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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
LARGE PRODUCTION OF
 MINERAL WATER
Nearly 10000, 900 Gallons Sold in the United States in 1911, Vaiuer
 at $$7 ,875,373.

In 1911 S7,527.s22 gallons of min eral waters were sold in the United States, valued at $7,875,373. Of this large amount 635923,119 gallons, val ued at se.ss7,ssS, were of domestic production, and 3,604,703 gallons, valued at $1,037,4S5, were imported. The average price of the domestic wa ter at the springs was 10.7 cents a gallon and that of the imported wa ter was 2o.8 cents a gallon. to which must be added for the imported wa ter, freight, commissions, and import duty. ~.-
 The domestic production in 1911 compared with that in 1910 showed an increase of 1,S92,994 gallons and $4S0, 299S in value. The product m 1911 was derived from 732 springs New York State led in the quantity of water sold, with 1O.245, ,261 gallons bringing an average price of g cents but Wisconsin, with an output of B. 716,162 gallons, produced the great est value. namely $955,9S8. or an av- craze of IT cents gallon.
 The highest average price received in any State was in Indiana-60 cents gallon-the production being 1,- 0S4, ,42S gallons The high price was due to the medicinal reputation of the waters. Maine received an average of 34 cents a gallon and produced l. 254,7S3 gallons. The lowest average prices received were in Minnesota and Oklahoma-,-3 cents a gallon--the production of Minnesota being s,793,- SIS gallons, second only to that of New York.
 The statistics of production of min-' eral waters by States and a deserip- tion of the numerous springs are dis cussed by George c. Matson of the United States Geological Survey in an advance chapter just issued on the
 Production of Mineral Waters from the volume, Mineral Resouruces of the United States for 1911, which also includes a scientific paper on the Concentration of Mineral Water in Relation to Therapeutic Activity" by R, R. Dole.
 A copy of the report may be ob- tained free on application to the Di- rector of the Geological Survey. Washington, D. c.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
VANISHING BUFFALO ROBES.

The buffalo robe, which a genera ton ago was to be found in nearly every farm house, is passing away to recur on earth no more. The buffalo robe was an institution. On a win ter's day, when father hitched up to the old sled to drive to town for the weekly mail and. provisions, he led the big hatfooted team of bays out of the barnyard crunching through the snow up to the kitchen door. Mother came out with the letters to be mail ed, the kerosene can to be filled, the buggy whip, which was kept in the shed kitchen-and the buffalo robe. The boys wrapped themselves to the chin in the pliant hide of the buff falo, and they were off to town, the flying spray of snow lodging in the wooliy hair of the robe.
 There was a woven laprobe also, and it had a picture of a lion on it. The younger boy thought that this robe was a lion skin, and he wonder ed why the buffalo robe didn't have a picture of buffalo on 1t, photo grapl1ed by the alchemy of nature.
 There was time when Kansas fur nished buffalo robes for the world. They were arEt marketed by the Raw
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

case. the worlds records are sure to De smashed into bits The present record of 200 miles is 154 minutes and 12 seconds and was made by Louis Disbrow, driving the Hummer at Pab- To Beach. Fla. The previous mark, 1S2 minutes and 22 seconds, was made two years ago at Galveston Beach by De Hymel, now dead. Most of the en- trants in the 200-mile feature will also try to beat the intermediate records, from twenty-five miles up. The fifty mile record was made at Jacksonville, Fla, March 28 1911, by Burman, time 35: :52:31. Burman also made the 100- mile record at Daytona, Fla, -1:12:45, beating the previous mark by a fifth of a second. Disbrow holds the 150- mile and 200-mile records, both of which were set up on the beach near Jacksonville, Fla, in March of last year. His time for 150 miles was i:55:1S and for POO miles it was 2:34:12
 The Galveston races this week will be run over short course--two and half miles making full lap i've
 miles. By this arrangement the cars
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
SoLEN-ONE BLACK POODLE"
 AND OTHER LITERARY THEFTs

