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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01
RELIABLE PRESCRIPTION
FOR THE KIDNEYS

For many years druggists have watched
with much interest the remarkable record
maintained by DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root,
the great kidney, liver and bladder medi-
cine.
1t is physicians prescription.
Swamp Root is a Strengthening medi-
cine. 1t helps the kidneys, liver and blad-
der do the work nature intended they
should do.
Swamp Root has stood the test of years.
1t is sold by all druggists on its merit and
i, should help you. No other kidney medi-
cine has so many friends
Be sure to get Swamp Root and start
treatment at once.
However. if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr..
kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n. Y, for
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01
VindicsiIe.

Friend-What would you like best
TO plant this year:
Farmer-My summer visitors.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01

softly falling drapery ON the sides and
arm openings or little sleeves hidden
away beneath the graceful folds,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01
The Sort,

What kind of men do they have for
the crews of torpedo hoats:"
u suppose they are submarines
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01

the cuspidor. Have explored that thor
oughly. Phew. More of those germ
things. I'm in a mess! Me for a place
TO wash them off.
$50 F. M.-Rid Of 'em at last.
Wiped some off on bread and butter
the woman next door was preparing
for the children and washed off some
in cup of milk for the baby in the
third house down. Nice baby. HOPE
it likes the germs.
T. M.-RoOm Garkened. Nothing
doing. Guess I'll rest a bit.
5P. M.-Signs Of preparations for
dinner. Think I'll visit the kitchen and
help.
5:45 P. M.-Walked over and sam
pied every particle of food i'm sight.
Does very well, but I'll certainly look
up garbage can the first thing to-
morrow morning. Got rid of the last
of those germs in the butter. Feeling
sleepy. Think I'll retire to the ceiling
for the night.
Up. M-This has been a most salts
factory day After all life is what you
make it. no matter what your origin.
From the manure pit to the pick of
the best the land affords is going some.
In fact. begin to take some pride in
my humhleness of birth. Glad I'm rid
of those annoying germs. There's a
pitcher of milk some one has forgotten
to put in the refrigerator. Guess I'll
get a nightcap from that and then sleep
in preparation for busy day tomor-
City Star.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01

,s, Am Rid of Those Annoying
Germ creatures-Washed Them y"
in Pan Of Milk.
,nd berries. Always walk over anu
,,,uine n thing thoroughly before eat
ing; it pays. ,,,.,,s, ,,ust
soc more of the world Nothing eiSe
S. tempt me TO leave the provision
" ,n On, drawback is persistent an
a by huge twolesged creatures
~! ars forever Shaping at us Harin-
less, but bothersoihe' ,.,. ,,so,,.,
S.4a 4. M-Sueh a narrow escape escape.
,,,',ad INFO an intereSting-looking
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01

Ghosts may talk. hut very few peo.
pie understand the dead languages.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01

Take the little joys out of life and
the big ones left would hardly be
worth living for.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01
Proof.

FFCO1.
$50 you think art can improve on
nature?' Certainly. If not, why the
Easter egg?'
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01
ira Copy Of Wrapper.

Thst Depends.
Itest, do you believe In love in
anv "Oh. yes, IL 1t is one OF
igklass suburbs"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-05-01

Give what you have to some one. II
may be wetter than You dare To think.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
FRAILEY MUCH
APPROVES BILL
Promises to Make New Judges Idea
Senate File Number One in the
Next Session Of
Legislature.

Senator Frailey heartily approved
the bill being drawn in Keokuk max.
ing the pay Of all judges in Iowa con-
tlngent on their prompt decisions on
all cases and motions
Finest thing / ever heard Of" he
said last evening, land 1t ought to go
through the legislature easily.
heartily approve it, and will introduce
the bill. Tell whoever is attending to
1t that I will introduce the bill and
nave 1t made senate file number one
II they will give IT to me-"
The proposed bill follows the Cali
fornfa law and makes it impossible
for any judge to draw his regular sal
airy on any pay day, il he has had any
matter under advisement for more
than ninety days. The law is said to
be very satisfactory to bench. bar
and clients in California The Iowa
bill is being drafted in Keokuk by
VIII G. Blood.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
THE USELESS PRIMARY.

