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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
FIRST THINGS

The first time the distance between London and Edinburgh, 400 miles, was ever covered in less than eight hours was twenty-four years ago today, when a train on the London, North western & Ca1endonian made the trip in what was then considered the re- markedly fast time of hours. 25 min utes, an average speed of over 5 1-2 miles per hour. This was, the best time ever made for so long a distance The fastest time on record for a rail- way run of between 400 and 800 miles was made in 1895 between New York and Buffalo, 436 1-2 miles, in 407 min utes actual time, an average of 64 Is miles an hour. The fastest time made by a train for a distance of over 500 miles was in June, 1905, when the dis tance between Buffalo and Chicago was covered in hours, 50 minutes, an average of 69.69 miles an hour, ex- cluding stops. The best time recorded for a short distance was made ten years ago by Burlington train, which travelled 14.6 miles in g minutes flat, an average of nearly hundred miles an hour.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
PAVE IT ALL

Following the awakening of the Common Council, the Sewer and Paw ing Commission has reached the con- clusion that 1t can move with tho paving work on Fairfield avenue. Un- Fortunately. it has not elected to pro- cesd with an order to the Connecti- cut company, with the view of doing the whole work if the company dis obeys the order.
 This is the logical way to proceed The law upon the matter is clear enough. There is no reason for fail Ing to take advantage of the law, ex- sept a presumption that the courts may find some way to upset any statute that a. trolley monopoly finds 6isadvantageous.
 Such a suspicion is unjust to the courts, especially in these times when the entire relations of the Judiciary 10 the great public services are being ao clnaelx scrutinized, and when hon. ~-A >t-adzaa are making every effort to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
HAS RIGHT IDEA.
(NEN London Day. )

Judge Mulqueen of the New York court of general sessions, believes that the Sullivan law in regard to the possession of concealed weapons was made to be enforced and the thugs who come into his court very quick ly discover that the only way they can escape from feeling the weight of the extreme penalty is to plead gull ty. Even in that case they are sent to the penitentiary for one day less than a year and fined $500. Those who are convicted after trial get sev- en years as a rule, unless there are some mitigating circumstances that warrant degree of clemency being shown
 Gun toters have been getting 30 day sentences and when, Judge Null queenn started in to put them over the road a great fear has come on the unlawful element. If all of the judges took the same view of the matter as he does the chances are that it would be difficult to find deadly weapons as frequently as it is possible to do now.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
THE VOTE IN KANSAS

The vote i'm the Kansas primaries in which Roosevelt received a plur- ality of 35so00 over Taft, indicates that the president will probably run third in November. This vote was confined entirely to Republicans, and is an index to. Republican feeling In the West. The vote means that the Roosevelt presidential electors will, by vote of Republicans go on to the regular Republican ticket in Kansas. The Republicans of that state have put the stamp of party regularity up- on the former president, although he has bolted and has organized a new party.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

support popular legislation.
 The worst that could happen to the city if it should do all the work, would be that its share of the expense might be increased. And this would not be an insuperable objection if it finally cleared up the question of what rights Bridgeport has in it's own streets.
 It is better to pave the city's share of Fairfield avenue, than not to pave at all. But the better way would be to insist upon the Connecticut com pany paving at the same time, or, in default, do the company's share of the work and send bill
 If it is true that the city must de- lay paving it's streets until the troll ley monopoly gets ready to relay it's tracks, the city should know it. It probably isn't true.
 When the city desires to pave 6
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
SHAM OF HIGH TARIFF.
fNew Haven Union.)

