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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30
FARMINeToN.


T. w. Grimm MADE a business trip
to Keosauqua Tuesday morning.
Jack Weller of Belfast was Farm
ington business caller Monday.
Lloyd Slice attended all last week
the chautauqua that was held at
Bonaparte.
NJ. G.. Patrick was a Keokuk bust.
ness caller Monday.
Misses Francis and Bernice Boiler
are here visiting their brother Ellis
who is making his home with their
uncle and aunt Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Forgraves.
Mrs. Minda Kessler and her daugh-
ter Vivian are here visiting the for
mer's sister Mrs. P. K. Ware and fam
lily.
A. P. Believes Of Luray was a
The Dyer Stock company Is having
a three nights show at the new Miller
opera house this week
Miss Louise Jacques spent Thurs
day at Bonaparte visiting friends.
business caller here last Wednesday.
Miss Virgil mclaughlin attended
the chautauqua at Bonaparte Sunday.
DR.. Loire Coffin has set his Office
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30
THE OLD HOME.

THE OLD HOME. :.
Last night 1 sat in my cottage
And thought. as l often do,
OF the old farm house in Essex,
Half hidden from the view;
Where through the leaves of ancient
The sunlight gently falls
On the icy clinging tenderiy
To the old brick walls.
Ny cottage in America
Is but name to me,
For my heart is back in Essex,
In the home across the sea.
In fancy oft wander through
The narrow garden gate,
And pausing, breathe more softly,
Lest I come too late:
For across the sunken threshold
The fledglings all have flown,
And left two old parents there
Growing old alone.
Our paths, they lie so far apart,
For it is fate's decree
That they should be in Essex
And I across the sea.
pause beside the old armchairs
Before the fireplace,
Where the Pickering light illumines
Each dear beloved face;
And STOPPING low I press a kiss
Upon each withered cheek
With lips that can not utter
The words I long to speak.
I see them smile, and know their
thoughts
Are over here with me,
While mine are back in Essex,
In the home across the sea.
David, in Omaha Bee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Mrs. William Waldorf Astor of
London. formerly Mrs. Robert G..
Shaw of Boston, and before that
Miss Mamie Langhorne of "Mirador,' .
Albermarle, Va, has bought land ad-
joining the estate of her sister, Mrs.
Reginald Brooks, in Albemarle. Mrs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Recently patented shears for ripping
seams work in the usual way. but
have vertical cutting edges that pro-
ject in opposite directions from the
arms.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

1t is announced that Julie Opp, who
in private life is Mrs. William Faver-
sham, has entirely recovered from
her recent illness, and that she and
Mr. Faversham are shortly to return
to this country to make extensive
plans for the coming season
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

To enable firemen to work in
smoke and gases Colorado man has
invented a device to be attached to
hose nozzles in which water rotates
fan and pumps fresh air through
tubes into face masks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

In order to carry out her husbands
plans for the new Germanic museum
at Harvard, Mrs. Adolphus Busch OF
st. Louis has offered $4,000 to the
institution.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30
Samples Free by Mail

in the senate. ''It is matter of
genuine sorrow to me- he said. writ
ing to Mr.. Jones, that man like
you should be excluded from the
public service upon great occasion.
But neither of us is responsible for
these extraordinary circumstances"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Electrically operated machines for
writing messages in cipher coces and
for translating such messages have
been invented by Russian naval
officer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Mrs. Barbara Maykel, a native of
Syria, who came to this country
twenty-five years ago. died at Worces.
ter. Mass, aged les years. Death
was caused by old age. The end came
suddenly. Her grandson, with whom
she lived, says he never knew her to
be ILL.,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Automatic apparatus. which lights
an electric lamp in the moterman's
compartment when every door has
been closed, has been invented for
subway trains to save time in giving
train starting signals.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Recently invented candles, made OF
metallic magnesium and aluminium
for taking motion pictures at night,
project their light about thirty-three
times as far as an ordinary arc light.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

A princess can be the life Of the
party and the most winsome smiler
in the world when she is out in COM
pany. But you should get a peek at
her map when her mother asks her
to help wash the dishes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

A Chicago woman is the patentee
of shoe with an electric battery in
the heel to supply mild current to
the ankle Of wearer to tone up his
system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Ground cork and a binding material
have been formed by French inven-
tor into a cover for bottles that
guards them against breakage and
kaeps their contents at a uniform
temperature without using a vacuum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Five years Of experiments in cur
ing hay by steam heat with special
machinery have proved that such hay
is more nutritious to cattle than the
sun-cured kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

An English woman has obtained a
United States patent for hunks for
ships so supported as to remain level,
no matter how much a vessel rolls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

