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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
SAVING FATHER.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald: They
tell story in London about a little
coal pit boy who was found sitting
calmly beside dirt fall which had
blocked the mouth of a mine.
When asked why he did not begin
digging the stuff out, he said. Father
told me never to do anything I was
not paid for"
Where is your father" ne was
asked.
Underneath" said the boy. point
ing to the pile OF debris.
It's good story to think about,
and to pass along just for everyday
things.
1t would also be a nice story to
tell William Hohenzollern, when.
buried under the ruin he has wrought.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
Demobliizing the Offieeholder'
yXr1nYr1,,- yrt.a HISTORY

0cHlooiftxlhQ tHe Orficenofue'
Golfers Weekly: The history
wars has shown that it is easier "a
mobilize an army than it is to deml
ize the officehoIders. They are \
cious. Give them time and they
create for themselves something
that appears like work to the sup
cial observer. After that it is imp
bic to get them out.~It would be
chievous If consequence OF on
our greatest achievements sho'lld
the saddling of willing and obe1
people with an enormous. perma
bureaucracy, and that the naturs
der of things should meet ron
government interference. The
has been costly. The country is
a burden of taxes that it has
with unfaltering courage. But pea
here. and the problems of peace
old familiar problems. are at hand
adjustment of conditions must
But reimbursement Ct
be brought aSollt unless men in
thority cease thinking in terms OF
We may have been to slow in
ing the war, but we can hardly
swift in getting out of il. In
words. the whistle has sounded:
to work
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
MUTUALLY IMPRovING.

Home-making youth have ever homely wits,
las everybody knows; and some millions of our
boys and girls are learning more in France in
ia year than they could have learned in many in
America. It will be for hosts of them the most
educative and important of their life exper-
fences; and it can also be said with equal truth
that France is learning much of them The
Telephone girls America has sent across the sea
were veritable revelation to their sister oper-
ators over there of what high-pressure bushes
methods are. Talking by wire In France ap-
pears to be very polite and ieisurely inter
change of complimentary prelimnaries before
the request to be put in touch with a subscriber
is made. Any dereliction in this respect is fatal
to the hope of getting the number desired. Tie
caller must engage the mademoisele's atten-
ton and interest by an Negotiating address.
Peremptory orders impress her unpleasantly
She straightway puts them out of mind and
too-insistent caller is likely to hear that he rings
SO much as to get ON her nerves. The American
operators, trained to efficiency and speed, are
changing this to some extent, but it has re-
quired patience, diplomacy and tact. Incl
dentally they have also taught the MAIDEN
oselles of the switchboard some of the more
elegant Americanisms, which seem little start
ling in their Gallo dress. Thus the two repub-
lies are improving each other. The French are
learning business alertness from us. We are
learning courtesy from them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
THE OPEN DOOR.

