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DAILY GATE CITX]
and Constitution-Democrat
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THE GATE CITY COMPANY.
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CU.TE CITY—Established 1854.
CONSTITUTION—Established 1847.
DEMOCRAT—Established 1881
Consolidated March 26, 1888.
CJHEJF—Established in 18»2.
Consolidated September 22, 1&92.
QATE CITY and CONSTITUTION-DBiMOGRAT—
Consolidated April 8, 1916.
C. F. Sklrvln ..General Manager
C. E. Warwick Btminesa Manager
Entered at the poatofflco at Keokuk as seoond-clas*
matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATEMT
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Dally, except Sunday.
The most difficult thing In life seem* to me to recoanlze
which Is the highest of two conflicting duties, and those
to whom it is easiest must have, I tWnk, not only the most
happiness but genius. If goodness were always quite
simple, what could be more delightful than to be good al
ways? It Is, however, a sad thing, when the understand
ing and the affeotlons are at variance, when one has to
stop and consider which of two course* is morally Incum
bent on one, and without always flndlivg a solution It Is
sad, because it shafces one's faith In that which ought to
be the surest of guides, namely, in one's own conscience
and let one ohoose what he will, it leaves In his mind a
sting, something to regret.—Paul Heyse.
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
PERSEVERANCE.
He who would endless glory reap,
Must here the word of patience keep
That word «wfcJch gives the eye to see
The glorious harvest yet to be.
The husbandman, his seed who sows,
Must wait with patience while It grows
And he who would the oak uprear
Must cherish, hope from year to yea*.
The architect who lays the while
The basement of a lofty pile,
By Blow laborious toll alone
Can reach the turrets' topmost stone.
LIVE AND LEARN.
It must be that President Wilson is gaining,
month by month, a truer insight into Mexican
character. It would appear that when he en
tered office he looked upon Carranza as a whis
kered Washington^ a wise and lofty soul and
regarded Villa as a half-breed Bolivar^ a trifle
impetuous perhaps but a pure, unselfish patriot
who would give his heart's blood for his people.
We should probably not be far -wrong in as
suming that these preconceptions our scholarly
president drew from books have been sensibly
modified. Up to the time of his election it does
not appear that he had ever contacted a Mexi
can peon closely—closely enough to become
aware of his proximity by an excitation of tho
olfactory glands. He seems to have thought of
the Mexicans as mild and amiable Aztecs or
dreamy-eyed Mestizos, a just and kindly peo
ple capable of establishing a Utopian republic,
if only they had the chance, under the guidance
of the high-minded liberators who were seeking
to bring the despotic Huerta to his knees. In
those days when our envoys extraordinary
were courting Villa and lavishing courteous at
tentions on Carranza, how little the president
.dreamed that we should soon be hunting one
of them and the other soon might be hunting
us.
Well might our president exclaim "Et tu,
(Brute"—in fact he might cry "two brutes"—
as he recalls how sedulously he sought to mag
nify them and munition them and build them
•up against the de facto president who labored
to establish order in the land. So we live and
learn—our rulers no less than the rest of us, if
they are hospitable to new ideas—and we hope
that the things our president has learned of tho
yellow and the brown men will help him a heap
in the troublous times that probably are to
come, give him a truer understanding than ho
has shown of the self-governing capacity of the
all the worl.L 1 h.» epigram, from bmted,
folates benator Smoot .s not overdrawn truth.
But his assumption that poor management on
the part of housewives is altogether responsible Scta.te
for the fatness is unjust. If -we examine the
garbage can closely we shall find not only
wasted food from the mismanaged kitchen, but
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Meek pilgrim Zlonward! If thou
Hast put thy hand unto the plow,
O look not back, nor droop dismay*d.
At thought of victory delay'd.
Doubt not that thou. In seasons due,
Shalt own His gracious promise true
And thou shalt share their glorious lot
Whom doing well hath wearied not.
—Bernard Barton.