T take my own wherever I find it. F Moliere is alleged to have said, and hundreds of literary highwaymen have quoted this precedent as excuse for their thefts. If additional justi- fication is needed. they find it in these lines:
 When 'Omer smote his bloomin' Tyre
 Ed 'eard men sing by land and sea,
 An what e thought e might require
 E went and took, the same as me-
 Plagiarisn-to use a mild term for outright stealing-has been common long ago a well-to-do and eninently respectable citizen of Virginia was convicted of having victimized a number of magazines by selling as his own short stories that had pre- viousiy been published in other pe- riodicals. He did not even take the trouble to change the names of the characters in the tales he copied. One of his feats was to sell to. a New York magazine one of Sewell Ford s Shorty McCabe" stories. Word for word it was exactly like the, original which had appeared in another pub lication only a year or two before, bought and published it.
 Although international copyright laws now serve to protect authors in their rights, many authors still car ry on a fouriahing trade in transla- tions, which they dispose of as orig inal. Thomas Guthrie, the English novelist whose works are published under the pen name of F. Anstey, had an experience of this kind with his Black Poodle.' MT. Guthrie-who was born f1fty-six years ago to-day. Aug. 8, 1856. at Kensington-was wis., iting Paris when he observed in book shop little volume entitled ''Le Caniche Noir,'' which is French for Black Poodle" Upon examination he found that the French author had made a very good translation of his own little tale, and had foisted it on the French public as an originai work. When he returned to London, .Le Caniche Noir," saying that he highly appreciated the story and would like to translate it into English The Frenchman replied that he was his own translator and that the book
 exists in English already" Which MT. Guthrie was compelled to admit was the truth.
 Most distinguished authors have been accused of plagiarism. Mark Twain was accused of having based his From Sawyer, Detective" on a German novel bearing the title of
 me vicar or Welby. Portions or Meredith's Lucille follow closely the 'Lucretia" of George Sand. Gogol, the great Russian novelist, first be- came known to the English reading public although unwittingly-- through a novel entitled Home Life in Rus sia," and bearing the name of an Engiishman as it's author. It was not until years later, when the Eng lishman had derived 8 large profit in royalties, that it was discovered that the book was in reality a translation of Gogors Dead Souls" Thomas Hardy once sued Pinero for plagiar- ism. and although he lost the suit. the similarity between Hardy's novel, Under the GEeMnEaad Tree" and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
BOILING DELEGATE CHINA

Many housekeepers may be bewail- ing the hicks and cracks in their beautiful china, as I did mine, until suggestion from the wise Sing Toy saved the remainder of my vanish ing treasures.
 One day when I was stoutly resist ing the appeal of an exquisite bit of a cup on the ground that anything so delicate would crack easily when hot tea or chocolate was poured into it, Sing explained the method of the Chinese, ending with, Too muchee quick, no good.'' Since then I have followed his direction, which was: Before using a delicate piece of china the first time, put it into a pan of cold water. and let it come gradual ly to a boil This tempers the china and it resists the sudden expansion thereafter. I do not mean that a cup should be boiled every time it is used only when purchased, and grad ually. '"Too muchee quick. no good. ' -Harper's Bazar
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
STYLES FOR THE FALL

The fall season is opening up with a large showing and charming showing of charmeuse dresses. Combines with chiffon or fancy brocades, this ma terial is used for evening gowns Both simple and elaborate afternoon dress es are fashioned from the various qualities of charmeuse. and simple street dresses are shown in profusion made from the heavier qualities which will give good service
 The petticoat styles for fall have not materially changed, the gored cut with fiat back and scant founce trimming being most in favor. Some of the newest models have deep scal- Top finish at the bottom, mar row pleafs being used between the scallops to give a straight line at the edge.-Dry Goods Economist
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

