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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

gathering together in this paper the
results Of my own extended and most
unenviabie experience.
believe that the first step is the
elimination Of the mental distress
that almost always attelas upon
sleeplessness. This is of a pecr t'ariy
poignant kind and often amounts to
actual despair, rooted in in Belief
that much loss of sleep is p0lnS 70
result in mental and physical
breakdown. There is no warrant
whatever for this fear. One who, /
believe. has put the matter to an ust'-
mate test, is able to be quite certain
that nightly average Of four honr4
sleep, supplemented by four hours O.
real rest, is sufficient not onls. for
fairly comfortable living but that Il
will also leave a margin for slow
gain in health. 1t is, to be sure, not
Iaffluence-one might easily wish to
have more; but, like narrow income
lit can be made to cover ones needs
if one is willing to be prudent. Aud
there are few, If any, sleepless per
sons, even among the most afflicted
who get less than this amount us
sleep in twenty-four hours, though Ii
is common CROUCH to find many who
ARE quite honestly sure they do not
No testimony should be more i'm
;plicitly distrusted than that Of the
Isleepless. Some of US sleep more
than we think we do. and some Of
JUS lend ourselves to loose exaggera-
Ition OF speech simply because we are
too tired to knit up our mental pro-
icesses into more exact form. or be-
icause the s1eepless person subcon-
sciously always Graves interest and
pity for his condition.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
TIE MlIEsToNEs.


The milestones on the road OF lie
Are not the battles fought and won;
Are not the monuments OF strife
The foe repulsed. the grand work done;
For every triumph great or small
Is bordcred black with some regret
The memory of foeman's fall,
Some brave mans sun forever set!
What glory has battle won
When he who lost must lie supne!
What pleasure in the swift race run
When thousands never cross the line!
The strong the swift SO richly blest
That winning seems baEys sport
Their laurel is sorry jest,
They do not love the flattering court
They do not heed the songs of praise
Which swell forever for the king;
they scorn the laurel and the bays
A crawling crowd is quick to brlns
4 kindly word that saved a fall,
A loving smile for one in tears,
These are tnc mestones they recall
While looking back across the years.
William F. Kirk, in Cincinnati CommerclalIrlol
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02
THE PASSING OF OCTOBER
ny Franklin E. cook.l

time we have smiled at his
shrewd cunning, and many time
we have been provoked at his
cruelty to other members of the
feathered tribe. But Mr.. Jay
bird likes US well enough to re-
main with us throughout the win
ter. He is good to look upon and
there is something very CHEEKY
and encouraging when he calls to
you from across bleak field or
lot on cheerless wintry day. In
his clear ringing "kalang, kalang,
click, lick, click, lick" he seems
to send forth a challenge which
says, "Old winter hasn't anything
on mel" And have you ever
heard a number OF them together
in the woods on warm autumn
afternoon having a sort Of an
impromptu social? Possibly they
are trying to stir up enthusiasm
for Jay" politics and it's a sort
Of political "get-together'' meet
ing; possibly they are discussing
plans for a raid, or it may be
they are discussing the appear
ance or peculiarities Of Mr..
Snake or Mrs. Squirrel. They
certainly give all the details and
set a high tide mark for any
seold or gossip and then they are
great mimics. They can give an
uncanny scream like a hawk, or
clear flute like whistle almost
as pleasing as the trill of a wood
thrush.
But the frost has faded the
flowers the leaves are falling
the migratory birds are flown
It's goodbye to summer, her
warm days and vernal beauty.
She probably will still linger in a
reminiscent mood for a little
while. like the caller who says
goodbye" and then tarries on
the doorstep for while, and as
one whom you would fain detain.
Tostfs charming and well known
song, Good Bye" is the cry of
sad heart bidding an eternal
farewell to hope and summer.
We would not so say goodbye,
For while a feeling Of sadness
and loss must be felt by every
sensitive and appreciative soul;
we would temper 1t by not for
getting the gorgeous beauty Of
the woods in autumn and SO make
it "fifty-fifty" sentiment. If
one can catch the buoyant spirit
as reflected in McDowell's little
tone piece for piano, entitled
Autumn" from his Woodland
Sketches, they will then feel and
know the "Joy of Autumn" even
with the passing of summer.
This same American master has
again beautifully and artisticalIy
reflected the spirit and soul of
the autumn in his colorful suite
entitled October" But "Art is
long. and time Is f1eeting,' and
no art in any field of endeavor
can more than family suggest
the beauty of autumn, for its
symphonies and color schemes
are composed and painted by a
hand divine omnipotent. But
to October. the queer, of the
autumn" we must say goodbye.
We regret her going. but would
remember with joy her coming,
and her beautiful banners, her
glorious pagentry as She passed
by.
Green. brown and golden red
Behold the wooded hi,,@isI,s rise
Southwark the black8if army
flies,
Seeking the sumnar days. now
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

