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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
TAKE GREAT CARE.

Great care must be exercised .n trca ting
i wound before the doctor comes by e.
moving foreign particles. such as BITS OF
l.ofHInl. NaNr ana other debris, and nor
ouEhA cleaning ard disiufeeting; other
Nse matter is liable 10 form and pre- cnt
sound heAl. ne If the parts. The blood y,Qt
must not b- disturbed from the surface ~
the wound, and the edges when cleaned
must be carefully brought together rs
closely as possible and kept SO by title
pieces OF strapplug plaster. a pad and ii
handagr may then be fixed and the df-s =
ing ma, be- dry or saturated with olive OF!
aad left on for tHo or three days.
Crushed or torn wounds however. re.
quire frequent changes OF dressing ard
distinction, and where the wound has
been poisoned it Is most necessary ~ pre-
vent the poison being carried by the cigcu.
lati0n into the system. To prevent this nc
time must be lost in binding the limb tight.
~ above the wound with d strap Or a
strong scarf and stick may be twisted
inside the bandage in order to tighten il
buftjeieAtly Sucking the wound to draw
out the poison. or burning it with carh5lc
OF nitric acid is the next best thing to do.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
DO YOU KNOW THAT

The .u,,valent OF one school ,s,, f,r
lfgur.. thar, four h,pdra, ,,.ii,i,a,, H. l.-,
diseases, according 10 i!.4res r.,eutIy
compiled for Pttsburg.
lahtrs covered an automatic Indicator
USED Oh some fteieh locomotives records
'',e ""' 1'''n Oh runs ana stops On 4 ron
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d.y.Ioned rr,, .str..,,,,,, ,,,' ,,',',
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.
Automatic feeding apparatus for cbIck-
them TT a desired time. has been, Invented
by Pennsylvania farmer.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
RUB bACKACHE AND
LUNbAG0 RIGHT OUT
Rub Pain and Stiffness away with
a small bottle Of old honest
St. Jacobs Imminent

When your bac' is sore and larnc or
lumbago, sciatica or rhcu,natism has
you stitlened up, don't suffer, Get a
80 cent bottle Of old, honest "St.
Jacobs Liniment" at any drug store,
pour little in your hand aud rub it
right into The pain or ache, and by the
time you count fifty, the soreness and
lamencss is gone.
Don't stay crippled This soothing,
penetrating oil needs TO he used only
once. 1t takes the ache and pain right
out of your back and ends the misery.
1t is magical. yet absolutely harmless
and doesn't burn the skin.
Nothing else stops lnmbago, sciat'cu
sud Isass tsck uaissgy w gsoAgtly!
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31

No two nations have the same laws reg
ulatug the handling and storage of OK
plosivcs
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
MEN OF SCIENCE IN
ATTACK ON WILSON;
LEAGUE ASSA|LED
sEVANTS AT ST LOUIS MEET
ING HEAR PRESIDENT CLAS-
Sisted AS FALSE PROPrET
BY MICHIGAN II" PROFESSOR

