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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS co.

tral Committee today were:
 Twelfth District, Robert o. Eaton, North, Haven
 thirteenth District, William H.
 Twenty-frst District, John P. King, Bridgeport.
 Twenty District, Alexander Delaney, Bridgeport.
 Twenty-third District w.R. Brown. Bridgeport.
 Twenty-fourth District, w. P.
 Twenty-ffth District. Fillmore S. Banks, Fairfield
 T'wenty-sixth District, E.C. Roscoe. Wilton.
 Twenty-seventh District, J. F Walsh, Greenwich.
 John F. King, Bridgeport, succeeds John Rusling, Bridgeport; William R. Brown, Bridgeport, succeeds EI- rner Haven, Bridgeport; and Alex ander Delaney, Bridgeport, succeeds Frank T. Staples, Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
FIRST DAY ATTENDANCE
 BEATS 1908

The enrolment returns for the first day of school reached the office of the Board of Education at noon, from the graded schools. There is a gain of 9S2 over the first day of last year The enrolment was 12, 5S5 and this fig ure added to an estimated 800 at the High school and 40 at the Normal Training school makes a total of 13, ,425, against a total first days enrolment of F, 533 in 1909.
 rer school in point of attendance for m any years, started the first day with l. 1O4 present.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
Hamilton 8 patent
 tension shears.

This new tension spring shears is without doubt one of the most useful household arti- cles ever invented. It is a first class pair of shears equipped with a new and simple attach ment that, keeps them always sharp and en- ables the user to cut anything from tissue paper to the heaviest cloth. They are made from the best carbon steel.
 You can set the ten sion on the rivet so that any kind of material can be cut without tir~ ing the hands. A five year guarantee goes with each pair. Any pair that becomes defec- tive within five years will be replaced with 9 new pair by the manH- facturers.
 The regular price Of these shears is 75c. We shall offer them for six days, beginning tonaor row morning, at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
SAILOR GOES BACK
 TO NAVY YARD

Forsaking the sea for the bumpers on a freight car brought bad luck tc John Gardner, a stalwart, clean shay. en sailor who was given a furIougA at the Brooklyn navy yard a few days ago. He said he was en routt for Boston, having gone broke iu New York and wanting to get moaeJ from his people whose home is tn the Hub Judge Wilder continued the case Gardner will likely be turn. ed over to the navy yard
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
TRUST BUSTER KELLOGG
 MAY SUCCEED BOWERS

New York, Sept. 14-It was runored in Wall street today that Frank B. Kellogg, the trust buster'' was the most probable successor to the. late Solicitor General Lloyd c. Bowers The ruInor proved decidedly disuuiet- ing and the Street made frantic ef- forts to evrify it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
FATAL MINE
 EXPLOSION
Special from United Press.

Linton, Ind, Sept 14-The explo- sion of a pocket of gas in Dougger Mine. a couple of miles from here, resulted in the killing of Andrew Bax- ter the fatal injury of Bert Reese, and the painful burning of possibly ten others. Reese suffered a frac- tured skull and is not expected to live.
 of men but all were not working The
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
Have you an O1d-fashioned quilt

found the best examples of the painstakng needewok that grandohers proud of to what quilts there treasured of association with his toric events or personages
 Prizes ranging from $1OO to $5 be awarded and the competition includes the entire country From those submitted here three will be selected and photographs descriptions of these three will be entered in the national competition
 The makers of Reddisode bats hold this contest be- they impress upon people the advantages of Reddisode batts. Reddisode really the only thing in batts that has been produced in years They all sheet and firmly stitched parallel lines at intervals of about three inches. Every house wife will at that this makes them stay in paceand also possible wash ones quilts by simply slipping the Reddisode filling out and laundering the cover
 Enter your quilt in the Revolutionary contest now Entries will be received up to Saturday night.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14

grades made application for admission to the High school this year. the Iarg- est number in the history of the insti- tuition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14
KING TO STATE
 CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Delaney Succeeds Staples and Will liam R. Brown Replaces
 Elmer Ravens.