w. W., whatever their walk in life, the loafers
who contribute nothing to the general welfare,
are economic pests and parasites on the social
body Somebody's work supports them; and
wiser generation that ours may, for the good OF
all concerned, enforce the old commandment
that .'if any would not work, neither should ne
eat"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02
"And there Ostober passes
In gorgeous livery
In purple ash, and crimson oak,
And golden tulip tree"
(Bliss Carmen.)

lA1lu SO1uCA NulIP lICC.
(Bliss Carmen.)
We awoke on a recent morn
with a peculiar feeling OF loss.
The morning was bright and
there was tang of winter in the
air for Jack Frost had paid
silent visit to the outside world
and had pressed his icy lips to
the flowers and the crimson
beauty Of the salvias, cannas and
dark red dahlias was no more;
instead, they stood with bowed
heads black and blighted-a mute
protest to the kiss of death
which had robbed them Of their
autumnal beauty But not alone
were our flower friends of the
lawn gone, but the robins which
had tarried with. us after the
brown thrushes, catbirds and
wrens had departed, were gone
also. Not a sight or sound of
one. How we missed them! for
they had been a part of the lawn
all summer and lately when the
supply of worms had apparently
given out they had applied them
selves with equal avidity to
fruit diet of fallen apples and
pears. And then the bath-robin
is strong for the bath. How we
missed their morning additions
at the birds bathing beach" 1t
was only the evening previous
that we had seen them and had
heard one utter a plaintive little
call, tremulous "teerilee,"
which in the light of after events
would seem to have been
robins farewell song, a bird
paraphrase of Goodbye, my
Honey, I'm Gone. Gone, Gone"
Anyway, they were gone. Did
they go in the dark of the night,
or "by the dawn's early light?'
Well. robin is an early riser and
no doubt with. dreams of flight
to the southland surging through
their bird brains, they were of
in the wee sma' hours of the
mornin'." Did robin regret leay-
ing us and his summer home on
our lawn where he had made
himself very much "at home"
and had found a steady job in
the building of his summer bun
galow and providing the food for
an ever hungry family? Prob
ably not. Nevertheless, we re-
GREETED his going -bright eyed
saucy fellow-just as we rejoice
at his coming in the early
sprin gtime,
So as we looked out on the
frosty morning with its rare COM
mingling of the 10y of autumn"
and the melancholy days" we
missed something and felt that
something had gone out of our
life.
But ah, the law of compensa-
ton is ever active as are all of
Gods laws. There was still a
lingering beauty in the fullness
OF the autumn and there was re-
newed vigor in breathing deeply
the clear pure air, while from
across a neighhoring orchard
came the clear ''kalang, kalang"
Of Mr.. Jaybird. and moment
later his blue, white and black
uniform came plainly into view
as he came to see how much of
the corn--placed out for the
cardinals--he could devour and
carry away. Judging from the
saucy notes and wagging of head,
Mr.. Jaybird took special delight
in witnessing the havoc Jack
Frost had wrought, for be it
said without, fear of contradic-
ton, the jaybird though fine
looking fellow, takes special de-
light in wrecking the lives and
happiness of other birds. Many
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

A young man arrested in Chicago with a
package containing couple of guns, some
dynamite. fifteen skeleton keys, searchIght,
glass cutter and two pairs Of gloves told the
police it held present for his girl. Perhaps the
poor fellow was merely going to try to find out
whether there way of reaching stony
heart.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

for another hundred years. "a
was in 1891. On January l., o.;
this sum had grown to S26i,osss !,
and at this rate of increase the y
should amount to at least sA
lion dollars when the second pa "a
is completed, and may be conss'
ably more.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