tEV The Associated IF'SS1
81. Louis. De-. 3! QuotiaE from
President Wilson. Sen wood and
Theodore Roosevelt. Professor VIII
liam II. Hobbs Of the University Of
Michigan told the American Ass"
citation for The Advertisement o. sci
encp here today that it was Inn 10
determine whether We had rot bet.
fer abandon the idea o. the league
of nations before il is entered mp
el.'
president Wilson has a Omitted OF
the scheme for which he stands
euongur before the world that with
Ia adontion we would embark upon
pnchart red scast" taiC. Professor
Hobbs I'VE need, then. the advice
nj those best qualified - forecast
he storms we are likely TO c9coun-
Ter and 80 determine whether We
had not better abande1 the adveh-
tpre before il il entered upon. lie
real question before the American
people has from the start been one
OF the reliability of judgment OF les
political prophets
Quotes Wilson'S Words.
In quoting President Wilson Pro
fessor Hobbs said
Standing in the presence al the
agse mbied delegate 10 the peace
ron 'erence al the formal prrSeuta'
lion Of the covenant 0l the league
Of nations, Woodrow Wilson said OF
thiq instrument. It is Il deliAlte
guarantee OF peace. II IS definite
as a guarantee against aggression.
ON the other hand Gen. Leonard
Wood has made the statement that
the claim that any covenant viii
protect the world from future wars
f. idle twaddle and dream OF mol.
lycoddlcs. The paciiists, moreover,
,ell YOU lies when they say that war
"a an institution is dead. Don't
listen to the molIycoddles. BE cit
izen of common sense.
Which VIII We Follow.
Which guide are you to follow?
Each has been leader IN the re-
cert past when the issue was. Us
now. both rational security ana
world idealism.
"WocdrCW Wilson said we could
not become involved in the war and
that the affairs>of EurCpe were not
our concern, 50 he advocated non
preparedness as the. remedy. Leon
ard Wood said that We We're yery
likely to become involved in the war
that our only sa ely was iE making
preparation for any contingency
that the woIld's struggle was our
war. and he risked all that he had
t. save his country and his cOun-
try's honor
The pacifists' solution did not
her avail to keep u cut Of war.
despite Mr. Nilsc'f, consoli1g
promises. aad the internationalists
solution. which he now no less con
lldoatly tltela to charm awaT fu-
ture wars has an equal chance Of
success.
Quotes Roosevelt.
Theodore Eooseyclt tells us: It
i Wen a. his time fer sober aud
res0luto mon an women TO appl.
that excellent variety. Of wisdom
colloqually known rs horse sense
10 the problems Of natOuali3m and
International N Nations are ma 'e,
defended and preserved, not by the
iusionists, but BY The mea and wo-
men who practice the homoly viz
tues in time Of peace and who in
time of righteous war are read, tG
die or to send those ;hey love best
to die, for a shining IDEAL.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
14.OO0 KILLED EARLY
IN 10 BY RUSS REDS

Berne. Dec. Fourteen thous
and persons were shot by the Bolshe-
Wiki of Russia during the first three
months Of 1913. by order Of the extra
ordinary committee at Moscow, ac.
cording to an official note published
in the Bolsheviki organ lsvestia of
Moscow, says dispatch received
here
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
u, OF M. rrexy Quits.

minneapolis. Dec. 81 President
Burton OF the University of Mime.
sofa has resigned, to become presi-
dent of the University of Michigan.
He will assume his new duties July
| next
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31

A novel traction engine literally walks
instead OF rolls along. being provided Win
four legs shod with broad shoes.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-31
Oricir Of 1.-THE Fourth Estate"

HWMr British state~mau gave To
the press rhr. dc~i@natlaH 'lhr fourth
p~fHlr."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

She is probably some ones grand
mother. ard yet grandmothers from
ALT Americans viewpoint, at least, are
goddesses who prevent spankings
when they are deserved. or who. II
the appeal for arbitration fails, and
The rod falls, assuage the wounded
feelings with slices OF jam and bread.
or trips 10 the movie shows. Grand
r,others, in these days. even become
rivals of grandmothers in the favor
cf matinee idols, and are quite as
ardent movie fans. 1t Is doubtful, how
ever, il this grandmother ever saw q
movie show. Perhaps some time in
her life she had visited cinema, but
that was in the days before the war.
The days when the sky was blue, and
before the gray hordes OF Germany
cast q shadow over the sunshine of
world affairs.
Now that the shadow has passed,
and the sunshine of khaki and blue
ffcOd the land. she Is cold and worn.
hut faithful Faithful TO the France
that probably she has given sons TO
thar they might protect their nation.
Faithful 10 her neighbors, to her
friends. Every noon she goes to the
station, Ia care" as they know it,
and watches the little train come slip
ping il TO the platform. A bundle
OF papers is handed down not
dumped on, as It is in America 0
my, no, that would not be 'gentil,' but
banded of.
For this grandmother is the news
vender OF the little village She is
pleasant faced and smiles as she
makes the daily rounds of her Gus
toners. She wears a black dress
they all do, and sometimes she throws
Il shawl over her head. At other
times, especially when the weather Is
warm, her gray crown is exposed to
Pie sunlight. Quickly she makes her
way through the mud and water of
the streets, stopping here and there
10 leave her papers-stopped here and
there by some importunate customer
who wants different paper, or who
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

