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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
Her Sad Finish.

Did you ever know a girl to die for Iove%'
 "YeS''
 Did she just fade away and die be- cause some man deserted her?''
 No. She just took ill washing and worked herself to death because the man she loved married her"-H ouston Post
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
LOUIS JAMES DEAD
Well Known Actor Stricken Just Before Time for Him To Go On Stage.

Helena, Mont, March 5.-Louis James, one of the best known actors on the American stage, died here to- day of heart disease. He was stric1<- en last night, shortly before time for him to go the stages
 James was Q recognized authority on Shakespeare. The body will prob ably be sent east for burial.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
BOWLING.
ELKs' TOURNAMENT.

Capt Collins Team E. took two of the three from Capt. Welsh's Team A in the EEllzs' tournament last evening. The winners started in poorly with low scores, but came back strong in the second and third strings. Indi- vidual honors went to the winners. Collins gathering the totals with ASA and Mclaughlin fe11ing high single, 183. The scores:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Washing gton,, March 5.-Leading g among the agencies, national and state, that are trying to learn why living costs so much is the Senate committee appointed to investigate the high prices of food, clothing, etc. The members of the committee, (shown in the picture from left to right) are
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

as follows: Clarke of Arkansas, Dem Ocrat; Johnston of Alabama, Dem O. crat; Smoot of Utah, Republican;
 Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman, Re publican; Ga1linger of New Hamp- shire, Republican; Crawford of South
 Dakota, Republican; McCumber of North Dakota, Republican; Simmons of North Carolina, Democrat The
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
TROLLEY REFORM COMMITTEE

A meeting of the a1dermanic com- nlittee on trolley service has been called for Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, in the office of the mayor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Johnny Warmer, second base for the Hartford club, last year, though he is training with the New York Americans in their Spring camp, will be found with the Memphis club of the Southern league when the season opens. He has club.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Frank Fitzpatrick over whom the Waterbury club had so much trouble, last season, will be found with the Lowell club, of New England, again this season. Manager O'Rourke want ed Fitz for his Orator club, last sea- son.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

The regular Giants will play the Dallas Texas League club today Er- nie Lush will cover first bag. This is significant. It looks more than ever as if the local youth will get the berth at the first station.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

committee is acting under d resolution introduced in the Senate by Senator Elkins of West Virginia, Republican, But Senator EIkins is not taking pare in the investigation. He has a griev- ance against the Senate for the man ner in which his resolution was treat ed. declaring that it was held up too long in committee.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
BASE
 BALL DOPE

Local fans will hardly recognize NewfieId park when they get off the Seavie avenue express. A massive grand stand resplendant in a new coat of paint and new bleacher will loom in the distance. For the players, Manager McCann will fit two up to baths.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT, ss.. ToRnR ATE COURT.

January 29, 1910. Estate of Edward Ferguson, late of the town of Bridgeport, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport, hath limited and al lowed six months from the date here of for the Creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement Those who neglect to present their ac- counts, properly attested. within said time, will be -debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate are re- quested- to make immediate payment to
 MARY FERGUSON. S s* AdIninistratrix.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Manager Mcclure has no more will ing assistant than Napoleon Lajoie, former manager of the club which he is now merely a private. Lots of per sons might imagine that Larry would find it irksome to work under the di- rection of a man who was in the ranks below him a year ago. But there is nothing to that theory, Larry is in the game with Mcclure heart and soul in the team that Mcclure is able to take an active part in the practice instead of directing the entire work out from the bench or coaching line.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Tyrus Cobb, the Georgia Peach. eles out a miserable living in baseball He has signed his contract with the Tiger management, calling for the miserly pittance of nine thou per.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

built a monument to commemorate the event.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Willie KeeIer according to his friends. will not sign up with the New York Giants, but will be found with the Toronto Eastern 1eaguec1ub. It is stated that McGraw does not want to sign Keeler until he is sure Mike Don lin will not return. Wee Willie, not relishing the delay, has opened nego- tiations with Manager Kelly of Toron- to.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Paul Cobb, brother of Ty, who last week signed with the Hartford club, is in trouble with the National Board of Arbitration. Along comes the Lincoln (Neb.) club of the Western league, which claims that Paul has signed one of it's ontracts. Paul is another one of an> array of youngsters who rely on 8 brothers reputation to make good He has been in many of the leagues and has failed to make good.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-05

