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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-12-21

than Is months and were in perfect
condition, though color became pale.
would advise farmers who grow
200 or 900 bushels to build a similar
storage and have apples in April with
good flavor and sound. If possible
select hillside sloping to south or
southwest, SO the north and northwest
winds will not strike the entrance to
storage. Dimensions inside are Is
feet deep, II feet wide, six feet high at
sides, nine feet in centre OF arch.
built with 1S-inch stone wall. Con
crete will not give moisture enough to
insure the keeping of the apples.
Notice in picture that it is necessary
to extend the front wall on each side
in order to hold the earth back. After
walls and arch are completed cover
sides and top over arch with a good
coat of earth Before earth is
put over arch put over brick
two inches of good cement and
sand to make it water tight-the
arch is best to build with
hard brick Give interior sides of
wall and arch a coat of One-inch ce-
ment plastering. DO not concrete
bottom BY having earth bottom we
get the required moisture for apples,
drops of water are dripping from arch
at all times which makes it ideal.
For ventilation, place two siX-inch
terra-cotta tiles in arch, one four feet
from front and the other four feet
from back. Also one fourteen by
fourteen inch ventilatOr in door by
cutting into door the required size.
Now cover this opening with heavy
wire netting, this will give all ven
tilation needed. For extreme weather
zero and lOwer-it will be necessary
to have a second solid door to shut
off the cold through first door. Never
close the solid door unless the tenn
perature falls near zero. Never close
top ventilators. Removable shelves
are placed for the apples. Three are
arranged one on top the other, on
each side the gangWay. This gives
six shelves, each holding 50 bushels,
or 300 bushels on all the shelves.
The gangway should be at least three
and a half feet wide.-Rural New
Yorker.
J. NJ. MYERS,
Bachman's Valley.
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Buyers and consumers are looking
tyr better apples. The grower can
produce them with proper care, but
annot supply his trade the year
round unless he has a proper storage
While we can dispose of our 'apples
al picking time at prices ranging
from $50 to $500 per barrel, We
should not overlook the local trade,
which gives us the best profit, by
placing a few hundred barrels in a
good home storage, the profit of
which will more than pay for putting
I'D of storage the first year. Prices
a. we'll as the demand for apples are
always good in March and April in
our home towns. Apples hold up
longer after removing than they will
Dut of cold storage.
| work my storage this way. At
clicking time | place my choicest va
rieties in my storage. My apples are
advertised as choice apples. / have
plenty of buyers from nearby towns
and Baltimore, sc miles away coming
In automobiles, taking away full loads
FOR which | am we'll paid. | have a
!DCal trade in a nearby town of 5000
where ! run a delivery wagon. My
storage apples are all picked in bas-
kets and hauled to storage in same
baskets on wagon with springs and
carefully dumped. There they stay
undisturbed until | want them for
sale. / never need pick through them
for decayed ones. They do not decay
when properly sprayed. Unsprayed
apples will not hold up under best
storage conditions.
This storage, Fig is a little more
expensive to build than the old time
wood constructed caves in the hills
but is the cheapest in the end-noth-
ing to decay, which means first cost
all costs. The extra money | receive
for apples the first year more than
paid for the building. The cost OF
building was 500. storage capacity
100 barrels. have sold Grimes
Golden in April for s. per bushel
5tayman Winesap and Paragon in
June for same price. Have kept the
Two last named until August in per
feet condition and exhibited Ben
Davis at Maryland Horticultural
Show. Baltimore, Nov. 1920, 1873
that were grown in 1914, held more
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Miss Grace Eby is spending a few
weeks with her sister, of Blue Ridge
Summit.
Miss Helen Harris and Miss Mamie
Miller are spending a few days with
their friend, Miss Mamie Doyle, Of
Baltimore.
Mr.. c. E. Elseroad and family spent
the past Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Spahr, of Hampstead. Mr.. Sphar
just recently moved from Union
Bridge.
All school and church bells are
supposed to ring every half hour
Nmas eve from 7.30 p. m. to 8 a. m. in
honor Of the Red Cross work.
The roads are in bad condition, due
to the snow. 1t will be inconvenient
to do Nmas shopping
Sugar is as scarce as ever. | guess
we will have no cakes for Xmas.
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MT John W. Abbott left this week
to spend the winter with his son, },
Clarke Abbott. of Laurel, Del.
Mr.. Peter Buchanan has sold his
farm to his son. Raymond. Mr.,
buchanan will move to Hampstead in
The early spring.
Mr.. VIM A. Basler o: Camp Meade
spent a few days of last week with
MS parents, Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Bias
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J. NJ. MYERS.
Bachman's Valley

