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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

The peninsula OF Kola constitutes
the major part what is known as
Russian Lapland. 1t is bounded on the
north by the Arctic ocean and on the
south by the White sea Its area
equals that of the state of New York
and is largely a plateau having an av-
erage elevation of 1000 feet. The
arctic shore, extending distance of
$50 miles. is known as the Thurman
coast "a corruption of "Norman.'O
1t presents a rugged appearance, with
cliffs rising abruptly from the sea to
a height of nearly roo feet in many
places. There are several indenta-
ions. however, where excellent an
chorage may be found. One of these
breaks in the granite line is Kola
bay
The month of July in this region
is usually quite warm, and the crops
mature rapidly, the time of harvest
being August, which is also the rainy
month. Winter settles down over the
peninsula in November.
The Kola and Tuloma are two of
the many streams which flow into
the Arctic; there are also several
large streams which drain the south
ern half of the peninsula and flow in
to the White sea
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
FARMHAND'S $25 EQUALS CITY
MANS $50.

Those who have been thinking the
farmland has been underpaid should
compare his wages with what the
city man is paid. An editorial in the
Farm and Fireside says:
1.-THE farmland comes in for con-
siderable discussion nowadays, but
he is much better off than most peo-
pie think. The Ohio state council of
defense has been making a survey
of labor conditions, and reports that
married man working on the farm
for $50 month is as well off as il
he were to receive sos in a city;
that s35 a month farm job equals
s110 city job; that a $40 farm job
equals Sis city job, and so on
Not taking into consideration, the
report adds, the possibility of rails
ing some stock or produce on shares,
which is usually customary
Nor has the married man on the
farm job a monopoly of advantages,
for the report further finds that an
unmarried farmland receiving s25 is
as well off as if he were receiving
$50 in the city; that $50 job for
the bachelor farmland equals a $50
city job; and that a $40 job on the
farm is as good as sos job in the
city, and so on. The difference in
aggregate returns is brought about
by house rent, groceries, meat, milk,
light. fuel, unnecessary expenses, and
Inquiries"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
Where Are the Tramps?

New York Evening Post: Is there
no Josiah F1ynt to trace the effect
of all this hostility to loating upon the
true sons of leisure? Presumably. the
gay CATS or tramps who take work
when in the mood, have found fairly
regular employment But does Sche-
nectady Jake Or Denver Ben still
drill from town to town. still bat
ter for punk" and coffee at back
doors and for nickels on street cor
ners, and still hold stopping up par
ties? Some states have no antiloahny
laws; some have laws of limited
scope, as New York: some. as Mas
sachusetts, arrest all idle men be-
tween eighteen and fifty. New un ee.,.
taintfes have been added to the
moocher's' old ones regarding bulls"
and brakemen. There must also be
a greater reluctance on the part OF
householders to give food to Migrants
who look healthy-and it was ever d
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
Fear for ourselves always makes us unjust
to others-Marion Hill
IN EVERY WAY BAD.

Germany is a bad master, bad neighbor, a
dishonorable commercial rival and thoroughly
bad and dangerous nation from every point OF
view. Where in all the earth can be found a
race of men, a geographical area, a people or a
part of people either civilized semi-civil-
lied or savage, over whom she has extended
her rule who does not hate and fear and loathe
her with all their hearts9 Alsace, Belgium,
Poland, Siberia, Rumania, the Ukraine, the
African colonies, the islands of the sea where
she has raised her flag, all detest her and fear
her. On all the map of the world there is no
exception to the antipathy she inspires. As
for her territorial neighbors, no other nations
not now at war are suffering half so much as
the helpless states which open to her in
cursions. They have no rights which she re-
Epects Her demands upon them are uncon-
scionable. They live in perpetual deadly fear
of her attack, and in perpetual prayerful hope
that she will be crushed before her ravening
legions overrun their lands.
But of all the neutral nations Holland, being
so to speak, within the tigers jaws, is in the
most desperate plight. On food rations her
self. compliance with Gernany's demands for
supplies would bring her close to actual famine
For the Huns are holding her up for sixty thou
sand COWS, ten thousand tons of cheese and
fats and other products In proportion. How
the Dutch Will meet these eXahons is not yet
clear; but this is certain if she divides her lin
ited stores with the enemies of mankind she
cannot hope to replenish them from allied lands.
They have gone out of the business of selling
food to Holland to be passed on through her
back door to the Huns. It is conceivable there,
fore that the Dutch may borrow courage from
despair and determine to hold their frontier
against their ravenous neighbor. Germany can
not spare the half million men needed to at
tack the Dutch with any promise of success
and her diversion of forces for this purpos
would bring additional powerful alice
thrust upon her weakened lines.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
OUR PHYSICAL SHORTCOMINGS

