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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26

That edible crabs are. home loving community was brought to the notice of the eastern sea fisheries committee at their half yearly meeting at Kings Lynn
 A year ago some 2000 crabs were labelled and returned to the water along the east coast, and rewards were offered fos the fishermen for the return of tue marked crustaneans. over 400 of which have since been sent in, with details as to, the iwhere- abouts of recapture. The investigations show that crabs keep to their own local; ity. and that, If taken distance away, it Is their instinct to return to their birth place and feeding ground. A number of crabs brought from Yorkshire and lIb- crated off the Lincolnshire coast as far
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25
THE TRANSPORTATION INDUS
TPN

The latest report of the interstate
commerce commission gives the fol-
lowing information in regard TO the
equipment of the railroads .of the
United States:
Passenger locomotives .. 13,205
Freight and switch locomotives A ,493
Passenger cars ..... 1922
Freight cars exclusive of pri-
vate cars, and of private con
Germs .... ....... 2,100,784
Locomotives per 1000 miles OF
Average number of cars per
1000 miles Of line - $3.50
The railroads are employing it is
estimated as many as 100000 men
and women, principal among whom
are 10000 trainmen and 10000 sta
timmen and helpers The total OF all
employees being 665 per 100 miles.
Three hundred and sixty-eigbt rail.
road companies in the United States
are paving out more than $1,000. 600
600 annually in wages, about 20 per
/ cent of their gross revenue.
During the fiscal year 1901 eos
l.532 9S1 go tons Of freight were
handled, The tons carried one mile
amounted to 218,381, 544, SOP ton miles
The number of tons OF freight car
RED one mile, per mile of road was
1864 such ton miles. Each ton 81
freight handled moved 242 miles or
the years average. The average nun
Der OF cars per freight train was 20 :
The average tons per train was 3s8
Our estimate Of the tons of freigb,
carried during the fiscal year 1909
1910 Is 1,6o0-oo0o0o.
The number of passengers carrie,
by all the railroads in our country i,
lsoS-19oa was S54255.837.
: The freight earnings of the carr,er,
reporting 70 the interstate comrnerc,
commission during the fiscal wear :
190S-19o9 We're $l,682, 91s. 3o4s2 .
s7l,222.75 per mile, The ayerag
earnings per ton-mile for this sam
period were 0.755 mills
The passenger earnings Of all rat
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25
Woes Of an E ditor.

Wilson County Citizen: A man
who owns eighty acres of land and
has brains enough to till it, makes
the lot Of country newspaper men
look like the last sad remnants OF
Dutch lunch. The farmer has the best
of 1t all around. He Is as independ-
ent as an express company He
doesn't have to write soulful obit-
uary over some peak-headed bloke
who kept on display an exhibit of cut
plug profanity that would make the
efforts of a steamboat mate sound
like meeting of the EpWorth league.
He doesn't have to go into raptures
over the beauty OF an open faced
bride with a cast of countenance that
would blow out the gas The farmer
isn't required TO lie until his back
teeth fall out about the sterling man.
hood of groom with ears like a
caulifiower plant and the brain power
of shoat He doesn't have to run a
piano contest for the most beautiful
young lady in the community, make
everybody sore about the winner, and
then print 7o-cent half-tone of the
beauty that looks like tintype of
grandma at the age OF thirteen. There
Is nothing In the farmers curriculum
that obliges him to paint the local
soprano as heaven-sent songster-
He isn't called uoon to paint the
virtues Of a prominent citizen who
earned his money by collecting notes
with a draw shave. The farmer can
express his opinion OF the new Metho-
dist preacher in firm and loud voice,
on the four corners, and If the printer
+ ventures to express the view that the
preacher ought to be chasing curry.
comb over a mich COW instead oil
filing a large room with thin ozone
and misinformation, he will lose sub
I scribers so fast that he won't have
the circulation Of cold storage egg
! The farmer doesn't have to impress a
chaste kiss on the moist nose Of his
foreman in order to keep him from
getting drunk on press day, neither
does he have TO get somebody to go or
his note when the devil eare.essi,
feeds pair OF pipe tongs through the
cylinder press or the rats chew OF
the lining Of new set of rollers. i
the editor takes two days off In fish
ing his patrons call him loafer ant
take their job work to the other OF
! fee. If he works until he is bowed
over like fat man with cramps peo
i pie say he is too stingy to hire extra
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25
A Monster Locomotive.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee
has just turned out from their Topeka
shops a monster railroad locomotive
which is said to be the largest in the
world 1t measures 121 feet in length
from draw-bar OF the tender to the
tip of the pilot and is fifteen feet. six
inches in height. The boiler is seven
ty feet long and weighs $4,000
pounds. There are twenty drive
wheels. each fifty-six inches in diane.
ter. and four small trucks at the
front and rear. It is an oil burner and
the capacity OF the tank is 10000 gal
Ions Of water and 1000 gallons Of oil
1t has the pulling or pushing capacity
OF four ordinary engines and can han
die 175 loaded cars. which would
make train nearly mile and halt
in length. IT will be used on the steep
grades In the mountain divisions.
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A FINE FISH PRESERVE.