Indians. who tanned them without the use of chemicals. When the white man saw the market growing, he went into the buffalo robe business wholesale. Men were hired to shoot the animals by the thousands and the hides were tanned by a patent pro- cess.
 These robes did not last as long as the ones the Indians tanned by rub ping with smooth stick. It is said the robes now in service were tanned by the Indians many years before the white man began to tan them.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
EXPECS TO
 LOWER AUTO RECORDS

Automobile interest centers in the Southwest today, when the Galveston Cotton Carnival racing meet begins on the beach of the Texas seaport city. Motoring fans confidently ex- pect that new worlds straightaway records will be made during the next three days The big event of the meet will be the 200-mile free for all, which offers cash prizes amounting to s2, 5O0
 This is the biggest bunch of money ever hung up for a single beach race and has attracted most of the speed jest long distance cars now on this side of the Atlantic. Such being the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

Sheer lawn and embroidered flounc- ing are combined in this little dress The waist is trimmed with val. lace and insertion and closes under a frill of lace in the back. A blue ribbon sash is used. t@tai&bW
 The white iegnorn hat is trimmed with tiny punches of pink roses and blue forget-me-nots with long ties of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
BAND CONCERT AT
 LAFAYETTE PARK PLEASEs

All streets converging at Lafayette Park were crowded last evening on the occasion of the band concert given by the Coast Artillery Corps band. The music was so satisfactory that the band had to give an encore after each selection.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

the Pinero play, ''The Squire is not easily dismissed as mere coinci- dence. Possibly both got the idea from some generally unknown origin al!
 Incidentally, some of the examples of plagiarism here given are stolen from other articles on the subject!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

will pass the grand stand in an al- most constant procession, and the ip- terest of the spectators wilt be Kept up to the boiling point, whereas at the Ormond-Dayton course of twenty sleep. For timing, an electrical de- vice that registers to the hundredkh part of a second will be used. The hippodrome brand of racing. which has disgusted the spectators at some other beach meets, will be strictly debarred, tered on an equaity and there wtu be no favorites. At least, so the manage
 nent promises.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

New Haven-Houston Dandatore, IS, fell from an automobile truck in front of an oncoming automobiie which passed over him without touching him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

Manchester-Thirty- surnfner boarders at the boardiue house cf Luigi Borec are suffertn& from te49- stool poisoning, eaten fot psarilzq1a'H.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

T take my own wherever find itsr Moliere is alleged to have said, and hundreds of literary highwaymen have quoted this precedent as excuse for their thefts. If additional justi- fication is needed, they find it in these lines:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

Wel boys here again. I've had fine vacation and
have brought back natural history pecmens caught
this Talking Boobbrd by putting salt its tall also have
Goggeeyed imp and Whiskered Slobfsh William would
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
Questions in
Science
By Edgar Lucien Larkin

X Cd is there a south mag
-. "eg &c 'o aDa~. i. commas.
point to the north no matter on
which side of the equator it is?"
go What is the deepest sound
ing that has ever been made in the
ocean and what was used?"
ca when a ship sinks does it so
10 the bottom of the ocean regard
less of the depth. or is there
point at which it will sink no far
ther?"
A-GD Lieutenant Shackelton,
1908 1909. measured the position Of
the south magnetic pole of the
earth and found il to be in south
latitude - degrees 16 minutes. and
in longitude east, 1855 degrees 16
minutes. But position varies This
is the latest to be published. If
Amundsen has published a position
] have not seen it, Yes; there is a
south magnetic pole
60 Go to the north magnetic pole
of the earth with a compass needle
free to move in any direction 1t
viii turn into perpendicular di-
rection. Mark the end that points
straight downward Now carry it
toward the magnetic equator-an
irregular line around the world not
far on either side from the real
geographical equator. The end
that pointed toward the zenith viii
begin to turn downward and the
other upward When on the exact
magnetic equator. The needle win
be horizontal. or level Garry it
south. and the south or unmarked
end win begin to dip. and it viii
be straight down when exactly
over the south magnetic pole.
CD The ship Nero, off Guam
sunk a sounder to the bottom at a
depth OF $500 fathoms on 316l4
feet The sinker was metal prob
ably iron
ca The Titanic is al the bottom
and part OF 1t is In mud at a dis
tanee q little below the ocean noor
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
Teach Your Eyes to See
Advice for would-Be Reporters and All Others
v v .

