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The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
Out of Use,

There are quite a. number of al
luminum round checks in circula-
ton in Iuka in denomination of
from bets to $l.00, with my name
upon them, which have not been
used for years and are NO GOOD
NOW. Do not bring til EN- to the
store. w. S. BROWN.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
Iukian Wins Medal.

Mr., Cecil Moser, of Iuka won
the medal for highest scholarship
in mathematics at the University of
Mississippi. He also lead the
school in physics. This is quite an
honor and we congratulate our
young friend and wish him con-
tinued success. Had the ususl Gus
tom been followed Mr.. Moser Would
have won two medals, but no medal
was offered for physics this year.
New Goods arriving daily at Reid
Brothers Spot Cash Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Montgomery
of Tuscumbia, are guests of Mrs.
C. L. Pace near Tishomingo.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
Picnic at Hollis Spur, Miss.

Saturday July 10Th. 1919. All
the State, County and District can
didates are invited and there will
be some good speaking, you bet.
Everybody invited to come and
bring well filled baskets. There
will be refreshments on the ground.
Come one, come all and bring
somebody with you. Committee
j. K. Epperson, Sr., J. e. Epperson,
Jr., r. Quinn.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
Radcliffe GhaAtauqua Dates
For luka.

The dates for the Chautauqua are
August sth, 9th and 18th. The
programs for these days will be
entertaining and instructive. The
Chautauqua will be held in the
Spring Park. Make your arrange
ments now to come and bring your
families, Further notices will ap.
pear in The Vidette.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26

pear III Ac iuCtics
We are proud OF the confidence
doctors, druggists and the public
have in 666 Chill and Fever Tonic.
Friends of Miss Mary Massey, who
has been at Chihuaua, Mexico, and
in danger from Villa bandits will
be glad to know that she is now at
tending the Centenary meeting at
Columbus, Ohio, and her grand
mother, Mrs. Hammerly is expect
ing her in Iuka in a short while.
We carry full supply of needles,
oil, shuttles and belts. Singer Sew
ing Machine Co., Corinth, Miss.
Do we want your produce? Yesl
Viii we pay you the highest price?
certainly! MASSEY Bros.
Groceries will not be cheaper.
They may be higher. Now is the
time to buy. We have what you
want Haynes Grocery Co.,
Phone Ill.
Mrs. M. III. Wells and daughter,
Mamie Hammerly, of Grand June
ton, Tenn, whoshave been visiting
her mother, Mrs. G. P. Hammerly
have returned home.
Rub-My-Tism is great pain kill
er, Ii relieves pain and soreness
caused by Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Sprains, etc.
Labor is high and so is the grass.
In order to farm successfully you
must have Good supplements to
farm with. We have them. Can
make you special price ON Deering
Moving Machines and Steel Rakes.
J. G. Jourdan Mercantile Co.
FOR SALE-19S acres of land.
About thirty-fve acres in cultiva-
ton. School House right on place.
This farm is on public road. Two
dwelling houses. Terms, "a cash,
balance /, 2 and 3 years, at 6 pei
cent. G. b. MASSEY. (42-2t
Clyde M. Conner, Carpenter and
Builder; Job and repair work q
speciality. Iuka, Route 3.
When food gives you distress you
need dose OF Prickly Ash Bitters
to relieve the aAraad help di
gestion. II is a mans remedy fol
the liver and bowels. Price $1.25
per bottle. j. G. Jourdan's Drug
Store, Special Agent.
Now is the time for Improved
Farm Machinery. We can save YOU
money on Deering Moving Ma
chimes and Steel Rakes.
]. G. Jourdan Mercantile Co.
666 has proven it will cure Ma
laria, Chills and. Fever, Bilious Fe
yer, Colds and Ladrippe, 1t kill
the germs that cause the fever
Fine Tonic. :
When in need Of Sewing Ma
chine, call or write Singer SEWN,
Machine Co., 406 franklin st
@Corinth Miss.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
Fruit Jars.

Glass Tops and all. Sanitary.
Last life time. Cheap price.
FARMERS WARE HOUSE,
Il. NJ. MCDONALD.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
Notice.

If you are interested in making
the Park a clean and respectable
place during this summer, come
with broom or a rake, shovel
wheelbarow or lawn mower and
meet us EVERY Friday morning
for two or three hours, in the Park,
and help us work-which way is our
only hope for keeping it clean and
presentable for home people as we'll
as for visitors. Even MEN and
BOYS will be permitted to work
should they come.
PARK COMMITTEE.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1919-06-26
NOTIcE

Notice is hereby given that the
County School Board will meet in
my office on Monday, July the Eth,
TO attend 70 such business as may
come before it.
n. L. PHILLIPS,
Al 3t) Co. Sup't of Education,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
MR.. WILSON'S PERSONALITY.

