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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
DON'T FEED
HOUSE BUGS
Ames Experts Declare War on This
Sort of Wastefulness,
In Bulletin
Issued.

House insects annually eat and
destroy millions of dollars worth OF
food and other materials. That food
is simply wasted, for with proper
treatment, house insects can easily
be exterminated The entom oligists
at Ames tell how:
For getting rid Of red ants, most
annoying pests, the sponge method"
is probably the most effective. Soak
sponge in light syrup or honey
and place it where the ants are
numerous. When large number
collect on the sponge, dip it in hot
water. BY repeating this the house
can be ridded of the pest. Some
species of ants prefer to feed on
meat. In that case use greasy
bone instead Of syrup-soaked
sponge.
Starving cockroaches is the only
sure way to get rid of them. Main
tain absolute cleanliness by keeping
all food in tight cupboards or re-
ceptacles. Even dispose of scraps
and crumbs Continue this care for
some time, for cockroaches can live
for weeks with no food. Powdered
sugar and borax mixed in equal parts
and scattered about will check cock
reaches. but seldom exterminate
them. Many useful traps are on the
market, also, which aid in getting
rid of them.
Old breakfast foods, cereals. rails
ms and other package stuffs are
often the source of introducing the
saw-toothed beetle. These insects
may be exterminated by burning all
infected stuff. thoroughly cleaning
out all shelves, flour bins, and other
feeding places, scalding these with
hot water and exposing them to the
sun for few hours. Follow this by
carbon bi-sulphide treatment: Pour
carbon bi-sulphide into shallow pans,
one pound to 100 cubic feet of space.
Place this on an upper shelf and
tightly close all cracks in the room
The fumes will kill the insects.
The buffalo carpet beetle, COM
mon insect that breeds in cracks of
floors and feeds on the undersides of
carpets, can easily be controlled.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
A VANISHING LANDMARK.
"The Little Red SchooIhouse" VIII
Soon be Little More Than

Lincoln Journal: Take a good, lin
gering look at "the little red school
house" So far as Nebraska is con-
cerned it is going. BY the end OF
another generation it will be little
more than memory.
That little red schoolhouse" is the
center of what is best in American
memory It was the beginning and
making of a new era. Our genera
ton, born into free public schools,
half forgets, if ever it knew, how
new and revolutionary a thing the
little red schoolhouse is. Many OF
our parents and more of our grand
with free public schools. The little
red schoolhouse was the beginning
of a dawn of civilization to them.
OF course, they love it and look upon
it with reverence.
Nevertheless, it must go. 1t is
going. The little red schoolhouse,
lonesome, box like, in forest or IN
prairie, but big with the making of
America, was not the last word any
more than the little woodburning
locomotive of it's youth was last
word We had a description a week
or two ago of one of its successors
in Washington county. This week
We hear of another successor formed
of four southeastern Nebraska dis
tricts, two in Richardson and two in
Nemaha county. Bratton Union, as
it is to be called, will be ready for
operations just after New Years.
There is a large two-story building
with school rooms and an auditorium
and basement fitted for a gym
nasium and for domestic science and
manual training work. There is a
cottage for the teachers and there
are five acres of land presumably to
be used in connection with agricul-
tural study and perhaps for the use
of resident teachers.
Such successors to the little red
schoolhouse are springing up at an
accelerating speed in Nebraska. The
day Of the one boss shay and the
little red schoolhouse is over. We
love them for what they have been.
But this is the day Of the automo-
bile-distant children are to be
brought to Bratton Union school by
automobile truck-and Of the consoli-
dated school the community center"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
CHEAP POULTRY
MARKET URGED
,tment Of Agriculture Thinks
80, Retail Dealers Can Relieve
Congestion If They
viii
FAKE SMALLER PROFIT
/, This Way Department Points Out
That Consumer Would Be Apt
to Purchase
More.