Ter.
Mrs VIM Grumbine spent several
days of last week with friends in
Baltimore.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Wesley
met at the home of Mr.. VIM. Harris
near the church, the past Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Reese. of Bal
timore spent several days of the past
week with the formers parents. Mr..
and Mrs Geo. Reese.
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Philadelphia will be in the grip of a
coal famine unlike anything it has
gone through since the strike of 1906,
unless immediate relief action is
taken State Fuel Administrator Pot
ter ordered SO cars sent to West Phil
adelphia Coal dealers there say this
will be only "a drop in the bucket"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
CITY NEWS.

Let G. W. 1nman store your stove
All Main Phone 527.
A marriage license has been
issued to Guy Frank Riepe, q, of
New London, and Dora Wahrer, 81,
of Donnellson.
Lon Booz and Carrie Waugh
were given thirty days in Jail when
.arraigned in the superior court
charged with being drunk and dis.
orderly. Wade Moore, plain drunk.
was sentenced to thirty days in the
city Jail. Wilma Page. Florence Hen
bricks, Charles McHenry and Guy
Barikman who pleaded not guilty
earlier in the week to the charge of
disturbing the peace, changed their
plea to one of guilty and elected to
leave the city rather than serve
thirty day sentences.
Let G. W. Inman store your stove
All Main. Phone 527.
1t is reported that Attorney Cen
.era1 Havner may distribute his staff
Of state agents among the river
cities OF Iowa to enforce the prohi-
bition Of shipment of liquor into the
state. These state agents probably
will be sent to Burlington, Keokuk,
Council Bluffs, Davenport, Sioux
City, Dubuque and Clinton.
Mrs. Caroline Biddenstadt, who
was seriously injured several weeks
ago by fall, is improving and Is able
to sit UP today, which Is good news to
her many friends.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
STRENGTHEN THE CABINET.

No one is giving the president heartier sup
port in the war crisis than the man who was
attorney general under Mr.. Taft, and so there
is peculiar force in George w. Wickersham's
appeal for the strengthening Of the cabinet
Saving that if any criticism suggestions
come, let them be constructive, he adds: 81 be-
lieye the president would tremendously
strengthen himself with the people and con-
vince our enemies that mean business by
putting in competent secretary of the navy
and a competent secretary of war; He thus
points out the weakest spots in the cabinet. His
suggestion is constructive and friendly. He
speaks for all who hope to see Mr.. Wilson
raise his administration to its full fighting
strength. He does not urge the president to go
outside his party, but he is absolutely right In
saying that we have the right to ask him ''to
choose as his advisers and executive arms the
biggest men in his party The president
should be the last man in the country to say
that the best is too good in the present emerg-
ency. No time should be lost in strengthening
the cabinet.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24

The following letter was received
sixty years ago by resident of New
York City:
Dear Sir: You are surprised to
learn that have not high opinion
Of Mr.. Jefferson, and l am surprised
at your surprise. | am certain that
never wrote a line, and that l never
in parliament, in conversation, o..
even in the hustings, place where it
is the fashion to court the populace,
uttered word indicating an opinion
that the supreme authority in sta-e
ought to be intrusted to the majority
of citizens told by the head; in other
words, to the poorest and most ignor-
ant part of society. have long been
convinced that institutions purely
democratic must, sooner or later, de-
stroy liberty or civilization, or both.
In Europe, where the population i3
dense, the effect of such institutions
would be almost instantaneous. What
happened lately nsFrance Is an ex-
ample In 1S4S pure democracy was
established there. During short
time there was reason to expect d
general spoilation, national banA-
ruptcy. a new partition of the soil, a
maximum Of prices. ruinous load OF
taxation laid on the rich for the pur-
pose Of supporting the poor in Idle
ness, Such a system would, in TWEEN
ty years, have made France as poor
and barbarous as the France Of Car
lovingians. Happily, the danger waA
averted; and there is now despot-
ism, silent tribune, an enslaved
press Liberty is gone, but civiliza-
ton has been saved. have not the
smallest doubt that If we had a pure
ly democratic government here the
effect would be the same. Either the
poor would plumber the rich, and
civilization would perish, or order and
prosperity would be saved by strong
military government, and the liberty
would perish.
You may think that your country
enjoys an exemption from these evils;
will frankly own to you that / am
of a very different opinion. Your
fate I believe to be certain, though
it is deferred by physical cause. AS
long as you have boundless extern.
of fertile and unoccupied land, your
laboring population will be far more
at ease than the laboring population
of the old world: and while that Is
the case the Jeffersonian policy may
continue to exist without causing any
fatal calamity. But the time will
come when New England will be as
thickly settled as Old England. Wages
will be as low and will fluctuate as
much with you as with US. You VIII
have your Manchesters and Birming
hams hundreds of thousands of art
isans will assuredly sometimes be
out of work. Then your institutions
will be fairly brought to the test.
Distress everywhere makes the Ia
borer mutinous and disconnected and
inclines him to listen with eagerne,s
to agitators who tell him that it l.;
monat rous iniquity that one man
should have a million while another
cannot get a full meal
In bad years there is plenty OF
grumbling here, and sometimes a lit
tie rioting; but it matters little, for
here the sufferers are not the rulers
The supreme power is in the hands of
class, numerous indeed, but select,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24

