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The Tomahawk., 1918-04-18
Al Lovers viii to the End Of Time.

AZ Lovers Will 10 the Emo or '"0s
and while you are there forget that
there are going to be crying babies
and nursemaids with evenings out In
that golden future of yours"
"Come along, Sheba. Wen start now
on the golden TRAIL" said Elliot.
She walked as If she loved 1t. Her
long, slender legs moved rhythmfcaflys
and her arms swung true as pendu-
lums.
The moon was NIL that Diane had
promised. Sheba drank it in happily.
II believe I must be pagan. ! love
the sun and the moon and I know It's
all true about the little folk and the
pied piper and"
IF it's paganism to be in love with
the world, you are thirty-third degree.
pagan" +
"Well, and was there ever more
beautiful night befOre?"
He thought not, but he had not tho
words to tell her that for him its
beauty lay largely in her presence. Her
passionate love of things fine and
brave transformed the universe for
him. It was enough for him to be near
her, to hear the laughter bubbling In
her throat, to touch her crisp, blue
black hair as he adjusted the scarf
about her head.
"God made the night" he replied.
$50 that's Christian thought as we'll
as n pagan one"
They were no exception to the rule
that lovers are egoists. The world for
them tonight divided itself into two
classes. One included Sheba O'Neill
and Gordon Elliot; the other took in
the uninteresting remnant of humanity.
No matter how far afield their talk be-
gan, it always came back to them.
selves. They wanted to know oil about
each other, to compare experiences
and points Of view. But time fed too
fast for words. They talked-as lovers
will to the end OF time-in exclama-
tons and the meeting Of eyes and lit.
tie endearments.
When Diana and Peter found them
on the hillside, Sheba protested, with
her ha1f-shy, half-audacious smile, that
it Could not be two hours since she
and Gordon had left the living room.
Peter grinned. He remembered hill
top consecrated to his own courtship
Of Diane.
The only wedding present that Mac
donald sent Sheba was long envelope
with two documents attached by clip.
One was from the Kusiak Sun. It an
nounced that the search party had
found the body of Northrup with the
rest Of the stolen gold beside him. The
other was a copy Of legal document.
Its effect was that the district attorney
had dismissed all charges pending
against Gordon Elliot.
Although Macdonald lost the coal
claims DIT Kamatlah by reason Of the
report of Elliot, oil Alaska still be-
lieves that he was right. In that coun-
try of strong men he stands head and
shoulders above his fellows. He has
the fortunate gift of commanding the
admiration of friend and foe alike.
The lady who is his wife Is secretly the
greatest of his slaves, but she tries not
to let him know how muchahe has cap
tured her Imagination. For Genevieve
Macdonald cannot quite understand,
herself, how so elemental an emotion
as love can have pierced the arnor OF
her sophisticatio1. . - - = 81.
tTHE ENID
The Tomahawk., 1918-04-18
THE END.J

