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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

I have tried in every conceivable
way during the ten years I have been
a member OF congress, TO secure for
the benefit OF the American farmer
such legislation as would make his
business more profitable and life on
the farm more pleasant''-Hon. John
A II. Adair, representative from In
diana Mr.. Adair voted for the pas
sage OF the Underwood tariff bill in
the house, and was paired with Rep
resentative Fairchild IN favor of the
conference report The farmers will
remember that the Underwood law
put farm products on the free list.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

to be thought of in a scheme Of trus
improvements and all that prevents
undue tramping and undue cracking
of soil are to be prescribed both as
preventives and cures of erosion and
so economic waste.
The holders of land are getting
busy, but too much is due to rivalry,
push and imitation Let it be shown
how long it takes water to flow from
the edges Of the $1,000 square miles
to the mouth of the Des Moines; how
many inches of run-off per day is pos
sible under present conditions OIL
levees, cut-offs and bitches and drains
what areas may expect a single heaVy
shower or long rain; what can Do
done to prevent change in tbs course
Of the channel; how can the evils OF
past distractions Of the flood PLAIN DO
corrected and true floodway De es
tablished as guide to and part Oh
navigation. commercial and power DE-
velopment. The nation is interestea
decidedly, in the floodway: also ID
and through the levee and drainage
districts without the floodway lines
There need be no Jealousy as to ths
right of the government to continue
and be a factor through its various de,
partmeats, but let 1t be looked to tha'
the pork barrel does not grow to th'
size of a hogshead.
This is written to point out prac..
teal way, to suggest a merger Oh
several bills and the use of full data
much of which is on handsome to %
provided, such as how many priVaI'
and public districts now, how msn'
likely il push holds on its course,
what the effect likely, and how does
climate modify the methods needed vi
control and supply water.
J. P. DICKSON,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

The Missouri is one OF the great
drainage channels Of the United States
measuring in total length about 400
miles. 1t drains 527,155 square miles,
a territory as great as that embraced
in the states OF New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Della ware, Maryland, Vir-
g1nia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North
Carolina. Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi. Although the Missouri river
may never again be utilized as means
of communication and transportation,
it is destined to play large part in
the better development OF its drainage
basin by furnishing water for irriga-
ton and for generating power
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

In a recent test OF spelling in the
Boston public schools, says the
Writer. the words most frequently
misspelled were: Chauffeur, Their
mometer. auxiliary, feminine, miscel-
laneous, extraordinary, secession,
similar, lieutenant and nuisance. And
these words, of course, are by no
means as hard" as those favorites
of the old-fashioned spelling bee, in
delible, ecstacy, phthisis and mignon-
cite
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

Mystery.

mSST EHY.
When outward from the dark : new
soul leaps
We hear the babes first cry before
il sleeps;
But when from out the hush the
SUNNI ons come
That bid the longing cease, the lips
be dumb,
The dying heart breathes out no cry
OF pain
OF one who ciiogs to earth and cltugs
in vain;
One low, serene, contsnted sigh is all,
Such as a heart gives when great
burdens fail
The sigh Of one renewing vanished
bliss,
Who feels upon his lips a dead loves
kiss- Exchange.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

Corn-husking, barnraising and
house-warming functions diversity
social life in the country with as
much eclat as afternoon teas, bridge
spanning and lemon showers for
hobbled bachelors in cities. 4 new
social caper is reported at Conway,
Ark. where Mrs. J. II. White gave
q stove-wood splitting party one day
last week" 1t was delightful af
fair, no doubt, since the women
swung the axe and the men sawed the
wood
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

A survey Of Chicago saloons is
about TO be made by a commission
appointed by the city council, which
appropriated $4,000 TO defray ex-
penses. The exact nature Of the sur
vey Is yet to be determined, but It
is assumed the search will produce
sufficient material to prove that q
Chicago jag Is a work Of art.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

