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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05
Aiken-w.IIace Wedding.


Keokuk friends will be interested
in this announcement from the Bur
lington Gazette, Of the marriage Of 8
former Keokuk young man:
A quiet wedding ceremony was Gel
ebrated Tuesday morning at 10 O'Clock
at the Congregational church when
Miss Ethel l. Aiken and Mr.. Harry A
Wallis were united in marriage, the
Rev. Naboth Osborne officiating at the
service. The bride wore her travelling
suit for the ceremony, and the couple
left Immediately for Keokuk on
short wedding trip. enroute for the1l
future home in Duluth. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallis have many good friends
in Burlington whose best wishes and
congratulations they have. The fol
lowing announcements have beer
sent OFT:
Mr.. and Mrs. c. o. Gambell
announce the marriage of
their daughter,
Ethel IL. Aiken,
Mr.. Harry A. Wallis,
on Tuesday, the fourth of April,
nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Burlington, Iowa.
At home
after the goth of April,
727 E Seventh ST.,
Duluth, MINI.
The groom is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. C. Wallis of Oskaloosa, for.
merly of Keokuk, and he left this city
for Duluth, Mimi, about two years
ago. He is employed in that city as a
window dresser in the Feimuth depart
ment stores. His father and mother
were present at the wedding. The
bride and groom go to Duluth to an
apartment which Mr.. Wallis has al
ready furnished.
Leap Year Party Planned
The Baby Welfare league OF the
Visiting Nurse association met yes
terday afternoon at the home of
Miss Alton. 1t was decided to give
a leap year dancing party in the
Masonic ballroom on the evening of
April 27, at which Agnes orchestra
will play. The proceeds will be for
charity and to finance the work for
lettering the health conditions of
Keokuk babies. This will be the
first big leap year party of 1916. There
have been a half dozen or more small
parties, but no leap year function of
the magnitude of this one. The young
women of the league will give the
play, "The Theft Of Thistledown,
during Baby week in May. Miss
Charlotte Buck. Miss Madeline Narr-
ley and Miss Mary Kiedaisch were
received as new members yesterday.
The young women, received into the
league on the baby list its first mem
Der yesterday in Eleanor Agnes
Northrup, whose grandmother, Mrs.
r. r. Board, took out membership
for this very interesting little South
American resident. The young women
hope that other babies will be en-
rolled in their baby membership. Fol-
lowing the business session Miss AL
ton served tea.
Parlor Conference Tomorrow.
A parlor conference, at which DR..
Charles r. Scoville will speak, will be
held tomorrow afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. B. Dor
sey, TIP Orleans avenue.
Mrs. Hawkes. Enter
The members of the Alpha Trist
club were entertained at beauti-
fully appointed luncheon today by
Mrs E. F. Hawkes. at the Hotel Iowa,
after which bridge was played.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

WANTED--First class, all-around ma,
chinists; also two good drill press
hands. Address "Machinists." care
this office.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

Omaha Butter Market.
OMAHA. Neb., April 5!-Butter, SO
cents
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR SALE-1106 Concert, eight room
modern house, in good condition, at
a price that will surprise you. Good
reasons for selling. See E. l.. Aid
rich Phone 4l9.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR SALE+I offer my residence for
$4,000 for thirty days. Miss Edith
Miller, 400 North Fifth street
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR SALE-Electric coupe, in good
condition, complete with charging
apparatus. Address Electric. care
Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR SALE-Large double brick house
at Twelfth and Bank. Lot S4x100.
Here is real bargain and will pay
YOU to invest igate. Priced at about
one-half the real value. See E. l..
Aldrich. Phone 419.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR RENT-A seven room modern
house Enquire at S25 Orleans
street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

WANTED-Experien girl for do
nestle work at county home. Give
references.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR SALE-Grocery store, well 10
Gated on Main street. Priced right,
and terms to suit See E. l.. Aldrich
Phone 419.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05
FOR RENT.

Fer RENT-Office rooms over Keo-
kuA National bank. Enquire of z. S.
Baker.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-At 21S South Fourth,
forty thousand feet white pine lum-
Der, several cars sawdust, rubber
roofing, kindlins, guttering, spouting
Phone Black 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05
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WANTED.

WANTED-A young man as janitor
at the Tri-State Commercial college.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05
ParIor Conference Tor

ParIor Conference Tomorrow.
A parlor conference, at which DR..
Charles R.. EScoville will speak, will be
held tomorrow afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. B. Dor
sey, TIP Orleans avenue.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR RENT-Modern residence on
north side, furnished or unfurnish-
ed Also two furnished apartments
for housekeeping. Enquire 727 North
Ninth. Phone Black 1920.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

WAiNTED-A four or five room house.
Call Black $50
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-05

FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms
for housekeeping; all modern con-
veniences. Inquire PA Concert street.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
A Matter of Business.