Hartford. Sept. 14.-Among those elee s-d to the State ubl5~ = Zen
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14

uninjured men who were in the minf at the time of the exxplosiOn return ed 70 work.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
CATS SLAUGHTER GAME BIRDS
semi.WiId Animals Become Serious
Menace in oregon-PIan
for determination.

Marshf1eld, Ore.-Calvin Wright, one
of Coos county's game wardens, gives
it as his opinion that the worst enemy
of the game birds in this locality Is the
house cat which has become wild. Mr..
Wright has just returned from an ex-
tensive trip up and down the coast
country, and he declares that the cats
are doing away with the game birds.
Coos county is great place for
cats, both in the cities and the country
districts, and they have increased
with such rapidity that there are not
homes sufficient for all of them. AS a
consequence the cats have become
wild and run in the woods. Mr.. Wright
says that the increase of these semi
wild animals in the woods is much
greater than would be imagined. He
says that the cats not only break up
the nests and kill or drive away the
old birds, but that they devour scores
of the young before they are able to
protect themselves.
So great has become the menace
that Deputy Wright will take up the
cat matter with State Game Warden
Stephenson and will advocate the pay
ing of bounty for the killing of cats
which are not properly confined.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30

mers who have no faith in the theory
of Mars habitability, but 1t has been
conclusively proved that life can be
supported on Mars, and personally
have been of the same opinion as my
eminent friend, Camille Flammarion,
the great French astronomer-my
countryman as well as my friend
that Mars is in many respects world
similar to our own, peopled by beings
of most intelligent order. There is
every evidence of 1t In my mind.
1.-THE canals on Mars, first pointed
out by the Italian Schiaparelli, are by
no means hypothetical. They are too
regular in formation to be anything
other than the work of Intelligent
minds and hands. They resemble q
netting all over the face of the planet.
the main canals extending from the
poles to the equator. At certain points
where number of the canals con-
verge there is what Lowell and other
astronomers now term cases These
points of conveyance are, l believe,
big cities.
1T is, of course, extremely improb-
able that any telescope will ever be
constructed so large and of such pow
er that we will be able to actually de-
tect the flora or fauna of Mars or any
other of the inhabited planets, if other
such there be. Personally, am loath
to believe that Mars is the only planet
besides our own earth that is habit
able. think that In time to come we
will study other planets that from ap-
parent conditions may possibly sup
port life."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
TUNA a REMARKABLE FISH
staggering Musketeer Of the Sea 10
the Largest Of the Game or
! Bony Fishes.

Charles Frederick Holder. the
California naturalist, thus describes
that remarkable fish the tuna: THE
tuna 10 q pelagio fish, free lance, an
ocean rover, sort of swaggering
musketeer of the sea, the largest OF
what may be termed the game or bony
fishes. attaining maximum weight
of nearly 1000 pounds and an approx
mate length Of fourteen feet or more.
Such q fish is very exceptional, though
specimens weighing $500 pounds have
been taken on the New England coast.
! once entered a school in big
launch. The school divided to port
and starboard as we passed through
It, and had view of one or two
fishes that appeared to be more than
half as long as the boat.
These fishes spend the winter In
warm latitudes, and migrate north as
far as the mouth of the st. Lawrence.
They are found in the Mediterranean,
and north, to the Loffoden island;
yet 80 far the efforts of anglers, ex-
cept at Santa Catalina, have failed to
take them with the rod. Even here
there is stretch Of but eight miles
or SO where they can be satisfactor-
lily played and taken with rod and
reel.
This region lies on the north side
of Santa Catalina, from Avalon to
Long Point. and to the east as many
more, facing the north, and generally
smooth-more like a Scottish loch
than . fishing ground 20 miles out to
sea-"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30

