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o'-smoke guide, overseer and friend
to man and the wives and the chill
dren and the beasts of men who ride
the day coach. D..
He is a handy compendium of rail-
way knowledge and his wisdom ex-
tends to topography, geography, hor-
ticulture, agriculture and industry
Of the land. He is the alarm clock
who rouses the somnolent when the
brakeman calls their stations.
'Postiv'ly nuthin' sold after the
train starts" he solicitously informs.
" (Yezir, tn Millpunk local leaves
right after we get in. Noziy, amt got
the Bat seegar; give you a G'n'r'l
Burbank, s a good smoke It's your
last chance, friends, to invest in
readin' matter, refreshments, seegars
Determine him a pest, you riders
and cigarets-"
in the standard cars, il you will, but
in the day coach he's the life Of the
party, its brains and the source of
its comfort asd convenience.
ANY one else now? California figs,
dates
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TO A TRAIN RIDER
THEYRE toasted. folks, Z

THEY RE toasted, folks, plump
toasted almonds and covered
with nutritious chocolate. Now, is
there any one else before the train
starts?"
Along the aisle he goes, swinging
his wicker basket a-front of HIM His
voice is low. modulated to the tones
of easy, convincing conversation. As
one friend to another
Get a cool and refreshing ice
cream cone. Nom, we don't stop
there, but I'll tell you when we pass)
Playing cards, gilt-edged, something
to pass the time away. Don't stand
in the vestibule, Bud, you'll get
hurt), Something to read on the
train. Nom only pick up mail there)
Suv'neer postcards"
A pest, this news butcher? Maybe
so; maybe not so much.
He's guide and mentor to a carload
of school teachers en- route to the
state convention, assistant mother to
a dozen children, manna-bearing ra-
ven and sign post pillar-o' -fire-cloud-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-27
THE BOOK OF DEBORAH.
The Quarrels | Have With Bob Do
Not Make Me Unhappy.

But how would Deborah save the
man she loved from the complexities,
irritations, jealousies, disappoint-
ments and establishment of love-
triangle?" | asked myself as l wait
ed in the dusk for Bob to come home
to late dinner. My domestic advis-
er and, household assistant, a digni-
fed graduate of a state university,
who comes by the hour six days a
week, and is paid more than the av-
erage teacher-this accomplished
young woman prepares our evening
meal, and | serve it.
My husband was very late. He
hadn't phoned me. Luckily, we had
chilled meal for the end of hot
day, and it was safely reposing and
improving on the ice. So l sat in
my swing under my pine trees and
wondered alternately about Deborah
and Bob.
! couldn't answer the involved
problem l had put to myself about
Deb, and it occurred to ME that
might much better endeavor to solve
my own matrimonial difficulties.
Things were going pretty badly
with Bob and me. We had reach
ed period in our married life when
we should be settling down to quiet
anchorage on unruffled waters; and
we were still navigating between ty-
phoons of temper and rocks of regret !!
| know several war brides, like
myself, who are having stormy voy-
ages on the seven seas of matrimony.
Personally, am rather shocked when
l count the derelict divorces in our
society shadows. And | expect Bob
to steer our little craft into some
near port of happiness.
But at the time Deb and I became
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-27
Confessions ofaBridq
Copyright 1920 By The Nuepa per Enterprise AsSOoaAon

such close friends, my husband didn't
seem to be giving all of his attention
to our ship. | couldn't guess wheth-
er he had lost patience with me as
his first mate, or whether he was
losing interest in our enterprise.
And why was he so late to din
ner?
| miss Bob awfully when we are
quarreling. He is my familiar spir-
it, the one human being with whom /
am most at home. Even when we
discuss our differences, l am not I'M
happy, because he is my other self,
and one cannot quarrel seriously with
oneself. It's hard to put the feeling
into words, it is really the most an
cient bond between true lovers, and
Bob and l have often talked about
it. Considered in the light CT love
eternal, we were at odds over a trivial
even a ludicrous happening;
Bob had let me have my HAIR crop
ped, then he hadn't seemed to miss
the loss of 1t a bit; and then / had
by accident discovered him at the gar
den rally WITH lltton of his sleeve
caught Katherine Miller's blowing
tresses and l had hear him refuse
to break a strand of what he called
threads of living goldp
Deb happened along with me and
she had no such compunction-the
dear grill
AS | waited for Bob to come home
to dinner, the picture l had seen in
the box alley harassed me. But in
stead of making me weep, as once
it would have done, it left me cold
and sane.
Ito be continued.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-27

