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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
THE SUGAR SPECTATORS.

Ottumwa Courier: Ordinarily, the
refiners sell sugar to jobbers through
brokers in a single transaction. but
spectators have obtained such grip
on this market that great quantities
of sugar are cornered and the price
is being run higher by the taking Of
successive profits by successive specu-
lators. s..
When a single firm of brokers can
offer dozen or more lots Of specula-
tive sugar, aggregating score of mil
lions of pounds, at prices varying
from % cents TO 20 cents, 1t would
seem to the layman that that broker
age firm apd the principals for whom
it is acting are guilty of conspiracy
in restraint of trade. If such con-
spiracy did not exist they could not
have pyramided prices as they have,
for the refners are offering the sugar
they have available for sale at II and
10 cents. AT least one beet sugar con-
Germ in the west is quoting IL cents
for the sugar it is able 60 furnish its
jobbers The spectators have built
their corner in restraint Of trade.
Possibly there is no law under which
they can be prosecuted, but If there is
none, one should be enacted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
Why Birds Nest Near Houses.

John Burroughs, in Harper's Maya
zine: What is the real explanation Of
the fact that so many of our birds
nest SO near our dwellings when we
show such unfriendliness when we
come near them? Their apparenl
confidence, on the one hand, contra
diets their suspicion on the other. Is
it because we have here the workings
Of new instinct which has not yet
adjusted itself TO the workings of the
older instinct of solicitude for the
safety of the nest and young? My
own Interpretation is that birds are
not drawn near us by any sense Of
greater security in our vicinity. 1t
is evident from the start that there
is an initial fear of us to be over
come. How, then, could the sense
Of greater safety in our presence
arise? Fear and trust do not spring
from the same root. Hunted animals
pursued by wolves or hounds will at
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
A TAX ON PUBLICITY.

Within a century, in England and continental
Europe, a window tax was a common thing. "A
house was taxed according to the number OF
Its windows Ii the owner or lessee were Will
ing and had the price, he could have his home
well lighted and ventilated and the health OF ms
family protected If the tenant happened tc
be too poor to pay the tax or additional rent
the landlord built in the window to save so
much in internal taxes. The standing OF the oc-
cupant of the house could be told by the number
of windows it contained. If several windows
were built in it was sign Of decadence.
In time the governments discovered that they
were placing premiums upon disease and lgnor-
ance and unsanitary homes, to the ruin OF the
population, and gradually the tax was aban-
doned and sunshine and light and air were freed
from governmental imposition.
1t is proposed to place surtax on advertls-
ing by the American congress IN the year 1871.
1t is another window tax The government
would collect extra taxes upon publicity, upon
enterprise and expansion. The firm that spent
ten thousand dollars in letting the public know
what it had in taking down the bars IN other
words, would have to pay to the government
an impost Of one thousand dollars. Put up the
bars, brick in the windows of publicity or pay
a heavy toll for the privilege of letting the
purchaser know what the seller has to offer. Is
this craftsmanship?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
It's a "sum" Story at That

Philadelphia Ledger: What | really
want to know is, have you heard the
latest "Englishman" story, but par.
entheticaliy speaking as ii were
speaking Of stories what do you
mean in today'S column? Ii a man
knows a good one and tells 1t at din
ner, and then somebody drops in, and
he takes his wife to card party.
and then they stop at a cafe, must
he think up new one for every
bunch they run into?
Well, anyway, the Englishman
heard one something like this: Sol
der back from the war getting a
civilian outfit in a department store.
His wife keeps running around brin g.
ing him a pair of shoes TO look at,
then pair of trousers, then hat
He claps the hat on his head and 1t
comes down over his ears. Says
That's me all over, Mabel"
Next night the Englishman tries Co
repeat It: Soldier back from the
war. you know, getting civilian
clothes. His wife, her names Mabel,
you know, brings him hat and shoes
and things to try on, and he pulls on
a pair of pants lots too big for him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
Making Things Easy for Touts.