An ingenious writes the following touching
srI boy fifteen should
possible
me how mi
We give absolute recipe for becoming the
greatest editors of the world If possessed recipe
should long have applied interest But looking
back years. remembering many
of failures who have tried be EDITORS
like giving and emphasizing the fullest this piece
advice:
LEARN TO SEE
What the world demands of newspaper any writer
that he shall tell things exactly they To tell things
they he learn them. and learning
difficult task in the world
Ruskin says:
one
seece poetry. pophec, a n
Again he says:
greatest n $ to
plain way"
land SAW, thus reads the convincing inspired statement
OF one Of the divine reporters
all the knowledge you read write revise question the
wise man listen o the foolish
BUT ABOVE ALL LEARN TO SEE
Knowing may make you great editor, but If
will make you competent and successful any line of
endeayor that may attract you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

the well and little beyond wore
their long hair-anything, any
where, but the tree.
Once when l was a little girl 1
started to carry some particularly
nice cherries to a neighbor who
had been very i'll. They were OK
hearts, the only ones of the kind in
those parts. I carried them in a
pretty little green basket made of
some kind of rushes or sweet
smelling grass. can see every
cherry in that basket to this very
day
1t was hot day in June. The
neighbor lived a long mile away,
through the pasture. down the
wood road, over the little bridge,
past the willow tree.
l started with light heart. In
the pasture I thought: q wonder
how many cherries there are in
this basket; it is pretty heavy, it
seems to me" And ] looked and
tasted one-just one-oh how
sweet it was.
1t was hot in the pasture, the
cherries were so juicy, just one
more.
In the woods looked again
Yes, just one more. who would
miss it? On the bridge l tasted
the cherries again, and under the
weeping willow l sat down calmly
and ate every single last one of
those cherries, and I hid the basket
and went and asked the neighbor
how she was, and then I went
home and told my mother that the
neighbor was delighted with the
cherries. but that she thought some
of them were a trihe sour.
Something in my mothers look
arrested the lie on my lips and
burst out crying and told her the
miserable. disgraceful truth And
my mother kissed me and cried
little, too and then she took me
out to the tree and we gathered
another basket almost as full of
cherries as the first one and my
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
By WINIFRED BLACK.

/ wonder if all this idea of con-
centratipg so much attention on the
body is going to turn out so well
after all?
Early in life I found out that the
way to keep from climbing the
cherry tree when the cherries were
too green to be wholesome was to
keep just as far away from that
tree as l could and to think about
something else as hard as I could
My new frock, the heroine in my
latest book, the way my mother
looked when she was pleased with
something had done, how the
Cinnamon down at the bottom of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
EUGENICS AND CHERRIES

THERES a woman out in Den
yer who wants to tell the
children all about everything
the minute they are old enough to
go to school.
She has talked the school people
into her way of thinking and a very
logical. sensible, practical. matter
of-fact way it seems to be when she
tells about it, and the new course
is to begin this fall maybe. A
protest against the new course is
going up already.
Il don't want my little girl to
learn that sort of thing in a class
said an indignant and protesting
mother to the president of the board
of education the other day. when
it is time for her to know ri tell
her myself, thank you. And. be
sides, l don't believe in all this
study of the body, what the body
needs, and what the body is and
isn't Why not get the mind to
work a while and see what that
win do?"
And altogether there's quite an
interesting fight going on over this
question of what a child should
know, and who should tell him
about it
It's queer thing about this body
business The first time I heard
some one say that a certain man
was too strong to work thought it
was rather foolish joke,
I'd never known good condi-
ton" faddist then. know several
OF them now, and every one that |
know is too strong to work"
They'll run on the track. play bas-
ket ball wrestle chin" themselves
dozen times day; but run on an
errand for anybody NOV the lawn,
put up shelf in the pantry when
the pertidious carpenter has broken
his plighted word-not they.
When | want any real work done
l don't get a big husky iX-footer
with a famous set of muscles to DO
it pick out some little delicate
man who has to make his tired
body work when it doesn't want to.
and he'll do the job and do it right.
He Means Well, of Course.
The strong man means wen
enough, but he can't really work
his body won't let him and his body
is the ruler Of the hrm every day
in the week.
Why not? He has much valua-
bic time teaching his body that 1t is
the most important thing on earth.
why should it be bossed around by
nothing but viii and mind all at
onCe2
The great big, bcssy dominating
body has been the ruler too long to
give up without struggle. and the
poor well-meaning little soul has 20
sit in the corner and whine for a
chance O. express Itself at all
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
The Sea Nynph's Song
BY j. LEWIS MILLIGAN.