men who received such letters must
have felt. that there was merit in the
stocks so recommended to them. At
least the letters must have influ-
enced many; otherwise the pro-
moters would not have paid so lib
orally for such assistance.
To us this is an outrage greater
even than the indiscretions Of the
governor or the perversions of jus
tice by the attorney general To use
state office to assist and even to
boost stock swindlers against whom
all newspapers and all decent men
were working with might and main
at the same time is incomprehen-
sible.
The man who has done such things,
SO used a state office and prestige,
cannot by any kind of reasoning con-
tinsR to hold that office, an office
whose trust he has betrayed and
whose Influence he has sold to
swindlers OF the people. IL Mr.. Witt
does not see the necessity of resign.
ing that office he ought to be forced
out by legislative or other action.
To us the confessions Of Mr. Witt
are simply astounding would
not have believed that men SO hon
ored could so have disgraced their
offices.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15
wooLWoRTH ESTATE.

New York World: William G.
Breed, attorney for Frank w. Wool
worth. said yesterday that the lat
tiers estate would be between $50.
600 900 and s40,0o0.0G0- Although
the will is not to be made public
until after the funeral, it is under
stood the bulk Of the property is left
in trust to members of his family
other relatives and business asso-
ciates.
The principal heirs are two caugh'
tiers. Mrs. Helena Woolworth Mccain
of No. East Eightieth street, and
Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue OF
the same address, and az granddaugh.
ter. Barbara Hutton, child Of Mrs
Edna Woolworth Hutton, deceased
Mrs. Jennie Wolworth, the widow,
has been declared incompetent by a
court and proceedings TO TX her
dover rights are pending
Mrs. Woolworth has wife's one
third interest in real property In
New York, Philadelphia and Long
Island assessed at 81 ,402.245.
Relatives are scattered throughout
the United States. Many of them, II
was expected, would attend the pri
vate funeral services which were
held at the Woolworth home. No. $3.50
Fifth avenue. Burial was in Wood
lawn cemetery.
The estates biggest buildings are
the Woolworth chain of stores and
the building which bears the
founders name and stands as a
monument to his success.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

| 1908. The affair waselharmless and
/! of the spook and Jack % Lantern fam
lily. The cabbage worm was as limo
cent as butterfly or a strand OF
sewing thread .s9
AS to the periodical cicada and it's
! appearance in late May and June of
! the present year, 1919, l am right. at
home with the topic and am qualified
| to state to The Gate City and its large
audience of readers and admirers, that
Brood % of Riley will appear in nine
/ teen states this summer. This is the
largest OF all the fourteen broods OF
the seventeeh-year class. Our state
OF Missouri will have the cicada in
thirty-two counties, including Clark
and Knox. The cicada territory for
| this year extends to the Arkansas line.
! Lee county, bordering the Des Moines
river bluffs, will report the presence
! of scattering hosts of cicada. shall
raake observations to qualify this
statement.
The great brood IS, thirteen year
class of C. w. Riley, extended TO the
Lies Moines in 1894, and I reported
finding the cicada over in Lee county.
end so notified Mr.. Riley, who was
United States entomologist at that
date He accordingly changed the
rap of brood 18 to include Lee county
and the standard remains. Brood 30,
OF Marlett, is said to be of only two
colonies in all the land. This Is
thirteen-year colony. | found it pres
ent in two townships in Clark county
last June ! began careful study OF
the periodical cicada in early June.
1891, and have followed its presence
/ in both thirteen and seventeen-year
divisions on down TO present date.
III have seen the cicada hosts issue
from the earth and hurry to some
elevated place of safety. where they
would change into winged insect
during. the night. and at morning have
its mature uniform ready for dress
parade and the sending forth of their
strange pharaoh song. Then in week
! have watched them deposit their
eggs in apple twigs for new genera
ton to emerge, drop to the earth where
,its long life OF thirteen or seventeen
years were to pass in darkness.
Bulletins quote me as authority on
this theme.
Moral: Study the aenious insect.
| n Is innocent as beautiful butterfly.
JASPER BLTNES.
Seven Pines, Alexandria, April IA,
1919.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15
SOLDIERS AS PEAcEMAKERs.

