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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
VETS AND DRYS
AWAIT CLIMAX
Twelve Hours Allowed for Debate In
House With Attention All Con-
tered on Amend
mef1tS

UNITED Press Leased Wire service>1
WASHINGTON. July 9.-House
"wets" and "drys" lined up today for
the climax of the prohibition fight
which will be reached when the twelve
hours allowed for debate expires.
With final enactment Of the prohi-
bition measure assured by the first
vote taken, both sides centered their
attention on amendments which would
change the definition of Intoxicating
liquor and which would separate war.
time and permanent prohibition en-
forcement.
Tactics employed during the first
hours of debate indicated that VETS
will not permit the measure to pass
before they exhaust all means in their
power to prevent vote. Optimistic
members look for vote Saturday
while others predicted no action be-
fore the last Of next week.
Vets were expected to attempt sep
aration of war time prohibition en-
forement from the remainder Of the
bill by striking out the latter portion.
Drys will fight any such move to
the limit, it was said today.
Debate was suspended today while
the house considered routine bills m.
der the calendar. Prohibition will be
taken UP again Thursday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
Shooting Now at Targets.

BISLEY CAMP, Eng, July 9.-After
four years Boche-shooting, Britain's
crack rif1emen resumed their annual
warfare against mechanical targets
today, when the National Rifle associa-
tion's competition re-opened here. The
famous Bisley meeting is international
in character and normally attracts the
worlds best rifle and revolver shots,
although most of the events are mon
opolized by army teams.
This year rehabilitation progress
considerably affected the entries, many
eligible riflemen being frankly fed
up with shooting, and finding target
practice unexciting after the real
thing. Nevertheless most of the Brit
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09

New York: Doctor Conner, former
y of Johns Hopkins hospital, says:
Many men who smoke, chew or snufr
necessarily and who are seemingly
heaithy are suffering from progress
siVe organic ailments. Thousands OF
them would never have been afflict-
cd had it not been for the use OF
TOBACCO, and thousands would soon
get well II they would only stop the
use OF tobacco. The chief habit form
ing principle of tobacco is nicotine,
deadly poison which, when ao-
sorbed by the system, slowly affects
lne nerves, membranes, tissues and
vital organs of the body. The harm
iui effect OF tobacco varies and de-
Ponds on circumstances. One will be
dllilcted with general debility, others
with catarrh of the throat, indiges-
lion, constipation, extreme nervous
ness, sleeplessness, loss OF memory,
lack OF will power, mental confusion,
etc. Others may suffer from heart
disease, bronchial trouble, hardening
Vi the arteries, tuberculosis, blind
ness or even cancer or the common
"iihctlon known as tobacco heart. IL
you use tobacco in any form you can
easily detect the harmful effects by
making =, the following simple tests:
i'ead aloud one full page from
DOCK. If, in the course Of reading,
your voice becomes muff1ed, hoarse
ana indistinct, and you must fire.
quently clear your throat, the chances
are that your throat is affected by
catarrh and it may be the beginning
VI more serious trouble Next, in the
morning, before taking your usual
smoke, walk up three flights of stair
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09

Zealand, South Africa, Ceylon and
Malay states teams competed with the
pick of the mother country, there be-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
Doctor Tells How TO Detect
Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Trv These SIMPLE TESTS

