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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02
FREE DELIVERY
is DELAYED
Some Hitch In Plans for Letter Car
riers on Streets Of kahoka to
Start Working.
Thursday.

KAHOKA, Mo-, Nov. Mrs. w.
F. Laidley left Wednesday for Clear
water, Florida, to spend the winter
with sister.
Free delivery of mail was to have
been inaugurated in Kahoka Novem-
Der 1, but it seems as though the mat
ter has again been delayed.
The roof is being put on the new
school building here and the plaster
ers will begin work the latter part of
the week.
Ernest Reser. Of this city, one OF
the Missouri university unit in France
failed to pass the physical examina-
ton when the time arrived to be TAX
en- over from the French to the u. S.
government service. He has been in
the transfer service for the past four
months, paying his own expenses, with
the hope that at the end of the four
months service he would be taken
over by Uncle Sam. He will probab-
ly remain in France for a time
Mrs. J. G. Hardness left Wednes-
day for California to spend the winter.
She was joined at Denver, colorado,
by her niece, Miss Edna Staulrer, for
merly of this city, who is in very poor
health. Mr.. Hardness viii Join them
later.
George Turner won first prize, $500,
and Freddie Nieumann second prize,
S4.OU in corn show contest at the
court house last Saturday. Professor
Collier and Miss Steiger Of the Ka-
hoka school faculty, were the judges.
Mrs. Pierre Hammat and two chill
dren Of keokuk, were over Sunday
visitors in kahoka.
John Callahan, formerly Of Kahoka,
was injured in an accident at the ar.
senal in Rock Island, Ill.,, recently,
and is confined to hospital.
Misses Sarah Hitler and Frances
Hardness DELIGHTFULLY."- entertained a
party Of friends at the home Of the
former Monday evening at Hallow-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02
SOUNDS EASY,
VERY MUCH SO
Before You Read This, Pronounce
abandonment" Then See
If You Are
Right.

A group of men sitting last even
ing in the lobby of a Keokuk hotel
talking of war and armies, finally got
into dispute over the pronunciation
Of the word, cantonment.
Listen said little short chap
who seemed to be doing most of the
talking. II heard college profess
sor pronounce it spell back. The
word is accented on the second syl-
liable and the % is sounded as in
bone"
"Yeh'r only half right" tai slim
man Clipped in. II reckon if there's
anybody who knows it's a colonel. I
heard Colonel Brown say the word
just week ago today. 1t is ac-
cented on the second syllable all
right, but the % is sounded as in
pond"
Search me-" said a man who had
been busy up to now writing. 81
haven't time to find out how to pro-
nounce all the new words coming out"
Then the old man Of the group, he
with the white head, said he had q
little dictionary in his grip that had
been in his family for fifty years, and
he would just look it up and see If
the word had been coined when the
dictionary was printed. He found 1t
all right. He also found that it is &C
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02

mics stepped out Of the darkness in
to the American Red Cross buffet at
the railroad station, slowed away
their rifles and steel helmets and
lined up for free chow.
Fifteen American women, worked
like distinguishes in beanery and
when they began to lose ground
against the crush Of hungry sam
mics the colonel himself jumped be-
hind the counter and poured coffee
out of big pail.
There wasn't must time. The
troop train slid into the station, the
sammies piled in, forty to a car and
the officers clambered into their
coach.
Up forward the whistle footed eau
tiously; a lantern flashed and the
train moved out carrying the first
American sammies to the front.
And some of them aren't coming
back
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02