!
 see the sham of a high tariff, and to understand that continuation of Re- publican rule means a still further surrender of the govA AFnment to the trust plunderbund, the G. o. r., ora 1 tors and newspapers are trying 10 raise the spectre of hard times, anu l to make it appear that business Will | falter in the event of Democratic sue cess.
 l Such imbecilities never weary the Republican mind. Without regards
 1 to the truth, and unimpressed by evl- dence to the contrary these men go on
 shouting the same old heresies. The hard times heresy is a twin brother
 I to the long exploded doctrine that a. high protective tariff protects Ann l erican workingmen, when every | school boy in the land knows that 1t
 I does no such thing.
 A brief review of recent American
 1 business depression provides full and sufficient answer to these foolish arguments The last panic in this i country occurred less than five years ago, when all the machinery of gov ernment was in full control of the Republicans. and when Theodore l Roosevelt, who has a cure for all known political evils, was in the
 l White House. This panic was the least excusable the nation ever en- ldured. :. The Republican party was in full control of the government when the panic of 1873 came about. Like wise, this party was in power when l there came a panic inbt the early part l of 1884 and the country recovered 1 from that panic during the campaign that resulted in the election of Mr. l Cleveland. The Republic was in l full control of the government for the faYIx 1yyoore TSrovi0ua fa the manic of 1893, which was a currency panic clearly due to the passage by the Re- pubiicans, of the silver purchase act | of 1890. This law so depleted the
 gold reserve in the national treasury l that few millions were borrowed | by the government in New York, in order 70 keep the treasury reserve up ministration could get out of office and thus make it appear that the pam ! ic was due to the incoming Democrat i ic administration.
 entirely due to Republican legisla- 1 ton, is the only one for more than | half a century that did not occur while the Republicans were in full possession of the government. Yet Republican orators and newspapers, true to their habit of hiding the facts and raising false issue, go right ahead 1 trying to make it appear that the Democratic party is the party of hard times.
 This is a heresy of the most pro- nounced kind, and it is safe to as- sume that the country will appraise
 it at its true worth. The time has passed when the voters can be fooled They are demanding the truth, and l what is more important, they sare showing the ability to separate the truth from the false.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
WICKEDNESS AT NEWPORT.
 fHartford Post.)

4 s
 Sunday in Newport among the wealthy is day given over to big dinners, "parlor vaudeville and many other forms of amusement, including sometimes among the more daring, dancing Even the chief executive the Sunday dinner and subsequent en- tertainment If there Is 9. law against making Sunday day of rev. el, Newport seemingly doesn't know it--at least not the upper strata. of it's social structure.
 In marked contrast to the brilliar | show of disregard on the part of the wealthy residents and the ocular in- capacity of the authorities 1t Is in- teresting to note that number or sailors who induulged in a. game gen. orally and specifically known as crap were arrested and haled into, court. Of course gambling is wicked and the sailors had no business to indulge their propensities for that sort of pas time, especially in a building of the character of the '. M. c. A. Maybe sailors are an unusually wicked bunch At least in some minds they have that sort of reputation. What right had they anyhow to so far forget them selves as to openly gamble in the country's social capital on a Sunday? |? Don't the members of the social set offer the Q 2 better example in godli- ness and Sunday observance than that?
 Why send missionaries to Africa when they are so much more needed in Newport where naughty, naughty sailors indulge in playing dice It is not to be presumed that a single game of cards or any other game suggestive of gambling was played anywhere within Newports sacred precincts except among those whose reputation for wealth places them quite out of the reach of the ordin- ary arm of the law.
 So are good many other forms of diversion indulged in at Newport on Sunday and other days. But gam bling is wicked. When it4com6s to the violation of the Sunday law no discrimination should be made.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

street it tells the electric light, the telephone, the water and the gas com pany to act accordingly and those companies do it.
 Only the Connecticut company poses as overlord of the highways and sovereign obstructor of all traffic but it's own.
 The naughty attitude of the Con- necticut company is predicated upon the complaisance of the. authorities Whenever the latter begin to worry as much about the city and its rights and they do about the Connecticut Company and it's rights, there will be new way of doing things, and a much better way for Bridgeport, sthe people of Bridgeport, and especially the merchants and other business men of Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

visibility of the government acquiring Monticello, the home of Jefferson.
 This action followed a hearing that was attended by Mrs. Littleton and Representative Levy, the owner of Monticello. This hearing was an ex- citing affair. Mrs. Littleton. who Is as eloquent of speech as her husband, charged it was the selfishness of Mir. Lavy that kept the public from free access to the tomb of Jefferson.
 MT. Levy denied Mrs. LittIeton's ag- sertion that Monticello was not well kept and that the public was denied access to the estate. He said Mrs. Littleton did not understand the sit- uaticA.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
WHEN PROHIBITION WINS.