Ho1yoke club to the Fri State league,
 was last year grabbed by the Phila- delphi Nationals, only to be turned over to the Albany New York State league club, has refused to place his signature on a contract, calling for $25O per month. Hartley is doing duty as a guard in the Philadelphia, strike -afrd recently figured in a mobbing,
 during which he sustained an injury
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30
4 charitable, benevolent gentle

a charitable, benevolent gentle
man.
Nearly year ago the tent occu-
pied by Lu Eta Smith at DR..
Burke's sanitarium near here was
dynamited. The woman and her
infant narrowly escaped death. DR..
Burke was charged with the crime,
and Miss Smith declared he was
the father of her child DR.. Burke
denied both charges and at the
trial now in progress sensational
letters advocating a free love doc
trine based on Hindu mysticism
were read These letters are re-
puted to have been written by DR..
Burke to Lu Eta Smith. One of
5000 words was read at this trial.
The woman has repeatedly reiter-
ated her charge that DR.. Burke was
her affinity; he has repeatedly de-
MED the charge.
A jury is now attempting to place
the blame of attempted murder
where it belongs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30
WILL INVESTIGATE PRISON
MADE GRAIN BAGS.

Owing to the kick made by the
members of the Farmers union
against the high cost of prison
made grain bags, an investigation
of the same will be made by a
committee, Of which L. G. Crow,
state president of the Farmers
union, is a member.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30

SANTA ROSA, Cal. Dec. -
There is a criminal trial on in Cal
iforna that sayors of the mystic
mid-region in which Poe fixed his
House of Usher" and of Conan
Doyle's Hound of the Basker-
villes."
1t is the trial of a venerable
physician who is either a martyr
or q monster.
The trial is that of DR.. Willard
p. Burke. He is charged with an
attempt to dynamite a tent In
which was sleeping Lu Eta Smith,
who has confessed her love for
Burke, an dher infant whom she
accuses the physician of being d,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30

GREEN BAY, Wis.-Judge S. O.
Hastings in the circuit court to-
day declared that a woman was not
eligible to hold public office be-
cause she was not an elector
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30

PRESCOTT, Ark, Dec. 29.-Ac-
cusing him of slapping his sister
William Hendricks yesterday shot
and killed his brother George. The
latter was to have been married
today.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30

. Q . . . . . . . - .
. THE FREE LOVE DOC Z
. TRlNE OF DR.. BURKE
. Here are striking excerpts =
. from DR.. Burke's 5000-word Z
. letter to Lu Eta Smith, read Z
= at his trial, attacking conven- =
. tional views on the relations Z
= of men and women: 4
q Human society is becoming I
= humanity, and it's unit is not 4
. the family. but the individual. I
. Today. when the economic
q family is inevitably giving 4
. place to the voluntary family,
. what social necessity remains 4
. for compelling the ill-mated
. to live together against their
= will and against nature?
. All human experience shows 4
. us a socially enforced mar
q riage cannot be an education
q in anything but spiritual bit
. terness. the gentle art OF nag
. ging, and all Observation-Disclosures.
~ ne uODlt Noludu ID ohS
q who has faith in the Divine
q and courage enough to live
Q natures ways. no matter what
. the results, no matter what
. the popular standard of NOR
. ais that are contrary to the
. dictates of Divine nature.
. Affinities come together, re-
= pulsions do not.
10 You and | are the absolute
i . abandon of love, if we would
q allow it SO.
10 You can feel love. sense
. love, look love, smile love,
. touch love, breathe love. and
! q live love-but you can never
. tell love.
4 q . . Q Q . . . . 800 .
father. If he did he is surely
monster of hideous mien; II II
didn't he is what his neighbor
have always believed him to bt
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30

Please patronize John r. Lyon,
low price plumber, 75c cents per
hour. Phone Main 1897. 615 Third
avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-12-30

father. If he did he is surely a
monster of hideOus mien; II he
didn't he is what his neighbors
have always believed him to be,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
Marriage On the Sly.