An idle peson is like that is dead; uneoneerhed Il
and necessities of the word.-Jeremy Taylor
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-27

The big sugar profiteers are squealing.
Caught with the goods on them these highbinders
haven't the nerve TO take their medicine.
They are begging the U. s. Department of Justice
to help them in keeping the price up.
ASTONISHING but true!
Palmer's agent in New York rushed to the defense
of the sugar spectators
Immediately after the sugar profiteers appealed to
to Pamers Department, John B. Floyd special agent
of that Department in New York. announced that sug
prices will not drop before JAN l. and, he predicted
they may increase"
This announcement made Immediately after the
department official had conferred with officials of
three large refining companies and representatives of
wholesale grocers.
But sugar prices keep tumbling
The bottom hasn't been reached
But it will be reached if the American housewives
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accept this advice given by the u S. Department of
Labor:
Don't lay in sugar supplies
Buy only to meet immediate needs.
The less ugar you buy TODAY the lower the price
will drop tomorrow.
If YOU begin buying large quantities of sugar now
the price fixers will boost the cost you
If you don't buy now they'll have to sell at lower
prices, for they must sell Immediately
The beet sugar crop is nearly ready for the
harvest It's bg crop. Cane sugar is coming in soon.
The Cuban crop will be large That'n begin coming in
by December
The sugar spectators must let Banks won't
extend their credit They must disgorge before the
new crop reaches the market
That's why they squeang to Pamer's Depart
ment
The less sugar you buy the harder they'll squeal
And 1t Will hasten the necessity Of sugar hogs eating
their own fat. 'e
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CLOUDS SCATTERING

Bankers who sometime predicted strained ereo s
- b fall and winter Appeals unduly PesllSuo
Money for the moving of plentiful than te
matter of fact asserts the Wall Street Journal ehe ppm
ion now prevails that comfortable money market WIN ~
throughout the balance of the year 4h
This condition bankers say, the fruit OF precautionary
last nrine by the Federal Reserve authonhespus the
ock turn for the of the railway patient Had the car
ton continued tying up credits well commodities the worst
IL bapkno might have been realized Clearing
tracks Of halted freight and reducing credit to SPECTATORS oa
work The clouds melted -
American business not need announcer suoi '
. 70 he hoped that again will the arteries OF trade De
ooed with nmovng and gamblers in necessities gwen seh
welcome in the division of the banking houses IN o'her
1yords were better to keep the clouds from forming
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-27

In some quarters Wilson's note France is interpre
fort to get the Poles to the polls.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-27

Lloyd George to Baron Wrange If you've got to wran
by yourself
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500 Reward. 500

The readers Of this paper will
pleased to learn that there is at lea
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that Is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation OF the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitutic3 and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative power Of Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address +. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
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DON'T WANT BAILEY