WASHINGTON, d. G., July IA
..osent congestion in the frozen poul-
nv market, shown by figures of the
|iInited States department OF agrlcul-
tnre can be relieved il the retail
|sealers will handle the goods at a
Reasonable advance over wholesale
arices This action would make poul-
I.rv available at prices comparing
|f.vorably with other meats, accord
linz 70 the findings of conference
I;nst held here between wholesale
r Sul distributors and officials of
|tba department of agriculture. Both
|narties to the conference say thai
more poultry should be eaten when
line facts are understood by the con-
|mmer; and an increased use of poul-
|try now, in the opinion of the de-
|nartment, will tend to conserve other
meats which are of more import
lance to Americans and their allies
IN Europe. The retailers, as well as
wholesalers, it is pointed out, should
|,id in relieving the congestion.
Broiling chickens are especially
abundant and those of prime quality
sold in June on the wholesale mar
|ket in New York at an average price
hi % cents a pound. A year before
line average price was 81 cents dur
linz the same month. There are I'M
usually heavy holdings of dressed
|poultry in cold storage. Unless
these stocks are moved quickly,
Farmers who have increased this
bears focks in response to a patri-
|otic appeal will not have normal mar
|keting conditions when their sur
blus comes on the market.
The parties to the conference
kgreed that the storage supplies of
boultry in the summer of 1916 were
Unusually low because of small orig
|inal holdings and large export de-
|mands This resulted in unusually
high prices to producers during the
tall and winter of 1916. The supply
Mas Unexpectedly heavy and large
ktocks were stored at high costs.
Then export demands fell off, the
wave Of economy affected the home
Remand, and the storage stocks
|noyed slowly. The net result, ac-
Fording to the department, is that
almost everybody ought to enjoy
chicken dinners now at decidedly re-
6uced prices, and without feeling
that they are using up needed meat
fupplies. In short, It is said to de-
pend OF the retailers whether cheap
Ter chickens will be available.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
Allkali Makes Soap
Bad For Washing Hair

Most soaps and prepared sharnpoos
contain too much a1kali, which is yery
Injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes
the hair brittle.
The best thing to useis Just plain null.
sitled cocoanut oil, for this is pure and
entirely greaseless. It's very cheap, and
beats the most expensive soaps or any,
thing else all to pieces. You can get
this at any drug store, and few ounces
will last the whole family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub 1T in, about teaspoonful is all
that IS required. 1t makes an abundance
of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thor
oughly, and rinses out easily. The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and is soft.
fresh looking, bright fluffy, wavy and
easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and
takes out every particle of dust, dirt and
dandruff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

all his liquor orders filled to his small
est whim. Foreigners We're permit
ted ito purchase all liquors in the
shops provided they presented per-
mits to purchase issued by their en-
bassies. There was nc law of any
kind that prevented a citizen from
having liquor. on his premises or from
drinking it.
The revolution, which put the work
men and soldiers committee into
power, practically made Russia dry
for the first time. Today few dar-
ling hotel keepers will sell bottle of
cognac for from s25 to $40 or a small
bottle of ordinary claret for from $40
to $l5. The importation of any sort
of portable alcohol has ceased and the
high price of liquor is really due to
its scarcity in the country. Russia
lis rapidly becoming bone dry"
There is no doubt in the minds of
Russians that their revolution was
practically bloodless because it was
practically boozeless. There are some
Russian leaders who say that it was
the absence of alcohol that made the
revolution possible. A drunken sod
den Russia of the old type could new
|er have aroused itself to real revolt
as this Russia has done. A socialist
leader said to me:
"One Of the greatest mistakes the
czar ever made was to force the peas
ants to sober up. He took the peas
ants and made them sober; he gave
them good clothes in the way Of mil
itary uniforms and he gave each peas
ant rifle and taught him how to
shoot. He thought he was turning
the peasants into soldiers but they re-
NAMED peasants at heart. When the
right time came these sobered peas
ants turned their guns on him."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