Careful students of social phenomena
must have noted of late years an in
crease Of secret marriages and elope-
ments. Ut seems to be far easier than
formerly for youth to elude parental
supervision, to determine for them
selves when they shall wed, and to set
about it, with comparative indifference
to opinion in homes in which they come
or in communities in which they reside.
The escapade of the son of the secre-
tary Of state is symptomatic of the
times, and in so far as it brings the
Knox family into publicity and reveals
domestic sorrows which must burden
the mind and heart OF the official of
state it will call forth sympathy as
we'll as point a moral. But will anyone
seriously contend that the affair has
shocked the American public as much
as a similar incident would have in the
days Of Seward or Webster, if one OF
their children had behaved in a like
way? In the revolt against authority
parental, ecclesiastical and social
which we have encouraged in this
country, when II. comes to matters Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
A Difficulty.

Mrs. Margaret Deiand, a we'll known
author, and several of her friends We're
one day discussing the new woman.
Mrs. Deland is pot In sympathy with
the new woman movement and she said
so. A contemporary quotes her thus:
The new woman is selfish: she
thinks only of herself. She Is akin TO
the woman who visited a New York
fortune teller
The fortune teller, after much shut
fling of the cards, said to her patrons;
Lady. see it written here that YOU
will visit foreign lands. You are to
become favorite of kings and queens
You will have many social rivals, but
YOU will outshine them all and in the
end you will wed the man OF your
choice.
what kind of man is hep the wo-
man inquired. anxiously.
"'He is tail, dark, handsome, said
the fortune teller.
"'And young
"'Yes. young and rich-a peer of the
| realm
".Oh. goodie! goodien the woman ex-
| claimed enthusiastically. And then. as
| if suddenly rememb ering, she asked:
! But how on earth am ] to get rid OF
my present husband?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
INTEND 70 COAX ROOSEVELT
Congressional Committee to Urge Him
to Speak in West for Taft.


Washington, March 15.--It is report
ed here that the republican congress
sional committee is planning to have
Theodore Roosevelt make a tour of the
central west states during the cam
paign in the interests of the Taft add
ministration and the regular republi-
can organization. According to the re-
port, he will be urged to make six spe-
cial speeches. the cities in which he
will be invited to appear being Chicago,
Kansas City. New York, Minneapolis,
indianapolis and Detroit.
1t is not possible to confirm this
story, altho it is known that the re-
publican congressional committee is
very anxious that Mr.. Roosevelt make
such trip and that the matter will be
laid before him at the earliest oppor-
tunity, possibly by letter, before his
return home.
Whether he will do as the committee
will request, nobody knows. The i'm
preston that Mr.. Roosevelt will at an
early day after his return announce
his support of Taft and the work OF
his administration thus far. is deeply
fixed in the mind of public men in this
city, but there is less certainty re-
garding whether he will consent to &C
on the stump.
Senator Tawney, of Minnesota
authorizes the statement that the mat
ter of Roosevelt's going on the stump
has not yet been considered. even in
formally by the congressional commit
tee He admits, of course, that the
committee would like greatly to have
him on the stump and admits the ques-
ton probably will be put up to him
after his return home. but thus far
nothing has been done or even said by
members of the committee
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
GETTING Attention.

