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The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17
WALKERISMS
GOING AWAY?

The Seashore and the Mountains calling and you will
 on the way to the spot you have chosen. FOR YOUR VACATION But before should think things you will need while away At most places is nearly always difficult to obtain favote toilet you accustomed to using at home therefore will be with you most o1 those articles that your daily toilette The display of Vacation store this week will no doubt remind you of several things you with you your trip.
 COME IN AND HAVE A LOOK AT O1JR ATTRACTIVE
 SHOWING
 WALKER DRUG co
 Your Rexall Store Phone 20.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17
NOTICE TO FISH BUYERS

The following boats are under con- tract to fish for the Hidden Inlet Can ming Company until October 20th. 1918 Boats Masters Hazel L., William Leask.
 Herbert B., H. J. Burton Billie M., Wm. Madden
 Helen H. Jas. Howard
 Ethel B., Walter Haldane. Loon, Henry Rudland.
 Olive, Jas. Leask.
 Sadie M, M. Johannesen.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17
STRAWBERRIES

A shipment of fresh Strawberries Prince Rupert from the Skeena River Valley, from all reports they are the finest berries grown in this region, they will be on sale at Kubley's every week from now on to the end of the seasOn.-adv.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17
HOME GUARD NOTICE

The Home Guards are hereby noti- lied that they are requested to meet every Tuesday evening at 7:3O at Moose Hall until further notice.
 If
 NOTE-The meeting called for last night was not published owing to an error in placing notice on wrong file.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE

It's usually a sign of sick kidneys especially if the kidney action is dis ordered, passages scanty or too fre- quent Don't wait for more serious troubles. Begin using Doan's Kidney Pills. Read this convincing testi- mOny.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17

FOR SALE-A first class Regent Piano, terms-M apply E. B. Sparhawk's Store.-adv If.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-17
FOUR DRAFTEES ARRESTED

It does seem as though some people would learn few things by absorp- ten and observation if from no other source Granted that it may take
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Roland G. Usher, of the Vigilantes:
Lincoln's birthday should remind us
of the great principles for which this
war is being fought-principles which
he. more than any other one man, es.
tablished as the meaning of American
democracy. First, there is the liberty
of the individual to choose for himself
his own career, to act without political
dictation from the state Second,
there is the principle of equality in all
civil and legal affairs. Both are utter
ly antagonistic to the class system and
the bureaucratic government of pres
ent Germany.
1t is not so much for the freeing Of
the slaves that Lincoln stands as for
the greater constitutional principles
upon the basis Of which will be decid-
ed the issues of the war. His great
est argument against slavery pointed
out that slavery was undemocratic.
and therefore inconsistent with Ameri.
can institutions. That argument won
where the moral. and the economic
and the political had failed
We must now preserve the work Of
Lincoln, and preserve therefore that
particular Interpretation of the
phrases, liberty, equality, and democ-
racy, which he wrote into the consti-
tuition of the United States and the
hearts Of the American people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
EBRUARY.

They cheated February when the days given out
They other months, beyond the slight
doubt.
They shorter than the shortest OF the
others,
And fully three days longest of her
brothers
course, fourth year round they give
her more day.
that is insufficient to constitute fair play.
And SO by the portioner OF
days
Dishonored presence the Aprils and the Mays
They favored February when the days handed
round!
For in no single the honors found
There's grounding day the nations joke that may
e'er forget
st. Valentines merry time to drive away our fret;
birthdays the who past all doubt shall
Forever as the patron saints of this beloved land
George Washington father of this country that
love;
Lincoln that other earthly may rise above
They cheated February in the number of her days,
But she is compensated the Respondent ways!
Strickland Gillian, in Farm Life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
FiFTY-FIFTY FLOUR RULE