Rev. Father Guicheteau of the
French Catholic Church of St. Vincent
de Paul. on West Twenty-third street,
New York. famed as the priest
astronomer" has his telescope di.
rected these nights at Mars, now very
close to the earth. Every night he is
up in the little observatory he has
had installed on the roof of his parish
house making both observations and
calculations. His telescope is q
very fine instrument, operated by
clockwork to keep pace with the APP
parent motion of the stars.
Il am firmly convinced" he says,
that there is life on Mars, and / am
eagerly awaiting the report of the
scientists all over the world, who are
now making observations and photo
graphs. l look for the most interest
ing results from the observatory at
Arequipa, Peru, wheer the exceeding
ly clear atmosphere will be Of the
greatest aid in operating the great
Bruce telescope there located.
Mars is now only 35,000,000 miles
distant from the earth; never Is it
closer to us. From this time on the
two planets, the earth and Mars, get
further away from each other from
day to day. The rate of speed at which
they separate is terrific. In period
of little over seven years from now
Mars will be 234,00O,00O miles away
from us. That is why astronomers
are gathering hay now while Mars
shines!'
There are many eminent astrono-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
TAMENEss or A SEA LION
Old Ben, Weighing Half Ton, 10
Often Met on the Streets
Of Avalon.

In describing the islands lying OF
the southern coast of California Fred
erick Holder writes: ''The feature
which will really amaze the wanderer
among the channel islands Is the
tameness of some animals. To meet
bull sea lion weighing approximate
ly half ton on the main avenue OF .
town, 80 feet from the water, Is pos
sibility of q startling nature. yet I
have seen Old Ben, the head of the
Santa Catalina sea lion rookery, on
Crescent avenue, Avalon, surrounded
by tourists who snapped their cam
eras at him with impunity.
"At that time Ben could be induced
to come ashore when the lure was q
fat, long-flnned tuna, but one day he
climbed upon the wharf, coming en-
tirely up the steps. following the man
with fish. Then some unreasonable
person made threatening demonstra-
tion; Ben started for the step, lost his
hold, slipped and fell, smashing them
and wounding himself For long
time he remembered this, but gradual
ly his faith in human beings has re-
turned.
"He is good-tempered and never at
tempts to bite. But he is savage
looking animal, and when he comes
leaping up on the boat landing. driving
of women and children by mere
ferocity of appearance. and Selling
their fish, as he did recently. he makes
very clever imitation of ferocious
BEAST
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30

simply told, 1t is thrilling narrative
OF adventure, showing that when Uncle
Sam starts out to round up his chill
dren he spares no expense to locate
them and satisfy himself as to their
status.
Mr.. McKenzie's narrative comes IN
advance Of his figures, 90 that 1t is
impossible to give the population OF
the country covered by him and his
twenty assistants. For reasons OF Its
own, the census bureau determined
to number the Alaskans during mid
winter.
Mr.. Mckenzie made his headquar-
tiers at the mining town Of Fairbanks.
His first special agent was appointed
on the 10th of last November and the
work was completed by the 18th Of
last April, when Mckenzie left for
"the states" His experience in get
ting out of the country was by no
means as thrilling as some Of his ex-
periences while engaged In the work,
but it was stirring enough to arouse
interest in a warm speil.
Hardship necessarily was involved
In the work. Only men Injured to the
rigors of tho Arctic climate were en-
ployed, and while they suffered Sc
verely, none of them lost their lives.
Churches and school houses in the
interior OF Alaska are few and far be-
tween. Necessarily they are confined
to the towns and Indian settlements.
Most of the Indian schools as we'll as
the church services are conducted by
the missionaries.
The white people do not attend
either the Indian schools or the In.
dian churches. so that those of the
outlying districts get their religion
and their education at home. In the
matter of education Mr.. Mckenzie re.
ports that the home system works
very we'll, the long nights Of the win
ter causing an enforced confinement
Of children that 10 conducive to study.
He says that many or them do even
better than students in the schools.
Mr.. Mckenzie also reports that
there is very little sickness among
the white inhabitants of Alaska. and
he says that few of those who are
sick viii acknowledge the fact. There
is no fever, but some pneumonia. Most
Of the Indians are afflicted with tu-
berculosis and other diseases of civil
ization are prevalent.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
Waste of public Money.

