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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

excellent condition, and Mrs. Metzger
Vile OF the present owner, says that
the roof is without II leak.
Henry ShTll built his own sawmiyl
10 cut the loge for the building and
burned the brick he used. The house
contains large rooms, and has large
veranda above and below, which ex-
tends the entire length of the house.
About 1920 stage line was estab-
llshed, running from Mansfield to
PITTSBURGH, and for thirty years the
system fourished. 1t was during this
time that the old tavern saw the most
OF Its historic gayety. It was in much
use at this time, as travellers on the
stage line invariably used it as a stop
ping place in their trips.
One of the most striking features Of
he house proper is the front door
This door is built or a solid piece of
Yak, and the outside is paneled in
he old colonial fashion. The side
are also quaint, and tho
atch, with heavy lock on the inside
OF a style seldom seen new.
On the farm near the tavern is tho
null family graveyard There was
o other burial ground in the vicinity t
t that time
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
IMPORTANT, BUT NOT TRUE

manufacturers Record: We do not
thlnk that Mr.. Roosevelt, the demo-
cratic candidate for vice president.
VIII repeat in another address the fol-
lowing statement:
The republicans are PLAYING sbe,l
game on the American people. because
they are still busy circulating the
story that England has six votes n
Anierlca one 1t is just the other
way. AS matter of fact, the United
states mas about twelve votes in the
assembly. Until last week had two
OF them myself, and now Secretary
Danlels has them. You know have
had something to do with the running
OF couple OF little republics. Facts
are that ! wrote Haiti's constitution
myself, and If do say it, / think it
pretty good constitution
Omitting reference to the improp
rlety OF the remarks and the woeful
disregard they show for the rights of
small nations, it may be stated that
nigh officials of the department of
state were not only amazed at the
statement made, but also question its
accuracy 1t is true, they believe,
that the tc1dency of smaller American
nations would be to vote with the
United States, but there are innumera-
bic questions where the mere spirit of
perversity would cause them to be an
Lagonistic. AS to the United States
having actual control of the votes OF
these small nations in the league as
'embly, there is only one answer and
hat is complete one The control
1oes not exist.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
An Ohio Stage Coach Tavern


cleveland Plain Dealer: Nestled
among the hills of Osnaburg township
on the old state road between Pitts,
nufg and Mansfield, stands the old
shuli tavern, relic of the stage
coach days :
Inc early ancestors of the present
Shull family came originally from the
Black forest in Germany. In 1852
because OF wars which agitated En-.
rope at that time, they emigrated 70
america, crossing the Atlantic on the
snow Louise, of Rotterdam. From
thls family came Henry ShuII. who
moved to Ohio in 1906 and took a sec.
non of land on the old state road
"here he built the old two-story build.
ing which is still known as the Shul,
,aVern. The old home is now ia
years old. but the walls are still in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
BUSINESS FARMERS.

MarshaIltown Times-Republican
Iowa people can congratulate them
selves that its farm bureau move.
ment has taken the form of sane and
common sense business effort to i'm
prove the farming business instead
of the chimerical, socialistic and
dangerous program of the Non-Parti-
san league of North Dakota which
has come very close to capturing the
republican party of the neighboring
state of Minnesota in spite of the
fact that some of its leaders have
actually been tried and found guilty
of disloyal utterances during the
war.
In the recent primaries in Mime
sofa the socialistic farmer movement
came within very few votes of
naming one of its own radicals for
governor on the republican ticket
As it was, the Non-Partisan league
candidate carried fifty-four out of
eighty-six counties for governor and
half of the congressional districts OF
that state. The league has nominated
its members for ninety out of one
hundred and thirty-one places TO be
filled in the lower house of the
legislature.
Here in Iowa the farm bureau infiu-
ence is credited with having tipped
the convention balance to Kendall for
governor, which was its right to do.
but the difference is made up in the
political and economic doctrines of
the two organizations In the north (
srn states, socialistic demagogues or. I
agitators influence the prejudices of !
renter class of farmers against all I
business enterprises which are not on !
hat farm. According to their doc /
rine, every man who makes his liy I
ng by rendering business service 10
armers in free competition with the 4
world Is leech upon the farming i
business and all kinds of paternaIis. )
&c, socialistic, inpracticabIe schemes II
re financed with public money untfl II
axes in North Dakota have more It
nan doubled. So great a public mon IL
ce has this modern populistic move Ii
nent become, that the saner element t
as caused the democrats and repub. ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
THE UNLOVELY "aSN. =

