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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-05
REVELATIONS OLA WIFE
/. BY Adele Garrison

/ ing 20 do for my head, but 10 let me
sleep. ! felt like a prisoner who has
had an unexpected reprieve from
/ execution.
HOW DICkY TOOK CARE OF
MADGE.
II was so dark in my room that
/ could not see the face of my clock
when i awoke from the sleep which
I Dicky had insisted upon my taking
upon our return from Lillian Under
woods.
A glimmer Of light came through
my almost closed door from the liv-
I ing room. / could hear the rustic of
I a newspaper. and knew that IL must
/ be night, and that my husband was
\ keeping vigil outside my door.
1 lay for several minutes silently
reviewing the exciting events OF the
\ day Dicky must know them all be-
\ fore / slept again. That | was de-
/ termined. but | wanted to take a
\ firm grip upon my courage before
| began.
"Oh, Dicky," 1 said at last.
/ The words were family uttered,
/ but Dicky heard them, and the next
instant my room door flew open and
my husband hurried 10 my side.
How are you feeling. sweet
/ hearth" he asked anxiously Head
ache all gomez"
Not a vestige left of it, 1 replied
truthfully. Il am all right What
time is it? / must have slept hours"
We'll, the seven sleepers haven't
much on you. that's a fact" Dicky
grinned cheerfully. It's almost
midnight"
oh. Dicky, you poor boy!" l
grasped. Mortified And you have
sat there all this timei You must
De starved TO DEATH"
Not yours truly" Dicky returned.
This lad never goes hungry as long
as there is an ice box 10 be raised.
/ made out a bully meal about
o'clock. and in a few minutes | am
going TO toy gently with a bottle of
ale and a sandwich. But I'm going
TO fix you up something first. Name
your poison"
He struck an exaggerated bur-
ltSQuS pOSt VI a WdAAtlf BuN NiAt
smile in his eyes held more of ten
derness than of mockery.
"MAY 1 HELP"
/ remembered the day when he
had made me the delicious coffee.
spoke impulsively from a very real
! craving.
IF l could just have cup of your
coffee and a piece of toast"
'Surest thing you know" Dicky
started for the door. then stopped
and threw mischievous glance over
his shoulder. THE kind of coffee
Nellie, the beautiful model. taught
me how TO make?"
The same" / returned, smiling,
but after he had gone I had a mo-
ment or two of humiliating remem-
brance. The thought of the bad
quarter OF an hour l had put in be-
cause of Dicky's nonsense was still
with me. He had mischievOusly led
me 10 believe that Nellie" the
comfortable, middle-aged colOred
model who had taught him TO make
coffee. was a beautiful girl with a
mysterious past. l had been dis
tinctly piqued and had betrayed my
feeling until Dicky laughingly set
me right. My cheeks felt hot as
thought of my folly. For a moment
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-05

mato. peach. pear. cherries, grapes
II is suggested that one Of the
sandwiches or the apple or other
fruit may be eaten at recess If the
pupil is hungry.
For the proper nutrition OF the
child and 10 maintain general
health. an abundant supply OF pure
cool water is necessary. It is an
assault upon children not 10 supply
them with plenty of pure water.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-05

IMPORTANT-Every household can save
the price of this book daily by its use.
MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-05
Pockets for a Purpose

A sleeveless coat, the hem Of
which has a real object in life and
furnishes pockets for golf balls, is
shown in this model in turquoise,
blue silk jersey with wide angora
collar. The buttons are covered with
knitted angora and the pompom on
the matching silk jersey tam is knit
ted from the same fuzzy wool. This
coat and tam may be delightfully."-
reproduced in any of the heavy
sports silks or wool jerseys. Worn
with a skirt of white flannel silk or
distinguished for its originality and
picturesque style.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