The Canadian government by putting an EN-
barge upon the importation of sugar into the
Dominion has not only helped the Canadian re-
finer but has put millions into the pockets of
the American householder With two coun-
tries to be fed with it, the surplus stock held in
our refineries could easily have been brought
low enough to justify another assault on the do
nestle pocketbook.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02
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BULGARIAN BLOOD TH

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and Ward of Influenza, 9r'Pp'
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This Pure Herb Tea has rare m
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regulate the bowels, cleanse the ~
flush the poison-clogged kidneys
enrich the weak, polluted piooJ MelA
is the greatest First-Aid HOME Al
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

What m | a noveLwriter, trying to do9 am Trying
with such limited have at disposal, TO MAKE
little pocket-theatres out of words. am trying 70 %
architect uphosterer dramstst and stage
manager all Is it wonder It we novests 90
not succeed well could wish, when we try 60 DC
masters of SO many trades?-F. Marion Crawford
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

The banana is the staple cr0S
Panama
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02
NO YAP FOR US.

All that we asked at Versailles was zap,
little sandspit in lonely waste of waters about
half as big, apparently, as the city Of Keokuk.
It has metropolis of several domiciles and a
handful of inhabitants whose family line is con-
jectured to run back to Adam. At any rate,
the Edenic costumes still in vogue there may
be taken to bear this theory out. The only use
we have for zap is to run cable to it, and this
lis with no desire to get into communication with
the Yappers. Nothing worth cabling is ever
Iexpected to happen there But zap is about
only one thousand miles from the Philippines
and FIVE hundred from Guam which is two thou
sand five hundred miles from Midway which
lis one thousand, five hundred from Hawaii, and
we might thus hope to have fve-jump cable
Ito Manila, where lots Of things may happen it
would be well for us to know.
It appears, however that Japan claims zap
under authority of mandate granted by the
peace conference; and suggestions that she re-
linquish it to us, or control it jointly with or
let us land cable on the islet do not meet with
her approval. AS the case now stands Japan
has zap and controls the two cables that cross
there coming up out of the ocean as it were to
get a new breath We need not speculate as to
how the controversy will eventually be settled,
but as far as the group of statesmen who ran
the conference at Versailles could confer the
title of anything to anybody, Japan apparently
had the first deed Of zap and let no time pass
in taking possession Hereunder 1t might be
added in passing, as a matter of common OBJ
,servation, that any little parcel of realty that
Japan gets hold of under color Of title however
pale. she usually contrives to hold until the
nine points which possession confers have rip
ened into ten.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-02

When a majority Of twenty five thousand per-
sons vote for an abandonment of prohibition
and pumps for government control of the sale
of alcohol, as has just happened in British Co
lumbia, it may be taken good evidence that
the people of that Canadian province are tired
Of Bookkeeping and other crime, induced by 4
law that lacks popular sentiment back Of it in
many communities Prohibition as it stands on
the statute books here today may prevent some
men from getting drink at anything but an ex
orbitant price, but it has increased disrespect
for law to degree that cannot be made up in
several successive generations
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
Defaultins Banker surrender..

chlcago.-After an S,O00-nile flight.
following his disappearance from Chi
cago. Nov 23 james NJ Miles. default
ing vice president of the Standard
Trust and Savings Bank, has surren-
dered to Ward Thompson, operative OF
the Department of Justice The disap-
pearance of Miles WAS sensational.
While bnnk examiners We're going over
his accounts, he asked TO he excused
for cup Of coffee and n sandwich.
Instead he jumped into an automobile
and fled.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
Bio Cut in Approoris.ion.

