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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
AS Times Change.

This river Of ours is a gift of God
to all the people to use it properly
and fully. The particular use we are
concerned with here Is Its use for
navigation, but it has other uses
worth considering and in the advance
of civilization no one can prophesy
what unthought-of work 1t may be
made to perform. None of the uses
to which it is put should interfere
with each other more than is abso-
lutely necessary. Its first use and
greatest use was for navigation, This
we are accustomed to think is it's
paramount duty still And yet con-
gress has allowed 1t to be bridged,
which is manifest injury or at least
an Inconvenience to navigation.
There was roar of protest when
4 the old bridge at Rock island was
( thrown across the river This bridge
! was most unfortunately located and
has since been removed, but its con-
struction was authorized not because
congress was careless about naviga-
ton but because the people of this
country wanted railroad connections
east and west without the interruption
of trains By ferrying. Since that
first bridge many more have been
authorized but learning by experience
the newer ones are much less obstruc
tive than the old and are only allow
ed at places where they will be as
little inconvenience as possible. Every
bridge is an inconvenience to a steam
boat but the few accidents at them
show that the danger at most CT them
is small. Congress has shown its in.
terest in the welfare of navigation by
removing and rebuilding the Rock
Island bridge IN a much better place
and we have right here an instance
at Hannibal where the government
d has done It's part to eliminate bridge
dangers. 1t has also enacted laws to
prevent encroachment on the river
and II is unlawful now to build piers
or other distractions out into the
stream without authority from the
secretary of war.
i Another use of the river of late
years is its use for water supply to
the cities and towns along its banks.
Congress has enacted laws to keep it
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

An evangelist in northwestern Iowa
is consigning sinners to hell by the
puintillion multiplied by infnity /"
How'd YOU like to have disposition
like that?
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

Abe Martin has noticed that the
most conspicuous folks on vacation
are generally the most obscure people
at home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

Mexico is again In the ltmelight
Huerta is evidently becoming dos
perate
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

pure and to put stop to its dehle.
ment by garbage and refuse, which
one town too often throws into ia
become a source of disease and dan.
ger 70 others below. The DAY will
come ! think when it will be unlaw.
'iui, as II IS in Germany, to discharge
unfreated sewage into the river.
Saving Great Waste.
ana now comes another use Of the
river, 10 harness its power for iadns.
triai uses After sixty years of
dreaming that it could be accomnIi =.
cd, a genius comes along and maEas
the dream fact. Congress autboriy
cd this because it was seen 10 he =
conservation OF something going 70
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

dams and spent huge sums on the
Seine and Rhine without very good
results. They finally sent a commits
sion OF engineers to Germany to see
how their methods worked out. This
commission visited the rivers OF Ger
many and on returning gave their
unanimous opinion that the German
methods were right and the French
all wrong, and since that the French
rivers have been improved by the use
OF wing dams. the same ss you see
are used here.
We have experimented somewhat
with trailing dams and used them In
few places but the general opinion
is that the same amount Of material
put into wing dams would have pro-
duced better results.
The suction dsedge has become In
these later years most valuable adj
.dition to the equipment for keeping
the river at a nsvigable depth The
work of improvement has done away
with SO many bad places that we
think we can handle the few remain
ing ones by dredging until the regu-
lation is complete These dredges, OF
which we have six now, are capable
Of making sufficient hole In the
sand bar in two or three days and
they have been q great help. They
are able to dispose of from 1000 to
10000 cubic yards in twenty-four
hours and put /. to one side, but they
do not make ordinarily q permanent
channel lasting over one season. The
problem is to find the high spots be
fore the water falls and get them
dredged In time.
show here some pictures of men
at work putting in the wing dams
which we rely on for making a per
manent improvement. You see the
building boat equipped with steam
capstan, the mattress beng sunk or
the line OF the dam and the men
throwing on the stone that sinks the
mat and is used to top off the struc
ture.
Here we have map of a stretch
OF river near Warsaw, Ill.,. made in
1911. In that year the channel was
bad and you will notice that the con
tours show no AZ TT. depth of chan
mel anywhere.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
Maxine a Channel.

Here is survey of the same chan
mel made in 1913. after executing the
scheme of improvement planned. You
will notice that the six foot channes
goes clear through and the bar has
melted away. Look at the depths
given by the soundings. Can any
doubt remain that six foot channel
is practicable? This map was taken
when the fluctuations of level from
the power house at Keokuk were in
force and is interesting particularly
on that account.
Indeed il any river of an alluvial
character is well adapted for improve
ment this Mississippi of ours is emf
nently SO. It has a gentle current.
Its banks are resistant to wash and
caving. It's sand bars are easily re-
moved by the use of wing dams and
1t conducts Itself in an orderly fash
ion. The range from high to low
water is small. 1t is fed at Its sources
by natural reservoirs consisting of
thousands OIL lakes and tamarack
swamps up in Minnesota and Wiscon
sin, and the government has built sew
eral artificial reservoirs which can be
used to store water against the low
water season.
All this is ideal.
will detain you no longer with
river improvements but set to the
second division Of my paper.
THE effect of the new power de-
velopment at Keokuk on navigation of
the river
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16
use Of WING pams.

