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Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
Mean swindIino

One of the meanest forms of swind
ling that farmers and fruit growers
nave for years been subject TO is thai
practiced by commission houses. Sc
ger eral has become the crookedness
that it is not safe to ship produce tc
some cities if it is to be sold on com
mission. And every city has a con-
siderable contingent Of sharks engaged
ia robbfpg the producer under guise OF
Estimate business. The Rural New
Yorker has long waged q. valiant fight
against these pirates and now
Everybody's Magazine has shown up
the Chicago gang in a way that as
caused them to take notice.-Bristo
Press
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
WHAT is GOING ON TONIGHT

Vaudeville and Motion Pictures at
the Auditorium.
Moving Pictures and Illustrated Songs
at Breed Theater.
Drill of Third Company at Armory.
Norwich Lodge, No. 4S6. B. P, O. E.,
meets in Pythian Hall.
Canton oneco, No. 3, l. o. Q. F.. meets
in Odd Fellows Hall.
Court sachem, No. "a. F. of A., meets
in Foresters' Hall.
Germania Lodge, No. II. o. D. H. s..
meets in Germania Hall.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Traffic between the eastern and
western coasts OF the USaited States
by way Of Ist1tous railways and
steamship lines amounted to~s6eoseo0
600 in value in 1898. marked increase
ever any earlier year.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Baron Goto. miaister Of cOmmAlni-
cations. is investigating the aAviss.
hility Of trans porting nfteB by autoule-
b1es in the principal cities I'd, japan,
and also possibly to distant points
where railway traffic is. not yet opened.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

The number Of pilgrims WHO went
to the holy places Of Islam CWeoca
ard Medina) this season is estimated
at about 179 000.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Those who figure in advance esti-
mate that Greater New Works. popu-
lation in 1850 will be close to $4,000
zoe
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Eleven years ago the production Of
the automobile factories could not bs
figured at more than sA00G0o0. whihe
the output of automobiles al0ne this
YEAR will not be less than $fSe. 0o0. 0se
in value while the value Of acoesso-
RES and parts win run into many mill
lions more.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
MICH IN LITTLE

Crops in Mancisaria. arc reported e.
be the best In 30 years.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Madagascar hzs.now an sutornobile
service between AntsiraHe and Tam
narive. the capital
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

A solace for men, comfort to wom-
en-. and a 10" to children. Williams
Root Beer.-adv.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
PERSONS TALKED ABOUT

Consul General r. NJ Bartleman Of
Buenos Ayres reports that Sunday g.
20. are erecting new grain elevator,
whose intake capacity viii be $4,000
tons per "a holrs at Rosario the see
ono city in population in Argentina
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Patrician, woman's shoe that's
right See the latest styles in high
and low shoes at SO. 50 and $500. Sold
only by Frank A. Bill. lO4 Main street.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
ANNOUNCEMENT

FOR Dyspepsia take Horsford's Acid
Phosphcte. Relieves the continued
sense OF hunger, sick headache, nausea
and sour stomach.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

States Attorney Wyman knows. or
thinks he knows. how to- cure Chicago
Of the crime habit. In an addFess be-
fore the Traffic club he said: GIVE
ms a secret fund Of s15 600 or $50 :
ocO. with which to secure evidence
AID iuIies composed of business men,
ard / viii drive crime away from Chi
cago and Cook county"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