William the third, the Dutch-born KING OF
England, was one of the wisest, most sagaclous
rulers with which any nation in any age was
ever blessed After Louis the fourteenth had
been blocked in his plan to dominate Europe,
ambassadors of the belligerent nations met al
Ryswick in 1897 to agree on terms OF peace.
But they dawdled and dallied, just as the pres
ent conference has, until William proposed to
Louis that two soldiers should meet and settle
the matters in dispute Thereupon General
Bentinck and Marshal Bouffiers met IN an or
cllard and In a few hours had everything ar
ranged.
when Appomattox destroyed the hopes OF
the eonfederacy two great soldiers, Grant and
Lee, met under an apple tree 1t did not take
them an hour to come to terms. Go home and
take your horses with you and begin spring
blowing said our illustrious soldier as he hand
ed back the proffered sword of General Lee,
and they shook hands and went thir ways.
When the Germans were forced TO ask for an
ar1nistice last November General E'och gave
them his terms and they accepted. They knew
they were dealing with man who meant what
he said. Later they violated the terms IN sew
cral cases Had Foch at this time been told to
march on Berlin, occupy it and enforce order
until the peace conditions were completed and
had the conference lost no time in formulating
the terms, all probably would have been well
end the world would not be apprehenslve as 1t
now is of more lamentable failure of diplom-
acy than any other which history records.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

, forgot to pay for the one left yester-
day, and wishes to explain the mis-
tske. Smiling. she makes her way.
rain or shine, and smilingiy5 she is
q eeted by the people OF the village
who still have the confines left in
their boards with which to purchase
the news OF the day.
Down the street he comes. drum
slung over his shoulder, sticks in
band. and out of his pocket sticks an
official looking document. AT the cor
-,er he stops, and beats tattoo on the
drum. regular thunder call to at
Etention 1t seems to be- rolling
a.ong the avenues of sound. From
every building on either side of the
street curious heads pop out-windows
and doors become populous. Children
lun outside shouting. and housewives
grab their mending or washing and
dash to points of yentage. Soldiers at
liberty stroll Idly along or yell some
thing in polyglot French. The drum
beat ceases. The paper Is unfolded
and the old man begins to read. Fer
haps It is only the announcement of
q public sale. or perhaps it is a tenn
perance document, stating that 1T Will
away to American soldiers any more
cognac or alcohol Whatever it is.
the decree is read in q loud and noisy
Fey.
At its end the populace exchange
comments, or rush out into the street
TO talk It ever Soldiers along the
road make rough uncouth comments.
Sometimes even they are rude enough
te try to outyeH the old man. Some
times he has to compete with the
hirrings Of a big truck motor. But
whatever the obstacles, like Pilgrim
IN Bunyan's masterpiece. he labors
on. "Bent like laboring oar in the
surf" perhaps Longfellow would des-
cribe him. But the town crier goes
mis- way, serenely unconscious that
perhaps he is furnishing copy to those
! ic whom all things unusual are news.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15
Opinion in good men is but knowledge in
the making Milton.
I.ANDLEss ARIsToCRATs.
Lucy La-com

Great estates in England and historic man
sions where sovereigns have been entertained
are offered for sale by owners who can no
longer keep them. The taxes on land are 50
heavy that the big holdings must be broken in
10 small parcels and worked ntensively to be
made to pay Lord Aberdeen has disposed Of
fifty thousand acres, and Lord Ebury puts on
the market famous country seat, Moor Park,
in Hertfordshire, where Cardinal Wolsey once
lived in a magnificence which monarchs envied
and had as guests Henry the eighth and Cathe-
rine of Aragon. Deprived Of the vast and
beautiful domains which gave them incomes
and much of their consequence and largely
shorn Of their political power, the titled arts
tocracy of England finds itself facing condi-
tons OF which it never dreamed. Ancient lin
cage, social position and the prestige Of names
OF oid renown will be the most that is left it
and unless it becomes AN aristocracy of intellect
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

