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(TBB3 GATE CITY COMPANY
18 North Sixth Street
CUT—Established ISO.
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DBMOORAT—Established U»
Consolidated Varch tt, 1S&8.
bllshed In 1892.
The larger natures eee the good and sympatWze with
weaknesses and the frailties of others. They realize
that It Is so consummately inconsistent for one also
Ith weaknesses, frailties, and faults, though perhaps of a
Jttle different character, to sit in judgment of another.—
taJpti Waido Trine.
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
A UTTLE CLOUD.
Ire me a little cloud in my sky,
thtag to bound and to measure by.
|.Wben the face of the day is & stainless bine,
of the Alpine gentian's hue,
sometimes afraid to look up, I own,
that deep of the sky austere and lone,
*e my thoughts might he scattered, and nevermore
found.
And the soul of me drift afar and be drowned
mora at peace, and I'm more at home,
If a curtain be drawn OIL the limitless dome,
a dove gray plume may float between
^That darkness af space (Where none has been)
4 myself, that tears what it never knew!
'3far a -ckmd with the human has something to da
Tisthe breath of the earth made Into sweet dew
from the well of the tears of this earth It drew
The very drops In its bosom deep,
Once feathered the grass on a laureMed steep,
Once kissed the flowers in the valley asleep.
A little cloud is a little clue
To a soul astray in the unhmman blue
iJVyr a cloud is something of lie and Tou,
Ami on its screen can the arc be shown
sWIth all tints that, our joy and sorrow have known!
—Bdlth M. Thomas, in New York San.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey
toward it,* oasts the shadow of our burden be
hind us.—Samuel Smiles.
FARMERS GIVE ADVICE.
The advisory committee of farmers and live
stock producers, representing all the agricultur
al sections, recently appointed by Secretary of
liAgriculture Houston and Food Administrator
iHoover to advise with these departments, have
.'been in consultation, and after much discussion
-and deliberation have outlined a number of ex
icellent suggestions for the department of agri
culture and food administration to consider.
Ln view of the fact that the foreign supply of
Vegetable seeds is practically cut off by reason
of war conditions, the committee advises that
all growers of vegetables be urged to save seed
for themselves as far as practicable and to con
serve such supplies of seed as may come into
their possession. Steps should be taken imme
diately to conserve supplies of buckwheat seed
{hat axe now in danger of being consumed as
food, and the increased planting of this crop is
urged. It is also recommended that the bureau
of markets be more lenient in fixing the grades
of wheat for the period of the war and consider
carefully the proposed changes advocated by
wheat growers.
The policy of the government in discourag
ing shipments of material for the cons traction
of state, county and municipal improvements
*was endorsed It was urged that men of the
towns and cities who are capable of perform
ing farm labor adjust their activities in such a
way as to meet the demands of the farmers at
the period of greatest strain on the farm, and
g| skilled farm laborer was defined as a man
?lrh© knows by training and experience the or-
ainary methods and practices employed inj
growing and harvesting the crops produced in
the community in which he lives.
Constructive rather than destructive prac
jfiees were advocated in dealing with the beef
peckers, and while it was agreed that govern
.supervision and control should be con-
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Consolidated April t, 1914. __
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the postofflce it Keokuk as aecond-clas»
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tinned extended in a business-like manner,]
and that any unreasonable profit should be
eliminated, it was the opinion of the farmers'
committee that neither government operation
nor government ownership is practical and ad
visable at this time.
It was advised that a campaign be conducted
which will teach the public a more correct ap
preciation of the relative values of dairy prod
ucts, and that efforts be made to secure the
adoption of such dairy products as cheese in
the
and navy rations.
The movement for the planting of war gar
dens was endorsed, but it^was pointed out' that
the employment of laborers on full time in till
ing small gardens without machinery is un
economical and wasteful, because such labor
would be five times as productive if left to be
employed by farmers who have a full equipment
of machinery.
As an encouragement to industry the federal
departments were asked to take step® with a
view to securing for the farmers the same
rights and privileges in collective bargaining
as are accorded to other industries.
The advisory committee representing the
agricultural interest has displayed a commend
able spirit of wisdom in its recommendations,
and it is to be hoped that the Washington au
thorities will make extensive use of its advice
RTM-) suggestions in dealing with farm market
and labor problems.
BAKER'S NARROW VISION.