conclusion of the christianity of the
future, that the days of dogmatic the
ology are going to pass away with
this war. That is what the men who
are coming home from the war we
are told, are going to believe and in
sist upon. But that may be gratui-
tious conclusion. We are all ascribing,
1t may be, too many changes to the
men who are going to come from the
European wars. They may not under
go so many changes, after all. We
are quite sure that many of them will
undergo no religious changes at all,
for many of them are not giving re-
ligion the attention that we may i'm
agine they are doing We are all doing
a lot of concluding for them and in
their name. But if the Unitarians and
the Congregationalists can be united
into one harmonious and progressive
church, the rest of us shall not COM
plain. 1t is a good omen that men are
willing to meet each other half way
there may be more religion in that
than on insisting that we are right
and we alone and that all others are
hell bent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
Protests Coal REGULATIONS.

MT. Vernon Hawkeye: The sight of
empty cars by the hundreds on the
side tracks in this immediate part of
the state is all the evidence considered
necessary to prove that there is some
thing wrong about this alleged rail
road congestion, the fundamental ex-
cuse advanced why Iowa should be de
prived of a normal supply of hard
coal. To be sure, the state is willing
to admit the exigencies of war times
and to submit to its fair share of re-
sponsibility in that Particular; it is
willing to economic and all that But
it would be just as reasonable for
Iowa to slack up in It's agricultural
pursuits proper and go to work cut
ting wood during the harvest season,
as it is for the railway management
and the eastern states to 'hog" in this
instance of the general conservation
scheme.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
OUR FEVERIsH HASTE.

As we grow older our measures of time grow
shorter. The value we set on our days and
hours grows less, and we discover the useless
ness of the feverish haste and Impotence of
youth.
To the young there seems so much to do, to
be achieved. But as the years creep on we
come to see that we cannot accomplish the
things we would and should be no nearer to
contentment if we did. The more we do, the
more plainly we see the vastly more that re-
mains to be done. Achievement is like knowl-
edge The further we push back the unknown
the wider we make the circle which we con-
tact the things we do not know. Age thus
brings the realization that our requirements
and our achievements are infinitesimal, and
quite as unsatisfactory as though they had been
only half as great. The attainment of tomor-
row will no more content us than that of yes
terday did, Content is not to be found along
that path. The greatest achievers never reach
ed it and no more shall we; so why this itful
fever of unrest? There will be time enough
and doors enough for everything that must be
done. The task does not devolve on u.s. The
evolutionary process will go on, unhating and
Iunhurrying and it is no concern of ours to get
it completed on time Not being that COM
mittee we do not have to worry about that
The fact appears to be that it is not the
things we do but the capacity we acquire by
doing them that counts. We begin in the after
noon of life to realize this and that achievement
is not important per Sc and aside from the re-
action on ourselves Our days of unresting
activity over, we begin for the first time to
consider the meaning of it all and to reap in
serene reflection the fruitage of busy years.
And this is the value of age, which lays light
finger pausefully on the headlong rush of our
lives, that it gives us interpretive hours in
which to digest our experiences and to learn
that materiality never satisfy the soul.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
Where the Primary Fails.

Winterset Madisonian: Four men
were candidates for the republican
nomination for the Office of superin-
tendent of public instruction. In
ninety-one counties out of ninety-nine.
the candidate whose name came
first on the ballot carried the county.
What more needs be said in support
of the statement that the nomination
of state officials by direct primary is
a joke? Furthermore, the rule of ro-
tating the order of names in each
county is in itself an admission of
the weakness of the system. Contrary
to general opinion, the rotation of
names does not equalize the advan-
tage of position
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"