A shrewd observer Of the operation of the
statewide primary notes the fact that "three
states in a row, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas
have millionaire governors and asks
''Worthy as each may be, is it desirable that
we shall be driven to select governors only from
the ranks Of wealth?'' Not all the states where
the nominating convention has been abolished
have had the same experience as Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Kansas. Men of moderate means may
capture the governorship in the commonwealth
where men of great wealth now sit in the ex-
ecutive chamber. But it is obvious that if they
do they will have to overcome pretty serious
handicap.
One of the arguments used by advocates of
abandonment of the old method of nominating
candidates for state Offices was that the direct
primary would give poor men a chance to COM
pete for the political prizes. Experience has
shown that there nothing in that conten-
ton. In this respect, at least, the primary has
failed to justify the hopes of its friends. 1t
has made the last state of the candidate poor III
purse, but rich in qualifications for high station,
worse than the first. Nor is the case for the
primary stronger in other respects. Public in
terest in the selection of candidates has not been
stimulated by the adoption of the new method.
The ''choice or the people, may represent
only minority of the voters who were expect
ed to flock to the voting places on primary day
This was shown in West Virginia, where four
men sought the republican nomination for
United States senator, and only forty per cent.
of the members Of the party participated in the
primary contest. In the same state seventy per
cent of the democratic voters failed to express
a preference. The political machines, which
were to be put on the shelf when the voters
took things in their own hands, are as strong
as before in many states.
Nothing has been gained, but much has been
lost as a result of ill-considered change The
statewide primary is useless thing, and it
should go. It is time to return to the old and
better system
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

Verna' Derosier, Mrs Becker, Mrs.
Wagner, Philip Frank and Miss Bar
bara Frank visited Sunday at the AL
bert Haffner home.
Mr.. Dan Bergthold and daughters
Clara and Emma, autoed to the for
mer's daughter, Mrs. Milton Lindiner,
near Keokuk Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Felt and
daughters Hazel and Nellie, Jake
Bergthold and John Burke attended
the patriotic speaking and ice cream
social at Donnellson Saturday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Haffner and
son Ralph, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Felt
and Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Felt were
recent Argyle callers.
Mr.. Julius Felt and son Willie,
visited Sunday at the Louis Felt
home.
Mr. V. J. Burke and daughters
Mary and Margaret, and son William,
and Miss Vivian Lynnhardt motored
to Keokuk Sunday to see Mrs. Burke
who is in the St Joseph's hospital.
Misses Nellie Felt and leila Hor-
sey, Lynn and Glen Felt visited Sun
day afternoon at the Fred Fett home.
Several from this vicinity attended
the meeting at Argyle Sunday even
ing
Miss Alice Horsey spent Sunday
afternoon at the Louis Felt home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
You many not know my supreme happi-
ness at having one on earth whom 1 can call
friend.-Charles Lamb.
OBSERVANCE IN THE BREACH.

George Creel's bureau of government pub
1icity evidently is immune from any obi cation
to observe recommendations of other federal
boards for the conservation Of this and that
The publicity end of our controllers does as it
loleases uses a tremendous amount Of news
print paper that real publishers would like to
acquire and to be used in real business. The
amount of print paper that flows into the
nav of the Creel bureau is out of all pro-
portion to the value and timeliness of the
s'news'' and views distributed through the
medium of an expensive and uncalled-for fad.
Now comes the priorities division of the war
Industries board. On August sixth it sent out
this statement: because of the absolute ne
cessity of curtailing the of paper, the pulp
and paper section of the industries board
has ruled that during the war no newspaper
shall be established.'
Seemingly this rule of the prorities division
sof the war industries board does not apply to
the activities of the bureau of publicity. If it
WAS intended so to do George Creel has told it
to go to; for there has been established and is
now being published-esta blshed and publish
ed after the rule of the priorities division of
the war industries board has been promulgated
-Hoy the bureau Of publicity a semi-monthly
sheet. 1t is printed on news paper, which is
becoming more and more an article of extreme
scarcity and high price. In way, it is a news
paper-for it deals with a subject of popular
Interest but along a one-track way. It's title
Is Official Film News, and its eight pages are
devoted to boosting photo plays and the like
THE boosting is all right; people are interested
in screen productions, and it is big business
both before the screen and behind it. But why,
why is an official organ needed? All the photo
play news throughout the country is printed
every day in the legitimate newspapers of the
country. Productions are announced in their
advertising aud news columns and viii so bel
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
RUSSIA HAS
BEEN HELPFUL
Assassination of Mirbach and Eich.
horn Were Useful Acts of War
and Deserve
Credit,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-Russia should
be given credit for. useful acts OF
war" as a result of the deaths of Am,
bassador Won Mirbach and Field Mar
shall Won Eichhorn, in the opinion OF
Prof. Samuel t. Harper, Chicago uni
versity's Russian department He
made the statement in an interview
with the United Press today.
1T would be an interes ting contrf-
button if Russian got the kaiser"
he declared. Professor Harper contin-
ued:
From the confusion Of the last few
months in Russia, there seems to be
emerging the country's constructive
forces that have had to lie low during
the period of Bolshevism Reports
from Russia are necessarily meager
and there is tendency to miss the
true trend Of events, because of the
smoke and barrage set up by the en-
emies. The Bolsheviki or the Ger
mans still control the old established
telegraph routes from Russia, via
Petrograd and Finland and new routes
are not yet opened. Fortunately the
American public has begun to see
through the trick and has accepted
the presidents policy to stand by Rus
STA.
THE Bolsheyiki have run their
course and failed. They will return
to the old lines of agitation and propa-
ganda. A constructive thinker of
this type has been discredited in Rus
sia and In other countries. Some OF
them have been German agents, the
rest merely fanatics.
when we read the Czecho-Slo-aks
control Siberia and the Vo1ga districts
we must understand they must have
the support of their population for
their army of $4,000 poorly equipped
men could not control those districts
popular support The soviets
are the most novel and significant con-
trtbutions to the Russian revolution
and gave the movements its very
democratic character. They probably
will become of the media through
which the economic assistance can be
brought to Russia under the new pro-
gram. They will welcome allied as
sistance from reports that reaeh us.
It will be easy to convince the Rus.
sian people of the genuineness of our
It might be pointed out
that the anti-Bolsheviki have never
the Brest-Litovsk treaty
and therefore have never considered
at peace with Germany.
Tho removals of Won Eichhorn and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