ST. Paul Pioneer Press: President
Wilson'S is not personality that
appeals to the crowd. So much was
perfectly manifest yesterday during
the presidents visit in st. Paul.
There was certain interest in his
presence, but absolutely nothing re-
motely approaching enthusiasm. And
yet Mr.. Wilson is not only the presi-
dent Of the United States, but UNI
doubtedly the best advertised indi-
vidual in the whole woridl
Those who regard the GOODNESS
with which our public received Mr..
Wilson yesterday as political omen
are not, however, wholly correct.
Mr.. Wilson's course, politically speak
ing, has not been popular, but 1t is
doubtful If crowds,
especially in the case of the presi.
dent of the United States, think very
much about partisan politics upon
the occasion of presidential visit.
They think good deal more about
the personality Of the president, and
it Is clearly evident that Mr.. Wilson
does not make the sort of popular
appeal which used to throng our
streets and set our crowds wild with
enthusiasm when the rate Colonel
Roosevelt visited among US. The
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
The President at Sioux Falls.

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: South
Dakota congratulates itself upon it's
good fortune in having heard the
chief executive of the greatest nation
on earth. personally give HIS version
OF the work of SO monlentous a task
as the German treaty. His talk was
studious, masterful, at times per
suasive. His audience understood
perfectly that the president was
speaking of and in an epochaI period
OF the worlds history. Where he
enunciated those idears OF America
which all true Americans can and do
freely accept. they appfauded him
vigorously. Where he fatty asserted
that the treaty must be accepted In
its entirety With the alternative of
world war, they greeted the state
ment with a profound but respectful
silence. They seemed to realize that
they We're listening to a remarkable
man who spoke wonderfully wen
chosen words, but President Wilson
could never expect to evoke rhe
tumultous enthusiasm that was in
variably given his predecessor in
office. No Rooseveltian fervor was
anywhere apparent, yet there can be
but few who would doubt the deem
sincerity OF the man who faced them
last evening, never pleading but ex.
pounding document that must in
any event take its place in history
as one OF the greatest ideas OF the
world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
A. NATIVE OF KEOKUK.
Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 13.
After Our Guarantee.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
The following incident may throw
some light upon the cause of the
advocacy of the projected league of
nations which Is so pronounced in
influential financial circres. l relate
it precisely as 1T occurred.
Early last May there called upon
me at my Office Mr.. ]. j. O'Neill,
whose engraved card described him
as London manager Of the Manches-
ter Guardian OF Manchester, Eng
land. Mr.. O'Neiil, who was a stran-
ger to me, immediately introduced
the subject OF the league of nations
and took me to task because OF my
opposition to that project. Upon in
curing OF him why an Englishman
should be in this country instructing
an American In The latter's national
duty. and receiving no clear answer,
asked him bluntly what was the
actual purpose of his visit to the
United States. He replied that he
was here upon a mission connected
with the internationallzatfon Of the
war debt. / asked him If he meant
me to understand that he was here
upon the business of inducing the
United States to guarantee the war
debt OF the nations recently at war.
including that of Great Britain, and
that of Germany. He said that he
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
Should We Vote Bonds?

To the Editor of The Gate City:
The only way to Judge the future is
by the past. For many years strangers
have visited Keokuk thinking of locat.
ing and investing here, but after learn
ing the high assessment. high rate OF
taxation, and amount of our bonded
debt, have gone elsewhere. What Keo.
kuk needs most are more factories,
more people, more neat little homes,
more country trade, and modern
dock TO change freight from cars to
harges, and the reverse. Also more
tenants to buy homes. A larger debt
and the higher taxation necessary will
not tend to supply any Of the above
needs. Two hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars at five per cent. for
forty years amounts to S675, 900, or
SIS for each woman, man, and child in
$4,000 population. Those who do not
pay their share directly in taxes will
lose something by paying more for
what they buy, getting less for their
labor, or lower wages. Therefore we
firmly believe that for the good Of
Keokuk and its citizens everyone
should vote no"
A. NATIVE OF KEOKUK.
Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 13.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor;
nothing is ever to be attained without it
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
DANGERS FROM WOOD ALCOHOL.

