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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

WANTED-A girl. one that win &c
home nights. Enquire 226 Concert.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

FOR RENT-so acres pasture near
! Argyle, in section 26. McCutchaa
| Land Company.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

FOR SALE-Cheap, Maxwell touring
car; electric lights and starter; also
Ford touring car. 1906 Exchange
Red 1870.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

to work half days.
Mcfarland Paper Co.. 52l-625 John
son street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

WANTED loan money on furni-
ture. pianos, live stock, etc., on
easy payments. Strictly private.
Keokuk Loan Co., over Miller's shoe
store.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

the Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
WANTED

Misunderstanding for millinery
Good salary to right party. Address
G., care Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

WANTED-At once, 10000 dull salety
razor blades to sharpen at wood
burys. 1104 Main street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

LOWITZ DEPT. STORE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

It would help some 1T, when you turn over new leaf, yop would put good heavy paper weight on it.
 Add Fairy Tales: once upon a time there was a woman w~- made up her mind to do a thing at 10 o'clock and at 10:10 had not changed her mind.
 We'll say one thing for the See More skirt. It gives you pretty good line on how girl would look in bathing suit.
 No matter how lons you attend the School of Experience you will discover that there is always a little more to learn
 The young fellow wnv regards mar riage as joke soon discovers that the joke is on him.
 Half the world soon discovered how the other half lived as soon as half the world realized that is was none of its business how the other half lived. mans will has no operation until he is dead. But his wire's will takes effect as soon as she Is married. The reason a seventeen-year-o old girl marries seventy-year-old man for Love and not for money is because flour sitter hasen't Any hoies in it. Why is it that old age never respect ed if it gets bald before It's gets gray? No matter how dump married man may be it doesn't take him long to dis cover who is boss. Do not try to fuss and bully your way through life. Napoleon. lawn L. Sul- livan and the Kaiser finally met some one who could whip them. And so will you.
 Why it is that you have to whip a small boy to keep him from going swimming and have to whip him to make him take bathi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11

there has been anything in the more ex- pensive output of recent years that could rival the thrill of the old dime novel? Many a luridly covered "Beadle" was better in dramatic construction, more skilful in plot, than its N.l5 successor, and no less respectable in it's English
 Has anything whatever happened to decrease the normal audience for an Au- gusta J. Evans story? Are not the mag azines full of precisely the same mush, changed merely in the form of it's ser- vice? Possibly the pessimistic critics fail to realize that there has always been (and perhaps always will be) what may be called an esoteric and a general aud fence, and that the dividing lines have not shifted materially Howells, Henry James, Aldrich-these never, appealed to the Laura Jean Libby millions.
 If there has been any real change it is in the public which used to regard Ouida as its prophecies. This class feeds today upon a more highly spiced diet things that go as far as the law will let them toward salacity. It is not an improvement, either in morals or taste, But we refuse to moan because of the proved vitality of our old friend Nick Carter" or lie awake nights worrying about the vogue of "The Beautiful Cloak Model"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
VITALITY OF NICK CARTER

From the New York Evening Sune. C0G1HE recrudescence of the Nick Car
 ter" books, and the publishers s
 happy announcement of the need of new editions, has brought forth com ment, most of it pessimistic, from many point to similar rejuvenescence of the works of the once widely popular Laura Jean Libby, Bertha M. Clay Mrs E. D. E. N. Southworth and Augusta J. Evans Nick Carter" says the Chris tian Science Monitor, had become a type of the detective hero for juvenile readers; the others have become useful names for the critic of literature when he wishes to suggest comparison with popular but rather unsophisticated fic- tion."
 But, have they ever really been in abeyance? Is it not, rather, that a new generation has come along in sufficient number to call for more and fresh copies? The old ones, passed tenderly from hand to hand, have literally been read to pieces. It is merely a case of supply hastening to catch up with a normal demand. The human boy of any age from to 70 hasn't changed very much His taste is about the same. to- day as it was in the '70s when these books began to flourish.
 And may we not ask, diffidently, if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
 DOG HAS FEELINGS

