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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09

other kind-and I make bold to be- lieve that they are in the majority the office of priest, physician, and teacher is frequently most ably exem- plified in one man. He Is a composite of pulpiteer. advisor and pedagogue.
 Editors are hard working. conscien- tious students. endeavoring to present the Truth, as they see it, in concrete form
 Subjects ranging from the consid- eration of the Prologomena of Kant. to a discussion of the benefits derived through government or municipal own- ership of public utilities, are present ed in a clear concise way, that ''he who runs. may read.'' In the course of many years constant reading of one such editor whom I have in mind. I am convinced that the whole range of the worlds history, from the Mean derthal man and the Swiss Lake Dwellers down to the victory of the Californians and their ballot battle for the Initiative, Referendum, Recall and Woman Suffrage has been referred to at least once.
 Philosophy, art, literature, medicine. and science have received more or less comprehensive treatment from the brilliant and facile writer, and the simplicity of his presentation has caused much of it to stick" It is the refinement of the pedagogical art.
 These sermonettes and little didactio lectures, written in such simple read able style. placed year after year in their hands, must exercise a marked influence in the education of the mass es. Perhaps in hundreds of instances they have been the means of uplifting dispairing, labor-sodden soul, or a powerful stimulus to the selection of a nobler and higher career. Thoughts are things. Once started on their con- shall say where they may finally take Judgment?
 Longfellow expresses this idea in the poem commencing. 'I shot an arrow into the air. 1t fell to the earth I know not where"
 Given matter and thought. the con- struction of a universe is only a ques- ton of time and evolution.
 So 1t is with this Workman's library the newspaper. Welding this potent power of suggestion over the minds of millions. 1t is the most tremendous directing force of modern times.
 The crystalized wisdom of the ages, as found in the libraries, remains a dormant non-essential as compared uit}, <he vital moving coryrso of the daily newspaper-the Encyclopedia of the multitude.
 DIR EDWIN F. BOWERS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
CROP REPORT ON CORN
 OATS AND WHEAT OUT
Especial from United Press.)


 Washington, Nov. 9.-According to a crop report just issued by the De- partment of Agriculture, the yield per acre of the 1911 corn crop was 23.9 bushels as compared with 27.4 bush els in 1910 and 8 ten year average or 260. The production of the 1911 corn crop is reported as 2,776,3O1, 900 bushels as compared with 3,125, 713,- 900 bushels in 1910.
 The quality of the 1911 crop is estimated to be 80.6 per cent. as compared with ten year average of 84.5 per cent.
 The percentage of the 1910 corn crop on farms November l, 1911, is estimated at Az per cent, or 132,- O62,0O0 bushes, as compared with 4.3 per cent. and 119,0 ,0560 900 bushels of the 1909 crop on farms, Nov. l, 1910, and 3.3 per cent. the ten year average.
 The average weight per measured bushel of the 1911 wheat crop is 578 pounds as compared against 58.5 pounds in 1910, and 57.6 the ten year average.
 The average weight per measured bushel of the 1911 oat crop is 31.1 pounds as compared with 32.7 pounds in 1910 and SIP the ten year aver
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09

dirt removal by automobile vacuum street-cleaners, on the principle of vacuum housekeeping which IS now rapidly taking the place of the old dirty, dust-raising broom and feath- er-duster. In one hour as much sur face can be actually cleaned as was imperfectly gone over with dusty ac- compartments by horse-d drawn sweep CTS in six hours
 1t is a hopeful sign of the awaken ing of the public to demands for civic cleanliness, that off1cialdom is begin ming to respond in readier perform ance of it's duty and responsibility in safeguarding the public health and incidentally safeguarding respect for law, order and government. To avoid an instruction Of the citizenship, there must needs be resurrection of statesmanship.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
CENSUS KErONI ShUWo TnAl lnEKE IS NO ENDURING NEGRO PROBLEM