After three days in BlackwelPs Is.
land, DR.. Katherine p. Davis succeed
ed in cowing 400 convicts. Mrs.
Pankhurst isn't so much, after all
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Baking pans patented by Massa-
chusetts man have the edges turned
inward to form grooves into which
may be inserted a handle to lift them
from an oven.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Nora Bayes, TIE well-known sing
ing comedienne, has been told by
physicians at Kissingen she cannot
live longer thar six months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

An odometer to show distances
traversed by automobiles has been
invented to be attached directly to
the hub of wheel without any extern
sive gearing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Denver is to have 100000 lab
oratory to extract radium from carno-
tite ore.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Tale and soapstone product Of the
United States last year was valued at
s1,9OS,097.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

1t requires 100000 kilowatt hours
of electricity year to charge all the
electric vehicles used in New York
City r.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

New York city's 1914 postal re-
ceipts aggregated $50, 463,777, an in
crease over 1913 of S2,754,223.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Mrs. Lucille F. Haines Of Camden,
n. J., totally blind for ten years, re-
gained her full sight during an cleo
trical storm.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Washington is to have new sur
sical college with an endowment OF
$4,000
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

scratching them and would walk the floor
they annoyed me 20. could not sleep,
lost many nights Of rest on account Of tho
eczema. My hands were not ft to be seen
and kept them wrapped up and wore
mittens that made out Of old linen.
II was about one year using remedies.
then saw an advertisement In the paper
saying that Cuticura Soap and Ointment
were good. wrote at once for sample.
Then bought one cake Of Cutic,ra Soap
and one box Of Cuticura Ointment and be-
fore they were half gone could see my
hands were better. Before the second box OF
Cutic,ra Ointment was gone my hands were
well and have remained well ever since"
(signed) Mrs. g. W. Sharp. Oct. 81, 1913.
Samples Free by Mail
Although Cuticura Soap (25c.) and Cuti-
cura Ointment (5Oc.) are sold throughout
the world, sample Of each with 32-p. Skin
Book will be sent free upon request. Adj
cross postcard "Cuticura, Dept. T, Boston.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30
ECZEMA SPREAD
ALL over HANDS
Would Dry, Crack and Swell. Could
Not Put Hands in Water Nor Do
Work. Itching and Burning Ter
rible. Used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. Hands Well.

1o1 8. Boots st., Marion. 1nd.-"First
the eczema started on my fingers. then
spread all over my hands. It broke out in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Over 100000 persons live in pro-
hibition territory in the United States.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

tiny blisters. then would get
dry and crack and swell SO I
could not have my hands In
warm water they hurt mo
30 badly. / could not do all
my work. Tho itching and
burning were terrible. The
moro I scratched my hands
the worse itmade them. They
-or.<. &C, l,nd no,ald nnf- l,ol@
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

An honest citizen who maintains
himself industriously has everywhere
as much freedom as he wants
Goethe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

up over, P. K. Wares furniture store
DIR. Coffin Is one of our town oo..
who deserves the patronage OF ".
people. His many friends wish NM
success In his life's occupation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-30

Read The Cat. City wan. column.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
How China Dishes Are Made.

Dear Uncle Jed: wonder how many of the Wide-Awakes know how their mothers china is nade?s
 The clay from which the best china is made is found in beds. It as dug out and carried to the mill, where it is crushed and the sand and stones are taken cut.
 Then men or buffaloes walk through 1t and mix it. The potter then molds it into cups and saucers, plates, vases and other vessels with the help of the potter's wheel
 It is then put out in the sun to dry and harden.
 The next thing to be done is the firing or baking of the china This IS done in large ovens heated by wood fires. It is baked in these ovens about three days. Then the fire is let go out; but the china cannot be taken out for A hours.
 As soon as it is cool 1t is handed over to the painters. After it is paint ed it must be fired again, to fix the colors. This is done in ovens under which are charcoal fires.
 KATHERINE GORMAN, Age 9. Versailles
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
Mx lJourneY to cenneetieut.

Dear Uncle Jed: am going to tell you about my journey to Connecticut.
 My parents, sisters, brother and l left on a train from RoseyilIe station about o'clock one Thursday after noon.
 We arrived in Jersey City about half past and crossed to New York on a ferryboat.
 We then bought our tickets and went on the steamer City of Lowell. We had lovely trip and I will be glad when can take another one.
 We saw the Statue Liberty and went under the four largest bridges in New York
 We enjoyed the moonlight scene very much.
 We arrived in New London about 1 o'clock on Friday morning.
 We were up very early that day, as I wanted to see the city. We bought many souvenirs. "a
 We got on the o'clock train and got off at Allyn's Point and walked up to my uncle's house.
 l picked many strawberries while l was there. Toward evening my cousin brought us home in his team. I enjoyed my Journey very much, especially on the water.
 ANNA A. BLATHERWTCK. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12

