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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
WHY. WILSON RESIGNED
 PRESIDENCY OF PRINCToN

That Governor Wilson is thoroughly Democratic as we'll thoroug Democrat is amply proven by the fight he waged--and lost-for simplicity and democracy at Princeton university It is we'll known in college circles throughout the country but generally known else where, that Gov Wilson virtually forced to give up his work at Princeton because of the intense bitterness he stirred Up by his long, hard fight against the money power that sought to place wealth and snobbery above character and manhood at the University
 Princeton university like most of the big eastern colleges is afflicted with lot of aristocratic clubs in which the weathier students make their homes while school These clubs composed of milhonares' sons and the houses some M them occupy are built on scale of wealth and magnfcence not equaled outside of the big clubs of New York. Some of them in fact are marble palaces with garages and tennis courts attached and fill ed with the costliest furniture.
 The members of these clubs not content with living scale beyond the widest dreams of the poorer stu dents sought to control the university politics They wanted to run things, and they did things They dictated the captains of the athletic teams and in other ways they exerted influence which reflected in many ways the general policy of the university. Be sides this they up social barrier beyond which it impossible for the average student to penetrate mat ter how brilliant his mental atainments how worthy his character. "
 Mr Wilson, president of the university, wanted to change all this. He wanted to build big central build ing house all the students so that rich and poor could mngle footing of absolute democracy Opposed to him were number of the trustees who wanted the old plan tq prevail and who in addition, wanted graduate schoo separate from the main college where certain class of students could work and study by themselves.
 There was violent opposition to Wilson, plan He was denounced by the moneyed graduates of Princeton and other rich whose members of the aris tocratic clubs in body against him. But Wilson stood firm. He made speeches at alumni banquets and elsewhere in favor of the democratic plan.
 Finally, rich man died, and when his will vas read it found that he had left three million dollars to Princeton provided the grao uate school adopted This meant defeat fer Wilson because the trustees lacked the and back bone to turn down such large offer Wilson's foes were triumphant and afterward he signed to accept the governorship of New Jersey Governor Wilson proved his title and his worth smon-pure Democrat in that magnificent though losing fight at Princeton
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
Old Maids.
Mew York sun.l


 The answer to the silly sermon of a Colorado preacher against "old maids, to which some one forged the Signature of Miss Helen, Gould, is sound and sensible. Even if the pub lished letter is a forgery or literary exercise, it's sentiments are correct and of kind that needs to be expressed for the confusion of the foolish.
 How much of the sum of generosity unselfishness, the noblest and most beneficent virtues and services comes from women by choice or fate unmar : ried? They lavish their hearts and lives upon their relatives, their friends the public, upon thousand works of charity, education, religion, humanity.
 Many of them, a large modern class, don't want to marry, or fail to find the predestined He; many have to work for themselves; no doubt many of them have to lead lonely and narrow lives. but they brighten them and those of others with good deeds and words.
 What liar at once and slave invented the idea or name of "sour old maids?'' They are among our most charming. the most sympathetic and the wittiest of women Watching or reading of so many domestic babbling and bat ting some folks may assert that per- haps these attaching unattached are also among the wisest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
Fighting Foul.
fNew York Post.) :,

Of all people in the world, the edi- tors and proprietors of the Outlook ought to be jealously on their guard against bringing railing accusation against Wilson or twisting an argu~ ment in favor of. Roosevelt. This is not simply because they are moralists who profess the highest standards It is not alone because they carry the fervor of religion into political discus sions. They are in a peculiarly deli cate position. They have a distinct
 money stake in MT. Roosevelt's for tunes. They pay him large salary. His political success means financial success to them. Now we do not ev- en intimate that they are swayed by such considerations. We only point out the special obligation to the scru- pulously fair which rests upon them. They know what will be said of every sign of bias of prejudice they display. They know what they themselves would say of any other paper so per- ilously situated as theirs. It is fearful exposure to misunderstanding and to the attri1ation of unworthy motives which they are mourning. And their friends may we'll implore them, as they value their reputation and hope for influence, not again to fall into so gross and Dalpable falsifica- tion of the fact as their assertion that the nomination of Wilson meant vic tory for the bosses. Such an excess of fighting foul they had better leave to the contributing editor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
The Thaw Decision.
Hantford Times.l