The figures for white and negro population are just from the census nursau. Some of them are printed q the Farmer. today.
 Briefly stated, the important. facts sahown ars three In number. as fol- !lowv:
 1. That the white population in sthe South increased much faster than .4ks negro population. and this is the rtsult of . higher NATURAL in srsass among the white. although It ! e anscted somewhat by the immi- ezation of negroes.
 3. That the white population in tho North increased faster than the negro population.
 b. The increase of negro popula- xlon in the North was due to migra- con of negroes from the South.
 Those who habitually and constitu- I tionan fear that the universe is not wound /up to run awhile may take courags from these figures
 THERE IS NO NEGRO PROB sLE1G
 That is to say. in any moment of {: ttzne the negro problem Is at it's :. znaximum and Is continually decreas- 1ng. as q mo tain peak Is leveled by the procsss of the ages There ere moro white men for ev- ~y negro than there ever were be- fore. in this country. The distance I will widen for decades to come.
 The great bugaboo of the criers of s.negro problem" was the tefnporar- ay greater fertility of the negro in certain environment.
 The sensational feature of the new census is the percentage excess of white over black births.
 me ngures have been expected for years by every man who has been able to interpret the statistics of these reports, more Illuminating than most
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09

the host of other creations to which the artists's brain has given "a local habitation and a name''
 Another feature for which the news paper has not received sufficient cred- it, is it's cosmopolizing influence. It is lecture lyceum and travelogue com bined, and the universality of It's scope. together with the intimate sup to the minute" treatment Sof habits, customs, and idiosyncracies of the "children of the world" emphasize constantly the fact that all mankind are brothers.
 When that good day arrives in which we can truly and honestly say sMy Country is the World, all mankind are my brothers'-the broadly conducted humanizing newspapers will have con- tributed in no small measure to this "consummation devoutly to be wish ed'
 Newspapers have been accused. pos- sfbly with some degree of justice of dealing too largely with unwholesome details of salacious, degraded, or bru- tai subjects. This may be true, yet if they would hold the mirror up to nature, they must necessarily reflect what is licencious, detestable, and cruel. History, as we have understood 1t. is largely made up of the patho- logical in the life story of the GENUS HUMANUM.
 Perhaps, after all, it is just as es- sential to know the details of the lat est murder, as 1t is to be acquainted with the sOedipus Tyrannus of So- phocles. Ns
 It may be as important to know the history of the taking of Tripoli as tc remember the minute features of the first Punic War. Everything is rela- tive.
 Tn its final analysis. the newspaper supplies demand for a particular commodity. It also reflects faithfully the characteristics of it's readers. Fol myself. I believe, with Thoreau, tha, if you have read the account of one murder, you have read them all-i1 you know the particulars of one high. way robbery, you are letter perfect ir general knowledge of the subject. Und so weiter.
 But all these, together with the fas. cinating mysteries so dear to the soul. of women-comments on this, that and the other; from earth to heaven and from heaven to earth again. are merely the soup and fish, side dishes entrees, and dessert to the PIECE DE RESISTANCE-the editorial column The modern editor exercises a power full influence for good or i'll over the thought of his readers. If he repre- sents the collective interests of a ganf of boodlers. highway robbers, ant thugs in ordinary, he may assume patronizing air, and 'lie and lie ant be villain, and he may-aside from his whiskers-"look like the innocen flower, but be the serpent under it.'' His influence is pernicious and dan gerous to the mental health of tn, community. He is a moral leper-al intellectual prostitute. But with tn,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09

fluffy without the least shrinking. Our white work is always the same, snow white and finished like new. This is the place your work should come. Is 1t coming here? Our wagons run everywhere. The Crawford Laun- dry, Fairfield avenue and Courtland street. Phone 4320.
 Just Received at w. D. Cook & Sons
 A fresh lot of bluefsh, halibut steak cod, weakfsh, sea trout, har- Dor blues. Long Island ee1s, striped bass, salmon, oysters, open and in the shell, escallops and all other kinds of fresh fish in season at lowest prices. Pure cod liver oil speciality at w. D. Cook & Sons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
THE NEWSPAPER
 AS AN EDUCATOR