trade outlook. The men who would have vel
coined a separate peace with Germany, ana
who were expected to smooth the way Tor the
restoration of former commercial conditions,
have been deprived of their power. New hus-
STA will not turn to Germany for goods that can
be bought elsewhere on favorable terms. FRO
lessor Boris Shatsky of the University OF Pet
roerad, who has come to the United States Ior
the purpose of establishing information bu-
reaus for the cultivation of closer business re-
lations between this country and Russia, says
that Russia will turn to the United States LOT
assistance in the work of reconstructlng her
economic resources. Russia will be large buy
er in American markets and will depend, FRO
fessor Shatsky says, not only upon the invest
ment of American capital, but upon American
genius in developing Russian IN
dustries
The whole effect of the revolution upon trade
between Russia and the United States cannot
be forecast now, but it is bound to be important,
and probably one early result of the change IN
government will be the negotiation OF new
treaty between the two countries
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
SAY CHICKENS
RUIN GARDEN
Police Department Receives Many
Complaints From All Parts
Of Town Concerning
Fowls.

Numerous complaints have been
made to the police department re-
garding chickens running loose in
peoples gardens. The unusually
large number of gardens being made
this year is probably the cause for
so many more complaints, but the
department is preparing to take
steps to stop these kicks. 1t is un.
lawful to allow fowls to run at large.
They can be taken up by police Off.
Gals and sold, under the city ordin-
ances. People who have chickens
should see that they are kept fenced
up and not allowed to run at large,
the police officials say.
Another complaint that is being
made is that dogs are running over
peoples gardens to great extent.
Some Of the gardeners in the first
ward have even threatened to try
their craftsmanship on the CANNES
which have been committing these
depredations
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24

of an educated class, OF class which
is, and knows itself to be, deeply In.
terested in the security of property
and the maintenance of order. Ac-
cordingly the malcontents are gently
but firmly restrained The bad time
Is got over without robbing the
wealthy to relieve the INDECENT. The
springs of national prosperity soon
begin to flow again; work is plentiful,
wages rise, and all is tranquility anu
cheerfulness. l have seen England
pass, three or four times, through
such critical seasons as l have de-
scribed. Through such season the
United States will have to pass Ia
the course of the next century, IL not
of this. How will you pass through
them? I heartily wish you good de-
liverance. But my reason and my
foreboding the worst. 1t is quite
plain that your government will never
| be able to restrain a distressed and
discontinued majority. For, with you,
the majority is the government, and
has the rich, who, are always the
minority. absolutely at Its mercy.
The day will come when q
multitude of people, none OF whom
has had more than half a breakfast
or expects to have more than hair a
dinner, will choose a legislature. Is
it possible to doubt what sort OF
legislature will be chosen? On one
side is statesman preaching pa.
thence, respect for vested rights.
strict observance of public faith; on
the other is demagogue, ranting
about the tyranny of the capitalists
and usurers and asking why anybody
should be permitted to drink cham
payne and to ride in carriage while
thousands of honest folks are in want
of necessaries. Which OF the two
candidates is likely to be preferred
by workman who hears his children
cry for bread?
! seriously apprehend that you will,
in some such season Of adversely, as
l have described, do things that will
prevent prosperity from returning;
that you will act like people who
should, in a season of scarcity, de-
YOUR all the seed corn, and thus make
the next year not one of scarcity but
of absolute famine. There will be,
fear, spoliation. The spoliation Will
increase the distress. The distress
will produce fresh spoliation. There
is nothing to step you. Your const:-
tuition is all sail and no anchor. AS
said before, when a society has en-
tered on its downward progress,
either civilization or liberty must
perish. Either some Caesar or Ma
poleon will seize the reins of govern
ment with strong hand; or your re-
public will be as fearfully plundered
and laid waste by barbarians in the
twentieth century as the Roman en-
pire was in the fifth-with the diff
ference, that the Huns and vandals
who ravaged the Roman empire came
from without, while your Huns and
vandals will have been engendered
within your own country by your own
institutions.
Thinking thus, OF course l cannot
reckon Jefferson among the benc-
factors of mankind.
Yours respectfully,
THOS. DARLINGTON MACAULAY.
London, May %, 1857.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
RUSSIA WILL BUY IN AMERICA.