r. Swanson, of Havelock. Iowa, in
Sioux City Journal: Let me give you
grocer's view of the new fifty-fifty
rule regarding wheat and it's substi-
tutes. When the rule went into effect
not more than seven out of every ten
dealers had substitutes enough on
hand so that they could sell to exceed
ten bags Of flour before their stock of
substitutes was exhausted. Then what :?
Suppose the dealer wires or telephones
the mill or jobber for more substitutes
to cover the balance of stock of wheat
flour on hand. A week or ten days
elapse before he gets the goods. Fur
thermore, fully 80 per cent. of us have
handled flour in forty-eight-pound
bays This applies to country trade
City dealers have had flour in smaller
bags, but many OF US have never seen
q twenty-four pound bag of flour. Now
comes the Widow Jones and orders a
sack of flour. We tell her she has to
buy forty-eight pounds of the substi-
tutes. She does not know what to do
with all that Junk" and, furthermore
she only has So with which to buy it.
That is the price of a bag of flour
That is what she paid for the last one
She did two washings on Monday in
order to get money enough to get the
much needed flour. She-has no credit.
What shall We do? In this instance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12

shipments waited was very properly given TO
the president, and might have been wisely
used to the great advantage OF the nation But
his power to decree priority of movement was
unwisely divided among many officials, and
hopeless congestion and confusion have been
the inevitable result. On the railroads OF the
country the shipments to which priority IS
given are in excess of those which do not ask
it; and, according to Senator Wadsworth,
eighty-six per cent Of all freight handled by the
roads is blue tagged by some official to give IT
the right of way. The exceptional shipment
nowadays is the one which waits its turn as
shipments normally do.
The authority to expedite the movement OF
goods should be kept in the hands OF some one
man able to survey the whole field at glance
He would not have twenty trains on the same
as many roads rushing the same kind OF
goods at the same time to the same destination
where they could not be handled He would not
longest port witt million tons of munitions
that could not be sent abroad for weeks, but
would hold back the shipments from time to
time and send more coal or other needed sup
plies A state of affairs like this has made the
priority order a bane instead of blessing We
should be better off without it than to have 1t
and employ it as we do
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
WHY GARFlELD7

Detroit Free Press: Why is the
control of the oil industry put into
DR.. Garfields hands? Has he made
such an impressive success with the
coal administration as to recommend
himself to consideration for further
tasks of the kind? The name of
Garfield is anything but synonym
for capacity and ability just now.
To most people smoothness in the
machinery of the oil industry seems
to be of comparatively little conse-
quence and the effect of success or
failure in managing it will not be
felt on the widespread scale that was
affected by the earlier undertaking
of the official whose functions are
now to be enlarged. But directly to
those who are engaged in activities
dependent on regular and adequate
supply of oil and indirectly to very
many who unconsciously depend on
public utilities that make use OF oil,
the result of incompetency in such
positions is very grave matter. 1t
would seem that by this time the
authorities in Washington ought to
have come to a realization that ex-
perience and knowledge are the first
qualification for appointees in such
vital positions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12

of course, Mrs. Jones gets her flour
We split forty-eight pound sack. We
waste some, of course, but we are
used to losses, SO that cuts no figure,
but we have woke up to the fact that
we must have flour in smaller bags
twenty-four and twelve and even six
pound bags.
The mills and jobbers tell US they
can furnish us the bags for resacking
Sin time" In the meantime every mill
and jobber has been besieged with or
ders for corn meal, buckwheat and the
other substitutes, so that they are run
ming overtime filling orders and every
housewife has by now more substitutes
for wheat than she ever had in her life.
Hundreds of them start in trying their
hand at making a new kind of bread,
for their substitutes cannot all be
used for mush, mullins and johnny
cake. Ninety out of every 100 make
a failure of it and the result is an un-
precedented waste, waste enough to
feed a small army. Even poor Mrs.
Jones had bad luck and could not eat
the bread she tried to make.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
WHEN WE WERE BOYS.