The lowest known temperature ever
observed by competent scientists was
at WeTchojausk, Siberia, January Is,
1885, when minimum reading of
minus 934 degrees Fahrenheit was
registered. The monthly mean tenn
perature for January at Jakuz,
Siberia. is minus 43.8 degrees, says
the Omaha Bee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

The Gate City can help the local
merchants reduce the amount of mon.
ey sent to mail order houses provided
the local merchants advertise lfber-
ally in The Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

u Not every man you meet who has a
sour face is married. Appearances
are sometimes dece1vtng. He pos
sibly only wishes he was, says the
Los Angeles Times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

The average woman Is quite sure
, that you don't Ike her when you hap
pen TO disagree with her. They have
such peculiar views.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

Some twenty years ago the town
of Avon, Ne, put out mortgage bonds
for $4,000. Recently the last bond
was paid OF and the town celebrated
with bond-hre and trimmings to
10 atch-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19
JUST TRY ONE DOSE of
MAYR'SWonderful Remedy and
Be Convinced That You Can
Be Restored to Health.

Mayr,s Wonderful Remedy has been
taken by many thousands of people
throughout the land. 1t has brought
health and happiness to sufferers who
had despaired of ever being restored
and who now are urging others who
may be suffering with Stomach, Liver
and Intestinal Ailments to try 1t. One
dose viii convince the most skeptical
sufferer. It acts on the source and
foundation OF these ailments, remov-
ing the poisonous catarrh and bile
accretfons, and allaying the underly-
ing chronic Inflammation. Try one
dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
put it to test today-you will be
overjoyed with your quick recovery.
Send for booklet on Stomach ALL
ments to Geo. H. Mayr, Mfg. Chemist,
1916 Whiting St, Chicago, Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

keokuk merchants are well SUD
piled with spring merchandise. They
should get the news TO the public by
advertising in the daily newspapers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

How can a sprtngttne buyer ever
hope 10 do the most economical
spring shopping without first reading
the advertisements
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

Uncle Sam Is going 70 add about
20.eGo men to the regular army.
Over In Europe they XIII sbou. that
many men in one days lighting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

In Mexico OF On the sea-Etand by
TIE flag.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

The Heather Should Worry.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Alle
observing what the christian nation
of Europe are up to, perhaps the heath,
en- are not so much worried o'e'
their benighted condition.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

Senator Gore Is eligible TO member
ship in Rooseyelt,s Anauias club.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

What viii not woman gentle woman
dare, .--.-
When strong affection stirs her spirit
up -Southey.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

article soc1 to appear in this paper
Ask your doctor or druggist about !.
Wilkinson & Co., always carry II y
stock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19

arouses an anticipatory keenness OF
l>alatal delight that opens wide the
flood gates of the digestive fluids.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19
NUXATED iron

increases strength
of delicate, nervous
rundown people 2co
per cent in ten days
in many instances,
500 forfeit II il
fails as per full eh'
PLANTATION in large
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-19
Factors In improvements.

