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PAGE FOUB sl»* 'U ^7- HE DATirr^GXTE CTTX ud Conatitotloo-Pemocrat. \, PtTBUSHBD BY THE GATE CITY COMPANY 18 North Sixth BtreeC 1 Slra" ^sC", ." CITY—Established 1849. OONST1TXJTION—E2sUblUh«d 1847. ... DEJMOCJRiAT—B«tablUh®4 1M| Consolidated March 2t IMS. CHliUW—Established In 1802. Consolidated September 88 1808. OATH CITY and CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT— 'Consolidated April 8. 1916. fe V. Sklrvin C. EL Warwick Entered at the poatofBsa at Keokuk as seoo: natter. Dally, br Saall, outside city, year Dally, In Keokuk. par week Daily, except Sunday. ... .General Manage: ,. .Business Manage subscription rates. Keokuk, Iowa November 28, 1916 Seek the company of those who stimulate you to con tinue In your chosen life work and give you added strength. Avoid as you would poison those who leave In you a sense of emptiness and debility.—Ernest von Feuch tersleben. TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE IN A TROLLEY OAR. I^aw Democracy today A laborer, begrimed with clay,* Stepped aboard a trolley car, Humble, meek, yet no less czar Than earth's most exalted are. He looked about him for a seat He longed to rest his heavy feet. But every seat was taken, while Men and women filled ttie aisle. Pausing, he reached ana caught a strap, Pushed down his dirty working cap A little tighter, closed his eyes, And sighed as only a tired man Sighs. In front of him a lady sat He noted her expensive hat, Her tailored gown, her stylish shoes— And wondered just how few months' dues The Union would forego If he Were to buy the same for his wife, Marie. Suddenly she raised her head, Saw the look In his eyes of lead. The lines of care on his kindly face And rose and offered him her place. "Ah, no!", he blushed, ashamed. "No be! Missus too muuch nice for me!" He turned away, but she clutched his arm. And eyes met eyes that were moist and warm "Really, I ftiean it! Please, for me!" Smiling upon him wondrously. She forced him down where she had sat. Half dazen, he lifted off his hat: "God thank you, lady!" With his wihole Big heart he said it, with bis soul. And ^ie went home with a heart so light, I think she must have sung all night. —H. Thompson Rich, in the FOrum. Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.—Disraeli. COLD STORAGE'S TURN. War against tile high cost of living has reached the militant stage in Chicago, where there have been simultaneous raids by the city health department against three of the largest cold storage warehouses in the city. The raids were based on an ordinance wiich places a restriction on the time foods may be kept in cold storage and were due partly, it was said, to James VTetz, a wholesaler, so ^callecl "egg king," who is said to be holding 72,000,000 eggs. The high price of eggs is the result of general prosperity which has induced extraordinary consumption together with a shortage of pro duction, according to a statement by the Chi cago Butter and Eggs board, which announced that it would welcome any investigation into its manner of arriving at prices. Naturally, attention is directed to cold stor age plants in the course of the agitation over high prices for food. The fact has just come to general notice that cold storage gives private business the opportunity to hold out foodstuffs of the sort formerly classed as perishable and squeeze the community. Eggs, meats and' many of the more succulent vegetables can now be held from the market for months or years where formerly they had to be sold without delay.- A natural suspicion arises that cold storage is madie or may be made a moans of cor nering the market in these articles. Cold storage is expensive by reason of the buildings, machinery, chemical supplies and power required. It is practicable only on a scale requiring more capital than the ordinary man possesses Its consequent restriction to the few puts it under suspicion, and it there fore must stand such investigation as a suspici ous public seeks t-o bestow. The private or ganization of industry has for some ten years conceded the public's power to make or break each line of business according to whether it was deemed beneficial to the public or harmful. Some of the larger trusts and a number of rail road rates have been smashed, directorates have been regulated, banking control amended yet the things that were have subsisted iist the main, despite suspicion and hostility, because they were found needful. If the cold storage business goes through the ordeal of scrutiny, the results will probably stop short, in any case^ of the extensive public ownership 'of plants which extremists propose. SIMPLE, FRUGAL DIET. Dr. Robertson, health commissioner of Chi cago, is investigating the over-heightening cost of living and is enlisting a diet squad with which he hopes to demonstrate that