Making 1hin9S Easy TOT OUTS.
Manufacturers Record: That choice
association Of parasites who live on
the fat of the land while doing moth
ing to maintain its prosperity must
always be well served, even if the
legitimate business Of the country Is
blockaded and embargoed. The per.
sons who make horse-race gambling
la profession must have a gullible
public from which to take spoils, and
that, no doubt. is why the Pennsyl-
vania and Baltimore &c Ohio railroads
operate special trains to the Havre
de Grace race track. The day the
racing began the railroad strike was
in full swing. so the best the rail
roads could do was to stop regular
trains and hitch to them well-fled
coaches of gambling enthusiasts. But
with strike conditions less acute. the
special trains have been restored.
Horse racing has been called the
sport Of kings 1t might better be
called the sport of fools. 1t is not.
indeed, sport at all. but merely fur
nishes the machinery for organized
gambling Men who never toll get
their living from the races. How?
BY taking money from the innocents,
of course. The more of those who
work for what they get that can be
induced to bet, the greater the profits
of the touts and professionals BY
furnishing a special train service 20
the races the railroads do their share
in ensnaring the victims. IF. ami
mated by a decent respect for the
moral sense Of the country, the rail
roads would be less obliging to The
gambling fraternity. doubtless the
motive power employed in giving the
special service to Havre de Grace
could be better utilized in moving
freight cars and the commerce of the
nation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
ALMOST BLIND AND A CRIPPLE FROM
RHEUMATISM, NUMBER 40 GIVES RELIEF

Read the following unsolicited tes-
timonial from Mrs. w. f. Smith, box
592, Murphysbopo. H.: My daugh-
ter was almost blind with corneitis
inflammation of the eyes) had in
dammatory rheumatism so bad she
had to go on crutches. The doctors
gave her up, SO we tried change OF
climate, but nothing did her any
good. I read an advertisement of
Number 40 For The Blood and de-
cided to try it. After taking the Sec
ond bottle she was much improved,
has now taken five bottles, her eyes
have both cleared and her limbs are
sound and well, and she has not the
least symptoms of the trouble return
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
THE DAVENPORT WAY.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: There was
d time when it was customary in the
interior Of Iowa TO speak with a sheer
of Davenport and the other river
cities. Perhaps some places still
have the habit.
However, it happens occasionally
that the opportunity presents itself,
to remind these critics, of the fact
that something good can come out
of the river towns. And does come.
Thus at Davenport the judge Of the
police court has made rule, that
persons found guilty of speeding are
to be sent to prison. The first time,
they may be excused or they may
escape with a money fine. But when
they are brought up again, there is
no more leniency. And outraged JUS
tice can not be pacif1ed, great
wrong can not be made right, can
not be salved over by mere money.
The second offense means jail sen.
tence.
/ That ought to prove effective. That
ought to cause the maddest of the
!! speeders to stop and consider.
| Put it another way. The discharg
| ing of fire arms in the city limits is
| forbidden. Why? Because 1t endan
gers the lives of citizens. Suppose
that some one was arrested for shoot
ing on the streets of city in Iowa
shooting up the town--and had
been given a fine for that. And then
he was out again the next day OF
another day, repeating the soffense
Would it not seem perfectly natural
that the person so endangering the
! lives of others be locked up?
! And when it gets down to facts
would one not rather be killed by a
gunshot than to be crushed to death
! by a speeding automobile. 1t would
make a much handsomer corpse il
one were put to sleep with bullet
/ And many bullets go astray. but 1t Is
very difficult to dodge speeder who
! is headed in your direction.
i The Davenport way is to be com
mended to other cities and towns. II
should be the Iowa way.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
BURL |NGTON MAN
GAINED 10 POUNDS
Eats Anything He Wants and Is Al
ways Ready For Work Since
Taking TanIac.

