davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
NO OBSERVATORY or instruments

And again l call the attention Of the
public to the fact that possess neither
observatory nor instrument Of any kind.
My only aid in all my DEMONSTRATIONS
Is The American Ephemeris."
/ obtain all smy results by calcula
tions Of my own, based upon the posi-
tlons Of the planets as they are given
In said very valuable book Issued by
the United States government.
Prof Albert f. Porta.
1918 Alice ST., Oakland, Cal.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
n LYMAN ARRIVES SAFELY

Word has been received that Rodney
s. Lyman, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Lyman has arrived safely overseas. He
IL with the islh Infantry, formerly
stationed at Camp Lee, Va.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

Homemade rack for placing IA
wash-boiler for holding jars. Th,
cross pieces should be thick enough
TO allow circulation of water under
meath jars. This and many othe
good suggestions will be found Il
the free canning book which the Ne
tional War Garden Commission q
Washington will send any reader fo
4 two-cent stamp to pay postage
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

Mr.. and Mrs. William Collision, Of
No, POP Gray avenue, have received a
letter from their son, Lloyd, who has
arrived safely overseas. He entered the
service In June, 1917, and is a member
Of the Motor Ambulance Corps. He says
he is feeling fine. Before enlisting he
was employed by the Philadelphia and
Traction Company.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
Earthquake Periods.

4. July (3-6). Especially produced
by the opposition OF Mars with Mer-
curry, occurred on June is.-Moderate.
2. July ts-i3l. Especially due TO the
conjunctions Of Mercury with Jupiter
June 25); OF Mercury with Saturn
July a., and the opposition Of Mer-
curry with the Earth June 27.)-Se-
we're.
3. July l15-i9). Especially produced
by the opposltions Of Mercury with
Saturn May 3il and Mercury with Ur-
anus July 6).--Moderate.
4. July (22. 81. Especially due TO
the conjunctions Of Mercury with Ju-
piter (June 25), Of Mercury with Sat
urn July 4l and the oppositlons OF
Jupiter with the Earth June i5) and
Mercury with Uranus July 6).-Serles
OF earthquake shocks.
Note-These earthquakes VIII prob.
ably affect either the Adriatic shores
or the Indian and the lower Pacific
coasts.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
EruptIve Periods.

4. July ll-i2). Especially produced
by the conjunctions Of Venus with
Uranus June 81. Venus with Jupiter
June 25). Venus with Mercury MAY
3il and the opposition OF Venus with
Saturn May 30).-Severc.
2. July (i5-fs). Especially due TO
tho opposltlons OF Venus with Neptune
MAY 25). Venus with Saturn MAY 3O)
and the conjunction OF Venus with
Mercury MAY 81 t.---lntccrateric.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

eral years ago. during which time he
visited his uncle frequently.
Sergeant @. T. Wallace. OF No. 1918
Van Buren street, has arrived safely In
France.
Mrs. u. K. Tatman, Of Mlddletown, has
received word that her brother, Harry
G. Price, has arrived safely overseas.
Norval Woodward, colored, Of No. 5i0
Locust street, who served an enlistment
in the navy, being honorably discharged
three years ago, has again been called
to the colors. He will report for duty
at League Island next Thursday.
Friends Of Private Albert Leonard
Hurd, formerly stationed at Camp Nor
rison, are pleased to hear that he has
arrived safely "ocerseas."
Alfred p. Dougherty, OF No. 20is Gil
VI" avenue. and Paul Thompson, anC
William F. Lykens. OF Chester, Pa, en-
! us,ou IN the u. ;. Marine Corps at thI
/ local recruiting station yesterday. The!
will be sent TO Philadelphia and from
there 10 the training station at Parl
Island. 5. C..
Charles e. duBell, the halter, has re
ceyed word OF the safe arrival Of hi
son, the Rev. Charles Bratten duBell
now an army chaplain in France.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
A w. PORTER A LIEUTENANT.

