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MS V* my- I!!! PAGE FOUR THE ?r i£*f ''fiwi*" William Godwin. i* 1 •SPfta and Constitution-Democrat. PUBLISHED BY THE GATE CITY COMPANY 18 North Sixth Street. r-. ^GATB CITY—Established 1864. CONSTITUTION—Established 1847 &\s, DEMOCRAT—Established 188* Consolidated March 26. 1888. GtffiSF—Established in 1892. Consolidated September 22, 1898. OATH CITY and CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT— Consolidated April 3. 1916. Entered at the postofflce at Keokuk matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, by mall, outside city, year Daily, in Keokuk, per week Daily, except Sunday. excKe our curiosity in innumerable ways. They force us Sung by any child or song, Praise it. Do not let the singer Wait deserved praises long. Why should one who thrills your heart Lack the joy you may impart? If you hear a prayer that moves you By its humble, pleading tone, Jo'n it. Do not let the seeker CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG. Clara Louise Kellogg (Strakoscli) is dead She was American born, trained in this coun *3: DAILY GATE CITY •y Manager Manager as second-class ... .$3.00 100 17, 1916 17, 1916 There is perhaps nothing that has a greater tendency to decide favorably or unfavorably respecting a man's in-jthracite tellect than the question whether or not he be Impressed IJOJJ./J^LLOR- yustk an earlv love of r^fldinQt Books orfltify snd to reflect. In a well-written book we are pre- workmen's TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE "IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND." If you have a friend worth loving. Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend—till he is dead? If you hear a song that thrills you, Bow before his God alone. Why should not your brother share The strength of "two or three" in prayer? If a silvery laugh goes rippling Through the sunshine on a face. Share it. 'Tis the wise man's saying— For both grief and joy a place. There's health and goodness in the mirth In which an honest laugh has birth. Scatter thus your seeds of kindness All enriching as you go. Leave them. Trust the harvest giver He will make each seed to grow. So, until the happy end your life shall never lack a friend. —Anonymous. O, thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the eternal and criest bitterly to. the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of truth: The king thou seekest is al ready with thee.—Carlvle. ions without attaining some resemblance to them.— »TV.« ex 4.- wosd. })ueh of th" vear.s of her active life sht spent in this country and she exercised a:-LdlB» l\ 4~. A ir mark^ti influence on tne development of opfni:linL1^ ln America. Her example proved a great m- manv of these nie material]v assisted, notablv native-born white woman "4.2 vears. Here 'j. a howdy do. What is to he done about it? This eo-:n'rv. one and inseparable, united we stand, divided we fall, is facing an age of old women a.-Kl ^How vouths. Th* old!that men will, nrd.r ,eI rate the women-• old women—we vrill have witi.!turbed us. Coming from the census bureau, this con-1 ™an •women, aged women, as a rule, don't like nense ,r a''f r"Hcl""«- 1,0 ,iei,L 11101 i.- i!tips for voune men. because for every "chance'• centive to voung native music- students and ues ior vuuiig », .i" a U1 7 Kmnia Abbott. In the li^ht of present day vo cal exhibits, she was without a peer. NOT ANCESTORS, BUT POSTERITY. According to the showing of Director Rogers'willing to use his spare time in mastering a for of the c-risUH bureau, women in America live eign language, so that when a door opens to a on an average more than three years longer higher plane where such knowledge is a rc than men. The average native-born white! quisite, there are few quite ready to pass American man iive« r/)jj years and the average through. I morning of dropping! form of existence. The deduction is entirely false. The statistics show that the women get the edge on life in the early days of earthly so journ. And they retain the handicap, owing to the fact that four-fifths of the annual violent deaths are among males, and to the further fact 'that such deaths form about eight per cent, of the total deaths. In infancy, the census bureau figures show, the females have a lower death rate than the males for the first twelve months. There are two things for mere man to do. One is to interest himself more thoroughly in the various movements for lion-dollar additional sen ted with the maturest reflections or the happiest 1 rlr»mocfi.' flights of a mind of uncommon excellence, it is impos likely to bring the price ot coal in the domestic sible that we can bi much accustomed to such compan- marj.piq *0 highest figures since the COSt OPPORTUNITIES SLIGHTED. A search for young men qualified to hold I positions in banks and willing to go to any •. rart of the world has recently been made trv and one of the first American singers to .. .. *, ... ... ei throughout the Lnited States, it is reported, by win recognition in foreign countries. She u""uouu ione of the largest New York national banks for prUVI'U lO II ie musical worm lliai It waa pvs-i ., IS a. uiru oi uncuuqueraDie cuurage or sible to produce sin,,, of high «nk $ European training, and to trie music lovers of 11 'Were inanv applicants, nut most or those willing a generation ajro her name was a household., .u i-o to leave the Ini ted States for a definite term ot -i vears. and otherwise qualified, were deficient in ai,u ,foreitm languages. But the search made it evi- dent that there are many attractive opportuni- that receives newspaper notice, there are tnou- 1 out off, disappear entire]-- in d,e course of time the. morning is largely responsible for the dis Bnt U'mPer elusion is official, authentic and dependable the average of health is just as lgh if men re Men, it is time for you to sit up and take Francisco to Accor.J.