Factors IN improvements.
To the Editor Of The Gate City:
Failure to improve the Dies Moines
river after survey costing $4,000
the United States authorities, that
they would be held up by property
owners if they undertook to buy rights
of way or noodway rights, and so that
duty was shifted onto the states. This
process the impracticability Of this sort
Of cooperation. and the states among
themselves are equally unfit. so long
as it can be expected there will be ma
tional authority. AS it is rapidly be-
ing settled that there is such author.
ity and it is due to its complex inter
ests even more than any assumed
duty, it is well to look about and see
whether or not authority can not find
the proper mathematical basis for fig
uring first benefits and then equitable
division OF costs, including right of
way and floodway as we'll as construc-
ton and maintenance.
Thus the United States is Interested
too, directly, in it's postal, commercial.
military, naval and agricultural de-
partments to seek to shift the duties
ties, cities or individuals INCLUDING
corporationsl or shift the burdens of
improvements. Iowa has Lewis e.
Ashbaughs literature to guide its So
called drainage districts and it Is all
well to show mathematical factors or
processes, but it needs wider applica-
ton and grasp of view and likely some
legal criticism. Each department
should have its account in all the vari-
Gus improvement books, but one gen
eral responsibility is all that Is need
ed. 1t is not sufficient to replace one
commission by larger, because the
agricultural department has now the |
lead and its office of experiment sta /
tions badly needs supplemental and /
practical applications of facts already /
developed in divers regions and in re-
clamation arid lands. undrained lands, |
tidal lands. The development Of navi- |
cation, water power and highways /
railways, suburbans and roads) IS
not wisely to be undertaken II erosion
continues and water and debris are
not controlled. 1t will not do to say /
TO here. ITO there" The books of
nature are to be opened. Thus in 1873.
Professor Bessey gives the territory
drained by Des Moines at 5000
square miles Its valley as less than /
zoo feet deep, or less than half the
iepth of the upper Iowa river, while
he Mississippi river bluffs reach up
over 400 feet. This has all to be con-
'idered in how much land can be pro.
,ected on any one river by levees,
low much can be drained, how much
by enlarging on natures
and mounds for building and stock
ards purposes amid the floods.
Devees make the current narrower,
ieeper and swifter The removal Of I
distractions increase the velocity, .
'ut not as much as increasing the !
Iepth by levees. in planning which 1t {
S usual to lower the record for ;
foods by proper calculation of chan
lei capacity and overflow foodway. In '
'nilding levee, the top soil with its !
Ugh content of organic matter. should II
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16

minds and elevate the level of their thinking and their living is thing past our divining. We do well to utilize fragments of time for the con- panionship of books and thus live in these higher arches of the brain ion it is by these things men live and not by bread alone.
 Then to this habit of reading form ed and adhered to what shall be fur nished2 What shall we read, what recommend to other to read9 And this question is vital for people are never better than the books they read habituaIlv and from choice. Reading is indicative of the man: We form our opinions Of people by the kind of reading they do. Librarians should inmates on the reading public. It was a noble speech Of Erasmus, that read- CT of great books, who said, When have a little money buy books. If there Is any left buy clothes" But it is important what books we buy and what books we read
 Wise discrimination in the selection of books is of the first importance or else, like the sailors Of Ulysses we may be cheate dinto taking bags of wind when we think we are getting sacks of treasure. From useless and unprofitable book has by this lack of discrfminatioh crowded out a useful and profitable book. So that in book reading it is Bafe and wise to make for the largest game. We do not care to shoot field mise when we can bring down the lordly moose or the agile graceful deer. We need not gather sand grains when we can i'll our sacks
 with gold and costly pearls.
 Guard Against DemcraIIxinn gooSSs.
 Popular libraries should be guard- ed against, superficial and dernoralfz- | ing books and be reserved to . great
 CT extent for the great boola of the world. We should in our own read. l ing and in supplying books for the public be as exclusive and guarded
 as some of US are in our social con neetions. We read for ourselves and for others so far as we are able, tc
 submit our minds mainly to the greas books; to listen to the great teachers Eof the race: that choice connnauv thai have made good their right to place ir | the worlds valhMila- There is nc risk here if you take the delfbeTate verdict Of mankind. The vast ua3or- tty Of books that issue from the presi l In slaiploads are left as drtfewood ot the shore, but there are others that like mighty ships, keep in the deer channel and go full sail down the xiyel of tiTue. And for that reason tiEne ii an important determiuative factor How long has that book been off ths son said when a new book came ouj I he read an old one. ssOld wood fs
 burn. old wine to drink. old friends C
 trust, old books % read" We ueet not lavish all our admiration on thu foothills when We can have the Alpi
 and the Andes Give us the old king
 q1 the intellectual wgrdr who tuiI
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16
Library and she Community.