at a regular pace, then stop II you
find that you are out OF breath, your
heart beat is forced, trembling or
irregular, you may be victim OF
functional or organic heart trouble.
If you feel that you must smoke, cneW
or snuff to quiet your nerves, you are
slave to the tobacco habit and are
positively poisoning yourself with
the deadly drug, nicotine. In either
case you have just two alternatives
keep on with the self-poisoning pro-
cess irrespective Of the dangers ana
suffer the consequences, or give up
the habit and escape the dangers.
You can overcome the craving and
stop the habit in a very short time
by using the following inexpensive
formula. Go to any drug store and
ask for Nicotol tablets, take one tab
let after each meal, and in a compare
lively short time you will have no
desire for tobacco, the craving Will
have left you. With the nicotine
poison out Of your system your gen
eral health will quickly improve.
Note-When asked about Nicotol
tablets, one of our leading druggists
said: ut is truly wonderful RENE
DIV for the tobacco habit; away ahead
of anything we have ever sold De-
fore. We are authorized by the manu-
facturers to refund the money to
every dissatisfied customer, and we
would not permit the use OF our
name unless the remedy possessed
unusual merit" Nicotol tablets are
sold in this city under an iron-clad
guarantee by all up-to-
date druggists, including Wilkinson &c
Co. and McGrath Bros. Drug co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
HIT IN NECK
BY A SLEDGE
Workman at Carbide Factory 10
Bruised Whom It Flew OFF the
Handle and Struck
Him,

When sledge flew off the handle,
at the carbide factory late yesterday
afternoon. it struck John r. Poland on
the side Of the neck and knocked him
out for the count.
But he came back quickly, and whom
examined thoroughly at the hospital
some bruises to the flesh were found
to be the sum of his injuries.
Manager Pagels saw that Poland
was well cared for, and the injured
man is expected to recover soon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
No Ball for HAYWOOD.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHICAGO, July 9.-For the forty
second time in two months, William
d. ("Big BilI'') Haywood, I. w. w.
leader, was disappointed today.
This time, like the other forty-one,
It was because United States Attorney
Chas. f. Clyne refused to approve
bonds offered for the leaders release
from Leavenworth prison where he
has served year Of his fifteen year
sentence for Interfering with the draft.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
Captain Henry D. ParmaIee Expires
Suddenly In an Automobile at
Canton While on Way to
Meet a Boat.
WAS WELL KNOWN HERE
Was Eighty Years Old and Had Piloted
Some of the Noted Boats Of tho
Old Days from st. Louis
to ST. Paul.

Captain Henry d. Parmalee. one OF
the oldest Mississippi river pilots, died
suddenly while riding In an automo-
bile with his daughter at Canton late
Monday afternoon.
He was eighty years old and lived
at Canton with his daughter, Mrs. An
drew Zenge, wife Of the purser of the
Steamer Keokuk.
While his daughter was driving him
to the Canton landing to meet the keo-
seat Of the automobile. He died be-
fore doctor could reach him.
In trying to assist her father Mrs.
zenge failed to guide the car properly
and It hit the curb and was some
what battered up, although this had
nothing to do with the death OF Cap
tain Parmalee.
Known on Entire Upper River.
Captain Parmalee was well known
on the upper river where he spent his
life.
In his younger days he piloted some
Of the largest boats on the upper
Mississippi and was known in every
port from st. Paul to St Louis. He
had friends In Keokuk and in the old
times was often on the levee in this
city.
Late in life he was master OF the
City of Quincy running between Quin-
cy and Canton, and after that ran an
other boat in that short trade. For
the last ten years he had been liv-
ing quietly with his daughter at Can
ton. His brother. Charles Parmalee.
also well known on the river. died sew
eral years ago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
The More Serious Side.

Regular work in the playground,
f7rst.aid. Bible and nature study
classes began today. They are
sch eduled for the morning hours,
leaving the afternoons free for rest
and play.
Each evening, there will be COM
munity singing led by Miss Won Zelle
Murphy and camp fire stories told by
the different leaders. Tonight and
upon every Wednesday evening dur
ing the camp, Rev. Walter Schlaraet-
zki will talk to the girls on character
building.
William Aleshire, of Plymouth,
the father of the Lakeview camp has
as his special guests this week, five
girls from the orphans home at Ma
comb. ILL., These lucky girls are
having a fine time, and taking ad-
vantage of all the training offered
them in the various classes.
Several townships in the county
have raised extra money in order to
send girls to the camp to receive
training in leadership. which will
make them valuable to the communi-
ties which send them when they re-
turn to them after their work In the
camp.
sFiN !
Japanese Girls Coming.
Two Japanese girls who are at
tending college in the United States
have been invited to visit the camp
and will arrive next week.
The camp directors have provided
themselves with the proper means to
care for all the girls wants.
Miss Katherine Kermeen. gradu-
ate nurse, is a member Of the lead
ers. and came to the camp with a
whole hospital supply of medicines
and first-aid equipment to use on the
girls. should they become i'll.
"But they won't" said Miss Ker-
meen. with all of the work and play
planned for them"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09