UNDER FIRE
Americans Are Running Trains Right
up to Front on Bat
tIefieids of
France.
[By j. w. Pegler, United Press Staff
CORES Dondentl

| CORES pondent.1
| AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR-
TIERS, France, Oct ~. (By mail.)-
| Somewhere in an active sector, the
American railroad engineers are
running trains right up to the front.
They are the first American regi.
ment to come under shell fire in the
great war.
An entire railroad system, from the
general managers office to the beat
| Of the lonely track walker has been
handed over to the sa.mmies by the
French war office. Trains manned
| by American boys are moving on a
strict schedule, carrying shells for
the guns, food for the French troops
and the daily movement Of poilus 60
ing forward or coming back on leave
to rest.
Temporarily the regiment is loan
ed to the French for the operation Of
that railroad. The sammies may stay
on the job there for the duration Of
some other line They get French
rations and their road is part OF
the French system. But they wear
their own uniform, draw American
pay, and run the road by their own
method, which means economy of
man power.
At some points their line is within
the range of the boche guns and
shells cTump at random along the
right of way. At night there is dan
ger Of boche aeroplanes slipping
through the tight French aerial pat
rol and bombing the sammies at
work. This has happened, but so
far our troops have had no casual
ties.
/ was with engineers last night
when they marched to the troop train
to move forward. The move was
made without any unnecessary sound
to guide boche air-raiders Along
pitch dark streets they swung through
the town to the music of their own
hob-nails beating on flint pavements.
The bandsmen were there with their
horns smothered in green kimonas to
prevent the moonlight from glinting
on the brass.
The American commander kept the
time Of departure secret so that half
the town would not stay awake till
/ a. nl to see his boys OFF.
Breaking into single file the sam
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August, Colonel III. b. Blood and An.
ME Belle Graffen were married In
Philadelphia, Pa. Colonel Blood was
engaged in the coal business at Stone
boro and Franklin, Pa, and then at
Brazil, Indiana, for Amasa Stone, an
uncle, of Cleveland, Ohio. Stone ac-
CURED by a mortgage, the railroad
then known as the ST. Louis, Keo-
kuk and Northwestern railroad, and
which ran to Louisiana, Mo. He sent
Colonel Blood in 1876 to Keokuk to
look after his interests in the road.
Colonel Blood arrived in that year
and took charge of his uncle's inter-
ests and extended the line to Culver
river, from Hannibal, Mo- Later,
Colonel Blood was interested in the
Keokuk Plow works, and in the
stone business, and then he entered
the insurance field, in which he had
been successfully engaged, since.
During his connection with railroad
work here, he built the North road,
or the Keokuk to Mt. Pleasant branch
Of the Burlington.
Buys Insurance Business.
He bought out the insurance bust
ness Of WI. Modes, succeeding him
here, and had been associated in the
business with George A. Brinkman
and with Beverly B. Hobbs. During
his lifetime here Colonel Blood was
elected to the Keokuk City council
from the first ward, and was presi-
dent pro TEN of the council. He
served for two terms.
Colonel Blood was member of the
G.. A. R. Of Lexington chapter, Sons
of the American Revolution, in which
he gained membership through his as.
cestor the minute man of Lexington,
and in the Loyal Legion. He was an
elder in the First Westminster Pres
byterian church, and one of its faith
full and competent members.
Colonel Blood is survived by four
children, Mrs. E. F. Bisbee of st.
Louis; w. G. Blood. H. Boyden Blood
and Miss Elizabeth s. Blood, all Of
Keokuk, and two grandsons, Ensign
Henry Farnsworth Bisbee, of the U. S.
naval marines, at the Great Lakes
training station at Chicago, and Will
liam Graffen Blood, of Keokuk, and
one sister, Martha Eaton, of Austin, |
Mass
The funeral will be held from the
chapel of the First Westminster Pres
byterian church Saturday afternoon
at O'Clock. The family asks that
flowers be omitted.
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men at such time that receives such
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02
WIFE AND SON
OF DEAD MAN
Murdered Man was Not Bachelor
as His Neishbors Had
Supposed Him
to Be

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 1.-The
wife and son of A. P. Chamberlain
sprang up today from the west to
aid in avenging his murder Arrival
Of Alec Chamberlain, %, Of Des
Moines, Iowa, gave first intimatiou
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02
Qualification of a Leader.

st. Paul Pioneer-Press: The man
with a whisper in his soul" is not
nearly as dependable, as a leader of
men, as is the man who has been en-
dowed with just plain, ordinary horse
sense.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02

1t is calculated that the average
speed at which a golf ball leaves the
tee Is 300 miles an hour-about five
times that of an express train
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-02
Postal Rates
Increase Today

The news rates for first-class
mail are:
Postage
Required.
Out OF town letters. g cents
Drop or local letters. F. e cents
Postal cards -. 20 cents
Regular one-cent postal
cards, to be mailable now re-
quire l cent extra postage.
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Awaiting Motherhood


Women, q l m o 3 {
without exception, are
prone to nervous ap-
prehension when on
the road to mother
hood. A woman knows
that however many
people there are close
or dear to her, she
must face the crisis
alone.
There Is nothing to-
dav prapored for NO
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12
CHAPTER XIV.
StratenY.