and saw a large monumental works where they displayed finished monu- ments and rare carvings on marble. We saw several hothouses nearby, ill., ed with beautiful overs, which were for sale, for those visiting the ceme- tery.
 As we entered the beautiful National cemetery, we were directed to the patriots circle. This is a large circle and there are buried great Irish at the names we read John Philpot, and Smith OHBrien. Barry Sullivan, the actor, is also buried there not far from the circle. A beautiful monu- ment is erected over each one. In the center of the circle is a round tower TO feet high erected over the tomb of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish nberator. To reach the tomb one can walk down large granite steps. A little to the south is the grave of Charles Stuart Parnell, covered with beautiful flow CTS. and a large Attic cross. In this cemetery hacks or teams are not al- lowed on the avenues. There is a. wide road in front leading to each exit; there is a church at the main entrance After services the casket is placed on three wheeled rubber tired casket carriage, and is wheeled to the burial lot by the cemetery employees. We noticed large force of men were em- ployed and the walks and lots were kept in the best Of order, We were well paid for our visit.
 RICHARD w. TOBlN. ,JR.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12

other morning and travelled MiR or more. I noticed nearly all the leaves were off the trees, the greenest leaI- shedding tree being the white oak The leaves have shed quicker this year than any other, there being d windy os offs i4' "eeA' Dl0"Als @'l ny
 Many hunters are out now, and are shooting from morning till night. It seems as if there would be no game left.
 I walked with boy friend three miles and saw not a living thing; but as we were going home we heard in a valley, where underbrush was plenti- full, a quick Tapping sound, like the Tapping of wings. I have heard this many times before. and was. quite fla miliar with it. It was a partridge.
 Soon we came to a stone wall and saw, but few yards in advance of me, small and very sharp looking bir1 with long black tail feathers 1t stretched its neck very high and look ed at me very sharply. It had a crested head and was the finest par fridge ever saw.
 One day I heard some shooting near by, and hurried to where it was. saw three hunters firing at an empty bottle. They had been out all day and had not got any game for their trou- ble, and then had sat down to rest. They were firing at the bottle, think ing Sthat was sport.
 None hit he target, which was fifty yards away, till one advanced about half the distance. I suppose he thought himself a marksman at hitting an old empty bottle.
 Anyhowi He had shot something, ' which by his way of thinking may have been better than nothing.
 MYRON J. ENGLAND, Age 14.
 Norwich Town.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
I,rse Trip to Londen.

lN|S II rip 10 L0nO0nu
 Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you and the Wide Awakes about my trip to England this summer.
 We went over on the Oceanic m May leaving here on the 22d. We went to New London on the train and at Il o'clock we took the boat for New York. I had never been to New York, so enjoyed the view up the river.
 We started at 12 noon on the Ocean ic. saw the Statue of Liberty. After that we saw no land until we got to Plymouth.
 We had some games on board, such as ring-toss, shufheboard. quoits and other games.
 We got to Plymouth early of a Sat urday morning.
 Then we went across the channel to France and saw pretty fort at Cher bourg.
 We arrived at Southampton. about s o'clock in the evening and got through the customs very easy.
 Then we got into the train waiting for us and we were on our way to London.
 Uncle Will met us at Waterlool st&- ton at F (midnight), and we were very glad to see him, of course. He put us in a taxicab and we went tc Norland square. We passed the houses of parliament and the royal barracks We went to bed very sleepy.
 IVY FISK. Age g. Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12

fusive, or gentle; Cb) expulsive, or abrupt; (c) explosive, or bursting
 He also "expanded' much on ouali- ties of voice. Dividing them into three classes:
 l. Pure tone and orotund.
 2. Aspirate and guttural.
 5. Natural and false
 These classes were used according to place, time, safety or sentiment Fear, anger. hunger, pleasure, excite m ent, or love were governing factors in the use of expression,
 Master Cricket just then gave an ex- pression of his feelings by drawing one Of his legs as a bow across a scale on his side. Everybody laughed, even Mistress Owl, while Bobby Gray. he of the celebrated Squirrel family, shouted: We all know tfati' which caused more expressions until Master Jack Rabbit had the marshal, William, the Beaver. pound with his tail for order. and Prof. Pip Toad was al- lowed to proceed.
 The professor was pleased. His threat swel1ed, and after assuming a proper position gave us a good illus ration Of voice. form and quality in his scale of pitoh-very high. high, middle, low and very low. He then called upon his friend Sir Bull-Frog who gave us an interesting illustration of how certain of his ancestors fright ened lot of humans in Connecticut one night. Of course, that made me explain what was meant by the lend of the world" I should have told that Mir. Bull-Frog used an orotund form of voice with changes of pitch, certain pauses, great emphasis, interspersed with waves, infections, cadences, groupings with other voices, and a final climax It was natural rem dering of what might be.
 At the close of the meeting there was babel of voices mingled with the laughter of Jack Crow.
 The Toads. Frogs and several others sou2ht burrows in mud and sand, others retired into houses they had built, while Miss Nuthatch came down large tree trunk head first and gave me the minutes for The Bulletin. GRANDFATHER LfOWATER.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
The TaIk in the Barn