MR.. WITT SHOULD GET OUT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t ought
to take no committee long to con-
vince Mr.. Witt, who is secretary to
the governor, that he ought TO resign
his position in the state government.
His own confessions include two
sources of income which are incom-
patfble with his official position.
namely:
For assisting friends to sell stock
in various organizations:
"For writing letters OF Introduction
for stock statesmen, s1,100."
Mr.. Witt has been doing some OF
the dirty work of the stock promoters
who have been stealing the honest
savings of the people Of the state.
There has never been a time when
more OF these swindling concerns
have been in existence. The state has
been literally honeycombed with
them The fact that the people had
Liberty bonds, with which many were
not familiar, gave an impetus to
these operations by crooks Of all
kinds. who got tp all sorts Of
swindling devices TO get the bonds
and also other savings away from
the people.
We are now confronted with the
confession that man who has occu.
pied the position Of private secretary
to the governor of the state has been
on the inside Of these swindiing OPP
erations He has used his office to
assist the swindlers. He has done
this by personal efforts and by let
tiers of introduction. No doubt he
may have used the official stationery
of the state for such letters. The
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15
The Locust Pest.

To the Editor OF the Gate City:
The periodical cicada is commonly
understood in an intelligent manner,
only by few persons who have made
years Of close study of this strange
insect. In general, the cicada is called
the locust, and people talk of locust
years when the young forests were
loaded down with millions of what
some called the locust pest, and young
fruit trees were reputed to suffer ser.
icus injury or total destruction by the
cicada ravages. And a strange tradition
of loss Of human life by being stung by
the awful enemy, locust. Some sensa-
t,onal yellow news collector will fab
ricate an account of this nature, and
these frauds will travel all over the
land, much to the annoyance and
alarm of timid persons.
Recall the sensation over the SO.
called cabbage worm, which received
great notice in the papers along in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

of service and of sacrifice for the common good,
it must become a negligible factor In the ma
ton IS life A landless and impoverished arls-
tocracy has in other lands become laughing
stock: and it will not be surprising If the proud
and powerful nobility of England shall, by an
other generation, have disappeared as a gov
erning caste.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-15

Monticello Express: Unless we
make peace before long, the proposed
league of peace will amount TO no
more than an alliance OF the victo-
rious nations against the threatening
internationalism of eastern Europe.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: All the
bolsheviks want is what the other
fellow has-then it's up TO the other
fellow to become a bolshevik and
get it back.
Dubuque Times-Journal: Everyone
who has the best interest of Iowa at
heart should encourage larger
measure OF cooperation between the
cities and the country districts.
There is room for Improvement in
this respect, as there is more or less
suspicion in the rural districts to-
wards measures which originate In
the cities.
Des Moines Capital: 1t took nearly
twenty-five years to protect the peo-
pie of Iowa against notes taken by
travelling doctors and other persons;
notes without valid consideration:
but finally it was enacted that a
valid defense against a promissory
note. even in the hands of a so-called
innocent purchaser would protect
the person who signed the note. Let
us hope that it will not take another
twenty-five years to protect the peo-
pie against those who sell worthless
securities.
Oelwein Iowan: In order to avoid
noisy campaign, why not nominate
Colonel House for the presidency in
1920?
Marshalltown Times Republican:
France needs an immediate settle
ment. America needs it. The world.
after four years and more of demon
alization. needs 1t. Settle the peace
terms and sign them.
Webster City F'reeman-Journal: II
the Filipinois consult their own in
terests, they will be in no hurry to
get out from under the wing Of the
| United States Old Uncle Sam will
do almost anything for his children
and the people living in the Philip
pine islands may need the good right
arm Of old Sammy one OF these days
/ to save them from the capacious
( NAV Of territory grabbers-