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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
On the Running Board.
(Meriden Journal:)


 Just what the Public Utilities com mission will. do about the car step case is an open question although eventually the matter will probably settle itself unless of course the mat ter is put up to the railroad in an accident.
 The con1,nissions position, accord ing to an interview in the New Haven Journal-Courier this morning, Is that the state board has no control over the public and that whatever rules 1t puts into effect must be made With the railroads
 The spokesman in this interview lodges the top step question but says most emphatically that the lower running board must not be occupied when the car is in motion. That much he says will surely be enforced:
 In the meantime the conductors are requesting patrons who stand on the steps to get inside the car Gen. orally these requests are .obeyeds and thels person so addressed either steps inside or gets off to wait for a. less crowded car. On refusal to obey the instruction the conductor can go no further and apparently the com pany thinks it's responsibility ends when theSviolator of the rule is told to get inside and chooses to remain out f.as he has been warned.
 However, one of these crowded cars will be mixed up in an accident some day and as fewssof these persons who persist in hanging on to the outside of the car will be injured and then the question of responsibility will be up to the couEts.. Ss So far there has, been no trouble in Meriden and we sincerely hope there never will be. sss1 a' aF fF!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
OF WHAT BRYAN IS PROUD

During MT. iBryan's campaign against Governor Harmon, of Ohio, he said: "I shall never be nominated again. My most prized possessions are 100 letters in my safe at Lincoln, written to me by Nebraska men when I had enlisted for the Spanish War, in which they offered to substitute at the front for me. Many of these let ters were illiterate, but the tenor of them all was that I had a mission to perform in the public life of the nation, while the writer of each had no one dependent upon him, regarded himself as a more or less worthless citizen, compared with me, and said his life would never be missed"
 He said the other day: Those 100 men were willing to die for me. and I would rather die now than desert the ideals they had of me and of my public service. If ever temptation has come my way, if ever could have those 100 men always confronted me. Nv life work is consecrated- to the 100 men who offered to die for me, and I shall never give up.'-Chicago Ad- vance.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
FIRsT THINGS

The famous Catholic order known as the Society Or Company of Jesus, sometimes referred to as Jes1its, was founded. by Ignatius Loyola, who died on this date in 1856. A Loyola was 9 page to Ferdinand V of Spain, nd afterward soldier. Having been wounded in both legs at the siege of Pampeluna, in 1521,, he renounced the military for the ecclesiastical profes- sion, and devoted himself to theology. Dedieating his, life, to the Blessed Virr- gin as her knight, he made a pilgrim age to the holy land, and on his re-i turn in 1534 laid 1.-the foundation, of the great order in Paris. Chastity, pow erty, obedience and implicit submis- sion to the holy see were required of candidates for men1be ership in the So eiety of Jesus. Pope Paul lITz con firmed the Institution by a bull is- sued in s1540. Originally the number of members was not. to exceed sixty
 but that restriction was afterward re moved The order has been ca rried to the extremities of the habitable globe, In many countries the mem bers have been expelled and their property confiscated, but despite these suppressions the society has flourish Al .s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
SENATOR DIXON, ROOSEVELT
 MANAGER, IS 45 TODAY.

A Presidential bee, like the common garden variety, must have an apiarist, if 1t is to be expected to yield the maximum amount of nutriment Col. Roosevelt. having such a bee. neces- sarily sought capable person to take charge of it, to feed it and find it and treat it with care, and found him in United States Senator Joseph Moore Dixon, of Montana. While the cam paign manager of what is variously called the Progressive Republican. Bull Moose or Third Term party did not succeed in capturing the Chicago convention, he caused his opponents to stay awake O nights, and is still on the job.
 Senator Dixon, although he has al ways trained with the Republicans. is a Southerner by birth He was born at Snow Camp, N. C., forty-fve years ago today. He was the only son of Hugh W. Dixon. who was the owner of a small woolen mill, an iron foun- dry and thousand acres of North Carolina land. Young Dixon was sent to Earlham College. in Indiana, and later to Guilford College, in his na- tive State. For time he acted as superintendent of his fathers woolen mill, but he was ambitious and hust- ling, and soon became dissatisfied with the ''do it tomorrow atmosphere e which at that time still hung over North Ca'lina. He decided to go West, young man.. and grow up with the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
Wilson s Secret.
Baltimore Sum-