There are three admirable features in the latest decision handed down by Justice Keogh of New York. It Is brief, it is simple, and it keeps Harry Thaw where most people want him kept.
 The decision sends Thaw back tc Matteawan and it goes far to reassure those people who, in the face of some the possessionf of enough money and influence would get a. criminal out of any unpleasant situation in which he found himself.
 Thaw murdered a man. His life was spared after an exhaustive trial in which it was finally determined that his offense had been inspired by an unsound mind. Since then he has been tried and re-tried. In every case the verdict has been the same. He IS dangerously and, in all human prob ability, permanently insane.
 One might wish that this would end the appearances of ThaW in the courts, but so long as he has money for coun- sel fees and alienists we do not see what is to prevent him from con- tinuing his habeas corpus proceedings from time to time. And there may come day when the state of New York will weary of the expense in- yolved in keeping him where he is. when an attorney-general will lind himself too busy to continue the fight or when the diminishing of public con- cern will render the resistance apa- thetic.
 In which case .Thaw may get out.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
Open Thursday Morning August First
 Continuing to the Fifteenth.

been under investigation by the House Judiciary committee, is equivalent to a confession, in view of the evidence already given and other and even more damaging testimony that was ready to be presented.
 The determination not to press the proceedings further on account of his resignation is open to other objections: First, because it allows the escape of wrongdoer in a high place without formally branding him with the scar let letter of guilt; second, because it may serve to prevent disclosures With regard to corrupt corporation and in dividual methods and practices in re- lation to the Judiciary which the coun- try ought to know. The second ob- jection may be met by an independent investigation, and if impeachment pro- ceedings against Hanford are dropped sucn an investigation should be at once begun.
 But the proceedings against Hanford should not be dropped, not only be- cause the law should know no favor ties and the legally prescribed pun ishment should be inflicted on the highest as well as the lowest criminal, but because the effect would be to strengthen the radical demand for the recall of judges. The answer to that demand now is that when a judge IS guilty of wrong he can be reached by impeachment or other. proceedings al- ready provided. If he is to be per mitted to evade a. formal verdict by a simple resignation, and to retire" to lucrative private practice conferred by the corporations he has favored on the bench, and able to assert that he resigned and was not impeached, the answer to the agitation for the ju- dicial recall loses half its force.
 If Judge Hanford is innocent, as he. claims, he should be made to prove it in the interest of an upright and independent Judiciary If he is guilty, he should be proclaimed so formally, SO as to preserve the bulwarks that protect the judiciary system of the country from the rising tide of radi- caliSu1.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
FIRST THINGS

The first lodge of Free Masons ir America was inaugurated at Bostor 179 years ago today The order now has about 1,5O0, GOO members in the United States and British Nortl America, with grand lodges in all the States of the Union and Provinces ot Canada. These bodies are in full af- filiation with the English Grand Lodge and also with the Masons of Scotland Ireland, Australia, South America Cuba and most of the countries o1 Europe, except that they have no con nection with the Grand Orient ot France, which is something of ar anti-religious and anti-clerical body In Catholic countries Freemasonry is under the ban of the church and the membership is small and scattered.
 The first general convention of the manufacturing interests of North America was opened at Harrisburg Pa. 85 years ago today.
 The first colonial assembly for legis- Iative purposes in America met al Jamestown, Va, 293 years ago today
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
CRITICISiNG THE
 TRADE SCHOOLS