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The Tomahawk., 1918-04-18

81 uuEEAeuAy1 nc WOUAV uOS A0S uA4AT
self believe 1t.
"You ought to work up better story
than that" he said CONTEMPORARY.
'You can throw a husky through the
holes In it. How could Elliot know,
for instance, that Miss O'Nein was not
safeY'
1.-THE same way you could a. known
It," snapped old Gideon. "He phoned
to Smiths Crossin' and found the
stage hadn't got in and that there was
whale of storm up in the hills"
Macdonald set his face. you're
lying to me. You stumbled over the
stage while you were making your get
away. Now you're playing it for an
alibi."
Elliot had risen. Sheba stood beside
him, her hand in his. She spoke quietly.
"It's the truth. Believe it or not as
you please. We care nothing about
that"
The stab Of her eyes, the carriage of
the slim, plant figure with its sugges-
ton Of fine gallantry, challenged her
former lover to do his worst.
On the battered face of Gordon was
q smile. So long as his Irish sweet
heart stood by him he did not care If
he were charged with high treason. 1t
was worth all it cost to feel the
warmth of her brave, impulsive trust.
The deep-set eyes Of Macdonald
clinched with those of his rival. 'You
cached the rest of the gold, I suppose"
he said doggedly.
With a Tilt of his shoulders the
younger man answered lightly: There
are none so blind as those who will not
see, Mr.. Macdonald" He turned to
Sheba. "Come. We must make break
fast"
you're going to Kusiak with me, :"
his enemy said bluntly.
"After we have eaten, Mr.. Macdon-
ald," returned Elliot with an ironic
bow. "Perhaps, If you have not had
breakfast yet, you will join u.s."
1--WE start in half an hour" an
nounced the mine-owner CURLY, and he
turned on his heel.
The rifle lay where Sheba had
dropped it when she ran to gather her
stricken lover into her arms. Macdon.
aid picked It up and strobe over the
brow of the hill without a backward
look. He was too proud to stay and
watch them. It was impossible to es-
cape him in the deep snow that filled
the hill trails, and he was convinced
they would attempt nothing of the
kind.
The Scotsman felt for the first time
in his life old and spent. Under ire
mendous difficulty he had mushed for
two days and had at last run his men
down. The lust of vengeance had sat
on his shoulders every mile of the way
and had driven him feverishly for
ward. But the salt that had lent
SAVIOR to his passion was gone. Even
though he won, he lost. For Sheba had
gone over to the enemy.
With the fierce willfulness of his
temperament he tried to tread under
foot his doubts about the guilt of Holt
and Elliot. Success had made him
arrogant and he was not good loser.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
GoMpERs' WISE FORESIGHT.

Throughout the war period Samuel Gompers
has seen clearly and spoken wisely of labor's
duties and dangers. One most important fact
has always been present in his thought-the
status of labor in the judgment of popular opin-
ion when the war is over "When the boys
come back labor will have to defend its acts, +"
he said publicly in one of his early war
speeches. recognizing that labor is contributing
a large representation to army and navy
Mr.. Gompers knows well the bond that binds
fighting men; he knows that those who have
gone out of the ranks of skilled workers will
be part and parcel of our army and navy. He
knows that they will be proud of the support
labor at home has given, but will query sharply
any hampering influence that labor has exert
ed. His action in advising against strike of
telegraph operators was based upon this knowl-
edge. And Mr.. Gompers has never been tempt
ed for a moment to lend an ear to socialistic
pleas. Earlier in his years he was militant
labor leader, but the view and experience grant
ed him as head of the American Federation of
Labor have been absorbed to the end that he
now applies conservative thought that results
best for all concerned may eventuate. Mr..
Gompers has not let his class leadership bulge
him an inch from his full Americanism-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
The News Out of Joint.

New York World: Ordinarily, a fire
in Constantiople more terrible than
any in human memory" would be the
sensational news event of the day.
There would be columns of cabled
description, with a minute and particu-
lar account of the historical buildings
destroyed and before the news was
cold, measures of relief would be be-
gun.
AS it is, we have a brief statement
from a Balkan correspondent by way
of The Hague that the fire occurred
three weeks ago, ravaged ten districts
in the heart Of old STEAMBOAT, destroy
ed 5000 houses, 20 baths, &c bazaars
and ten mosques, and left 200 900 per-
sons homeless. Certainly the barest of
chronicles of one of the great fires of
history The reader pauses for a NOM
ent to wonder what ancient examples
of mosque architecture have been
obliterated-were they the Moslem
equivalents of a Rheims cathedral?-
and turns from force of habit to the
war news.
So has the greater story Of human
conflict altered the perspections and
dislocated the old proportions of news
values. Similarly, in the Indiana train
wreck there would have been for the
piping times of peace an event of the
first magnitude. AS it is, the killing
of a large company of circus people
gives to the accident a unique odium
among railroad horrors. Bareback rid
ers, trapese performers, acrobats,
they survived the risks of the circus
ring only to lose their lives to the
Juggernaut of unsafe railroad opera
ton. Even the war cannot altogether
dim their shocking fate
Yet the story necessarily takes a
subordinate place in the news col
umns. Wars that make human life
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
YALE'S RESPONSE.