The French originally worked for
years on their rivers with the trailing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-16

CONTINUED on page 50
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05

better not to invest at all. II there
is any element of risk present, 1t is
speculation and not investment. But
IT is possible to pay for more safety
than YOU really need, as, for instance,
In the case of Government Bond.
Then there is the interest rate or
yield of the investment. AS quite
general rule, the higher the rate OF
income, the lower the security of prin-
pal, although there are other factors
entering into the case, as, for exam
pie, a bond may be 80 readily market
able or have such a good chance OF
appreciation in value that its makers
know that 1t can be disposed of with
out the special inducement of high
interest rate.
A good investment ought also to be
stable in price. The investor ought
to know that his investment will al
ways be worth a hundred cents on the
dollar and that if he has to realize on
it at any time he can get back at least
what he put into it.
Increase in the value of the princi-
pal is also something which an inves-
tor can look for without being called
a Spectator, but the best plan is to
choose the qualities of safety, fair in
come, marketability and stability, and
let the appreciation of principal come
If it will.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05
TALKS ON THRIFT.
Investment Fundamentals.


with regard to the responsibility
and standing of the firm with which
he is dealing, the investor can hardly
be too careful. Where he is located
at a distance from any investment
center it may not be altogether easy
for him to get the definite informa-
ton he wants, but until he has got it
and feels absolutely assured as to its
reliability, he will do well not to COM
nit himself. The reliability of the
house with which the investor is deal
ing is his greatest safeguard. Frank
lin Fischer.
There are certain fundamental prin-
ciples of wise investment with which
every prospective investor should
early become familiar.
Safety of principal is the prime con-
sideration. Unless you have very
strong assurance on this point, it 10
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05

ing and helping to fill the insane asy-
lums. A commission has been appoint
ed, and the laboratories will be taken
out into the localities where pellagra
has been found, so that the doctors
can study the conditions. The aim Of
the medical faculty for years has been
to ascertain the exact causes for in
sanity and how to prevent it. In strik-
ing at pellagra, we shall remove one
cause for insanity"
DR.. Sambon said that food had abso-
lutely nothing to do with the spread of
pellagra, and that it had been admit
ted generally by American doctors
that the theory of the disease being
caused through eating corn in an Unfit
condition, which had been believed for
years, was exploded. In Europe pei
lagra was found where no one ever ate
maize, as corn is called there.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05

of the European farmers. Is 1t any
wonder that the best farms in every
locality of our country are coming into
the ownership or the roreign-born?
Arriving from a country where land
is prohibitive in price, with their strong
bodies, frugal habits and intelligence
for intensive farming, they are rapidly
assuming control of American soil
where our native sons failed to make
good, either through Incidence, ignor-
ance or desire to live in the city.
There is the solution to the whole
problem of low crop averages as main
tanned, in the arrival of the foreigner.
Look about you wherever you live, and
you will find farms in the possession of
Russians, Germans, Swedes, Japs,
Poles and every other race under the
sun. Bringing knowledge from those
countries where land Is made to pro-
duce it's highest bounty, they are max
ing good here and bringing to shame
the work, or is it, rather, Incidence, of
the native-born? Perhaps, if enough
of them get scattered around among
the natives, we shall be able to learn
from them to do little better, which
with the bountiful harvests secured
by them, will cause our average yields
and average farm value of crops per
acre to take a decided step forward
within the near future"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05
FREChLES
Now is the Time to Get Rid of These
Ugly Spots.

There's no longer the slightest need
of feeling ashamed of your freckles,
as the prescription othine-double
strengths guaranteed to remove
these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce Of othine-
double strength-from your drug.
gist and apply little of it
night and morning and you should
Soon see that even the worst frecGles
have begun to disappear, while the
lighter ones have vanished entirely
1t is seldom that more than an ounce
is needed to completely clear the skin
and gain beautiful clear complexion
Be sure to ask for the double
strength othine AZ this is sold under
guarantee Of money back II It fails e
remove freckles.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05
PELLAGRA CAUSED
BY BUFFALO GNAT
is BELIEF OF DR.. sAMBoN, A
RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY ON
THE DISEASE.