Secretary Baker makes one statement which
convicts him of lack of vision of th© scope and
possibilities of this war. He says that it is
useless to train men in military service in ex
cess of facilities to send them to France. It
t.hfg were not quoted in all despatches and
were not accepted by congressmen and appar
ently by the secretary himself as his real state
ment, it would be incredible that a man of pub
lic ,duty in this war, fresh from the battlefront,
should so fail to realize more of what the whole
thing portends to this nation. It is plain to
fhinlring men that we axe at war with Ger
until
we get the safeguards which beat­
ing her will give us. At present we fight Ger
many in France and Belgium. Where we shall
have to fight her in the future none of ns
knows, not even Mr. Baker. The army we
shall need depends upon how long we must
fight, on how many fronts we must fight, on
jhow much help we continue to have in the
fighting. The army we need is a matter not
determined by the number of soldiers we can
transport to Prance in aiiy certain time. What
ever tTrr« number may be now, it will be great
er as we get on with our shipbuilding. It does
not add confidence to his army plans to know
that he is forecasting shipping possibilities to
make a basis for recommendations as to in
crease in .the army. And if he views the war
as simply the battle now on in France, his vi
sion is narrow, he fails to comprehend the de
clared purpose of the president and the will of
the nation. He must see further if he be fit for
his job.
OUR RED MEN IN THE WAR.
Six thousand Indians of our country have re
sponded to the call to arms.
in Oklahoma have sent their bravest, many of
whom are .rich and college graduates, as intense
ly eager as any white soldier for bayonet prac
tice o» the Huns. The son of the old chief Ba
conrind of the Osage nation, and Herbert
Whiteshield, the noted baseball player, are in
the cantonments trained down to fighting
weight and hard as nails and Jesse Fixon, son
of
Cherokee chief, swears that he will bayonet
the kaiser or at least some junker of import
ance who has outlived his usefulness to the
world. All of our Indian soldiers submit to dis
cipline and sanitary and other regulations as
cheerfully as other of our troops. Our red men
are warriors ,by ancesty and instinct, and we
may yet have some authentic moving picture
films that show how Indians really fight, to
take the place of pictured raids by imitation In
dians of which the country has long been so
tired. Certainly we may be sure that none of
our red warriors will
-show
or nation is always accommodated.
coat-
Fourteen tribes!than to
& yellow streak.
"If our enemies don't want peace they will
have to fight," says Ludendorf. The whole
history of th« human race proves one point ab
solutely, to wit: that when a man or a nation __
goes out of his way to look for a fight the man
It used to be that the man who wore an or
chid in his buttonhole
vrss
regarded as a pluto­
crat. Nowadays, in order to be considered a
person of great wealth, a man must wear a
stalk of asparagus or a spray of celery in the
It is our theory that if General Foch pacifies
von Hindenburg and von Ludendorff he will be
entitled to alxjut half a dozen Nobel peace
prizes.
You are patriotic of course, but just how
many 4°^ars' worth are you patriotic?
IOWA PRBSS COMMENT.
Cedar Rapid# Republican: The
statistics of the city of New York
show that drunkenness in that city
has been decreased by fifty per cent.,
comparing this year with last. We
take it that these results are due to
the fact that liquor has gone up in
price and that it is harder to get, for
they do not have prohibition in New
York, not yet. It is also possible that
the better thinking on larger ques
tions has drawn men away from the
foolish business of standing at a bar
and drinking until they have lost their
senses and also often their physical
ability to stand up.
Marshall town Times Republican:
The reason Iowa could subscribe a
hundred millions in liberty bonds, iu
a day or two while the rest of the na
tion is at it yet is that we had the
money. Our 282,000 automobiles cost
as twice that sum and they are mere
ly inoidental to the wax.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Now that!
the northern as well as the southern
boys in the army in France are using
the rebel yell, it'll be all right to call
them "Yanks."
Mason City GlobeGaaette: Fire
hundred gallons of oil had to be ap
plied on the hides of Singling broth
ers' twenty-seven elephants to get
thorn ready for the summer season.
Why not Hooverize on elephants?
Burlington HawfeEJye: It is alright
to sell the old one-horse shay to buy
a Liberty bond. And keep the bond
as long a time as you kept the o. o.-h.
s.—unless 'Uncle Sam insists on pay
ing it.
Sioux City Journal: Because he
wore a mustache a young farm hand
in Polk county was arrested as an
evader of the draft and had to show
his birth certificate to prove that he
was under age. He should not have
indulged in such vanity in times like
the present.