tI4isteIi to me-" said an old horse to a COW. "I am going to tell you the story of my life.
 When I was a young colt @l had hard times. My master was very cruel to my mother and me. He used to beat us for every little thing. This made my mother and me very unhap- py. We often said it would be better to be dead. do not remember my father for he died before was born. My mother said he was a large, gentle black horse.
 "One day a young man came and bought us, and this is where l have lived ever since. I am always treated kindly and am very happy. Only two years ago was the worst sorrow l ever had. That was when my dear mother died.
 q have told you my story, so now tell me yours"
 .'The story of my Iife,'' said the COW, might not be very interesting, but the little I know I will tell you.
 "As remember, I had always lived here and was treated kindly by my master. The only time in my life that I was unhappy was when had lit- tie bull calf When it was about two months old it was sold to a young man and I never saw 1t again
 "This is all can tell, for I do not remember anything else"
 "Husn" said the horse, I think hear somebody coming. When we get another chance we will have a long talk. So goodbye.'
 UNSIGNED.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
Mason Parker's Corn

This summer I raised one-half acre of corn.
 I tested my seed corn with a cheese cloth. My piece was plowed in the spring and the manure was put on be- fore it was plowed. I narrowed it with a pair of three-year-old steers. I narrowed 1t three times with the wheel harrow and twice with the iron tooth harrow. Mr. Brundage took a picture of me narrowing with my steers.
 It was three feet between the rows and 14 inches in the rows.
 I put two bags of fertilizer on my corn field.
 I cultivated my corn six or seven times. I held the cultivator and my sister rode on the horses back and drove her. I hood my corn once. 1 pulled the suckers out when it was quite small and left three stalks to a hill.
 I began cutting my corn about the Sd of September and finished about the 10th. mornings and nights, be- fore and after school I went through 1t before I cut it and got lot of seed corn.
 I sent ten ears of flint corn to Hart ford fair and got first prize of seven dollars.
 husked it ali alone and got just SC bushels.
 MASON H. PARKER, Age Il
 Mansfield
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
The Birds Home

Each mother bird has her own way of making a nest, but most of them always try to hide it. Squirrels, snakes, rats, eats and some big birds like to eat the eggs and young birds
 Most birds find good hiding places where no harmful creature can get at them. Tiny warblers make their nests on the tops of the tallest trees, and hide them among the leaves.
 After a safe place is found, they have to get something to build their nests of. They gather small twigs, grass strings and horse hairs and weave these together. Robins and swallows make theirs of mud.
 As they go on building, the r-otaeI bird gets inside and turns around ano around to make it fit her form.
 When nest is made it must be lined, so they go to the hen yard and get feathers and other soft things foI the lining.
 Some birds make their nest in deer burrows or holes in the ground. There are as many different ways as there are kinds of birds to make them.
 MOLLIE FALEY, Age 12.
 CnIrbeStar
Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-12
THE POOL

Many of the inhabitants spend their winters in the south. They nearly all go in companies. getting reduced rates and starting on the journey on an eve- ming express.
 Other inhabitants. and their number is countless, are satisfied to either burrow in the earth or rent protected rooms in old or new apartment houses.
 These vacations are spent in various ways, a number in sleep, more in building or manufacturing. others in organized attacks on products, new robberies of or destruction of distant relatives to their Pool neighhors. Cit- izens of good repute here are noted as Free Lance" Seople in the south.
 We had large farewell social lately. Grandpa Toad was there, attended by all the professors, pupils and patrons of the Water Street academy, from both the Frogville and Toadville resi- dent districts; and many of the other inhabitants, especially from the little Bugville settlement. besides all Worm hole. Master Jack Rabbit presided, Miss Nuthatch acted as secretary. I had a seat of honor on the latest stump William the Beaver had cre- ated.
 After Jack Rabbit had introduced Grandpa Toad with a few character fstic but jumping remarks, Grandpa Toad called up his professor of elocu- tfon, who gave us demonstration of what is meant by voice culture
 1. Much depended on which family of pupils-toads or frogs-were study ing. (They always study out loud and often with their backs to the teacher )
 2. Position.
 3. Respiration. The power to inhale skilful1y and to exhale prudently con- stituted the art of breathing. q had to acknowledge that was something many boys and girls could not do They never fill their lungs.)
 f. Articulation was a minor consid- eration. Crhat was another hit at us humans.1
 5. Expression was 2 leading factor, 6What boy or girl did not forget this GMct-)
 Expression he divided ints: fas sf-