COME with me, with me, with me
- Down into my deep-sea caves;
Come, II make you glad and free;
Come, and leave the haunts of slaves
| will press your lips with mine,
Make them pure and sweet with brine ;
Smooth the burrows from your face,
Press round dimples in their place
Come with me and you shall share
All my ocean palace fair:
1t is built of pink seashells.
Thro its hall for ever swells
Music such as ne 'er since birth
You have ever heard on earth
Save that soothing song Of rest
Which you heard at mothers breast.
Come, and all your past shall seem
Like child's distemper d dream;
Every hope and pure desire
You shall in my home acquire;
life shall be an endless joy,
Pleasures there can never eloy-
Come and dwell for aye with me
In the caverns OF the sea
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
l Wonder If 1t Isn't a Good Idea?

Nov go. and I'll tell You Sc
cret. You won't eat single cherry
if you use my secret recipe. Think
about something else all the way
and youN forget all about the cher
ries."
Ana took the little green basket
of sweet smelling grass and car
ried 1t to the neighbor who had
been III. and she said she hadn't
tasted anything so good in year.
and / sang all the way home just
because l thought about some
thing else all the way
wonder If it wouldn't be a good
idea to try this kind of plan when
a little girl reaches the wondering
age Give her something very in
terestins % think about, an the
way | wonder.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02


it. out
HereI an And here is
bill I o
What To Do With That Dollar
Saturday evening the six
that
something
al
little man
where come
It think before
il nothing
over
This helped
o lie be TODD n old
Dollar off And
Dollar Fifty
in
ulary
Hundred Dollars at four cent
Self Government the Key.
twenty
whether viii divide
who waiting take the morning
of LAYING
opportunity
saving time 1t makes
saving
time Saturday night, if there
Sf-government will also lead
o things
man will pay
policy amount Of Two
Thousand Dollars.
Thousand Dol
on
marble
Here lies Two Thousand Dollars that did family
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
THOMAS TAPER

n GREAT many men have
n written books about
saving money, about
how to be rich, and so on. Read
them all and you will find just
one rule back of their philos-
ophy.
Don't spend all you earn.
And that is all there is to it,
except what to do with what
you save.
Life is a great picnic to most
of us. With the dollar left over
on Saturday night, we feel in
clined to cut loose from pow
erty and give the world an
imitation of how man ought
to spend his money.
It seemed fine while we were
doing it. The cigars were good,
the beer tasted as fine as cham
payne, the dinner was worth all
it cost, and so on. These
things do seem to brighten up
the mind. They make the world
a rosy place, to be sure.
But what is the matter Sun
day morning? Why don't these
things seem as fine then as
they did on Saturday night?
Well, it is hard ~ say, for
cases differ. But there is
way of conducting these cele-
brations so that they viii not
kick -remorse out of us next
morning.
What is the way?
Make every weeks pay con-
tribute its toll to the future.
before you go to a picnic.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

If have dollar left before
Here 20 old All this weeks bills
0 dollar bill l