Cedar Rapids Republican: In Low
ell, Mass, two churches, one Congre-
gational and the other Unitarian,
have been united into one church
called the "All Souls Church, Con
gational nitarian." 1t is hailed
as a long step forward, and as tri-
umph over churchism. Other unions
and combinations along the same
lines are under way, and some of
them are already in way of accom-
plishment. AT the recent sessions of
the Cape Cod conference of the
Unitarian church it was declared to
be the sense of the church that the
time has come for christian reunions.
We are told that the churches of the
future must show the oneness of
faith and of purpose if they would
survive and continue in human lead
erskip.
AS we understand church theology,
the Congregational and Unitarian
churches were at one time one
church. A century ago the Unitar-
ians became separtists. They protest
ed against the Calvinism of the Pill
grim fathers. They insisted upon the
right of private belief as well as pri-
vate Interpretation, and of liberty of
belief and individual responsibility to
God and to God alone. Unitarianism
stood for religion, not of fear, but
of love, a theology based on reason,
one God instead of three, the histo-
ric Jesus rather than a supernatural
Carist, and a future life emptied of
the haunting dread of everlasting
torments." That is comprehensive
statement of Unitarianism
We are now told that between the
Unitarians and the Congregationalists
there are no essential differences
We are told that the faith of the Con-
churches, as restated in
1913 at Kansas City 'is no longer
christocentric, but theocentric." It re-
solves itself into the love of God and
the service of man under the leader
ship of Jesus Christ
They believe enough in their own
faiths in New England to predicate on
them the idea that such must be the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
nMade In GERMANY

Kansas City Times: IF hell were
turned upside down, Made in Ger.
many would be found stamped on the
bottom of it." said Sergt.-Maj. Mitch
ell, who has had three years of service
on the western battle front "No
christian people can form a concep-
ton of the brutality of the Hun.
which cannot be compared with hell
in its ordinary state. Germany will
be forever an object of scorn, derision
and contempt.
There are now only two classes
in America. those who are for or
against the principles for which this
nation is now fighting. The pro-Ger.
mans ought to be taken to the coast.
stripped of every shred of their
American clothing, and told to swim
where they belong
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
What man truly wants, that will he get,
or he will be changed in trying-Robert
Louis Stevenson.
REAL REPRESENTATIVES.

Now and then we find an excellent citizen
earnest for the welfare of the people and the
triumph of ideas and movements, on which, In
his opinion, the general good depends, who JUS
titles deightedly the action OF Legislators In
voting against the majority sentiment of their
constituencies in support of any measure of
which he particularly approves Such law
makers are in advance of their districts, he ex-
plains, are ahead Of their times, md do per.
fectly right in ignoring the wishes Of the ma
jorty back home
It is a matter Of common observat how
ever, that such a citizen takes this position
only when the views Of legislators who defy
their constituents coincide with his own. But
let the legislator vote without reference to The
wishes of his constituents and not in accord
with the belief or policy of this citizen,
and the former upholder of independence
would join in creating a furious uproar.
The only proper and honorable course AMI
the only one contemplated by our form of gov
eminent is for legislators to voice as far as
possible the majority sentiment of their dis
trlcts That is their constitutional function,
and 1t Is from that that they get their official
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
TODAYs BIT OF VERSE
CORONATION.

CORONATION.
At the kings gate the subtle
Wove flmy yellow nets of sun;
Into the drowsy snare too soon
The guards fell one by one.
Through the kings gate, unquestioned then
A beggar went, and laughed, Thus brings
Me chance at last, to see il men
Fare better, being kings
The king sat bowed beneath his crown,
Propping his face with listless hand,
Watching the hour-glass sitting down
Too slow it's shining sand.
"Poor man, what wouldst thou have of me?"
The beggar turned, and plying.
Replied like in dream, '-Of thee
Nothing. want the king.
Up rose the king and from his head
Shook off the crown and threw 1t by,
30 man. thou must have known" he said
"a greater king than l..
Through all the gates. unquestioned then
Went king and beggar hand in hand,
Whispered the king, Shall know when
Before His throne stand!
The beggar laughed Free winds in haste
Were wiping from the kings hot brow
The crimson lines the crown had traced,
This is his presence now
At the kings gate, the crafty noon
Unwove its yellow nets OF sun;
Out OF their sleep in terror soon
The guards walked one by one
.I4o there! Ho there! Has
The king?" the cry ran to and fro
Beggar and king. they laughed, ween,
The laugh that free men know
On the kings gate the moss grew gray;
The king not They called him dead;
And made his eldest son one day
Slave in his fathers stead
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
An Administration Favorite.

