish egg strange looking
youngstcr with enormous head and bcak and an in
Satlabc appetite for fish.
At this season. late June, most of the puf1ins had
hatche out their eggs Vt the doorway of almost every
burrOW, therefore, be of the parents ON
guard. while the other fishing 10 supply the
unsuitable demands OF the chicks. In dense ranks sitting
erect like auks or pengunS the seriously grotesQue little
birds sentlneled their homes maintaining busincsske
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
LIQUOR LAW ATTACKED.

The constitutionality of the injunc-
ton provisions of the Iowa liquor laws
is to be tested in the United States
court. Judge Smith Mcpherson has
granted a temporary injunction to re.
strain the anti-saloon league and the
authorities of Carroll county from cit
ing liquor dealers for contempt for ig-
noring court injunction restraining
them from the traffic, and the case
viii come on for hearing at Council
Bluffs at the next term of court.
1t is claimed by the petitioners that
the Injunction method OF enforcing
the law furnishes means for depriv.
ing men of their property without due
process Of law. and the provision
which gives the prosecutor an attor.
ney fee Is denial of equ.'l protection
under the law, for the reason that in
no other form of injunction such a
fee provided for.
In these ways, it is claimed, the fed
eral constitution is violated. II is for
the purpose of testing the case that
the argument has been fixed for hear
ing within a few weeks
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

a Michigan statute provides that
saloons shall be closed on Sunday. Per
mission was thereafter given by the
police of a municipality to saloon
Keepers which allowed them to keep
their establishments open during sun
day afternoons. A physician, the own
er of a sanatorium, was greatly an
moved by the conduct of a saloon on
the property adjacent to his hospital,
and made numerous but fruitless com
plants to the police. From the denial
of his requeso to use either the name
OF the prosecuting attorney or his own
IN mandamus proceedings to compel
the police to obey the statute, an APP
peal was taken to the supreme court
of the state. That tribunal has Just
refused the application ON the ground
that courts we're not created for the
conduct of the municipal affairs Of
cities, especially when no such abuse
is shown that would warrant judicial
interference. There is a complete
remedy in equity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
No Excuse for Prospective fractional
Fight.

Fight.
Creston Advertiser: A few weeks
ago We were convinced that there
would be peace, if not harmony, in
the Republican party in Iowa this year
and We felt that this was cause for
congratulation among those who are
interested in the welfare of the Repub-
lican party. The developments of the
past few days, however, the withdraw
al OF Dowe1l in the Seventh district,
the announcement of Byers' candi.
dacy in tho Ninth and the strenuous
eHorts that are being made to bring
out candidates against Governor Car
roll and the other state officials who
nave not bowed the knee. have made
great change in the situation and
the prospects of fight all along the
line augur Ill for the welfare of the
party in this state. The party has
been torn into factions for years and
the fight has been extremely bitter.
put the next struggle may easily be-
come the most acrimonious and the
most Injurious to the party that ha,
ever been Witnessed. For the sake OF
the party it is to be hoped that the
attempt to bring about a fight all
along the line will fall, that another
term will be accorded to officials who
have served the people faithfully anl
efficiently and against whom not a
breath of opposition would appear but
IS
for the exigencies OF factional politics.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

1t is reported from Columbia, DO,
the seat of the Missouri State Univer-
sity, that the seniors in that institu.
ton have consented to grow wniskers
SO the girls can catch up in their
studies. As the story goes, the almost
fatal beauty of the seniors there has
proved SO disconcerting to the @co-eds
that the latter have sadly neglected
TIER books. The rest of the story is
told in the following extract from a
telegram under Columbia date line:
With heroism akin to the martyrs
ancient and modern, the senators have
agreed to let their boards grow sc
they won't look SO dreadfully good tt
the girls.
The plan as far as it has gone, has
proved eminently successful, large
percentage of the young women agree
ing with the epigram. "A bald head i:
visitation of Providence. but whis
kers are mans own fault"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Doubts the Blu, CHI story

Washington Democrat: The Keo-
kuk Gate City, a reliable newspaper.
mas story about one DR.. Burch being
attacked by some robbers on a train
recently, that sounds good deal to
us like fish story. The robbers
siashed him and made lunge at the
train conductor They jumped off the
train at some station as It was slow
ing down, and made their get away.
You know, this sounds like humbng
to us and we do not pretend to know
anything about 1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