Why should house in grim Reality
when l need only close my eyes to be
Within another world-who knows how far
From and task, and all duh things that are!
Here beckon all the olden tales 1 love,
With all the wonder and the thrill thereof;
Here tarry still the ancient mysteries
OF treasure laden land beyond the seas.
Here L awaken at the huntsman's horn
Stirring the echoes of the early morn
And strain to the plumed horsemen prance
Adown the dim dernesne of gay romance.
And here, when twilight skies brood low and gray
Sometimes / hear wandering piper play
A lost Arcadian melody. sweet
None other dare its cadences repeat
There is WEAKNESS solitude.
Since may have, companoning each brood,
Shadows more real than any burdens seem,
When pass through the open door of Dream.
charlotte Becker in New York Sun
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Waterloo Times-Tribune A presi
dent of the United States in Buck
ingham palace. Well, what do you
know about that! A president OF the
United States being accorded all the
honors ever given to royalty-wel1
how the world does change! And 4
royal salute fired when democratic
president passed, And King George
met Woodrow Wilson in the grimy
old station. Truly it's a new
day for the world.
Davenport Democrat: They have
queer standards over in Germany,
where the German navy. which
wouldn't go out and fight, is being
praised az having by It's revolt start
ed the revolution.
sSibley Tribune: The boys who
went over the sea are returning
more in love with America than be-
fore they went. Even the modest
little places where the home folks
live look better to them than the
historic spots OF the old world. They
never really knew what a grand
place America is until they had the
opportunity for comparison that
their service has afforded them.
MarshaIltown Times Republican.
II il comes TO a showdown between
the president and the senate on def
mite peace arrangements 1t IS likely
TO be more embarrassing to the presi-
dent and his party than to the SEN
ate.
Davenport Times: The ruling Of
the Judge advocate general. IL il
sticks" will do away with the ma
tfonal guard as a military unit
logical succession, in that event, is
the organization of state constabu-
larry similar to the practice in Penn
syIyania az case in pont.
Storm Lake Register: Political
gossip preliminary TO the coming
congress is TO the effect that Con-
gresham Good, OF Iowa, may be
made chairman OF the committee on
appropriations. Good,
Council Bluffs Sonparen: The
Hog Island" snipbuilding plant
support OF the contention that there
Is something in name.
Knoxville Journal: Some OF the I.
stuff being sent to this country from |
the presidents press agents in i
France IS so sloppy that it is silly. /
For instance. one OF them said the /
other day that President Wilson's |
power and influence in France were l
so great that he could overturn the 1
French government And the same
way in England. According TO this
bird, Woodrow has all the high off L
,ials of those countries eating out Of
ais hand
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
TIE CT OSING YEAR

midnghts holy hour-and silence now
The s as s1ss. s sAs
q the departed gssr as No funeral f. ,he men
With ss Tie the and
That floats calm Dlaeldy through heaven
ss' aged osI4ana f srea a4,snn '0"
Like the far windharps Wild and touching wall
Gone from the earth forever - -
Who's isn s hs he heart e. dim n Tim.
me point. 0ss cold o Time
AMID so Visions that to the ssns sHsa
left shadow Of their lovelness
asa1 i'd o Hope and 5o an sff Love
here seasters dead flowers
Ger what has passed to nohinsness.
Z. essss- : s:sn s:.ls i
sss ar s ne It's osa hand
ED9 9as the sss i. sD and III. 1 m form
It |. trod the the han Of rsvelry, where
o IT s an s s Ii. san.
en- 6, hI Isl silent s. 3
II q sns he nas sso sos
Taroash uniathomaDe depths asa or brave
The The h faa Of t. the nosshen Ds
Turls ais broad nishtrail and sinks down
weight sleep
nights darkness has cha to bind
His rushing pnions.
Ger EARTH like troubled visions Ger the breast
OF dreaming cities rise ands
Like bubbles water; fieryisl
Spring blazing from the and
their mysterious
To their bald and blackened bow
Their tall heads the plain; wenpire rise.
Gathering
like Alpine avalanche
Startling nation; the stars.
bright burning blazonry Of God
Glitter awhile In their eternal depths
like the Pleiades, oveliest of he train.
Shoot from their glorious spheres md away
To darkle in the trackless
Time. the tomb builder holds ferceca career
allpitiess. not
Amid mighty that sire
To sit and like other conqu
Upon the fearful ruin he has
GEORGE d PRENTICE
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

A suggestion appearing in these columns on
December eleventh that one or more cannon
captured from the Germans be secured and
placed in our public parks has been seconded by
action the part of representative citizens of
Keokuk. Should the war department view the
matter in the light she'd by The Gate City
doubtless historic memorial of the world war
viii at some future time find resting place in
this city on the bluffs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
The child is father of the man.-W ords-
worth.
MANN's BAD RECORD.

There is . pretty fight between Congress
Jim Mann, OF Illinois, and Congressman Gill
let1e. OF Massachusetts, for the speakership of
tne uext congress, which is republican. We
rather imagine Mr.. Mann viii be elected, and We
do hesitate say believe the republican
congress Is making q mistake. With the pos
sibIe exception Of joe Cannon, Jim Mann is the
worst obsrr7ctIonisz there is in congress today.
Cedar Rs p59s Gazette.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
WHY COUGH and |
COUGH AND COUGH
DR.. Kins's New Discove]
removes the danger of
NEGLECT

