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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

SCHOONER MOTHER LENA fs in
 with load of live cod for sale Strat-
 ford Ave. Bridge. IT ssno g
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

TO RENT.-10 room colonial house,
 improvements, Main St., Paradise Green, Stratford. from April l. Large Iot. Will lease or sell. S. B. Brew ster Arcade. U ~t1-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05
$50, 900 Willed
 Messenger Boy

Special from United PreSS.)
 San Francisco, April 5.-WiIlie Rob- inson, a messenger boy in the main Western Union office here, was handed a telegram to-day to deliver to Will liam H. Robinson. He glanced at the address and saw that the telegram was for him. It stated that Willie had been left S30,000 by his father who died in Los Angeles yesterday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

POST CARDS GALORE-Price srieht
 too, at Woods smokeshop. 61 Can
 non St. .as
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

TO RENT.-6 room flat with improve ments. at S15, Randall Ave. No ob- lection if small families double up. CaJI 1924 Main o*p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05
(UNCLASSIFIED.)

WANTED.-First class painters. Sam
 uel Dave. Arctic and East Main Sts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

wANTED-First class, experienced press-hand capable of setting tools. The Gaynor & Mitchell Mfg. Go.
 29 If. o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

TO RENT.-Five room flat, all fnf-
 proven ents, room in attic EnolIirxxs 174 Brooks St. II 5 n n E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05
CIGARETTE STUMP CAUSES.
 FIRE AND $235,OOO LOSS
Among Largest Sufferers is Columbia Graph- Ophone Company Which Sustains
 Total Loss.

Are Selling Agents for American Graphophone Col of Bridgeport A. Budlong Thinks Loss is Less Than $75,0OO Graphophones and Records.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

FOR RENT-Four large rooms with
 attic; with or without barn, 3o9 Pe-
 QuOnnock St. IT &ff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

EXPERIENCED LESLAD"
 wanted-Apply to E. H. Dillon & CO. r 1105 Main St. IT E h s n .
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

and wife with child three month old in private family. Williams, Care Farmer. U : ll*po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

TAILORs wANTED.-Ffrst class fail. orS wanted on women's alteration work. Good pay. Meigs & Co
 U h f,i s7
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

GREAT RELIEF from headache and constipation. Casca Laxine tablets
 25 cts. 70
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

GIRL WANTED-To work extra in
 Lanes Candy Store. IT If a {
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

EXPERIENCED MILLINEFaS wanteh Apply to E. H. Dillon & Go, HOS Main St. TT h q
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

RENT OR LEASE-In Fairfield near trolley, twelve room house with or without barn. w. R. Farmer Of-s flee, City. U 5tf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

LOOK AT OUR new signs, printed in pure gold. People say they are good Park City Sign Company say they are better, and in keeping with the superfine grade of rubber goods, at ONelll'S. a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

FOR SALE-Upright piano, s1o0 Bar gain Violin cost SIP for s6, another
 SIS for ss. another s25 for SIP. sz4 Noble Ave. 31 dFo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

ycles Indians, Readings and M. & M-, 1908 and 1907. E. c. Parsons, 300 Main St, Stamford, Conn. UP so
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

WANTED.-Carriage painters to bring up work, good wages. John H. Ray & Son., Greenwich, Conn.
 U a*po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
 We are still at the same old stand. 1263 Stratford Ave, opposite school house. Come in and have your shaw ing haircutting, etc, done As You Like It. Albert Tiska-
 26 F 6o
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

HOT LUNCH. daily at Morton's Cafe 15S Fairfield Avenue. Everhardt's N. Y. lager and Smiths Philadelphia Ale on draught. T tfo 1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-05

JAMES J. STEPHAN. popular natter, | e74 F. Main St.. has the goods. Call and verify. H 30 If O 3 |
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