Wit is useful for everything but sufficient
for nothing.—Amiel.
TWT FAT GAURAftF fiw Clarence F. Buck, of Monmonth, HI., has an
THE AR AG-E CAN. mi need his candidacv for the republican sena
"Tho American garbage ,-aa is the fattest
denying it. Bnt we cannot fairly single out
either sex and lay the whole blame there. We
have multitudes of wasteful men and wastful
women. While we are training our girls to be
thrifty, economical housewives, as Senator
Smoot urges, let us also train our boys to be
equally conservations! of money and supplies
handled by them.
1 WHO PAYS?
There is a leseon in the life and death of
Fred Busse, former postmaster and former
mayor of Chicago, that may well be taken to
heart by men and women throughout the states.
When Bus6e died it was supposed that he had
left a fortune. On the contrary, when claims
were allowed and the estate settled up, there
was nothing, or near nothing. The widow is
oV (working for thirty dollars a week as an
employe of the city of Chicago. Fred Busse
was a typical politician. Whom he would he
set up and whom lie would he pulled down. His
word was law, and his followers rendered unto
him more than was rightfully his, and so he was
generally reputed to be enormously wealthy.
But the old rult of easy come, easy go was again
proved. All that remained to his widow when
settlement came was five thousand dollars'
worth of real estate. So now she is working for
thirty dollars a week for the city over which
her husband once ruled.
The
sWarmed about Busse the mayor and. Busse
the postmaster apparently were not interested
in the fate of the widow of the man to whom
they had bent the pregnant hinges of the knee.
The men whom Busse had put in powerful
places forgot him and his as soon as he was
dead. A few friends found work for the widow
in order to give her an opportunity to support
herself and children. As Busse lived so he
died, and his family is now paying the penalty.
100 PER CENT IN BRAVERY.
It is said that the evidence in the inquiry re
lating to the New York Central wreck at Am
herst, Ohio, goes to show that the trains were
running in a fog and that the block system was
defective.
The season of fogs is here. The grey mantle
of mist settles over the earth and most of us
dash gaily through it as we would through a
thick falling snow.
But there are many of us to whom there is
no joy in a fog—nothing but tense nerves,
hearts a-quiver, danger, death.
Fog is the greatest terror of railroad men,
the one million railroad trainmen in America.
While a fog lasts a railroad trainman knows not
what minute ho will be plunged into an acci
dent.
No lights will shine through its density.
No signal can be seen until the railroad man
is upon it.
Trains go blind, but they must go.. It is like
a leap into the great unseen—one knows not
what is before, life or death.
But we have never heard of a railroad man
who faltered. The soldier sees the cannon
mouth. The railroadman sees nothing—but
he expects everything.
No army on the crimson battlefields of
Europe is more heroic than America's army of
railroad train heroes, one million strong!
It is understood that the United States is
buying the radio-dynamic torpedo invented by
John Hays Hammond, Jr. ITiis torpedo, it is
claimed, can be so controlled as to insure itt»
striking its mark at a distance
from three to twenty-eight miles. If any such
contrivance exists, it is hoped the United
States will not only buy it bnt will keep very
still about it. Americans have invented most
of the contrivances that have revolutionized
warfare and the government has let them pass
into the possession of other powers without
even adopting them itself till long after other
nations had become well equipped with them.
Our few antiquated aeroplanes, compared with
what the European
'ample.
torial nomi„ati)n for tke
district compoS(.d of
Warren. He
alld
we shall find cigar stubs and other substances German defeat announced from Paris. Yuan
that come, not from the kitchen of housewives,
hut from the locale of tho male of the family.
,We. as a people, do waste much—there is no
friends who
nations have, are an ex-
A bill has been passed by the New York state
senate providing that clubs must grant hear
ings before they drop members. If it becomes
a law it ought logically to be followed by an en
actment regulating debating societies and one
also poviding that before any one can drop an
undesirable acquaintance a hearing must duly
be granted to the person about to be dropped,
thus completing the circle of fool legislation.