4u.J
 It has always been a question as to dealers, bartenders and all others whose employment would be affected in the event of the success of the pro- hihitiop party. Eugene W. Chain, who is running for president on that party's ticket, has solved the problem and he has been telling the people of Boston about it. He says that there are 75O,000 acres of unusued land in this country and he would put the sa- loon owners, wine clerks, policemen, judges, and others who would be thrown out of employment, should the liquor traffic be stopped. to work on this land raising potatoes and he would keep them to work there until the price of the product came down to fifteen cents per bushel. This looks like steady job, judging from the price of potatoes at present.
 Of course this class of help would not bring very high wages at first but as they got their hand in and were able to plug along with the farmer 8 hired man they would probably se- cure more pay. One can easily inn agine the zeal with which these gen. tlemen would labor to reduce the cost of potatoes, the pleasure with which they kept hoeing or digging in the monday sun and the anxiety with which they watched for the coming of the barelegged boy with his broad hat and in each hand a pail filled to the brim with pure water from the spring. They could drink their fill and if MT. Chain should pass by the field at the time they could lean on their hoes and give expression to the thanks they felt over the changed conditions MT. Chains plan is a happy solution of what has always appeared as a. perplexing problem, and now that all understand what can be done the horrors of prohibi- tion will not appear nearly as terrible as they have been hitherto painted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
AN INDEPENDENT LINE.
(shore Line Times.)


 In the investigation concerning the demands of the New Haven trolley men for higher wages held in that city last week General Manager Pun derford gave the court figures show ing the scales paid to motormen and conductors on many lines in New England, and it was very interesting to note that the Shore Line Electric Railway Co.,, stood at the very head of the list, paying its men from 25 to 2s cents an hour, when the average scale is but 21 to A. Another fact not mentioned by Mr. Punderford, and doubtless not known at all by him, is that this company has voluntarily raised the pay of it's employees twice since the road opened for busuiness. Comments are frequently heard what a ,gentlemanly lot of men the Shore Line Go. has. !" Can it be won- dered at that such is the case and that the men remain and offea nc
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

notice' Eph Wiley yesterday, "that Cincin- offered the Cincinnati ball team $25000 the pennant. show you I'm piker, give St. $1000OO to win the pennant."
 political party holds love feast, that indi- cates it hasn't much of a chance
 If it is a thing woman never is likely to need she is pretty to put it carefully
 A remembered only for the req son mustaches. -
 Tank Beverly who looks all the magazines, says time The Century hold of picture of Walt Whitman it is ready to press.
 Generally speaking however the billboard is less of fensive to than the vacant lot it conceals.
 Governor Stubbs says in Kansas a negro has as good chanceeas white It all depends. If he wants to tporter' in barber shop probably he has zrandstand coilapses a reformer injured.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
FAVOR MRS. LIrrLEToN's- PLEA.
Committeeman Will Report Her Monticello Resolution.

Washington. Aug. S-The House
 committee on Rules has ordered a
 favorable report on the resolution pre-
 pared by Mrs Martin W. Littleton of
 New York proposing the appointment of commission to determine the ad-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
STILL ROOFING.
Meriden Journal.)