1T is all very we'll to laugh at us
suburbanites," said one Of them, but
think my scheme is pretty good
,ne.p
And. that is?"
II rent my country home for the
summer for enough money to take my
wife and me to Europe and pay all
our expenses during the rented period.
We can live 30 much cheaper over
there that am actually ahead of the
game, and, as we take a different
route every summer, we are seeing all
Of Europe on quiet installment plan
that we like very much and that we
should not feel we could afford ex-
sept for the extra income from our
home"
But you don't get any good of a
country home except in the summer,
and, being away. you miss all that
you really bought the place for"
mo. indeed. That is theory you
city people have. On the contrary,
we people who really like to live in
the country enjoy 1t greatly in the
fall when the woods are at their most
gorgeous garb and our chrysanthe.
NUNS are the wonder of all the neigh
bors; and in the spring we take great
delight in our hotbeds of early salads,
radishes. tiny onions, crocuses, violets
and other flowers and vegetables, as
well as in the miracles of spring
woods and wild flowers. We even
enjoy the country in winter-but 1t
would be idle to talk to a city man
about that, l suppose. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Helping ones Self.

1t is maxim as familiar as 1t is
true that Providence helps those who
help themselves. 1t is true of States
and nations as well as of individuals.
Every once in while the people In
Washington turn up new scheme to
help the States to do things which, If
possible at all, would be better done
by the States themselves.
Some years ago the Isternal Rev
enue Service was invoked to check the
sale of imitation butter. Now 1t Is
proposed to call in the same branch
of the federal government to help the
States to enforce their laws against
the improper sale of cocaine, opium
and other habit-formirs, drugs But
Secretary MacVeagh of the Treasury
Department has lately proclaimed that
he experiment of taxing colored oleo-
margarine out of the market has
proved hopeless failure. The gov
eminent. he declares, has not arms
enough nor eyes enough to collect the
tax of 10 cents a pound on the sale Of
colored oleomargarine.
The Internal Revenue Bureau will
succeed no better in trying to help , .e
States to enforce their own laws reg.
ulating the sale of drugs The federal
government was never organized for
any such purposes and it can never ac-
complish them. The States can en-
force their own laws if they want to,
and will be all the stronger for doing
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

Champ Clark touched large ques-
ton when he spoke of the modern fad
of appointing incompetent United
States District Attorneys and then en-
ploying competent lawyers on laIke
fees to do their work.
The fad has become an exceedingly
expensive one. The money it costs
helps to account for the monthly de-
felt with which the treasury is strug.
Cling. The District Attorneys EN-.
ployed by the United States are well
paid. When they are appointed upon
my other consideration than fitness
double wrong is done, the treasury is
raided and an incompetent man is In.
rusted with important public bust.
ness.
AS the special session is about to
close Mr.. Clark brings to the front an
ssue that should be forced in the com.
ng Congressional campaign. Every
ranch of>the government is honey.
comhed with the political favoritism
and useless expenditure of which La
complains. The public service swarms
with men who do little work, who are
not appointed with the expectation
that they shall earn their pay.
Easily % per cent of the $2OO,000.-
900 which the government pays the
officeholders every year is clear waste.
Turn out the incompetents and the
barnacles! st. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
FIRST PATENT IN AMERICA.
Granted to Joseph jerks, who Estab-
lished iron Works In New Enuland.

IsHeo iron WORKS IN NEW England.
The first patent in America was
granted to Joseph jerks, founder
and maehinist who had emigrated
from Hammersmith, England where
he was born in 1902
He was very ingenious man, and
was induced by Gov. Winthrop the
younger to come to Lynn, Mass,
about 1912, as master mechanic, to
establish "the iron and steel works.
He was acknowledged head Of the
iron smelling and founding business
and the first builder Of machinery IN
this country, and first patentee of in
vention in America, having intro
duced the idea (first granted by act
of Parliament in 1929 of protection
for the manufacture of improvements
by petition to the government of
Massachusetts Bay.
In 1876 he took patents for mill
Improvements, and in 1855 he patent.
ed the present form of the grass
scythe, for which he should be held
in grateful. remembrance. In 1852
he made dies for the first coinage of
money, the pine tree shillings. In
1854 he built the first fire engine, to
the order Of the selectmen Of Bos-
ton (the first ever built in the coun-
try); in 1857 he built forge and
entered upon the manufacture of his
improved scythes nine years before
his application was granted.-From
the Journal OF American History.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
VAST TREASURE WRECKS BENEATH WATERS OF INLAND SEAS