Thirty-second Illinois
Hancock, McDonough and
has teen active in politic for
regarded as a strong candi-
The rumor tliat Yuan Shi Kai is going to re
sign comes from hostile Chinamen. It is like a
is a Confucian. He doesn't think it is more
blessed to give than to receive, and he never
yet has shown himself a quitter.
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Went All Over Hands. Skin Very
Red and Burning. Lost Rest,
Could Not Put Hands in Water.
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"Sly akin began to get rough
and
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Iowa Just sent a boy on horseback.
But she had the horses in the stable
and peeling.
It went all over my face and hands and on
nay neck,
every time I would wash I
took some »kln off. My akin
w&» very red and burning
and
I
had to scratch and my
Cms was disfigured. I
lost
rest at night, and
I
could not
put my hands In water.
"One day I found a Cutt
enra Soap and Ointment ad
vertisement. I first bought a
box of Cutlcura Ointment and then a cake
of Cutlcura Soap, and after using then*
about a week
mr
face began to get well,
and 1 used about two cakes of Cutlcura Soap
and two boxes of Ointment and I was
healed." (Signed) Edward Podobtd, 3027
Gresh&m Ave., Chicago, 111., Sept. 20. 1015.
Sample Each Free by Mail
With 32-p. Sldn Book on request. Ad
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Somebody
tries to throw a scare into the pub
lic by reciting that Germany and
.Austria combined have 190,000 reserv
ists in the United States. Very for
tunate. They should be able to -whip
the 150,000 Japanese reservists pres
ent in the United States for the pur
pose of conquering the country.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A lot of
loose writing is being done concern
ing the primary. The energy thus
wasted could be used to good advan
tage In a campaign of education on
the duties of citizenship. The diffi
culty which confronts this country Is
not too much primary, but too little
interest in community and govern
mental welfare on the part of the
people.
Des Moines Register: It is being
assumed altogether too unqualifiedly
that Wilson is going to be weak in
the east, because certain big busi
ness Interests are against him. Wil
son is not going to be weak in the
east or anywhere else, as against a
candidate whose nomination revives
the animosities of four years ago.
Sioux City Journal: Henceforth
when you see him passing up the
black headlines on page one and
turning feverishly to the Inside of
the paper, don't wonder. The season
in the big leagues has opened. In
other words, the average fan loves
his war news, but oh, you box scores!
Just the same with the harness on.
Dubuque Times-Journal: The Sioux
City Tribune prints a long editorial
expressing the opinion that bootleg
ging is giving Iowa a black eye, and
follows this up by claiming that the ,.
surest relief would come from elect- Philippines, so leglt
ing Cosson governor. If conditions Irately this country and so import-
are as bad as pointed by i'he Trib
une, then why doesn't Mr. Cosson, at
present attorney general, do some
thing. The general opinion is that it
is more within the province of the at
torney genera! to enforce laws than
any other official.
Cedar Rapids Republican: William
H. Taft has not yet surrendered, but
one of his cabinet officers. Von
Meyer, has decided that Roosevelt is
the "psychological candidate.'" But
psychological does not always mean
successful.
Marshalltown Times-Republican: A
good deal of fault is being found with
the short vote of the presidential
primary. Some of those fellows would
hitch up a six-horse team to haul a
two-by-four. In that presidential pri-
No Recommendation.
Sibley Tribune: This is a free
country and any citizen may run for
office if he wants to. But the fact
that a man has been a failure in
everything be has undertaken and'
needs an office is no recommendation
for him and no inducement for any
body to get behind him and push his
prospects.
Hard to Make a Selection.
J. R. in Davenport Times: We are
torn with conflicting doubt as to
which makes the best reading, the
life's history of Bat Nelson or the
adventures of joe Howard.
PIMPLY? WELL, DON'T BE!
People
Notice It. Drive Them
Off With Dr. Edwards'
Olive Tablets
A pimply face will not embarrass yon
much longer If you get a packa.se of Dr.