Alfred ". Porter, OF No S29 Van
Buren street, after several weeks train
ing at Camp Johnson, Jacksonville.
Fla. has been commissioned a second
lieutenant Previous TO being drafted
into the National Army, Lieutenant
Porter was receiving teller at the Della
ware Trust Co.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

William Carl Attix, aged IS years, for
merly OF this city. who enlisted I'M the
United States Navy on May 6, spent the
weekend at the residence OF his aunt,
Mrs. Mary Longacre, No. III East Tenth
street Mr.. Attix is now stationed at
Wissahlckon Barracks. Cape May, N. ].
He is In the best Of health and says he
Is enjoying life in the navy.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
LEWIS NOW IN FRANCE

John Lewis. a Wilmington boy who
enlisted In the navy December 6, 1917,
has reached France safely In a letter
to Miss Catherine Hoagland. No. ii26
Walnut street, he wishes to be remem-
bered TO all his friends, and assures
them he Is In the best of health.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

The name OF Reese Baker was re-
Gently published by local Exemption
Board No. 3 as delinquent. Mr.. Baker
says he has not received his question
naire. He has been furnished with
new one.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

Edward s. Turner, a nephew OF Louis
G. Turner. Of No. $50 King street, who Is
with the expeditlonary forces in France
under General Pershing, has been pro-
NOTED TO sergeant major. Sergeant Tur-
ner Is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
E. Turner, Of No. 33i West Twenty-sec-
ond street. New York, but is known in
this city, as he was stationed at Fort
Dupont for period Of two years, sew
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

eral years ago. during which time he
visited his uncle frequently.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

Sergeant @. T. Wallace. Of No 1916
Van Buren street. has arrived safely II
France.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

Mrs. u. X Tatman, Of Mlddletown, has
received word that her brother, Harry
G. Price, has arrived safely overseas.
Evening journal., 1918-07-20
STRANGE BRAND OF SUMMER HEAT
AND STORMS PROMISED BY PROF.
ALBERT F. PORTA IN STUDY OF
SOLAR SYSTEMS.
BY PROF. ALBERT F. PORTi
iNoted Sunspot sclentlst.l

4Whltten Especially for THE EVEING
4 TOITRNATl
Evening journal., 1918-07-20

Alfred p. Dougherty, OF No. 20is Gil
NJ" avenue. and Paul Thompson, AM
William T. Lykens, OF Chester, Pa, en-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
HOW LONG?

After all allowance is made for the valor OF
the German soldiers and for the ignorance and
docility of the people and their cringing sub
missiveness to their governing class, it seems
incredible that they are not close to the point
where they will refuse to suffer any longer for
la lost cause, a hopeless war
The hay crop III Germany is total failure
and horses are being fed on leaves Live stock
is practically exhausted. The police are con-
iscating cattle wherever they can be found,
and the people are no longer allowed, as here
tofore, to save per cent of the stock for breed
ing purposes The meat ration will soon be
abolished There is shortage OF fruits and
vegetables The people are actually ragged.
and while the present outlook for the wheat and
rye crops is good, cereal diet without meats
and fats is poor one on which to fight cold and
epidemics-
In Austria conditions are so much worse as
to be actually appalling. The great bulk OF the
people are slowly starving on turnips, weeds
and dog meat at dollar pound, when they can
get it, and typhus, dysentery and tuberculosis
are sweeping the land. Is it conceivable that
these starving peoples will hang on throughout
another winter and remain loyal to their detest
able rulers who have brought such frightfu
lewis on them7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
WHEN LIBERALIZATION COMES.