Algona Upper Des Moines-Republi-
can: It's only the other day when
we were boys. Now we are dads and
can see the many changes wrought
in the modes of living. We wore
heavy boots made Of coarse leather
that was softened up in the winter
time by the free use of melted tai
low vigorously rubbed in. We had
flannel shirts for winter wear and
hickory shirts for the warmer days.
Neckties and collars were only worn
on Sunday and special occasions.
We rolled out at the call of dad early
in the morning to build the fires.
Our boots were frozen hard as rocks,
and after several minutes of pull
ing, kicking and tugging our feet
went into them with a thud. Then
to the kitchen stove, where the water
pail, tea kettle and coffee pot were
solid with ice. The wood box back
of the cook stove had to be filled
with split wood, dug out of a snow
bank, morning and evening, along
with Chunks for the heater We
took our morning bath in cold water
and ate pancakes as fast as mother
could get them off the griddle. with
plenty of good butter and sorghum.
Overcoats and mackinaws were I'M
known to kids, but the big red scarf
with fringed ends, wrapped about our
neck, helped keep us warm. Over
shoes were not made for boys. and
our feet were sometimes frosted,
causing chilblains that nearly set us
mad When we complained we were
told by our dads" that we were
tenderfeet, unable to stand the cold,
and should know how he did when
boy. Oh. kid, them We're Ihe happy
days of your dad, who often thinks
of them as he sees his boy wearing
polished shoes, silk socks, spotless
collars, overshoes and big fur lined
overcoat, after warm breakfast in
furnace heated house, start for his
school. We are glad, boys. that you
are living better, dressing better and
learning more in the school than we
could, all of which is due to the pro-
gress of civilization, and when you
are dad" perhaps the changes
will be such that you can look back
and likewise say to your son, "You
should have to live as dad did when
he was a boy and endured the hard
ShiDSo
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
DANDRUFF GOES!
HAIR GETS THICK.
WAvY, BEAUTIFUL
SAVE YOUR HAIR! DOUBLE IrJ
BEAUTY IN A FEW MON.
ENTS. TRY THIS
HAIR STOPS COMING OUT Ann
EVERY PARTICLE OF DAND.
RUFF DISAPPEARS,

Try as you will, after an applc!
ton of Danderine, you can not find !
single trace Of dandruff or fallina
hair and your scalp will not itch. bu1
what will please you most, will bd
after few weeks use. when you se1
new hair, fine and downy at first
yes-but really new hair-growind
all over the scalp.
A little Danderine immediatelJ
doubles the beauty of your hair. M
difference how dull, faded, brittlI
and scraggy, just moisten a clotJ
with Danderine and carefully draw h
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time. The effect is imj
mediate and amaZing-your hair will
be light, fluffy and wavy, and hayd
an appearance of abundance, an ul
comparable lustre, softness and luyI
uriance, the beauty and simmer d
true hair health.
Get a small bottle of Knowlton}
Danderine from any drug store d
toilet counter for a few cents and
prove that your hair is as pretty an
soft as any-that 1t has been neglec
ed or injured by careless treatment
that's all.
Danderine is to the hair what fres
showers Of rain and sunshine are b
vegetation. 1t goes right to the roots
invigorates and strengthens them
It's exhilarating, stimulating and lii
producing properties cause the bal
to grow long, strong and beautiful
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
This Will Interest
Stomach Sufferers
Says Indigestion Comes From
Excess Of Hydrochloric
Acid.