Emerson, according to the Christian Century
once objected to the word ''snob, y which Mrs
Emerson had applied to woman of her &C
qualntance. II do not like ii, he said. 81
/ particularly dislike all words beginning with
sn' Though she is a snob, you might call he1
la person who is very charitably disposed to-
ward success
] Looking into Mr. Emerson confession of his
dislike for all words beginning with ''sn, y we
Ind that there not many such words in com
mon use, although there are a-plenty in the die
Itlonarles; almost all Of those commonly used
are proper nouns descriptive of very unlovelv
traits and things There is of course '.snake. y
man s most detested enemy from times scrip
tural And then sneak which defines the
snake IN human form. And of course '.snoop. ,,
which describes petty spy and informer. also
'snlplng, :, that despicable enterprise of war
fare which arouses all the fury of honest. clean
fighting soldiers.
linen, too, we have "sneer,'' which is the
characteristic expression on the face of q
snob, /" and Snatch, - which brings to mind
both picture Of ungenerousness in action or
in conversation. Even
smoker" is belittling Of the wholesome hearty
laughter Of humans, and describes the furtiye
Or sarcastic laughter
Sn IS surely hoodoo combination Not
only has it brought curse to practically every
word which it begins, but in the instance of that
me word which always brought pleasant mem +
,rles, smack the hoodoo continued For i
low, thanks to Jealous reformers all the iov I
las been removed from this word, and smack,
axes it place today with the other unlovely l.
md unattractive words which must have arous. |,
ID the dislike Of our primitive ancestors as well
IS the distinguished Emerson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
The BIessino Of whec, Ho.s

Herbert s. Houston, in Worlds
work: Introducing the French peas
ant to the great value of machinery
IN tilling soil is probably Americas
best contribution to the work of re-.
construction. The holdings of land
otten cover but few acres and the
peasant has found that the wheel
noe for example, will do the work
OF SIX men and, on large farms. that
tne tractor will plow more land than
SIX horses. This is a revelation,
a:scoVery of astonishing moment to
MN. And he has formed hundreds
Oh cooperative societies TO buy and
operate tractors. He has claimed the
wheel hoe for his own and wants to
zee its tribe Increased.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

llicans to combine in North Dakota "a
drive the radicals out.
| Here in Iowa the farm bureau
movement is being managed by
farmers who own their farms. They
understand the rights of private
ownership of property. They are out
70 boost their own business by sane,
common sense and practical business
methods-not to destroy all other
business that heretofore has been
rendering service which individual
farmers have considered sufficiently
valuable to attract their patronage.
what they do they do with their own
resources, as capable business men
should do, and they do not seek the
soc1al1stic resort to governments own.
ership and government tax supnort
% boost the advantage of their bust
ness class.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

Here and everywhere we find that thi;
rugged backbone of the American can
hnent is inhabited by these mischief
loving gnomes of the tribe of Scirns.
JUST now Tar north of the territory Of
e0ese hardy little mountaineers ex.
lends | am unable to state. / saw them
several summers ago as far north as
me 1aho valley near Field on the
canadian Pacific railroad and they
probably live much farther north The
Sclrus is an extremely interesting
Tribe to lovers of animal life, and can
ana 40 succeed in making things in.
tefestIng for all the venturesome folk
VINO penetrate and live in their coun.
Try, SO that they are hated and. when
ever opportunity permits, are trapped
and killed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
The Blaine Hat

In the Worlds Work George Mac
Adam relates the following anecdote
of the early life of the present re.
publican nominee:
The symbol of admiration for the
great James G. Blaine was gray
felt high hat. One day Harding an.
peared at the Mirror [Marion1 Office
wearing one. He wore it when he
went about town on his reportoria]
work. The Mirror was a democratic
newspaper and that hat stirred m
bitterness. Soon complaints came TO
the editor. Harding was told tba,
he would have to leave his Blaine
hat at home. He refused and got fhe
ultimatum: "Give up your hat or your
lOD. He gave up the Job
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
OUR OLD FRIEND SLEEP.