One week went to repairs. To q
man of action such a week is longer
than ten years of service. But chained
to bed in the Sleepy Cat hospital, De
Spain had no escape from one week of
thinking, and for that week he thought
about Nan Morgan. And the impulse
that moved him the first moment he
could get out of bed and into a saddle
was to spur his way hard and fast
to her; to make her, against score
of burly cousins, his own; and never
to release her from his sudden arms
again.
With De Spain to think was to do /;
at least to do something, but not with
out further careful thinking, and not
without anticipating every chance of
failure. And his manner was to cast
up all difficulties and obstacles in a
situation, brush them aside, and have
his will if the heavens fell; and he
now set himself, while doing his rou-
tine work every day, to do one par
ticular thing-to see, talk to, plead
with, struggle with the woman, or girl,
rather-child, even, to his thoughts, so
fragile she was-this girl who had
given him back his life against her
own marauding relatives.
His friends saw that something was
absorbing him in an unusual, even an
extraordinary way, yet none could ar
rive at certain conclusion as to what
it was. The one man in the country
who could have surmised the situa
ton between the two-the barn boss
McAlpin-if he entertained suspicious
was far too pawky to share them will
anyone.
When two weeks had passed withou
De Spain's having seen Nan or having
heard Of her being seen, the conclu
sion urged itself on him that she wa
either i'll or in trouble-perhaps II
trouble for helDlng him; y monen
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

boss, standing in the doorway at the
Calabasas barns, saw q horseman rid
ing at leisurely pace up the Thief
River road. The barnman scrutinizcd
the approaching stranger closely.
There was something strange and
something familiar in the outlines of
the figure. But when the night rider
had dismounted in flont of the barn.
door, turned his horse loose, and, limp
ing stinly walked forward on foot, the
man rubbed his eyes hard before he
could believe them. Then he uttered
an incredulous greeting and led Henry
de Spain into the barn Office.
"There's friends Of yours in your
room upstairs right now," he declared,
bulging with shock. De Spain, sitting
down, forbade the barnman to disturb
them, o1'y asking who they were.
Wheel he had asked half q dozen
more leisurely questions and avoided
answering twice as many, the barnman
Mt De SPANS request helped him up
stairs. Beside himself with excite
ment, the night boss turned, grinning,
as he laid one hand on the dOorknob
and the other on De Spain's shoulder.
you couldn't have come" he whis-
pcred loudly, "at a better time"
! The entryway was dark, and from
the silence within the room one might
have thought it's occupants, If there
were such, wrapped in slumber. But
at intervals a faint clicking sound
could be heard. The night man threw
open the door. By the light of two
stage-lamps, one set on the dresser
and the other on a window ledge, four
men sat about rickety table in life
and-death struggle at cards. No voice
broke the tense silence, not even when
the door was thrown broadly open.
No one-neither Lefeyer, Scott,
Frank Elpaso nor McAlpin-looked up
when De Spain walked into the room
and, with the night man tiptoeing be-
hind, advanced composedly toward the
group. Even then his presence would
have passed unnoticed, but that Bob
SCOTS ear mechanically recorded the
limping step and transmitted to his
trained intelligence merely notice of
something unusual.
Scott, picking up his cards one at a
time as Lefever dealt, raised his eyes.
Startling as the sight of the man
given up for dead must have been, no
muscle of Bob Scott's body moved.
His expression of surprise slowly dis
solved into q grin that mutely invited
the others, as he had found out for
himself, to find out for themselves.
Lefever finished his deal. threw down
the pack, and picked up his hand. His
suspicious eyes never rose above the
level Of the faces at the table; but
when he had thumbed his cards and
looked from one to the other of the
remaining players to read the weather
signals, he perceived on SCOTS face
an unwOnted expression, and looked to
where the scouts gaze was turned for
an explanation of it. Lefever's own
eyes, at the sight of the thinned, ia
miliar face behind Elpaso's chair,
starting, opened like full moons. The
big fellow spread one hand out, his
cards hidden within it, and with the
other hand prudently drew down his
pile of chips. Gentlemen" he said
lightly, "this game is interned." He
rose and put a silent hand across the
table over Elpaso's shoulder. Henry
he exclaimed impasslvely, zone Ques.
ton, if you please-and only one: How
in thunder did you do It'll"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