Joseph Weldon Bailey xUned States about whom
still ngs the Standard OIL running for of Texas
Bailey claims after he nominated by the Democratic party of
Is he will the outside OF Texas be-
half of Governor Cox for the presidency.
Two points about this statement of Baeys makes it value
doubfu
L. The chances very strong that he will be nominated
for governor by the Democratic party of Texas.
2 AS stump speaker for Governor Cox his political nfu
would be questionable.
Bailey belongs that of reaconary who
by being epudated by the of their
spectve states.
Bailey Texas said speech made prior
all there single accomplish
of the (Wlson) administration that endorse" He has
studousy refraned from endorsing the San Francisco platform
Governor Cox his speech endorsed the platform from
first ncudngs praise for the accomplishments of Viii
son administration.
Baey only claim for the privilege of helping
national presidential campaign of personal friendship Cox
indicated desire have Bailey help this basis
basis.
speeches he said would rather the saloon should than that
women should have the vote"
His appearance the the national presidential
pagn would have the effect of alternating thousands of
votes Already suffrage sending
the National Democratic Committee we don Bailey
the stump
Says Lloyd George Baron Wrang you We got vngle
wange by yourself.
quarters Wilson's France interpreted an
effort get the Poles to the polls
There deprivation quite hopeless having nothing
grovvl about.
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ere is deprivation quite hopeless having nothing to
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1t was to combat the ravages of
the cankerworm that English spar
rows were introduced into the United
States.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
SUGGESTING A RESIGNATION.

The New Republic: Where govern.
ments are really responsible, when
an administrative head either
through stupidity or through unfor-
tunate circumstances has failed sig
nalIy in an undertaking vital to the
gen eral welfare, his resignation is
expected and usually given promptly
even without the compulsion of an
adverse legislative vote. When Or
Ilando and Sonnino failed to impress
their views OF the Adriatic settlement
upon the peace conference, they re-
signed. When the British govern
ment was put squarely face to face
with a railway tie-up it was well
understood that unless they managed
to patch up the difficulty promptly, a
whole batch Of designations would
be In order We in America have
not a responsible government; on
the contrary, we seem to have at
present the most hopelessly irrespon.
sble governmental organization
known outside of the realm OF phil
osophic anarchy. But every one who
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05

The Street: The Rock Island
railway has been owned and OPP
Grated since It's inception in
Grated by the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railway COM
pany, consolidated corporation
of Illinois and Iowa 1t will sur
prise good many people to learn
that, though this railway. as have
many others, was compelled to
60 through a receivership, 1t has
never been hjgh-financed, looted,
pirated or been subjected 10 any
other abnormal or unusual finan-
cial experience beyond having
to pay its debts, as a result OF
adverse legislation and bad rail-
way regulation.
Most people associate the Rock
Island railway with all the
lurid tales of financial bucca-
neering with which the public
has been from time to time re-
called by anti-railway spellbind-
ers. But the stories are all
about another party of nearly
the same name-and even then
they are, largely not so.
The Rock Island company of
New Jersey was organized as a
holding company, and owned all
the stock Of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad COM
pany, an Iowa corporation. In :.
1902 plan was promulgated. I'M
der which the stockholders OF the
operating company might ex-
change their stock, dollar for dol
lar Of par value, for per cent.
collateral trust bonds OF the
Iowa corporation, which were Sc
cured by the stock thus ex-
changed, and receive in addition
a bonus in stock of the New Jer-
sey company, which was intended
to equalize the difference be-
tween the par value and market
value of the operating company
stock.
Thus, the holder OF original
Rock Island stock got a 4 per
cent. bond Cor the par Of his
stock, secured by the stock he
surrendered, and. instead of
further market value which had
no earning power, he got stock
which it was assumed would
pay dividends. Say, for example,
that Rock Island original stock
was $50 at the time Of exchange
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
The olamor of Abstract Terms.

John Spargo: If we take the group
of American intellectuals who at pres
ent are ardent champions of bolshe-
vism, we shall find that, with excep-
tions SO few as to be almost neglfgi-
BILE, they have embraced nearly every
ism" as it arose, seeing in each one
of them the magic solvent of human
ity's ills. Those of an older generation
thus regarded bimetallism, for in
stance. What else could be required
to make the desert bloom like gar
den and to usher in the earthly para
disc? The younger ones, in their
turn, took up anarchist-communis m,
MARKHAM socialism, Industrial union
ism, syndicalism, birth control, fem
inism, and many other movements
and propagandas, each of which in its
turn induced ecstatic visions of new
heaven and new earth. The same
individuals have grown lyrical In
praise of every bizarre and eccentric
art fad In the banal and grotesque
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
ROCK ISL AND FINANCING