| The construction of the big dam
across the Mississippi river at this
point, now well under way, will create
an immense pool or lake about forty
miles long and over thirty-five feet
| deep in places. This will afford ideal
conditions for the propagation OF hsh.
| but in order to make the undertaking
| a success it will be necessary to pro-
| hibit the taking of fish with nets and
traps. At the present time tons of fish
are taken from the river in this yicin-
lily every year with trammel nets and
seines and shipped in every direction,
| with the result that it is now nearly
| impossible to catch fish with hook
and line anywhere near Keokuk. In
order to indulge themselves in their
| favorite diversion Keokuk disciples
of Izaak Walton are compelled to go
| to the Minnesota lakes. distance of
about 700 miles. This should not be.
To correct this state of affairs a
movement is under way to make
fish preserve of the large body of wa
ter soon to be created, protected by a
stringent law of congress prohibiting
SEEMING, trapping or catching fish in
any manner between the KeokuK
bridge and Fort Madison except with
hook and line, and not over two hooks
TO any kind OF line. 1t is TO be
hoped that some such measure will
be enacted into law at an early day.
The wholesale destruction of fish dur
I ing the past few years has practically
exterminated the white bass. black
bass, wall-eyed pike and pickerel in
the river in this vicinity, and there is
no hope of betterment of conditions
until present methods of taking Ash
are abandoned. Following the build.
I ing of the dam Keokuk should afford
some of the finest fishing in the
world, and it will if the movement to
convert the lake into fish preserve
lis crowned with success.
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congressman at Washington can fail
to hear and heed. There is need Of
prompt action. Today is the time,
tomorrow may be too late.
WOMEN NEAR TO sAvAeEss
Or. Sargent Of Harvard Calls Them
More Primitive, But More En-
during Than Men.

BOSTON, Mass, April 25.-That
woman is lower order OF being than
man. and that she has developed as
rapidly from the barbaric state as
man, is asserted by DR.. Dudley A..
Sargent. head OF Ahe department o.
physical culture at Harvard. director
of the Sargent gymnasium for women
in Cambridge, and well known as a
writer upon subjects pertaining to
women's development.
Women is nearer the savage state
than man. says DR.. Sargent. Her
development Is more primitive than
mans, just rs the Indian ia more
primitive than the white man
Woman being biologically more of
greater proportion o. physical endur-
ance. She can undergo many strains
that man cannot.
Women accumulate energy, while
men expend it. Women have been
developing their muscles while men
have been developing their brains.
She is nearer to nature. She is
lower type Of organism. But when
1T comes to case OF withstanding
cold, or hunger, or thirst. or any
physical privation of this sort. wom-
an can outlast man in nine cases out
of ten
1T is foolish to go on the prin-
ciple, therefore. that women must be
kept from all labor and all exercise
and be taken care of as though they
were pets. They should do every
thing possible, obviously, to preserve
the closeness to nature of which !
have been speaking. It is more nee
essary for the good Of the race for
women to look after their physical
we'll being than it is for men,"
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agent of the A. T. & s. F. R. r. at
that place. They report favorable
progress.
John Dumein returned last Monday
from Kansas City where he has be-
come proficient as chauffeur. John
will have no trouble in procuring a
position almost anywhere he might
wish as he is very skillful and
competent river.
Melons are being planted this week
and an unusually heavy crop is ex-
pected this year.
John Teel's house, which has been
remodeled and painted is very much
improved, both in appearance and SER
vice and is quite cosy little nest. =
Lagrippe, neuralgia, colds and other
spring ailments have been prevalent
this month, but most of the sufferers
are convalescing nicely.
Mrs. E. j. Case, who had serious
fall last week is now on the high
road to recovery
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