Rev. Samuel H. Howe. D. D.. pastor of Park Congregational church, deliv- cred a very Instructive address on The Library and the Community. In part Rev. pr. Howe's address follows:
 Next in importance to the planting of Christianity in a community is the provision of a public library. The founding of public libraries has be- come Q distinct and preeminEnt form of modern philanthropy. The library the consummate flower of our best civilization. The founders of librar- benefactors. No better public service can be rendered than that of putting the best thinking within the reach of one's felIowmen. The library is the sign of a true civilization.
 The civilized man through books gathers all the history and all the best thinking of the world to his fire side. Books are the open windows through which man looks out upon past and contemporary life. Books are both the signs of civilization and the means and working force into the highest civilization.
 Books read in the intervals of toll have saved to the world some of the great spirits of history. We should 1 probably have had no Abraham Lin- coin if there had been no books ac- cessible to him in those brief inter I V01H DSpNWSS4 b4A6 A1Ay @ Ae4A AdlBOL and the hours of sleep. School and college were tnpossibiIitie but a good book of history or Of law and few pine knots on the hearth did the work of college professors. Ben- 5an1in Franklin made himself the American Socrates by utilizing his odd moments in reading, Horace Greedy and EIihu Burrftt would have remain- ed unknown country boys had they not formed this excellent habit oi using fruitfu1ly their odd moments Many a poor boy by having his appe- tite for knowledge whett4d in one ci the aIcovea of a library has become in good time am intellectual capital- l is9. A young man. undreAming of the power in Ia1ency within him, comes in contact with the great thinkers oi the world and he becomes himself g
 thinker and O force along some lines of noble achievement. 1T is to a wise use of these nazrElns oe time that
 readers attention might be called. The
 habit of keeping q good strong bcoE at one's elbow for these odds and
 ends Of time win make all the differ ence between two or three great books books remaining unread and unknown .t We spend our leisure iu conversation but out conversation will be cheaK and poor if VIC never read. Why 2
 man will sacrihve his evenings ir idle savorless talk at store or shoI
 or club where garrulous idlers heri on why woman will seek or toler.
 ate the company Of atrn1ess chatterers and have their leisure sQuandered and
 frtttored away when through the read,
 lng cf books they could enrich thell
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16

 and again. There are many acknowl- edged masters that may be allowed to keep their grip npon us while the new sensations have their run and their swift gallop to the rubbish shutes. We had better ourselves and encourage others to reserve fiction of the thin layer of masonry between the thick blocks of granite and porphyry since much fiction makes the dreamer and the visionary rather than the man of intellectual brawn and vigor. We use fiction to keep us in the study of life and yet life can be studied at first hand. The test of a book is it's tn- f1tIence on life. The books that fn- spire us to live buoyantly and hope fully; that elevate our ideals, that purify our hearts; that clarify. our vision, that find for us the higher uses of life, that add definitely to our knowledge, that help us to cast away distrust and doubt and enable us to live unselfsh1y and nobly and happily toward the world. These are the books to read and to hand over the counter to the ready public.
 And now as a closing word. If I were addressing the readers of books exclusively instead Of q company Of library experts should close these hurried words about the reading habit by asking them to give due regard to the one Book which towers above all
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16
IF TOO FAT GET
 MORE FRESH AIR
BE MODERATE IN YOUR DIET AND REDUCE YOUR WEIGHT. TAKE
 OIL OF kORE1N.

Lack of fresh adF it is eatd weem1gsng the oxygen carrying power Of tts blocd, the liver becomes sluggtgh, fat accutanti ti. lates and the action of many Of the vital organs are hind cred fhereBw Tlde heart action becomes weak, work E An effort and the beauty of the dgure As destroyed.
 Fat put on by indoor life Is un- healthy and if nature Is not assisted 3u throwing 1t off serious case of obesity may result.
 When you feel that you are Rettfns. too stout, takee the matter in hand Fl once, Don't walt untn your hSure has become joke and your saaaBth Faained through carrying around a burd1n Of unsightly and unhealthy fat.
 Spend as much time a5 you noaaifav can in the open air; breathe dssplg, druggist box of oil of koreim cap- sules; take one after each meal and one before retiring 8t night.
 Weigh yourself every few aayH and keep up the treatment untr ycr are down to normal. Oil Of kore12 le abso- lutely harmless is pleasant t0 taka, helps the digestion ana evesl few days treafnent has been Eekorted kc ifnAAnnw nn2iceAE1c redHcfiou 1fi weight
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16

