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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
Dear little fOlks's books!

Yes-dear little books for those dear little people who so enjoy story with pictures.
 How they chuclle Peter Rabbit and the Foolish Fox and the Robber Kitten Ism it fun see Peter at the Farm and at Sea
 And what joy in following Little Black Sambo and reading the Rhymes of Mother Goose
 All here, in special dress and eager to join little folks-50 cents. Peter Rabbit is in them too And the three Little Pigs and the Little Red Hen. They, too, are 50 cents. Funny drawings are in the Piffle Books But boys and girls have to find them by following up the dots. Great fun soc.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27

There is brush for every kind of particular service That brush Is in readiness There Is a broom of the weight you can use with greatest ease and efficiency. That broom is ready
 For house-ceaning time, for service every day-just the brushes and brooms most needed in every home
 Note the diversity
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27

Floor brooms, styles, sizes 6 and 7,-65c to $2 with one of extra in terest at 7Oe Whiskbrooms, 2 grades, ? sizes, 5 styIes,-35c to Csc.
 Floor brushes, 12 to 16 inch, fiber horsehair or bristIe-75c to $3.75- with special 12-inch brushes at
 75o & SIPS Counter dust brushes, 8 and g inch, Soc to S1.5O, with a special lot of bristle brushes at 75c Paint brushes, 1-2 to 8 inch sizes 5c to 55c.
 Furniture brushes-65c to SIPS. Nursery bottle brushes-5c Refrigerator brushe-10c. Stair brushes-50c.
 Window brushes-S1. Radiator brushes-5Oc. Scrub brushes-25c to soc. Toilet brushes-25c to 75c.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27

Stove brushes-2Oc.
 Shoe brushes-30c
 Carpet-sweeper brushes-s125. Sink brushes-5c to 25c. Wool clusters and brushes, sizes, -S1 to $2.25
 Feather dusters-25c to S2.50- Dustless door brushes-$1 and $1.25.
 Cotton mop heads-65c to soc. Mop handles-2Oc to soc. Utility brushes-30c to soc. Ceiling brushe-6oc Dish mOps-5c to 15c Dust1ess rnops-4oc to $1.50 GHdden reversible oil mops-S1 56 and S1.75.
 OCedar mops-s1 and SIPS. Dustless duster- -cloth-25c. Silver cleaning -cloth-25c. Chamois cloth-2Oc to 75c. Dish and floor cloths-5c to soc.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27

Fourth floor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
HOuse seWOrk special aprons.

Covera aprons to protect dress and entire apparel from dust water while busy at home tasks Button at back or side-front. Have good large pockets that come in very handy Some beted-all of good firm staunch cloth Tn medium and full-fg11re sizes, special value
 $15O and $175
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
Girls Cheery new dresses.

Of gngham; and bright with color; yet of marked good taste,
 There paids in dozen combinations; each of the sort girls so love.
 There are patterns many, youthful and girlish and new.
 Some dresses are made with touch of white, some with solid coler used in contrast to plaid
 Nicely made distinctive in model-and a fine big variety
 Prices range from $250 to $6; with beomer dresses of special service at $4.50 and $5.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
Boys Waist=line DOuDle=SerViCe
 s==S17.5O.

great combination of snappy style with utility. The distinctive manly wast-line style-and the How land Double Service feature. Every suit with Norfolk jacket in upstanding waist-seam style.
 Every suit with the two pairs of trousers that set Rowland DoubeService suits apart from ordinary suits Every suit of pure woolen fabric in tasteful gray ta7 or greensh mixture.
 Made like mens clothes; skillfully and to it. Sizes 10 to 18-$17.50.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
Don't buy tea or coffee
 on price.