Bernarr Macfadden, in Physical
their duty to themselves and hui
war-and may God forbid such an
uncomfortable catastrophe one OF
the mistakes that we will have to
reproach ourselves with most bit
terly will be our failure to recognize
in time the tremendous Importance
of physical preparedness.
Call it what you may, physical Gull
ture, physical training or military
training, but let this great man
building influence be introduced
without delay into our national life
The difference in the terms is but
slight; the results are to a large
extent identical, and our citizens of
all ages are in need of them.
Words are inadequate. Neither
tongue nor pen can do justice to this
subject The average man would
puff and blow like a porpoise if he
attempted to run quarter of mile.
He would be stiff and sore for days
if he walked five miles at brisk
gait. No one can deny the accuracy
of these statements.
Such condition is both a ma
tional disgrace and national dam
ger. 1t is uncomfortable in the face
OF our urgent need for man-power
that this softness, this flabbiness
this incompleteness should be any
longer tolerated.
Cannot something be done to
awaken the men of this country to
their duty to themselves and hui
mainly With only little properly
directed effort we could quickly over
come these perilous conditions. With
few months training the man who
now finds it difficult to run a quar-
ter of mile could develop his vital
organism to such an extent that
mile or a five-mile run would be
comparatively easy, and a walk of,
say, fifteen to thirty miles, could be
accomplished without trouble.
Think of the value to the nation
OF such a change in the physical
stamina OF its manhood.
And yet. such change is easily
within our reach
Compulsory physical training will
quickly bring it about without seri-
Gus friction and without inconveni-
ence.
May we all pray for official recog-
milton of the value of this means OF
increasing the man-power of the
nation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
TWO GREAT FRENCHMEN.

Treason is perilous in France since the old
political tiger, Clemenceau, came back into
power Two convicted traitors, Bolo Pasha
and Duval, who published pro-German news
paper, have faced firing squads; and the trial
of another prominent 'sdefeatist,' Malvey,
former minister of the interior, has now begun
in the senate. This is expected to bring out
facts with bearing on the traitorous activities
of former Premier Caillaux, who is in pris-
on. Malvey's conviction viii make it easier to
bring the arch conspirator to the fate the SEN
ate, as high court of justice shall hold him to
have deserved; for Malvey, who is charged with
betraying military secrets to the Germans, Is
generally believed to have acted agent
for Caillaux.
The right man, fearless and unswervable, is
at the head of France today; and there is every
reason to believe that the right Frenchman-
the mastery strategist Foch-is in command Of
the allied armies which fight for the new world
order to be founded in international righteous
ness and enduring peace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
SILLY GIRLS, FOOLISH PARENTS.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Almost any
evening, and particularly on Satur-
day evenings, scores of poor little
girls, call dolled up" in cheap finery,
rouge put on in a most amateurish
way, lip stick and brow pencil clum-
silly used, march and parade down
Jefferson street. Many of these little
girls are in the very early teens.
Then there are others, their finery
not quite so tawdry, their complex
ions put on in a manner that shows
a bit more experience. These are
perhaps a trifle older than the 9TH
ers. Discomfort that even the cos
metics cannot hide, is written on all
their faces.
Up one side Of the street and down
the other they walk, sometimes gig
Cling and flirting, but more often
wearing bored expression as If
they were filled with ennui but COM
PEELED by some ruthless master to
walk, walk, dress and paint and miss
all the real joy and happiness that
is the right of every child, for most
of them are mere children, in years
Bad girls?
that a very large majority of them
are not bad, have never done really
sinful, wicked thing in their lives,
unless squandering money and spoil
ing what might be a pretty complex
ion and cheerful countenance
should be considered wicked.
No, they are mostly just silly.
They try to initiate girls who can
afford better clothes for one thing,
and for another, they have heard
tales of "the gay Hfe," and they
want something gay. Then, too,
they are at that age between child
and woman. which in former times
was called "the flighty age" and the
old folks were wont to add, She'll
settle down all right"
And who is to blame for this sal
parade You say, no one is forcing
them to do this. There is no ruth
less master. Yes, there is. The
master is the spirit of discomfort.
and, nine times out of ten, foolish
parents are to blame. Some are
foolish because they don't care. More
are foolish because they are care
less and don't know.
Poor children, IL their parents
either cannot or will not keep them
off the streets, why not go back to
the curfew law and enforce il
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
"SHOE FLY" STILL LIVES.