„K to the new,,iave "tables" of the census bureau, the women arei living longer than the men—that is, they are! Operators in the anthracite district express not dying so quickly. There is nothing to show the opinion that, because of the advance in that they are living better simply longer. Iwagen they have granted, and on other consid- The first deduction from the figures given! orations, the annual cost of coal to consumers out by the director of the census bureau would! will be increased between ten and fifteen mil be that man had better settle down to a simpler I lion dollars. Honest, is that all ghfc/ 1/j5T*s* S&"- .i ^THE DAILY GATE CITY Ji babies" the other is to play "safety first" in after years. He must keep out of accidents. He must get more attention during the squall ing period. These two remedies of a very dan gerous situation will be all that will save him to posterity. And that is something that man should be grateful for. I PRICES, WAGES WAGES, PRICES. According to the latest reports from the an- saving the district of Pennsylvania, the ten-mK- waSTO increase and the eight-mil- .» production caused compensation law, is famine of fourteen years ago. The wage m crease alone, the mine operators estimate, will increase the mining cost seventeen cents a ton. The consumer, without much searching of mem or}', can recall instances where the increased price at the mines grew at astonishing speed on the journey to his bins. This prospect of a rise in the price of coal _has been commented upon with some alarm throughout the country, and there is the old, sneering reference to laying the burden on the consumer." But where else can ihe bur den be laid? As a matter of plain arithmetic and plain business, can the consumer expect the producer and the dealer to strip their nor mal profits every time wages or the cost of ma terial go up? Of course the burden will be on the consumer. And if railroad operating goes up, there, too, the consumer will pay. Every dollar in wage increase must find its way to the [consumer's bill, indirectly if not directly. In the last ten years of price increases it is strange indeed that the consumer has not come to un derstand that. But wages must go up it is part of the pro cess—the process of increasing capital and in creasing production and elevating the stand ards of living. The consumer must( understand that, too. Higher wages, higher prices higher prices, higher wages. The process had been in operation for some hundreds of years. The great problem is to get wages up to the level of costs and remove the wage earner's cause of complaint. This has seldom been accomplished. It is not being accomplished in the mining •regions today. COal am 1 -a ,, ,, 1 xl J— Pf/\hoKlrr +horfl TlOVPf WOTA sands that do not. Probably there never were 'so many opportunities for advancement, or op portunities of such importance, as exist today. But the average American young man is un- According to one eminent physician, a man who "feels like bounding out of bed in the and singing a song may be assured his hea,th ls eXcollcnt But tlfe man who of bed and begins to sing early aml in the next frain from ^"sequent health of the ro?ra' 8°.we notice! Have nome eon^ideration for the com-! recall is to be put in operation in San thTToB ing generation of women. For experienced' bring about Jarnf.# Kolph# less youths of ar,yw ,„r.. Wtw«.n twenty ami, The citizens of that city probably forty yf-ars old. Ami tlmf, tl»- con-iitior, that: ,ou|d mmia„r ^y conchide that bounding out of bed and singing. the retirement of! jrj who has been mayor for four conditions ideal if they could m.w mavor fifteen minute8. ECZEMA ON FAtE FORfflEW In Ugly, Inflamed, Red Blotches. JJou Id Not Rest with Itching and Burning. Completely HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAPAND OINTMENT "My daughter *u troubled for Bra year* with eczema on ber faceu It would break out in ugly inflamed red blotches all -a" her face BO b^dly she could not rest with the itching and burning. There were ngly scales left on ber face all the time from scratching and she was worse in the daytime as the heat irritated it. •'Finally we tried eutfcma Soap and found it was good, and afterward we learned of the Cutlcura Ointment. Before I used one box of Cuticura Ointment there was a decided change, and we used nearly three boxes of Ointment together with the Cutlcura Soap and she was completely healed." (Signed) E. N. Bo wen. Eld on, Iowa, Sept. 21. 