Col. S. w. Brookhart of Washing
ton. acting inspector of small arms
practice in the Iowa National guard,
is quoted by the Des Moines Capital
as declaring at the state house the
other day that, it would be a grave
political mistake, as well as a mis-
take generally, for any faction of the
Republican party to put forward a
candidate to contest the governorship
nomination with Governor Carroll
incidentally, Colonel Brookhart stated
that he will probably announce him.
self at an early day as candidate
Tor the nomination for congress
against Congressman Kennedy in the
First district. He said he would make
his final decision in the matter as
soon as the next term of court in his
home district is over.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

Comptroller of the Currency MUIR
rays report shows that more than
twenty-five million deposit accounts
are carried on the books of the banks
of all classes in the United States and
Its insular possessions. The aggre-
gate deposits on April %, 1909, were
about $14,425,523,1G5. The sum of S.
67S,735,379 represented savings de-
pc sited by 14,s94,696 depositors. The
average rate of int rest paid by ma
tional banks on savings accounts was
S.34 per cent; by state banks, 3.T1;
mutual savings, 3s5: stock savings,
$50; private banks and loan and trust
companies paying the same average
rate, 3.43 per cent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

The Ledger, published at Tacoma,
Iowa, recently contained display
advertisement for revival in progress
there. 1t announced that on Wednes-
day evening the subject would be
THE Devils Prayer Thursday, THE
Devils Tie Friday, 1.-THE Devil as a
Roaring Lion Saturday, THE Devil
as an Angel of Light" Discriminate
ing criticism of the advertisement is
volunteered by the Knoxville Express
which says it has too much in it about
the competitors goods.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
The Evils Of Standpatis1n


Des Moines Capital: Senator Cum
minis in a speech on Saturday night
devoted thirty minutes to general
discussion of the evils of standpat-
ism, not in politics alone, but in every
thing He made strong case and
every standpatter present hung his
head and probably secretly vowed to
do better. He asserted that the
world would stand still, and there
would be no progress in any depart
ment If all men were standpatters,
Every good thing he charged up to
the credit of the rrogressives. He
said the progressives were the men
who did things. They were the men
who dared. The senator in his elc-
quence, his wit and sarcasm made the
standpatter look like thirty cents
His friends cheered him to the echo
They turned around in their seats il
an effort to discover whether or nc.
even one forlorn standpatter we're
present, in order that they might be.
stow their pity. Then more applause
came. The senator, tall and erect,
with vigorous manner, stood for tire
time as a crusader, blazing the way.
1t is customary to speak we'll of the
dead, therefore let us see il &, good
word can be said for any standpatter,
past or present.
II Adam had been. a standpatter.
there would have been no original sin.
He departed from what was intended
and displayed a knowledge of good
and evil which has cursed the world
from that day to the present. Noah
stood pat and saved few remnants
of the human family with which to
again people the earth. Moses stood
pat and led the children of Israel to
the promised land. According to Gus
tom he was permitted to see it but
not to enter. The tablets of stone
delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai have
furnished basis for all moral and
civil law for four thousand years.
Moses was a pretty good standpatter,
and the world has stood pat on his
doctrines against all long haired men
and short haired women.
Creeds and isms have assaulted it.
and theories have come and gone, but
the Catholic church has stood nat for
nearly nineteen hundred years with
out change of creed or alteration of
belief, and is today the greatest re-
ligious organization in the world.
The Catholic church has been pref
ty good standpatter
Columbus declared he discovered a
continent, stood pat and lost his life;
Gallileo declared the movement of the
earth and asserted many other scien-
tific theories, stood pat and was put
to death.
The Puritans of New England land
ing upon an inhospitable and rock
bound coast, Notwithstanding death
and disease, dissipated their numbers.
stood pat and started the peopling of
a new world
George Washington, John Adams.
Hancock, Franklin, Patrick Henry and
the early fathers, stood pat for seven
years and whipped the British, estab-
fishing the great republic.
In 1888 Abraham Lincoln saw a
slave woman dashed in New Orleans.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

For ways that are dark and foi
tricks that are vain, theatrical folk
are peculiar, if Golfers Weekly is tc
be believed. The common method OF
advertising runs is thus analysed
and exposed:
A play begins its metropolitan ca
reer-name furnished on request-in
mid-April; it plays until July, and il
September it reopens with seven
months run in New York eight
sheeted across the country. Another
opens in November and plays until
February /. Two years on Broad
way Isn't 1908 one year9. t. g
press agent asks. "We1l, isn't 1909 an
other?'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