A well-known authority states thu
stomach trouble and indigestion \
nearly always due to acidity-acl
stomach-and not, as most folks b
lieve, from a lack of digestive juice1
He states that an excess OF hydro
Chloric acid in the stomach retards d
gestion and starts food fermentatio1
then our meal sours like garbage in
can, forming acrid fluids and gasei
which initiate the stomach like a n
balloon. We then get that heayl
lumpy feeling in the chest, we eTuI
tate sour food, belch gas, or hal
heartburn, flatulence, waterbrash, 4
nausea.
He tells us to lay aside all dlsei
tive aids and instead, get from an
pharmacy four ounces OF Jad Sal
and take a tablespoonful in a glass
water before breakfast while it is
ervescing, and Furthermore. to CO
tinue this for, one week. While rel
follows the first dose, it is Imperial
to neutralize the acidity, remove
gas-making mass, start the 1--we
stimulate the kidneys and thus pr
mote a free flow of pure digestl'
juices.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and
made from the acid of grapes aH
lemon juice, combined with lithia on
sodium phosphate. This harmIe,
salts is used by thousands of peOp
for stomach trouble with excellent
suits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
UP TO THE WOMEN.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: To the 10y
atty, energy, good sense and patriot
ism of the women of America, more
than to any other cause, will depend
the success of the governments plan
to make wheatless and meatless days
nationally effective.
While there are great food estab-
lishments handled by mere men.
while immense bakeries, huge hotels
and millions of restaurants are man.
created affairs, in its final analysis
it is the wives and the mothers OF
this nation who direct and control
food consumption.
1t is they who will be the deciding
factors in putting across the food
conservation plans of the government
1t is one Of the important ways in
which the women may serve their
country and be great contributing
factors in the success of the war.
The support of the food conserya-
ton program, especially the meatless
and wheatless day plans of Admins
traitor Hoover. must be almost entire
ly voluntary 1t may be possible to
enforce certain restrictions, but the
government would be practically help
less without willing cooperation. No
amount of policing could insure its
success. The bitter antagonisms en-
gendered by an effort of this charac.
ter would be it's greatest weakness.
Because of this, the cheerful cooper
alton and assistance of the house
wives of the nation are imperatively
necessary.
That the women of the United
States will render this service and
make wheatleSS and meatlesS days a
success is a foregone conclusion.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
. KEATS FAM e.

Cincinnati Times-Star: John Keats
is today numbered among the mas
tiers of English song. Indeed, in a
symposium of views of literary men
as to the greatest short poem in the
English language, conducted by the
New York Times few years ago,
Keats lode to a Grecian Urn" re-
ceiyed the greatest number of votes,
and his Eve of st. Agnes" lode to
Nightingale" and "Ode to Autumn"
stood high among the selections,
thus giving Keats supreme rank
among writer's of short poems
Keats was dubious as to his postum
nous fame. When this mere youth,
for he died in Rome in 1921 when
but % years old, chose his epitaph
he evidently feared that time would
erase his name from her scroll.
Here lies one whose name was writ
in water" still confronts the visitor
to Keats grave in the Protestant
cemetery of Rome How time re-
versed the apprehended evolution Of
Keats fame is shown in Sir Sidney
Colvin's recently published biography
of the poet. His immediate reputa-
ton was slight, somewhat like the
esteem in which we hold Ernest Dow
son. That precious cargo of song,
LAMA and Other POEMS" published
in 1919, was not even reprinted in
England until it was included in
Keats collected verse published in
1910, nineteen years after his death,
and even then the small edition met
with so slight demand that when
Keats fame became definite and his
appeal more general unsold volumes
emerged from their retirement on
the publishers shelves. 1t was In
184S, with the publication of Monck-
ton Mines Life, Letters and Liter
airy Remains Of John Keats" that his
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
Emerson
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Abraham Lincoln the light of this
world one hundred and nine years ago today.
He has come to be the standard by which we
measure presidents, the racial pattern man with
whom naturally compare the great OF EARTH
Every era has it's men Of eminence famed in
their generation and forgotten in the next; and
each epoch has some man Of Abilities conspicu-
Gus, though not unrivaled who comes down to
us as the outstanding figure Of his time But
once in an age man is born who in some
gifts or qualities excels all those who went be-
fore him. Until he is approached or surpassed
in stature his renown increases and he looms
larger through the years. Of such figure is
Abraham Lincoln.
Today, when mankind is passing through a
nlightier crisis than ours Of the civil war, it
would be we'll to recall the words Of President
Lincoln:
Let have faith that right makes might in
that faith let us dare to do duty under
stand it.
| the very best l how-Ahe very best
and to keep doing until the end.
If the end brings out all right, what is said
end brings out wrong, angels swearing
right would make difference.
BY the help Almighty God the assist
of the loyal people of this country
ing to uphold and defend the stars and stripes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
FAIR EXCHANGE.