Il had about given up all hope of
getting well. but today l am well
man. and have actually gained fifteen
pounds in weight" declared Thomas
Barlow, lilo Agency street, Burling-
ton, Iowa, an employee of the Bur-
lington City Water Co, while relat-
ing his experience with Tanlac
For ten years l had suffered from
stomach trouble. My appetite was
poor, and the little / did manage to
eat never agreed with me. After
every meal my food just lay in my
stomach, turned sour, and quite often
became so badly nauseated I could
worried me a great deal and / could
not do any kind of work that re-
quired STOPPING, for my back panied
me all the time, and if | bent over it
felt like it was coming in two, and
l could hardly straighten up.
l had tried so many different med
icines without getting any benefit
from them | had about come to the
conclusion that there was nothing
that would help me, when luckily
began taking Tanlac. / had taken
only few doses of this wonderful
medicine. however. before l changed
my mind. for commenced improving
right away. | have taken only five
bottles in all, but l have good APP
petite, can eat just anything | want,
and everything agrees with me- My
kidneys never bother me any more,
and the pains have entirely gone out
of my back, SO that / can do any kind
of work, whether it requires STOPPING
or not as good as l ever could. My
improvement has been so great l can
hardly believe it, for, just think,
after suffering for ten long years all
my troubles are gone. l do not be-
lieye anyone has more cause to
praise Tanlac than / have, and / am
always glad to say a good word for
it"
Tanlac is sold in Keokuk by Will
kinson & Co. and the leading drug
gist in every town.--Advertiseme
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
Be not afraid of life Believe that life is
worth living and your belief will help create
the fact-William James
SUMMERS GOSPEL OF FREEDOM

Before lis death a few years since Professor
Sumner, OF Yale university, predicted the des-
parate attack that Is now made representa-
tive government Civil liberty, as he pointed
out, is that set of institutions that guarantees
to every the use of his own faculties for his
own development Socialism does not and can
not do that, hence is foe to liberty; but even
more determined and dangerous enemies are
the classes who would control the state for their
own benefit or the furtherance of their own Pc
culiar ideas. These classes are numerous and
various and seek their ends through Hobbies and
by coercing legislatures. Under the pressure
of one such lobby the president asked law de-
sired by the unions and congress passed it under
the threat Of strike if it refused More lately
another lobby maintained by reformers whose
idea is to police men-that is to say other men
into the kingdom Of Heaven has made law
making bodies putty in its hands. There is no
limit to this process and no end to it in sight
AS Professor Sumner said: 1.-THE reformers
want to get the power Of the state and so to
make other people do what the reformers think
is wise and right to do A and B agree to
spend Sunday in certain way. They get law
passed to make @ spend it their way They de-
termne to be teetotallers and they get a law
passed to make c. teetotalIer for the sake of
il who is likely to drink too much''
Earl Chatham declared: THE poorest man
may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force
of the crown It may be frail; its roof may
shake; the wind may blow through it; the
storms may enter, the rain may enter-but the
king of England can not enter; all his forces
dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tene-
tnent." This was true at that time not more of
England than America which inherited her
civil liberties from the motherland. But what
the king of England could not do then can be
done today in America by petty officials under
laws invasive of free mems rights.
Would that more voices like Summers were
raised in our land preaching the doctrine of a
virile Americanism and nation of Independent
citizens able to take care of themselves A ter
rife reaction against present tendencies is due
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
Be Careful What You
Wash Your Hair With

Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali, which is very
injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes
the hair brittle.
The best thing to use is Mulsihed CO.
coanut oil shampoo, for this is pure and
entirely greaseless. It's very cheap and
beats anything else all to pieces. You
can get this at any drug Store, and a
few ounces will last the whole family
for months.
Simply noisten the hair with water
and rub it in, about teaspoonful is ali
that is required. 1t makes an abundance
OF rich, creamy lather, clsanses thor
oughly, and rinses out easily. The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and is soft.
fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy, and
easy to handle. Besides, it !oosens and
takes out'eyery particle of dust, dirt and
dandruff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