and said IF live and have a chance,
Eli hit that institution of slavery, and
will hit it hard He stood pat for
thirty years and on the LIST of January,
1868, this same Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln
was pretty good standpatter.
Grant said: mo terms will be &C
copied except unconditional surren
DER also Il intend to fight it out Oh
this line if it takes all summer" He
did not change his purpose with the
! going down and rising of the sun.
Grant was a standpatter.
Theodore Roosevelt at the age OF
twenty began publishing speeches
and books against the evils in society
and the disposition of the rich to
grind the faces of the poor, and he
kept it UP until he became President
of the United States. He never had a
change Of doctrine nor purpose from
the age of twenty to the age of fifty.
Roosevelt is standpatter.
The standpatter settled in the woods
of Indiana, chopped down the trees
and made farms. He did the same in
Illinois, except that he had no trees
to cut down. He located along the
valleys of the streams in Iowa and
Minnesota, and neither the storms of
winter nor the threatenings OF the
savages could drive him away from
his home. With his flint lock, his
faith in God and his heroic determine
ton, he kept his purpose, he became
the founder of states. The pioneer
was standpatter. Tie farmer who
took 160 acres of land, paid for it
and improved it. had the satisfaction
of knowing that his note was good at
the bank, while the shiftless renter,
moving from state to state or terri
tory, could borrow money from no.
body. and chickencoops were unsafe
in his neighborhood.
The young man who started to col
lege with tho determination of secur-
ing an education and who was not
constantly changing his mind and his
purpose, generally stood pat on one
AihS Vi oludiOo duu uCSdIlS q luctu vi
education and influence, while his
vacillating co-laborer passed out of
college into forgetfuIness.
Senator Cummins himself is a most
eminent standpatter. He started out
twenty years ago to abolish prohibit
ton in Iowa, stood pat until it was
accomplished. He then set his heart
on q seat in the United States senate.
stood pat through a series OF years
and through many conflicts. until now
he has it. He has not changed his
view upon any subject since he en-
tered politics. The senator is born
standpatter.
Ex-Governor William Larrabee can
think of nothing else, can talk of
nothing else, except opposition to rail-
roads. Upon this subject he has been
as unchanging as the everlasting
hills. He is standpatter.
After all, the world owes much to
the man of fixed and determined pur-
pose who looks neither to the right
nor the left, but goes straight ahead.
So it can be seen that something
can be said in favor of men of ir.-
movable purpose, sometimes called
standpatters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

The health director of large east
ern city says that he has proofs that
some physicians do not administer an
titoxin in either curative or proven
tive doses. and that as result diph
liberia has made great inroads. He
charges that the physicians reason is
that the proper use of the remedy re-
duces the number of visits and the
consequent income. 1t is more reason
able to believe that ne is candidate
for membership in the Ananias club
than that any physician so trifies with
the lives of his little patients. II
he knows of such an one ii
is his duty to report him and have
him deprived of his license to prac
tice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
General Grenrille NJ. Dodge Of Con

otIIbI al UIslIF Tie NJ. DOUge OF JOul.
Gil Bluffs, chairman of the Allison
monument committee, fas announced
his plan for securing 100000, the ad
ditional sum needed to secure the
memorial shaft in honor of the late
Senator Allison. He proposes to have
the cooperation of bankers of the
state. TIE bankers in every town
will be asked to assist and it is ex
pected the money will be raised in
short order.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

General James B. Weaver is now
engaged in promoting divine healing
The. fact prompts the Iowa City Re.
publican to remark that for quarter
OF century the general tried to heal
by means of all sorts of political nos
trums. and that it is gratifying he
now has turned the job over to divine
power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

Great Britain is proud over the fact
that it now has 10000 automobiles
while France has only $4,000 and Ger
many $4,000. Last year our American
companies made 10000 machines and
this year something like 100000 will
be built in all. In this, as in other
important particulars. American leads
the world
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

A contemporary advances the idea
that the man who has butter for his
bread. milk for his coffee, and eggs
for his breakfast these days has lost
all sense of the value of money, and
should be promptly apprehended as an
agent of the swollen fortune makers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

There is no more chance for your
enemies to defeat your confirmation
than for celluloid dog to catch an
asbestos cat in Hades,' wired Bob
Taylor to Judge Lurton recently.
Such picturesque language could not
Fave originated from other than south
ern Democratic source.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

Alex Miller explains to the readers
of his Washington Democrat that a
"linguist,' is one who lings. Mr.. Mil
ler's factory Is prepared at all times
to turn out definitions while you wait
and you don't have to wait very
long, either.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07

It is announced, apparently on au-
thority, that Ellsworth Rominger of
Bloomfield will again be candidate
Tor the Republican nomination for
congress in the Sixth district. He was
defeated by n. E. Kendall two years
ago.