Traer Star-Clipper: Among the first
to cry out against the increase in
freight rates which Mr.. McAdoo de-
creed were the commercial bodies and
the congressional delegations from the
southern states. And among the first
notifications which MIR. McAdoo
made in his schedules was in favor
of cotton We hesitate to think that
this was the result of political influ-
ence or of sectional favoritism But
still it. is rather exasperating to find
cotton so constantly exempt from the
burden which the war has lain upon
other commodities and to find the
south's protests so generally effective.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

title, representatives. They are sent to the
state or national capital to carry out the wishes
of those who sent them and not to decide for
themselves what their constituents ought to de-
sire Where an issue affects all the people the
majority preference should be controlling with
the representatives. Citizens will have only
themselves to blame if they vote for any candi-
date whose action. they think will disappoint
them. or if they vote for any man whose
character renders it probable that he will not
be bound by his prediction declarations. This
is no legislative year for pigs in pokes of un-
discoverable convictions and equivocal speech.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

ing business at the old stand-war OF
no war. Those who perfectly dote on
worrying, and like to stand Off ana
point with pride to their worries, can
go to it. But as for us-n1xey OF tne
worry stuff. We intend to pack our
troubles in the old kit bag and then
throw the bag away. Nowadays you
can shoot trouble at us with sew
enty-mile gun and We Will catch II
and toss it back.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

Chicago Daily News: OF cons.
raising prices is an trsy solution fa
everybody's problem except the co ~
sumer's-his problem is raisin. ".
money, and the government NAV t; ny
it necessary to take him over -'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
Will BE Wnrse

Arkansas Thomas Cat: You sh'd
worry. We are getting to point
where small things don't worry us anv
more Last week we purchased a lyn-
otype machine which is enough TO
give rise to the suspicion that the
Thomas Cat intends to keen on do
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
A Description That Ei4s

Chicago Daily News: No long. .
the senate of the United States knor !
as the "Millionaires' club" bn. WV
might occasionally be described az ;, ~
old ladies' home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16


the Iowa legislature fails to endorse
the national prohibitory amendment,
practically all Iowa will be surprised
Nobody expects anything else. Ma.
tional prohibition is in the air and
the breweries and distilleries must
go.
Des Moines Register: The presi-
dent has the talent for command and
marked disposition to command. In
the end that wears on the temper of
some of the most enthusiastic. The
president is right in demanding his
own way where the matter is of para
mount Importance. But great dis
erection must be shown in picking out
the paramount things.
Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t
strikes casual reader that we are
having too many railroad accidents.
Has there been let down of disci-
pline under the new arrangements?
You cannot operate trains by commit
tees no more than the bolsheviki
have been able to operate armies I'M
der that dispensation.
Lake City News: Hon. J. J. Meyers,
who is the candidate of the demo
cratic party for state attorney gen.
eral, made a most favorable impress
sion with his address at Rainbow re-
sort ON the Fourth. The address had
to be cut short because of the rain,
but that part of it delivered was so
full of pep and patriotism that the
audience would willingly have stood
in the rain to have heard more of 1t
Sioux City Journal: The Des
Moines Register seems resolved to
be again the issue in the guberna-
torial campaign. Harding could ask
nothing better
Storm Lake Register: The Regis
ter sometimes wonders if all of the
profiteering is traceable to men
higher up. We sometimes wonder if
the fellows down the line are not in
cluded in the game.
Charter Oak Times: America first,
last and forever" Have you adopted
that as your motto or are you only
part way over?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

A commentator on German affairs remarks
that Germany could fight a defensive war for
ten years. But by that time there wouldn't be
any cathedrals or orchards left to destroy
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
TOO Much Fireproof Coal.