Won Mtrbach were not assassination.
but acts of war. Those who forge,
what Russia contributed to the com
mon cause during the first years OF
war and spoke of Russias desertiop
might do well to count these two re-
movals and the many others and
weigh them to Russia's credit. Here
We're very useful acts of war II
would be rather interesting if it was
Russian who finally got the kaiser.
one must not allow ones self to
be deceived by the rumors which Ger.
many will plant in neutral centers as
news. For the success of the gov.
eminent program Of active assistance
Will depend in considerable measure
on the support it receives from the
American people"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
THAT WHICH is NOT ATTAINED

There is something very sad In the
story of unaccomplished purposes
Beautiful houses have been designed
but never built. There have been en-
| tire rows Of houses in great cities
which some enterprising persons had
began to construct, but had failed to
finish, owing to death, bankruptcy or
some other fatility.
But far sadder than the tragedy OF
purposes that have never been car
Of the unattainable-one Of the things
about which, so far as I can ascer-
tain, nobody has ever written before.
To me, at any rate, the subject is en-
tirely virgin, and I must confess that
it has for me a singular fascination,
for I am one of the sinners, fools, en-
thusiasts or monomaniacs who have
entered upon this apparently hopeless
quest
The unfinished masterpieces Of
genius are noble fragments. But the
starch for what can never be found on
earth is waste of enrgy which, I
have no doubt, excites the contempt
OF that severely unsympathetic being,
the practical man. And yet there are
dreamers, Quixotes avid of the I'M
known and eager to attempt the i'm
possible, who are ever ready to en-
bark on such desperate quest. And
there always have been Jason sought
and found the Golden Fleece, but trait
or that he was to the great power
that makes the world go round" he
lost the .ove of the Medea who had
aided him in his expedition. Jason's
object appears to have really been
the acquisition of the gold which was
washed ashore in fleeces to the Eux-
inc. His love was short lived, and his
nature was essentially base and self
1sh.
The legend of Obrazie, the isle of
the blest," is peculiarly Celtic. An Ir-
ish poet, Gerald Griffin, relates how a
youth who sailed in search of it,"died
on the waters, away, far away" st.
Brendan's voyage across the Atlantic
has never authenticated. The good
saint did not lose his life-but did he
ever see America even under another
name? AS a Scotchwoman would say.
"a have ma 0oots ABBOTT It,"
There was som ething noble, though
In the quest of Juan Ponce
de Leon to find the Fountain of Eter-
nal Youth. He had accompanied Co
umbus on his second voyage and
was subsequently governor of Porto
Rico He obtained authority from the
King of Spain to discover "Bismini,"
lie island in which this marvellous
'ountain was supposed to be. There
Did men might be restored to youth |
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