 2 All of us Know, or think we know, Woodrow Wilson pretty we'll by this time, but the Sarticle from the New York Times, which we reproduce Tn another column, throws an i1luminat- ing light upon arcareer which, in It's way, is one of the most remarkable ine American political history. How does it happen that a man two years, ago almost unknown in the world Of politics, with no practical experience in public affairs. has suddenly lc ome up, like the lean and il1-favored kline which Pharoah saw in h4s dream, and swallowed up all his rivals, big and little, in this field?
 One answer is that he had been really in intellectual training for. this sort of work for quarter of a cen tury % Another is that he brought to this work an absolute sincerity of purpose, which was not to promote terests of the people. He had stud jed the tactics and methods of the old bosseS and he substituted for it a system diametrically the opposite of theirs. "
 Their system was founded on the principle of taking authority away from the people; his on the principle theirs was based on the idea of throw ing dust, in the peoples eyes and fool ing them as much as possible; his on the idea of making everything public and taking the people into his con- f1dence. The old system necessarily involved darkness, insincerity and corruption; it could not stand com parison with a system of which the component parts were light, frank ness and honesty.
 We get a fair idea of what Wood row Wilson will be in national affairs from what he has been in New Jer- sey, affairs. He has been called a boss. But he is bigger than that he is a leader He commands and he is followed, because his path is clear Iy the pathso of reason, of public mor- ality and public welfare.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
GOV. WILSON MAY COME HERE
 IN SEPTEMBER

Meriden, July 31-Meriden will un- doubtedly be favored with visit by Governor Woodrow Wilson,, Demo cratic candidate for President, should the latter accept an invitation that has. been extended to him by Repre- sentative Thomas L. Reilly to make a trip through. Connecticut during the early part of September.
 MT. Reilly specified the early part of September in the invitation so that the New Jerseyite might be present at the Connecticut State fair which opens Governors day, the fifth of Sep tember, at Charter Oak Park, Hart ford
 Dispatches from Sea Girt indicate that Governor Wilson has in contem- plation trip through the State on a campaign tour with Governor Bald win but no time is specified and the plans for the journey are rather in- definite
 The Representative has been inform ed that the invitation is being serious ly considered but no definite decision has been reached owing to the indefi- niteness of the nominees fall pro- gram
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
GERA1ANY,s CURES
twoman's ,Home Companion.

(Woman's Home Companion.) Tn Germany one finds all kinds of cures. Every enterprising town has one. Often the cure, house is the finest public building in the city. A German talks of going to his cure as an American talks of going to his va cation. There are milk cures, and mud cures, wind cures and water cures, mountain cures and surf cures; but my choice is the forest cure. r-
 Not only does it best please my per- sonal. taste, but [ notice that it gets the most serious caseS--those where radical and heroic cures are needed. First of all there are the tuberculosis patients strewn about on, their cots under the pungent shades Of the Black Forest as about Dr. Trudeau's camp in the Adirondaci1s.
 Then there are the devotees of fn- digestion and the nervous -wrecks, bilious, alcoholic and, society wrecks, drug fiends, bridge fiends and every body; that is, everybody who can spend the time and money to come hither for the forest cure. Naturally in Germany, as in America, folks who have to work and support families cannot afford to be cured. They can't even afford the disease fin the first place:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
ISMAY'S CQWARDICE.

Lord Mersey the presiding officer of the Board of Trade Inquiry into the wreck. of the Titanic seems not 10 entertain high ideal. of the duty of males on board a wrecked ships One had supposed that the doctrine of women and children first is soundly established. Men, in fact, who do the other thing are quietly set down as towards They are not necessarily ostracized on that account, because cowardice in many cases is complaint of the nerves, which sends it's victim into panic.
 But such set of nerves has never been regarded as an asset in the mas culine make up and never will be.
 On the Titanic hundreds of men who were mere passengers stood back while the women entered the boats and went down with the ship
 Ismay was managing director of the line. He had measure of re- sponsibility-a very large measure in every condition that contributed to the sinking of the great ship. The insufficient lookout, the failure to furnish the lookouts with glasses, the voice by the shorter northern route, and the great speed the ship was making all came within his purview,
 He crowded into one of the first boats that left. He was in a panic of fear. On the Carpathia he shut himself into cabin. and furnished to the world such an exhibition of selfishness as men in his position have seldom displayed.
 Lord Mersey's extenuation, that the boats were not loaded to capacity does not affect tine act of Ismay.
 Had Ismay played a mans part they might have been loaded to ca pacity.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
STATE STREET BRIDGE.