Norway's need of food is as great as our own
need of ships, and the Washington and Nor
wegan governments have reached an agree
ment which will benefit both countries, as well
as our allies now looking to us for cargo car
riers. Not only are we to have the use of ships
in return for food, but it is stipulated that
Norway is to continue certain exports to the
nations associated with us in the conduct Of the
war, and to discontinue many exports to the
central powers. Not all exports to Germany
and her allies are prohibited by the terms OF
the agreement but it is understood that Nor
way will furnish foodstuffs Of any kind ex-
cept fish and fish products Much shipping OF
Norwegian registry will be released to the
United States, and, while Norway will get a
good price for it, in the form of great quanti-
ties of food, the bargain is of as great advan-
tage to us as it is to her The faster we in
crease our merchant tonnage the sooner we
shall be doing our full share of war work
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
Show the CoIors.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
1t was with much interest l read
John Dunlap's article on patriotism
in Keoluk. The people, believe, are
patriotic, but they do not show it as
they should. Mr. Dunlap was correct
in his statement. Where is there u
town or city that does not display
the stars and stripes? Lately have
had occasion to visit quite a number
of cities and towns and nowhere
have l been that the stars and stripes
have not been in evidence from bust
ness houses and residences. In Keo.
kuk today not business house dis
plays the flag, the most beautiful en-
blem this world has produced, the
emblem for which our forefathers
fought and died In Keokuk there
seems to be no evidence that we are
at war with the most damnable ma
tions that ever existed.
We must grind them to dust, wipe
them off the map. The nations that
have permitted their soldiers to com,
NIT the crimes they have committed,
should be exterminated from the face
of the earth.
Nail to the Flagstaff the stars and
stripes and let it remain there until
we have crushed this demon, the
kaiser. Let the man in the white
house give Roosevelt permission to
call for a volunteer army. He will
raise one in sixty days, 100000 men
from As to 65 years. Save the young
men. Let the older ones go to the
front. They will show you they can
fight. They will give good account
of this army.
SAM C. WESTCOTT.
Keokuk, Iowa, Feb. u, 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
ARSON AS A TRADE.


trustees of the American Defense society, de
clares in statement recently put out that in the
nine months since we entered the war, enemy In
cendiaries have destroyed fifty million dollars
worth of property consisting for the most part
of munition factories, grain elevators, stock
yards oil and marine properties and other IN
dustries vital to our efficiency in the war This
work of destruction has been facilitated, accord
ing to Mr.. Hurd, by information obtained
through German insurance companies, who
were advised by the insurance boards of GER
tain states of the daily movement of carloads
Of explosives-dynamit loaded proJectlles
and small arms ammunition At the instance OF
the society the secretary of the treasury de-
prived several alien companies of the right to
do business in this country, but there is evil
dence that they have reorganized IN neutral
countries and are still in position to obtain
through state and national boards Of fire under
writers information Of value to our enemy and
it's criminal agents here.
So little progress has thus far been made in
hunting these incendiaries down that it might
almost seem that our secret service agencies,
working without coordination as they do,
we're hopelessly unequal to their task They
appear to be acting, in such Investigations as
they make, upon the theory that evil-disposed
aliens of the criminal class are engaged in ar
son as an individual enterprise inspired by
their ferocious hatred of our institutions and
ardent love for the imperial government. But
it is worth while to consider if this is the fact
DO obscure, INDECENT men lay such plans and
carry them out at their own expense and at the
risk of their lives, or are they hired and paid
for their nefarious work? We know the mil
lions which Bernstorff dispersed We know
how German gold has been spent in Russia
Italy and France and how even a former prime
minister of the French republic is in prison for
tcomplicity in German intrigues. Is it not well
to consider, therefore, if agents Of the imperial
government are not still at work in our own
country hiring depraved and needy agents to
bomb and burn our factories and ships?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12

God hath made blood all nations of and
His children brothers and sisters ALL We citizens OF
believe flag stands for self
sacrifice good all the people. We want there
FORE be true citizens of great country and will show
works. Our country does not ask
die her welfare ony-she to live for her,
live act that her government may be
her officers honest of her territory
place fit grow the and who shall rule
over her-A, e Wnship.