play a match game with any local
expert with the cue. She attracted
much attention when she appeared
at the pool resort and the younger
male pool experts were backward
about playing lady who claims to
be the champion pocket pool player
Of the country. Finally couple of
the younger sports consented to play
with her and she defeated BOTH but
third defeated her SO quickly she
didn't know she was in the game.
She passed a card among those
present which read requesting the
purchase of common lead pencil
and pay what you pleased for 1t. The
card also stated that she was a well
known actress, but now engaged in
writing a book about her travels and
pool playing in different cities. The
woman picked up few dollars from
the pool room patrons. She didn't
know much about the game of pool.
but was fair lady cueist.
Nauvoo will have plenty of amuse-
ments until August 1. The Renos
hold the bill boards all this week and
the High Tension club will visit us
with their sports next Saturday after.
noon, while the following week the
Nauvoo chautauqua will have its ses-
sion.
Last Sunday afternoon another
automobile accident occurred at the
Sheridan bridge few miles below
Nauvoo. A car fell over an embank.
ment there, smashing one side of the
N achine and badly bruising one lady,
who was brought to Nauvoo and had
her injuries attended to by one of
our local physicians.
Nauvoo looks for q good grape
crop this season even though some
OF ,Ae vines were reported killed in
the early part of the season.
Threshing in Nauvoo's vicinity will
begin the latter part of this week, so
one of the owners Of machine in
forms this column.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

and It has made me well woman and
we have a lovely baby girl. We cannot
praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound enough, and hope this let
ter will lead other suffering r, women m to
RED. No. s, Box %, Madison, Wis.
There must be more than hundred
thousand women in this country who,
like Mrs. Blake, have proven what won
ders Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
COMPOUND can do for weak and ailing
women. Try it and see for yourself.
All women are invited to write for
free and helpful advice to Lydia e.
Pinkham Medicine Co. (GonfideptiaD,
Lynn, Mass.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

To possess a literally perfect child 10
by no means impossible. The expectant
mother should be calm and tho days should
be filed with sunsksHe and happiness
Millions OF women have used the safe,
external, penetrating preparation known
as Mothers Friend. Ely It's use the
abdominal muscles, which nature is ex-
banding, relax easily when baby Is born
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
Ks1eh e 90. 80 lIl

T.his naturally makes for infinitely less
pain and danger at the crisis
Write to The Bradneld Regulator Co,
Dept H 248 Lamar Building, Atlanta,
Ga, for interesting free book Mother
hood and the Baby.
Mothers Friend" from your druggists
tonight II is q tried preparation and Is
OF the greatest value to expectant plotherh
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

More electrical machinery for the
U. s. navy is being built at Science
tady than in any other city in the
country, says w. L. r. Emmett, a
member of the naval advisory board
and electric drive expert of the GEN
eral Electric company.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

Duluth News-Tribune: The millen-
MUM may be slow in coming, but the
Germans have not failed in making
a hell on earth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16

with terrible pains
in my back and was
about to have an OPP
cratic n when a
friend said to me,
Before having that
operation just try
Lydia f. Pinkham's
We 6 G a BILE Com
pound. So I let
the operation wait,
an d my husband
bought me the Veg
atable Comnoiir1d
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
A German pIsapp ointment.

ST. Paul Pioneer Press: One Of the
Teutonic allies which has fizzled out
and made a separate peace Is Rus
sian anarchy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-16
TERRIBLY
SICK WOMAN
Surgical Operation Thought
Necessary, but Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Conn
pound Saved Her.

Madison, Visit was terribly sick
woman for over three years. | suffered
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16
AS MAN TO MAN

every night, these two small, short, swell, sweet little men kidding each other over their wastline and their lack of perpendicular inches- "Smitty" was always trying to get "Chet" to join the boy scouts, and "Chet" was always doing the barber stunt over his friend the dwarf who used to make twice the money in a sideshow than he is making now" Both had a happy grin and merry heart and many friends.
 But they are not so happy nOG They have been separated "Chet is in the soldier camp at Naco in tie rockies tent with his arm swollen Co twice it's natural size from serums that every soldier must know before he can march and fight in fever in tested lands for Uncle Sam And "Smitty," minus his grin, walks aloac. No one to roast; no one to roast hlln. His short friend has gone for long time. Fate's most terrible blow. The hand that throws the dice of life has taken the "sebben" from the '"leb- ben," and for "Chet' and "Smtty" it is craps" every time the bones stop rolling, and there is no more joy in playing the Great Game.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16
PARTNERSHIP OF "CHET" AND "SMITTY"
 IS DISSOLVED.