forty cents a day is enough to furnish any normal person a sufficiency of wholesome, appetizing food. He has tried it, he says, and knows that it can be dione and declares that New England boiled dinners and mush and milk will solve the "Jprob- There'is a class of people who are inclined to be resentful of such attempts to teach them how to live frugally at little cost. They want to know how to increase their means rather than how to live within them and they envy men as fortune's pamper^, favorites who can, and do when they desire'fo, expend four dollars instead of four .dimes upon a meal. But men who do this often or habitually are far from being for tunate above their fellows, as any one who sees them discovers at a glance. There is no health or joy in surfeit, and half of the bodily afflic tions befall the man who eats too much. Sim ple foods and few of them at a meal are best and many a man as opulent as Croesus has found out that the chief of his concerns in life is to eat as sparingly as possible of the simplest foods. Belgium, thanks to the invaders, is on too rigbrous a regimen. The masses of her people have not food enougli, and thousands of adults and tens of thousands of children have actual ly starved. There is no more cruel thing in his tory than this. Four to eight cents' "worth of food is not enough. Yet as a result pf this en forced abstemiousness, the cases are said to be numberless where diseases of long standing, chrbnic ailments and conditions which made life a perpetual pain and burden have totally disappeared. "Spare fast oft with gods doth diet," Milton said and a simple, frugal diet is. ever best for health, for happiness and. f(*r brains. LET US MOT BE SELFI&H. Speaking to the National Grange, President Wilson asserted that men" who make it appear as if the food supply was so short that middle men could charge what they pleased for it were responsible for the inflation, of food prices. We ought to raise such crops, he said, that this condition cannot recur and it will not Jo for us to be niggardly with the world in re spect to its food supply. There is wisdom in this. We certainly *cai\ not justly or safely Withhold food from hungry nations that are willing and able to buy and send ships here for it. .We must divide with such of the human families as are in want, even if it inconveniences ourselves. Their needs are greater than ours or they would not pay as they do our market prices and costly ocean freight rates in addition. Should the United States show any degree of selfishness in the matter, it would invite and perhaps incur the implacable hostility of the powers that con trol" the seas and are likely soon to dominate the world. Gteat in resources and puissant as we are, we are only one-sixteenth of the human race while the allies are about two-thirds of it and may be able to inconvenience us exceeding ly if they think, when the war is over, that we have been too selfish and self-centered and need a lesson in the proprieties of life. ington by W. J. Graham. 1 Representative jClyde H. Tavenner^ of the fourteenth Illinois district is pretty well known as one of the most advanced pacifists in the country. His activity in advocating the cause of unprepare*Jness has had the effect of divert ing attention from^the fact that he is also one of the greatest users—and abusers—of the fed eral franking privilege now iij congress. It is stated on the authority of the Army and Navy Journal that five million copies of one speech made by him against preparedness was franked at a cost to the treasury of four hundred and ninety thousand dollars that should have been paid for postage, not to mention the salaries of the'government-paid secretary and clerks who sent out the stuff. Tavenner is a congressional lame duck and there will be much satisfaction outside the fourteenth Illinois district, as well as within it, that he is to be succeeded at Secretary Lane, a member of the American Mexican joint commission, says that Carranza is a strong man but the general impression is that he is a weak and crooked man on whom little reliance can be placed. If he shows any disposition to be straightforward it probably will be because his troops are dieserting to Villa by the hundreds, and because his government wants to borrow money of us. Some Keokuk families will insist on having turkey for Thanskgiving even if it has to be one of those cute little papier mache ones sold in the toy stores t. THE DAILY GATE Wash|It CTTT {%X IOWA PRESS COMMENT. Cedar Rapids Republican: Miss Ruth Law the aviatrix and Miss Jean ette Rankin, the congresswoman-elect, have decidedly held the center of the Btage recently. Mere man can see where his place in the future v111 be. The superior sex talk Is making the world smile a bit broadly. Ottumwa Courier: It we are to rote for Judges in a separate column on the ballot, then