Yale has three thousand, one hundred and
eighty army and navy officers in service. Her
student body is almost completely divorced
from the ordinary work Of the university and
IS devoting itself to some branch of war serv-
ice Now comes the announcement that fund
of half million dollars has been raised by Yale
graduates and undergraduates now in govern
ment service to make possible the university s
continuance of its war work in its home plant.
The entire laboratory plant of the university
has been given over to the government and is
in active use 1t is Yale's avowed purpose to
fit every undergraduate who desires it for serv-
ice: # is maintaining extensive artillery and
naval training schools in addition to its me
ical laboratories Yale men have always had
chanical laboratories Yale men have always
had the pride of class. They stand well forti-
fed in this pride by the response their univer-
. sity has made to the nations call
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
TO A RIr1EREX

TO BUTTERFLY.
Eve watched you now a fnll half hour,
SeH-poised upon that yellow flower;
And, little butterfly, indeed
/ know not if you sleep or feed
How motionless not frozen seas
More mouonlessi and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
has found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!
This plot of orchard ground is ours;
MY trees they are, my sisters flowers;
Here rest your wings when they are weary;
Here lodge as in sanctuary!
Come often to us, fear not wrong:
Sit near us on the bough!
Well talk of sunshine and Of song;
And GUNNER days, when we are young;
Sweet childish days. that were as long
AZ twenty days are now.
william Wordsworth
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
FOR A CLEAN KEOKUK.

On June eleventh. last, The Gate City editor
tally appealed for action that would result III a
cleaner, better Keokuk and registered its oppo-
sition to continuation of conditions that were
and had been for long disgrace to this NUM-
cipality. The Gate City then said:
No one in Iowa wants to be labeled uphold
OF bad Indifferent government We should
analysis, to feel that we are respectable
and lawabding. that we are so regarded by ON
Gals, state, county and municipal
Since that eleventh day of June Keokuk has
measurably improved its moral status Glar-
ing evils have been wiped out to degree,
not entirely There still remain some plague
spots that disfgure, and it is said that prostl-
tuition, bootlegging, gambling and lesser Of
lenses, all shocking to the moral sense, flour
ish, although under cover and with eyes strain
ed for any move that may be observed as
threatening their total elimination.
Now, what is desirable, and what must be
had is an absolutely clean city, city free from
all forms of vice and having no attraction to
lure age or youth from the path Of rechtude.
This is the meaning of an organization formed
on Monday night and composed in membership
of leaders in Keokuk's business life. AS ex-
ample is more forcible than precept, this organ
ization called upon the members of the city and
county administrations and demanded cooper
alton In the work of cleaning up heokuk, ana,
what is as much to the point, keeping it clean.
Any movement designed to improve moral
conditions anywhere is worthy of support, and
no truer statement ever was made than that
contained in the closing paragraph OF the reso
luton adopted by the newly formed organiza-
ton of Keokuk businessmen:
believe that home communities should
be as free from the strength-sapping and degrad-
ing influences of vice as are the camps lot our
soldiers and n furtherance of this belief shall
see that enforced and that keokuk
shall not only be made clean town but that 1t
shall kept clean.
Keokuk as a munici patty must be IN position
to be looked at six days in the week to see that
it means what it says on the seventh. 1t should
look the devil in the face and tell him to go to
hell and take with him all his contraptions and
contrivances and no longer darken the doors OF
a place that wants him not. 1t is well to speak
plainly to his satanic majesty, and in the say
ing be more forcible than polite
With assurance on the part of officials that
they will cooperate with our businessmen IN
the latest and most necessary crusade for the
uplifting of Keokuk and its enforcement from
vice of every kind, good work is in process OF
accomplishment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

Three brothers, John Dunn, 81.
george, 45, and Marion. 43, of Car
bondale, III, We're all adiudged in
sane the same day and placed in the
hospltal at Anna All three Hveo
with their aged mother in Williamson
county since boyhood.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