X A Scotch minister was called to the
pastorate of a church whose members
were famous for their ability to sleep
soundly while sitting in their pews.
Warned of this. the minister introduced
himself to his new charge in the fol-
lowing manner:
Now brethren, it's rae fair to go to
sleep as We always ha' done directly |
begin my sermon. Ye might wait awee
till / get along. an then. if I'm no
worth hearing. sleep ava wi we. an
I'll no care: but dinna go before l ha'
commenced. Gle me this one chance.
Having thus succeeded in attracting
attention. the minister proceeded, ac-
cording to contemporary. with his
sermon:
81 SHALL" he said take for my text
the two words Know myself but
will say before begin my disclosure
that 1 would not advise this congrega-
ton to make many such profitless ac-
quaintances.'
And it is related that there was not
a nodding head in the kirk that even
ing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15

practically all over Europe and Eng
land and Scotland, and the British gov
eminent as NOV making strenuous eff
forts to keep lit out of Ireland. Pota-
toes imported into this country within
the last year or two have gone as far
west as Arizona, SO that the fears Of
the department that the disease may
secure foothold far in the interior
appear well grounded.
1t Is proposed to ask congress for
legislation authorizing the secretary Of
agriculture to establish and maintain
a system of quarantine against plant
disease in order that the country may
be protected against the potato wart.
and also against any other disease of
plants that may threaten the country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15


~, and accurately all inquiries adj
dressed to them by the enumerators
or other employees Of the census bu-
reau. and thereby to contribute their
share toward making this great and
necessary public undertaking sue
cess.
I'm witness whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city Of Washington
this fifteenth day Of March, A. D.. one
thousand nine hundred and ten, and of
the independence Of the United States
Of America. the one. hundred and thir-
ty-fourth.
BY the president:
."'WILLIAM H. TAFT"
Up. c. Knox. secretary of state"
(Seal)
The proclamation Is for the purpose
Of removing fears from the minds IF
some people who are Of the opinion
that information which they give con-
corning themselves to the census taker
may be used in some way to the ;detri-
ment Of their personal or business in
terests. Against any such abuse. how
ever. the government has thrown the
strongest safeguards.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
CANCER ON THE INCREASE.
Illinois Health Board Presents Start
ling Figures.

Chicago, March 14.-Steady increase
in the DEATH rate from cancer in Illi-
rois is shown in report just made by
Secretary J. A. Egan of the state board
Of health. The statistics show that of
all persons who live beyond the age
of 80, one in twelve dies Of cancer.
"Mortuary statistics are not infalli-
BILE, and in close questions they are
likely to lead to erroneous conclusions -
said Dr. Egan's statement. But the
evidence Of constant increase in deaths
from cancer is so convincing as to
make misconception impossible.
"If, as has been stated, the pre-can-
Ger stage is the preventable and cur
able stage, some helpful light may
come from those who are laboring to
Cunravel the secrets Of early diagnosis.
This field so far has not been wholly
unfruitful."
The army Of Investigators engaged
in cancer research promises results
leading to the knowledge and cure of
cancer, according to the statements of
Dr. Egan and other statisticians who
have been tabulating the reports OF the
various laboratories devoted to the
study of the malady.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15

marriage and divorce, we have sue
ceeded in creating at last a state OF
affairs that is most lax and we have
made 1t easy for ignorance, romanu-
cism and vice to have too much sway
In determining choices that should be
based on competent knowledge. sound
est reason and fiawless virtue. we
blush at our national divorce record:
but we shut our eyes to the laxtty OF
code of marriage which can have no
other outcome than multiplicity OF sep
arations, temporary and permanent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
POTATOES SUBJECT TO INFEc
TIoN FROM THE SOIL WHERE
NEGLECTED.
DISEASE KNOWN AS "PoTATo
WARTS" SPREAD OVER EUROPE
Department Of Agriculture Issues
Warning to Farmers of United States
Post Has Spread to All European
Countries Within a Few Years-sys-
tenn Of Quarantine Proposed.