Secretary Lane proposes to throw millions OF
acres of public land open to settlement by sol
diers returning from the That this Will
be wise and timely move there can be little
doubt. The somewhat similar legislation
known as the homestead laws, which began
with the act of 1862, aided immensely IN the re-
turn of our civil war veterans speedily and
without hardship to civilian life. Probably no
,ther act of congress was wiser in conception,
iuster in policy and more beneficial IN It's re-
suits and up to 1901 over fifteen million acres Of
the public domain had been taken up IN home
steads by bona fide settlers 1t may be added
that these acts provided that lands thus acquir-
ed should not be liable for any debt previously
contracted, while time spent IN the army or
navy might be deducted from the five years Of
occupation needed to perfect the holders title.
British statesmen also realize the need of
bringing land within the reach of the home
coming soldiers; but as all the lands in the
United Kingdom are privately owned, the only
way of effecting this will be the break up of the
great estates and the institution OF a system OF
peasant proprietorship like that which has
contributed so vastly to the prosperity OF
France An incidental result will be to make
the island kingdom more nearly self-support
ing than it has been for many decades
But the opening of land to settlement will moi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Wealth Has Been Conscripfed

mot have to pay anything.
The first fallacy is dangerous be-
cause it appeals and is often with
disloyal motives intended to appeal
TO class prejudice. It isn't true.
There are rich slackers and poor
slackers. rich proflteers and poor
profiteers. II you wish to call them
such, the profiteers are the specula-
tors. the land owners, the planters.
the farmers, the wage workers In all
II the favored lines, the middlemcn, the
retailers and all everywhere who are
gaining more and consuming more
than they were gaining and consum-
!! ing a year and half ago. Hoover
says that If the consumption OF food
by 11O.O00.O00 Americans would only
go back to what 1t was before the
war the problem Of feeding the allies
out OF the surplus would be instantly
solved. There is passionate denun'
citation Of the millers and packers for
making more. There Is no passion
at all in the thought that people have
been eating more and richer food
meaning by people all Of us.
| AS to the other fallacy, that ii
wealth were conscr1pted the wal
would be pain!essly paid for. the
answer to that is Russia.
Wealth has been conscripted in
Russia, and Russia this winter will
die il the allies do not save her.
f! Did wealth flee?
| Did it engage In reprisals?
| Is it having its revenge?
| Not at all-not any of that. Wealth
! is not what the bolshevist thinks II
lis. You can tax what rises from
iwealth-the profit, the usufruct
whatever YOU call it--down to the
very minimum of the air and nourish
ment required to sustain its life: but
Il you reach for the source of the
egg you kill the goose. You may
stamp and rage. but the goose is cold
and oblivfous.
| Russia Is full of factories and shops
and mills and banks with their doors
closed. They are dead geese. To the
simple Russian, beguiled and de
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
POOLING WITH
HEALTH SERIU0S

l have frequently asked druggists
what do you push in blood nedL
cine?" The answer usually came
'.The kind can make tho ncst mon
ey on" MY answer has always been
Not me-" l have succeeded pretty
well and ! have always recommended
the one that I had found by expert
ence to be the best and the one |
would be willing to take myself OF
give to members Of my own family.
/ have never offered the public /
medicine that we do not use at homs
This is why can offer Number 40
For The Blood" with clear con.
science; we have not only tried 1t on
thousands of others but on ourselves
We take it in all cases where blood
medicine is needed no matter in what
form it shows itself and we get splen-
did results in constipation, kidney
stomach and liver troubles. / firmly
believe If every one would begin IN
the spring and take Number 40" they
would escape malaria and fevers in
all forms. j. c. Mendenhall. 40 years
druggist. Evansville, Ind.
Sold by McGrath Bros. Drug Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

New York Tribune: Almost we de-
spair of ever getting true economic
thought past the emotional barriers.
We have tried very hard to state
our views of war taxation clearly.
We are for taxing incomes and ex-
cess war profits-that is to say,
wealth and property-to the utmost
limit. We do not know what the
practical limit is. Nobody knows.
You have to find It by feeling for IT..
In theory it is tho point at which
your treatment of the goose begins
to diminish the size of the golden
eggs At all events, we have urged
higher taxes upon incomes and war
profits, especially the latter, than
congress has yet had the courage to
impose.
But that is not ALL Having stated
our opinion Of what should be done
to the rich, and having stated that
first, we go on to say that very dras.
tic taxes must be laid upon the
luxuries of all the people-upon tea
and coffee and tobacco and beer and
sugar and gasolene, and everything
that is either not essential to exist
ence or which, being essential, is
known to be enormously wasted by
Self-indulgence.
These are the so-called consump-
ton taxes. They serve two very i'm
portant uses. namely (D to yield
revenue and (2) to penalize popular
extravaganza, of which evidence
everywhere abounds.
No sooner have we written and
printed an editorial like that than
we get letters from people who seem
to have read everything in it about
taxing the people and nothing at all
about taxing the rich.
We know by this and other signs
that two very dangerous and absurd
fallacies are abroad.
One is that the rich as such are
slackers and profiteers, and not only
do not pay their share, but actually
fatten on the war.
The other is that II wealth were
conscripted as life is the poor would
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
FACE TO FACE WITH REALITY.