let It be the first column Instead of the last. Webster City Freeman-Tribune: An auctioneer at Iowa City who makes a specialty of farm sales says he has found newspaper advertising the best and puts the farmer to the least trou ble. In many counties sale hills are not printed any more, BeUers relying entirely for publicity upon display ad vertisements in the newspapers. Sioux City Tribune: In view of present prices on leather and fats it is no longer a mark of niggardliness that an individual may he willing to skin a flea for Its hide and tallow. An incident of that kind now would be a mere commercial venture. Waterloo Courier: Since the presi dent's inauguration is going to be "bone dry," we presume most of the diplomats will nend in their regrets and take a little run over to New York during the festivities. Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A New York man has sued the publishers of the city directory because his name was omitted. Probably he was a new bill collector and confidently expected those whose accounts he i-eld to use the directory to call him up and in form him just where he could find them. Marshalltown Times-Republican: Mr. Gompqra having asserted that the Adamson law will work "law or no law'* suggests that somebody ought to see Mr. G. and quote the proverb re lating to a ciose mouth. Sioux City Journal: Newspaper folk and newspaper readers both have reason for feeling grateful to Presi dent Wilson with the announcement that the president's message to con gress will consist of but 2,000 words. No president in history, up to this time has been able to express bis ideas in an annual message in sp little space. Doubtless the message will be follow ed from time to time as the short ses sion continues with other similarly brief messages. In that way the presi dent will stand a much better chance to have all his addresses read than he would- if he followed the usual prac tice of issuing a statement a great many thousand words long. The Nation Faces a Peril. Des Moines Capital:' There is an uneasy feeling abroad in the land due to the relations between the brothci hoods of railroad workers and the railroads. The brotherhoods are talking of a merger with the American Federa tion of Labor. The efTect of this will be to array practically all of union labor on one s'de of a single contro versy. The railroads are already more or less united. As regards the Adam son law they will pool their Interests in one test nise providing the fed eral legal department can be brought to an agreement. The business Interests of the en tire country are indignant. The man ner in which the Adamson law was rushed- through the last session of congress still rankles in their breast. Local men who attended the ses sion of the United States Chamber of Commerce say that the delegates are thoroughly aroused over the situa tion. They demand that congress pass legislation which will prevent strikes. They insist that the country be protected against a repetition :f the danger which threw -the nation Into confusion in August, when a nri versal railroad strike was narrowly averted. Students of public affairs for years have predicted a gigantic struggle between capital and labor. Such a thing would be a' calamity compar able to the o'he which now involves Europe. This is a day for sober thinking and decisive action. It is ^n hour of national peril. Helen Keller and Billy Sunday. Helen Keller, world's most famous blind and deaf woman, went to hear Billy Sunday, evangelist, who is now preaching in Boston. "The noisiest man I ever heard," jshe said. "He is a monkey wrench 'thrown Into the machinery of the social revolution that, is surely com ing. "He is doing a lot of good, but not In the way he thinks he is. "He is preaching an old faith, but 'he has not he^rd from God in a long time." Sweet Girl Graduate. Louisville Courier-Journal: A very clever girl had taken one of the prin cipal graduation prizes, and her friends crowded around her at the close oTthe I exercises to congratulate her. "My, but you must have been awful !ly afraid you wouldn't get It, Grace," jsaid one of her friends, "when there [were so many contestants." Scared," cheerfully answered Grace, "not on your life. I knew I could put over them on most of the subjects, and when It came to English grammar and composition I had 'em skinned a mile." Footstool*. Kansas City Star: Footstools were the very foundations of our homes when grandmother was a girl, declares Mary Margaret McBride in the Colum bia Times, adding that no room was completely fnrnlshed In the olden days unless it had at least three in it Some of the footstools were made of tomato cans and some had blocRS of wood in side, but every one was covered with beautiful patchwork made from the dresses of all the eleven children and most of the twenty-nine grand-chil dren. George