Vancouver, Wast.-That there might be circumstances when even a dog could be justified in using direct action in the defense of his person was the substance or an opinion of w. S. T. Derr, justice of the peace, in deciding the case against c. Cady for harboring vicious dog. The complaint against Cady was filed by Andy Johnson, who charged the dog had bitten his boy The boy testified he had done nothing to aggravate the dog. and that the canine was not justified in his retaliatory methods. In rendering his decision, Judge Derr said: "A dog remem- bers grievance all his life If he is abused he wifi always remember the man that abused him. I am satisfied the dog bit the boy, but probably the dog was justified. Even dogs have feelings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
Opposed to Amendments

'"The good roads bill should certain ly be passed by the legislature when it comes up," said E. B. Irwin, presi- dent of the Birmingham Civic associa- ton, flor this is Alabamas opportun- ity to secure federal aid. We do no. want the bill amended as several of the friends of the movement seem to think will be better, as we want the roads of Alabama to be connected, and to be the very best we can build. If the appropriation Is divided equally among the various counties there will be different kinds of roads all over the state and it is probable that some will be good and some bad. It is up to Birmingham to get together and use every effort to have this bill 80 through"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
Birmingham Men in Hawaii

T just had letter from Dr. Burr Ferguson, who was in Honolulu at the time he wrote," said Sol Caheen
 He said that he had met Judge James s. Banks there. l was also in terested to hear that he had met an other former well-known Birmingham man, Bert G. Coven Everyone in Bir- mingham will remember Bert who was leading photographer for many years pr. Ferguson said Bert has a sugar and pineapple plantation near Honolulu and took him out in his car to see it. There are few places in the world man can go that he will not come across Birmingham people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
The League of Nations
 and a Little Ornithology

SSWE'vE got to ts.sibsr. be either provin, '9yil. got to be either ostriches or eagles" said President Wilson at Minneapolis.
 In a striking metaphor the Presi- dent has pictured the future status of American people. But even though we should stay out of the league of nations, leave our allies to work out their own destiny and the rest of Eu- rope to go to pot, as now seems more than likely, could we escape respon- sibility, to paraphrase MT. Wilson, by submerging our thinking apparatus in the sand?
 When war was declared on Germany this government took an irrevocable step. We can never again be as we were before this momentous decision. Events, quite apart from the war, were gradually making our "splendid isolation" hardly more than a political term. With our entrance into the war we threw in our lot with the en- frightened nations of Europe to stand or fall. Now that a victory has been won, we must still hold together to secure the advantages won on bloody |battlefields.
 Casting aside ideals, the dictates of humanity and our sense of duty, self lishness would demand that we enter the league of nations. Our economic future depends on it and the very ex- listence of the state itself. Inside the league we could, as Mr. Wilson says, be if not the senior partner, at east an equal partner in a society of na- tions banded together for self-protec- tion and common advancement; out side the league, we should have to go armed to the teeth, we would be a lpariah among nations and we should not have long to wait for the inevi.a- lble attack that would plunge us into worse war than any we have ever experienced before.
 The ostrich is a fool. We all know
 what happens to him when he hides his head in the sand, thinking thus
 to escape detection or avoid pursuit lThe eagle-not the Prussian species = lis the noblest of birds. Let us be eagles and not ostriches:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
HIGH COST OF SPENDING

with what facility the government could produce cents in revenue, promptly went the government cents better, adding a nickle.
 Root beer, near relative of pop. sells at from to 10 cents a glass; and this in spite of advertisements which urge the people to make their own root beer at the rate or eighty glasses or there abouts for quarter
 But it is not alone the soda fountain which engages our attention. It is only that the soda fountain is in such an exposed position. The purchaser is able to see that his drink is made from a spoonful of sirup and glassful of water; perhaps little ice cream; may hap cherry ito give it class" tho price ranges from IT cents to 40 cents.
 Are we doing anything to mako better bargain or are we simply ac-' cepting the blind dictu,n that prices have gone up' and therefore we must pay whatever is demanded? Is it pos- sible that pop and ice cream would stay up in the air very long if we took a turn at the water faucet for a spell? And if we did patronize tho faucet would our lives be less pleasureable? Would we suffer as from lack of an absolute essential?
 Suppose we try to get into the mood of essentialism; deternine to cut down the luxuries, or rather, the nonessen- tials. Does it not seem probable that we might cultivate a better use of the things we really need?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11