ing. My father 65 years of age, was
an invalid for nine years with rheu.
matism. is now taking his fifth bottle.
can get around as good as anybody,
and says he feels Is years younger
since taking Number 40. Ny daugh.
ter's case has opened the eyes of quite
a number Of sufferers from rheuma-
tism as well as myself. who believe
40 the best medicine on earth" 40
is demanded in chronic Inflammation
of mucous membranes; in chronic
rheumatism, catarrh. eczema, skin
eruptions, constipation. indigestion.
stomach, liver and kidney disorders.
Made by j. c. Mendenhall. Evans
vile. Ind, 40 years druggist. Sold
by McGrath Bros Drug. Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
When Wilson Was Weak.

Manufacturers Record: Three
years ago the editor of the Manu-.
facturers Record begged 4. President
Wilson to use his official Authority to
impress upon the country the danger
of a great food shortage, and the
consequent high prices, saying to
Mr.. Wilson that if he did not do so
there would certainly come social
istic and anarchistic unrest, by
people being misled and made to be-
lieve a lie. But President Wilson,
while recognizing the facts we gave
him as to the food supply, preferred
that they should not be made public,
believing that they would create a
food panic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
If TREES COULD TALK.


If trees could talk, the tales they'd tell
Would lsurely be worth listening to-
The trees that form the shady dell
Where lovers their fond VOWS renew;
The trees that guard the home the street
Where children play and elders rest;
What varied tales would they repeat
OF hopes deferred or hearts oppressed,
OF happy lives diyinely blest
If trees could talk, how oft we'd hear
OF gross mistreatment, lack of care,
Borne patiently for a year.
While thoughuesS mortals unaware
OF how trees suffer, why they fall,
Put forth no effort to repel
The foes that constantly assai.
Sad tales like this, we know full well,
A myriad suffering trees would tell.
If trees could talk, methinks their words
Would sound protest loud and stern
For loss of their good friends, the birds
And make a plea for their return
Trees need the birds and do we.
In the incessant fight TO stay
The foes that so persistently
On flowers and fruit and foliage prey,
Our allies, yigilant, are they.
Trees cannot talk and yet, to him
Who truly loves these friends of man,
Their every leaf and flower and limb
Is vocal. Since the world began
The trees have been stea1fast friends,
And our well being constantly
Upon their life and growth depends.
How faithful, then, our should be;
How fondly should we love the tree.
Frank l. Brace, in Tree Talk
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
oRlc,,laL NOTICE.

State OF Iowa, Lee County-ss-
In the District Court Of Sai,
County.
Florence Fletcher, Plaintiff, Us.
William o. Fletcher, defendant
Original notice.
To the above named defendant
You are hereby notified that petl.
ton is now on file in the Clerk
Office of the District Court aforesaid
at Keokuk in behalf Of the above
named plaintiff, against you and
claiming a decree of divorce from
you on the ground of willful deser-
ton for more than two years.
And unless you appear thereto and
defend before noon of the second day
Of the next regular September Term
of said Court, to be begun and holden
at Keokuk on the goth day of Sep
TENDER, A. d. 1920, default will be
entered against you and Judgment
rendered thereon as prayer for in
said petition.
JOHN M. RANKIN
Attorney for Plaintiff
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