IF your heart prompts you to do
a good deed do 1t Immediately De
fore you have heart tallure'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09

In India only twelve women out Oh
every thousand of full age can read
and write.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09

When a mother tells a bachelor
about the cute things her baby did,
he never says just what he thinks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09

isb and colonial champions were pres
ent when the qualifying rounds were
shot off. Australian, Canadian, New
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-09
big GIRLS CAMP
| BEGINS ITS WORK
Lakeview Club House Near Hamilton
Scene Of Outing for a Month by
Hancock County Girls
Galore.
TO BECOME MERMAIDs
Plenty Of Stunts with Some More Ser
ious Training viii Occupy Hun
dreds Of Girls at Reautl-
full Camp.
TO BECOME MERMAIDs

The Lakeview training camp for
girls opened Tuesday morning at the
club house near Hamilton.
Girls from all over Hancock county
and some from neighboring counties,
came pouring into the camp grounds
laden with tennis rackets, volley
balls, books and ukelales.
| By sunset last evening, over sixty
girls had registered and many other
applications for entrance into the
camp are expected soon.
AS soon as the girls arrived they
were assigned to their tents to
arrange for their sleeping quarters
and then assembled on the club
house porches to start the ball roll
ing to have a good time. Early IN
the game the victrola was started
and played continuously throughout
the day.
Will Become Mer1naids.
The facilities for making the
campers comfortable and for their
pleasure are fine.
An improvised bathing beach is
one of the attractive features OF the
camp, and nearly all the girls tested
lit out yesterday afternoon, with sew
eral camp leaders present to take
care of them in the water.
AS yet, not many of the folks can
swim, but all Of them did a great
deal Of splashing around and laugh
ing as they attempted to master the
principles of the dog paddle or some
other stroke Miss Florence Euten-
ener, the athletic director. says that
she expects all the girls to learn to
swim before they leave the camp.
This camp boasts of something
few other similar organizations have
ever even thought of and that Is
Noah's ark The Lakeview camp has
Just such thing, and its proverbial
usefulness consists in being a place
of refuge for the girls IN case OF
severe floods which would make
their sleeping tents uncomfortable.
It is a large two-story frame building
and can be turned into an apartment
for slumber parties on very short
notice.
Stunts Make Much Fun.
The play yesterday was not super
yised as it will be during the camp.
However, the playground director,
Miss Pearl Urban. Of Dallas City.
managed to get all Of the girls to-
gether in the afternoon for get
acquainted party.
The girls were divided into families
whose names were Dolittles, Rough
necks, Whereabouts and other like
cognomens. There were six or seven
members in each family, and by the
time each member Of each family
had been introduced to all the mem
bers of all the other families and to
the camp leaders. everyone felt quite
well acquainted.
After this game, the campers did
stunts and danced on the club house
porches until dinner ttme-which is
supper or just chow when you are In
the woods on camping expedition
The housekeeping bugbear at the
camp Is not large one. The girls
care for their own tents and take
turns waiting on the tables and
washing dishes. Walter Mason and
his wife do all of the cooking which
is one Of the most satisfactory parts
of the whole camp.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-27