AHOSGs slHldhS IdtAIltH III Dt oVsVVO
tons per "a ho1rs. at Rosario. the sec
ono city in population in Argentina
----
The trustees Af Dartmouth college
az recent meeting elected DR.. Ernest
Fox Nichols, formerly head Of the de-.
rartment of physics at Dartmouth,
president of Dartmouth. to succeed Or.
W. j. Tucker, who has resigned be-
cause OF i'll health.
Timothy Healy. in a recent debate
Of the new British budget. from the
standpoint of its effect on Ireland.
l,rpetrated a delightful bull. Said
lie: I'VE have to wear the shoe. and
all we know is that the proof of the
padding is in the eating
George W. Kirchwey. dean of the
law school of Columbia university
since 1901 has resigned the Office in
order to have more time for teaching
ard writing. He retains the Kent pro-
fessorship in the law school. Prof.
FAIRY A. Gushing will act as dean
Tor the present.
w. P. Conger Of McMinnville. Tenn,
thinks he has found a place where he
can sell liquor without violating the
state prohibition law, which will be-
lme effective July 1, The spot is four
miles from any Scnooln0uSe, ana IL IS
reported that Conger has guarded
at ainst intrusion by educational insti-
tptions by leasing all the land within
four miles.
The wealthy Philadelphia manufac-
turer. Joseph Fels, has agreed to du
riicate every dollar, up to s250,0e0,
raised by the single takers in America
ard England for a propaganda fund.
FJe is now in Great Britain and writes
to friends in New York that the taxa
ton of land values has passed the
academic stage. and is coming into
the practical consideration of euro
pean statesmen and economics gener-
ally.
Princess Elizabeth, wife of the crown
prince of Bavaria, has graduated in
medicine and has fountied a hospital
for children in Brussels. Those who
remember the Belgium building at the
St Louis worlds fair will remember
the treats that were given children in
her name Added to all her other ac-
complishments is that of playwri ting,
aer effort in that direction being so
brilliant that theater managers IRE
asking for the privilege Of producing
T.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

South America had newspapers as
long ago as 1894.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
AT A COURT or PRORATE HELD

AT A COURT OF PROBATE HE'LL
at Norwich. within and, for the District
of Norwich. on the 18th day of June.
AID. 1909.
son J. AYLING, Judge.
Estate off Emma Reyell, late of Nor
wich in said District, deceased.
Percival w. Chapman of Norwich,
Conn, appeared in Court and filed a
petition praying, for the reasons there
in set forth. that an instrument pur-
porting to be the last will and tesla
ment of said deceased be admitted to
probate.
Whereupon. IT. Is Ordered, That said
petition be heard and determined at
The Probate Court Room in the City
of Norwich. in said District. on the
21st day of June, A. D. 1909, az II
o'clock noon, and that notice of the
tendency of said petition, and of said
hearing thereon, be given by the pub
LEGATION of this order one time in some
newspaper having a circulation in said
District. at least three days prior to
the date of said hearing, and that re-
turn be made to this Court.
NELSON j. AYLING, Judge.
The above and foregoing is a true
copy of record.
Attest: FANNIE C. CHTRCH.
je17d Clerk.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
LEGAL NOTICES.
notice.!

The annual meeting of the legal
voters of the Sixth School District of
the Town of Preston will be held in
the schoolhouss in said District on the
18th day of June, 1909. at z o'clock
p m.
Ito elect the officers of the. District
for the ensuing year.
ITO lay tax for District purposes.
and to do any other business lawful to
be done at said meeting.
Dated at Preston, this 18th day of
June 1909.
lSigned) o. T. HARRIS,
je17d District Cpmrlittee.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

Consul General David F. Wilbur Of
Halifax writes that while some Of tise
y ova Scotia fishermen still make nets,
the practice is becoming rare. Canada
now imports annually nearly S4e0a9o0
\, crth of nets. trawl hines, gihng
thread in balls. head ropes. barked
.irarline and net morsels of cotton,
hemp or fax. and deep-s sea fish nets.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
STONE

I have a fine quality of building
stone in the quarry for sale. Also
several hundred load of rough wall
and cellar stone.
WIN. r. JEwETT,
apr2sMTh Norwich Town.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

The British income tax I'm one form
'cr another hats been in force with some
scrt and some long intervals OF free
doni from H. for 40 years. Since lSl2
its operation has been almost contin-
hnus. In 1893. when the tax was first
FL piled and Ireland was not included,
ITO population on switch II was laid
was approximately ssaoeaooe.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17

John L. Atkinson Of Newberry. $.
c. has on his place two extraordinary
g~owths. one is a grape vine "a
IL ches In diameter and more than lee
feet long 80 feet cofled on and near
the ground and nearly 100 feet up a
tree: another. a walnut tree three feet
two inches In diameter, or more than
six feet around. and 80 feet from the
ground TO the lowest limb.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-17
Wanted for the Beach

Four young women for dish wash
ing, two fine ironers, mattresses, gen.
eral workers and good cooks.
]. 3. LUCAS,
jun1Od Central Building.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28