1915. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad dress post-card "Cuticnra. DtpU T, Boa ton." Sold throughout the world. IOWA PRESS COMMENT. Mar&haJitown Times-Republican: That national guard of oars numbers almost 130,000 men and seems like jt would do for an emergency like that in Mexico. Of course the boys •couldn't fight Great. Britain or Ger many or Japan without help but they ought to --be able to take care of the American border in. fine shape. Cedar Rapids Gazette: If the can didates for governor Insist among themselves that all are dangerous, the Gazette would suggest that the office be granted leave of absence for two years and' that affairs be con ducted by E. "R. Moore, lieutenant governor. Iowa City Republican: If ahy can didate liad ever gone before an old fashioned republican state conven tion asking the nomination for gov ernor, when his immediate supporters were declaring they would not sup port the tioket if somebody else got the nomination, he would have been refused even a respectful bearing. Burlington Hawk-Eye: It is not to be wondered that -Mr. Bryan seeks an extension of suffrage. In his case it has never been extended quite enough to satisfy his ambition. Sioux City Journal: The man who is for woman suffrage and does not take the trouble to see that he is properly registered will not be able to give much aid or comfort to the suffragists. Sioux City Tribune: Mr. Bryan says if we are to go to war with Ger many let us not do it now -because we would be involved in all the issues, alliances, and settlements of the European debacle. He advises wait ing until after the European war )8 settled and Germany has nothing else to do except fight us. In other words, if we are to have war with Germany, Mr. Bryan wants us licked in a hurry and so to end the agony. He is a real shirt sleeve diplomat. Birds and Men. Hartford Courant: None of the wild birds in Ne"w England is aB near ly domestic as the robin and no other bird fits into the scenery bet ter or is more welcome in sprit^g. It is a bird of unconquerable courage 6r sense of ownership. No millionaire 1 surveying his private park can look the part of the proprietor better than can the robin when it revisits a lawn with which it was familiar the sum mer before. It expects to find a worm exactly where it found one last year, and as a rule, it is not disappointed. It looks at the human who may own the lawn and, possibly, remarks: "There's the man who was here last year," just as the man who tries to think tnat the robin is the qne he saw in 1915. After ail, the bird and the man are much alike the bird has a brief period of love making and nest build ing, and then It works from sunrise till sunset to care for the family. So does the man, if he is the right sort. Fall comes and the bird faces the possibilities of starvation or of sud den death from some of ^its enemies, and the man faces the increasing pos sibilities of pneumonia or apoplexy. Safe Home Remedy (or Skin-Troubles Eczcma, ringworm, and other itching, burning skin eruptions are ao easily made worse by improper treatment thai one has to be very careful. There is one method, however, that you need never hesitate to use, even on a baby's tender of a Baltimore doctor, put lip ill the form of resinol ointment and resicol soap. This proved so remarkably suc cessful, that thousands of other physi cians have prescribed it constantly for over twenty years. Generally resinol stops itching at once, and heals the eruption quickly and at little coat. Bestnol ointment and resinol soap- can be bought at any druggist's. _________ Besinol Soap is not only amunaQy cleansing and softening, kit its regular use gives to the skin and hair that natural beauty of perfect health which cosmetics can ootr imitate. Next spring comes and finds another robin and another man. the only thing remaining unchanged being the land. Both the robin and the man dream that they possess it, and yet, after-all, it acquires them. Stocks and the Public. Cedar Rapids Gazette: Just at this time there is a large and particularly attractive line of stocks that should be left severely alone—the war brides. In some cases—as in that of the DuPonts—the unheard of divid ends are being paid in Anglo-French' securities not in real American dol lars. In other cases the dividends are paid in honest-to-goodness money. In all such cases the dividends are based on unprecedented and irrational con ditions and do not form a basis for rational investments. Such prices are being paid for monitions that certain enormous orders are producing one hnndred per cent, net profit or eve/i a higher 'rate of gain. One combina tion of factories has orders for two billion dollars' worth of goods, the profit on which will be more than one bilUon dollars. For those already in the deal that is well enough. For those who go in now or at a later date stocks of these concerns do not offer a safe investment. The man who is content with from four to six per cent proves his possession of a sane mind. Here dabblers should not think themselves able to cope with profes sional stock jobbers