The most important educational in- fIuence in modern times is the con- stant reading of newspapers.
 The sum total of knowledge in the world has been tremendously increas- ed through this practice. The newspa- per is the Workingman's library. He depends 'upon 1t for practically all the law allows him time for-the law which compels him to toll from eight to fourteen hours a day for something to eat. few clothes to wear, and a roof over his head
 After a man or woman has worked all day at some physically fatiguing or mentally exhausting labor, they are not In the condition, nor have they the concentrative ability. to apply them selves to a book-possibly more or less redundant and involved-very likely. as many books are, two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff.
 Here the we'll edited newspaper en- ters in, and condenses book into an editorial. As with Webster's speeches, each word weighs pound. The pabu- 1um of the reading public is encap- sulated in abridged form-tersely, graphically, even dramatically, we are informed as to the activities of that paradox of nature-man-and that in enigma of the universe-woman.
 In "Ercles vein" the truth is made patent that "the study of mankind is man." The biographies of Irving, low ing. fighting. murdering, robbing, self sacrificing, humans are LIMNED IN PETTO.
 We are afforded every opportunity to profit by the experiences of the shorrible example," and stimulated to emulate the heroism of the latest re- cipient of Carnegie medal.
 Some winsome whimsical "toueh' is incorporated in a delicately construct ed story-perhaps unspeakably tender with a homely charm, or ingenious naivete. Or the elementalism of Fall staff. and the gallant Wight who have contributed so much to our literary joy, refined by modern methods of calling a spade a sAovel-is suggested in the wonderful adventures of Bunk ead Rummy, Or Mrs. Dingbat, and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09

other facts.
 Too apparently has the negro, as his environment passed from the lonely plantation to the populous community, become the victim of the malady that slays unto the third and fourth generation, tuberculosis. and kindred ills.
 The terrible importance, the awful truth. of this assertion will be better understood by those who follow the Federal Mortality reports from year to year.
 There is survival of the Attest. The law works painfully, or painless Iy. inexorably.
 The negro as he exists in the South. speaking of the mass of him, cannot endure in the environment of complex system.
 His ethics of sex are undeveloped. He is not homogeneous. Nature sets her ban upon human promiscuity. It is the foreword of race extinction.
 The north is drawing on the strongest and the best of the neg roes. It is the strongest. the most vfrile. who migrate.
 Continuing migration to the north works out another phase of remedy. It tends to destroy the dense massing of the negro population in the South.
 : s
 But some millions of the negro brother will survive the ordeal. These display the virtues demanded by civi- lization, will exhibit the traits, trans- mitted through long line of ances- tors. of those resistant to the pecu- liar vices of civilization. or, more &C., cura,ely, of civilization not yet ar- rived.
 Such negro population is of course no problem. The negro in his total ity will have become "a man and a brother as in fragmentary way he is now despite the sins of his white brothers which rest heavily upon him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
CHANTECLER

You can say for me that we feel thankful to the citizens of Bridgeport for their confidence, expressed in the result of the election. And you can further say that 1t Is the purpose of the Republican organization to do what 1t can to carry out our platform not only in letter. but in spirit as well.-De Yer Fl. Warner.
 And I've" who are we? Why, Warner, Lavery. King. The Coroner? Oh. no, us three and no more. Just Nc.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
Uhp D. M. Rran Onn1pat11i.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
at $1.79.

Shown in Main St. window
 Curtain Store, third floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-09
POINTS OF INTEREST.
You Are Elected.

When it comes to taking care of your health you are elected, so go to the Turkish baths at the Hotel Atlas, PAT Fairfield avenue, any time of the day or night and get a clear bill of health. Hours for ladies a. m. to D. m.
 laundry.
 We nave special soap for white goods. Special soap for colored goods. Special soap for. woolen goods. Bach has a separates and distinct way of washing. We wash colored goods in way that makes the colors bright and fresh without fading. We laun- der woolens with a special soap and method that makes them soft and
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
Chanoino Tom Reeds Face.

Thomas L. Reed was once the victim
of q printers error the unusual apt
ness of which. after the first flush Of
Indignation had subsided. appealed so
strongly to his sense of the comic that
he never failed to refer to the matter
with the keenest gusto whenever he
met the man whom he, with the ut
most mock solemnity, always held re-
sponsible for it. The late Colonel John
A. CockerilIs handwriting in the heat
of composition was sometimes liable
to lose itself in an almost interminable
tangle, decipherable only with the
greatest difficulty. On one occasion he
undertook to say that "any one can
see Tom Reed has the face Of an hon
est man." but was Mortified when he
opened his paper the following morn
ing and found that the types made him
say that "any one can see Tom Reed
has a face like harvest moon"
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
The Feet of Chameleons.