The attitude of the Central Labor
 Union toward Connecticut's two trade schools seems to have merit The body recognizes the advantages and wisdom of technical training, de- signed to practically assist the stu-
 dent to livelihood.
 The complaint. against the Connec- ticut trade schools seem to be that they are run on a different plan than the other trade schools of the coun- try, and that this plan is a diversion
 from the purpose of better equipping boys and girls for life's work, to meet the immediate demands of cer-
 tain manufacturers.
 One complaint made by the Central Labor Union, for instance. is, that the trade school does not make first class craftsmen of it's pupils, but
 makes SPECIALISTS of them This is a serious accusation. It should be investigated, and if the condition as stated exists it should be remedied.
 The complaint, prior to the trade school era, was that modern manu- ufacturing conditions had ceased to produce all around mechanics, and
 had replaced them with specialists. A specialist is one who has learn ed to perform some one or two me- chanical operations, sometimes upon
 some particular machine. For this single detail, or for a single machine, the specialist does we'll enough, but
 his own horizon and opportunity are 1 narrowed to just the extent that he fails to be an all around mechanic. Is it true that the trade school is equipping boys and girls mainly to l run particular machines and to per- l form particular operations? Are boys and girls being sent into factories to do this circumscribed
 work? If they are, then the school
 is turning ot specialists.
 It is pretending to equip boys and
 and girls with a trade, and is only
 giving them a FRAGMENT of q
 trade.
 If the situation exists. it is as if
 the public school should give boys and girls thorough education in ad-
 dition, and then turn them over to
 individuals who wanted something cheaper than adding machines 1 To cali mere instruction in addition
 an education would be no more fal- lacy. than it is to say that the boy
 has learned trade who has been
 taught how to run 8 machine, and I nothing more.
 l One charge made by the Central Labor Union seems to be substantiat- l ed. It is the nine hour day. EIGHT HOURS IS THE. REooG.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
Watching the Crops.
CHartford Post.)

The next weeks are ones of feverish anxiety around the stock market tick CT. The brokers may worry daytimes oyer politics, but it takes a cold and rainy week in the Dakotas, or a, scorching sun bath in Kansas, to keep them awake nights. They know that If the crops of 1910 could be dupIicat- ed this fall, stream of money would be pouring out of every cross roads regardless of any political passion.
 It has been a blot on American in- dustry, that our production of the great cereal crops per acre has been but a third to a half the records of gospel of better farming, it cannot be many years before our grain eIe- vators will overflow at higher ratios than ever before
 Already in 10 states, according to the departmnt of agriculture, the corn crop is increasing faster per acre than pop ulation.
 Ten years ago the principal efforts to better our farming were along two lines-the cattle shows, and the higher education of the agricultural colleges The cattle shows performed very useful service along unscientific lines. Premium money distributed among the farmers has induced a minority of them to produce aristocratic creatures of the barn yard. But the great bulk of the farmers attributed their failure to get premiums to cattle show poli- tics, and continued to raise scrawney beasts. The cattle shows also never did much toward better cereal croI products.
 The old fashioned agricultural col leges produced men who made admir- able superintendents for big farms. Al ter nam had sweat and strained to get his training, he had invested toe
 much in his education to go home and plough his fathers acres.
 It having been demonstrated that the average farmer will not go to college, during the past ten years the colleges have been put on wheels, and taken around to the granger stations And a whole lot of the High schools have quit teaching the youngsters the productions of the ancient Romans, ,an6 have discussed the question what cror will grow the best on the Old Mans farm. The results must soon be seen
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30

Rent for siX-room cottage at
 SIS per month 216 % Doctor and medicine for fam
 fly, 20 GO Donations to church, per year 10 % Family attending one concert
 per year, OO One trin on lake. % One triD to amusement park, 2 %
 Total. M $1,084 91
 This may be fairly termed the Amer ican standard of living, yet there are some omissions. There is nothing for the savings bank or for a vacation fund. or for pocket-rnoney for the wage earner, who is not even allowed tobacco money.
 The total amount spent on the table is $4SS7 When compared with the average family income, this looks high, yet when, the separate items are examined, there seems to be small op- portunity for retrenchment. Even an outgoing mayor sharpening his pencil to keep the tax-rate down to sixteen mills, would have trouble in dispos- ing of any of the items. It is pos sible to object only to the totals on the ground that most families do not have $1,0S4.91 a year to spend.
 When you come to think of 1t, what a tribute there is in this family budget to the financial genius of the Amer1- can housekeeper who on this amount Or less will not only keep her family well clothed. well-fed, healthy and happy, but in spite of the pressure of rising prices will squeeze out little money for a daughters piano lessons or to send a son to a business college. How does she do 1t?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30

