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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
Try to Secure Factories.
Wheat Hits Skids.

Chicago, May 17-With wheat and
flour at largely reduced prices, a fur
ther break was seen early today as
a result Of the governments request
to its allies to dispose Of their hold
ings of grain bought for future deliv-
cry. July wheat here has declined %
cents in the last "a hours am -four
which was quoted at $3.50 a couple of
days ago was today being sold by the
millGrs at $16 and down
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
TEARS DOWN FLAG;
PLAYMATES TAKE
0FFENSE TO ACT

When q north side school child
thoughtlessly tore down an American
Has yesterday he was given a severe
trouncinE by his playmates before he
could even explain bis carelessnesS.
The youth is only student in the
loulth grade and did not realize that
he had committed an unpatrotic act
II so doing. He apologized to his
playmates. but the apology came too
late
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17

elections, and city elections, repre-
scntatives Of the government will be
necessary in each o. these voting
places, to take care Of the registra
tions. II Is not known that any rc.
muneration fo@ these representatives
is provided for, and they may he ask.
cd TO servo without pay, as part of
their patriotic duty. This detail,
however, will be gone into when the
draft proposition is released It Is
possible that other regulations, not
now known, will come to light when
tho instructions are opened.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
BROTHER OF MRS. F.A.
HATHEWAY Is DEAD

Mrs. +. A. Hathaway Is IN Chicago
whore she was called by the serious
Illness and death of her brother, John
FrCas, aged 56, who passed away last
night following prolonged illness.
+. A. Hathaway leaves tonight for Chi.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
vicit So. Illinois Coal Fields

B, l. Larsen and H. l.. Hossack
have been in southern Illinois in the
coal fields OF Franklin and William.
son counties. They are negotiating
for the purchase of u thousand acre
tract.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
Gait of the Fox.

The usual gait Of the fox, unlike that
Jf the dog. is, at night at least, a walk.
On such occasions he goes through the
fields in an alert, stealthy manner,
stepping about foot at a time and
aceping his eyes and ears open.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
BLAME OTTAWA LADS
FOR THEFT OF AUTO


That Ottawa youths stole the auto
of Otto Thorson, Of Morris, and drove
II to this city, is the opinion Of the
Grundy county authorities. Three
young fellows arc suspected Of taking
the car" said Deputy Stanford Of
the sherilfs' Office in Morris
'All the boys reside in Ottawa.
They were seen hanging around the
Royal theatcr in Morris
Authorities hero are Of the opinion
that the machine was .atakcu by
party Of Morris joyriders and do not
place much belief in the opinion oil
Deputy Stanford.
cago to attend the burial, which viii
take place tomorrow afternoon III
Chicago
Mr. Freas leaves d wife and six
children surviving.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17

Tea can be bought In China for 3
cents a pound.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17
The WEATHER

Partly cloudy tonight
and Friday. Cooler Fri
day.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-17

Continued on Page 3D.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

a brave man, hero in embryo. Homer
might as well have called the Greek
soldiers who went to Troy "Guss1es,
but he doesn't speak of them In that
way. They are heroes to him because
he was an heroic poet. Our boys
should be like heroes to Us for their
journeyings and their purposes are
Homeric.
Let's call them Americans. That
name is good enough for us who stay
at home and it is better cor those who
have gone abroad and for those who
are going. And an American soldier
needs no other. designation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
"sammy" is an Insult.

Cedar Rapids Republican, The Bur
lington Gazette says that it is going to
cult calling American soldiers in
France "Sammies,' a title that was
wished upon them by some would-be
adulators. We are glad that the Ga
zette has repented of the use of the
word. We are also glad to say that in
these columns we have never used the
word and we shall not use it. 1t is not
what we want to express toward the
brave men who are now in France for
us. To call him Sammy" Is almost
equivalent to calling him Sissy so
it strikes us. 1t is effeminate and it is
silly, it is almost degrading. The idea
Of calling six feet Of brave manhood a
Sammy" is almost sickening and we
have not been able to see how anyone
can have such small ideas of real
flesh and blood soldier. He is a man,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
How to Lose Your Tan,
FreckLes or Wrinkles

days motoring; an afternoon on tho
the beach or exposure on a lake trip,
often brings on a deep tan or vivid GRIM
crop Of freckles. A very necessary
thing then is mercolized wax. which
removes tan redness or freckles quite
skin--just a little at time. 50 there q
no hurt or injury. AS the skin Gomez
off in almost invisible 1aky particles, no
trace of the treatment is shown. Get an
ounce of mercolized wax at your drug.
yist.'s and use this nightly as you would
week or SO you will have an entirely
new skin, beaut ifully clear, transparent
and of most delicate wilderness.
Wrinkles. SO apt to form at this season,
may be easily and quickly removed by
bathing the face in a solution of powder
hazel, a pint This is not only valu-
able astringent. but has beneficial tonic
9 feet also.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
TRI-COUNTY
HOLINESS MEET
Rev. Morgan and Mrs. Keel Leading
the Association Services
at kiIbourne
Park.