Ohio State Journal: The day Of
the party organ has passed. No self
respecting newspaper belongs to that
class. A paper may be republican or
democratic without being under or
ders from an organization. People
no longer take party organs. They
want paper to be conscientious and
self-reliant. 1t must not be a part
of a machine 1t can support the
principles Of it's party without being
under any obligation to support its
candidates A candidate may be
nominated by a clique and represent
nothing but the appetite of a lot of
greedy partisans. Then it Is the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
Like sunset to the skies
The splendor Of it's prime.
Day of Party Organ Has Passed

duty of true party paper to turn
its back on the ticket and support
only the best men on it. This situa-
ton makes it the duty of the man
ayers of a party to see that only the
candidates are nominated who rep
resent the best aspirations of that
party. Hereafter nomination does
not mean an election. Party man
ayers should understand the person
ality of the candidate. There are
signs that this is not always done,
but the nominations go on regardless
of the opposition to the candidates.
The people are going to vote for the
best, and so the purpose should be
to nominate the best men.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
THE CASUALTY LIST

CASUALTY
Only of our boys lost his young life today,
In that battle DER seas, you complacently say,
AS the casualty list in the paper you scan
IT'S not much, you remark, to have lost but
But listen--a mother reads far away
OF that boy who killed in the trenches today,
And she falls her knees with STRICKEN hurt moan,
For that boy who slain her son, hers
And the casualty list that you thought so small
Is as large the world for it's taken all;
anguished breaks through her
The desoate future-the long weary years
Only of boys lost his life today
In that battle DER seas, you compacently say,
But to bereaved soul the list Is not small,
It's large the world-for it's taken her all.
Susan Hubbard
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
STRING PRAIRIE.
. . . . . . 9 8 e . 4

This Is the last week for paying
mail subscriptions to The Gate
City at the old rate. Papers sent
by mail, on which there is a back
payment due, will be stopped next
Monday. No mail subscription
payments accepted at old rates
after next Monday. The Gate
City Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Felt and
daughters Hazel and Nellie, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. o. Kinkeade and daughters
Stella and Hazel. and son Oscar, and
Miss Fay Durr attended the Kahoka
fair Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Haffner. Miss
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

long before this Official Film News comes to
hand But the main point to be observed here
is the establishment of another publication de-
spite the shortage of news print paper and de-
spite the rule laid down by bureau of the gov
eminent. Really, is Mr.. Creel, as he seems to
believe, above observance of a rule having the
force of law9
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

After you have learned to reason, young people, Of
course you will be very grave If not dull think After
to. There Is much reason singing the sweet
world when thinks rightly Of Il; srubine
provided always you entered straight
You will sing all along the road them little while in
manner pleasant for other people to hear-Ruskn.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Now that
the government has taken control of
the railroads, there are some people
who are wondering why they can't
ride free. What is the use of a
paternal government" they despond-
emily soliloquize, 'if it doesn't pater-
nalize?"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
OUR LONGER DAY.

We all pretty well accustomed now to
what is termed the daylight saving plan, for we
have been living in accord Herewith since the
last Sunday in March. For time we thought
we were rising an hour earlier than usual in the
morning and that all through the day we were
an hour ahead of time, but now everything is so
nicely regulated we seem to be going along just
as contentedly as year ago, before we legally
made an hours lap on old Sol.
The federal statute creating the daylight saw
ing period provides it shall end on the last Sun
day in October, and then we are supposed to
drop back hour and line up again with the
sun on elliptical journey of something over
three hundred and sixty-fve days.
Of course we will obey the law if we have to-,
but the statute should be amended, before con-
gress adjourns, so that daylight saving shall be
practiced throughout the year. A longer period
of daylight in the winter season would be as
enjoyable as the more lengthy one in summer
has been profitable. During the shorter days
been profitable. During the shorter days of the
year most OF us have to start to work and re-
turn to our homes in the dark If the present
plan, to which we are now accustomed, and
which we like were onl. made to apply to the
whole year there would be very few days when
we would be in the dark on our homeward way
in the late afternoon.
There is another good feature which could re-
suit from the adoption Of an all-year-round day
light saving plan, and that is that congress
could provide that in next March or April we
gain another hours lap on the sun. Thus we
would save two hours Of daylight instead of
one. We can have too much of a good thing
We live by the clock, anyway, and we well
as might use it to the best advantage
Switzerland says that she is very dubious
over her wheat supply for the coming winter.
One remedy would be to cut down the rations of
wealthy Germans who find Switzerland a con-
venient resort in which to get away from the
rigors of war in their own country.
The government has now taken charge of all
German patent rights in this country. 1t will
attend to the royalties later.
Germany struck on the west front, all right
L
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28

It is not a generally known fact
that many women engineering e3
perts are in business in this country
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-28
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Humboldt Republican: They say /
that if that great war horse, the
Colonel, is led to the trough in 1920
he will not refuse to drink.