Des Moines (Register: The Chi
cago News suggests that Luther Bur
bank ought to get busy and produce
a vegetable ham. After which he
might make an additional hit by
grafting it onto the egg-plant.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: If we don't
buy bonds, incomes may be taxed €6
per cent, as in Great Britain.
Iowa City Press: From the top of
Kemmei hill, it may be the kaiser's
generals will be able to see that they
have quite a distance to travel yet
before they reach Calais.
CHICAGO NEWSPIAPER FAILURES.
glance through them and
throw them away. You can find the
so called magazine sections of those
papers scattered in every hotel and
waiting room and railroad train—the
ten or twelve pages that contain the
essential news constitute the only
parts that the buyers carry along with
them or that most of them ever read.
And so far as news Is concerned the
Iowa papers print it five or six hours
later, covering ,tbe hours that the
Chicago sheets are enroute to their
patrons.
The Chicago publishers have not
been wholly honest with their pat
rons in the west, either. They sell
afternoon papers all over this state
that are not afternoon papers. How
can a paper be printed in Chicago in
the afternoon and be sold on the
streets of Cedar Rapids at the same
time? It takes she or almost eight
hours for the trains and the termin
als to handle those papers. Those
papers are printed in the morning
and they should be called late morn
ing papers. The morning papers of
Chicago that are sold in Iowa re
sort to the same deception. They are
not printed in the morning, but in
the evening before. They are late
evening papers, nothing more than
that and they are sold as morning
papers under false proteoses. In the
long run it always pays to be honest,
even tn the publishing business and'
a pre-dated paper ought to state that
it is so dated.
Davenport Times: Everything en-
taring into the production of newspa
pers has increased in price by leaps
and bounds in the last few years so
that frequently publications have
struggled along, their publishers
hoping against hope for increased in
come but always facing a deficit. It
has been a matter of common knowl
edge among newspaper mien that the
Chicago Herald since Mr. Keeley took
hold of it in 1914 has been unprofit
able. It was out of the question for
the owners to continue always pay
ing losses out of their own pockets.
It has also been understood that the
Chicago Examiner never hag been a
paying institution, but it has contin
ued from year to year because Mr.
Hearst, a wealthy man, was able to
put up the needed money and pocket
the losses. The consolidation is in
line with the tendency apparent
everywhere to combine newspapers
for the purpose of stopping losses,
land thus to organize properties that
1
if
iL
lAwJ'Jf
would pay dividends. In other words
the consolidations have for their pur
pose the establishing of newspapers
that are able to live by their own
efforts as purveyors of news and as
advertising mediums.
A similar situation arose last year
In Cleveland. O., a city of almost
800,000, where there had been only
two morning papers, and as a result
of a change, there is now only one
morning newspaper ln Cleveland—•
the Plain Dealer.
The consolidation leaves Chicago,
a city of 2,250,000 population, with
only two morning newspapers, in
stead of five morning newspapers
that it had in days gone by. When a
city of the size of Chicago finds that
it is not large enough adequately to
support more than two morning
newspapers it ought to be self evi
dent to everyone that attempts to
maintain a multiplicity of newspapers
Cedar Rapids Republican: The Chi
cago Herald has quit this life. Mr.
James Keeley after struggling for
four years to establish his paper has in any community is foolhardy and
been compelled to surrender. The
Hearst papers have absorbed the pa
per. The Herald was the successor
of half a dozen other Chicago papers
that have fallen by the wayside.
The Chicago newspapers bare an
unsurpassed field, but the great pa
pers that have appeared to fill it are
not many. And when one compares
the Chicago papers with the great
papers of New York, or even Phila
delphia, he realizes that they are not
really the greatest newspapers in the
world as it 1b sometimes boasted of
them. They are far from it Papers
like the New York Times and New
York World have never been dupli
cated in the western metropolis. The
New York papers contain everything
—except western America news and
in that respect they are so provincial
that they can hardly see across the
Hudson. The Chicago papers are
merely a little larger papers that
are printed ln cities throughout the
west and their more pages are large
ly filled with matter that is mere pad
ding. especially is this true on Sun
day, when not one reader In ten does
more with the supplemental pages
mistaken enterprise.
The mounting costs of publishing
newspapers—costs of print paper, la
bor and materials, for features and
news service—make it utterly impos
sible nowadays for men with limited
means to maintain publications, even
tf they would like to do so as a mat
ter of pride rather than good busi
ness and when a newspaper is pub
lished as a business enterprise, as
all dependable and honest newspapers
must be published, there must be a
sufficiently large and open field to
support the newspaper.