attended the wedding of her niece
Miss Helen Keith.
Rev. Houtchen OF Kahoka filled rs
regular appointment Faster Suroay.
Grandma Harsh is visiting VITA aer
daughter this week.
Quite number from Iowa attehoes
church Sunday evening.
Mrs. Mary Marmain is visiting VITA
her daughter-in-law this week.
George Usher and F. G. HoFe1
who are employed at the Cereal pau
at Keokuk made short call ae's
Friday.
Judge Wilsey and wife Of Arkansas
are visiting with his sister, Mrs 9o1
Hand.
Willie Siglar's broken arm is III
proving.
Several young men OF Revere Ne's
out launch riding Sunday. enlosms
the spring weather.
Miss Mildred Hill is at home assiu
for few days.
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The Votes Against reciprocity

Cedar Rapids Republican: The Iowa
delegation In the lower house of con-
gress voted almost unanimously in
favor OF no free admission of Canad-
ian farm products. The one man who
stood out for the manufacturing in
terests of the east and against the
farm interests OF Iowa was Congress
man Hubbard of the Sioux City dis
trict, who always was peculiar think
er.
The men who voted against Canad-
ian reciprocity will have nothing to
explain to their constituents.
1t is easy enough to say that the
farmers can compete with the world,
but it is to be noted that all the other
interests want protection. 1t was
suggested the other day that -four be
placed on the free list, but the mil
lers Immediately proceeded to form
an organization and to hire lobby to
fight such bill. They will spend
thousands to thwart that movement.
While wheat is to be free, -four Is to
be taxed fifty cents a barrel But
why should -four be protected, II
wheat is free? Do the men who work
in Canadian mills receive less than
those who work in American mills ?
| 1t has not SO appeared If the farmer
can compete, so can the miller. But
/ the farmer is to be made the sacri.
fee. He is blamed for the high prices
and vengeance is to be taken out on
him and put on him alone. Every
other industry, without exception, re
/ tains a, degree of protection. Even
the man who kills the steer will have
/ a cent and quarter pound on the
meat, while the steer itself is free.
Ii free trade with Canada is such a
good thing, why don't the other fel
! lows come forward and agree to take
some OF it. But we have not heard oil
a single manufacturer, SO far, who
has asked that his goods be placed
on the free list. No. but they are al
in favor of trying it on the farmer.
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viNcEkNE 8.
: : >>~ : : . . = = .

The weather is fine and Just right
for gardening, which fact has not es-
capped the watchful eyes of our towns
men, Judging from the number Of hoes,
rakes and garden ploughs in evidence.
Rev. f. M. Carr has Just closed a
series Of revival meetings here which
have been well attended and fraugbt
with good results. A church has been
organized with about thirty-hve char
ter members and the following hoard
of control: Elders, J. w. Smith and
l.. L. Camp; deacons, Clarence Vice,
l.. w. Sbafer, Henry Pence and Robt.
Cruze; clerk, Miss Mabel Cruze; treas.
urer, Mrs. l.. w. Shafer; pastor, Rev.
siegel.
Roy Chance and Rawlin Doherty are
studying telegraphy at Argyle under
the excellent tutorship of Worder
Newberry. the capable and efficient
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25
MILWAUKEE, AND SOCIALISM,.

Milwaukee has had practical dem
nnstratiea 90 social democracy in
operation. and does not like it. The
demonstration, 1t may be urged. had
not gone very far but it had gone far
enough to reveal an immense in
capacity. wild and credulous pre-
objection TO visionary innovations and
an utterly reckless wastefulness of
the peoples money. 1t was recog-
nized that unwise and wasteful ex-
penditures at the outset of the new
regime would be only the prelude to
far greater extrava gances in the fu-
ture. the program for which was ap-
palling to people owning little homes
and already worried about the taxes.
The Evening Wisconsin published
there says of the situation and the
result:
This was the situation at the begin
ming OF the campaign, which ended
when the ballots were counted April
During the progress of that cam
paign, social Democratic candidates
rand speakers made many incautious
revelations of want of love for Amer
lean institutions. Furthermore. they
/ tried to profit by making appeals to
I class hatred and by stirring up relig-
ious prejudice.
The people of Milwaukee did not
like the prospect of more social
democracy, 50 they rallied to the polls
and voted against the new party's
candidates, not one of whom was elect
ed, nearly all of whom were buried
under an adverse vote Of . to /.
The outlook for Milwaukee, is
brighter than Ii was before.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25
JEFFERsoN,s MAxlMs.