Washington, the first presi dent, was sworn in in Wall street. New York City, on the steps of the .sub-treasury buildln*. II I' GATE ~. The vesper service given tay the Girls' Glee club of Cartilage college, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran 'church, Sunday, Nov. 26, at five o'clock was at tended by the largest crowd ever as. sembled to hear the annual Thanks giving musical given by the college dhurch, the main auditorium being fill ed, and the annex more than full with people standing at evefy available space. These musicals deserve the patronage of all the college friends, as it takes much time and training to pre pare the chorus and special solo work. Miss Bva Simmons, director, Miss Mabel Woodworth and Mrs. C. B. New comer, accompanists, thei chorus ren dering the following program: Autumn, arranged by Harris from No. 2 of Crelg's first Peer Gynt suite. Chorus With Verdue Clad (from "The Creation") 'Haydn Enna Rowe Orpheus with his Lute ...... German Chorus They That Sow in Tears .... Rogers Joy Cutler Prayer (from "Boris Godounow") The infant daughter of Dr. Royal S.i Run^on, of this city, is quite ill with pneumonia, aVthe home of his parents, in Elvaston. 'At last report there was some improvement In the condition of the baby. The ball game played Saturday af ternoon between the Illinois college and the Carthage college teams, on the local field, resulted In a score of 42 to 0 In favor of Illinois. Circuit Court Proceedings, October Term, 1916, Harry M. Waggoner, J«°ge Presiding. .Court adjourned Until January 2, 1917. Common Law. William Goodman vs. Samuel A. McCailister, Trustee. Appeal by deft. Jury called, selected and sworn to try cause evidence heard on behalf of plaintiff. Motion to direct jury to re turn verdict finding issues for defend ant suit dismissed by plaintiff. Judg ment in- favor of defendant, for cost execution awarded. William H. Prentice vs. Robert R. Wallace. Assumpsit. Suit dismissed by plaintiff. Frank M. Bersln vs. Wabash Rail way Co. Case. Suit dismissed by plaintiff. Wyman Schafer vs. George H. Trautvetter, Jr. Case. Leave given plaintiff to withdraw plea No. 1. De murrer sustained as to all other pleas: leave given to file additional pleas, which were filed: leave given to reply double to plea No. 7. Chancery. Thomas J. Kirby vs. Frank Uhler, et al. Partition. Report of commis sioners filed decree signed approving same, ordering sale. I^ena Renard vs. Tda Hinman and Ella Hinman. Creditor's bill. Issues joined order of reference signed. Augustus F. Nixoii et al vs. Susan C. Kimf)rough et al. Partition. Re port of master in chancery filed de cree signed approving same, awarding partition, appointing, commissioners report of-commissioners filed decree signed approving same, ordering sale. Qiarles H. Ingraham guardian etc, vs. Anna N. Lund et al. Bill in chan cery. Death of John D. Miller, guard Ian ad litem suggested order signed appointing Roswell B. O^Harra, guard ian ad litem. Willis E. Huff vs. Luella A. Burke et al. Specific performance. Consent decree signed. Maedalen# S. Yarnell et al vs. Wil liam Yarnell et al. Partition. Report of commissioners filed, decree signed approving same, ordering sale decree signed approving report of sale, fixing solicitor's fees, ordering distribution. Wm. A. Mussetter vs. Richard F. Barrett et al. Bill to quiet title. Re port of master in chancery filed de cree signedtgrantlng relief, striking cause. George Metternich et al vs. James H. Callahan et aL Foreclosure. Re ceiver discharged cause stricken with leave to reinstate, without notice. Reuben C. Goehrlg, et al vs. Louisa) Furst et al. Partition. Stricken with leave to reinstate. Motion to redocket motion carried. Cause redocketed. CARTHAGE, ILL., NOV. 28. Moussorgsky Chorus But the Lord is Mindful (from "St. Paul") Mendelssohn Nellie Zinn The Village Blacksmith—A cantata' by .Noyes Chorus The union Thanksgiving service will be held In the Lutheran church on Thursday at 10 a. m., Rev. J. W. Ferris to preach the serson. The annual thapk offering service of the W. H. and F. M. S. will be held in this church on, next Sunday even ing, Dec. 3, at 7:30 o'clock. Miss Agnes Schumacher, of Springfield. Ohio, field secretary of the Central district, will give the address. ./ ',. v- ,.'. •_ .'f*S ." TUESDAY, wov. 28,191V Report of final distribution filed de creq signed approving same and strik ing cause. Ruby Coleman vs. Clate Coleman. Divorce granted. Mary A. Bolton vs. Samuel J. Rus sell et al. Foreclosure. Report of special master filed objections, by agreement, to stand as exceptions. The Carthage Savings Loan & Build ing association vs. William O. Ewlng et al. Foreclosure. Report of sdeed filed decree signed approving same? striking cause from docket. Martha A. Safford -vs. Henry B. Bls shopp et al. Foreclosure. Decree signed approving report of sale. Mattie A, Crow vs. Magdalene W. Waggoner et al. Bill in chancery. Appearance of defendants, Ellsworth Crow and Alva Hamrlclc entered In writing and ruled to answer Instant er. 