AMUSEMENTS.
The Great Patterson 8hows Coming
to Keokuk.
The first tented amusement organi
zation of the seqgon to visit Keokuk
will be The Great Patterson Shows,
which will open here Monday night,
Miay 13. and give performances after
noon and night for the balance of the
week.
The Great Patterson Shows enjoy a
reputation that they may feel very
justly proud of, not only as regards
the high class of attractions present
ed, but from the fact that on The Mid
way of th© Gr^at Patterson Shows not
anything degrading or of an immoral
nature is ever tolerated, so that the
head of the house may take the entire
Don't wear a veil to
cover up skin trouble
Resinol
makes sick skins well
Is your appearance marred by unsightly
patches of eruption There is no need
of endnring such discomfort because,
unless his due to some serious internal
condition, Resinol Ointment is almost
sure to clear the trouble away—prompt
ly, easily, and at little expense.
Rorfaot Soap should
TTIIMUT
be
uedwiiliXeiiwlOhtaaiiopn.
pare the akin, to nceiTetbe Kafawl
medfcatioa. ItbadelightfslMap
for the toilet, badi and ihuspuk
Resinol Soap and Resinol Ob*
ment are »okl by all druggtas.
Tho Engine With Multiple Possibilities
.1- ^Fhe 4H. P. Cnshman is without exception the
biggest little thing, measured by its usefulness,
you ever saw. It's uses are really unlimited. It
will do everything any 4 H. P. will do as it is 4
H. "strong." In addition it will cut your
grain and do economically all your lighter pow
er work. You can pull it around your place on
the. hand truck like a toy wagon. It's light
weight to say nothing of its superiority in oth
er respects is what makes it so practical as a
general purpose engine.
Cushman Engines are Made in Four Sizes
4 H. P. single cylinder, 8, 15 and 20 H. P. double cylinder
Ask for Cushman Catalog
It tells you all about them
John M. Brant Company
The Largest Supply House and Distributors of
.Power Farm Machinery in the Central States
BUSH NELL ILLINOIS
No htmtbugi 'Any corn,
whether hard, soft or between
the toes, will loosen right up
sad lift out, without any pain.
This drug is called freetone
and is a compound of ether dis
covered by a Cincinnati chemist.
Ask at may drug store for a
small bottle of freetone, which
will cost but a trifle, but ia
sufficient to rid one's feet of
every corn or calhu. It is the
most marvelous drug known.
FREE OF CHAJOSE.
Why suffer with indigestion, dys
pepsia, torpid liver, constipation,
sour stomach, coming-up-of-foodafter
eating, etc., when you can get a sam
ple bottle of Green's August Flower
free at Wilkinson & Co.
This medicine has remarkable cur
ative properties, and has demon
strated its efficiency by fifty years of
success. Headaches are often caused
by a disordered stomach.
A gentle laxative. Try it. For sale
in all civilized countries.
family Into any of the atractions with- mezzo soprano, Miss Zada De Lang.
out any hesitancy, or fear that some
thing woold be said or done Chat
might offend. That the public can and
will support clean, wholesome enter
tainment Is proven conclusively by
the unprecedented success of this
great carnival organization. The
Great Patterson Shows will bring with
them many features heretofore un
known to the patrons of the carnival.
Among the big attractions that will
be presented will be the trained wild
animal show, in which will be pre
sented not only the performing Hons,
tigers, leopards, pumas and bears, but
also a herd of full-grown and perfectly
trained Asiatic elephants. And in con
junction with the wild animate a
dozen of cute little Shetland ponies
I
The story has to do with the love
which Hprings up between the pathetic
girl-wife of an elderly man and a
dashing young man of the district.
The wife, when scarcely more than a
child, has been forced by her mother
Into marriage with the brutal old man
of sixty-five. His Insane jealousy
make* her life a torment. He grows
suspicious of the younger man and
becomes convinced^that the pair are
lovers. The huritend subj£*s the C"iL
wife to intolerable abuse until she
'flees for her life. He believes she has I
gone to the man she loves and goes in 2J
oursult of her. The two m»n
pursuit of her. The two men meet
and the younger man threatens to kill
the husbmd if be continues his abuse.
When, therefore, later, the hnsband is
found murdered, the younger man is
accused. Here the startling confes
sions of a mysterious Chinese servant
in the house furnishes a dramatic cli
max.—Advertisement.