Chameleons. as no doubt readers are
aware, all belong to the old world. and
particularly to Africa. In their tongue.
their feet and their eyes they differ re-
markably from other lizards. Their
feet. though possessing five toes. are
divided into two grasping groups. look
ing like a hand in mittens. and only by
close examination you perceive the
presence of the two or the three Oppos-
ing respectively. but so close together
as to appear like one broad one. On
the padded soles or palms Of these
grasping limbs you can feel and see
the small-may one say-palpi. which
enable them to grasp so firmly that 1t
Is difficult to detach a chameleon from
it's fOothold These clinging feet. to-
gether with their prehensic tail. en-
able them to sustain themselves on
the branches in the strongest gale.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09

Space and Tins Unconquerable.
No cheating or bargaining will ever
get single thing out Of natures ''es-
tablishment" at half price. Do we
want to be strong? We must work.
To be hungry? We must starve. To
be happy? We must be kind. To be
wise? We must look and think. No
changing Of place at hundred miles
an hour nor making Of stuffs a thou
sand yards minute will make US
one whit stronger. happier or wiser.
There was always more in the world
than men could see. walked they ever
so slowly; they will see it no better
for going fast. And they will at last,
and soon, too, find out that their grand
inventions for conquering (as they
think) space and time do in reality
conquer nothing, for space and time
are in their own essence unconquer-
able and, besides. did not want any
conquering-they wanted using. A fool
always wants to shorten space and
time; q wise man wants to lengthen
both. A fool wants to kill space and
kill time; a wise man, first to gain
them, then to animate them.-John
RuSkin.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
The Crow That Wears a Fools Cap.

The Crow That. Wears FOOLS Cap.
The following clever way Of keeping
crows away from a grainfield is used
by the farmer of Holland: He makes
some small caps of stout paper and
smears around the inner side of the
mouth of each some birdlime or other
sticky stuff. In these he puts some
grains of corn and stands them about
his fields by pressing their points into
soft earth. When the crow finds one
Of these paper caps he thinks himself
in great luck until he attempts to peck
at the tempting grain. when. to his
astonishment, he finds the cap attach
ed to his head-a regular fools cap
which will not even allow him to see
what course to take if he flies up.
However. he succeeds in reaching
some coarse grass or bushes and after
much bewildered scrambling and flop
ping about gets his head out of this
undesirable cap and ever afterward
avoids the field where there are more
of them.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
Certified SonQster.

Prima Donna-I have here certin-
cate from a doctor to the effect that
I can't sing tonight. Manager-Why
20 TO all that trouble? I'll give you q
certificate that you never could sing
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
FREE SAMPLE CURED old
PERSONS BOWEL TR0ubl E

One of the most remarkable proofs
of the unusual laxative merit con-
tanned in Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin
is that it is effective not only in peo-
pie in the prime of life, but at the
extremes of ages. AS many letters
are received from mothers regarding
the cures of children, as from men and
women of sixty, seventy and eighty
years of age. 1t must be truly won
derful laxative.
In the cure of constipation and
bowel trouble in old people it has no
equal 1t corrects the constipation,
dispels the headache, biliousness, gas,
drowsiness after eating, etc. People
advancing in years should see to it
that their bowels move freely, and
if they do not to take DR.. CALDWELL S
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09

''It was his third attempt at sui
cide.''
And didn't he succeed at either Of
the Others New York Press.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09

Syrup Pepsin. You can prolong your
life by healthy bowel action. C1oRged
bowels invite disease. Women about
to pass the menstrual period cannot
do better than use Syrup Pepsin sew
eral times week until the system has
settled to its future condition.
Among the strongest supporters Of
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin are Mr..
w. G.. Zorn of New Decatur, Ala. and
Mr.. George S. Spaulding of the Ma
tional Soldiers Home, Kansas, both
elderly men. The regular size bottles
can be bought of any druggist at fifty
cents and one dollar, but a free sam
pie bottle can be had by sending your
address to the doctor.
Address him DR.. w. = Caldwell,
4o2 Caldwell building, MeoaEelh. Ill.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
He Was Paralyzsd.

The bell rang. and when she went
to the door she found a sad faced wO-
man.
please. mum. can you hep me
some? / got six children az me hus'
band is paralyZed"
"Why. certainly. Here's a quarter.
Where is your husband?"
Hes in jail, num-"
"In Jail. Why, what is he in Jail
for?"
For gittin' paralyzed. mum!'-New
York Journal.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
Taken at His Word.