seas. Many of these vessels with rich
cargoes disappeared suddenly and mys.
teriously, as If struggled away by an
unseen power. Most of these cargoes
remain to this day for lucky fortune
hunters. In the wrecking of $4,000
ships thousands of lives were snuffed
out and unwritten acts of heroism
played. Many fortunes have been re.
covered from the bottom of the lakes.
Not many years ago a treasure shin
came down from the North, the Will
liam H. Stevens, loaded with SOL $3.50
worth of copper. She went down off
Conneaut, o. Unavailing efforts to re-
cover her treasure were made until
Capt. Harris w. Baker, Detroit. fitted
out modern treasure-hunting expedi.
ton. He recovered 100000 Of the
cargo. his share of the treasure being
$4,000. On the south shore of Lake
Erie, between Erie and Dunkirk. the
steamer Dean Richmond lies with $50.
900 in zinc on board. The Richmond
disappeared between these two ports
and the bodies of the crew were
washed ashore. Lake Huron is called
the Lake Of the Sunken Treasure"
Near Saginaw bay are more lost ships
with valuable cargoes than in any 9TH
er of the great lakes. The steamer
City of Detroit, with $4,000 copper
cargo; r. G. Coburn, 100000 copper
cargo, and the steamer Fay, with $780,
900 in steel billets on board. lie in the
bay. The steamer Kent was sunk off
Point Pelee with much money in her
hulk. Eight men lost their lives on
the Kent.
Whisky and coal form an important
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Bryan jog. Taft,. memory


William j. Bryan has addressed a
letter to Mr.. Taft asking the Presi-
dent to allow the people to elect Unit
ed States Senators by popular vote.
In the opinion of the Dispatch, so per
cent of the people of the country, ir-
respective of party, are with Mr..
Bryan in this request.
The Senate, by its action in tariff
revision, has shown its utter inability
to comprehend the expressed wishes Of
the people. AS body, the upper
house of the Congress is wholly out
of touch with popular sentiment. A
majority of Its members are not only
out of accord with the people, but also
are out of harmony with, their re-
spective parties. For these reasons
there is stronger pressure than ever
before for a change in the method of
electing Senators. The people have
grown tired of paying salaries to So
called public servants" whose services
are rendered, not to their employers,
but to interests that are Numerically
arrayed against the masses.
Mr.. Bryan very pertinently reminds
the President that in the latter's
speech of acceptance he said he was
personally inclined to favor such a
change in the constitution and that
this would be an opportune time to
make his ante-election declaration
good. Two constitutional amend
ments, one authorizing an income tax
and the other providing for popular
election of Senators, would make Mr..
Taft's administration memorable. Has
the President sufficient courage and
patriotism to take the step? Time
alone will tell.
But no matter what Mr.. Taft may
do, or may not do, the leaven of Bryan
Democracy is leavening the whole
body polite. 1t has forced the enact
ment of a corporation tax measure;
1t has caused the President and the
Congress to accept an income tax
amendment, and it as brought about
the abandonment of the ultra-protect-
I've policy of the party in power.
Now give the people the privilege
Of electing their own United States
Senator'S and most of the remaining
ills of the people will soon disappear.
Call it by whatever name you please,
Bryan's teachings and Bryan's influ-
ence have been the saving forces of
the nation.-Chicago Dispatch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
EARLY LETTER ON THE UNION.