Woman's Body Dug up.
[United Press Leased Wire Service.]
DETROIT, Mich., May 3.—The
body of a woman was dug up today
from its,resting place five feet under
the floor of the cellar in
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Few Drops When Corns Hurt,
Pain Stops! Corns Lift Out
ODon't let corns ache twice I Lift any coin or
callus off with fingers—Here's magic
I
Pat a few drops dtnefifvpoB
any tender, aiMug earn or cal
lus. Instantly tike swwui dis
appears and shortly the eon
or calhu will loosen and can be
lifted off with the tegera.
$reetone doesn't eat out the
cocas or calluses bat shrivels
them without any irritation.
Women 1 Keep freeme on
your dreaser and apply a few
drops whenever a corn begins
drops
Pain stops, corn goes!
Dandruff Soon
Ruins The Hair
Girls—if won want plenty of thick,
oeauliful, glossy, tQkj hair, do by all
means get rid_ of dandruff, for it will
starve your hair and rain it if you don't
It doesn't do much good to try to
brush or wash it out The only sure
*Vto get rid of dandruff is to dissolve
it,, then you destroy it entirely. To do
this, get about four ounces at ordinary
Equid arvon apply it at msbt when re­
in an exhibition of military drilling bring use enough to moisten the seal pi
that will appeal to the children. There1 and rub it in gently with the finger tips,
will be a gigantic zoo, Ln which living By morning, mart if not ifl, of yoar
zoological specimens from ..
of the world will be on
eluding the famous monster hippo
potamus. "Lotus," the largest held in
captivity alive. _^oo will find, too, that afl itching and
which uvjng uwnmg, znosi HOC U, OZ your
rom all parts oandruff will be gone and three or four
exhibition, to-1™?" applications will completdy dis
aonster hippo-1 *9"® entirely destroy every nnglQ
and trace of it.
Altogether, there will be eighteen f8-giag the scalp will stop, and youi
high class attractions and three riding w® wok and feel a hundred tunes
devices, "The Whip," "The Ferrts ®ctler' *ou can get liquid arvoo at snj|
Wheel" and "The Merry-Go-Round."
A band of twenty-live American mu
sicians will give concerts every after
noon and evening, and the popular
will stag with the band.
A big street parade, in which there
will appear the big band chariot, open
dens of wild animals, beautiful tab
leau wagons, camels, zebras, mounted
knights and ladies, the air calliope,
the steam calliope and a herd of mon
ster elephants.
"Wild Youth"—Tonl0ht
Three splendid, 100 per cent picture
'programs at the Grand for today, Sat
urday and Sunday, starting tonight
with "Wild Youth." Paramounfs all
star cast in Gilbert. Parker's big
throbbing story. Tomorrow comes
"Lonesome Iuke" to furnish the hi
larity, with George lie ban in his
latest, best comedy-drama. "One More
Amertcan." Sunday nhfht Ann Pen
nington in "Sunshine Nan," another
"eomedy-drama^ show with one solid
half hour of laughs, the latest Bennett
comedy. "Sheriff Nell's Tussle."
drn® 5t9re-
is inexpensive and four
ounces is all you will need, no matter
how much dandruff yoa acre, This
simple remedy never fails.
AN 0L0 RECIPE
TO DARKEN HAIR
Common garden Sage and Sulphur
makes streaked, faded, or (pray
hair dark and youthful
at onoe.
Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and -Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streak
ed or gray. Yeai* ago the only way
to get this mixture was to make It at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some.
Nowadays we stmply ask at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Rage and Sul
phur Compound.** You will get a
large Vottle of this old-time recipe
improved by the addition of other in
gredients. at very little cost Every
body uses this preparation now, be
cause no one can possibly tell
you darkened your hair, as it does It
so naturally and evenly. You dampen
a sponge or soft brush with It and
draw this through your hair, taking
b®"U£?Jy
Uirk'
7(mag'Com­
er. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
pound is a delightful toilet requisite.
It is not intended for the cure, miti
gation or prevention of disease.
here. It is believed to be the body
of Irma Pallatinas who disappeared
In 1915.
This definitely accounts for two of
•the six women Schmidt is believed to
have killed. The other was Augusta
Steinbach, of New York.
Discarded shoes of British soldiers
Helmuth are carefully saved and all the sound
Schmidt's "murder plant" in his home leather utilize^ in hundreds of waja.