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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-08
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shlnSton. June f.-Following four
hours discnseion Of the Cu..adlan rect
procity bill by the Senate Finance
Committee In executive. session to-day.
chairman Penrose expressed the opin-
Ion that any amendment which might
be adopted by the committee would be
killed on the iloor Of tho Senate IT
was thought at first that some corn :
promise m Gilt ne reached on the Root
hmeidmuht to the pcner and wood plilp
clause. which amendment has been oh
Jected to rs fatal TO the n agreement.
but such a compromise was found I'M
possible It is not believed that any
amendment other than t;iat offered by
Senator Root Will have even n chance
OF adoption In committee.
The committees deliberations To-
day were without result. so far MS vot-
Ing ON the bill or any amendment was
concerned and IL was declared doubt :
ful whether the committee would be
ready 20 report the nlen sure to- NOR
row Most OF to-days session was de-
voted to debate over the Root amend.
ment. Tint amendment provides that
1T shall not bs In force until the ProsI
dent Is sa tisfed and has issued pro
clamation that wood ..ulr paper and
hoard Is heinS admitted free Of duty
from this country into ali provinces OF
Canada. AZ,
Secretary Of State Knox was sum
moned before the committee to en-
lishten 1t as to any understanding he
tween the trainers OF the measure
which might clear UP the situation as
to the Root amendment Put Seere-
tary Knox told the COMMITTEES that
they had the entire Greement before
them end had therefore, as much
knowlrdTc ~ he rrtc tbs errc, II
: ~ rni"adme nts thev '~trbt r,rke. He
declined to rnswer DEFINITELY rho qucs-
ton as to whether In his opinion. the
Root amendment would kill the meas
yIre 3sFf N5lt, lsii !it..f
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22

about the mining camps with her tin
boxes of notions. her fawning coaxing
manner constant invitation to insult
and her unattended loneliness max
ing assault by such negroes as the one
in Jail at Boone easily suggested. The
Syrian woman peddler is not of easy
virtue and her character in this re-
gard is generally irreproachable but
her manner and her color and her
seeming ignorance and her occupation
are so foreign to American customs
that she becomes an object of natur-
al suspicion.
The lonely country roads and negro
mining camps are not fit and proper
places for women peddlers. So far as
that is concerned the country would
be better off If the whole caboodle OF
peddlers, of whatever color or nation
alities were abolished and put out OF
business. But the Syrian woman ped
dlers are plainly suggestive and provo.
cative to minds like that of the Boone
negro and they should be forbidden,
if it is legally possible, to tramp the
roads.
The thing to do is to send the negro
to the penitentiary and send the wom
an peddler home with orders to stay
there
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
AMERICA DOSES The WORLD.

Nearly seven million dollars worth
of patent medicines" were exported
from the United States in the last
year, and for the past decade the ag-
gregate amounts TO more than fifty
million dollars. These figures, as
compiled from the official records of
the bureau of statistics, department
of commerce and labor include only
that class of exports designated as
of which the exports in 1911 We're
S6,783,020 to foreign countries and
more than quarter of million dol
lars worth to the noncontiguous ter
ritories of the United States, and do
not include the numerous articles ex-
ported for use in the preparation of
| medicines, such as ginseng, which
amounts to more than million dol
| lars annually, roots, barks and herbs,
and other articles Of this character.
The popularity of American med,
| cines seems to have grown with their
| use Fifteen years ago the value OF
the exports of patent or proprietary
medicines amounted to less than a
million dollars per annum; in 1900
the total was but three million; In
1905, FIVE million: and in 1911, prac
tically seven million, the total for thai
4 year being larger than that of any
other year.
ALI the world, it seems, takes Amer
lean medicines, for the countries anc
colonies to which the seven millior
dollars worth of medicines, paten
or proprietary were sent last yea
numbered eighty, scattered over ever.
grand division and throughout tn
islands Of the sea. One could, pei
haps, scarcely expect to see a larg
demand in Europe for this class o
) medicines, yet the exports to Englan
alone averaged two million dollar
e per annum during the past tire
) years, while smaller values went t
! other European countries, many c
E them being communities in which tn
3 chemical industry has attained hig
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
PENNINGTON.
!. : : . : -. 80