The meeting Of the Tri-County
Holiness association, now being held
in Kilbourne park, continues with fair
attendance and good interest. The
leaders are Rev. Morgan, pastor of
the Nazarene church at Montrose,
and Mrs. Keel, state evangelist, are
delivering sermons of great spiritual
power and effectiveness. Miss Tip
perton leads in song. and quite an
able list of assistants are present to
help in general work Old time sal
walton is proclaimed and Bible holt
ness and the real spiritual living are
the chief elements kept prominent.
Members are present from various
parts Of the district, which includes
Lee, Van Buren, counties, Iowa, and
Clark county, Missouri
Some few of the real early mem.
bers of the movement are in attend
ance. including Samuel Devalt of Ka-
hoka, Eliza Watts Of Croton and S.
q. Yolton. These are veterans Of
thirty-five, years service.
Let 1t be urged that these meet
iings are strictly for the spiritual vel
fare of the people This is not
sensation for the collecting Of mem.
bers for church denomination
neither is it an airing of Journalism
and man-made endeavors to come up
their way. Different denominations
are represented in the association
Tfa ruling requirement is that they
be converted and spiritual.
Regular order Of services will con-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
SALT IN ILLINOIS
With Mastodon Indians ana
Geological Survey

from Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana
and other parts of the country were
regularly ticketed and could be sup
piled only by awaiting proper turn.
On getting their supply they did not
wait for the salt crystals to drain but
started away with them as soon as
they were cool enough to handle. the
water trickling from the sacks Of
salt, which were carried by pack
horses. 1t never occurred to these
early saltmakers that the five foot
bed of coal through which their wells
were generally dug would furnish a
never failing supply of good fuel for
exaporating the water from :, the
brine, and as the country became
stripped Of timber for miles around,
they resorted to the expedient of con
veying the brine for miles in wooden
pipes to the rapidly receding forest
The fact that slave labor was en-
ployed in the salt mines at the out
break of the civil war had consid
cradle influence on the sentiment Of
the people there as to slavery; It
caused this part of Illinois to take the
southern view.
Around the brine springs near the
old 'Nigger Works" have been found
many fragments Of Indian pottery,
some ornamented with vertical bands
arranged with considerable taste The
curvature of some of these fragments
shows that the vessels to which they
belonged were not less than four or
five feet in diameter. size truly
astonishing, made as they appear to
have been, of common clay and frag-
ments of fresh-water shells. 1t is in
ferred from their large size that they
were used as evaporating pans by a
prehistoric race of saltmakers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

says that there are days when it could fill It's
columns with stuff-good, bad and Indifferent
thus supplied to it. Here or there something
is snatched from the mass but the most OF 1T
necessarily goes it's lowly way to the waste pa
per basket, which shall have to be greatly en-
larged if the war goes on.
The Gate City earnestly desires to do it's bit,
and just as earnestly it is striving to do so,
but we don't believe it includes publishing
everything sent to this paper by everybody
who thinks that he thinks that he has thought
a thought, whether that suppositious think OF
q thought is official in its derivation or not.
If the present fusilade is continued the gov
eminent or some elemossynary society should
supply editors with much larger waste paper
baskets than they heretofore have possessed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
TODAY.S BIT OF VERSE
THE BRAVE AT HOME.

The maid who binds her warriors sash
With smile that we'll her pain dissembles,
The while beneath her dropping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles
Though Heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed drop as dear
AS e'er believed the field OF { Org!
The wife who girds her husbands sword
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
And bravey speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood eer
Was poured upon the field of battle
The mother who conceas her grief
While to her breast her she presses
Then breathes few brave words and brief
kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
With no but her secret God
To know the pain that weights upon her
Sheds holy blood e'er the sod
Received on Freedoms field of honor!
Thomas Buchanan Read.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