If you have idea that only highprced tea coffee is worth place at your table, this good time to learn the contrary.
 Don't let price be the deciding factor. Take Howco tea at 45 cents and Howco coffee at 33 cents pound and make test of each Make your coffee in your favorite way, in old fashioned pot in percolator.
 Make your tea of the strength you prefer-only re- member that smaller pinch of Howco tea is required. Then in the cup each will tell it's fragrant pleasing story.
 And as you drink it, that story will be pointed and more convincing.
 aowo0 Howe A5c ao3Teo a4Eo0 33C
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
TO-DAY'S WANTS

ROOMS TO RHNT-5 rooms with bath, s39 Harrai Ave. S26s*p FOR SALE-One Quaker range, also one Garland range, used but a short time. 25 Salem st., corner Lindley a. G2zh*n
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27

Colds Cause Grip and Tnfuenza
 LAXATIVE BRONO QUENINB Tab lets remove the cause. There is only one "BromO Quinine.' F. w GROVlES signature on the box. soc.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-27
Fine sample neshbags-S3.5

Imported, of fine mesh, and of genuine gun1netal Rich in their depth of color fine of mesh graceful shape made with rare skill and care. Their real value ranges from $5 to $1O; ga Rf1
 any one in the collection Left aisle front
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
THE HOPE OF SURVIVAL.

Hosts of seekers in England are just now in
vestigating the phenomena OF spiritualism; and
the names of renown that are aiding the propa-
ganda give such inquiries a responsibility they
never enjoyed before. When the leading sclen-
lists and iterat proclaim their deep interest In
psychical research and their conviction that the
continuity of life after death must be consider
ed as established, ordinary people who seek
similar evidence are no longer laughed at as
they were.
There is a wide difference of opinion as to
what the so-called spiritualistic phenomena IN
dictate. But Investigators who doubt or deny
that disembodied former citizens have any part
in them are driven to a Omit that there are psy'
chical forces and capacities in nature OF which
The world knows little yet. That there Is
psychical terra incognita Of undiscoverable ex-
tent is universally admitted, and explorations
therein are now considered worth while even by
people who scout the possibility of communlca-
ton with the socalled dead. ncontestible
scientific evidence, conclusive to all trained
minds, is thus far lacking. For some the evil
dence suffices and for others it does not Like
the belief in Immortality, it is rather a matter
of feeling than of proof Most of us have what
we like to consider an intuitive apperception of
the truth that man survives the grave. Yet
there are people for whom it is only hope; and
other people, some of them reputable and eN-
cellent. who have not even that. 1t is the hope
of men like Sir Oliver Lodge that scientific IN
struments of precision may in the near future
establish the actualty of life beyond the grave
Most of the experiments to this end just now
are attempts to make Photographic plates SEN
sitive to vibration in higher octaves than the
normal eye responds to, and thus record the
presence of entities invisible to ordinary sight
1t may be long before such plates are produced,
and even then the results following may be
no more convincing than what came from the
now out-of-date spirit-pictures" so commonly
offered By mediums during past years.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Soon
after the zone convention OF the
Mississippi valley waterways shall
have been held in st. Louis, be-
ginning September is, strong
delegation will go to Washington
to work for favorable joint rail and
river rates from points in the
Mississippi valley to south Attain
tic and gulf shipping ports. For
years businessmen of st. Louis
and Other cities along the Missis-
sippi river have been working for
development Of river traffic. Lit
tie definite was accomplished
until the congested condition of
traffic produced by the entry or
this nation into the war called the
attention of the entire country to
the need for developing other ship
ping ports than those served ex-
clusively by the east and west
lines OF railroad. 1t was then
realized that, had we previously
developed a strong southern move
ment for the products Of the Miss
issippi valley, with steamship lines
running between our southern
ports and those Of Europe ano
South America, the delay caused
by the congestion Of traffic on the
east and west lines and at the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
Joint RAIL AND RIVER RATES
Atlantic ports would not have
become so serious,

Atlantic ports would not have
become SO serious.
AS a result of this the establish
ment of a barge line on the Missis-
sipp was begun and has been
partly completed. In spite OF
this, however, the movement OF
products south in large quantity
has not yet been attained. A neces-
sary step has vet to be taken,
that Of establishing favorable joint
rail and river rates for such traf-
fic. There has never been such
rates.
Now 1t is proposed that the rail-
road administration. before tho
lines go back to private control,
shall establish Joint river and rail
rates which will enable the prod
ucts of the Mississippi valley to
move to southern ocean and gulf
ports for foreign shipment. The
Mississippi Valley waterways
association has divided the val
ley into eight zones, and 1t Is one
of these zones which will hold
convention in st. Louis. Other
conventions will be held else
where. The result will be q
combined pressure upon congress
and the railway administration.
which ought to be successful.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
should we slumber. while Japan
keenly awake?
ALBERTA REAL KING.