Hartford and Bridgeport are in a hot fight for supremacy in the num- Der of Bull Moosers. The city down the line now claims to be 400 ahead and still roofing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

Bristol-sheeler & Sheeler and John F. Streigel, meat dealers, have closed their stores because their customers could not afford to pay for meat at the present prices.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

Hartford-Tickets at the state fai1 1 in September will be sold by .youne ladies in attractive uniforms by edict of the board of directors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

trouble to their employers? MT. Pun derford might learn few deslraple things by Investigating the methods of the infant road at which he is not at present casting many bouquets.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

tme a coilapses reformer is injured editor
  rcent.O of the people t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
On Second Thought
By JAY B. HOUSE.

 a cata what do with salmon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08
FraternitieS
NEW ENGLAND ORDER

OF PROTECTION Ida lodge, N. E. O. P, having in- vited Arnold lodge, N. E. o. F.. .of Shelton to pay it a fraterna1 visit on. it's last meeting in September, has already begun plans for the enter tainment of the visitors.
 Park City lodge, N. F. O. P., voted last night to unite with the other local lodges in holding joint entertain merit at an early date, and appointed a committee to represent the lodge in furtherance of this purpose. s..
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-17
OF SMALL CONCERN TO HIM
Why Uncle Eph Refused Information
He Felt to Be Altogether su-
perfiuous.

When Robert H. Davis was young
and loose In the feet he once wan
dered into a little Mississippi town.
1t was a bright day in the early spring
and he walked down one street BY
and by he came to the county jail
a two-storied AFFAIR. standing flush
with the sidewalk. There was a ne
gro pressing his face against the
barred window on the second floor, +"
said Mr.. Davis, holding on to the
bars and yawning. BY and by an old
negro came limping along the street
toting a whitewash bucket.
Hello, Uncle Eph'm, says the one
in the window.
Howdy, says Eph'm. limping
on.
"'Wait a minute, uncle says this
lonesome negro in the window. What
time is 1t, uncle?
Uncle Ephraim limpeG right on.
He hardly looked up.
what difference does 1t make to
you, niggah?' he asked. You amt
goin' nowheer.' New York Letter to
the Cincinnati Times-Star
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-17
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NffeSU4ES

A good pillow works easily for both
man and horse.
Grain is good for the mother sheep,
also. for the lambs.
A fruit garden should be separate
from the vegetable garden.
The manure spreader is as valuable
now as 1t was few years ago.
Buy some better calves than you
have on your own farm il it is pos
sible thing.
How about the flower garden, and
the fruit trees to be ordered from a
square-dealing nursery?
Dairy utensils can be made thor
oughly and hygienically clean by the
use of borax and hot water.
The most economical way to save
manure from the stables is to have
concrete stable floors end cutters.
Throwing hay direct from the NOW
to the horses managers is bad policy
on account of the dust which is In ali
hay.
One good heifer calf may revoIu-
tionize a whole dairy. It is the start
that counts. but you have got to keep
going
The horse stable needs much venti-
lation and many stables are kept en-
tirely too warm. Light is another i'm
portant factor.
Wheat bran as a change from whole
grain will be greatly relished by the
sheep and will tend to make them
well and strong.
Young geese are ready for market
when the tips of their wings reach
the tail, which is when they are about
ten weeks of age.
The foundation of good farming
lies in the way the blowing is done.
Poor blowing hampers farm work all
the rest of the year.
One Of the best forms OF invest
ment on the farm is the liberal feed
ing of farm animals of all kinds; and
the colt is no exception.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-17
EXERCISE is NEEDED
Hogs Degenerate Under Condi-
tons of Artificial Luxury.
All Young Pigs and Immature Mem.
bers Of the Herd Should Be Com
PEELED to Do Much Walking
and Climbing for Living.

Lack Of exercise is one OF the fac
tors in the physical deterioration OF
the breed of hogs.
Not one breeder in a dozen allows
or compels his breeding hogs to take
adequate exercise
Hogs, like men, gradually degen-
crate under conditions Of artificial
luxury. Any animal that can live
without work will ultimately become
extinct. This applies to every form
OF life. Labor is the price which life
must pay for itself.
Exercise is absolutely essential to
the maintenance of health, vigor and
fecundity in hogs.
Breeding hogs kept in small pas
lures or pens. and literally fed, lose
the power to transmit the highest
virility and vital integrity to their on
spring.
1t is a serious mistake to confine
breeding hogs where the necessity for
regular exercise does not exist. Sows
nearing parturition should OF course
be confined, but all young things and
other immature members of the herd
should be compelled TO do a deal OF
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-17
Useful AGENT for Show.