One Of the weak points in conclusions an
nounced at the economic conference of the allies
in Paris was emphasized by businessmen and
other students of commercial relations, who
said that, no matter how bitter the feeling
aroused by the war, trade would return to the
old channels when the conflict was over These
trade experts believed that in the case of Ger
many and Russia, particularly, Germany would
be likely to regain her strong hold on foreign
markets where for many years she held place
of advantage as compared with her rivals.
Their conclusion appeared to be sound then,
but probably it is subject to revision now. The
revolution in Russia has changed the after-war
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
ADJUSTMENTS.
An important Announcement.

An important Announcement
One of the most important theatri-
cal announcements that has been
made in this city for some years, Is
that Experience" George V. Hobart 8
modern morality comedy drama, will
come to the Grand Thursday, May S,
one night only.
William Elliott, F. Ray Comstoch
and Morris Gest, the producers OF the
play, will send to this city the IA
nous New York Experience" organ
ization with It's cast OF eighty-two
notable characters. The play has
broken all records of success by runs
of nine months in New York, five
months in Boston and seven months
in Chicago. In these cities, they say
that no attraction has ever had such
a galaxy Of beautiful young girls, and
their charm and grace has set rare
standard Of fascinating feminity for
the stage -Advertisement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24

Bowen, Detroit; j. A. Pal.
1oosa' A. .. LOOMS, Gibson
p. :. anderson, Hamilton: :
preeI, belong; NJ. F. Dettmon
las CITY; Chas. Hanan, Macon,,
r. Buss, Golden; Ray w H;nup
Gaiesburg; G. d.. Streeter Ksn
=. r. Hertenstein, Keok,rk. NeoS
stuart, Cedar Rapids; Il. wan
cago; j.. w. Paddock, Psna.
Showalter, Burnside: Mari y
Muscatfne; J. S. TarIox c,s
y. =. Long, Omaha; H. L. Bss
Keokuk: W. D. Meyer, Quincy.
w. Stocker, Chicago; Mr.. and NJ.
n. Herdemann, Quincy; E. G, ArsJ
Basco; L. S. Cambre, Nauvoo. y
Wersel, Aledo; Mr.. and Mrs nj
Archibald, Burlington; c. q d..
Augusta, H.; F. B. Double, pIvmo,,
III. : 'yp'ouI
Ladies-Mrs. Geo. w. Anya, II
kuk; Mrs. Fl. NJ. Patterson Kaoi,
Mrs. John NJ, Lyon, I.aHarna. "
w. E. Lyon, Carthage; Miss ri
Streeter, Keokuk; Miss Anna sns|
er, Keokuk; Mrs. c. L. schows,.|
Burnside; Mrs. t. S. Archibald II
lington. y
Banquet Tonight.
The delegates and their wives J,
the keokuk lumber dealers and N,
wives will be the guests tonipb.
the banquet to be held at the Ho H
Iowa at I o'clock in the main dini
room. The Hon. E. w. McManus N
be the speaker, and there will he
musical program, ending with
dance in the Tiffany room.
Hoo-Hoos High Revel.
A class of six was initiated n
the Hoo-Hoos last night in the q
catenation which was held In !
Hotel Iowa, commencing at nine nj
utes after nine. The concatenat,
lasted until the moon went dow
but no almanacs were consul,
about this phenomena. The six We
referred to as sickly kittens until AT
the proper degrees had been conf
red. The work was done by the I
lowing team:
Shark, Mark Arson, Muscatir
senior Hoo-Hoo, Lewis B. Reiche
ST. Louis; Junior Hoo-Hoo, w
Robinson. Abingdon, Ill.,; Bo-Jum.
III. Heidemann. Quincy, H.; Scri
noter, Emerson d. Tennent.
Louis; Jabberwock, J. NJ. Furlo
Keokuk; Custocation, ]. A. Bak
Oskaloosa; Arcanoper, Joe L. Nicht
Peoria; Guidon, E. E. Iiinchclil
Galesburg, Ill.
George w. Angel, vice presidel
J. M. Furlong, w. S. Robinson a
Joe l.. Nichols, were the local CO
mittee in charge of the concate
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
At the ,Hlppodrome.