Bulletin of the National City Bank
of New York: The story which Mr..
Morgenthau, the American ambassa-
dor at Constantinople, has told in the
June number of the Worlds Work,
| of the German war council at Pots.
dam on July 5 1914, as he received
| it from Baron Wangenheim, the Ger
man ambassador at Constantinople,
agrees with the Lichnowsky story OF
which an abstract was given in these
columns recently, and other accounts
of the preparations for war with
which Germany was busy while the
rest of the world was ignorant OF
| the impending calamity.
| 1t is very important that the CIVIL
| lied world shall fully understand the
complete hollowness of the German
plea of self-defense, and the duplicity
with which the emperor after prepay
| ing the mine with time fuse, went
off for a trip on his yacht, to be TAX
en- by surprise when the explosion oc-
CURED.
Baron Wangenheim disappeared.
from Constantinople soon after the
assassination of the Grand Duke and
Duchess at Sarajevo, and after the
declaration of war told Ambassador
Morgenthau of the momentus confer
ence which he had attended. MI.
Morgenthau says:
This meeting took place at
Potsdam on July 5th. The kaiser
presided; nearly all the ambassa-
doris attended; Wangenheim came
to tell of Turkey and enhghten
his associates on the situation in
Constantinople. Moltke, then
chief of staff, was there, repre-
senting the army, and Admiral
Won Tirpitz spoke for the navy.
The great bankers, railroad direc-
tors, and the captains of Ger
man industry, all of whom were
as necessary to German war prep
arations as the army itself, also
attended.
Wangenheim now told me that
the kaiser solemnly put the ques-
ton to each man in turn. Was
he ready for war? All replied
Yes" except the financiers. They
said that they must have two
weeks to sell their foreign securi
ties and to make loans. At that
time few people had looked upon
the Sarajevo tragedy as some
thing that was likely to cause
war. This conference took all
precautions that no such suspi;
cion should be aroused. 1t decid-
ed to give the bankers time 70
readjust their finances for the
coming war, and then the several
members went quietly back to
their work or started on vaca-
tons The kaiser went to Nor
way on his yacht; Won Bethmann-
Hollweg left for rest, and Wan
genheim returned to Constantine
pie
In telling me about this confer
p ence, Wangenheim, of course, ad-
mitted that Germany had precipi-
tated the war. I think that he
was rather proud of the whole
performance; proud that Germany
had gone about the matter in
SO methodical and far-seeing a
way; especially proud that he
himself had been invited to par
ticipate in so momentous a gath
ering. The several blue, red and
yellow books which flooded Eu-
rope the few months following
the outbreak and the hundreds
of documents which were issued
by German propaganda attempt
ing to establish Germany's inno-
Genre, never made any impress
sion on me. For my conclusions
as to the responsibility are not
based on Suspicious or belief or
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

Burlington Hawk-Fye: Some people
are storing coal and others are stor-
ing good intentions. The latter are
the cheaper commodity, but lack
capitalization.
Sioux City Journal: A Sioux City
Russian, seeking naturalization pa
pers, was nonplused when it came to
saying who is ruler of Russia For
tunately for the prestige of the
bench, the Russian did. not ask hiz-
zoner for any help.
Ottumwa Courier: America now
needs shock troops in the harvest
fields, as well as on the western
front
Charles City Press: If the Lord has
anything to do with this war He is
certainly on the side of the allies in
the fields of America, for the country
"over here" has never seen better
prospects for crops of all kinds
corn, small grain and vegetables,
cient food to guard against starva-
ton
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune: Don't
worry about Havner and his election
this fall. Pounding Havner into the
earth has been pleasant pastime,
but it will hardly be successful in
practice.
Manchester Press: If there is a
hopeless task in this world, it is that
of trying to support family in these
times on $3.50 or 50 day. If you
don't believe it, try it
Des Moines Register: If the prof
iteers are to have nothing more seri
Gus than a scolding, the ultimate
consumer is not going to wax enthu-
siastic over the federal trade COM
mission.
Boone News-Republican Really, one
ought to be thankful for the privilege
of. cutting down on sugar if it will
help any.
Eagle Grove Eagle: Even Cummins'
friends have to admit he has been a
disappointment and a failure in the
United States senate. He fails to
get a hold on the force that does
things, and gets nowhere with any.
thing he undertakes
Monticello Express: The war is
going to require many changes in
habits. Both the gormand and the
drinker will be the, better physically /
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
For he that once is good, is ever great
Ben Jonson-
MATRMoNY AS A BUSINESS.