times take refuge in the haunts OF
men, not because they expect human
protection, but because they are des
perate, and oblivious to everything
save some means of escape. II the
hunted deer or fox rushes into an
open shed or a barn door, it is be.
cause it is desperately hard-pressed,
and sees and knows nothing but some
object or situation that it may place
between itself and its deadly enemy.
The great feat obliterates all minor
fears.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Davenport Times: The postoffice
system is great human organization
built up for the purpose OF giving
service to the people 1t happens
however, that the postoffice depart
ment, especially under the direction
of Mr.. Burleson, has been treated as
il it existed chiefly to make money
for the government.
Davenport Democrat: Senator John.
son is proving the greatest runner IN
the republican race. He is more than
the bull in the china shop-he is the
lion among the lambs in the primary
ring. He eats 'em alive.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: We spent
$500, 900 900 for candy last year and
are angry, not about the cost OF can
dy, but about the cost of sugar.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The
newspaper publishers have been
asked to reduce their issues to the
minimum-and it is not question OF
asking, it is one of compulsion. The
white paper situation continues acute
and where the relief is going to come
from is not yet made known. An
ounce of paper may soon be worth
the price of pound in pre-war days.
Jefferson Bee: That there is a
strong drift of sentiment back toward
the old caucus and convention plan,
as against the primary plan, is un-
mistakable In theory the primary is
perfect; in practical operation it fails
to produce the goods, and it certainly
weakens party spirit and enthusiasm.
Perry Chief: II Governor Edwards
mas no more success making the
country wet than another New Jersey
man has had in reducing the cost OF
living, there's going to be mighty
long dry spell.
Manson Democrat: IL Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle really wants to hear a
genuine message from the dead let
him come to the democratic national
convention and listen to a below
from Bryan
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

most of the pre-war socialistic doc
trines for his platform. If there is
any hair-brained "issue" he has omit.
ted it probably will be added on re-
quest, if it carries promise of sharing
few odd votes. Brookhart's propa-
ganda and that of the committee Of
forty-eight are considerably similar
and both seem to emanate from the
same place.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06
STORIES IN STONES.

All we know about the paSt-Sthe billion
years, perhaps, behind written history-and
what civilizations flourished and persisted on
our planet, has been dug up out OF the ground.
But for the patient delivers into buried ruins
and uncovered tombs the date of the occu-
Fancy of earth by Intelligent peoples could
hardly have been pushed back beyond three
thousand years
The geographical situation of Palestine,
crossed as it is by paths of migration between
thee continents made it an early center of
prehistoric civilizations; it is perhaps the rich
est area of earth in treasures as yet uncovered.
The Turks have held the country since archeo-
logical research has been passion with men
Of many lands, and have prohibited it or hamp-
cred it in numberless ways. Where they per-
mitted exploration, they seized all the finds of
value; and it has never been their policy to al
low the historic sites Of Palestine to be disturb
ed. The American industrial school at Sidon,
while laying the foundations Of building, dug
into an ancient temple; but have kept their
earthed treasures hidden in cellar until the
time when they can be brought to light without
fear of the Turks That time is happily near
The British hold Palestine. The French hold
Syria, and both those governments, according
to Professor Torrey of Yale university, will in
vite and encourage exploration in every way
Already six sites for excavations have been re-
! served for Americans; and as Englishmen and
F'renchmen will be equally busy, the next few
years will let flood of light upon the history
of that ancient land
1t is not without interest in this connection
to reflect on what would remain of Keokuk if
G. cataclysm should overwhelm and bury it for
a thousand years. Our iron would have rusted
away The softer stones would have crumbled
and the softer bricks Almost everything would
have disintegrated except inscriptions on gran
tie in our cemeteries, a sealed copper box in an
occasional corner stone, coins articles of
metal resistance of rust. We have no histories
stamped on bricks, public records engraved
on stone to tell the future what our city was.
Even the fact that the city was we'll governed
would be lost to the world and unrecoverable as
the reflection Of Adam when his errors had
made him exile from the garden of Eden.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

a Cleveland woman has sued for divorce,
charging her husband moved fourteen times in
twenty months. Off goes the hat to man who
can find that many places to move to-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

The proposal for boycott on candy and
soda water and ice cream in order to conserve
sugar probably will not bother the soda foun-
tain man. Such boycott is more easily i'm
posed than carried out.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

Holland may not want to keep the former
kaiser now that she is virtually commanded to
keep him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

and overdue, and will sweep the land like a
tidal wave soon, if not at the elections this TALL
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-06

Long distance motor truck freight
service is extensively patronized by.
department stores in New York and
Philadelphia