Washington.-Cu from the original
estimate of $117,T93,330 to SIS, ,s33, Az,
the annual fortifications appropriation
bill which has been reported out by a
subcommittee of the appropriations
committee The report said that by
direction of Secretary Baker the orig
inal estimates had been scaled down to
s66.29l, 900. In addition to the usual
appropriations the bill authorizes con
struction of two sixteen-inch coast de-
fense guns for use at Parbois Point,
Hawaii.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
RAIL STRIKERS
LOSING GROUND
BREAK REPORTED IN CHICAGO
AND OTHER CITIES, DECLARE
UNION HEADS.
10000 RAIL MEN OUT
UNIONS ASK MORE FROM RAIL
ROADS IN WHICH TO BREAK
STRIKE.
we.Lern Newapaner Union New. seryIee.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
unauthorized strike of switchmen and
enginemen at Chicago, where it start
ed, spreading to a number of cities,
has been announced by A. L. Whitney,
vice president of the Brotherhood of
liallroad TIainmen. who conferred
with committee of strikers from the
Chicago n Northwestern road.
The delegation was said to have
told Mr. Whitney that vote would be
taken within twenty-four hours, with
u view to ending the strike on that
railroad brotherhood officers said
that number of strikers had returned
io work, and predicted that the move
nicnt of freight in the Chicago area
would be near normal by next week.
Another group of strikers requested
the mayor of Chicago to take steps
to settle the strike by addressing Il
mass meeting of yard employees"
Leaders of the insurgents said the
strike not only was not broken, but
would be carried on until new union
WAS completed.
Reports from rail centers through
out the country indicated that nearly
10000 railroad men were on strike.
Freight embargoes We're declared in a
number of cities. Breaks in the strike
We're reported in II few places.
Swltchmen and brakemen on the
Missouri Pacific railroad at Sedalia,
in,
returned to work again in the after
noon. Railroad Officers in the New
York area reported that strikers We're
returning to New Jersey yards, where
about half the workers struck.
Heads of the brotherhood denounced
the strike as purely an attempt to dis
rupt the old unions More time in
which to break the strike was asked
in Il letter addressed to the Western
Association of Railways by the five big
railroad brotherlIoods.
I'VE wish 10 assure the railroads
with whom we have contracts that il
is our purpose to support the integrity
of these contracts by endeavoring to
protect them to the fullest extent, in
order that the public may not be Sc
riously inconvenienced," the letter
said
I'VE appreciate, however, that owing
to present economic conditions over
which we have no control, and the fact
thar the situation has been grossly
misrepresented by irresponsible per
sons who have assumed dictatorship OF
nm unorganized body of men, 1t VIII
be difficult for us entirely to relieve
the situation until we have had fur
ther opportunity to meet and talk with
our members. We believe the railroads
will cooperate with us to that end"
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
U. 8. to Celebrate American pav..

New York.-The National Security
League has announced here that ar
rangements have been completed In
142 lending cities in forty-three states
for the holding of American day
parades on May L. in accordance with
the leagues plan for II nationwide
Americnnisn demonstration to coun-
teract the usual radical May day" eel
ebrations. The committee estimates
that more than 200 parades, public
speaking and. otser demonstrations
sill be held
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
Irish OUTRAGE, Continue.

London.-Further outrages in differ.
ent parts of Ireland have been report
ed. A vacated police barracks at
Blackroy, outside the Limerick bound
AIRY, WAS burned down. Four men ar
rested under the defense OF the realm
act were taken to Corn. A Nemagh,
Tipperary, report says three constables
were shot at while riding bicycles from
Rear Cross to Newport. 1t Is said that
one of the constables was killed, that
another was fatally injured and the
third badly wounded
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
SHOT THROUGH HEAD
HUSBAND PROTESTS KNoWL,
EDGE OF CRIME.
RANG FOUND DEAD BY
SCHOOL TEACHER NEAR
WRAY, COLO.
western Newspaper Union New. service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Wray. Colo. April 9.-rArtie y. Me
kee. q well-to-do young ranchmnn Sev-
enieen miles southeast Of Wray. has
been named as defendant in com
plalni filed in Justice of the Peuc.
Court, charging him with the murder
of his wife, Clara Douglas Mckee, -
who was found dead I'm their ranch
home Monday by Miss Gladys Hilary
the school teacher of the district,
when, in company with Mckee, she
drove to the Mckee home, where she
was staying.
Since Sheriff W. II. Hitchcock OF
Yuma county arrested Mckee at the
ranch, the young ranchmnn has stout
ly declared that he had no connection
with the crime and asserts That he
was dumbfounded when Miss Hilary
entered the house and discovered the
body.
A coroners inquest called by Coro-
ner L. j. Owen, and at which Mckee
WAS n witness, resulted In an open
verdict, The jurors finding that Mrs
Mckee came 10 her death by gun.
shot wound felonlously caused by II
person unknown TO them.
The murder OF Mrs. Mckee. who
was II daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. james
Douglas, pioneers OF Yuma county, has
caused u sensation In this part OF the
state which has not been equaled In
years
Mckee left the ranch TO drive In his
automobile TO the community mail box
four miles away
On the way back to the ranch he
stopped at the school house to pick up
Miss Hilary, who had been residing at
the Mckee home while teaching at the
district school
At the Inquest Mckee said lie was
absent abouf two hours.
Arriving AT The ranch, Mckee drove
the car into the garage and was busy
putting II away there while Miss
Hilary went into the ranch house
When the young school teacher en-
tered the home she found Mrs Mckee
lying In n pool of blood on the floor.
and across her body lay the little
2-year-old daughter of the house.
sound asleep, the clild's tear-stalned
face indicating that she had cried her
self TO sleep on her mothers llfelesS
breast.
Mrs. Mckee had been shot in the
back of the head Her body was still
warm, according to Miss Hilary and
other witnesses nj the inquest.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
MEXICAN REVOLT
Is SPREADINe
WILL RESIST ANY ATTEMPT 5y
CARRANZA TO REGAIN
STATE.
SONORA is REPUBLIC
ALL FEDERAL PROPERTY HAS
BEEN SEIZED AT NooAIHs
AND AQUA PRIETA.
western ts.wspaper Union N.w. s,r,Ic..