If certain charges made against the packers are ture, they will have to pay out a considerable sum for the transportation and hotel acccmmoda- tion of favorable witnesses
 % * < Even if we hadn't known it before, reading von Ludendorrrs memoirs would have convinced us that he used to be a person of considerable im- portance in Germany
 < < # The quality of "moonshine" is not strained. It has a kick" comparable to that of dynamite and rarely if ever disappoints. N. B. rnis is not an advertisement.
 % # # We'll just have to overlook the fact that. Gen. Pershing violated army re- gulations by wearing ms Sam Browne belt after reaching tnis country.
 < # + VI Nv Jtoi W illidfn ; Bryan has been trying not to- look self-conscious when the presidency is mentioned.
 If everybody would do without luxu- ries, the high cost UT living would soon take tumble, But who's going to make the first move?
 F x # In retiring to private life MT. Hoover will have the satisfaction of knowing that he has filled more empty stomachs than any other man wno ever lived.
 * * * Had there been no secret treaties in existence the deliberations of the peace conference would have ended sooner and more satisfactorily.
 x ;; T. The recrudescence of "hyphens" in America is merely sign of the times, and was to have been expected but it will nevertheless bear watching.
 >
 The percentage of women who have succeeded in kissing Pershing is still gratifyingly small
 # < x MT. Wilson is trying to find out what little plain speaking will do "out where the west begins"
 # }. < The colored brother should beware of the agitator with bomb. It's nearly always loaded
 E # #
 Cholera, the one thing needed to complete the horror of life in Petro- grad, has made its appearance there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
Shortage of Freight Cars

T have been trying to figure more than 33 per cent of freight cars needed for this district but I can't have any luck" said H. E. Hutchens, chairman of the operating committee of the local railroad administration branch. q find that we now have in the Birmingham district B per cent of the cars needed, but I think that in a month or so we will have about GO per cent of the needed cars. Box cars are becoming more plentiful, but there is still a severe shortage in 'gondolAs' or coal cars. I do not think there is much chance of there being a greater shortage than is now the case here. It was predicted some time ago that there would be shortage in the fall but I do not see any evidence of it now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11

 religion.
 THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SEA By James Whitcomb Riley.
 O the South Wind and the Suns How each loved the orner one Full of fancy-fun Of folly
 Full of jollity and fun!
 How they romped and ran about Like two boys when school is out, With glowing face, and lisping lip, Low laugh, and lifted shout! And the South Wind-he was dressed With ribbon round his breast That floated, Tapped and futtered In a riotous unrest,
 And a drapery of miss
 From the shoulder and the wrist Flowing backward with the motion < Of the waving hand ne kissed
 And the Sun had on a crown
 Wrought of gilded thistle-down. And scarf of velvet ~apor And raveled-rainbow gown. And his tinsel-tangleo hair. Tossed and lost upon the air, Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere. And the South Winds eyes were Little dancing drops of dew As he puffed his cheeks, and purseds his lips, And blew and blew and blew. And the Sun's-like diamond stone, Brighter yet than ever known, As he knit his brows and held his breath, And shone and shons and shone. And this pair of merry rays Wandered through the summer days; Arm in arm they went together | Over heights of morning. haze Over slanting slope sof lawn
 Then went on and on and on, Where the daisies look like star-trackse
 Trailing up and down the dawn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11

ized Labor, Its Problems, Purposes and Ideals" and "The Wage Farmer and His Problems"
 He was ever remarked for his sin cerity. No matter how much capital might have differed with his premises and conclusions all admitted that he was honest and convincing in his academic style.
 The country is the poorer for the passing of John Mitchell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
MILLER STILL "TOTES SKILLET"