in making charges for passengers and freight. In the matter of parcels and freight, much heavier than letters, Cowles did not approv eof a single zone, but advocated the division of the territory into several zones. with in which and between which there should be uniformity of rate classi- fication.
 Laughed at for years, Cowles has lived to witness the triumph of his principle.
 The zone system, upon a rather elaborate division, has been adopted by the Inter State Commerce Com mission for express. rate purposes.
 The zone system has been adopted by Senator Bourne in his plan for a parcels post.
 Bourne uses eight zones. The en- tire country is divided by tks meri- dians of latitude and longitude into quadrangles of fixed dimensions. The first zone will include one square, and all territory in other squares within a radius of 50 miles from a common center. In this zone a package will cost five cents for the first pound and three cents for each other pound. +
 The second zone includes distances to 150 miles from center. The third distances to 300 miles from center. The eighth zone covers the greater distances, and the rate is 1z cents a pound.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
NIzED DAY IN THIS COUNTRY.

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 It is the legal day. It is the day established by the United States, by the State of Connecticut and by the City of Bridgeport. It is the4 day of public workers throughout the United States. It is the day that has been established, for impregnable moral and social reasons.
 The nine hour day in a Trade school devoted to the education of adolescent boys and girls does smack of an effort to make the common wealth stultify its own laws, by giv- ing educational force to a day an hour longer than it has created by statute for its workers.
 The state, in it's trade schools, is in the position of proclaiming that half grown boys and girls ought to toll an hour longer every day than adult men and women.
 THE CONTRADICTION IS TOO CLEARING. TT CANNOT CONTINUE An eight hour day is the limit that the school should go. Physiologi- cal and social reasons of the strong est seem to demand a day less than eight hours for the trade schools. Six hours is the day that has been more generally adopted
 The plaint of the Central Labor Union should be needed. A trade school supported by public money can- not afford to quarrel with the work CTS. If. it does. it may some day find it's finances cut off, for, in the last analysis, the workers are the keepers of the public purse. They fill it, and they can draw the purse strings tight.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30

Coal five tons at $8,) wood
 and kindling, 5 46 % Light and cooking gas A % Clothing for man 65 % Clothing for wife, per year 35 75 Clothing for three children, 20 % Boots and shoes for family, 31 co Furniture and utensils and re-
 newals, 54 10 Bread, cakes, pastry and milk 115 75 Meat, 35 cents per day, 127 75 Potatoes, 15 %
 ' cents, IS 20 Tea 20 Coffee, 1 pound per week at
 30 cents, 15 60
 25 cents per week 1s % Vegetables, 13 % Fruits, 13 75 Butter, lard, eggs and cheese 108 16 Flour, 25-pound bag per month,
 at 65 cents. 80 Canned goods, f 2S 50 Insurance. per year 20 % Union dues, per year, F % Street car fare for family at 50
 cents per week, 26 % Sundries-Pepper, salt, mustard
 matches, vinegar and soap s7 25 Extras, at Christmas; % % month. b 800
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
The Cost of Living.
.(Waterbury. Republican,

Tn asking for more pay the Chica- go trolley men recently submitted to the company a tabulate6 estimate of the cost of living for family of five. The figures are unusual in detail and decidedly interesting:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30

One may be said to good memory if he can keep eight-day clock going.
 If being an army officer that one must wear a sword is sufficient objection to soldering business.
 Buck T<ilby he knows what is with man whose wife won't let him smoke in the house. Buck diagnoses spinal trouble
 The fellow who knows anything worth while usually keeps it to himself. fellow who doesn't tells erybody.
 The neighbors are saying nice things of the Leroy Featheringhams, who celebrated their wedding ami versary the other The neighbors that al- though the Featherin ghams married fifteen years they still good friends.
 What by way of the plan. endorsed by New Hampshire statesman to do with the tooth- brush? has been superseded the porch swing and marnony if it's effective aids.
 figures rather prominently in fiction but about all that that 1t eats less than a foxhound. ~ caught in the Missouri river, if ,lv of always is ample. 4
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
Hanford and Recall.