kinds Of insects furnish food for the
birds. The more the birds are en-
couraged to visit a neighborhood'
therefore, The greater will be the pro-
lection to the crops and trees in tina;
neghborhood.
The house wren is q valuable Dlrd
in this particular for it feeds entlreiy
on insects. This little bird is one OF
the most sociable and confiding OF
birds and will build its nest right close
10 human habitation. The wren VIII
gladly accept a little house prepared
for its reception; and If it has 10 build
its nest elsewhere constructs it OF grass
or weeds stuffed into any crevice that
takes its fancy.
y French scientist has asserted that
without birds to check the ravages OF
insects, human life would vanish from
the earth in the short space of nine
years. He insists that insects would
first destroy the growing cereals. then
would fall upon the grass and the
foliage which would leave nothing for
:he cattle and stock to feed upon. 1t
is certain that birds destroy every
year thousands of tons of noXious weed
seeds and billions of harmful insects.
Among other pests which birds at
tack is the cotton boil weev!l which
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-27

women and children, suffered aliNe
and the streets ran red with blood
After Warsaw's fall the powers declo-
ed to divide Poland again.
The Empress Catherine OF RUSSIA
who was well known as an intriguer'
was the leader and together with Fred
erick William and Marie Theresa they
planned and connived with the result
that the gains of Russia consisted OF
an area OF ISL, 900 square miles ana Il
population of 100000. Austria 5
share was $4,000 square miles ana
5000 new subjects and Prussia's new
territory $1,000 square miles in area
and 100000 population. This left a
comparatively small number of Poles,
ashamed and grieved at the loss of
their national existence. AT last they
thought If they would fight for France
this country would help them organ
ize Il government in return for their
services, but the French laws would
not hermit of their enrolment in the
army. Finally a few were able to get
into what was called Napoleon's Pol
ish Legion and about 5000 of these
were sent to St. Domingo to suppress
the revolt headed by the negro Tous-
saint rOuverture. Many of them died
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most of their lives darting hither and
thither and these must be caught On
The wing. Lastly. there are those in
sects which hide in the grass or
among the leaves of shrubs and trees.
and these must be searched out with
keen eyes.
"And so, among birds" adds DR..
Allen, eve have pYobers in the snipe,
scratchers in the grouse and quail,
borers in the woodpeckers. fiycatchers
in the swallows and nighthawks, and
cleaners in the blackbirds, thrushes,
vireos and warblers. In each group
we find those notifications of bill.
feet. wings, tail, tongue and eyes which
best fit the birds for securing the in
sects in it's particular way"
without proper protection to bird
life both farm and garden crops and
trees would soon be so ravaged that
the results would be disastrous. For
this reason the American. Forestry As
sociation is urging the arousing of fur
ther interest in every community in
birds: and y. S. Ridsdale, secretary OF
the organization, calls attention TO the
fact that the economic benefit to be
derived therefrom will apply not only
to the individual city or town but to
the entire nation.
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run into the thousands. From 1900
70 5000 ants have been found in q
BIRDS stomach. Also they Will often
consume thousands OF weed seeds IN a
day. The American Forestry Asso-
lion of Washington. therefore,
through national bird house building
contest has been recommending that
means be taken to protect and oncour-
age birds IN every community because
Of the great economic service they
render. Birds vii. cease coming 70 4
neighborhood where they cannot find
proper protection and good nesting
places.
Birds are q great asset 70 any com
munity. They help the farmer by
devourinE great quantities OF The in
sects which prey upon his crops; and
they also eat the seeds OF many weeds
They get after the bugs in the garden.
In the orchard they consume cater
pillars and other pests destructive 20
tree life. Frank NJ. Chapman. eminent
ornithologist. is authority for the
statement that "if we should lose our
birds we should also lose our forests" q"
These little friends Of the forest cat
the borers which live on the bark Of
trees and the various moths and other
parasites that prey upon the trees.
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Toll Amounts 10 one.tcn;h