From the Birmingham Ledger.
 Lieut.. Gov. Nathan l.. Miller has been roundly criticised by administra- tion forces because he appointed OH the conference committee having in charge the revenue bill majority un- favorable to the administration view- point on that bill. The Anniston Star. fin the course of half-column edi- torial. says:
 There has been something in the behavior of the lieutenant governor with reference to his attitude on tie revenue bill that smaeked very strons~ the administration forces generally He owes his election to the friends ot the administration"
 The state of Alabama is to be con- graduated on having a presiding of fcer in the senate who traces back pie who gave him the votes placing him there and does not take orders in matters concerning the public veal not on the calendar of prediction pledges.
 The lieutenant governor does not owe his election to friends of the ad- ministration." Instead of being a tall to the kite. he received twice the ma jority accorded Governor kilby. the Miller majority over Nesmith being 7967. while that of Kilby over Brandon was only 34o4.
 In Jefferson county, in spite of the fact that MT. Nesmith was also a local man. MT. Miller received majority ot S25, while the Brandon majority over Kilby was 1591.
 The lieutenant governor appears to have "toted his own skillet" in the primary That being the case, there is no valid reason why he should not continue to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
IDEALS AND THE CITIZEN

IDEALS AND THE CITIZEN Dr. Charles A. Eaton, in Leslie's. An ideal is simply an ideal clothed
 with life It is mind plus morals; laws imbued by lowe. Sentiment is not idealism. It is rather state
 of feeling evoked by an idea or
 an experience, or dth. Sentiment
 tality is imitation sentiment. It bease no relation to an idea, nor does it grow out of any>reai experience. IL is form of inebriety, and betokens feeble or empty intellect and super ficial experience.
 Carlyle propounded a poser when nc ' asked how, given world or hnaVes' to construct an honest society" But the thing is being done every day Each man is two men; the man he really is and the ideal man ho would like to he No man seems able to realize fully for and in himself his ideal. but each one measures and judges all other men hy his ideal rather than his real 1 self. Thus I am always holding my 1 neighbor up to conf 'rmity with my 1 ideals and he is always holdlng me 1 to conformity with his ideal. We may | be easy in our judgment of ourselves,
 but we will always be hard enough in | judgment upon each other. And thus | it happens that public opinion and 1 public ideals are often far above and 1 in advance of any individual, and this | is why ideals and idealism constitute always the hope and forward moving l impulse of both men and nations.
 l If all this is true It follows that | a man must have ideals IT he is to be
 a good citizen, or a good man. And
 his ideals must be developed away 1 from the fog of sentimentality, or 1 they will land him in futility and ruin.
 And while we are at It we had better nail down the fact that true social and political ideals of wor.n and value can only be achieved vy first-hand
 knowledge of history, by corrective
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
A PUSH-CART ECONOMIST