Many men and things are joined to- gether in couples by the weiniewurst link of custom or association or nee essity or convenience or best results or teamwork or-just because. For instance, salt and pepper are gener- ally spoken of in one sentence. Tom and Jerry" is another pair of Slamese twins. and thunder and lightning Damon and Pythias' and knife and fork" and Adam and Eve" and lair and warmer" and Mutt and Jeff ana cheese and crackers" and seven and 'Ieven" and half an half" and 'bis and little casino" and pick ana shoyel' and ham and eggs" and other couples that come in the list of inseparables.
 And there is still another, not known so well, maybe, to the world at large, but known well to all within the Warren District, and that is the justly celebrated couplet, "Chet and Smitty."
 For many moons this pair have rambled, abreast and in tandem, hoss and hoss, hand in hand, together up and down this valley. They have ate, drank, slept, quarreled, loved, lost and won together, yea, they have even sat with their girls on the same bench under the same moonlight. But most iy they have quarreled. Both are the same size and the same heighth, which is to say that if "Chet" stood on "Smittys head he could hold up his hand and reach to a point about 10 feet above the soles of "Smitty's feet.
 Round, round and holy poly were this pair of aces in the Bisbee deck. "Smitty" would enter the Copper Queen dining room and go up to the table where "Chet" was destroying steak and say. Anybody here seen Chet'?" And then he would pretend to see his friend for the first time, and apologize by saying, Hello, old top, I didn't see you. you were hiding behind the salt cellar"
 And "Chet" would come back at hin. the next night at the dance in War ren by walking up 10 @ group of younb men and women of which "Smitty' formed part. and turning to the side and pretending to beat the bushes and peer under them. Some one would ask what he was looking for, and he would reply, that little runt' Shit ty."
 And so it went on. every day and
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16

From the very beginning of the World War the Amer
 government lenient with aliens and its citizens, who violated neutrality up to into the conflict and since have been engaged in active enmty treachery this countrys interests Always we have been too easy, slow act too lenient too lax And while there improvement this recently yet the is still far from efficient in it's dealings within its borders Politics is responsible for most of this Petty politics Officials both executive and legis
 lave have catered to the German vote played to the grandstand accidents born to high place under unnatural political circumstances. The government proverbialy slow to against traitors. It always has Politics pitchforks little into high places a crisis shows their miserable weakness. Even President Wilson, great statesman he is lack firmness in dealing with perncious enemies at home, although lacked skill and courage to deal with those abroad since he entered the lists
 Traitors and alien enemies infes the District of Coum
 bia, German language papers have boiled malignant treason unchecked and uncensored Mayor Thompson of Chicago is public and unhampered enemy of the factory factory blown up by Prussian agents Prussian allies still go and in public places spies, U. s. senators congressman though they the reichstag societies and sidewalk orators socialists anarchists wob- plies and pacifists and other proGerman small fry of every kind and descrptio have done all they rossiby could all long hamper and cripple this try in the prosecutions of the Lately they been checked to certain degree. But the hand pression for this horde has as heavy and it should have been their richly Petty traitors unchecked grow to be danger Public traitors leniently dealt with.
 swarm about them THIS COUNTRY IS. AT WAR THE FIGHT IS TO A FINISH. There are two classes Of people in this country right now and only The great bulk of people loyal and patriotic God. But there few in every community whose distorted minds false wounded vanities or anarchistic ego German sympathes or boughtand- paidor efforts against America great and un- selfish humanity and safety a ruthless autocratc power. The whom have entrusted the safety and guidance the government the bulk of the people quickly and effectua- ly repress these enemies from within
 without may be dealth with successfully
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16
A QUIET LITTLE MAN WITH A GAME AND
 CHEERFUL SMILE.