New York, Sept 5.-Prof. Louis Sam
bon, head of the Tropical School of
Medicine in London, and a recognized
authority on pellagra, arrived here
Sunday and departed for Spartanburg,
s. c., where he has been invited to de-
liver lecture before the members of
the conference being held there to
study pellagra. After the conference
he will spend some time In South
Carolina studying the disease in the
hospitals and insane asylums, and
then will return to New York before
starting on his tour through the West
Indies and British Guiana
DR.. Sambon was born in Milan of
French parents, and passed his medical
examinations there. He afterwards
went to London, where he became
lecturer on tropical diseases.
"In my Investigations, which I COM
menced in 1906" he said, 81 discovered
that cases of pellagra were found in
Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia and other
countries in Eastern Europe, among
people who lived near running water,
where what is called the buffalo gnat
in the United States swarms at certain
seasons of the year. When stated my
belief that pellagra existed in England
and Scotland, the medical fraternity
ridiculed the idea, but I discovered
fifty-three cases in five months in hos
pitfalls and insane asylums, and there
afe doubtless plenty more to be found
Nov the English government has
realized the danger of pellagra spread
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05
"a LITTLE FARM WELL
IlLLEpn Is THE SECRET

In the current issue Of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio, w. F. Will
cox writes an article entitled, Gan
Acres Possibilities" Mr.. Wilcox is a
former New York newspaper man who
went to Colorado for his health. He Is
now a successful farmer The follow
ing is an extract from his article:
"a little farm well titled aye,
that's the secret We must wake up
and not trail SO woefufly in tn Maze
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05

TT" m In 2 seconds, and away they go
shrivel, vanish. w more cotton-rings
TO make the corn sharper and more
bulgy, no more bandages to stop cir
culation and stick to the stockings, nc
more salves to turn the flesh raw AND
make the corn pull" no more knives
or razors with danger of bleeding and
blood poisoning.
"GETS-IT" is painless, stops pain
and Is absolutely harmless to healthy
fesh. Warts and bunions disappear
"GETS-IT" gives immediate relief.
"GETS-IT" is sold at druggists al
% cents a bottle, or sent on receipt OF
price to e. Lawrence & Co., Chicago
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05

Bobbie Burns (not W. j. is holding
a range exhibit at the store of the
Hattiesburg Hardware Co., on Main
street. Come in and see the handsome
display and get cup of coffee and a
hot biscuit. You are cordially vel.
come. ADVERTISEMENT
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-05
"GETS-II'" Gets
Corn Sure as Fate
If You've Had Corns For Months Or
Years, "GETS-lT" VIII Remove
Them All In a Few Days.

"Whew! hurts way up to my heart!
i've tried almost everything for corns!"
Corn-sufferers, cornless Joy Is at
hand! "GETS-IT" is the only real en-
envy any corn ever had. Put GETS
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20
MILITANT Was
NOT MuLESTED
MISS JOAN WickAM ARRIVES IN
NEW YORK TO PREPARE WAY
FOR MRS. PANkHURST.

New York, Sept. 20.-The immigra-
tion authorities did not modest Miss
Joan Wickham when she arrived here
from Liverpool to prepare the way for
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the British
militant suffragette leader. Mrs. Pank-
hurst is expected Oct. IS.
Miss Wickham went to the woman's
suffrage headquarters to meet Mrs O..
H. p Belmont She told reporters the
methods used by militant suffragettes
in England were necessary to get at
tentiOn from officials I'VE have never
attacked human life" said Miss Wick
ham. but if worst comes to worst
there is a strong likelihood we will do
So
Miss Wickham said that she did not
believe that the United States gov.
eminent would prevent Mrs. Pank-
bursts landing in this country.
Mrs. Pankhurst was here in 1911"
she said, "and at that time she had
been convicted and had been in prison.
Her status then was exactly the same
as it is now, and the United States
government at that time made no OBJ.
lection to her landing here"
Mrs. Pankhurst, Miss Wickham con
tinued, expects to remain in this coun-
Try about one month. She is out of the
English prison on "ticket-of-Ieave" on
account of her health. and as soon as
The RECEIVERS will have to serve the |
est of her term.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20