At the last session congress voted
S25, 900 for the expense of a special
commission to investigate railway con-
ditions and determine whether roads
are overcapitalized and what use they
have made of their money.
The Railway World of Philadelphia
says that for $3.50 it will furnish de-
tailed facts of every issue OF railway
capital put out in the United States
for twenty years back.
This is simply another instance OF
the needless waste of money in special
commissions.
A $3.50, 900 tariff commission is secur-
ing data which are already available.
1t will not contribute any new facts on
the tariff question.
In three years a special immigration
commission has cost the taxpayers
more than $3.50, The data in its
five or six pamphlets could have been
furnished by any immigration society
in thirty days for not to exceed $4,000.
The monetary commission is author
lied to expend any amount it sees fit,
and need not account for dollar other
than by lump sum voucher, which
must be acceptediand paid by the treas
ury. 1t has been junketing all over
Europe at public expense.
And so it goes. Commissions for
political ends, some to brace up G. O..
P. props that have crooked slightly
under the strain, some to hoodwink the
people on matters of legislation. 9th
ers to palliate the administration S sins
of omission, yet others merely to furn-
ish fat JOBS for the faithful. And the
public foots the bill.
The appalling waste of tax money in
this commission foolishness at Wash
ington must be stopped. 1t will be
stopped, when democratic congress.
men are strong enough to put an enc
to such outrageous robbery Of the PEG.
ple.-Chicago Journal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
Bride Was Deaf.

At marriage service performed
some time ago in little country
church in Berkshire, when the minis
ter said in solemn tone, wilt thou
have this man to be thy welded hus-
band?" Instead Of the woman an
swering for herself, grufl mans
voice answered:
"Oi will"
Again the minister looked up sur
prised, not knowing what to make Of
1t, when one of the groomsmen at the
end of the row said:
Fer be deaf. OF be answerin' for
'er."-London Telegraph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
a New One.

Nimble wits and glib tongue fire.
quently save erring New York cop
pers'' on trial before the deputy COM
missioner at police headquarters. Not
long ago giant patrolman. accused of
being about a quarter Of a mile of his
beat, evolved this excuse: "You see.
it was like this. your honor. was
patrolling my post, when thought
heard q man up the street yelling
Fire! Fret ran In the direction
of the sound, and, would you believe
me. Mr. Commissioner, there stood q
fellow out on the sidewalk trying to
wake up q friend Of his on the second
floor. and he was yelling with all his
might, Meyer! Meyer!'" We'll,
that's q brand new one" said the trial
commissioner, the suspicion Of q
smile crossing his face. Complaint
dismissed"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
BACKS INDIAN LORE.
Chief Census Agent Tells Of Con-
dition in Fairbanks District.
Alaskan Report Declares Redskins Of
Far North Count Only by Sun and
Moon and "sIeeps"
and Character Of People.

Washington. understanding is
verified and Fennimore Cooper Is vim
dictated and their standardization
comes. as It should. through the
census bureau. It Is from faraway
Alaska, but 1t Is ofilcial.
The standardization Is found In re-
port from Chief Census Agent Nc
Kenzie telling all about the taking OF
the census in the Fairbanks district.
Mr.. Mckenzie gives assurance that
the Indians do measure time by the
"snows" and suns" and distances by
Sleeps" Indeed, he asserts that they
have no other standards Of time or
measurement, and in relating the fact
he cites an instance which throws no
little light on the diflculties of emu
merating the red men.
"Only the very young children, who
have been educated in the govern
ment schools" he says, have any
knowledge of their ages or births. and
the agents were instructed to use the
age and birth months as nearly as
could be.
"Time with them is computed on
suns and SHOWS, and distances by
sleeps. Marriages, separations. births
and deaths are all based upon such
calculations and we we're obliged to
base our Information in the same
way"
He then gives this instances:
IAN Indian buck claimed to have
lived 200 SHOWS After much talk
and use Of the sign language 1t was
determined that he was about eighty
years old. He was found to have been
twenty SHOWS old when he got his
first woman to have kept her four
.snows, when she got away; that he
got more woman and keep her i've
SHOWS and then she died; that he got
no woman for twenty SHOWS more,
and finally that he got young chicken
and keep her all time ever since, now
on twenty-five or thirty SHOWS"
Regarding the habits and character
of the people, he says:
"As class they are indolent, lazy
and dirty. although in recent years
the teachers have taught the younger
ones that dirt has been the cause of
much. Of their illness and the pres
ent generation is keeping themselves
healthier by bathing. Their homes are
filthy, as rule, and conducive to the
diseases with which the Indians are
most afflicted"
Temperature from. 80 to 70 degrees
below zero; snow frvm three to TWEEN
ty feet deep; wind blowing a biz
card most of the time; no human
habitation in sight; no covering at
night except tent. and no grub"
that was not many times frozen.
These are some Of the conditions
under which the census was taken in
the interior.
The report covering the work in the
fourth or inland district Of the terri
tory has just been received by d.
rector Durand, and while the story is
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30