Davenport Democrat: When King
Albert comes across TO visit Presi-
dent, we shall be entertaining a real
man.
Albert Leopold Clement Marie
Menard- his full name-would
rather be locomotive engineer than
la king, they say, if he could have had
his choice. He would rather run an
engine than kingdom. But he is a
king and hero in the eyes of his
people, and conceded by all the
world to be none the less man be-
cause he was born to the purple.
Riding in the cab OF locomotive
was his principal sport before he
became King. Since then he has
varied it by riding IN an airplane
whenever he could.
When the German armies swept
into Belgium, Albert exposed him
self under fire like the commonest
soldier. In that brave stand that let
the world know that Belgium was
not road, but a country.
Albert knows America, for he lived
here most of the year 1898. America
will have warm welcome for him,
knowing him as the most democratic
and bravest of kings. No country
was ever called on TO sacrifice more
for principle than was Belgium.
No ruler ever risked more for a
principle than Albert. He and his
people helped more than any other
factor to prevent Germany from OBJ
tanning quick advantage and per.
haps quick victory in the great war.
That the United States should have
had large part in throwing off the
shackles from his country was one
Of the great privileges the war gave
us. We can rejoice with him whole
heartedly when he comes over here
to return President Wilson's recent
visit to Brussels.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
RURAL Mali. ROUTE 1NEFFIo1ENcY.

Protest is coming from many farmers organ
izations against what is alleged to be policy
Of the postofice department in frightening the
rural mail routes by several miles as need
arises instead of establishing new routes. The
longer routes mean delay in service and the
farmer as a businessman finds himself handi-
capped. John A. McSparren, master OF the
state grange of Pennsylvania, in a memorial adj
dressed to the postal committee in congress
calls attention to the publicity of the depart
ment of agriculture in which the farmer is urg-
ed to adopt business methods; to keep in touch
with markets; to form habit of business cor
respondence and to read market reports daily
He asks how this accords with the government s
policy of making such procedure difficult Let
ter mail presents difficulties and parcel post
service is less efficient at present than it has
been for years. This is false economy and the
people do not want it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
WlDEAWAkE JAPAN.

Philadelphia Press: The fact that
Japan never sleeps in the effort to
build for the future, and that she is
alive to every opportunity, is again
proven In the recent action of the ter
ritorial legislation of Hawaii. There
was killed measure which sought to
make it imperative that all school
teachers in Hawaii should be able to
speak and teach the English language
and TO teach American history and
American civics. The sole reason for
killing this bill was because of oppo-
sition from Japanese teachers and from
influential residents of the islands. 1t
was a measure that sought American.
ization Of American territory. IT'S
failure proves either a too great
strength of Japan in that region or
inactivity on the part of this govern.
ment.
Those persons who ridicule the idea
that to turn loose the Philippines at
by Japan, should study the present
conditions of Hawaii Half of It's
population is made up Of Japanese who
cling tenaciousfy to the customs and
culture Of their native land. 1t has
SdSeu I'LL ~ pti SVit. Ia VIC ie>S
eight years, largely because of the
birth Of Japanese children. These
children will have the right to vote
when they become of age, and to own
property. They should, therefore, be
taught American habits and American
thought. Instead of that, the Japanese
in those islands see to it that they
are brought up in the traditions and
the teachings OF the land of the MI.
kado.
1t is true that Hawaii Is far away,
and that the race problem there seems
! to be remote and unimportant ques-
ton. But these islands are our out.
posts In the Pacific, and they make up
territory that is eligible to state
hood. The prospect is that in few
years Japanese voters there will hold
1.-THE political balance of power. They
have proven already that they can pre-.
vent legislation that they do not favor
| 1t Is figured that in five years there
will be enough Japanese votes there
| to determine whether the republican
or the democratic party shall win in
any Hawaiian election. Is that con.
dition of things which is desirable
from the standpoint of America? Why
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
cRAZYHEADEDNESS.