From the New York World.
 The push-cart peddled, seventy-eight years old, who has jus, bought a $1 900 thrift stamps he had laborously accum- ulated since December 1917, is tenn porarily a local celebrity Other men, indeed make s1,000,00o subscriptions to Liberty loans and attract less att tention. But does not the peddler de- serve his greater pub1,cfty? To make the small stock of push-cart yield s1,o00 in savings owe. and above the owners living expenses in less than
 two years and to be able to exhibit the tangible evidence of the feat in the
 form of crisp treasury certificate
 is an example of thrift worth public commendation.
 Everybody will extoi the humble push -cart financier All who complain
 of the cost of living and decry the
 high prices of shoes and clothes and cabarets and hotel dinnvrs, and grum- ble but pay rather than deny them selves the best, will praise his thrift. put dS to eInulallnS II, that IS another | matter. Economy Is disagreeable thing, and what is money for but to spend? Let peddlers we-r old clothes
 and stint themselves to save, but why should free-born Americans take the trouble? Costly thy habit as thy
 purse can buy" even m time of scar
 city. Polonius is the prophet of easy money folk; leave economy and thrift stamps to others.
 Ben Franklin would have approved of this peddler. Mo-. of those who praise him will forget him tomorrow | Yet none of the economists in high places has sounder theory for com batingl the high cost of living, and all | the price-fixing and government regu- lation will not accomplish to that end
 as much as might be accomplished if all people would follow the peddler s example of thrift even Tn small part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 WN 7 HEN, in consideration of the
 WV continuing demand md. for in,
 creased wages, a split banana mounted with a delicate spheroid of cream, surmounted b, cherry. and sprinkled with crushed nuts, sells for 90 or 40 cents, is there not something to be said on the subject of the high cost of spending?
 Ten cent pop may be an aggravation, but what think> you. neighbor Of the 40 cent soda fountain connection as necessity of life?
 It may be question as to how far the parallel of money spending and wage demanding extends. But it seems a fair question 70 ask: How
 much money are we spending need lessly? And may it be asked: Are we really in want of the necessaries. or is it the luxuries and the money spent for them that leaves tne hole on our resources?
 An ice cream soda is not a great luxury But the price of ice cream sodas begins to approximate the price 1 of luxuries Two or three years ago l it was customary to pay 5 cents for a | generous dip of ice cream floating in
 bath of fizz water. Now the same preparation fetches IT cents. Of course
 this includes cents war tax; but the
 war tax was applied on the basis of a 10 cent drink. The dealers, not to be outdone in increasing. and perceiving g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
NOTHING GAINED.

Its a mistake to marry for spite remarked the frayed pn.iosopher.
 "You arc certainly right about that" said MT. Gadspur. Mine times out of ten you don't spite anybody but certing to marry in that frame of mind. only to discover that the person you hoped to spite is still taking nourish- ment three times day, going to the movies and enjoying life just as if you had never been born.''
 PATTI. COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
NO PRIVACY.

Do you remember your boyhood on the farm when you'd spend a rainy day reading dime novels in the barn?"
 Nc" replied the man who was born in a city. Some people have all the luck. There wasn't a place in the flat called home where I could read literature of that kind without being caught and thrashed, and if I sneaked away to a park bench every grownup was reading snickered in superior sort of way that left me with clinched fists and a yearning commit mur- der"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
x # # Boston Helpless When Police Go On Strike

e TORIES footed, gambling in the ~ streets and numerous attacks on women are some of the more fragrant forms of disorder which followed the police strike in Boston. The inhabi- tants of one of Americas largest and most cultured cities were left at the Smercy of thugs and criminals. The men who turned in their pistols, badges and batons and walked out were sworn to maintain ordeB to up- hold the law, to arrest the guilty and protect the innocent, but evidently no sense of responsibility deterred them.
 Police strikes in America and abroad, are one of the most extraordi- nary manifestations of the universal unrest growing out of the war. Lon- 1on's police strike was failure. The outcome of Boston's strike remains to be seen. Police in various parts of the country are reported to be either or ganizing or desirous of affiliating with union labor. Among other cities, an effort has been made to unionize the police force of Washington. There has been talk of trying the same thing here in Birmingham.
 As one scans the headlines of news papers from day to day, he cannot fail to be impressed by the prevalence of strike fever throughout the country. One would think that every worker in 3 position to do so is either just re- turning to his job after a successful strike, carrying on one at the present moment, or threatening to strike in the immediate future. It is all part, no doubt, of the flux in which practi- cally the whole world now finds itself.
 Nothing is of more vital importance than the quick stabilization of condi- tions in America and Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-11
ANYBoDYs BUT HER OWN.

Didn't you say nothing appealed to Mrs. F'ribble like home?" - q did"
 The idea of making statement like that! Why, she's a confirmed gad- about"
 Quite true. She has mania for seeing inside other peoples homes al frequent intervals"