The man who gets drunk, and even the
man who drinks short of excess is finding
that it isn't good business policy.
This is entirely aside from all questions
of relative morality and immortality.
The business world, the corporations and
individuals who employ men and pay them
salaries and wages, is gradually broadening
its requirements. A resolute insistence up
on sobriety is growing more common.
big Pennsylvania silk mill, employing
1900 workers, announces that in future it
will give preference to total abstainers, and
that dismissal will be the penalty for drink
ing intoxicants before or during work hours.
Safety first is the reason given for the
decision.
And this sentiment is spreading. The
railroads were probably the first to go on
record, for, with them, clear brain or one
beclouded with poisonous fumes of liquor
often meant the difference between life and
death for passengers whose lives they held
in trust
But the railroads are no longer alone in
insistence. The area left in which the
drunkard or the "nipper" may operate is
growing increasingly circumscribed, and al
ready the time is here when he finds himself
facing the alternative of remaining sober OF
going without work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Those Who Pass On.

BY the inexorable fat of Nature-and Ma
ture is manifestation of Divine and Infinite
love and wisdom-Obediah B. Stevens has
gone through the Valley of the Shadow Of
Death and passed on to another sphere Of
existence. The details of his long and use
full life are told of elsewhere in this paper.
And surely it was long and useful, an hon
Orable life. Those who knew him will hold
his name and his virtues in affectionate and
reverent memory. His work here was fin
ished. 1t was well-rounded. Faith and
Reason had abided with him through life,
and were his resource when the supreme mo-
ment came. Why should such a man face
death with apprehension? Our friend did
not, and for him we are sure the existence
beyond holds possibilities that he is worthy
to know and enjoy.
Upright man, good citizen, faithful public
official and loyal friend he was. Of his inner
life the life of the home-where as husband
and father he exemplified his virtues-we
shall only say that it met every requirement.
That phase of life is sacred from public
view and comment.
His city, section and state had the rich
ness of his example and work, and this peo
pie will surely hold his name in honored
and loving remembrance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Negroes and Georgia Juries.

The supreme court of the United States,
in dismissing an appeal from Georgia court
in behalf of a condemned negro has de-
clared in effect that the black man is not
denied equal protection of the law when
tried before jury composed exclusively
of white men.
This same question, in one guise or an
other. has been frequently put forward, usu-
ally because of some technical advantage
which it's argument might bring.
1t is quite possible that the people of the
North and the East unacquainted with prac-
teal conditions in the South and therefore
without the proper perspective, cannot I'M
derstand why most Southern juries are made
I'D of white men. 1t may be noted, in pass
ing, that jures partly composed of blacks
have been by no means infrequent
The reason is simple An accused prls-
oner is entitled to trial by twelve of his
peers. The negroes of the South, broadly
speaking, are the laboring class, are eX-
tremely ignorant and incapable OF compre-
hending either the law as it is read to them,
the arguments of learned counsel or the
charge from the bench. Certainly twelve
ignorant laborers from the fields are not the
peer of the litigant Often, for instance, the
case on trial is civil one involving compli-
Gated questions of finance. Can you mag
inc the utter incapabilty of twelve hoe
hands to render verdict? And would the
northern or eastern white man be willing
to trust his life or liberty to such jury?
Perhaps another thing these northerners
and fasteners do not understand, but which
is nevertheless true, is that the negro defend
ant himself would infinitely prefer to forego
all constitutional rights which his attorneys
may imagine him to have in this respect and
risk his case to twelve intelligent white men
Whenever you hear that negro convict
ed in a Georgia court protests because there
we're no negroes on the jury you may put 1t
down as certainty that the protest comes
from his lawyer seeking loophole, and not
from the client himself
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
The Late 0. B. Stevens
From the Albany Herald.

The death at his home in Atlanta of Hon.
o. B. Stevens, former commissioner of agri-
culture and member of the railroad commits
sion of Georgia, carries sadness into every
county of the state
If there was one characteristic of o. B.
Stevens that stood out above all others it
was his deep and abiding loyalty 1t mat
tered not whether it was public trust or pri-
vate attachment that called that spirit forth.
The result was always the same. To the
business of the state he gave the best that
was in him, and for his friends he went his
length whenever the opportunity to serve
them was presented. He did not wait for
the call of friendship. He more often than
otherwise anticipated it, and found genuine
joy in doing for others.
Mr.. Stevens was 68 years old and native
of Georgia. He was, in the truest sense, a
self-made man, and his success in life was
achieved in spite of the handicap which lack
of early opportunities imposed. He had for
several years led quiet life, but he kept in
touch with his friends, of whom there are
thousands in Georgia to mourn his passing.
Peace to his ashes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Taxing the Farmer.