Edwards' Olive Tablets. The skin should
begin to clear after you havs taken the
tablets a few nights.
Cleanse the bTood, tho bowels and the
liver with Olive Tablets.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are the suc
cessful substitute for cfltomel—there's
never any sickness or pain after taking
them.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does, and Just as effectlvs
ly, but their action is gentle and safe in
stead of severe and Irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is ever
cursed with "a dark brown taste." a bad
breath, a dull, listless, "no good" feeling,
constipation, torpid liver, bad disposition
or pimply face.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely
vegetable corinpound mixed with olive oil
you will know tbem by their olive color.
Dr. Edward* spent years among pa
tients afflicted with liver and bowel com-
filalnts.and
Olive Tablets are the Immense^
effective result.
Take one or two nightly for a week.
See how much better you feel and look.
10c and 25c per box. All druggist*
Olive Tablet Company, Cotuzabu*
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[The Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed by
correspondents.]
"la Mr. Wilson's Mind Breaking?"
To the Editor of The Gate City:
It certainly looks as though
Festus' charge to Paul wag coming
true In Mr. Wilson's case. That he
is a scholar and a theorist no one
can doubt, but his enigmatical talk
In Washington before the chairmen
of the congressional committee's laa$
Friday and this followed by his talk'
Monday afternoon before the rvomen
of the D. A. R., certainly arouses
grave apprehension. That these sort
of confused sentiments recers-tly ex
pressed could have come from the
same man who made the series of
"^Preparedness" addresses throughout
the central wesl two months ago,
seems impossible to believe.
That he should' assume to take the
conduct of So grave a matter as this
submarine question with Germany—
out of the, hands of his secret toy of
state and send off a state paper of
that sort without its contents beings
known to anyone but himself, cer
tainly is cause for alarm. If he con
tinues for the next two months to
make progress in that direction as
be has done since his St. Louis speech
we believe that every intelligent man
In congress will hold his breath for
fear of coming results.
L. H. AYER.
Keokuk, Iowa, April 18, 1916.
Why Throw Away an Empire?
New York Tribune: The report pf
the minority members of the houa*
committee on insular affairs dispose*
in few words of the latest democratic
argument for the Philippines scuttle—
that the islands should be abandoned,
because indefensible, as part of tho
preparedness program. On the same
basis of reasoning Porto Rico, the
Panama canal and Alaska would have
to go by the board, because it would
always be easier to give them up than
to find an army and munitions to de
fend them if they were attacked.
The absurdity of this line of alleg
ed thought appears the moment the
abandonment of the Canal Zone or
Alaska Is mentioned. Even the pres
ent administration has not reached the
degree of absurdity involved in that
suggestion yet it is scarcely less rid
iculous to propose to run from the
Philippines'—yet unattacked—because
forsooth, some day they might be
somewhat hard to defend, being so far
away.
For tiioee who back the vicious
Clarke proposal, one reason Is Just
about as good as another. Always
there remains tho question, "Why?"
"Why throw away an empire?" queries
the San Francisco chamber of com
merce, in connection with resolutions,
sent to both houses of congress, de
nouncing the scuttle. Why waste all
the money, all the human energy,
which have gone into transforming
those islands from a misruled, disease
ridden semi-savage community into a
clean, healthy, orderly colony, whose
people, under American teaching In
American schools, are well on the way
to civilization?
Why abandon these wards of ours in
the Pacific for whose benefit the Unit
ed States undertook the gigantic task
it is performing so well? Why cast
aside the material advantages of tho
ant to this country? Why hand over
to competitors the export business
from America to the islands—$28,000,
000 In 1914? Why lose this vast tropic
empire, the source of raw products of
inestimable value to this country?
Who is responsible for the adoption
of the Clarke amendment?" the repub
lican members of the committee on
insular affairs ask. Not President
Wilson, for he has said he considers it
"unwise at this time." Who? Per
haps if that question could be answer
ed, sonie real answer could be obtained
to the Innumerable "whys" which be
set the scuttle proposal.