What a jolly condition, this state wae call sleep!
When weary of work to hissbed creep,
There carking that all days his path haun
And all round the clock put himsef.in trance
It's not known by whom sleep first invented
But it does the work keeping mankind contented
While it's true tbs DER done by the idle and lazy
All that live must have sleep frenzied and crazy.
The aged, the virile, the child playing in glee,
The birds of the air and the fish in the sea,
The mad roaring beasts that roam desert and steep
Would all perish and vanish if 'twere not for Sleep
The poppy, fair flower that all round us grows
The asphodel, lily, the red blushing rose,
The TALL mighty through which soft zephyrs
All partake of the that is given by sleep
IT'S sleep that brings to- us the beautiful dreams
OF the Oughtto-be land with its farest of scenes,
Where the find rest where the wealth.
Where the i'll and the manned restored to their health
We shall sleep at the end off this fes itful fever,
To awaken? perhaps; maybe sumber forever
Well, why not? No terror the grave holds keeps
For the who's lived that it's pleasant Sleep
San Francisco Bulletin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
FACTS SUPPORT THIS PARADOX.

1T sounds paradoxical, = says Otto Ii. Kahn
but in larger sense it is true that Europe fol
the past year has been suffering less from the
effects of the war than from the effects OF
peace
/ 1t is a paradox, but the facts support it.
Great Britain. France, Italy, Belgium the CEN
trail territories where new nations have been
formed, all have shown great power to recover
the manpower loss and the physical property
loss they suffered in the war But mitigating at
this energy at renewal of physical power there
has been constantly at work the loss of morale
which the attempt to effect peace has wrought.
Had peace with Germany been made promptly;
had the business of physical reconstruction
been promptly begun in Europe then the work
OF planning and putting to work an alliance of
nations to keep the peace would have had the
vast benefit of a spirit Of hopefulness and Sc
curity. Instead of this reconstruction has |
aroused no hearty cooperative spirit; it has
in each nation severally and has re-
awakened the national ego rather than any real
entlment for joint concession and joint action.
The war had to be fought by the allies; Germany
creed this. But the pitiable failure to make a
eace suggested by the lesson Germany taught
J the fault Of the allied craftsmanship that Ia
ored at Paris
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
THE MISSING GIRL

Santa Ana Register: The prob.
lem of the missing girl is OF g
that afflicts city and country
alike. The automobile is partly
responsible. But the parents are
chiefly to blame.
The girl who accepts an invita-
ton to ride in an automobile with
a man she does not know, and
know well, takes her life and
honor into her hands--or rather,
she gives them into the hands
of the stranger. In only too many
cases the ride results In lifelong
sorrow. The next step in the
tragedy is the running away OF
the girls who does not want her
family to know what has happen
ed. She become one of the miss
ing girls.
Then there is the girl who runs
away from home because she
thinks she is misunderstood.
Sometimes she gets a good job
in another town and succeeds.
More often she fails, and does
not want the family to know it.
Parents" says Miss Sabina
executive secretary of
the Woman's Protective league,
ARE either too strict or too lax.
In families of foreign descent the
parents exercise an autocratic
This the American-born
resent and flee from. In
native American homes the ten
lency is to let the children be
90 free and to pay too little atten-
ion to them"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