Mr.. and Mrs ]. G. Rambo have re-
turned to their home in Peoria, H.,
after visit with the latter's broth
er. j. M. Eddy.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Hamlin of Keo-
kuk, who have been visiting at the
A w. Beeson home, returned home
Monday.
Misses Corinne and Vera Kelsey
visited Thursday with friends in
Keosauqua.
Miss Edna Hayes Of st. Louis is
visiting her aunt. Mrs. w. H. Gent
ner.
Rev. and Mrs. C. F. McMann have
gone to Corydon for visit with rela.
tiyes.
Miss Gladys Hornbaker of Mt.
Sterling is /jsiting her grandparents,
John Frer< and wife.
Mrs. G. A. Hardin and daughters,
Helen anti Mary of 1T. Sterling, who
have been visiting Mrs. H. E. Folk
err, returned home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Purall of Ochil-
tree, Texas, were Pennington visitors
Sunday. Mrs. Purcell will be better
remembered as Miss Brittle Noske.
Miss Florence Woodwork Is in
Keokuk visiting her cousin, Mrs. A.
C. Freed.
Miss Helen Etzkrom Of FIT. Madi-
son is the guest Of Mrs. C. J. Wendt.
| C. w. Dodds and wife Of Keosau-
qua were Pennington visitors Sun
| day.
| Miss Katherin French of Chicago is
| the guest of her aunt. Mrs. j. w.
Lapsley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Barton of Fair
field were chautauqua guests Of H. T.
Barton and wife.
Mrs. Henry Morris and son, Paul,
| of Hammond, Ind, are visiting Mrs
| Norris parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
! Newman.
Miss Pearl Moon has returned tc
her home in Milton after a visit with
Miss Ripple Cleave.
Mrs. E. ]. Beard and children OF
Keokuk visited over Sunday with
Mrs. Boards sister, Mrs. H. C. Dun
bar
/ John Kirkpatrick is visiting his
uncle, E. ]. Folker, in Denver, Colo
RADIO.
4 Mrs. BERTHE Williams and Miss Lyd
la Hawkins left Wednesday for Chi
cago on business trip.
Mrs. Howard Kelley visited ovel
Sunday in Keokuk with her daughter
Miss Blanche, who is Ill in Graham
hospital
Mrs. C. P. Franks and children have
returned from visit with relative!
in Burlington. Kansas.
: Mrs. Amelia Nauerth and daughter
Hedwig, have returned to their hom'
in Latty after a visit with Mrs, Nau
erth's aunt, Mrs. George Mueller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
WOMEN in MEDICINE.

The number of women in medicine
is decreasing, according to the Journ-
al of the American Medical Associa-
ton, which recently published re-
port on medical education during the
past year. During that time there
were $50 women studying medicine,
a decrease of 227 below 1910, and a
decrease of PAL below 1909. The
percentage Of all medical students
was "a as compared with AZ last
year. There were 159 women gradu-
ates this year, or 81 per cent of all
graduates. In 1910 there were 907
women students and 157 graduates,
while in 1909 there We're 921 women
students and 1872 graduates. or all
the women matriculants, 1874 (17.7
per cent? were in attendance at the
two medical colleges for women, as
compared with 155 OH per cent? in
1910, 169 (1s4 per cent? in 1909 and
1856 1898 per cent? in 1908. The re
naming SAC (S0.3 per cent? were
matricu1ated in coeducational col
leges. From the two women's col
leges, there were SO, or 22.6 per cent
of all women graduates, as compared
with Al (26.1 per cent? in 1910 and
SO (20.3 per cent? in 1909. There
were 123 or 500 per cent of al
women graduates who secured theil
degrees from coeducational colleges.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
1HE EIREwAs1E RECORD.