Western Newspaper Union New. servics.
Nogales Sonora. April 12.-Custom
houses and all property of, the federal
government of Mexico have been for
mally seized in the name Of the Re
public of sonora here
The customs house at Aqua Prleta,
across the line from Douglas, Ariz.,
has been seized in the name of the
Sonora state government and armed
men are guarding the building. Tn.
immigration office and the postoffics
authorities
The employees of the customs office
and Of the other federal departments
have declared their loyalty to the state
government.
Sonora state officials, headed by
Adolpho de la Huerta, governor OF So
nora, who has been proclaimed "Su-
preme Power of the Republic of So.
nora" by the State Congress, declared,
while the state had seeded, 1t would
return TO the Mexican republic upon
guarantees from the national admin
istration that there would be no in
fringement of the states rights by the
federal government.
The secession, according to the Off
cials, was brought about by Carranza
ordering federal troops into the state.
They said the next move was up 10
Carranzo Unless he acts. political
leaders of Sonora said, the new repub-
lie would defy the Mexican federal
government and resist with armed
forces any attempt of Carrsnzs to
take back the state by force
Gen. p. Elias Gales, former COVER
nor of Sonora. and who recently re
been made supreme military com
mander of the states military forces
Gales has issued proclamation call
ing for volunteers and calling on all
soldiers in the state to rally against
any threatened invasion by Carranza
forces
Spread of the secession movement
to other states, unless the Mexican
government acts quickly, was rsS-s.
cast.
The Sinaloa State Congress, accord
ing to information received here, has
lndorsed the action of the Sonora Con
gress in demanding constitutional
rights. and Lower California. accord
ing to these reports, is expected TO do
the same. Slnaloa politics are closely
interviewer with Sonora's, and both
states are largely controlled by Gen.
Alvaro Obregon
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
Death End. Life Race.

Prescott, Ariz.-Deatl ended specu-
lation of weeks as to which one of the
two oldest men in the State Pioneers
Home here, one of them reputed to be
the oldest white man in Arizona, would
be first to pass over the great divide.
Thomas j. Foster, 9S years and z
months old. died at rs p. M Louis
Dugas, nearly 10, died at 6 % p. m
They had expected their passing, and
Foster was Interested in the hour of
his death and that of Dugas. Foster
was teamster in Arizona in 1854 and
an employe at old Fort Whlpple.
The Elbert County tribune., 1920-04-16
May File Proceeding. Ao.In.. cr..I

Washington.-Lega proceedings by
the government against George Creel.
former chairman of the committee on
public Information Roger W. Bnbson
OF Wellesley Hills. Mass, and others
concerned in the transfer OF the com
mittees war publication. the Official
Bulletin. TO Babson, are recommended
IN report made public by Senator
Smoot, Republican, of Utah. chairman.
and Representative Kiess. Republl-
can, Vice chairman OF the Joint con
gressional printing committee.