Danger of Indifference.
Waterloo Courier and Reporter:
Whether or not the women of Iowa
are given the ballot in the June elec
tion will depend very largely upon
whether or not they want the ballot.
The average male voter, if he
votes at all on the question of wom
an suffrage, will be mightily swayed
by the women members of his house
hold. If they are strong for the bal
lot the chances are that he will vote
"Yes." If they are opposed to it or
indifferent he will probably vote
"No." There will be others that will
not vote on the question at all.
There is a large class of Iowa
women who want the ballot and who
are working enthusiastically for the
cause of suffrage. There Is a still
larger class who hold a more or less
neutral attitude towards votes for
women. They are willing to accept
suffrage if it is thrust upon them.
They would vote if women had the
ballot and the issues at stake were
of vital interest to them. Like the
average male voter they would go to
the polls on big occasions and would
neglect to vote on questions that in
terested them in a lesser degree.
They lack the fire and zeal of the
crusader. They have not heard the
clarlan call to woman's emancipation.
The bonds of political enthrallment
have rested but lightly upon them.
They are still to be baptized with
the spirit of the "new woman." They
are very well satisfied with things as
thfey are. They are content to go on
with their cooking, dusting and
sweeping, afternoon card parties and
missionary meetings and to let the
men look after the affairs of state.
They are willing to dismiss all such
matters with a light gesture and
a "I-never-dld-care-anything-about-poli
tlcs, sort of expression.
If woman suffrage is defeated in
Iowa it will be as a result of this
attitude of indifference. Few Iowa
women are openly opposed to suf
frage. But if they want the ballot
they must not only faror it but de
mand it in positive and unmistakable
terms.
Diseouragfnfl.
St. Louis Olobe-Democrat: Oar ex
periences with Carransa should lessen
the presidential ardor for Pan-Ameri
can alliances.
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of butter. Use one-fifth'less Crisco than butter and add ait.
If you will merely use Crisco properly there will be no need to mix an*
butter with it. Your Crisco cake will be as nice as the more expensive
cake you formerly nude with butter. Crisco cake stays fresh and
moist longer.
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Eggless-Butterless-Milkless Cake 25c
$4 cupful Crisco
2 cupfuls brown sugar
2 cupfuls water
1
1 cupful seeded raisins
1 teaspoonful salt _•
teaspoonfuls powdered cinnamon
l^teaspoonful powdered cloves
Put thfc Crisco into a saucepan, add sugar, water, raisins,
salt and spiccrand boil for three minutes. Cool and when
cold add the flour, baking powder, soda dissolved in the
warm water and the nut meats. Mix and turn into a
Criscoed and
flourcd-cake
tin and bake in a slow oven for
one and a half hours.
When one makes a -will creating a trust estate, that person un
doubtedly desires that the trust shall be performed in strict accord
ance with the directions of the one creating the trust After death
it devolves upon the trustee to eee that his wishes are carried out
whether the beneficiaries like it or not..
An Individual named as trustee Is frequently subjected to argu
ments, importunities or persuasions to not keep the strict letter
of the trust,—the living are more In evidence than the dead. But
a corporate trustee has to keep the letter of the trust and perform
the wishes of the one making It. An individual trustee may dls
and complicate the trust, but a corporate trustee lives on and
avoids snch entanglements.
A trust may be created by will or by deed. The creator of the
trust may reserve the income for life and also reserve the right to
alter the trust control its investment and revoke the trust if oc
casion requires.
CAPITAL PAID UP $55,000.00
(This Shows Our Respenslb|llty.)
ADDITIONAL STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY $55,000.03
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teaspoonful powdered mace
2 teaspoonfuls baking soda
4 cupfuls flour
1 teaspoonful baking powder
cupful chopped nCit meats
3 tablespoonfuli warm water
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Trust Department
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receiver, guardian for the property of minors or others, and execu
tor under a will or by appointment.
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