He latter What, You
have no fortune? You said over and
over again that you We're afraid some
one would marry you for your money.
She-Yes. and you said over and over
again that you would be happy with
me if hadn't cent. Well. haven't
a cent
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09

Cut this ad. out and bring it with
you and get advantage of above
prices, and have work done by an
experienced dentist.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
The Sudden Shock,

"Your wife has received some sud
den shock. What has happened?"
II don't know. doctor. l came home
early last night
"Ah. that presumably accounts for
it"-Washington Herald.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
Figure X Out.

A farmer takes some pigs to market
In basket. He puts the first in with
its head poining one way and the
next with its head in the opposite di-
rectiOn. the next with its head point
ing the same way as the first. and so
on. He stops when he has three heads
pointing one way and three tails the
other. How many pigs does he put in ?
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
Bad Enouqh.

Magistrate-DO you know that drink
drives man into bad company? Pris-
oner-Yes. your honor. 1t brought me
before you.-Philadelphia Times
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09
TON MACK
The Premium Jack.

Fine Lack jack, 16 hands high, large
Ucn', mesly nose and belly. ) years
CID, weight l, $50 pounds.
Tom Mack will make TIE season of
1911 at Marchmont Stock Farmcn the
Winch ester pike. = miles east CT Paris,
at
$40 for Mares and SIS for Jenae:s
TOINSURE a LIVE COLT.
Lien retained on colt until season
1ey is paid Mares kept at s. psr
ionth or ten cents per day On grass.
Tespor sibie for accidents Cr ee-
c9pes.
CHARLTON A. CLAY,
E. L. Phone 81.
K. +. ID. Ne. 2, Paii, ~.
The Bourbon news., 1911-05-09

THE SADDLE STALLION,
Ben D'orr,
l5{ hands high. heavy msra and tail
WI make the season Of 1911 at Hida-
way Stock Farm. two miles East of
Paris, on the Little Rock and North
Middletown pixies at
SIS to Insure q Living Colt.
BEN DOR is by Mcdonald Chief.
sire or Dandy jim. Hughes REQ Nc.
Donald. and others.
First dem, Macy. by Lovely, he By
Ledger: Nancy's first cam Fleet by
Forest Temple.
Money due when colt comes, mare
paHed with. Cr bred To another horse.
lien retained on all colts until season
money is paid. -
Not responsible for accidents or
escapes.
T. B. STITH,
K. +. u. No. /. Paris. KY
La Junta tribune., 1911-02-04
MR COLORADO EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
SATURDAY.. FEBRUARY =. 1911
REMINISCENT.
" 0pll,FRQ MDuG
Nh nltS Of
49,. NENTT ytARSAGO

T. T. Woodruff, Of Boston. added
1000 new books to the La Junta Ii.
brary.
George Bruner, aged 33 years, died
s. 1891.
The addition OF the south branch
to this division brought fifty more
railroad men to La Junta.
1t was announced that the juicy
Rocky Ford Watermelon was surely
coming to La Junta.
Prof kollock had class of six.
ty.five boys and girls exercising In
calisthenics each day.
Alfalfa was selling on the streets
OF La Junta for $40 per ton and
prairie hay at $l2.50 per ton.
Twenty years ago La Junta was
in the throes OF building boom.
Wonder II 1t isn't about time for
history 10 repeat itself.
c. L. Seeley sold the press, type
and fixtures OF the Otero County Re-
publican 10 r u. Wilson. OF the
Rocky Ford Watermelon.
The opera house was to lie en-
larsed by adding an addition OF
fifty feet 10 its length. The Thes-
plan Temple was sawed in two and
the addition made In the middle.
In the case OF the Otero Canal
Company. VS.. fosaick and Hunger
ford. damages for right Of way were
awarded 10 Fosiick amounting TO
$l.7i6.75. and TO Hungc rford for
$l.0is.s5.
Articles Of Incorporation OF the
Colorado aud Northern Railway were
filed In the office OF the county
clerk. The road was to run ON the
south sid. oI the river from Pueblo
TO Rocky Ford and thence northeast
erly TO Kit Carson and the east
boundary line OF the state. Jonn 4.
Godding WAS one Of the Incorporate.
ors. Pipe dream.