and was paying 6 per cent dtv1-
dend. He got per cent. bond
for his original 500, and hold.
ing company stock for the other
$50. II the holding company
paid 4 per cent. on par he was
even. If 1t paid more he was
ahead.
The only way the holding
company could get any profit
was for tho operating company
to make a profit. To loot the
operating company would have
been swift and certain suicide
for the holding company So
far, there was no trouble with
the plan, and in fact about s71.-
100000 out of about $74.00o,0OO
Of stock was SO exchanged
But the plan included exchang-
ing at 5 per cent. collateral trust
bond issued at 60 to acquire
control of the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad company by
an exchange OF stock together
with a bonus of stock in the
New Jersey company. Which
is where the plan fell through.
The, Frisco was not paying diyi-
dends, and, in fact, has not since.
It was expected that INTERIOR
porate traffic relations and
operating advantages would pro-
duce dividends. They never did.
Then came the famous di
yorce, which exceeded the high
est speed mark ever before &C
cornplished in that more or less
delicate operation, and it was
generally understood that the
alimony arrangements were SO
generous that they were after
ward considerably readjusted-
The operating company, In
1914, ceased to pay dividends,
and the holding company blew
up. Since then the Rock Island
deal has been used as horrible
example whenever the class in
railway reformation has been in
session.
As matter Of fact, great
deal Of talk about the so-caIled
Rock Island scandal" has been
smoke-screen for the takers.
The political assault which has
been going on in this country
for the past few years, and which
has put the greatest amount OF
mileage into receivership that
the record holds, struck the
Rock Island first, because 1t was
spread out the thinnest.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
The only people with whom it is a JOY to
sit silent are the people with whom it IS
ioy to talk-Gail Hamilton.
THE PROBLEM OF WEAPONS.

SIN her hands the commonest household
utensils became weapOns,' testified an har-
;ssed husband in the New York City court OF
domestic relations 1t is matter of record that
the court admonisheI the wife against the, use
Of utensils as weapons and put her under bond
to keep the peace The court did not prohibit
the proper use Of utensils, however, and this is
important to note.
For it is this way with us. We are seeing
common means TO the orderly life we have long
lived made into weapons to be used IN attacks
on our peace Of mind and peace Of body For
instance, the right to speak and write one 8
opinions is being made into weapon to attack
the security of law and order We are talking
and debating over free speech If we followed
the New York City courts handling of its do
nestle problem we should stop bothering about
free speech and get after the speakers who use
their liberty to talk and write as license, who I'M
der it threaten the very life of the nation.
We are facing a great dispute in settling our
railroads to normal procedure; we call it the
railroad problem. The problem is to get hon
est fair cooperation from all the people who
have to 90 with railroads so that workers may
get fair wages, managers may be prOperl paid
and rewarded for special enterprise and eff
cheney, money receive its due interest so that it
NAV be attracted, as in the past to railroad in
vestments. The railroads are no problem; it is
the clash of self-interest wanting to use special
advantage a weapon that is the problem and
il can be solved by dealing with the people who
are unfair and who put self improperly to the
fore in their motives.
We have been through a strenuous time over
The so-called problem of drink. Drink is no
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
BETTER THAN CALOMH
Thousands Have Discovered
Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets
area Harmless Substitute

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the sub
stitute for calomel-are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver is
almost instantaneous. These little olive
colored tablets are the result Of DR..
Edwards determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel.
The pleasant little tablets do the
good that calonel does, but have no
bad after effects. They don't inj1re the
teeth Like strong liquids or calomel-
They take hold of the trouble and
quickly correct it. Why cure the liver
at the expense of the teeth? Calonel
sometimes plays havoc with the gums.
So do strong liquids. 1t is best not to
take calomel. Let DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets take its place.
Headaches, "dullness" and that lazy
feeling come from constipation and
disordered liver. Take DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets when you feel '1ogy" and
heavy" They "clear" clcuded brain
and "perk up" the spirits. locand Csc.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05

into the motives of congress. Nor
may the court inquire into the wisdom
of the Legislation. Nor may It pass on
the necessity for the exercise of q
power possessed, since the possible
abuse Of a power is not an argument
against ts existence"
This point is used as the reason for
not interfering In the prohibition
cases carried up, the court holding
that the enactment of wartime pro.
hibition law was within the war
powers of congress although the act
was not passed until after the armts-
tice was signed.
Main thoughts in the mind OF the
average man will be what a wonderful
thing the law is and the urgent need
for simplifying 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
The Raid on paxy Jones.