~ Baltimore Sun.)
 The resignation of Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, of Washington, who has
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
On Second Thought
By JAY B. HOUSE.

E. HOUSE.
  nsuperable obstacles
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-30
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 zAe Store closes at 5 oclock except SGt~r6ey

THE ANNUAL MIDSUMMER SALE OF FURNITURE, TRUNKS AND BAGS, CARPETS AND CURTAINS, RUGS, MATTINGss
 CHINA, CUT GLASS, HOUSE.
 HOLD LINENS AND
 KITCHENWARE.
 Open Thursday Morning August First.
 Continuing to the Fifteenth. Pre-eminent1y is this Sale for Economical Per sons of Good Taste who making Home. It is the custom of many people to buy lesurely and carefully, select those pieces of Furniture which they to and look for many years with discrimination and judgment It is good he surrounded with beautiful things merely good things but those that truly excellent because the majority of not rich, we are none the less fond of beautiful Furnishings and buy few pieces each year. of the best thus latng artistic things easily and in economical 
 We suggest an examination of those pieces which bear Green Tickets They are especial values.
 DISCOUNTS
 20 per cent off on Furniture China Sets (Offce Furniture excepted) (Sock Patterns excepted) Ardahan Rugs Table Silver Trunks and Bags Cut Glass Table Linen Kitchenware in many lines
 10 per cent off on Carpets Rugs Curtains Bathroom Fixtures Gas and Oil Stoves ! As always The D. M. Read Company stands ready to assist it's patrons in every task of furnishing or furnishing.
 Thursday morning, August first Details in tomorrows papers. Y;~g Uht 8. Al. Rran Gnntpaatt.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-07-25
ALIAS summon

In the District Court of the First Ju
dicial District of the State of Idaho.
in and for the County of Shoshone.
Floy Cunningham, plaintiff VS.. Albert
Cunningham, defendant.
The State Of Idaho to Albert Cunning
ham, defendant:
You are hereby notified that there
is now on file in the office of the clerk
of the above entitled court in Wallace,
county of Shoshone, state of Idaho, the
complaint of the above named plaintiff,
wherein it Is alleged that plaintiff
and defendant intermarried at the
town of Boone, Boone county, state of
Idaho. November rs, 1905, and ever
since have been and now are husband
and wife, that there was born to
plaintiff and defendant one child, Shell
by Arnold Cunningham, now of the
November 23, 1910, defendant wilfully
and voluntarily deserted and abandon
ed plaintiff and has since lived separ-
ate and apart from plaintiff and has
wholly failed to provide plaintiff with
the common necessares of life.
Wherefore plaintiff prays that she
be granted decree Of Divorce from
defendant and awarded the sole care
and custody of said minor child, ano
for such other relief as may be just
and equitable
And you are also notified that un-
less you appear and answer to sale
complaint within 20 days after th'
service hereof, IL served within The
First Judicial District of the State o.
Idaho, and within 40 days IL served
elsewhere Exclusive of the day o.
service), the plaintiff will apply t.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-07-25
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the Probate Court of the County of
Shoshone. State of Idaho.
In the Matter Of the Estate of Rachel
Anna Thompson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed administrator of the estate of
Rachel Anna Thompson, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased. to
exhibit such claims. with the necessary
vouchers. within four months after the
first publication of this notice to the
said administrator at his residence,
Enaville, Postof1ice, Shoshone county,
Idaho, which the undersigned selects
as the place of business in all matters
connected with said estate of Rachel
Anna Thompson, deceased
A. r. CANNING.
Administrator Of the Estate Of Rachel
Anna Thompson, Deceased
Dated this LIST day Of July, A. d.
1912, and first published July 4, 1912.
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