FACE TO FACE WITH REALITY.
What dill you out there, my lad,
That has set that look in your eyes?
You went out a boy, you have come back a man.
What was it you out there, my lad
That set such deeps in your eyes
i aStrange things, and sad and wonderful
Things that scarce can tell;
have seen the sweep of the Reaper's scythe.
With God and Christ, and hell.
"I have seen Christ doing Christly deeds;
/ have seen the devil at play
have gripped to the sod in the hand OF God,
/ have seen the goddess pray
81 have seen Death blast out suddenly
From a clear, blue summer sky;
have slain like Cain with blazing brain,
I have heard the wounded cry.
81 have lain alone among the dead
With no hope but to die;
have seen them killing the wounded ones,
have seen them cruelty.
81 have seen the devil in peticoats
Wiling the souls Of men;
have seen great sinners do great deeds,
And turn to their sins again
81 have sped through bells of fiery hail,
With fell red-fury shod;
have heard the whisper of a voice,
l have looked in the face of God
You've right to your deep, high look, my lad,
You have met God in the ways
And no man looks into his face
But he feels 1t all his days.
You've right to your deep high look, my lad,
And we thank Him for His grace
John Oxenham. in Boston Transcript
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
A CODE TO BE FOLLOWED.

Recently sort of round robin was held by
body of our troops at the front on the question
Of what constitute the cardinal principles OF the
soldiers code There was unanimous agreement
that the worst sins in the sight Of a soldier are
cowardice and greed. Here is fine start at
code to govern conduct. A man who is brave
and unselfsh has two great qualities on which
to build not only good soldering but good citi-
zenship. And it is noteworthy that both quail
ties are enhanced by the close fellowship OF life
where danger is ever present and safety from it
depends in large measure on the personal re-
sponsibility of every man. We have just taken
a long step toward making our army demo-
cratic organization by eliminating our class dis.
tinctions of service from it; it is the United
States army now. We are going about increas-
ing the army to approximately five million men;
about training our boys in various ways to the
physical and vocational standard OF army use
fitness IF the army with its invading numbers
brings into our citizenship its code, who will
DENY that out of the dread compulsion OF war
there will come an influence to better this ma
ton?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

ceived by the Bolshevik leaders, 4
must seem very strange. There i,
the factory. In 1t are the machinss
as before. Here Is labor, idle, stss
ing and hungry. The Russian peopl.
want what the factory used to mais
What Is the matter? What h.,
happened?
Wealth has been conscripted. Ths,
Is all. The goose Is dead.
Only people who know the us..
and nature OF wealth and how !,
manage It could conceivably conscr,n
1t without fatal consequences. And
people do know the uses and natu,,
LOT wealth and how to manage it the,
do not bother to conscript it. The,
govern it intelligently and tax i
scientifically, and mind the health 0
the goose.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

solve all our problems for us or for other ma
tons. The rehabilitation Of our three OF four
million soldiers will call for craftsmanship OF
the highest order. The labor market could not
absorb them suddenly; besides which the mil
lions of women who have replaced male workers
are likely to resist return to the conditions be-
fore the war Evidently therefore it will be
some years before the changing social and econ,
omic order has become tranquil and stable
again.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
CUT|CURA HEALS
letter ON BOYS
Head In One Week With One
Cake of Soap and One
Box of Ointment.
Scalp Sore. ltched and He Was
Restless at Night.
Hair Fell Out.