Coughing until the parched th,1
grows painful should not be pernit,1
II should be relieved before il al
headway with a dose of Dr.. KIM
New Discovery.
: The same with cold or broursI
attack. Millions have used ,hi, ",
known remedy for half a cent?
regularly without though. of chan
Sold by druggists since 1869. An !
important adjunct to any fam
medicine cabinet. 6Cc and 81 20.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

Thirty-eight years ago. when
John Seeley. OF Andover, n. H.,
Lillian Kinney. was years old
lost gold band ring in the 60
at her home. While she was
ging a flower bed with ga
fork recently she unearthed the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

After peace is a settled fact and Europe is
back at her regular business of welcoming tour
lists OF every sort, the war department NAV
deem it safe to allow General Wood to visit the
war area.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

vides no greater security than 4
Grafton and that the true safeg1
lies in the avoidance of excess.
is not that the safe rule Of all
man indulgence OF any kind?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

Cincinnati laments the approach
ing loss of its human irrigation priv
leges, seemingly unsatisfied with the
nutritious qualities OF the bubbly
Rhine and the flowing Ohio.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

The only way the bolsheviki can keep repre-
sentatives of other nations In Russia is to put
them in prison. The only diplomats now left in
touch with the bolshevik officials in European
Russia are in Jail
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

1t was a wise prophet who declared early in
the war that in historical and dynastic sense
the submrine could sink Germany.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

Probably by this time all the movie actors
are fighting the great battles of the war over
again ON the plains of Los Angeles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31
The Burden Of Constipatid

IS lifted, comfortably but POSITIVE
when you treat your bowels with d
Kings New Life Pills. The liver r
busy, digestion improves, the sick
sallow skin IS freed from bile. Gel
bottle foday-stazt the day right. q
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

TEMPERANCE AND INFLUENZA.

New York World The ANALYSIS of
influenza mortality made by Presf.
dent Moir of the Actuarial Society
OF America from life insurance data
reveals some OF the battling aspects
OF the disease. Where the Influenza
epidemic OF 1sS9-9i was largely fatal
10 the old and feeble and peculiarly
dangerous to middle-aged clubmen
with past" Just the reverse condi-
tons have characterized the present
epidemic. 1t has taken the Young
and vigorous, showing soldier
death rate double the civilian rate.
and temperate life has furnished
no immunity.
The latter discovery is OF special
interest as controverting old ideas
OF the relation of alcoholic indul-
gence 10 disease. OF 655 life insur-
ance cases investigated. about two
thirds were teetotalers and oue-third
temperate" and according to Presi-
dent Moir's Interpretation of the
statistics they do not show that AL.
cohol used in moderation is either
beneficial or Objectionable so far as
Influenza is concerned" As respects
the effects of tobacco
The matter Of smoking is now
viewed by life companies as a
minor and immaterial one, with
the result that only two of seven
companies could give me any in
formation as TO whether the
deaths took place among smo-
kers or non-smokers.
The point is the relation OF tenn i
,erance in the use of alcohol and /
obacco to health. The figures af- I
ord no satisfaction to the immoder-I
lite drinker, but they do apparently
end to show that abstinence pro-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

he appeals for aid to the people
whom he has trained In selfishness.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-31

Davenport Democrat: They have
queer standards over in Germany
where the German navy. which
wouldn't go out and fight, is being
praised az having by It's revolt start
ed the revolution.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
LOCAL BOARD ENTRAINS
THEE MEN TODAY

Three men were entrained by the
local board this afternoon, two for
Fort Sheridan, where they will take
special training in the motor trans
port corps, and one for Chicago to
enter the marine corps. All three OF
the men went after voluntarily enlist,
ing their services at the office of the
local board, and asking to be induct.
ed int othe service Immediately.
The trio left Ottawa on the 3:'2
Rock Island train for Chicago.
Arthur j. Boisdorf OF Mendoza and
Douglas n Worsley of Triumph were
sent to Fort Sheridan, and George
Forrest Billings was sent to the ma
rine recruiting office in Chicago. AZ
! ter taking his examination he will be
sent to some marine training camp
Two Go Tomorrow.
Strawn La Clair and Paul Bechtner
both Of this city, will leave tomorrow
afternoon on the 3:12 Rock Island for
Camp Polk, Raleigh, n. c.. to enter
the tank corps training camp, These
men also volunteered with the loca
board to be inducted into this sery
ice, and asked to be sent at once.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
-FOUR MORE OTTAWA
SALOONS WILL CLOSE
THOMAS 3. WEIGH, JACOB LAWN,
FRANK. HELLMAf AND JOSEPH
ELYER DECIDE TO CLOSE
THEIR SALOONS.