It was recently suggested that there should be a bridge across the har- Dor as an extension of State street. This plan appeared to have the warm support of Mayor Wilson, but he has abandoned it, following the report of Alfred H. Terry. city engineer, who saysStfat the cost of such structure would be enormous.
 The engineer says: Without go- ing into detailed figures on the cost connected with raising the viaduct alone, I believe I am safe in saying it-- could not be done for less than s4O0,0OO, even if the railroad com pany would consider such thing at aII,''
 [ There is much in the facts pre- sented by MT. Terry to warrant the conclusion that the State street bridge should not be built, but it would be more satisfactory to feel that the city may build, or refrain from building, bridges as it sees fit
 Bridgeport is about a tenth of Con- necticut in population. and more than that in industrial and financial pow sr
 -t is a little galling to be informed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31

country, and, after reading much rail- way advertising literature, determined on the Puget Sound country as his flu ture home. He had a legal education, but his aspirations were toward jour nahsm as a profession.
 While en route to Puget Sound, MT. Dixon stopped off at Missoula, Mont, | where his uncle had a fourishing legal practice. The Montana town seemed to offer attractions, and the young man decided to stop awhile. He was admitted to the Montana bar, hung out his shingle, and within a year had become assistant prosecuting attorney of Missoula county. When he ran for tive Association. an anti-Catholic or ganfzation, promised to deliver it's whole vote and guarantee his election if he would join the order. Dixon re- fused. and his friends declared he had signed his political death warrant, but their, forecast was not accurate. He was elected with plenty of votes to spare.
 Religiously, Senator Dixon is a Quaker, as were his ancestors for sev- eral centuries. The Dixons came to America with William Penn, to es- cape persecution. The Senator's father, true to his anti-war principles, refused to take part in the American civil war, and was a Union man in a State where adherence to Uncle Sam was likely to be decidedly unhealth- full.
 MT. Dixon was sent to Washington as Congressm an at-large from Mon tana in 1903, and was a member of fthe Fifty-eighth and Fffty-ninth Con- gresses. He went over to the Senate in 1907, and his present term will expire next March.
 "A wild project" MT. Dixon's fa1n- CT declared when his young hopeful first announced his intention to go West. Dixon. pere disputed the facts, figures and statistics contained in the railway literature, and asserted that his son would be but chasing rain bow, and would soon return to North Carolina, minus his savings and plus only. experience. Fathers are usual ly right, but the people of Montana and Col. T.. Roosevelt are glad that young Dixon disregarded the advice of his .paternal ancestor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
SAY CRIPPEN HOUSE IS
 HAUNTED BY STOCKS.

That the house at No. 39 Hilsdrop
 Crescent,i in London,in which, pr. flaw
 ley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife,
 Belle Elmore, is now haunted by par
 ticularly lively 'spooks, is state
 ment recently made by those who have
 occupied the place. It was just two
 years ago today that Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, boarded the steamer
 Montrose and arrested pr. Crippen
 and his typist, Ethel Clare Leneye, for
 love of whom the American dentist IS supposed to have made away with his
 actress wife. Belle Elmore had disap-
 peared in February, presumably to go to California. In March anwadYerrise-
 ment of her sudden death in Califor- mia was printed in a London newspa- per. Friends of the actress, who had
 been prominent member and former treasurer of the Music Hall Ladies'
 Guild suspected that she had been murdered, and so informed Scotland Yard Dr. Crippen finally admitted that. his wife had not died in the Western State, but said she was still living. and that they had agreed to separate. In July Dr. Crippen and his typist disappeared. and. two days later
 a body, supposed to have been that of Belle Fillmore, was found buried in the cellar of the Crippen home. The den- tist and his mistress were found on board the Montrose, bound for Can ada, and Inspector Dew, hurrying to the Dominion on a faster vessel, caught the pair. Crippen was tried in October. the proceedings lasting only five days, and was found guilty after a deliberation of the jury of only half an hour Less than month later he was executed.
 Stories that the house occupied by the Crippens is haunted have been cir culated ever since Crippen's death. Mysterious noises have been heard and lights have been seen that can not be traced to any natural agency. Many men have searched for the source of the "spooky'' manifesto tions. but without success. It goes without saying that the Belle Elmore ghost ima gina tions. Given a. house in which murder has been committed and there are always to be found credu- lous folk who will manufacture occult and supernatural manifestations out
 of the most trivial circumstances.
 In every city and town throughout the world, wherever a Zionist society exists. memorial services will be held
 in synagogues today to commemorate
 the anniversary of the death of Dr.
 Theodore Herzl founder of modern
 Zionism Collections will be taken to
 advance the Zionist cause, which is
 to establish a Jewish State in Pales- tine. Dr. Horzl, who first proposed
 the Zionist idea. was a distinguished
 journalist. In 1894 he was the Paris correspondent of the Neue Freie Press of Vienna, and reported the Dreyfus
 case. The disclosures set him to thinkir~ as he realized that even Oc- cidentaI Jews were not safe from per secution, and in 1896 he wrote and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
THE. DRUMS OF MEMORY.
Wilbur D. Nesbit in Chicago Evening
 POSt)