lie was knObbed and withered and gray, was this little, round, thickset man who entered the newspaper mans office the o.her day. But he had a pleasant smile and funny whiskers and a cOmicai sag to his shoulders. I'm the man that was shot he announced, taking off his battered white hat and bobbing has head forward into a kind of a bow.
 And the evidence bore ou. the testi- mony. A bloodstained bandage eX- ended back all the way across his skull to cover the furrow made by the bullet Mexican done it" went on this strange caller with his stranger method of introduction, and still smil- ing like the joke was on the Mex. "Pd just wropped up his goods and l guess that was the way he paid for 'em. Pretty close call, don't you think?"
 The newspaperman agreed with him heartily, looking with undisguised interest at his caller.
 q generally gets along alright with 'em,'' continued the little man win the big bandage. Been Twin at my little store near Hereford for quite a spell all alone with no weapon or nOthin' like that No one ever shot me before I try to treat every one nice"
 Are you not afraid to live there now?" asked the newspaper man.
 Afraid of what?" queried the weather stained little man in innocent wonder why, live there, and sell my goods and treat every one right. Of course, I'm not afraid. Pretty tough men come in there, but no one both cred me except that Mex. He got away, too. But that's alright. My head will heal.
 Been a pretty good year down my way. Trees grown three foot this past summer l come to ask for more time on your paper. l wan. it. Saw aw- ful good story in there the other day. Worth the price for a year any time. Lots of automobile fellows stop at my place for water. Always gHe it to 'em, day or night; cup of cold water. Believe to my soul that's one reason I say. It makes a feller feel good to give a thirsty man cup of water. Don't you think so?''
 The newspaper man most empha- tically did, and so told his visitor
 Well, must be a gOin'.'' said the smiling little man with the child's voice and the big boots. Don't fail to send my paper"
 He stumped away, this little old man, whose gray hair had been plough ed by bullet that did not kill either him Or his courage or his smile. His name is John F. Ashworth and he is an optimist from the headwaters Of the Hopeful river He still sells goods to Mexicans, regardless of the fact that one of them paid him with bull let. He still gives a cup of cold water to pilgrims who stop at his place as they pass. Some men are braver than he: many are not so brave. Some men are doing more in this big old world; many not so much.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16
POefS Corner
THERE IS NO DEATH.

There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in heavens ieweled crown, They shine forever more. There is no death. The dust we tread Shall change beneath the summer
 showers To golden grain, or mellow fruit, Or rainbow-tinted bowers. The granite rocks disorganize To feed the hanging moss they bear, The leaves drink daily life, From out the viewless air. There is no death! The leaves may
 fall,
 The flowers may fall and pass
 away; They only wait through wintry hours The coming of the May. There is no death! An angel form Walks OCT the earth with silent
 tread, AAG btdio Oui DOoN-AONNN tiAili6o hN dss And then we call them dead. He leaves our hearts all desolate; He plucks our fsirest, sweetest
 flowers, Transported into bliss; they now Adorn immortal bowers. The bird-like voice, whose joyous
 tones
 Make glad these scenes of sin and
 strife, Sings now an everlasting song Amid the tree of life. And when he sees a smile too bright, Or heart too pure for taint and vice He bears it to that world of light, To dwell in paradise. Born unto that undying life, They leave us but to come again: With joy We welcome them-the
 same
 Except in sin and pain. And ever near us. though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life-there are no dead,
 Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-16

is hard for the plug citizen of these grand little United why he should cents for loaf of bread with wheat fields and bursting graneries all about him. and Starving Belgium France and England pay cents for loaf twice big It is true that the bread there is not made pure wheat flour but is made from grain and is paatable If the American consumer is the victim inflated prices during this then he is having bdd dream Boy, page MT. Hoover