While in Washington a few days ago Mr..
Charles S. Barrett, of Georgia, president of
the National Farmers Union, stated that
his organization would strongly oppose the
proposed rural credits bill as framed by the
Joint committee of the national senate and
house of representatives. Mr.. Barrett's rea-
son for this opposition is that he does not
favor any plan which requires one farmer
to pledge his land as security for another S
debts.
Mr.. Barrett is right, for the bill should be
made to cover loans to the farmer giving
his own land as security and making it as
easy as possible for him to secure the loan.
For some time we have heard great deal
from certain politicians about this rural
credits bill and their deep anxiety to do
something to help the farmer, but they have
been very careful not to let this objection
able feature of the measure Mr.. Barrett has
exposed be known.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
A Big Job All
Must Get to Wort



Whats the use of getting old =
ing here in the South before matin~
fruitful Land of Plenty it ought -
fore making it the beautiful land !. /
to be, before making it the iovon.
comrade farmers and farmer-foIlg :!
to be? io-A II
Ihls is the question, as our ragr,.
scrlbers will remember, that we I'D
them a few weeks ago. And tbo
now presents itself with added III III
and urgency when we recall tbat II
lew short weeks since then anot5,
mas ended and another year begun
ly, so swiftly, the days lv Nv g.
than a weaver's shuttle" indeed o,oS
and with IL all there rings in orr y.
imperious admonition of HOLY Wiz
whatsoever thy hand findest TO do
WIN tiny might; for there is no worlI
device, nor knowledge nor wisdom n
grave whittier thou goest." The great
maker gives us our work to do in til
and on this earth and bids us be abI
quickly and earnestly. We must IasTl
world little better for our HAVING
IN it. We must leave some messas.
some achievement to testify after Ta
we have lived and loved and IaJ
here" ''I
Especially is there a great onno-
ty for all of us Southerners of this gaI
ton in the mighty work of buiIdt1
greater South-a greater rural Sontb1
VIE must of course make it a rich San
South where every farmers hand
rected by trained and active brain. a
OF good farming and increasingly fertile
land feeding its people, it's horses A
and herds, and leaving it's billion dolla,
ton and tobacco crops to go back each
as surplus profits to the men who lab
its fields; the richest of all farming Land
right management of its heaven-giys
sources should quickly and Freeman
make it.
Another thing that we men and WON
today must aim at is to make it bea,
South-no ramshackle buildings, b
yards, quilted fields or fire-swept wood
but fair homes set beside inviting road
encircled by noble trees, ample lawns
Towering gardens with the ever-pr
background of well-kept fields and well
tured live stock.
And then, in the third place We
strive to make it a land of Astounding n
borliness, comradeship and community
it-where every man is anxious to d
best he can for himself, and to he'll
neighbors and his neighborhood; to col
ate with others in making and MARI
crops, feeling the elbow touch of his I'd
alike in farm production and farm
ness; anxious to help the comm
schools and churches and social life an
tellectual life, and to do everything to
make his neighborhood the happiest
worthiest in the land.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
HorseAesh on American Tables

1t is with something of a shock that we
hear of the New York board of health legal
izing the sale of horsefesh. Although eat
ing horsefesh has been prevailing practice
in parts of Europe for many years the idea
has been repugnant to our customs Posi-
bly, if it had been expensive instead of cheap
horse meat would have figured largely in
our menus before now.
The placing on the market of new and
inexpensive food supply may be welcomed
by the poor and the thrifty, but it is more
than probable that the generality of meat
eaters will long avoid food which has ever
been associated in their minds with the last
desperate resort of the starving, something
unclean and unnatural rather than unpalata-
BILE or unwholesome.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Let Us Smile

The thing that goes the farthest toward
making life worth while,
That costs the least and does the most is
just a pleasant smile
The smile that bubbles from heart that
loves its fellow-men
viii drive away the cloud of gloom and
coax the sun again.
It's full of worth and goodness, too, with
manly kindness blent-
It's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost
a cent.
There is no room for sadness when we see a
CHEEKY smile:
1t always has the same good look-it's never
out of style
1t nerves us on to try again when failure
makes US blue
The dimpIes of encouragement are good for
men and you.
1t pays a higher interest, for it is merely
lent
It's worth a million dollars. and doesn't
cost a cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
A Remarkable Georgian
From the Newman Herald and Advertiser.