Ottawa saloons are gradually clos
ing up. Four more will not apply for
renewals of licenses for the next
three months Only forty-one parlors
where man can quench his thirst
will be operated in Ottawa next quar-.
ter
AT a meeting Of the city council this
morning thirty-eight applications for
permission to operate saloons were
presented and three others signife 1
their intentions OF fling such appli-
cations The meeting was adjourned
until tomorrow morning, when the
other three will have their applica-
tions in.
Thomas B. We.ch of La Sale street,
Jacob Lacon of Walnut street, Frank
Hellman of Chestnut street and Jo-
seph Elzer of West Ottawa will close
up their places Of business and not
apply for renewals of their licenses.
Saloon men are gradually preparing
for the nation bone dry bill and are
closing out their business when they
can. Three closed up at the begin
ming of the last quarter, making a
total of seven sa0ons to close in
six months
No other business of Importance
was transacted.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
TWO CONCERNS FINED
FOR FOOD VIOLATING

The Ryan Bottling Works, 7341 5.
Halsted street, Chicago, H., have con-
tributed $500 additional to the Amer
lean Red Cross, which has been ac-
cepted by Washington in lieu of an
unfair order for rendering an mac.
curate statement to the Illinois divis-
sion of the United States food admin
istration, according to announcement
made by the bureau of investigation
and enforcement today.
1t has been ordered that they file a
new statement and that their subse-
quent allotments shall equalize any
discrepancies and that no more sugar
certificates be issued until the state
ment has been received.
A contribution of 500 has in like
manner been accepted from the Gia
schini Candy Company, sos South San
CANON street, Chicago. ILL.,, who are
holding 45 barrels of sugar, subject
to the order Of the food administra.
tion and who will receive no further
sugar certificates until average is
equalized.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
MRS. ELLA R. SCHULZ
WEDS IN ERIE, PA,

Mrs. Ella r. Schultz of Chicago. a
former we'll known Ottawa woman,
became the bride Of Charles Lewis,
of Oil City, Pa, yesterday afternoon
in the First Presbyterian church in
Erie, Pa. Simplicity marked thj 'cere'
mony in every respect.
Mrs. Lewis is the daughter of Mrs
Jane Slewder of East Main street, and
is a sister of Frank Slewder She re
sided in and around Ottawa during
her entire life until six years ago
when she moved to Chicago to make
her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis will make thei
home in Oil City.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
CzECHO-SLAVS WILL.
DIVIDE Up AUSTRIA

London, Oct. % Hungary must
give up 70 per cent of her territory
and population and must surrender
unconditionally, according to the
terms of the Czaks-Slavs, it was an
nounced at the Czacks-Slav legation
here today.
Our terms seem the death war
rant for Austria-Hungary,' it was
stated. The nation must give indie
pendance to the Jageslave and allow
the Poles OF Calicia to join Poland
The Romanians in Hungary and
Bakewina will be allowed to john
Romania and the Italians now under
Austrian domination shall join Italy
In his note President Wilson re.
cognized the aspirations of the Juge
slavs and the Czechs-Slavs for politi
cal freedom.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
FIVE DEATHS IN THE
HENRY TOWER FAMILY
IN LESS THAN 3 WEEKS

Mrs. Hope Tower Mathesius. daugh.
ter Of Mrs. Henry Tower Of Mendoza,
died yesterday after a two weeks ILL
ness of pneumonia. This is the fifth
death to occur in the Tower family in
nineteen days. The father, Henry Tow.
er died on Wednesday, Oct. 3; the
three sons, We're. Stanley and George,
followed their father, and Mrs. Mathe-
sius, the only daughter, died yester.
day.
Surviving she leaves her husband,
Tony Mathesius Of Camp Dodge; her
mother and two brothers, Tracy, with
the A. H. +. In France, and Forrest
of Columbus Barracks, Ohio
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
SERENA MAN DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