Mr.. Porter, running on the demo-
cratic ticket for governor of the state,
finds himself in queer situation. The
party has declared itself for local OPP
ton with high license while he is prac-
tically a prohibitionist. 1t was his
prohibition tendencies when he ran be-
fore that made the liquor districts cut
him so strongly. The DEBORAH Re-
publican which published the above
ought to know that Senator Porter:is not
now and never has been a prohibition
list. He is a temperance man just like
Horace Boies but not prohibitionlst
and republicans will gain nothing by
misrepresenting him. The republican
party of Iowa gave us prohibition but
after it had been whipped twice it
switched off to mulct and has been
carrying water on both shoulders but
the people are becoming tired and want
the question settled right. Clayton
County Democrat.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
An Edlto,r,, rrlaI..

People won't love us: we have final.
" made up our mind to that. Yester-
day we mentioned the case Of man
who has one child and who every
evening buys the child an Ice cream
cone from a street wagon. And we
mentioned how the five poor children
across the street looked loneingly at
the fortunate child and wanted some.
Up to noon today nine men had
claimed that 1t was q dig at them,
and said the man across the street
had plenty of money but was too
stingy to buy his children ice cream
cones.-Atchison Globe.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
What's This!

The Payne-Aldrich law is not now
bringing in sufficient revenue to run
the government, reports from the Re-
publican press bureau to the contrary
notwithstanding. The tariff law, the
corporation tax, internal revenue re-
ceipts, and all other sources of reve-
nue. combined, failed by $3,O14, S42. 81
Of producing sufficient funds to run the
government during the first Is days of
August.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
SOME sPINsTER PROVERBS.

Thus thinketh the spinster in her
the fullness of her wisdom:
There be three kinds Of spinsters,
yea. even four kinds by the fine logic
of paradox.
Some maids are born spinsters.
some achieve spinsterhood and others
have spinsterhood thrust upon them;
and some be old maids even through
matrons and men.
Let the spinster regard her state
not as misfortune but as an achieve
ment; neither let the woman Of faint
heart lightly undertake the obligations
thereof, for deep and difficult are it's
ways.
Entitled neither to the innocence OF
the maid nor to the wisdom of the
matron, with dignity must she subdue
cleverness and with wit enlighten
uucuCC.
To be frank without being forward,
to be prudent without being prude-
aye. there's the rub.
Put not your trust In subtle eva
sions, nor yet in strange names;
neither covet We the tinkling title OF
bachelor girl, for spinster by any
other name would be as lonely--if she
Is lonely.
Marriage is a mocker and courtship
q delusion. and she who is deceived
thereby is not wise; for oft has the
scoffer cried out in the market place
Old maids rush in where widows fear
to tread.
Blessed is the contented spinster
for great is her reward in comfort
Life.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30

David Brant of the Iowa City Re-
publican, one of the strong standpat
papers of the state, was asked how he
liked the Republican state platform,
and for reply he told the following
story: An Irishman was served his
fret dish of hash. He lifted the
sides, dug into the middle, and pushing
it away said: "Bejabers, let the man
eat it who chewed it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-30
Won't Need a Crutch.

When Editor j. P. Sossman of Cor
nelius, N. c., bruised his leg badly, it
started an ugly sore Many salves and
ointments proved worthless. Then Buck
lens Arnica Salve healed it thoroughly.
Nothing is so prompt and sure for Ul-
GERS, Boils, Burns, Bruises, Cuts, Corns,
Sores, Pimples, Eczema or Piles. Csc
at F. A. Clemmers. T