DR.. Rush Feared a Too Quick Peace
with England Would BE Harmful.
One of the finest specimens of let
tiers In a recent sale OF autographs by
Stan v. Henkels in Philadelphia, was
written on April Is, 1882, by DR.. Ben
jamin Rush, a signer OF the declara-
ton of independence, to Maj .-Gen.
Nathaniel Greene, says the New York
Times.
DR.. Rush was physiclan-general of
the revolutionary army also. He prac-
ticed his profession in Philadelphia
and during the yellow fever epidemic
there in 1888 ne treated it success
fully and 1t has been estimated that
he saved from death no less than
5000 persons.
He was firm supporter of the fed
eral constitution and his letter is
chiefly about that subject. He says:
ut is true France has done wonders
for us. But may not even this have
beneficial effect on our country here
after. 1t seems intended by heaven to
teach us the necessity of perpetual
union and confederation. If the COM
bined force of all the States was un-
equal to the power of Britain. what
can be expected from the spirit or re-
sources of any one of them? am SO
perfectly satisfied i that the future
peace, safety. freedom of America
depend upon our union that
Gnht ~ trvy
with pleasure, especially that part
Of 1t we owe to ourselves.
Our danger at present arises
principally, from two causes. First, a
too speedy peace with Britain, and,
second, from Britain's acknowledging
our independence. l wish the first
may be deferred till naval war has
given us as many fleets and admirals
as a land war has given US armies and
generals. The last event would I'M
nerve the resentments of America and
introduce among us all the conse-
Quence of English habits and manners
with English manufactures. To pre-
vent this and enable US to transmit
our feeling to posterity, wish Brit
ain for fifty years to come may con-
ttnue in all her acts of government to
call us rebels and 'deluded subjects
We stand in need of all the follies
and vices of our enemies to give us
national character"
On Sept. %. 1888, the definitive
treaty of peace was signed, by which
the independence of the thirteen
United States was acknowledged by
Great Britain. 1t was not, however,
until after Jays treaty in 1894 that
This original treaty of peace was fully
executed by Great Britain.
DR.. Rush's letter sold for $50.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
"DRuMMERsu OF THE PAST
Marshall Field Knew "the Road,
from Personal Exnsrtenc>

Marshall Field Knew "tho Road"
from Personal Experiences.
Marshall Field was a commercial
traveller; so were John Wanamaker
and Tom Murray. So also were
Dwight L. Moody, the great evangel-
list, and Richard Golden, the famous
English statesman and writer. Ex.
Gov. Frank Black, of New York, fol-
lowed "the road" with his sample
cases before beginning his legal and
political career. Walter d. Moody,
one of the chief executives of the Chi
cago Association of Commerce, and
author of Men Who Sell Things"
was for fifteen years road salesman.
This list might be extended almost In
definitely, Forrest Crissey says In Ev-
erybody's.
Occasionally the commercial travel
er leaves the road to enter one Of the
professions. Milton ]. Foreman, one
of the leaders of the Chicago bar,
president of the Chicago Charter Assoc
citation, alderman and a power in local
politics, was a star" hat salesman
and took his law books on the road
with him until he was well grounded
in the rudiments of the profession.
Another commercial traveller. Charles
N. Crewdson, took course in the
University of Chicago after he was
married. There he became interested
in Egyptology and later. between his
regular commercial trips on the road,
visited Egypt and studied the ancient
ruins at first hand. This brought
him into print in series of travel
articles and he found that he could
write and write we'll. Later he began
to draw upon his experience as a COM
mercial traveller for literary material
and scored success and national
reputation. But he resolutely with
stood all temptation to be drawn
away from the road: His work kept
him in touch with the world of at
fairs, and one day his alert eye
caught sight of the opportunity to
start novel business enterprise ION
the side.' His road partner became
his actual partner in the new enter.
prise. Their work for their respec-
tive houses took them where they
most needed to go in the interest Of
their private venture. To-day one Of
these men draws salary of $4,000
and the other a little less than that,
while their private venture probably
yields them more than they earn
from their regular calling,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
MONEY IN APRICOT PITS.
Substitute for AImonds-Bis Profits
In Them for the Balearic Islands.