James NJ. Smith, of Oglethorpe county,
died few weeks ago. With his going one of
the most remarkable men in the state passed
away.
Jim Smith began life a poor man, with
nothing but native good sense and wiling
and cut crossties for the road Out of the
first things he did was to sell books. Later
he went into the woods on plantation near
the Athens branch of the Georgia railroad
and cut crossties for the road. Que of the
proceeds of his labor he paid his way
through Hiwassee College, Tennessee. Dur
ing the war between the states, being ex-
empt from military duty on account of de-
fective eyesight, he peddled cowhides and
country produce, and was fortunate enough
to secure possession of a few bales of cot
ton. This sold at a good price when the
war was over, and he bought a not very
desirable farm in Oglethorpe county. Here
he began to farm in a modest way. In ten
years he was making several hundred bales
of cotton and in a few years more had &C
quired at least 10000 acres.
The general impression is that Mr.. Smith
made most of his money leasing convicts;
but as a matter of fact, his greatest sue
cess was in farming. He added merchan-
dising, milling, the manufacture of fertil-
izers, and other enterprises to his under
takings; but farming was, to the last his
chief concern. Among other things he built
a railroad ten miles long for his own con-
venfence When he died he was probably
the largest land owner in Georgia, and re-
puted to be worth at least $4,000, 600.
Jim Smith, as he was Familiarity known
by his friends, was a man of many re-
souces, a master in his judgment of human
nature, and a much better man than some
have represented him to be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
The Kaiser's Illness.

Judging from the conflicting reports one
seems judicially justified in concluding
that, there never having been anything in
the least wrong with the kaiser's health any
way. a serious operation has been success
fully performed on his throat, and that ne
is now fully restored to healthfulness OF
which he has been in complete possession
all along; also that the dangerous cancer
which he never had has been removed, and
that if the malignant growth doesn't cause
his death within the next eighteen months he
will live longer than that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Found the King Waiting
From the Baltimore Sun.

King Victor Emmanuel has increased his
popularity enormously since the war, for he
has been absolutely fearless while with his
troops at the front, and on more than one
occasion he narrowly ESCAPED death.
King Victor has always been noted for
his thoroughness, and his subjects are tell
ing a story about him in proof of this which
has leaked out in spite of official secrecy.
certain government department at
Rome was becoming notorious for slackness
in conducting state business The king de-
termined to find out the reason for himself
so one morning he repaired to the office
very early and awaited the arrival of the
head of the department. The first of the
subordinates did not arrive until nearly II
o'clock, and the chief made his appearance
about an hour later. What was the latter's
establishment when he entered his office to
see a strange man sitting at his desk work
ing busily on some papers.
What is the meaning Of this intrusion"
inquired the government official angrily.
The stranger looked up and said:
This means that l have done your work
for you. as it was necessary in the public
interest that it should be done"
Then it was that the dfsmayed official
recognized his sovereign, and the only course
open for him was to tender his resignation,
which the king Immediately accepted. But
after that there were no more late corners
to that particular department.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Fewer Immigrants.

Not in twenty years has the tide of immi-
grafton fallen so low as in the past twelve
months. The great outflow of reservists
seems to have passed its height, and fewer
aliens left these shores in 1915 than in
1914. But the foodgate at Ellis Island is
running low. Where a million or two used
to iostle through in year, where more than
a million entered in 1914, the year the war
began, only about a third of that number
entered in the past year.
These are the figures Secretary of Labor
Wilson gives for the year: The total num-
Der of immigrant aliens fell from 1,21S,4S
in the previous year to 326,700 in the period
ending June Both last. All admitted arriv-
ais of aliens, immigrant and non-immigrant
were only 434,244 as compared with 1,403,-
sol of the year before.
We do not Believe the United States is
any the worse of because of this heavy de-
crease in the influx of foreign people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-01-25
Says Congress Ruined HI

In the February American Magazine
most unusual interview with a United
congressman, who shows how much
off he was in private life and with snI
income than after he became prom
man in Washington. He hates his pI
life, he says, and remains in politics
because he is so old now that he dovi
dare to leave them.
cat no time since I entered congress-
1 been able to save as much as when
earning four thousand dollars a year
practice of my profession" he ueJ
land for the last three or four years
had to go through the discouraging
ton of drawing on savings / accuul
before l entered public life. The trq
that 1 am financially hard up. me ne
day I said to an associate who is a trlne
less about his clothes 30,
" why don't you buy new SUIT:
Because can't afford it. replleu
gresham G. I haven't drawn a doliai
| could call my own for two years.
'And he said it so seriously that
he meant just that
"Why, then, you ask, if l ma "a
congressman so expensive, don't
and go back to my law practice!
THE truth is that I don't get OUT u
gress. because 1 don't dare to get Out.
Il am now past forty-ive years OF IL
am not as elastic as l once was
wav of adjusting myself to condI
When I look the situation squareH
face I know that l am afraid TO lea
gress lest 1 cannot make living;
knowing the truth about mysel a.
the big headlines the home papers
over what l have to say when l am
viewed remind me of the unhappy 70
between now and the days when wi
tentedly inconspicuous. 1 nate tn
am leading and yet see no way gu
Moreover. / believe my case IS not
that of a number of my associates. -
7 feel that if my life story has any
if is because am q type"