Minneapolis Journal: The tendency
of man to get crazyheaded under
stress is easier to comment on than
it is to correct And the same thing
is characteristic of the crowd, too.
The mob spirit is somewhat under
stood as matter of psychology.
Kipling wrote a notable poem on this
very matter of keeping ones head In
times of stress. 1t started with
these lines:
IF you can keep your head when
all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it
on you,"
And ending with the words, ie
Yours is the earth and every
thing that's in it
And, which is more, you'll be a
man, my son."
This is the worlds time of stress
and great many individuals and
numerous peoples are becoming more
or less crazyheaded. One instance
was noted last week In the news
from the ocean port OF Genoa m
Italy. A cargo of Ave million eggs
enroute from this country to Switzer-
land was allowed to spoil in the har-
Dor because of disorders that pre-
vented the unloading Of the steamer.
Yet those same disorders, undoubt-
eddy, were caused by the high prices
of foodstuffs which the eggs would
have partially relieved somewhere.
Crazyheadedness
Many workers feel, and with more
or less justice, that prices have adj
yanced far beyond wages; and SO,
without developing any farsighted-
ness in the matter, they strike, and
thus interfere with production and
! transportation and tend to push up
prices on themselves still higher
while their wages have been stopped.
Crazyheadedness again!
Producers or merchants, or manu-
facturers, see prices around them
rise and. with hasty Judgment OF
what the results may be, they natur-
ally follow the trend at home PORTS.
1t is a time of testing for every
body concerned. Nobody Is quite
happy under the present world cir
cumstances. We are just out of a
great war, great orgy of waste and
destruction. 1t Is notably a time
"for keeping your head when all
about you are losing theirs" and
perhaps blaming 1t on you"
Are you going to "be a man, my
son." as the poet asks of us all, or
are you going to get crazyheaded and
add your mite to the general sum-
total Of confusion and nearsighted-
ness?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

| Anamosa Eureka: The most impor-
tant thing in our after-war troubles
! is the spirit Of laziness which seems
! to have suddenly beset men, making
them too good to labor a full day,
and unwilling to work more than
three days a week where they can
igct enough pay for that three days
of labor to last them the rest OF the
time.
! Webster City Freeman-Journa.:
The kilograms the packers are send
ing to Washington and elsewhere go
j into the general expense account and
add to the demands of old Hi Cost.
Traer Star-Clipper: Department of
Justice attorneys are conyicting
! themselves every time they convict
a profiteer. The profteering has
been going on for months. If they
can convict the guilty persons now
they could have convicted them
months ago. There has been no re-
cent change in either the law or the
facts.
Iowa Falls Citizen: Extravaganza
lis one great reason of the high cost
of living. When. people begin to
figure, to get prices, and to keep
down expenses, there will be some
incentive for lower prices. AS long
as people pay anything that is asked
and buy everything in sight, why
should prices be kept down?
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Food is boarded by the spectators
because they expected shortage and
rising prices. Speculation is the
effect of scarcity more than it is the
cause. The cause Is the loss in pro
Iduction while millions were waging
war.
Spencer News-Herald: To work six
hours a day, to demand the highest
wages they can get, to strike if they
don't get them, or to quit work alto
gether seems to be some folks idea
as to the proper way TO reduce the
high cost of living. For our part we
don't see how it is going to work, but
maybe they know.
Sibley Tribune: The children re-
turned to school this week. Perhaps
some of them went back reluctantly.
They We're having sucn good time
in the vacation. 1t is queer how
years change the point OF view! The
iyCungster who drags himself rebel
liously to his studies now will in a
few years look back TO his school
days as the happiest of his life and
regret that he did not attack his
school work with more ardor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10

future life, and, while 1t may not
make burglar or murderer out OF
him, 1t may make loafer and dis
gushing person. Why do we refer to
this? Because irreverence is 8
great blight to our country II we
should have more reverence among
the citizenship we should have bet
ter society, better business, better
politics, better education and better
religion. AS to the latter, religion,
don't be surprised, for there is much
irreverence in the church, and as to
education, irreverence is black
blotch there. 1t is far better for one
to express his reverence for the good
by his attitude than by his voice
Every virtue is improved by rever
eIlce.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
FIRST LOCATE THE EVIL.