The National Committee for the Prevention
of Blindness issues circular in which some
startling facts are set forth regarding the IN
crease in the cases of blindness due to the use
Of wood alcohol as beverage since the prohi-
bition law was passed. Resort to ill-advised at
tempts to find substitute for alcoholic drinks
was to be expected; and where ignorance of
the character and danger of wood alcohol and
denatured alcohol exists their use is not far
from a looked-for consequence The wood al
cohol used in this country is obtained chiefly
from the destructive distillation of wood. For
merly it was Of dark color and had a distinct
and diagreeable odor, but these deterrent quail
tiles have been refined away by modern methods
and the present product closely resembles grain
alcohol. Wood alcohol and denatured alcohol,
which is a combination of wood and grain pro-
ducts, are required by law to be marked ''poi-
son. and there is no allegation that this mark
ing is not done But people evidently are dis
regarding the label and using these dangerous
products to drink One teaspoonful of wood
alcohol taken internally is sufficient to cause
total blindness and larger quantity may easily
become fatal Here is a menace deserving Of
the fullest publicity in order that the public
may be warned.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
AN UNFORTUNATE DEBATE

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Re-
porters accompanying President
Wilson on his trip through the
country say that he has large
audiences and they seem to be
attentive and sympathetic. But
on the streets of Omaha and
other cities visited the enthusi-
asm is very mild. The people do
not seem to be much interested.
This is one side of the picture.
There are others.
Wednesday evening in Chicago
Senators Borah, Johnson and
Mccormick were scheduled to
speak. The great hall in which
their meeting was held would
not accommodate the people who
wanted to get in. Overflow
meetings had to be held to sat
isfy the crowd. The reports in
dicate tremendous interest and
enthusiasm.
responsibility to humanity. He
insists that we shall take part
in the settlement of European
disputes for the benefit OF hui
manity. These senators talk
about responsibility TO America
and insist that we shall keep en-
tirely away from European quar-
rels.
Each disputant in this debate
can get crowd of supporters in
most any part of the country
where there are enough people
to make two crowds.
This situation presents many
queer angles. The disputants
have changed positions on two
lines. Twenty years ago demo-
Gratis were fighting the imperial
istic tendencies OF the repub-
licans. The republicans were
contendfng that we must assume
responsibility in the Philippines.
The democrats wanted us to
wash our hands of all RESPONSE
bility in this direction.
We moved forward fifteen
years on these lines. True to
democratic tendencies, President
Wilson wanted to grant indie
pendence to the Philippines. He
proposed to get out and was
moving in that direction.
Then war broke out in Europe.
Americans were largely in SYM
pathy with the allied forces. But
Germany had friends In this
country. They were a minority,
but they were here. Republicans
like Roosevelt wanted America
to get ready for emergencies.
Wilson said this would be wrong.
He insisted that it would anger
other peoples, foster the mill
tarisuc spirit and might get us
into trouble After the Ilusitania
was sunk many of our people felt
that America should not hesitate
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
Queer Hotel Manaaemen4

Cedar Rapids Republican: The Fort
Des Moines hotel in the city of Des
Eoines certainly pulled a quer thing
on the president Of the United States
when its management conspired with
a newspaper to admit lady repor
ter" as waitress in order that she
might spy on the private lives Of The
guests Of the city and tell in detail
how they slipped their soup down. If
a reporter may be SO slipped in, why
not lady with bomb" In some
other city? No, 1t was not square on
the part of the hotel to do such a
thing, one wonders how they con-
scented to it. So far as the newspaper
end of 1t is concerned, they do l,ut
have conscienccs when ii comes TO
getting what is called :. scoop, 80 II is
no use blaming them
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
TODAY'S Bill OF VERSE
AS | CAME DOWN FROM LEBANON.

AS | came down from Lebanon,
Came winding, wandering slowly down
Through mountain passes bleak and brown,
The cloudless day was weli-nigh done.
The city like opal set
In emerald showed each minaret
Afire with radiant beams of sun,
And glistened orange, fig, and lime
Where song-birds made melodious chime,
AS came down from Lebanon.
AS ! down from Lebanon
Through olive orchards far below
l saw the murmuring river rum
And meath the wall upon the sand
Swart sheiks from distant Samarcand,
With precious spices they had won,
Lay long and languidly in wait
Till they might pass the guarded gate,
AS | came down from Lebanon
AS | came down from Lebanon,
l saw strange men from lands afar,
In mosque and square end gay bazaar,
The Magi that the Moslem shun,
And grave Efend from STEAMBOAT.
AS come down from Lebanon,
The flaming flower OF daytime died.
And Night, in garments spun
OF purple and the finest gold,
OutbIoomed in glorious manifold,
Until the moon, above the dun
And darkening desert, void of shade,
Shone like keen Damascus blade,
AS / come down from Lebanon,
Clinton Scotland
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
A MILLION FOR THE LEGION.