An hours imprisoned talk by A. G..
Rankin failed to wiring an indorse-
ment of the new prohibitory amend
ment alliance from the Des Monies
Ministerial association. The associa-
ton also refused to again indorse the
old amendment federation and will
continue the hearing next Monday to
determine If the old organization is
out of existence. AS the matter
stands, the new alliance is without
any ministerial sanction at the state
capital at the very beginning of it's
movement. This is as it should be.
The attempt to force prohibition into
the state constitution, where it does
not belong, should be opposed by min
isterial associations all over Iowa and
by all the real friends of temperance
in and out of the churches. No good
purpose could possibly be served by
so numbering UP the constitution with
extraneous matter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
a Gun in the House.

st Louis Post-Dispatch: The nine
year-old Keokuk boy who shot and
killed the man who had spanked him
says he didn't know it was loaded.
Men with boards. men who are sup
posed to have reached years of discre-
ton. can learn something from this
pitiful homicide; don't imagine for a
moment that child has no self-re-
spect. Is not sensitive as older people,
and does not resent treatment, even in
sport, which wounds his dignity and
produces shame. Children are not
playthings and their use is not pri-
marily to afford amusement for their
grown up friends.
Another suggestion may be useful
to all the world Guns are dangerous
toys when they are loaded, and nobody
can ever tell when they are loaded.
Hence, the practical conclusion that
they are always dangerous. The only
use for a gun is for legitimate hunt
ing purposes. ALL else Is abus and
abominatfon. The vast majority OF
people have no use for gun at any
time, and there Is no good reason why
they should own one. Hunters should
keep theirs under lock and key. where
all persons who do not know it II
loaded cannot get at It for innocent
or felonious purposes.
1t does not seem probable that this
Keokuk infant intended to do more
than get revenge by soaring the man
who had degraded him. But. howeve
that may be, the gun ought not to have
been within his reach. One mai
killed and one hoy with darkene'
future-that is what came OF a gun
IN the house.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
Parental Responsibility.

Cedar Rapids Republican: A para
graph in the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
says:
by the multiplication of laws en-
acted to control the conduct o minors,
parents are being gradually relieved
OF all responsibility of bringing Up
their boys
1t may be that parents will take
this view OF It; that is the tendency of
such legislation; but II parents do take
this view OF it, woe to the young peo-
ple of this age. for no state through
the fundamentally of statute laws can
take the parents place. Statutes may
indeed assume the responsibility, but
states cannot make good when they
take UP such a burden.
The whole modern tendency to at
tempt such things is wrong in prin-
ciple and the effects Of 1t cannot be
ANYTHING else than evil. Parents
should understand at the outset that
they alone are primarily responsible
for the morals Of their children-for
their habits and for their welfare phys
lical and moral. Take away this re
sponsibility from parents and child
rem will grow up" like Topsy did
The state simply cannot do what some
theorists think 1t can do. 1t can pass
all the laws relative to this subject
Imaginable and supplement hem with
Icurfew laws and other devices; and
vet children, unless parents do theil
duty. will go to the devil across lots
We are old fashioned enough to be
iiieye in the old theories regarding the
training of children. The responsi
lbility rests primarily with the par
ents; and the parents should be made
to feel that they, and they alone, bea
this burden of responsibility.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
home. A growing tomato vino !,

home. A growing tomato vine /.
much more of an ornament Than -
empty tomato can in the back ward
and blister on your hand resultins
from gripping a hoehandle much t.
be preferred to CLASSY spot on tha
seat Of your trousers due to constant
contact with porch chair. A meltad
down collar due to eradicatine nars,ay
is no more difficult to launder than
one rendered unserviceable plav,ny
one-old-cat with the boy and il viii
produce whole lot more for the
family table. The backyard bean and
spud are gold mines on small scale
which are more certain to render div.
'dends than the kind which gives bsch
nothing but gilded certificate whose
only purpose is to remind you in sinh
sequent year. that a chump and hi,
money had been parted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
The Tariff on Hosiery.