whose only rule of morality is found In the criminal codes of the various states. Legitimate financial interests should be able to organize for the promotion of their line by such plans as would make their business as- reputable as banking. Banking itself was at one time a wildcat business. Honorable bankers changed all tuat. The slight est Juggling of bank stocks would create a scandal and the guilty would suffer punishment pt the hands of the natioa or state. Bankers have impos ed these restrictions on themselves, not because they all need them, not because they are needed by five bank ers in a hundred, but because a few do need them and because a very few could bring the entire business into disrepute. A bank failure, even an honest fail ure, anywhere in the United States, affects the banking business through out the nation, spreading like a rippls on the surface of a lake, diminishing in power and becoming imperceptible, but continuing to the shore. Such reckless management as characterizes the stock market would wreck the en tire banking business of the nation within a month, depositors would withdraw their accounts, large sums of money would be available for busi ness purposes only in the chief cen ters and there would he no quotable rates on loaps or discounts. When stock companies recognize a moral obligation toward investors they will be gradually regarded with favor, just now the people of Cedar Rapids and Iowa prefer to place their surplus cash in hanks which they know to bo safe and where it la available for the promotion of local enterprises. An Incident. Greater Iowa: Character is shown in the little things of life, the natural, unstudied impulses that spring from the heart on the spur ol the moment. It is easy to do brave deedB when the band is Ailing the air with inspiring melody and the rainbow tints of the spotlight glorify the actor but quite another matter to strive when there is none to applaud or appreciate. Ye editor witnessed an incident recent ly that went far to strengthen his faith in human nature, a faith some times sadly disturbed, but clung to nevertheless. It was during the noon bow upon one of the busiest streets of Des Moines. Everybody was in a hurry. Street cars were clanging and grind ing. Traffic of all kinds, auios, trucks, moving vans and vehicles of every de scription incident to pleasure and business, crowded the street from curb to curb. It was an endless pro cession. A big, eix-passenger auto rolled swiftly up a cross street. A slender, eunny-faoed woman scarcely out of her teens sat at the steering wheel and chatted over her shdulder with two companions in a rear seat A blind man hesitated at the curb, tapping the pavement with his cane while listening to t*he roar of passing traffic. A coarse, half-filled sack over one shoulder -indicated his occupation, that of rag picker. His clothes were shabby and soiled. He was old and shut out forever from the beauties of the earth and faoes of friends. The woman at the wheel saw him and stopped the machine. Hopping nim bly to the pavement, she ran swiftly across the street, dodging the cars and vehicles like a free-striding boy. A question or two, an .assuring word of explanation and she led the old man to the big machine and stowed him comfortably in the seat at her side. It was a little thing, over in a min ute, and the machine whirling swiftly away in the direction the rag picker had been plodding. It was so beau tiful, so spontaneous and, we regret to say, so unusual! It told the few who "noted it all they needed to know of the sunny-faced woman. A big, blcff individual who had been an interested observer of the scene blew his nose with unnecessary vigor, swore and remarked, while hts eyes were suspiciously moist: "Thank God fr a girl likt that. She's got a heart in 'er big as a church." That picture, the beautifully dressed wom an and the soiled rag picker, will linger long in the memory of the few who saw it. Let us hold fast to faith in human nature and "Thank God fr girls like that." Whiskey Supplants Beer. Cedar Rapids oazette: Regardless of the fact that seven states hava joined the prohibition column .since June 1, 1915, the production of whis key in the United States has increas ed 7,500,000 gallons the' year, while the production of beer has fallen pff 45,000,000 gallons. It would appear that the amount of alcohol being consumed is as large or larger than formerly. To the whis key production should be added the homemade alcoholic beverages, much affected in the south, on which nn revenue is paid and of which the gov ernment takes no account. Of the seven states in the ahevo 'l&hk-, P. 4 ... A Newspaper Crisis. Iowa City Citizen: Publishers of daily newspapers are finding the ques tion on the price ot paper growing no better, with the latest prophecies Ifor a still further advance. The heavy demand for all kinds of material that enter into paper making, caused by the European war, already has brought an advance of about $600 per carload in the kind of paper used in printing the Citizen, with the possi bility that the advance movement may continue long enough to make an additional cost of $1,000 a carload. The