Emil r, Malaise, a we'll known
farmer residing in Serena township,
died yesterday afternoon at his home
after a six months Illness.
Mrs. Malaise was born in Alsace
Lorraine sixty.seyen years ago. lD
1908 he came to the United States
and settled on the farm near Serena
where he had since resided
Surviving he leaves a widow, .
daughter, Rena of Clarion, Iowa, ant
two sons, Robert and Paul. res1ing Il
Serena.
The funera, services will be helt
tomorrow afternoon at 80 o'clock a
the family home and busial will b,
made in the Bend cemetery.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
ARM|ST|CE TERMS
BEING FORMULATED
BY THE BIG FOUR"
AUSTRIA WILL BE GIVEN THE
TERMS UPON WHICH TO QUIT
WAR IN A FEW DAYS.

BY John Adam Bevin, International
News Service Staff Correspondent at
Washington, d. c., Oct. 29.-The cen
ter Of International developments had
shifted toby from Washington to
Versailles The military authorities
there representing the United States
and all of the entente allies, will have
the next say regarding peace develop
ments They will tell Austria how
she can secure an immediate peace on
the basis of unconditional surrender.
They will frame, for the approval or
vote OF the big Four" Of the supreme
council, and Field Marshal Foch, com.
mander in chief OF the allied armies,
the guarantees which must accompany
any armistice arranged with Germany.
The voting members of the big Four"
are President Wilson. represented in
person by Col. House; Premier Lloyd
George, Of Great Britain; Premier
Clemenceau of France, and Premier
Orlando of Italy The vote of the
President can be cast by Col. House,
but on matters of supreme importance
1t is expected to be cast by cable as
the White House will be in direct
communication with Paris during all
the deliberations
Official Washington today accepted
as fact that Austria and Turkey are
out of the way Turkey still is ne
gotiating but there is complete lack
Of interest here as to what the OF
toman government may or may not
do.
The Turkish problem is one which,
after all, must be settled at the peace
+ conference which will fix for all fu-
/ ture time the Balkan question that
has kept all Europe in a turmoil for
| generations. Because of this fact
there was little desire today on the
part Of officials here TO discuss Tur-
( key at all. The Turk undoubtedly
will be driven out of Europe; his de.
pendent natonalities formed into ma
tions along racial lines, and Constan.
tinople and the Dardanelles imterna-
/ tionolized. But that all is in the fu-
ture. And the peace conference will
decide just how it will be done. The
one thing of supreme interest here to-
day was what action will be taken to
give Austria the peace she seeks and
what guarantees must be demanded
from Germany before there can be
any further negotiations.
While Versailles, OF course, will
have the say in the two problems
there was much speculation here to
day on both. 1t was accepted that In
: the case of Austria the demands
: would be in many respects along the
, lines set forth when the Bulgarian
| question was disposed Of. Austris
will have to agree. officials say, t
about the following.
| Immediate Rehabilitation of he
/. armies.
Guarantees that these troops vii
not be used against the Croats, tn,
, Slavons, the Czechs or the Rouman
, ians.
Use of the Austrian national raj
!. ways by the entente.
: Occupation of all important Austria
fortified cities by international troop
pending the calling of a peace confer
y ence.
a Surrender to the allied forces c
y. the big Austrian gun and munitio
= centers so that the German supply c
= Austrian.made war supplies would b
= ended.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29
Albert J Roberts,
5G7 Central Life Bldg,
Ottawa, Ill.
ARREST TWO SUSPECTS
IN JOHN KOlM CASE

Edward Gilroy and Dalton Garland,
two vags, were arrested this morn
ing by Deputy Sheriff Barrett and OF.
ticer Jerry I.ooney and are being held
in the county Jail as suspects in the
case of the assault of John kolm, the
aged man who was attacked Saturday
night on Walnut street
Both men stoutly affirm their limo.
cence in the case, but tell contradic
tory stories.