A monument costing Sl00,Q Is TO
be erected in Washington in honor
of Thomas Jefferson. The sage OF
Monticello wished to be known as the
founder of the University of Virginia
and author of the Declaration of In
dependence. He was also the advocate
of certain principles Of government
which he expressed as follows when
inaugurated President of the United
States March 4, 1901:
Equal and exact justice to all men,
of whatever state Or persuasion, re-
ligious or political.
Peace, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations, entangling alli-
ances with none.
The support of the state govern
ments in all their rights as the most
competent administrations for our do
mestic concerns and the surest bull
warks against anti-republican tenden-
cies.
The preservation of the general gov
eminent in its whole constitutional
vigor, as the sheet anchor of our
peace at home and safety abroad.
A jealous care of the rights of cleo.
ton by the people.
A mild and safe corrective of abuses
which are Topped by the sword OF
revolution. where peaceable remedies
are unprovided.
Absolute acquiesecnce in the decis-
ions of the majority, the vital principle
of republics, from which there is no
appeal but to force. the vital principle
and immediate part of despotism.
A we'll disciplined militia. our best
reliance and for the first moments of
war till regulars may relieve them
The supremacy OF the civil over the
military uthority-economy in the
public expense, that labor may be
lightly burdened
The honest payment Of our debts
and sacred preservation of the public
faith
Eneoura cement OF agriculture and
Of commerce as its handmade
The diffusion of information and ar
raignment of All abuses at the bar of
public reason.
Freedom of religion. freedom Of the
press and freedom of person under the
protection of the habeas corpus.
Trial by juries impartiallv selected.
Jefferson's interest also extended TO
personal conduct and he proposed the
following admonitions, which are as
useful today as when offered:
l. Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do today
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
2. Never spend your money before
you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want
because it is cheap; it will be dear to
you.
d Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We never repent Of having eaten
too little.
I. Nothing is troublesome that We
do Willingly.
s. How much pain have cost ns the
evils which have never happened.
g. Take things always by their
smooth handle
10. whar angry count Ten hafore
you speak If very angry, hundred.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

Secretary Sumner of the state board
tof health is preparing to publish a new
edition of laws regulating health mat
ters and TO include the new legisla-
ton. This latter includes a new Law
which makes It possible for the first
time to quarantine infantile paralysis,
/ from which the state suffered much
last year 1t also requires that where
a death has taken place from tuber-
( culosis the premises must be fumiga-
] ted. A bill to make measles subject
TO quarantine failed.
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ST. FRANcIsvILLE, MO.
80 SO -

A large rain fell Tuesday night
Mrs. Angeline Parsons has returned
to her home after two months visit
in Golden, ILL.,, and other cities.
Mrs. G. G. Wilsey and her daughter
Maxine OF Keokuk are visiting rela-
tives at this place.
Miss Ruth Harter returned from
kahoka Monday.
Mrs. Lena Borland OF Little Falls,
Mimi, is visiting her mother, Mrs. A.
Bailey
Quite number in our town are
sick but we are glad to report none
seriously.
Charlie Maloy and Geo. Thompson
passed through town today enroute to
Sand Prairie.
Mrs. NJ. A. Hise ratnrned from
Montrose few days ago where she
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25
CLEAN UP YOUR PREMISES.