Letter in New York Sun: The song
Shoe Fly was written in the sum-
mer Of 1858. Delehanty, of Delehanty
e. Hengler, wrote the words and E.
N Catlin wrote the music while they
were together in show playing in
Skowegan, Ne. The show returned
to Boston to open the Howard the
atre and rehearsed in Boston week.
AS the Towards stage was being re-
paired, they hired the Morris Broth
ers Minstrel theatre. Rollin Howard
was around the theatre that week
and made a copy, and White, Smith
e. Perry published it. Mr.. Catlin
worked into the dance of Shoe Fly"
a few bars of music that the cancan
dancers were using at that time In
order to hold the copyright a few
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
SUFFERED TWO YEARS

For about two years l suffered
with malaria fever and bad blood
trying everything that was recon-
mended to me without benefit.
Finally someone told me abou,
Number 40 For The Blood and
purchased a bottle from our n'ef
chant, Mr.. Walter Page, and it did me
SO much good that / kept on taking
it, using 3h bottles. Today / an
feeling fine and do not hesitate
recommend it for any trouble fo'
which 1t is recommended.
You are liberty to use this letter
any way you desire for l know wna'
Number 40 is"
II. L. BURNETT, Wakulla, Fla
Number 40 For The Blood" is COM
pounded from ingredients set down u
tt. u. S. Dispensatory and 2:heI gu
thoritaliye medical books as follows
Employed in diseases of the glanup
lar system, in blood poison, stroiuie.
ccns'.L patton stomach and liver -
bles. cf Ion'c rheumatism and catai'',
MOI ;urial md lead poisoning lGe.
its use nodes, tumors and scroleiio,
swcllings that have withstocd all o,r
er treatment disappear as /"
magic"
Sold by all druggists or sent any
where on receipt of price sLzo ~
bottle or six bottles $500 by j.. ,,, -
Medicine Co.. Eyansfin'
Indiana
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
APPEAL FOR THE BABY
CARRIAGE,

Philadelphia Telegraph a protest.
fng cry u cure 20 foijow the an
r0pnceuerFf III tss baby vehicle man
nfaesufers mat tbsrs win be short
age On aeeafts f0f ms duration Of the
war. One atyesH't mind tbe curtail-
nenf nj w7aeat AMI tss sbrinkagc OF
WOOL, e,yf,1s and otheT commodities;
f,g4 zhen IL e<5saes 10 cutting out the
batyy earffag re the pSpsrs that be are
gorsIY twisting fts sa>fifieiai heart
Tfs hair eafffsgs Is not non
F,yefzfhlaz considered, IT
IL ms, ~ ltsportan, ~ The future vel
fare Of tfe ooantfy ~ fbe freight
car nat carries raGbi;ions ~ the
coast. without # ne sTs confronted
With a handicap nat ifopedes the
progreyz IL the rising generation.
INC baFz gssss BE- lltes, and the
Knitting bag AMI seit ease fan far
sbor4 If meeting transportation re-
Neither can the little one
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
SONS: A CONTRAST.