The menace of fire waste is becom-
ing more serious each year, in spite
of the efforts that are being made to
arouse property owners to the impor-
lance of conservation. The losses In
this country and Canada last month
are placed at s25,301 $50. The total for
July of last year was S26,84T,900, and
during the same month two years ago
it was s15,S3o, 800. The fire losses in
seven months of this year were $685.
100000 more than during the same
months last year, and more than $685.
100000 in excess of the losses record
ed in the first seven months OF 1909.
The comparisons of losses on this
continent with those reported in Ed
rope have been made frequently. Most
readers of newspapers know that we
pay several times as much per capita
each year for fire waste as is contrib
uted by the people OF any nation in
Europe The public has become ac-
customed to the fact that we are ire
mendously wasteful, and seems to
take it as a matter of course. The
situation, however, is becoming SO Sc
rious that it cannot be treated lightly
during many more years. A loss OF
practically 100000 a day is too
/ heavy a drain, even In countries as
rich and prosperous as the United
/ States and Canada, to be continued in
definitely. Those who claim to know
predict that present conditions, II
| continued much longer. will mean the
retirement of many from the insur
ance field. The time Is not far dis
tant when Americans must do some
thing more than merely talk conserva
ton
Following are some of the mos
common causes of fires:
4 Carelessness in factories, which II
most cases means dirt and rubbish
and oily waste.
Carelessness in the use of matches
Do you stop to watch where lightet
match falls after you have lightet
your cigar?
Bad electrical wiring.
Careless housekeeping.
Dark and dirty Railways. People, a
night scratch matches to find thei
way about, throw the match in
corner into a pile of rubbish, and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
THE FREE.LlsT BILL.

In his message vetoing the farm
ers' free list bill, President Taft de-
clares that the same reasons which
impelled me to decline to sign the
wool bill, control me in this case. !"
His objections were summarized in
these terms:
because 1t should not be con-
sidered until the tariff board shall
make report upon the schedules 1t
affects.
because the bill is so loosely
drawn as to involve the government
in endless litigation and to leave the
commercial community in disastrous
doubt
because 1t places the finished
product on the free list, but retains on
the dutiable list the raw material and
the machinery with which such fin
ished product is made, and thus puts
at needless disadvantage our Amer
lean manufacturers.
4-That, while purporting, by
putting agricultural implements, meat
and -four on the free liss, to reduce
their price to the consumers, 1t does
not do so, but only gives to Canada
valuable concessions which might be
used by the executive to expand reel
procity with that country in accord
ance with the direction of congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
MONT RosE.
: . . . . : . . . . . .

The funeral of the late Mrs. Leon
ard Brewer occurred from the family
home Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock, the
Swedish minister from Keokuk COLI
Quoting the last tribute the church
can pay to her children. The writer
but recently called at her home and
the remembrance of her shall not be
forgotten and the quiet goodness Of
her who has fallen asleep in death
Those who survive to mourn are her
husband and three small children, an
aged mother, Mrs. Charlotte Pearson
three sisters, Mrs. John Megglesen of
near Montrose, Mrs. Walburg and
Mrs Emma Peterson, and brother,
John Pearson. assistant chief of police
at Keokuk The burial was made at
the Anderson cemetery.
Rev. and Mrs. Markham Of Oklaho-
ma were in the city Wednesday. Rev.
Markham was pastor at the Presby.
terrain church here ten years ago and
he was met with hearty hand shakes
of good fellowship.
The condition of Mrs. Cheesman re.
mains about the same. No apparent
change as yet.
Hubbard plums are selling in the
local market at s1o0 per crate of six.
| teen quarts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Heath have re
turned from visit with relatives al
/ Roseville, Ill.
The National Montrose canning
plant began operations Wednesday
morning.
I Mr.. and Mrs. James Reeves were
among the excursionists to Niagara
i Falls Tuesday morning.
i Postmaster Kennedy was among til,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
OUTLOOK is ENCOURAGING.