"My seven year old boy suffered
from letter which started on the back
OF his head as pimpie. Then II
formed group Of little bumps that
would itch for two or three days and
then run. His scalp was very sore
and he could not bear TO have anyone
touch il. 1t itched and he was restless
at night. His hair fell out leaving
bald spot.
''I saw Cuticura Soap and ONT
rnent advertised and wrote for free
sample. He found immediate relief so
bought cake of Cuticura Soap and
box Of Ointment and he was healed. :"
tSiened) Mrs. Alice Harris, 2352 Scott
Ave, St. Louis, Mo-, Sept. ~, 1917.
With an apparent tendency to skin
troubles you should use these fragrant
super creamy enoilients for all toilet
purposes. They prevent as well as
preserve, purify and beautify.
Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post:
ard:"Cuticura. Dept. r. Boston," Sold
everywhere. Soap Csc. Ointment % and SOC
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
WHOM TIVE GODS DESTROY.

Press dispatches frequently tell nowadays OF
quarrels between members of the German staff,
between German and Austrian commanders and
troops, between the officials of the home bu-
reaus of these governments 1t was toward this
sort of thing that Won Hintze directed his plea
for steadfast cooperation in face OF great
danger to the German war cause. 1t is this
spirit of disruption creeping into the inner cir
Gle of German military autocracy that pres
ages the break of that autocracy before the on
slaught that will come when popular under
standing of it's failure is followed by the popu-
lar resentment sure to come. Mad the Ger
mans etc believe the world their oyster;
mad they have been in their war career; mad
now they are become in their efforts to stem
the tide of defeat and place the blame for fail
ure
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
THREE ORDERS.
New York Evening Telegram:

II is my royal and imperial COM
mand that you concentrate your
energies for the immediate pres
ent upon one single purpose, and
that is that you address all the
skill and all the valor Of my sol
diers to exterminate first the
treacherous English and walk
over General French's contempt
ible little army--The kaiser from
his headquarters at Aix-la-Cha-
pelle. August 19, 1914.
You are ordered abroad as
soldier of the king to help our
French comrades against the in
vasion of common enemy. 1t will
be your duty not only to set an ex-
ample of Discipline and perfect
steadiness under fire, but also to
maintain the most friendly rela-
tons with those whom you are
helping in this struggle.-LordB B.
Kitchener to the British troops
going over" in August, 1914.
Comment on the tone of these procla
nations is unnecessary. History vii
have to record what happened to tn
Prussian braggart.
Scarce a year ago there was anotf
err proclama ton, in which soldie
leader said in part:
Hardship will be your lot, but trus
in God will be your comfort.
Let your valor as soldier and you
conduct as man be an inspiration
your country"
This was General John J. Pershin
to the American expeditionary fore
It rings true. And we can all say wit
pride the valorous and decent pr
cepts of the able commander in chi,
have been lived up to by our me
abroad, the United States soldit
earning golden opinions from all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Backed by the Nation.

Chicago Daily News: Any effort to
fasten all the crime upon the kaiser
and the crown prince Is bound to
fail They could have done nothing
without the nation behind them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

The world is comedy to those who think,
2 tragedy TO those who feel-Horace Wal
pole.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

"Chicago Boy Wins War Cross, - headlines q
Chicago newspaper How things do conspire
to embarrass Mayor Thompson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

War has its compensations as well as peace
More than three hundred enemy aliens janitors
are informed in federal prisons.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

If there were direct primaries in Finland it is
doubtful if any member of the Hohenzolern
family could get the nomination for king
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

Nat B. Dial has been nominated for the long
term senatorship from South Carolina, defeat
ing both Cole L. Blease and James F. Rice
Thus South Caroinians have called "time'' on
Blease. IF Senator Dial even does no more than
swing his hands in Washington, that would be
preferable to having any man of Blease s
unsavory distinction give voice to pacifst
views in the hall of state