The mother who does not pal"
with her girls and keep their
confidence is scored by the
authorities, So is the father who
does not teach his son the prin-
ciples of morality. One mother in
a college town was accustomed
to leave the house to her young
daughters and their friends in
the evening. The two daughters
sought admission to a home for
unfortunate girls within a few
weeks of each other. The. mother
did not know where they were.
They weer missing girls"
The superintendent Of this
home says virtually all the upwed
mothers who come to her were
allowed to "just grow" without
any proper home training. And
these girls come from all kinds
of homes, rich and poor, native
and foreign. Many of them ran
away from home. More than
$4,000 girls disappear in this
country every year." says the
secretary of the American Civic
Reform union.
Parents of growing girls and
boys cannot afford to be too busy,
or too reluctant to talk things
over with their children. They
should make things pleasant at
home for them, and should see
that a chaperonage which is not
so strict as to bar out whole
some fun, but which is never lax
enough to invite disaster, is at
Ill times maintained.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
Mrs. kirkwood is 90 years Ola

Des Moines Capital, August 81.
Inc surviving widow of Samuel T
hlrkwood. the famous Iowa war gov.
!ernor, who also served as senator and
secretary of the interior will he p;naI
.y-hine years OF age Wednesday. Her
nome IS IN Iowa City, the old kirk
WOOD homestead. In this busy age
many Iowa people have not known
tnat Mrs. kirkwood still lives. Some
OF her particular friends are planning
TO write personal letters to her TO-DAY
congratulating her upon her long life
and her good health.
Mrs. kirkwood made her home in
Des MONIES when her husband was
governor and doubtless many of the
older settlers of the city will remem.
Der her.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
Culture furnishes an excellent pair of
wings wherewith to soar in skies Of abstrac-
ton, but is a poor vehicle to carry one over
rough roads-Bertrand w. Sinclair
NOT FORGOTTEN; ONLY LESS NOISY.

When pundits begin to point big guns about
and make lot of noise with them, the first i'm
pulse is to run rapidly in search of shelter and
safety, the second to see whether they are max
ing hits or wasting ammunition. Sometimes the
second impulse leads one to observe that the
gunners In their eagerness to shatter an imagin-
airy target to bits have forgotten the projectiles
or replaced them with daylight fireworks
lSaudy things which float about in the air, max
Ing faces to brighten children and eventually
disappear upwards through the sheer lightness
OF their own content. Reading John Corbin,
who thunders at the world through the heavy
artillery OF the North American Review, one is
inclined to shudder at the ultimate fate he as
signs to the Forgotten Folk - that is to say the
salarled brain workers, until it is borne back up
on the memory that Mr.. Corbin thinks in the
pundlt mode, which he has practced since the
days when he went from Harvard to spend
year IN the halls Of Baliol college, part of Ok
ford university, and became more or less We
neered with the same Oxford intellectualitv
that shines abroad so luminously in men of the
British university type. The ''forgotten ones, ,,
asserts Mr.. Corbin, have no friends, no one to
stir up their class consciousness against that Of
The capitalist and the proetariat They paw
Tor everything and are rewarded by being call
ed bourgeois. Observe whether YOU come in
Mr Corblns category:
Yet the forgotten is the mind of the ma
ioil' II d nauon IN which such things happen can
oe sshu 10 nave mind. He is the underpaid clio
allu Vasller the undeTpaid buyer and salesman the
uhuerpald manager, laboratory worker LAWYER
uoctof' clergyman, professor. Untold millions of
.lese americans are totally unable 10 educate
thoLt Cnhdfen as they themselves were educated
una pie TO equip them for the work of their L;r5
IN the world Other millions have been nrnvan+na
py poverty from having children AT all For tba
pIeseht ths deeper cause is scarcely realized. M
voice OF protest is raised o' ho
In other words, the brain of the nation ;s =,
staheo IN molusc rabbit a worm lving
crushed under plank No! In spite of NJ i
Corpln s thmderous definitions, he is to be con.
tuteo by the example Of parson who has no,,or
peen paid more than a thousand dollars vow |
ye' sees Two daughters graduated from a bipb
senoo1 ana son about to complete. withontf
me- MI us lourtn year at well known university
Inc class that Mr.. Corbin patronizes is not for
sos'eh at all; 1t merely fights the battle of If.
WI" ", greater courage and less clamor tbor aaI0
others o'''llol Ihsn some "
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
An An,erie.. e