AL G. Field, the minstrel man. has
another story which he is telling.
He says that not long ago an attaehe
of his show was sent out in an Iowa
town to give some handbills, or her
aids, to boys for distribution. The
man found only one boy willing to
work. He didn't deem 1t necessary
to explain to the boy that the bills
were to be distributed about town.
He took 1t for granted that the boy
knew. The youngster .Ak the print
ed slips Of paper and Ihe man gave
him quarter and left Half an hour
later the Snowman CHANGED to pass
along the street and saw the boy
standing on the sidewalk, crying.
What's the matter?" asked the
man.
The boy gave couple Of final sobs
and. wiping his eyes on his sleeve,
said:
"A man jist come along an took
one Of my bills"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-17

walking. climbing and amending hust-
ling for their living.
In a state of nature all animals
work for their food; work involves
exercise; exercise tones up and keeps
in healthy condition all muscles, In
ducing proper circulation OF the blood
and developing the highest efficiency
in the animal
Fattening hogs intended for the
shambles should of course be closely
confined and deprived of excessive
exercise. All the exercise which they
should be given should be more acci-
dental than intentional. When fat is
the object exercise should be largely
eliminated.
With breeding hogs the case is al
together different. From pighood to
maturity is a period which should be
characterized by an abundance OF
rigorous exercise 1t is important to
develop muscle and bone and so lay
the foundation for constitution and
the demands which reproduction
makes on either sex. Pigs that lie
around in comfort, lazily browse Glow
er In a field adjacent to their sleeping
quarters, have no excuse for hustling
and all their lives take it easy" are
sure to degenerate. And this is exact.
ly what a large and increasing per-
centage of all breeds has done.
We are wandering too far from ma
lures plans and purposes In breed
ing animals and-men. We shall be
compelled ultimately TO go back to
the application OF her fundamental
principles in order to save the breeds
of stock as well as our own race
from extinction.
Exercise Is a law Of life. Struggle
is the imperative demand OF nature.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-17
VALUE OF COTTON SEED MEAL
Probably Cheapest Concentrate Feed
Offered on Market, When Nutri-
ment 10 Considered.
By W. A. LINKLATER. Oklahoma Sta

By w. A. LINKLATER, Oklahoma Sta
tion.)
Cottonseed meal is probably the
cheapest concentrate feed offered on
the market today, when we consider
the amount OF nutriment it contains.
1t Is not considered as safe for gen.
eral feeding as bran and such other
feeds. There has no doubt been I'M
satisfactory results in some cases
from feeding cattle heavily on cotton
seed meal. 1t is also true that there
are plenty of cases on record where
hogs have died from feeding on cot
tonseed meal Judiciously fed, how
ever, cottonseed, meal is an econo-
mical and sufficiently safe feed. In
the case Of young pigs and breeding
hogs / would not recommend that
more than one-eighth OF the ration
consist of cottonseed meal. The 9TH
er seven-eighths may consist Of corn,
Kafir, or milo chop. shorts, sill run or
such other feeds. For fattening hogs
more cottonseed can be safely and
satisfactorily fed than one-eighth of
the grain ration. I know Of a number
of cases where men make a practice
OF feeding fattening hogs a ration con-
sisting of .one-third cottonseed meal
for a period Of sixty days and report
satisfactory results. believe in each
case the feed is soaked from twelve to
twenty-four hours before feeding.
Continued feeding OF a ration consist
ing OF one-third to one-fourth cotton
seed meal would no doubt kill many
hogs. but small pigs and breeding
hogs may be fed a mixture OF one
eighth cottonseed meal almost In
definitely and fatteniDg hogs may be
safely fed as rich a mixture as one
to four Of cotton seed meal for a De
riod Of sixty days without bad results
There is practically no difference in
the feeding value Of cottonseed meal
and cottonseed cake. The cottonseed
cake must be broken up in small
pieces to be fed to most classes OF
stock and for this reason is scarcely
as convenient as cottonseed meal.