'All defendants ruled to answer amended original bill and cross bill. Robert R. Wallace vs. Henry C. By ler et al. Decree signed approving re port of sale. Amanda Rampley et al vs. James Asbury Knott et al. Partition. De cree of distribution signed. William H. Pitt et* al vs. Fred C. Pitt, et al. Bill in chancery. Report of deed and final distribution filed decree signed approving same strik ing cause. William J. Singleton vs. Robert C., Gibson et al. Foreclosure. Bill dis missed by complainant cost paid. Peoples State Bank of Hamilton vs. David L. Culkin et al. Foreclosure. Decree signed approving report of sale. Dime Savings Bank. vs. Irving May or et al. Foreclosure. Bill dismissed by complainant. Laura B. Nelson et al vs. Marritt F. Carr et aL Partition, peath. of Ida May Newell and Merritt F. Carr sug gested. Wm. R. Hay et al vs. John Scott et al. Bill to quiet title. Order signed amending order of reference report of master filed decree signed approv ing same granting relief, striking cause. Eva Long vs. Luther Long. Divorce. Motion by complainant for expense money aUowed and order signed. The National Bank of Milton, vs. T. C. Boag, et-al. Foreclosure. Report of master in chancery filed decree signed approvingxsame, ordering sale. Alfred P. Quick et al vs. Francis M. Shlpe et al. Partition. Report of master filed decree signed appoint ing commissioners, approving report of master, awarding partition. Report of commissioners filed decree signed approving same and ordering sale. nomas M. Stevenson vs. John F. JSteveqson et al. Partition. Defend ants Ida Stevenson. Roy Reldner, Wil liam Seaver, Pearl Stevenson and Charlie Stevenson, called and default ed defendants in cross bill ruled to answer^ rule discharged. Demurrer to part of cross bill and answer to re mainder file^. Lemoine P. Dawson et al vs. James P. Dawson et al. Construe will. De fendant John Brant. Jr: /defendant in cross bill) called? defaulted order of reference signed. Ella M. Dye vs.* James M. Dye. Di vorce. Order of default set aside and cause continued for service. Clara Crossland, vs. Jacob S. Cross land. Divorce granted. Albert H. Glazebrook vs. Roy Fred ertfc et al. Partition.- Report of mas 7- •YN YOUR GROCER IS RELIABLE He wants-to hold your trade and tries to §ell you brands he knows you will like. KC He is always ready to recommend BAKING POWDER ~. ter filed decree signed same, awarding partiUon aDDoim^* commissioners. Report of sioners filed, decree signed apprX same, ordering sale. •Miss Winifred Holt. vrovuig Miss Jfetfcer Cleveland. daughtM. the late Grover Cleveland, forml* president of the United States *1 arrived in Paris to take uD J*? among the blind soldiers at "Phare de Paris," an American stitution which has aocomhrfsh* much good under the direction ot Don't fool with a cold. Cure it CASCARADQUININE'M• The old family remedy-fa tablet form—aafe. sue, easy to take. Nn opiates—no unpleasant after effcc*. Cures colds in 24 hours-Grin to*. Mosey Uck if it faii£ cJt WfJSf ^th ^ed Top aM Mb luffs picture on it-25 AiA^DmSte) Hopes Women Will Adopt This Habit As Well As Men 'Glass of hot water each morn ing helps ua look and feel Clean, sweet, fresh. •Happy, bright, alert—vigorous and I vivacious—a good clear skin a nat ural, rosy complexion and freedom from illness are assured only bj' clean, healthy blood. If only every woman and likewise every man couM realize the wonders of the morniof inside bath, wh*t a gratifying would take place. Instead of the thousands of sickly, an a ok in an it as ions instead of the multitudes ot "nerve wrecks," "rdHdowns," "brain: fags" qnd pessimists we should see 11 virile, optimistic throng of roiy. cheeked people everywhere. An inside bath is had by drinking each morning before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a te* spoopful of limestone phosphate is ft1! to wash from the stomach, liver, ktff an a of el he re vlous day's indigestible waste, fermentations and. poisons, tlnij cleansing, sweetening and freshen^ the entire alimentary canal tefa| in or in to to c'j Those subject to sick headache, iousness, nasty breath, rheumatl colds and particularly those 1 have a pallid, sallow complexion who are constipated very often, urged to obtain a quarter pound eC limestone phosphate at the drug store 1 which will cost but a trifle but is ft&J ficient to demonstrate the qaMy remarkabljft change in both health and appearance awaiting those practice internal sanitation. We mot remember that inside cleanliness it more important than outside, 1» cause the skift does not absorb im purities to contaminate the bloc while the pores in the thirty feet fcowels do. 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