"The Bad Boy comedy drama OF
young America, will be shown at the
Hippodrome theatre tonight. This
is the first play to present Robet.
Harron on the Triangle program as
an individual star.
In THE Bad Boy" which was pro,
duced at the Triangle+Fine Arts STU
dos under the direction of Chester
Whitney, Heron has the part of a
small town youth who belongs to Il
gang" which makes life miserable
for the town constable and most OF
the inhabitants. His evil associations
finally get him into serious trouble
when a number of "yeggs" induce
him to join in preparations for the
burglarizing of his fathers bank. At
the last moment he refuses to aid
them and is then forced to become an
unwilling participant. This leads to
an ordeal which is a severe lesson to
AhA hoy and ends in his reform.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
TODAY,S BIT OF VERSE
LOVES OLD REFRAIN.

The bright sun rose one glorious day
And gazed the earth in a searching way.
He spied the rose meath the sheltering trees,
and waited a kiss on the passing breeze,
Then queried Miss Rose, do you love me true?"
She blushingly said, MIR. sun, do"
A robin sang in a cherry tree,
In tones that were joyous, light and free,
When the neighboring branch he spied
Little Miss Wren and to her cried,
Most sweet Miss Wren, do you love me true?'
And the coquet answered, Rob, do"
A cavalier called his love one day.
They talked for an hour, in the usual way,
TIL rogush Cupid, with 1ove-tipped darts
Stepped forth and gently pricked their hearts
Fair maiden, say, do you love me true?
SnilingIy she answered, Indeed, do"
So It will be to the end of years.
With so many smiles and many tears,
With the same old song, DO you love me true?"
And the same old refrain, Indeed, do
Sara V. Jacoves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
SEVERAL LOTS
FOR GARDENS
Robert Rees Has Forty-four In Yves
keokuk Which He Will Loan
to Gardeners Who Wish
to Put In Gardens.

TO fue IN SdrQehS
Robert Rees has forty-four lots IN
Rees addition in West keokuk which
he will allow to be used for garden
purposes. Anyone who wants to put
in a garden should call on Mr.. Rees
and make arrangements to use
these lots. This offer will afford an
opportunity for amateur gardeners OF
Keokuk who have the time but no
space in which to plant their gar
dens.
Kite sticks will be given away
next Saturday afternoon by Mr.. Rees
at his factory on Johnson street 70
any boy between the ages OF ana
rs who wants bundle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
At the Grand.

Marguerite Clark in THE For
tunes of Fiji" is the big bargain
week feature at the Grand tonight
and tomorrow There will be four
showings at night, starting at $3.50,
with a complete show after $3.50.
Two matinees tomorrow at 2:30 and
400.
One of the many reasons which
makes Marguerite Clark so irrestibly'
charming on the screen is the fact
that she seems to have no limit Of
versatility.
The fact that she is playing an
actress on the screen for the first
time in 1.-THE Fortunes of Fiji" which
is her latest Famous Players-Pard.
mount picture to be shown at the
Grand, lends added interest to this
lay.-Advertisemen
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-24
TO BEGIN JURY
WORK TOMORROW
Jurors In District Court Ordered
Report at $50 O'clock
for the First
Case.

The jury in the district court ha.
been ordered to report tomorrow
morning at $3.50 O'Clock by Judge
Bank The jury work was to havi
commenced this afternoon but as al
ditional papers were filed in the cas-
of l.. A. Watznauer VS.. Henry Brand
the jury was not needed for this al!
ernoon.
The memorials passed by the FdN
Madison bar for the late E. L. Nj
Cold OF Keoi,Ik. were presented +
the Keokuk court today and ordere
placed on record by Judge Bank.