II has been estimated that Insects
take a toll every year which amounts
10 one-tenth OF all the cereals. hay.
cotton. TOBACCO. forests and general
farm products that are raised in the
United States. l, is said, for instance,
that they destroy as much as $4,000
600 worth OF hay. Hessian flies ap-
pearcd in Ohio and Indiana in the
year 1900 ana before they had com
pleted their ravages they mad devourod
100000 acres of wheat, tremendous
loss not only TO that section of the
country. but to the nation as whole.
These facts give a glimpse as to the
reasons why birds should be protected
and encouraged. They are worth
many millions OF dollars annually TO
the country. If It were not for them
some of the insect plaques might gain
such headway that there would be no
possible way OF checking them.
Numerous observations have been
made to discover how many insects
birds eat. 1t has been found in some
cases that they will eat thousands of
bugs and insects in one day. Grass
hoppers. potato and cucumber beetles.
plant lice. cankerwork moths, codlins
worms. ants-these and many other
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ont at Warsaw and the Poles were
made prisoners in their own country
only to be beaten and starved as well.
There were several drives made by the
Huns and the women and children ot
the city suffered untold horrors.
Now that fighting has ceased the
people are merely existing in Poland
and the Rock efeller Foundation has
made an investigation and reported
that unless something is speedily done
the entire civilian population Will
starve.
The Allies have decided that Poland
shall, after centuries. come into its
own and the better class of Poles nave
been trying to straighten things out.
Paderewski, the famous pianist
went home sometime ago and was
the President of the country for a
short time. But there is always trou'
bic and no matter how careful the
people who are working for the good
Of the land may be, German propa-
ganda will creep in and cause disturb.
ance and unrest. The entire country
must be reconstructed. The land is
valuable but all the farming machin-
cry is destroyed for it seems that
wherever the Germans were compelled
70 move out they wrecked and ruined
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has done so much harm in the South.
The annual loss of agricultural prod
ucts from insects in the United States
has been estimated as high as $780,
600. 900.
Swallows feed almost entirely upon
obnoxious insects and they will do
much toward protecting orchards and
other trees. OF the blue swallows the
purple martin is the largest, the male
being entirely blue above and below
while the female is blue above with
gray breast. Swallows are highly
migratory. most of them spending the
winter in South America. A cliff swal-
low will eat at least a thousand flies
mosquitoes. wheat-midgets and beetles
in a day. This bird is known also as
the cave swallow because II plasters
It's nest on the outside of a barn or
other building up under the caves
Colonies of several thousand will build
their nests together on the side of
cliff. These nests shaped like fiat
tened gourd or water bottle, are made
of bits of clay rolled into pellets and
lined with straw or feathers. g,
First Spring Visitor
The bluebird which is one OF the
first. often the first TO arrive IL spring
from the southland, builds its nest IN
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bird boxes or in crannies about build
ings or in holes in trees. 1t lines the
bottom OF the nest with grasses Tor
The four or five blue-white eggs which
/ it lays. Sometimes more hardy mem
bers of the bluebird tribe will winter
as far North as Southern New Eng
/ land.
One of the champion fly-catchers OF
| the United States is the Wilson warbler
which darts out from the limb OF a
tree and snatches passing insects on
the wing. They also catch insects
which are fitting about or sitting on
The foliage or blossoms of the trees.
The olive green and yellow piumage
of this bird monies with the green
leaves of the trees. This bird winters
in Central America.
Different Ways or Catching Insects
Birds are provided by nature with
different kinds of mplements-bills.
tongues and so forth-depending on
where and how they hunt out their
insect and other food. Some people
used to have the mistaken idea that
woodpeckers injured trees by pecklnE
holes in them. But the woodpecker
was only digging away to find the
larva or bugs hidden under the bark;
or If he was doing anything else it was
merely TO make a nest for his little
family in the decayed hollow of some
limb.
"The group of insect-eating birds
is large and varied. for there are many
kinds of insects and many ways OF
securing them" according to DR.. A. a.
Allen, assistant professor of ornithol-
ogy in Cornell University. Some in
sects live in the soft mud about shores
and marshes and for these the birds
must probe: some live among the
leaves and harder soil of the forest
floor. and for these the birds must
scratch. Others live in the trunks and
branches Of trees and in order to Sc
cure them the birds must be proficen;
carpenters and supplied with chiseis
for gouginC. Still other insects spend