later he was laying plans ~ esx Huec
the gap to find OUT. J"
Nothing in the way Of venture
could be more foolhardy--thls he ad-
mitted to himself-nothing, he con-
soled himself by rejecting, but some
thing stronger than danger could JUS
tify 1t. OF all the motley Morgan fol-
lowing within the mountain fastness
he could count on but one man to help
him in the slightest degree-this was
the derellct, Bull Page. There was no
choice but to use him, and he was
easily enlisted, for the Cnlabasas affair
had made heroic figure of De Spain
In the barrooms. De Spain, according
ly, lay in wait for the old man and
intercepted him one day on the road
to Sleepy Cat, walking the twenty
miles patiently for his whisky.
"You must be the only man IN the
gap, Bull, that can't borrow or steal
horse to ride" remarked De Spain,
stopping him near the river bridge.
Page pushed back the broken brlm
of his hat and looked up. "You
wouldn't believe It," he said, impart.
ing a cheerful confidence, "but ten
years ago had horses TO lend to every
man tween here and Thief river" He
nodded toward Sleepy Cat with q
wrecked smile, and by a dramatic
chance the broken hat-brim fell with
the words: "They've got 'em ALL"
"Your fault, Bull"
"SayW Up went the broken brim
and the whiskied face lighted with {
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

shaking smile, "you turned some trick
on that Calabasas crew-some fight"
Bull chuckled.
''Bull, is old Duke Morgan a Repub-
lican?"
Bull looked surprised at the turn Of
De SPANS question, but answered in
good faith: "Duke votes most any
ticket that's again the railroad"
"How about picking a couple Of
good barnmen over in the gap, Bullr
"What kind of a job y got?"
"See McAlpin the next time you're
over at Calabasas. How about that
girl that lives with DukeW
Bulls face lighted. "Nan! Say !
she's little hummerW
81 hear she's gone down to Thief
river teaching school,"
"Came by Dukes less'n three hours
ago. Seen her in the kitchen maxim
bread"
"They're looking for a schoolteacher
down there, anyway. Much sickness in
the gap lately, Bull?"
sony sickness I knowed lately is
what you're responsible for y'self," re-
torted Bull with a grin. "Pity y left
any chips at all from that Calabasas
job. eh?"
"See McAlpin, Bull, next time you're
over Calabasas way. Here"-De Spain
drew some currency from his pocket
and handed a bill to Page. $50 get
your hair cut. Don't talk too much
wear your whiskers long and your
| tongue short"
"Right-ow
"You understand"
"Take it from old Bull Page, he's Il
worlds wonder Of sucker, but he
knows his friends"
"But remember this-you don't know
me. If anybody knows you for friend
of mine, you are no good to me. SeeT
Bull was beyond expressing his COM
prehension in words alone. He winked
nodded, and screwed his face into q
thousand wrinkles. De Spain, wheel.
ing, rode away, the old man blinking
first after him, and then at the money
in his hand. He didn't profess to un'
derstanc everything in the high coun
try, but he could still distinguish the
principal figures at the end Of bank
note. When he tramped to Calabasas
the next day to interview McAlpin he
received more advice, with a strong
burr, about keeping his own counsel
and a little expense money to run hin
until an opening presented itself OF
the pay roll.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