The Shawneetown and Equality
topographic maps, recently issued by
the United States geological survey,
interior department, in cooperation
with the state of Illinois, covers an
area in Illinois in whose history the
commonplace commodity salt has
played an important part.
The brine springs of Gallatin coun-
ty were worked at an early date I'M
der the management of army officers
at time when the government Of the
United States reserved from sale all
lands containing salt springs. The
only brine spring that could be profit
ably worked here was about a mile
south of the town of Equality, near
what Is known as "Half-Moon," a
semicircular excavation made by buff
falo and other wild animals that con-
gregated in vast numbers to lick the
salty earth This locality must also
have been a favorite resort for the
mammoth and the mastodon, huge
monsters that roamed in immense
numbers over the country when the
present site of the salt works was an
alluring swamp, for from time to
time a great many bones belonging
to these extinct animals have been
found, resting on the drift in the
fMoon"
While the Saline salt works were
under the control of the federal gov
eminent an immense district of coun-
try depended on them for it's supply
of salt. Between 1000 and 1000 per-
sons were employed, and the yield OF
the works was estimated at so to 100
bushels of salt a day. The demand
so far exceeded the capacity Of the
works that applicants for salt coming
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

This Is what few inches Of por-
terhouse cost julius Ashe. a pan
washer of the Stevens Catering COM
pany, who was refused a weeks pay
Of S21 when left over steak was
found in his pocket, according to .
suit on file here today to recover the
money. The steak was given to him
by the cook, he said.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Des Moines Tribune: A Chicago
dealer in automobiles declares that
the auto has been a great aid to
health Certainly it has compelled
pedestrians to take little more vio-
lent exercise
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
Drevenfable Fire

Woodrow Wilson: Preventable fire
is more than a private misfortune. 1t
is public dereliction. At time like
this of emergency and of manifest ne
cessity for the conservation Of nation
q, resources. it is more than ever a
matter of deep and pressing conse-
onence that eyery means should be
taken TO prevent this evil.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
Work is the key to every happiness. With
out it happiness won't come unlocked. What
do people do who don It do anything, I Won
der-Alice Cholmondeley.
BoMBARD1NG THE NEWSPAPERS.

Would that it were possible to give the aver
age reader an idea Of the literary fusillade to
which editorial sanctums subjected; OF
the verbal volleys of big shell, little shell, can
non balls, hand grenades and rifle bullets that
are poured upon The Gate City daily. Would
that it were possible but it is not; nothing but
hard-earned experience could make the aver
age reader realize.
This national government has many depart
nents, and every department has many sub-de
partnents, and every department and sub-de
partment has its literary representatives, call
ing to mind the lines of Lowell:
Great fleas have little fleas
Upon their backs, to bite
little fleas have lesser fleas,
ad infnitum.
One and all of these literary representatives
fire their documents-long documents and
short documents; weighty documents and trif-
ling documents-at the newspaper Offices, to-
oather with a notification of the stern neces-
sitv of publication.
But this is not all: The state, too has its
departments, sub-departments and their repre-
sentatives, and each one of these runs a liter
ary mill for the manufacture of missiles to be
shot at Fort Newspaper, many Of these missiles
calling attention to the duty the editor owes to
the public to publish them.
Nor is that all: There are private organiza-
tons adj infinitum, all of them trying to act as
much like the official variety as possible.
There are those that are for peace at any price
(includine dishonor) and those that apparent
" don It know what they are far, but are for it
anyway And all of them turn out literature
which it is most important to have published
right away; and the editor gets the stuff.
The Gate City does not exaggerate when it
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Des Moines Register: The Medical
Record has decided that ice cream is
food. Somebody made similar de-
cision as to parsnips, but the argu-
ment isn't ended yet.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Boone News-Republican: We must
have censorship, but any sharp high
school scholar will readily guess the
location of "a Pacific port" by the
text of what follows.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

If present plans succeed it will soon be pos
sible to speculate on or in anything with the
possible exception of the probable duration of
the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Can all you can but the average housewife
can't can all she would like to can with sugar
doubled in price.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Sioux City Tribune: Women con
ductors are being introduced by a
southern railroad. Fares to the fair.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

/ Davenport Democrat. IL president
Wilson can cut dollar of OF coal
prices he will be entitled to vote
| of thanks from over hundred MIL
| lion people-but it must be dollar
at the coal bin and not simply dol
lar at the mine.
Sioux City Journal: When an I'M
known gets into public squaDDle
with man of national prominence,
the degree of sympathy he gets from
the people depends upon whether his
antagonist is famous or just notorl-
GUS.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
wrist watch has been lifted out OF
the dumps by it's use among military
men, The idle men who were known
as the "sissies'' used to affect the
use of such watches, but among men
in the army it is found to be the one
most useful time piece.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Some folks
grow weary of the talk about H., G.
of l.. 1t is because they do not know
show the other half lives. Perhaps
they do not care. Otherwise they
would realize, that it is the most i'm
portant subject for the gerater half
of the populace.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: La Fol
lette wants to know what we are
fighting for Well, the last census
SAID something better than 100000
900.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
Pro-Germanism is anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism just now touches
the skirts of treason.
aDes Moines Capital: Some of the
traitors in this and other states do
not know that the governm ent can
deprive traitors Of every dollars
worth of property they may have and
may take their lives, if it is thought
best. And if traitors will read the
news of the day, they will discover
that where the law is lax and lame,
mob violence is invited. In this
state, men have been compelled to
kneel in the public street and kiss
the flag in the presence of their
neighbors. During the civil war.
loyal men and soldiers at home on
furlough made copperheads raise
their right hand and swear allegiance
to the constitution. This is the time
for every patriot to be on duty. 1t
is the time for the governor and
every officer of the state to manifest
courage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