The American Legion has started cam
paign to increase it's membership to a million.
1t ought to succeed and it is in the joint inter-
est Of the organization and the nation that 1t
should succeed. The value of the Legion is IN
its perpetuation of the bond forged between the
approximately four million men who served the
nation in the war. The bond will be the closer
the more completely the whole body OF service
men is included in the membership. The Lee
gion now has four hundred thousand members
and its campaign is being conducted on the
each man get man. plan. This body can
be strong influence for unity of thought and
motive; it can promote to good results the ml-
tual understanding of the various sections OF
the country and of the many classes of its peo-
pie The public should wish the Legion we'll in
its membership drive and the friends of our
war men should support their effort to make
the organization truly representative of the war
service body.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15

longer, but should go in on the
side of the allies. German pur-
pose to dominate the earth was
then clear to most people. Still
Mr.. Wilson counseled a do moth
ing policy. Then the election
came on and he was reelected
solely on the ground that ''he
has kept us out of the war"
Now the contending political
elements in this country have
completely shifted positions. We
went into the war as Roosevelt
all along insisted that we should.
Wilson shifted his position on
that line. Now we hear no more
about independence for the Phil
ippines. Now everything is
league of nations" Again Mr..
Wilson has shifted his position.
Unless we are much mistaken.
1t will develop that the president
has made mistake in opening
this debate to the whole coun-
try. There is lot of selfishnes
in this country. Wilson was its
beneficiary politically when he
was reelected president because
he kept us out Of the war"
Now Mr.. Wilson has big idea.
He wants America to assume all
kinds of responsibility. And he
has been so arbitrary In his
methods and so insistent on be-
ing the whole thing himself that
he has set great many people
strongly against, not only him
self, but against his policies. And
1t all SINNERS itself down to this
point: If Wilson was elected
president because he kept us
out Of war, can he be successful
as party leader supporting a
policy which will keep us In
volved in European political
struggles? If our people voted
to keep out of the war, will they
not vote in like manner to stay
out of Europe?
This debate is unfortunate in
many ways. We were entirely
justified IN entering the war.
We should now and in future CO.
operate with Europe in promot-
ing the common welfare. In his
unwise effort to make himself.
an outstanding figure in history
Mr.. Wilson Is endangering a
wise and progressive policy on
the part Of this country. He
could have secured ratification
OF the treaty with only slight
notifications If he had been will
Ing to yield something. But he
would yield nothing. He was
going over the heads of the SEN
ate. He would pound them into
submission.
How far will he get In this
direction after his chief oppo-
nents hold few more meetings
like the one in Chicago?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS.

Lord Finlay, former lord high chancellor,
who is now in this country a representative
of the British Bar association, gave once from
the bench his idea of how far professional
ethics permitted a lawyer to go in defense of a
client whom he knew to be guilty of the offense
charged In brief, the chancellor declared
that it was ''most undesirable for an advocate
to whom the client had confessed his guilt to
undertake the defense Where, however, the
confession is not made until after the proceed
ings are in progress, the advocate is not re-
leased from his duty to do all for his client that
he honestly can. But he may not assert what
he knows to be a lie, or connive at or attempt to
s,ibstantiate fraud. 1t would be wrong for him
to suggest that some other person had commit
ted the offense, or to call evidence to establish
an alibi which he knew to be false
There are American lawyers quite as scrupu-
lous in such matters as Lord Finlay would have
been, but the general belief and understanding
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15

colonel had just as many political
opponents as Mr.. Wlson-but per-
sonally he was quite a different in
diyidual. Yesterdays crowds-if the
number of people who watched Mr..
Wilson as he moved about the city
can be SO .designated-were respect
full but entirely lacking In enthusi-
asm. The people watched him curl
ously and silently as he passed, then
turned on their heels and went about
their business. Their pulses had not
been quickened a single beat, nor
had their emotions been stirred in
the slightest.
Mr.. Wilson is great figure in ma
tional and international affairs. but
he is most certainly not great popu.
lar leader.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15

was! I told him that he would Cd
little sentiment in this country favd
able to such a project. This seemd
to surprise him; he said that l va
the first American he had met vi
did not favor 1t. l then asked ht
whom he had seen, and he repld
that upon the previous day he h1
seen Mr. j. P. Morgan, and that "
Morgan had expressed himself l
being in favor OF the plan.
Whether this was or was no,
correct statement OF Mr.. Morgan
position / have no means of knowini
But 1t might be valuable at this TIM
to inquire publicly what plans, II al
are afoot to induce Europe's pr
posed new partner-the United Stat
Ito assume the obligations of y
financially hard-hit members Of D
projected co-partnership, VINO q
about to open the business OF poole
their troubles under the title of
league of nations.
HENRY A. WISE WOOD y
New York. Sept. 10, 1919.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15

is that they are honorable exceptions to the rule.
Here, as no doubt in England also, there are
lawyers who are less constrained by profess
sional ethics than are the criminals they de-
fend; and it seems strange that local bar asso-
Citations do not, for the honor Of the profession,
get them disbarred more often than they do.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume
responsibility for views expressed by
correspondents. Writer'S Of communi-
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. but
for the information of the editor.]
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-15

Sycamore is one Of the most dur
able OF woods. In the Gizeh museum
at Cairo Is sycamore statue carved
more than six thousand years ago.
The wood is sound and natural in