BOYS Life: Of course many Of
you do not know what is a mack rat
Well, he IL little gnona or fairy th,t
llses IN the woods, in the caves. and
may De found following what is known
as the great divide through old Mex
ico' up and into British America
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

Is it not nice for Debs9 All he has to do Is 70
walt until Stedman is elected vice president in
augurated In his place, signs pardon, shakes
MN warmly by the hand and announces to tba
waiting world of 2021 that the act is now ovor
Inc socialists certainly are rapid thinkers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

nooo,h p,,,;on - -.
~ 1oIe a. os ep nmua,., ~ .ne yeal
ana aoraIo "a Isl 'a 49,
90 M II,ma,es s mh iosl .I1n ,Is
~ N ciy ne hept
have elected Wilson
Cha rter Oak Times. coyernor GOV
is irwin, his durn,dast m 90, 30
naien of nnd SINGING st.rted and
vet he NAV como ont of ~ badiv H..
tsnatterad HE record ;s none To-
fclean Rut GRO NC ~ indoa :. NV
nv tho MISTAKES he mada vesterda,,
or nv his good iudpmant todavo co.
LEI tbe mnd rect There II is
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
A CONTEMPLATE sWINnT.E

The American Legion has begun a country
wide campaign to detect and bring to Justice the
swlndlers who are making a practice OF defraud
ing the next-of-kin of lnen who were killed in
the war by agreeing to provide them with in
formation as to the death or the location of the
graves OF the men in whom family and friends
are severally interested. No more outrageous
fraud than this has been perpetrated in the
many the aftermath of the war has revealed
These swlndlers carry certain fraudulent dozen
ments to win confidence of unsuspicious peonle
In their ability to get information through gov
eminent sources 1t is Of course, foolish TO no.
heVe that the government would give opriyate
set-seekers information withheld from the nax+-
of-kin OF its soldiers But the desire to have all
that can be learned of the death and burial of
members of families often transcends commo,
sense and as result profitable business bas
been done by rascals. The Legion with ;ts
members everywhere and in all departments of
work and community life ought to be able 70
both aid authorities in running down swindlers
and IN informing people of danger from them
The minister of finance in Mexico announcao
ar banquet the other day that within ten wears
his country will surprise the world. II can do
1t IN ten weeks by behaving itself less like j, +
bad boy and sticking to one president for a LEGAL /
t. r1n. o"'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

Webster City Freeman5Journa,:
Just now the farmers seem to be
getting the worst of the rise and fall
in prices.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

Hoover and Bryan entered into a
political conspiracy of silence?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

Many who is almost incapacitated by
III health old does fairly well with it because Of
habit; he has learned details well that fol-
oW them with his eyes shut Such always
in business than in anythingsese.-E w. Howe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

! Oelwein Register: The red may as
lwell pass up Iowa where SO per cent.
Iof the people own their own farms
and homes.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Tle
straw ballot worker will be on the
job very shortly now.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

Centerville Iowegian: Teddy's
stride was too much for frankie.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
The greatest masterpiece in the
Art Gallery Of Life Is Natures
Picture Of Health,

1t is marvellous portrayal Of the human
pody at It's best. One beholds in its composite
ahgure of striking appearance in ite erect car.
rage. clear skin. sparkling eyes, strong limbs.
steady nerves and firm muscles;fairly yibrat
ing IN animation - keen. alert, fresh and
and face radiant in color and illuminated .
with glow Of hope and cheerfulneas.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03

:, Could Nature have taken zou for ,,er ,,,,,.,,
suppose you study yourself in the mirror Of
~; re present and compare your looks, your feel
lhgs and your condition with the general
S.i. seer.sIice OF this picture of the human
pody in perfect working order. ali narts ~
wnlch are sound. well organized and disposed.
performing their functions freely, naturally
you fail in any single point of resen-
pa Dlahce. you are not the picture OF health.
means to rebuild your strength. enerev o,d
.gor-eo bring your body up to a normal
STATE OF efficiency in all of its parts.