New York Herald: The fuel admin
istrator has revoked the federal
license of a coal dealer charged with
selling for ships coal unsuited Tor use
in the war zone. Similar action taken
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times Republican:
Nevertheless, Governor Harding did
mention it. And that was going
some.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

Lunch carts in Chicago are selling horse meat
sandwiches. That is the way horse meat should
be served-a La cart.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

The following OF the food staples
the
each special committee appointed by
Ar,eI. Retailers Pay Should Paw
wbeat Flour $153 sack
~ - 241s pound sacks 241s pounds 7c Del
pound in less than mil
RIVE Flour ..s1225 &C to CSC 10
A''0 ~ - of twenty pound pounds pound
in less than PACK
pav F7mr to s11oo per bar s-s5 per sack
rel Of eight 247A pound 241s pounds
Re FLOUR Flour Inc pound
P pesh Heainy e.
dD con ssreh &c to 1oe per pound per pound
Milk tall to lie per can &C. to 81 50 4o per can
T ans Beams to Ice per pound per pound
pinto Beans 1870 to
1910 lS7sc to 22c
Tomatoes ........1sc to per Csc
Canned per aye to ss1ze
to 5c pound 1sc to 21Ac pound
Peaches, tic to 26c pound
Punes l1e to zoe per pound ise to 2szks per pound
sugar bulk per 100 POI
pound per pounds
pound "a sack
$40 100 pounds 4s pound sack
Lard small pals . per pound pound
to pound
Lard, Substitutes,
to 2sA per pound 1910 per pound
33c pound
Buter-creamery in
1 .44c per pound
Poao Ney pep poua p pound &c pep noup pd 0un
per pound 3sc per pound
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

The true genius that which sees th nobier
meaning that him, the true poet is
who detects the divine in the CASUAL and somewhat
the depth of his insight into the past cannot
the godke today under the disguise in which
It always visits us.-lowel.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

by our authorities with respect q !,
nestle fuel swould cause a who,o j. 70
decrease of the slate and othas .es y
proof material it contains Hfe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
PSYCHOLOGY OF GETTING LOST.

'When is a man lost?'' once inquired a
negro bishop of Arkansas and then proceeded
to answer his own question with bit of wis
dom both witty and pertinent: ga is
never lost when he doesn't know where he is,
because he always knows where he is, wherever
he is A man is lost when he doesn't know
where the other folks are
This clerical philosopher sees a truth which
escapes some very wise persons; namely that
getting lost is a relative matter 1t is pos
sible for a man to know great deal about him
SELF his opinions and position and yet get lost
SO far as his place among his fellows is con-
may get lost, if he wanders away from his fol
lowers or they from him. A man might con-
ceivablv be absolutely certain where he is and
vet fail utterly to know where the rest of us
have got to. That man might be in the white
house bordering over what to do in the matter
of handling the Russian situation, while his
fellow citizens in majority are plaguing them
selves over the question why Germany is al
lowed to so make firm her hold that it will be
hard work to dislodge her; why we wait anx-
iously for news from our ambassador to Rus
STA, who may be at any time cut off from com
muncation by German action; why alone
hold aloof from Japan In her Willingness to in
tervene in behalf of allied interests
There may be facts of which the public has
in this matter But the public on the basis of
what it knows is rapidly forming an opinion
adverse to the policy of inaction we pursue.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

Close upon the heels of the moral bath to
which Keokuk is being subjected should come
material bath; and this might be directed at
some of the store buildings standing on Main
street It. a long, long time since many of the
structures received a coat of paint. Sure, if
Keokuk is to be a clean city morally, wouldn It
if be well to extend the idea in the direction in
dictated?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

Charter Oak Times: America first,
last and forever" Have you adopted
that as your motto, or are you only
part way over?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16

Sioux City Journal: The Des
Moines Register seems resolved to
be again the issue in the guberna-
torial campaign. Harding could ask
nothing better.