Minneapolis Journal: The kaise,
has six grown sons. They are de
scribed in the German press as stall
wart and brave.
But not one of them has knowingly
put himself in a position of danger
in this war. The crown prince is in
titular command of an army. If there
are victories he takes the credit;
If there are defeats or failures, they
are shouldered on the generals who
are in actual command. He is miles
back of the fighting front, where he
is quite safe.
The other princes are equally val
liant When there is captured terri
tory to be looted, they are on hand.
When there is fighting to be done,
their precious lives are carefully
guarded.
Six stalwart sons, and not one Of
them really fighting for das water
landi
Colonel Roosevelt has four sons.
Every one of them has entered the
service. One of them has already
died for his country, or else is a
prisoner of war. The others are
fighting democraticaIIy alongside
other good American sons.
William RI. Taft's son, Charlie, is
in the artillery. Richard, the son of
Grover Cleveland, ia IN the marine
corpg. II Mr.. Wilson had any sons,
make cure they would be in the
thick OF the fray. TOO.
The song III former American
presidents are fighting. II is no
more than is expected Of them, for
this IL a dernocracZ
The sons of the kaiser are coddled
gIackers. II is no less than Ia ex-
pected Of them, for Germany is an
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

changes are made in the words and
music each time it is copyrighted. As
the song still had good sale, it was
copyrighted again in 1911. If you
buy the song today you will find it
is "Shew Fly" and Company G." in
the original it was Company b.
Mr.. Catlin is SO years old and in
wonderful health. His first song was
the Double Action Darby" and was
sung for three months by G. Swaine
Buckley while Catlin was leader of
the Buckley serenaders. His first pub
lished song was Ring the Bell Soft
ly.' He wrote for Delehantly & Heng-
Such Love-" Happy Hottentots,"
Love Among the Roses" and many
others,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
GROWING OLDER.

Gray days and gold in serried ranks they tread
The shadowy way that leads TO long ago.
Intent upon goal may not know
They take the way that centuries have led
And once l sought to hold them they sped
Rapt pilgrims, questing to eternity
Or urged them on with sorrow stricken plea
That In their flight l might be comforted
But now l not how the days go by;
Although the fairest dawns may flush and fade,
There's always beauty in the vaulted sky,
And where there's beauty who can be afraid?
The earth is good in laughter and in tears
May God go with you friendly stranger years
Marie Emile Gilchrist, in the Nation
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
Great Help to Teachers.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: There are
now $50 Illinois teachers on the an.
nuity list. They get $500 per annum
in four quarterly instalments. In
order to be eligible to this list, appli.
cants must have taught at least
twenty-five years in the state and
must be at least so years of age.
No teacher is going to leave the
school room for that annuity, but
on the other hand, it will prove q
great help to teachers who have be-
come nervous wrecks in the school
room.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

tradition that tramps are so robust
that they never die a natural death
FIynt, it will be remembered, startled
the country into incredulity by his
estimate OF the number of tramps; he
found three hundred in a brief trip
from the Hudson to Buffalo and back
What, one wonders, has become OF
the tramp OF war racked Europe-the
railway ditch upholsterer" of Ger.
many and the British tramp SO akin
to our own?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

Nature Indifferent to human struggles as it
sometimes The who stands steadfasty by the
right bids tyranny and wrong give place will
find that he is in league with the stones OF the
birds of the air and that the stars in their
fight for him. The road maker and lark born
Both heralds of coming giadness and while
works, the other sings True work and
apart They both born Of hope and seek to
bring forth the immortai-Thomas Tipady.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