the precipice when the narrowing
ledge left him only inches under foot
clinging with torn hands to every IA
voring crcvice, and pausing when the
peril was extreme for fresh strength,
De Spain dragged his injured foot
across the sheer face Of FL Captain in
the last shadows of the days failing
light.
Spent by his effort, De Spain reached
the rendezvous Nan had indicated, as
nearly as the stars would tell him, by
ten o'clock. 1t was only after a long
and doubtful hour that he heard the
mufIled footballs of a horse. He stood
concealed among the smaller trees un-
til he could distinguish the outlines of
the animal, and his eye caught the fig
ure of the rider.
De Spain stepped out of the trees
and, moving toward Nan, caught her
hand and helped her to the ground.
She enjoined silence, and led the
horse into the little grove. Stopping
well within 1t, she stopped and be,
gan rearranging the mufIlers on the
hoOfs.
I'm afraid I'm too late" she said
'How long have you been here?" She
faced De Spain with one hand on the
ponys shoulder.
did you have any falls"
"You see I'm here. You'll How
could you get here at all with horse2'
'They are hiding on both trails out.
side watching for you-and the moon
will be up" She seemed very anxious
De Spain made light of her fears. "Tl
get past them-Ive got to, Nan. DOM
give 1t thought"
II don't know what you'll think Of
me-" He heard the troubled note
in her voice.
"What do you mean?"
She began to unbutton her Jacket
Throwing back the revers, she felt
inside around her waist, unfastenet
after a moment and drew forth leath
ern strap. She laid it in De Spain'S
hands. "Thls is yours" she said in 6
whisper.
He felt it questioningly, hurriedly
then with amaZement. mot q car
fridge beltw he exclaimed.
"It's your own"
"Where-?" She made no answer
"Where did you get it, Nan?" he whis
pered hurriedly.
"Where you left It,"
"How?" She was silent. "When2'
Tonight"
"Have you been to Calabasas anC
back tonight?"
Everybody but Sassoon is in tn,
chase" she replied uneaslly-as If no
knowing what to say, or how to say 1t
''They said you should never leav,
the gap alive-they are ready will
traps everywhere. didn't know wha
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12
al Hate Him."

to do. 1 couldn't bear-after what
you did for me tonight-to think of
your being shot down like dog, when
you were only trying to get away"
II wouldn't have had you take a
ride like that for forty beltsl"
"McAlpin showed it to me the last
time 1 was at the stage barn, hanging
where you left It," He strapped the
cartridges around him.
"You should never have taken that
ride for it. But since you have"
He had drawn his revolver from his
walstband. He broke 1t now and held
it ont. Load II for me. Man."
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

Comes one of the big moments
In the life of Henry De Spain
and Nan Morgan. You will want
to read about it in the next in
stallment-great stuffl
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

Day was breaking wheO the night
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12
sKIN-TORTURED BABIES
Sleep, Mothers Rest After Treatment
With Cuticura-TriaI Free.

Send today for free samples of Cuti-
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quickly they relieve itching, burning
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ings. Having cleared baby's skin keep
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Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv>
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12
GRO BE coNTINUED.)
Peaceful Conscience Best.

The accommodating of substantial
fortune can make prosperous man,
but not necessarily a happy one;
peaceful conscience is the true content,
and wealth is but her golden ornament.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

SOAP is STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burr. out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with la Creole" Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price, $1.00.-AdV.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12
CHAPTER XIV.
a Venture in the Dark.

Pushing his way hastily forward
when he could make haste; crawling
slowly on his hands and knees when
Deid by opposing rock; fattening him
.~Si~ IKE q Ieach against the face Of
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nHTENTG watson f Coleman,
r M EEG "a Patent lawyer Washington,
u - Anhu " ID. q Advice and books free
Rates reasonable. Highest references BestserVicea
Serious.

"She's only flirting with him."
ITS more serious than that. l saw
her looking up his rating"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

Women taxi drivers are the latest
In England.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

Street trafic in San Francisco is
regulated bX electric semaphOFaS,
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-12

The rich man can often save money
by looking seedy.