throughout tEae state.
 Francis J. Leaxeus, president of the board of trustees of the Free Academy. said he was proud of the Free Acad- enay, the Art museum, the Slater hall and the Peck library, to all of which the trustees gave the entire disposal to the association, and wished them a pleasant and profitable visit
 Gen. William A. Aiken, president of the Otis library board of trustees, ex- tended warm and hearty welcome to the association. He gave a brief out line of the work of the Otis library, quoting a few statistics of the past years record Of 124,500 odd books. Gen e1.al Aiken closed by again extending a warm welcome to each one present.
 The Ruainsss Meeting
 The reports read by the ofHcers were accepted. A. report was made by a committee having in charge the puabli. cation Of the hand book of the Associa. tfon. It recommended that the early records of the association be pre- served at the state library: also thas the president appoint each year at the meeting previous to the annual meet ing a nominating committees to preseni nominations for officers to be elected vera acted upon fAvoralbly bv thc meeting. The secretary and treasurei were appointed to place the early rec. orHs ii1 the state library.
 The president appointed as a re. ceBtfon conazmtttee for the day Afg. Innogene Cash, Miss Bartlett and Mrs Johnson.
 Seventy tWc Enioy Luncheon.
 At raae clcss of the morning sessiot General Aiken announced that lunch con would be served at the WauregaE house by the trustees of the Otis II brary.
 The following menu was served | f2 guests:
 Cream Of Celery Soup.
 Fried F31et of Sole, Tartar Sauca
 Duchess Potatoes
 Yankee Pot Roast with Vegetables Mashed Potatoes. String BeanE
 Trench Bread.
 B>1<ed Fruit Pudding. Wine Sauce.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16
Spring Meeting of Library Association
Rev. S. H. Howe, D. D. Delivers Eevating Address on the Library and Community Nearly 80 Delegates Attend ed Sessions at Slater Memorial Mayor Allyn L Brown Welcomes Visitors to City,

There were 80 or more members and friends. interested in library work in attendance at tble spring meeting of the Connecticut Library association on Thursday as guests of the Otis library. The sessions were held in tho Peck library in the Slater Memorial build ing Miss Anna c. Rockwell of the New Britain institute, president of the association, presided. Because of the late arrival of the officers, the busi- ness meeting did not open until about II o'clock.
 Welcome by Mayor Brown.
 In extending a welcome to the deie- gates Mayor Allyn l.. Brown said he appreciated the honor and spoke of the great work the libraries are doing
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16
Five Minute TaIks.

Our suassstou January last, that thousand Of children in Norwich and vicinity should celebrate csnkennal of the organization Mutual Savings n Aneries, bssn adopted and the thousand aTRFT ACCOUNTS" have been opened by us thus tsrmnAsins cur offer.
 It is os qualification thas sassfaetoFy psresneass 6f these TiRFT ACCOUNTS recognizes ths motive prompting action by addona deposits from tms tims, with eomnsndabIs regularity. That we welcome depesitors of small amounts evi- dsnosd by aetlsn In this instanos as well eass ef the children involved In The Thamss Lean and Trust Company failure.
 deposit in savings bank tends develop seod et- Izsnship
 THE NORWICH SAVINGS socIErx. Norwich. csua, Juno 1s. is1a
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-16
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Curtain Materials

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 value 17c.
 At 18c- Curtain Marquisefte, plain
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 value, usual price 22c. At 22c-Imported Curtain Madras,
 very pretty designs, value
 25c.
 Combination Curtain Draper1es, the hit of the season, cretonne overdrape and scrin curtain effect, at about half the usual price of both Special price 25e.