President F. A. Delano, after an ex-
tensive trip over the Wabash lines,
reports that business interests in the
territory covered by that system are
by no means as pessimistic over the
outlook as Wall street interests ap-
parently are. He says that every one
knows that, with the exception of cot
ton, we will not have the bumper
crops that were predicted few
months ago, and for which prediction
there seemed to be reasonable ground.
He believes, however, that the direct
tonnage from the crops and the money
realized therefrom will be we'll up to
the average of recent years, if not
equal to it.
While in the Wabash territory, man.
ufacturers and other business inter
ests are proceeding cautiously, Mr..
Delano says that the volume of bust
ness is satisfactory on the whole, and
except for the very large scale to
which we have been accustomed in the
last two years would be regarded as
altog ether satisfactory. He thinks
that not only is a continuation of
relatively quiet conditions in business
probable, but desirable, in view of the
abnormally large scale on which
things have been done in recent years.
In his judgment, all talk of a panic
within the next year should be re-
| garded as nonsense, because, he says
| the unusually strong position of the
banks and other financial institutions
and the tendency of every one tc
economic makes panic practically
impossible. Mr.. Delano Is looking fol
better conditions politically within 6
reasonably short time. He does MOI
look for any serious developments t.
follow the present agitation upon the
part of railroad employees in the cen
trail west.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22

excursionists to Burlington on the
Steamer Dubuque Thursday.
Miss Aaron Smith, a resident OF the
early fifties who lived mile west of
Montrose, was guest of Mrs. r. J.
Horn recently.
The Rev. Jordan expects to be
among the ministers at the Methodist
conference that will convene at Fair
field, Sept. 9.
B. Wolf recently visited his sister
Mrs. Van Hedrick of Keokuk
Mrs P. w. Bowen and daughter
Miss Grace, the genial operator at the
Bell telephone office visited with the
formers son and the latters brother
at Quincy this week.
Under the auspices of the Latter
Day Saints Sunday school an ice
cream sicial will be given on the
church lawn.
Abe Gray died Sunday evening. The
funeral was held Monday afternoon
from the NJ E. church the Rev. Jordan
conducted the services. Interment in
the city cemetery beside the mother.
Mrs. Kate Vaughn of Keokuk spent
Sunday the guest Of her aunt, Mrs.
John Thomas.
The Epworth League are planning
for an ice cream social on the church
lawn.
Mrs. George Forlorfer spent several
days at the home of her sister, Clara
at Dumas, Mo.
Excavating for the new bank build.
/ ing on Main street, has begun.
Mrs. Alex Allison was called to st.
Louis where her mother is critically
sick from typhoid
/. Fl. Stanwood returned home from
st. Elizabeth hospital at Fl Madison
Monday evening having improved rap
idly while at that institution.
The lawn social given at the resi-
denee of Mrs. Chas. Bindewald Satur
day evening was a social and finan
cial success. the proceeds going te
the Presbyterian church.
4 Scott Davies of Keokuk was a CUES
of Homer Clingman Tuesday.
Quite few from here attended
the old settlers meeting at Donnellsor
Thursday.
{; Mrs. j. D. Hamilton entertained a
Bluff Park Thursday, Mrs Jack Ow
ems Sunday school class most royal
/ ly at a tempting lunch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
When Grand Rapids, Mich. adopts

When Grand Rapids, Mich, adopts
its new charter of commission gov
eminent it will have privileges that
no American city has hitherto enjoy
ed. 1t will be able to secure the Off
GERS for the various departments of
administration from any state, city,
or community that it pleases. If it
hears of health commissioner who
has made a reputation in another city
it can go forth and hire him if it
wants his services. 1t can go any
where that it can get men for the
salaries it will pay; for its mayor is
authorized to engage these general
managers wherever the most efficient
may be found.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE BIRDS

CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE BIRDS.
A countrywide campaign for state
enactments against the sale of game
birds has been started by the Wild
Life Protective Association of New
York, the National Association OF
Audubon Societies, and the League OF
American Sportsmen
Immediate extinction Of many game
birds will result, it is said, If protec-
tive measures do not at once obtain
general adoption. Literature has been
sent out calling attention to the fact
that six native American birds already
are extinct and that like fate at an
early date awaits fourteen others.
Arguments advanced in support OF
the movement for state legislation
against the sale of wild game include
the following:
Ninety per cent of the feathered
game already has been destroyed.
Every species of mammal, bird or
reptile that is pursued for money
making purposes eventually is wiped
out Of existence.
Fifty per cent of the decrease In
feathered game is due to market gun
ning-witness the prairie chicken OF
the Mississippi valley and the ruffled
grouse of New England.
Laws permitting the commercial
slaughter of birds for the benefit OF
the few are directly against the in
terests of the entire population of the
state to whom the game belongs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
The Syrian Woman Peddler.

Marshalltown s-Republican: A
negro is In jail at Boone charged
with attempted rape Of Syrian WON
an peddler. If the attempt can be
proved the negro should break stone
in the penitentiary for the rest Of his
life. Iowa should not import the black
shadow Of the south when 1t imports
negro miners. Black or white, the
man convicted Of this unspeakable
crime should be permanently retired
from circulation.
But the Syrian woman peddleI
should be retired from her present
activities also. She tramps about
the country roads and pandandles
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
SOMETHING ABOUT
KIDS HANDLING AUTOS
Dangerous and Menace to the Pub
lie for Youngsters to Drive
Cars About the Streets.

A new automobile law, recently
passed by the state legislators is
very stringent in specifying that per-
sons of age shall drive cars.
Children under fifteen years of age
must not run an automobile unless
accompanied by parent or older per-
son.
Boys and girls, some Of them by no
means full grown, are frequently seen
upon the streets of Keokuk handling
big auto cars. Credit Is due some OF
them for skill and caution worthy OF
veteran; others are not SO careful.
The auto is a powerful mechanical
device to be entrusted to the young
sters. 1t sometimes gets away with
the experienced chauffeur Fear Tor
the safety not only of the occupants
OF such cars but of pedestrians ana
those driving horses are frequently eS-
pressed by citizens. The same alarm
is felt in other cities.
Every day we see little boys ana
girls running powerful machines along
the crowded thoroughfares," complains
the Shenandoah Sentinel-Post. what
would be said IL the Burlington rail-
road company should take twelve
year-old school girl out of schooi
show her how to handle the throttle
of locomotive for an hour or so ana
then put her in charge of the pas.
senger train? Yet, the danger woulu
be less than for her to handle forty
horse power automobile, for the loco.
motive has track of its own to hosu
the wheels in place, schedule time
and everybody is supposed to stay on
(, the track. but the auto has no track OF
its own but uses the same track %
thousands of others, without any
schedule time, and with possible cor
| lisions dozen times minute"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22
degree OF development, such as Ger
many, France and Austria.
EXPORTS OF AUTOMOBILES.

-
Industrial history furnishes no par
allel to the astonishing growth of the
automobile industry in the United
States during the past decade. Starting
with few small shops employing for
the most part only handful OF work
men and engaged largely in expert
ments and tests, the industry has
expanded until at present there are
said to be ESQ concerns manufacturing
automobiles in the United States, with
an equal or greater number of con-
Germs making accessories. The amount
of capital invested in the automobile
manufactures is in the vicinity of
s3Oo,OO0,O0O, while s2oo,0OoooO are in
vested in the manufacture of parts
and supplies The number of en-
ployes engaged in this great indus
try is over 100000, while the total
value of the cars manufactured was
reported for 1910 at s240,000,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-22

1t has just developed that the SER
geant-at-arms of the house of represen-
tatives has collection of poetry for
the use of members delivering memo
rial addresses on deceased members.
Senator Depew made the disclosure in
recent address and suggested that
a quotation used the other day might,
he feared. represent the tears over
retiring statesmen: Here lies the
body of my dear wife. My scalding
tears cannot bring her to life. There
fore, / weep"