perpetuated by similar wanton viola
ton of the first principles of heredity-
the simplest elementary precaution
against racial degeneration is persist
emily neglected.
What are we going to do about ii?
The remedy for these undisputed evils
lies in simply exercising the same
precautions used in controlling the par
entage of live stock in relation to the
parentage of human beings. We do
not go so far as to urge control of Sc
lection of parents for the scientific i'm
provement of the race. We mean
merely the prevention of parentage
which must inevitably result in disease
or mental and moral deterioration of
future generations. We mean that
mere accident shall not longer be per-
mitted to determine the parentage-
and consequently the inherited char
acteristics-of the human race. We
protest against longer subjecting hui
manity to methods which have de-
termined the nature of scrub cattle
and razor-back hogs running wild on
open ranges.
We mean that the welfare of future
generations of men and women-and
the world they are to control-demand
that mere falling in love is not suffi-
cient justification for the responsible
ties of parentage We mean that the
time has come when marriage should
not be allowed between persons phys
ically, mentally and morally unfit to
become fathers and mothers of normal
children. We mean that marriage GER
tificates should be issued only after
these proper safeguards have been
legally provided.
Crowded prisons, insane asylums,
institutions for the blind and feeble
minded, hospitals for incurable and
loathsome diseases, cemeteries filled
because of premature deaths, divorce
mills grinding an endless grist of hui
man woe, and silent suffering of in
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20

live stock. Facts, however, woefully
neglected in their application to the
highest type of animal Development
men and women.
1t has become custom to allude to
boys and girls as the best crop of our
country. Yet we have been shameful
ly slow in giving them the practical
advantage of the principles we insist
on using for the improvement and per-
petuation of the farm crops and ami
mails we produce.
For generations we have had breed
ers associations organized and at
work solely for the improvement of
breeds of cattle and hogs. For years
hundreds of men have been systemati-
cally working for the improvement Of
strains of corn, cotton, grass and pota-
toes. Yet the few men devoting them
selves to the development of better
race of human beings are little under
stood and are commonly classed as
fanatics. We recognize the theory of
heredity. We confidently assert that
blood will tell" Then in practice
we apply the principle to chickens and
hogs and indfferently let chance con-
troll its application to men and women.
We Systematically and scientifically
exclude hereditary diseases from our
breeding pens, We vigorously ex-
clude infected cotton, corn oat and DO
tato seed from our paintings. Then We
neglect the simplest fundamental pre-
cautions against contaminated blood
from which is to spring the next gem
Grafton of human beings.
We once knew of the marriage of a
young man to young woman whom
he first met as an inmate of an insane
asylum while he was visiting his own
sister, who was also an inmate. The
only justification urged was that these
two people loved each other. There
could be but one normal result-the
development of family of insane per.
sons. Disease and crime are daily
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20
CONGRESSMAN REPORTED
DEAD; STILL "LIVE ONEr

New York Sept. 20.-Tn some way
a rumor gained currency in this city
Thursday night that Congressman Her,
man A. Metz, of Brooklyn. had been
stricken with heart disease on his way
here by train fro mWashington, and
when Mr.. Metz stepped off the the
Washington express at the uptown
terminal an undertaker's wagon was
waiting for his body. A crowd had
gathered to do him silent honor.
The representative, who was in per.
feet health, evaded the crowd without
knowing for what purpose 1t had gath.
cred. Likewise he passed the under
taker by. When he learned later what
the gathering meant he took the thing
good-naturedly and remarked some
thing about being still very much
Tive one" and hurried home to Brook
Ign to reassure his wife.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that the May
or and Board of Commissioners of the
City of Hattiesburg, Miss, will receive
bids until Monday, Sept 22, 1918, at
10 O'Clock am, for putting down con-
crete floor in room 25x41 feet, Main
Street School building, and certain
other repairs, as per plans and speci
fications on file in the office of the City
Engineer. The Board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Given under my hand this Sept. 20,
1913. T. E. Batson,
1t Mayor
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20
METROPOLITAN CHAM
PIONSHIP MEET.

New York, Sept 20.-The presence
of the Imperial German Olympic Com
missioners, who have just returned
from tour of the United States lent
additional interest to the Metropolitan
track and field championship meet
which was held here today at Travers
Island, the summer home of the New
York Athletic Club. The list of the
contestants for the various events in
cludes fully 300 names, among them
those of many of the leading amateur
athletes of the country. Mel Shep-
pard, Homer Baker, w. R. Granger,
the Dartsmouth lad, Ollie De Cruchy,
Myles McHugh, Alvah Meyer, Jim Ros-
enberger, r. b. Clifford, Hannes Koleh-
mainen, the Finnish runner, George
Bonhag and many others were among
those entered for the various track
events
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-20
THE TELEPHONE GIRL.

The telephone girl sits still in her
chair, and listens to voices every
where. She hears all the gossip, she
hears all the news, she knows who is
happy and who has the blues. She
knows all your sorrows, she knows all
our joys, she knows every girl who is
chasing the boys. She knows every
man who is mean to his wife, and the
man who showed food in his mouth
with knife. She knows every time
we are out with the boys, she hears
the excuses each fellow employs. She
knows every woman who has a dark
past, she knows every fan who is in
clined to be fast. In fact there's a
secret meath each fluffy curl of that
quiet, demure looking telephone girl.
Mulberry News.