It would seem sensible to determine what we
are looking for before we multiply agents in the
looking. The public is convinced that some
thing is wrong and that a lot of people are get
ting an unjust profit which the people at large
are paying with difficulty. Here and there spe-
cife instances of unjust profits are found; in a
few cases illegal practices are unearthed. In
direct Influence is lettering things somewhat
But the plain question: What shall be done in
each specific industry to find the just balance
between production at a reasonable profit to
labor and capital and reasonable cost to the
public, is not the one which is sought to be
answered. This may seem distinction with
out difference. But there is difference We
are assuming somebody is making mischief and
looking for him where might better assume
the mischief and look for that finding the max
ers as we should be sure to do in the process
It is the evil we need most to find; it's doors will
go with it when it is uprooted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE

SEEKING.
In many a shape and fleeing apparton
Sublime in age with clear morning eyes
Ever / seek thee, tantalizing Vision
Which beckonng flies
Ever I seek thee, 0 evasive Presence
Which the far horizons utmost verge
Like some wild star in luminous evanescence
Shoots Ger the verge.
Ever seek Thy features ever flying
Which, ne'er beheld, never can forget;
Lightning which flames through love- and minics dying
In souls that set
Ever seek Thee through all clouds Of error;
AS when the behind earths shadow Slips,
She momentary mask of terror
In brief eclipse.
Ever seek Thee, passonately yearnng;
Like altar fire forgotten fame
Ny life flames up, irrevocably burning,
-Mathlde Blind.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
NEW TERMS FOR OLD.

It is well in the conference which the presi-
dent has called, in which all the factors IN our
Industries shall be represented, that the terms
employees and employers be used to replace the
familiar labor and capital. For the real accord
must be between the workers and the employ
Iers who paw for their work In most cases the
EMPLOYER could not continue his business for
any length of time without the credit he OBJ
tains; the actual employer is quite as much In
need of capital as the worker and this is fact
that has direct bearing on the industrial sltua-
ton. From constant use of the terms capital
and labor the idea is latent that those who hire
are capitalists and that those who are hired are
laborers. AS matter of fact the financing OF
business is almost as intricately organized as IS
production itself. We are becoming obsessed
with mass negotiation, probably partly from
war influences. Solid organization under com
pletely centralized authority has been the right
rule in the war period We are still seeking to
solve problems after this pattern. But such a
model for our industrial and political organi-
cation is wholly opposite to our national condl-
tions and to our erstwhile popular thought; we
shall grow out of this phase and come back to
our normal mind. Then the old initiative and
ambition will assert themselves and we shall
combine collective bargaining and group organ
ization with individual effort. When employees
and employers find a working plan that con-
tents both, the industrial problem will be well
on its way to solution.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
importance Of Reverence.

Ohio State Journal: Reverence is a
powerful promoter of good character.
An irreverent person is full of low
thoughts. If we were an employer
we wouldn't hire an irreverent man.
One who puts low estimate on the
sanctities Of life cannot be depended
upon for any good service. so, good,
conscientious parent, count 1t mis-.
fortune If your son or daughter talks
lightly or jokingly Of sacred things.
The habit will follow him in all his
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10

the old clothes do for another yea
and there you are. The trouble
with the people-they will have %,
best of everything. no matter aoou
the cost, and dealers are willing
sell IL the money is forthcoming.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10

Alexandria Herald: After all,
there's nothing to this high cost OF
living bugaboo. All you've got to do
to beat 1t Is to quit eating so much.
stop buying expensive shoes, make