Washington, March 15.-The depart
ment Of agriculture is making extraor-
binary efforts to warn the people Of
the United States against new dis
ease Of the potato which has been
spreading swiftly thru the potato
growing areas of Europe The warn
ing is especially meant to be of the
first Importance to the great potato
producing section. about the Great
Lakes
The new affection is known as the
wart disease, also as 'tblack scab,n
"canker" and 'caulifower." Big,
warty excrescences, sometimes as big
as the tuber itself, appear upon the
sides or ends of the potato. In an
advanced stage of the disease the tu-
Der are wholly covered with the growth
and lose all resemblance to potatoes.
When this fungus growth has utilized
every particle of food stored in the po-
tato it is reduced to brownish- black
soft mass, giving off most unpleasant
odor
Ground is Infected.
This last is the most dangerous stage
of the disease, and if an attempt is
made to harvest the crop. the potatoes
| break into pieces and the spores of
thefungus inoculate the ground so
thoroughly that it remains infected for
years British experts who have
studied the disease declare it by far
the most serious menace the potato
crop has ever faced. j. w. Eastman of
the British college of Agriculture and
Horticulture says:
when this disease is once estab-
| lished in the land it is useless to try
| to grow potatoes there again until the
| pest has been starved out. So far as
| is known, no other crop is liable to be
attacked. Cases have been noted in
England where potatoes had not been
grown on land for six years, yet upon
an attempt to raise that crop, the dis
ease was found still virulently present.
Some Of the same seed used elsewhere
did not develop the disease, and some
Of the same manure used upon other
lands failed to show a trace. From
! this it is apparent that even as long
as six years is not enough to starve
out the disease
Disease Spreads Over Europe.
The department of agriculture says
there is grave danger of importing the
disease thru the use of foreign seed
potatoes. A large Importation Of po-
tatoes from Europe occurs every year,
and the department advises against the
4 use of any Of these for seed purposes.
4 The disease was first noted in Hun
/ gary in 1896, but 1t has already spread
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
ENuMERAToRs WILL NOT PED.
DIE INFORMATION REQUIRED
BY THlRTEENTH cEMetls.
PRESIDENT TAFT ASKS PUBLIC
TO ANSWER AL QUESTIONS
Issues Proclamation Urging Necessity
Of Freely Giving Desired Information
says Census i, Great and Neces-
.ary Undertakins-work Begins in a
Month.

Washington, March 15.-President
thruout the United States "to answer
promptly. completely and accurately
all inquiries addressed to them by the
enumerators,~ or other employees who
will be engaged in the taking OF tho
thirteenth decennial census. which
work will begin one month from today.
The proclamation follows:
Whereas, by the act Of congress,
approved July 2, 1909, the thirteenth
decennial census OF the United States
is to be taken, beginning on the If
teenth day of April, nineteen hundred
and ten; and
whereas, a correct enumeration of
the population every ten years is re-
quired by the constitution OF the United
States for the purpose of determining
the representation Of the several states
in the house of Representatives. land
Whereas, it is of the utmost i'm
portance to the interest Of all the
people of the United States that this
census should be complete and ac-
curate report of the population and
resources OF the country;
'Now, therefore, I, William Howard
Taft, president of the United States of
America. do hereby declare and make
known that, under the act aforesaid 1t
is the duty of every person to answer
all questions on the census schedules
applying to him and the family to
which he belongs, and to the farm oc-
cupied by him or his family, and that
any adult refusing to do so is subject
to penalty.
"The sole purpose Of the census Is to
secure general statistical Information
regarding the population and resources
Of the country, and replies are re-
quired from individuals only in order
to permit the compilation Of such
general statistics. The census has
nothing to do with taxation, with army
or jury service, with the compulsion
Of school attendance, with the regu-
lation of immigration, or with the en-
forcement Of any national, state, OF
local law or ordinance, nor can any
person be harmed in any way by fur
nishing the information required
There need be no fear that any dis
closure will be made regarding any in
dividual person or his affairs. For the
due protection Of the rights and inter-
ests of the persons furnishing informa-
ton, every employe OF the census bu-
reau is prohibited, under heavy penal
ty, from disclosing any information
which may thus come to his knowl-
edge.
II therefore earnestly urge upon all
psfsopS 80 answer promptly complete
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
Avoiding Work.

whats the matter with your hens
this spring." the commission merchant
inquired Of the farmer who had been
supplying him with eggs for several
years. "They don't seem to be very
busy"
.Naw." replied the farmer in tone
indicative Of disgust. "I guess the con-
tankerous things have turned suffra-
gettes."