always be carried pick-a-back by
papa, nor permitted to crawl on
damp days.
Government work. Of course, has
the priority. Steel and cushion stuffs
may be in urgent demand But let us
make further sacrifices along other
lines in order that the baby carriage,
like Tennyson's brook, may go on for
ever.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: A motion to
adjourne is not debatable That is
why President Wilson moved to adj
jouFn politics until after the war. And
then selected Henry Ford as the re-
publican candidate for United States
senator from Michigan and Hamilton
Lewis as the democratic candidate for
, Illinois. This shows that politics is
politics.
Sioux City journal: Good intentions
are said to serve fairly well as paving
blocks in the Internal place. possibly
because good intentions, when stored
in coal bin, are incombustible.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Some
day the world may see that those
German war makers were a lot OF
stupid fools. instead of being rated. as
they have been, among the wisest OF
their kind. Even Won Tirpitz begins
to look more like a big chump than
like a great admiral, brute who be-
|lieyed that brute force could scare the
life and the spirit out of the world.
Perry Chief: General March de-
clares that the allies are Just getting
ready Tor the big offensive. If the
present drive is only a skirmish
there's a strenuous time ahead for the
Germans.
Burlington Gazette: The sweetest
words of tongue or pen come from the
garbage men, who say: Gee, those
folks don't waste much food!'
Des Moines Capital: Citizens of
Iowa and every other state know very
well that the basis of disloyalty in
such states as Wisconsin and in sucn
Iowa towns as Lowden, Hubbard, Sui
ly, Denison, Carroll, and others, is the
power of the foreign language. There
can be no unity in such communities
and no real coming together of the
people until they cease fighting for Il
foreign language and lend their sup
port to the American language.
Webster City Freeman-Jou rnal: The
man who sneers at the patriotism of
the Roosevelt boys or of their father
merely because he doesn't like tie
colonel is not a good patriot himself.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
Too Slow.

Kansas City Times: The American
soldiers in the line have no faul. TO
md with our tanks except that they
were designed for travel in some pre-
vlous war. where progress was SLOW.
The tanks are all right" says one.
out they've got to get some tha.Tl
run In high IL they keep up with US"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

eve kings must stick together,'' the Aus
trian emperor is reported to have written to
the king OF Rumania. Kings are no longer the
highest cards IN the game of war since ''aces''
have become trumps
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

That Chicago college professor who complain
ed that it costs too much money to conduct war
nowadays would find that it costs a great deal
more to lose one if the Germans ever get a foot
hold in this country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25
WHICH WAY WILL HE JUMP?

Congress, relying on the presidents judg-
ment, left it to him to determine when if ever
during the war the country should be put upon
prohibition basis. He was on record as con-
sidering it wise and statesmanlike to let the
situation stand for the present as it was, but a
group in congress decided to take the matter
out of his hands by rider to the agricul-
tural bill prohibiting the manufacture of beer
and wine. This would put the country temper
arily upon a whisky basis, Notwithstanding
that all the gains for temperance have been
made by moving away from distilled liquors
and towards the use of beers and wines. The
measure would also deprive government of
seven hundred million dollars of annual revenue
which it now needs more than ever before.
If the measure shall go to the president for
his veto or approval, no one who assumed to
voice his sentiments has given the public any
linking of what his course may be. None knows
how long the president Will stand ground he
assumes on any particular issue. As Senator
Reed has said:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

Americans are not in this war to make tbe
country safe for the bolshevik brand of democ-
racy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-25

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:, Consumer Should p,
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packages. Au1u
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pounds. or &c per Donna nv
IN less than mill paes
ages. p'sS
s-.s5 to $1.72 per sack -
24h pounds. y
7Mc to Sc per pound.
lshc to lac per pound
SIC to SIC per pounS
TIC to SC per pound.
Shc to Sc per pound.
9hc to 10c per pound
&c to 1870 per pound
l4c to 14hc per pound
1870 to 14c per can.
&c to SIC per can.
19kc to zoe per pound
zoe to 21hc per pound
1910 to 15c per pound.
1Shc to 22c per can.
1sc to 21hc Per can.
Csc to soc per can.
1sc to 2Shc per can
14hc to 2S1sc per can.
16hc to 21kc per pound
TIC to 26c per pound.
l6c to 2S1sc per pound.
$o.13 to $5.67 per case
$ 81 per pound.
s2.a5 per rs pound sack
s .s5 per 10 pound sack
S .4s per 5 pound sack
&c to 33c per pound.
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45c per dozen.
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