( Bold and ingenious malefactorS with whom
the government has to contend are the women
reported from various parts of the country who
marry two or more soldiers in order to get their
war insurance In they do not come home.
One polyandrous charmer is said to have led
four young heroes to the hymeneal altar before
they set out for camp. How she succeeded in
beguiling them and keeping knowledge Of her
other marriages secret is not explained. But
she Is evidently very resourceful female with
bent for high finance, and must be slngularly
clear-headed or methodical in her correspond
ence to know just which wife she is when their
letters come and not get her yokemates mixed
in the answers sent. A heater way might be to
have one insurance made out to her as sister,
another mother and third as wife with
the understanding that she would marry the
first one who came home and set up housekeep-
ing with him on the first insurance that came in.
Were it possible for slider to take out insur-
ance payable to aunt, the matter would be
even more simple. But the government draws
the line at aunts and viii not permit policies to
be made out to them.
The industry of wedding civil war veterans
In order to get widows pension was carried
ON with great success until congress stopped
it by law that pensions would not be paid to
women married after certain date There
after the aged veterans did not find matrimony
SO easy as it had been. A widow who has col
lected one insurance can legally marry another
soldier, If she sees fit, and possibly get double
pay for her double loss. But if such marriages
become too common the government doubtless
VIII find some way Of heading them off.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

Many Christian hymns are pelns
sung in the Buddhist Sunday schoois
OF Japan. the name of Buddha oelns
substituted for that of Christ and o.
God the Father in such songs as Jes
US Loves Me-" and God is Love
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

A thermoelectric test for the Pur,
lty OF platinum has been developer
ny the United States bureau OF stan
dards.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

Belgium, Serbia and Rumania are no doubt
surprised to learn from the kaiser's latest pro-
nouncement that the war has Just begun
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10
HOW THE WAR BEGAN

the study of circumstantial data.
l do not have to reason or argue
about the matter. l know. The
conspiracy that has caused this
greatest of human tragedies was
Matched by the kaiser and his
imperial crew at this Potsdam
conference of July S, 1914. One
of the chief participants, flushed
with his triumph at the apparent
success of the plot, told me the
details with his own mouth.
Whenever l hear people arguing
about the responsibility for this
war or read the clumsy and lying
excuses put forth by Germany, l
simply recall the burly figure of
Wangenheim as he t>>peared that
August afternoon, putting away at
a huge black cigar, and giving me
his account of this historic meet
ing. Why waste any time discus
sing the matter after that?
This imperial conference took
place July 5th; the Serbian ulti-
matum was sent on July 22nd.
This is just about the two weeks
interval which the financiers had
demanded to complete their plans.
All the great stock exchanges of
the world show that the German
bankers profitably used this in
terval. Their records disclose
that stocks were being sold in
large quantities and that prices
declined rapidly. At that time
the markets were somewhat puz-
zled at this movement; Wangen-
helms explanation clears up any
doubts that may still remain.
Germany was changing her secur-
tiles into cash, for war purposes.
If any one wishes to verify Wan
genheim, would suggest that he
examine the quotations of the
New York stock market for these
two historic weeks. He will find
that there were astonishing
slunps in quotations, especially
on the stocks that had an inter-
national market. Between July
5th and July 22nd, Union Pacific
dropped from 1859 to 1271h. Bal
timore and Ohio from 911s to 81,
United States Steel from 81 to
5O1s, Canadian Pacific from 1914
to 1857 and Northern Pacific
from Ills to 103.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

cheap make civilian life even cheaper
10 public attention wholly absorbed
IN the worlds struggle for freedom
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

AS chauffeur for the Teuton war machine
Won Hindenburg is a safe and careful driver
So far in the western drive he has not exceeded
the speed limit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-10

Don't forget that there is another Liberty
loan coming In October. Be prepared