Fairfield Ledger: The Ledge isn't
certain that IT would raise the duties
ON hosiery and gloves as the Payne
bill does. because 1t knows little about
the case. And yet It believes II knows
fully az much as manv Of the people
who are doing the bowling. Mr.. Payne
says the duty on 25-cent hose is raised
from 1 % cents to III cents pair.
and anybody should know that such
an increase viii not warrant and could
not possibly make an increase OF 20
cents pair, as the crusaders say 1t
will. They are simply lying. DIR. Payne
further says thai Marshall Field & Co.,
Carson, Pirie. Scott & Co, OF Chicago
Lord G. Taylor. Arnold, Constable q
Co., OF New York. and dozen others
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28

we are now in the throes Of our sec
ond waterway agitation. largely due to
the work of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress. The first agitation
followed hard on the revolution, and
in far reaching effect shared with the
Declaration of independence the dis
tinction of having opened the most i'm
portant era in America history AS
the matter presents itself to Senator
Elkins the agitation now going on
gives abundant promise of still
more far-reaching revolution, peace
full though it is, than was ever con-
templated in the far-off DAYS Of Wash
ingtor and Gallatin. We have reach
ed the cross roads 0: the waters, and
he says it behooves us to build them,
not only for ourselves, but for pos
terity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
ELkINs FAvoRs BOND ISSUE.

Whlle hardly prepared to indorse
the ST. Louis idea of $500 oon 600
pond issue for improvement of water.
ways of the United States Senator
stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia
still is of the opinion that posterity
should bear some of the obligations
Of the development, for posteritv will
enjoy the vast benefits. Senator
Elk1ns Is chairman of the Interstate
commerce Committee and ranking
member of the Committee on Com
merce. He said the other day.
i believe that current revenues will
Do sufficient to work out some com
prehensive system of WATERWAYS de.
velopment, covering long period Of
years, but should current revenues fail
to meet current obligations then |
would not hesitate to place an addi-
tional obligation upon posterity. that
we may have in the United States a
perfect network OF waterways as
have the countries of Europe. | say
this because posterity for all time will
enjoy the vast benefits of such i'm
proyement and development.
What we need most in the United
States Is some fixed plan for impro--
ing our rivers, which can be made
navigable by the expenditure of con-
servative sum every year. Piecemeal
appropriations are things of the past.
i so far as waterway devel pment is
+ concerned. We have been 90 careless
and unmindful of the benefits and ad-
yantages of these great water courses
with which nature has so bountifully
4 supplied US. and we have seen whole
! harbors and rivers closed up which
could have been kept open All this
Should be prevented, and we should
harness the rivers, seas and lakes to
do their proportion of the work OF
commerce building as railroads have
The railroad goes everywhere; the
river has no feeders. except as ii may
now and then have tributary for its
course is fixed by immutable law.
While | am opposed primarily tc
putting larger debt upon the Ameri
can people, l feel convinced sometimes
that this great waterway problem o.
development should be born in meas
ure, or, l may say, largely. by those
who come after US. When We have
:. 125 100000 of people. and that time il
not so very far away, we will need tn,
water courses help to handle ou
great traffic, especially the heavier AM
bulkier freight. The railroad is tn,
express messenger to handle tn,
lighter and more perishable freight
So that the river and the railroad hav,
each their proper function, and W,
should not be blinded to those condi
tons"
Senator Elkins went on TO say tina
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28

Rev. BILLY" Sun lay is now making
Marshalltown sinners sit up and
take notice. They probably do not
vary much one way or the other from
the average OF unregenerates. but the
baseball evangelist will leave nothing
undone to convince them that they
are by all odds the worst bunch that
ever came down the pike. 1t is all q
part of Mr.. Sundays tactics in bring
ing about the regeneration of the
world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
Get the Garden Habit.

Omaha Bee: In these days when the
cost of living is mounting up until
the problem of making the income ac-
count balance the needs of the family.
is good time to turn for relief to the
back yard garden. The amount which
can be raised on a small plot of
ground well titled is astonishing and
the utilization of these patches, which
are lying idle, may be big factor In
solving the economic problem Of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
DECREASE IN DEAD LETTERS.
Campaign Of Education Cause Of DIFF
ference In Record-Thousands Of
Post Cards Destroyed.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 2s.-
A decrease of ten per cent is shown in
the amount Of undelivered mail matter
received at the division of dead letters
during the first three months of 1909,
as compared with the same period in
1908, the number Of pieces received be-
ing 3,018,642 and 3,374,739, respective
". The number of letters containing
money shows decrease from 20,S55 to
1876. which is particularly gratifying
to the post Office department officials,
as showing more care in transmitting
money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
keokuk, Iowa ......... April %, 1909.

OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE.
Women there are on earth, most sweet
and high,
Who lose their own, and walk bereft
and lonely,
Loving that one lost heart until they
die,
Loving it only.
And SO they never see beside them
grow
Children, whose coming is like
breath of flowers;
Consoled by subtler loves the angels
Through childless hours.
Good deeds they do; they comfort and
they bless
In duties others put off till the NOR
row;
Their look is balm, their touch is ten
derness
To all in sorrow.
Betimes the world smiles at them, as
twere shame,
This maiden guise, long after youth s
departed;
But in Gods book they bear another
name,
"The faithful-hearted."
Faithful in life. and faithful unto
death,
Such souls. in scotia. illume with lus
ter splendid
That glimpsed, glad land wherein. tn
vision saith,
Earth's wrongs are ended.
Richard Brown in the May Century
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
THE DAILY GATE CITY

large firms maintain factories for the
manufacture OF hosiery in Germany.
where cheap labor Is an important fac
tor, and want to get their product into
the United States with small duty
rather than have 1t made here. 1t is
well to remember thai the importer
of foreign goods is ever free trader
It is to his interest to prevent manu-
featuring at home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28

A company capitalized at s6,o0o,000
proposes to develop 10000 horse
power of electrical energy on the Win
nipeg river in Manitoba, Canada, and
distribute it ali over the province A
canal costing s1Ooc,o 900 will be dug,
and sixty-three towns will be supplied
with power If such thing is feast
bic in the sparsely settled Canadian
northwest it should not be impossible
of accomplishment at Keokuk in the
center of the rich and populous Miss
Issippi Valley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28

A rule proposed requiring all Metho-
dist ministers to bend the knee when
enga: ed in public prayer was laid
ON the table at the regular Monday
meeting OF the ministers of that de-
nomination in Cincinnati Several Of
the ministers expressed the view that
it was unwise to adopt it as the atti-
tude of prayer was a matter that
should be left to the discretion of the
individual
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
a. Word for the Red Fez.

Waterloo Reporter: The Keokuk
Gate City declares mo reform In Tur-
key will be complete that does not in
clude abolition OF the red fez." The
Keokuk paper will please confine It's
edict for abolition of the red fez to
Turkish territory. Quite number OF
desirable citizens in this land think
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-28
SETTLE THE TARIFF PROMPTLY.

SETTLE THE TARIFF PROMPTLY.
Raymond Patterson writes from
Washington to the Chicago Tribune
that letters received by conservative
senators and representatives seem to
indicate that the country is more in
terested in securing speedy settle
ment of the tariff dispute than in set
thing individual rates and schedules.
Business men are beginning to write
to their members and senators that
congress will be held responsible un-
less action Is taken on the tariff
promptly and that the country will not
tolerate long speeches on any subject,
no matter how important. Raymond
goes on to say:
The people do not believe that the
tarllf rates will be raised or lowered
as result Of any debate whatsoever.
they are convinced that both the SEN
ate and house have made up their
minds about what kind of a bill is to
be passed.
What they want is that the senate
get down to business, stop long
speeches, and send the bill to confer
ence. where it will have to be thrashed
out anyway leaving the President
and finally tn people to pass on it as
a finished product"
The letters to which RAYMOND re
fers above undoubtedly represent thu
best business sentiment of the coun
try. Just now the country is in
waiting attitude, to see what congress
will do as to the tariff. All is uncer
tainty, and business will continue at
standstill until every element of doub
Is eliminated. So far as business ir
terests generally are concerned,
would be better to pass tariff meas
ure promptly even if it be faulty i
certain particulars than to procee
leisurely with the view of securing
more nearly perfect bill Prom
settlement of the tariff matter is MOI
important than nice adjustment
individual rates and schedules. TT
e necessary delay will only tend to i
e crease public Impotence and dissa
If isfaction with the work of the tar
l. tinkers.