A recent increase in the price Of
almonds has caused new trade
economy, and much money is being
made in the Balearic Islands in the
Mediterranean off the coast ofe Spain
by the sale of the kernels of april
cots. There is a huge demand for
them in England and Germany, where
they are used as substitute for al
monds in candy and in cheap grades
of buildings and pastry.
The fruit is cultivated in the Bal
earle Islands on an enormous scale
to be preserved in various styles. I'm.
Til recently the stones, when the
pulp was removed from them, were
treated as refuse. Now they are
cleaned and cracked. Children pick
out the kernels and they are dried
and packed for shipment after the
regular preserving season is over,
thus prolonging the wage earning
period of the people.
Last year Majorca alone produc-
ed $4,000 cases Of apricot kernels,
weighing about 200 pounds each case.
There are both bitter and sweet kcr.
nels. The price of the sweet ones
rose from about $1S case in 1906
to about $27 last year. The bitter
ones are considerably cheaper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

part of the treasure which awaits re.
covery in the inland seas. In 1916 the
Lexington, Capt. Peer, cleared from
Cleveland for Port Huron with car.
go of ITO barrels of whisky The ship
foundered in midlake with all on
board. To-day the whisky is worth
s115 per barrel. The Anthony Wayne
sank in Lake Erie with 800 barrels of
whisky and wine on board. The West
moreland sank with similar cargo.
1t is said that coal worth $4,000 1000
awaits recovery.
A terrible event on the inland seas
was the loss of the steamer Atlantic
off Long Point, Lake Erie, with 800
lives. Not until quarter of a cen.
fury had passed was trace of the ship
found. Treasure worth 100000 was
taken from her. The Griffin, built by
La Sale at the foot of Lake Erie in
January. 1879, sailed across Lake Erie,
up the Detroit river and entered Lake
Michigan. She started on the return
trip in the fall of 1880 with $4,000
in furs on board. She was never
heard OF.
Treasure hunters are now seeking
the $4,000 copper cargo that went
down with the steamer Pewabic In a
collision with the Meteor in August,
1865. The Pewabic went down in Lake
Huron, off Thunder Bay island. Five
men have lost their lives in attempts
to recover her cargo. The new attempt
is being made by New York syndi.
cate. which has perfected diving rig
that they declare will withstand the
water pressure at the depth at which
the treasure lies.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18

Discussing the Aldrich tariff out.
rage, Senator La Follette's Weekly
makes few exceedingly crisp re.
marks. Referring to the bill as the
Browning infamy of its sponsor, .
based upon greed, graft and pull" the
article goes on to say:
Its passage in the Senate was pro-
noted by cheap trickery. jobbery,
chicane and manipulation.
There is hardly powerful special
interest or great trust combination in
the country that is not made its spe-
cial beneficiary.
ut perpetuates the Dutch standard
graft of the criminal sugar trust.
1T taxes every household in the
land for a benefit of clique of cot
ton manufacturers.
ut protects the wooden trust by the
imposition of duties of 100, 100 and
up to $50 per cent-duties which cloth.
ing manufacturers say will increase
the cost of clothing one-fourth.
ut rejects the inheritance tax pro.
vision proposed by the House to take
for the support of the government at
the rich mems death a part of the
great fortune which he has piled up
partly by evading just taxes during
his life
ut inaugurates program designed
to prevent for all time Federal tax
upon the incomes of the wealthy.
at increases the burdens of the
consumer by the imposition of a tax
upon corporate earnings to be shifted
by the corporation through increases
of its prices and charges to the public
This tax is an admitted subterfuge
and is legislative recognition of cor
porate combinations heretofore under
the Introduction of the criminal stat.
utes only long enough to serve its evil
purposes, but not long enough to be
of public benefit"
Such is the result of all the prom.
ised tariff reduction, according to Sen.
ator La Toilette.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-18
Poor Mother Eve.

"Dr. Emil Reich is now saying that
the American woman can't under
stand genius. That doesn't preclude
her from understanding him."
The speaker, a Colony Club woman,
frowned.
"Dr Reich" she said, sis anything
but a genius, though abroad the
women do fawn on him. Here we
treated him as lightweight with a
slight gift Of humor. He didn't like
it. Hence his structures on us.
81 admit" she resumed, that Dr..
Reich is now and then rather funny.
Once. for example, heard him say at
a dinner, apropos of woman's vanity.
Mother Eve must have been ter.
ribly put out not to be able to hold
a small pail Of water in front of her
when she stood with her back to a
pool and tried to see II her hair was
properly done up Behind Washing.
ton Ssar.