Work on the big dam will attract
large numbers of visitors TO Keokuk
this spring, summer and fall, and 1t is
more than ever incumbent upon every
citizen to put his premises in the
most presentabie condition possible in
order to create favorable impress
sion. The first thing to DO is to get
busy with rakes and brooms and get
rid of all litter and filth, Burn UP
what will burn and haul away to the
dumping ground what viii not burn.
No one should wait TO be urged by
some civic body before starting WORK
in the cleaning up of his lot. Every
properly owner and tenant should con
stitute himself a committee of one tc
!, improve the appearance of the proper
nv he occupies. Filth and happiness
cannot be harmonized as integral
Fparts Of a city. and it is useless to at
tempt to induce people to locate here
as fine place 10 live. make money
and raise a family If streets and al
leys and private promises give the lie
to the claim.
When the cleaning process is com.
pieted needed repairs to buildings
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

should be made and weather-beaten
structures of all kinds given coat
or two Of paint. There is nothing that
beauties a building more than paint
judiciously applied, 1t also adds to its
value and acts as a preservative.
There ought to be more painting done
in Keokuk this year than in any
three or four years in the past Both
for esthetic and commercial reasons
Keokuk would find it to its advantage
to be shining example of cleanli-
ness and good taste.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

roads IN the United States, as Of
ficially reported by the interstate COM
merce commission for the fiscal year
190S-1909 were $564,SU2. 5S0.S6, an
average of 32,421.S7 per mile of road.
The average receipts per passenger
train revenue per train-mile was $1.27.
Under the general 2-cent per mile
legislation, over the territory east OF
the Rocky mountains, the earnings
for the fiscal year of 1909-10 will prob
ably be found several million dollars
short of the figures for the previous
year or two, notwithstanding an in
crease in the number of passengers
carried.
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BID Lumber Deal.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. April 20 ).
For s2s,00O,0oO an English syno'easo
has secured the properties OF W ~
United States Lumber compahs' ~
OF the largest lumber cuttlhs W. w..
Germs In the south with mills OF "a
mendous capacity at Hattiespnfg ' ~.
Sumrall. The syndicate has also =,
cured an option on the Misslss'p -
Central. running from this Guy ~
Natchez. The New orleans anu - !
Northern railroad and the pan 4
the Southern Lumber coiHi''"s
Bogalusa are included.
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help. II he contributes 81 to the
Woman s Christian Temperance Union
and wears boiled shirt on Sunday
the banks call in his note; and y he
refuses to dig up for the Womans
Relief Corps supper he is branded as
miser and avoided as If he had the
hives.
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keokuk, Iowa .... April rs, 1911
THE SHADOW.


m a bleak land and desolate,
Beyond the earth somewhere,
Went wandering through deaths dark
gate
A soul into the air.
And still, as on and on 1t fed,
A wild, waste region through.
Behind there fell the steady tread
OF one that did pursue.
At last he paused, and looked aback;
And then he was aware
la hideous wretch stood in his track,
Deformed, and covering there.
~And who art thou ne shrieked in
fright,
"That dost my steps pursue?
Eo, hide thy shapeless shape from
sight,
/ Nor thus pollute my view"
The foul form answered him, "Alway
Along thy path I fee.
i'm thtns own actions. Night and day
/ Still must l follow thee"
-Minot Judson Savage.
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Dr. Anna Shaw, head Of the suffrage

DR.. Anna Shaw, head of the suffrage
movement in the United states. does
mot approve Of the Illinois idea OF pay
ing SO TO every woman who has a
child within two years after marriage.
It is disgusting. she says, and partakes
of the prize pumpkin and bIooded calf
idea. She can not imagine a mother
who would become one for monetary
considerations. Right thinking people
generally entertain the same view.
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To Protect Americans.

WASHINGTON April % Follow y
Ing representation by the state as
partment to the foreign office a'a
bassador Wilson stated that the Wy
lean government is considering seuu
ing a gunboat to Acapulco TO Ply
American interests there.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

In the opinion OF the London Spec
ltator the United States will need a
larger army and navy TO maintain the
Monroe doctrine. The ST Louis Globe
Democrat pertinently suggests that
any nation that proposes to challenge
st should look TO the same detail
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

A new Nebraska law compels a man
TO obtain a license before he can go
fishing. The wisdom of the enactment
Is open to question It may result in
still larger fish stories as a means OF
getting the worth of the money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

Senator Kenyon has received his
commission and Des Moines paper
reports that it is made of sheepskin.
How long he retains it depends good
deal on whether 1t has wool on it or
not
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-25

The best instrument with which to
~swat the fly" is folded newspaper.
Thus is the power of the press again
vindicated.