The Nations Business: Any hunt
beneath the sea is hunt for
treasure, whether it be gold-bal-
lasted Spanish galleon that sunk in
ancient days, or coal-laden barge
that sunk in last winters storm In
Long Island sound 1t Is something
more than an interesting commercial
possibility. 1t has in it tang of
romance. And the pull OF the idea
may be seen from the ayidity with
which the whole public reads every
new yarn about the latest project for
raising some treasure ship that sunk
centuries ago with fabulous wealth
on board. Only few hundred feet
down! So near that man can all but
see her! Yes-but you can't smash
Davy Jones Locker as a thief breaks
a plate glass window-not unless you
crystalline the sea by changing the
climate.
Professional salvage men generally
laugh at all dreams of practicable
operations at great depths, particu-
larly In the open sea. Vastly i'm
proved methods, they Will tell you,
may sometimes make 900 feet prac-
ticab1e depth: but anything beyond
that is as inaccessible as the moon.
It Is waste OF paper, ink, and
breath to talk about it. Still, II your
questioning be but close enough you
can generally trap them into an Inn
patient admission that devices may
some day be perfected by which a
man in rigid steel she'll may go IN
the bottom at practically any depth.
and rig his tackling without the hand
manipulation which UP to now has
been so essential in salvage work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
Law a Strange Thing.

New York Evening Telegram: 10
the ordinary citizen 1t will be news
that there are any limitations to the
powers Of the supreme court of the
United States.
The august body has come to be re-
garded as fearsome thing embody-
ing all the wisdom and integrity of the
land, the jurisdiction of which was
superior even to that of president.
But in the long and learned unani-
nous decision of the high court just
read by Mr.. Justice Brandeis. we
read:
No principle of our constitutional
law is more firmly established than
that this court may not. in passing
upon the validity OF a statute, inquire
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-05
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
STIRLING POND.

Those mooniit nghts on Stirling Pond,
l do not think that any
OF all our buoyant care-free crowd
Could skate so fast as Jenny.
Her fresh, sweet face grew roster stIii
Beneath the keen winds singing
No clearer, mellower laugh than hers
Across the ice came ringing.
No arm more graceful waved muff
Or wore scarlet wrister;
And yet OF us adoring boys
Not one had ever kissed her
Ia CHI woud-be lover she repealed
With gay, selfpoised resistance,
For always off as on the ice
She kept us at distance
She gave laughing challenge once:
-ln every race you miss me,
The boy that catches ice
Perhaps I'll let him kiss me"
Then hope long stif1ed breathed in me,
AS she stood graceful, plant,
With smiling eyes and lifted chin,
Her pretty mouth defiant
~ take your challenge" low said
-But did you mean it-really?'
Again hear her ripping laugh
Il did," she answered clearly
That frosty night on Stirling Pond
How fast, how fast skated!
1t might be love that lent me wings .......
Or was it simply fated!
For as she SKINNED the slstening ice,
Fair as the gods own daughter
| painting straining just behind
She swayed and then caught her
/ grpped her coat and held it fast,
Then swung her round and faced her.
The breath of night was icy sweet
My trembling arm embraced her.
Outside the shelter of her hood
A curl or two were vagrant
/ pressed my cap against that hood
And knew those curls ware fragrant
The promise she lightly gave,
Would Jenny repent 1t?
y che Of nvhnnd'g
/ knew at last she meant it.
Florence Mellish, in New York Sun