tinue over Sunday. There Is pielss,
of room. Rev. Youngblood ana WI, WI,
Of University Park are helping ~, IN
versity Park is noted for It's ho ~,
ness college. Come to the nee.la
to be benefited. Come to do gooa'
JASPER BLINES,
Corresponding Secretary
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

This view of Spain's condition is easily I'M
derstandable and it accords we'll with the
fact of that country's policy. The status
quo is maintained not by unanimity Of opinion,
not by majority Of sympathy for one side or
the other, but by fear of the clashing interests
that any change may be for the worse. Out Of
such conditions internal conflict is more likely
to result than open participation in the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Inroads of draft among the y .s,e,
men of San Francisco has aoui IL
the number of women Workei'
the grocery stores OF the CITY.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

The London Times has seen the American
soldiers playing baseball and rejects the game.
Isn't that just like the London Times, or any
other English newspapers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

Sioux City Tribune: FletcheriZe
and Hooverize, that's the way to
economic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

One Steak at S21.
IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-One steak vi.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
PUTTING VALUES RIGHT.

Members of the returned mission to Russia
say that Importance altogether disproportion-
ate to their real significance is attached to re
ports Of disorders in Russia; that, while there
lis revolt and disloyalty, these are made to seem
much more prevalent and more universal than
they are by magnifying small uprisings into
events of national significance The reading
public here has not the knowledge Of Russia
needed to assign proper relative Importance to
news Of disturbances.
There is lesson for US in this circumstance.
l. Ia Toilette and men of his kind do not greatly
disturb us; we are able to discount any activ-
Iitv that they may foster in behalf Of Germany
and against the will of this nation at it's true
value because we know the small minority
represented by such attitude, and because
we know that such activity is suffered by us
that our theories of freedom of speech and ac-
ton may suffer no contradiction. But we do
not take thought of the influence which the re-
ports of the speech and acts of La Toilette and
his fellows have abroad. In Germany the
government will not be deceived by them but
the people may be. In Russia we have reason
to believe that reports of divided sentiment to-
ward the war in this nation have done harm
In the neutral nations these reports are used
bv German agents. It will be wise to q such
publicity to facts of La Toilette s activity in
behalf of peace that is really concession Of
German victory that it is seen clearly by our
people and then to give such publicity to our
Ipeople's reputation of La Toilette that all the
world may understand the futility of his eff
forts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

On the day the food control bill was passed,
a newspaper heralded the event by declaring
adequate Supply Of Food Assured' Yet
everybody knows that the law will not produce
an additional pound of food.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

humble Is not to think meanly Of ones SELF o
humble knowing character and abilities, to be
willing lower place, and perform mental serv
ice-Lyman Abbott.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25

The cost of living is constantly rising and
labor is wretchedly underpaid Meanwhile the
government classes plumber, the intellectual
classes talk and prophesy and despair and
few towns in the north, like Corunna, grow sud
denly rich munitions. But under the surface
the moment comes nearer and when the
tension will snap. Famine is the mother of
revolution. The trouble is that the revolution
lists have SO many aims In Calonolia they
want republic and virtual autonomy from the
rest of Spain. In Andausia they want, very
simply, food and decent wages. In Galicia they
want be let alone and allowed to grow rich in
peace
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
SPANISH NEUTRALITY.

There has been little Information available
in this country as to the real opinion and sym
pathies of the Spanish people regarding the
war That there is constant unrest making the
government status precarious has been indi-
Gated by press reports; that there is wide diff
ference of sympathy with the belligerents has
been reported But in an article in The Sew
en- Arts, John R. Dos Passos gives a vivid pic
ture of ''Young SPAIN in which is shown the
war of interests which is at present represented
by SPANS neutrality. There is first line of
cleavage in political sympathies; the aristoc-
racy and the clericas are bound by tradition to
Austria; the liberals are strongly pro-ally. But
there is less political clashing than economic
turmoil which Mr.. Dos Passos describes thus:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-25
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Davenport Democrat: IL President
Wilson can cut dollar off OF coal
prices he will be entitled to a vote
Of thanks from over a hundred mil
lion people-but it must be a dollar
at the coal bin and not simply dol
lar at the mine.