head of the paper company with which The Citizen had its last 'con tract recently visited the mills to study the situation, and reports that the manufacturers will not guarantee delivery of print paper at any price and are talking of a five cent price before any relief comes, which would be slightly more than $1,000 per car. The Citizen has been using between four and five carloads per year of print, and it is easy to figure the pos sible loss in the future and the cer tain loss now. The publisher of The Press, of this city tells us that he lost $80 last week by waiting four days after receiving a quotation on a car lot before sending in the .order, which gives an indication of the ra pidity of the advance. It is evident the dailies In the small cities are confronted with a crisis in the news print situation. Their ad vertising rates are too low to afford such a margin between the cost of setting and handling advertisements and the price they charge for the space, to absorb any such an increase in the cost of material. If they are to I continue in business and serve their {communities as in the past they must increase their advertising rates, ths 'principal source of revenue, sufficient ly to take up at least part of the ad vance. CoDSctence Should Rule. Christian Science Monitor: People in responsible public office are often, and justly, criticized when they fail to enforce the law as they find it and now and then when they take the right course and enforce the law re gardless of all deterrent influences, whatever they may be. the criticism directed against them ls even sharper than it is when they neglect or shirk Sfe-S WEDNESDAY, MAT 17,1910 .* ?-.v To render biscuits, cake and muffins healthful, .appetiz ing and digestible, use,- BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure 5 Made from Cream of Tartar, derived from grapes. No Alum No Phosphate list, Iowa is one. More than ninety per cent of Iowa territory was already "dry," However, all the Iowa brew eries were closed and whiskey ap pears to have taken the place of the lighter beverage. their plain duty. But the responsible public official, like the rest of us, need jnot be troubled when be is right with his conscience. Chaste Literature. St Louis Post-Dispatch: An Illinois country editor has been arrested for the third time within the year on the charge of sending objectionable matter through the mails. If the meaning of the term were broad enough to include objecUonable matter from the standpoint of taste as .well as decency, good morals and public policy, we shudder to think of I the rural journalists who wpuid pins in durance vile. Here ls an instance, the first editorial paragraph our eye lights on from one out of a pile of bucolic contemporaries: "Have a heart weather man. Our underwear and we have come to a parting of the way." And this chaste item, selected at random: "A small child of John'Light drank a big dose of coal oil Monday, and came near to putting out the little fellow's light." And bow is this for elegance 7 "If wife runs away with a junk peddler our dog gets poisoned for killing sheep, the cows find acorn calves and give bloody milk—then we intend to join the democratic party and have a lot more fun." For prudential reasons we shall not pursue further a theme that Involves the possibility of our own incarcera tion. Suffice it to say that there is a brilliant opportunity for uplift work in many rural, and some metropoli tan sanctums. Putting the "Win" In Window. A show window in itself ls on* arm of business getting. Newspaper advertsing is the strong, powerful body. When the two are linked together they make a business team with a punch. Merchants frequently effect this combination by linking their windows with the manufacturer's Newspaper advertising. They put the goods In'the window afe the time the manufacturer's news paper advertising is running and thus bring business to their stores. This ls literally putting the "win" in window. Among Those Opposed. Burlington Hawk-Eye: The chali warmer at the corner grocery, who 'is generally too busy saving the country to take time to vote, ls "agin" woman suffrage. A New Kind of Pastry Crisco pie crust is rich, wholesome and delicious, for Crisco is all vegetable and all pure. Crisco's digestibility is especially -important in relation to pie crust, in which so much shortening is used it is a scientific fact that shortening is unchanged in the baking process. It is still in a raw state, merely having been distributed throughout the dough or crust. (itisco fopFiy/nff-Foi* Shortening lo/* CaAe Making {Clip this Recipe) PLAIN PASTRY msr 1 *94 capMs floor 1 teaspoonM sail oipfol Crisce coM water -j Sift flour and salt and cut Crisco into flour with knife' until finely divided. Finger tips may be used to finish blending materials. Add gradually sufficient water to make stiff paste. Water should be added sparingly and mixed with knife through dry ingredients. Form lightly and quickly with hand into.dough roll out on slight!? floured board, about one-quarter inch thick. Use light motion in handling rolling-pin, and roll from center outward. Sufficient for one small pie.