Wilbur D. Nesbit in Chicago Evening
 Post.)
 Beat the drums of memory In a low and lulling key, Till my feet go marching on Through the twilight and the dawn, Backward through the paths of time Into that enchanted cline Where the blosSom never fade. Where the sunshine and the shade Dance in dapples on the grass Of the orchards that I pass. Beat the drums of memory Till they thrill the soul of me, And I foot the hazy miles Into long forgotten wl1iles. Find the meadow and the brook And the vine hid forest nook, Till the world that was of old World aglow with rose and gold Lures me. with it's hopes, forsooth, AS it did when I had youth. Beat the drums of memory .. Let the roll a rally be! ;, Call the boys I used to know In the wondrous long ago <. Call them all from. field and foam, Till again we are at home. Let us boast, and do, and dare, Having neither fret, nor care; Let us laugh at the, far paige Where is told the, tale of age. Beat the drums of. memory Till the old songs come to me, Till I murmur faded tunes, Hum contented' olden eroons, And the boy days are all mine; Till my veins pulse with the vine Of, the days that were, made new As I find my, pathway through All the ever calling ways Of the living yesterdays. r'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
LEAPS FROM E|FFEL TOWER
Woman Jumps From Topmost Plat
 form, 9S4 Feet From Ground.

Paris July 31-An elegantly dressed young woman jumped from the top most platform of the Eiffel Tower, yesterday. Her body struck the iron work as it fell and was almost torn in half. The limbs were severed be- fore the body fell to the second plat form. 525 feet below, where 1t was smashed beyond recognition.
 Four hundred francs were found In a pocket of the woman and also the address of a hotel, where she was not known The attendants say the Wo- man was weeping before she jumped. She scribbled something in notebook but afterward tore this up. The body has not been identified.
 j The Eiffel Tower is the highest arr tificial structure in the world, rising ASA feet above the Champ de Mars. It was built in 1889 by Aleyandre Gus taye Eiffel., The second platform, where the woman's body. landed, is about 345 feet from the ground. The ironwork of the structure curves out ward in wide concave are toward the base so that it would be almost impossible for one to reach the ground without striking the ironWork firstn E A. short time ago a man named Franz. Reichalt, who had invented parachute, tried to test it by Jumping from the first platform. The para chute did not work and he was kill yAd s442t4.Tfs@
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31

by the city's own engineering servant that it cannot determine it's own i'm provements. because the New Haven railroad may not consent.
 Already the city can neither pave streets, build sewers, nor keep it's highways passable to traffic without the cooperation and consent of the railroad corporations:
 Fortunately, in this case, the oppo- gition of the railroad is theoretical The plan to build a bridge from State street across the harbor4Is NOT feasible. sse
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
.TIMEs,, STAFF ARRESTED.
Waterbury Man ''Written Up" Fot i Much And Suffered From NOtOriety.

Waterbury, July 31.-The staff of the Sunday Times, of Waterbury, con- sistir1e of Samuel Applebaum, adver- Using man and reporter; John Curley. editor, and Jerry Scorpion, packer and publisher, have been arrested on com plaint' made by George Walker of Waterbury, on charge of breach ot the peace, the paper having printed that young mans name several times regarding things he claims never to have been connected with. Walker who lives with his mother on Grand street, has been written up seven times in the Times and recently lost his. position, he alleges, as result ot tha nOtOriety
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
STORRS ELECTS OFFICERS. Governor Baldwin, Former President
 of Trustees, Presides.

. Storrs, July 31.-The annual meet ing of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural college was held here yesterday with Governor Baldwin, who is ex-officio. president of the board, presiding. The follow ing officers were elected: Vice-presi- dent, H. G. Manchester, Winsted; secretary. Charles A. Capen, Willi- mantle; treasurer, 0.E. Smith, Storrs auditor, s. J. Storrs, Mansf1eld; exc cutive committee, G. Hopson, Wall ingford; Joseph W. Alsop, Avon; H c. Manchester, Winsted; Gilbert farm committee, Joseph w. Alsop, Avon; A. J. Pierpont, Waterbury; H. C. Manchester, Winsted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
Independent Vote.
(Cincinnati Enquirer,)

Both the Chicago and Baltimore National conventions bore deep im- pression of the strength of the inde- pendent vote of the country, and in the disposition of millions of voters in the United States to reject party platforms and partisan candidates un- less they were in accord and hay mony with the political views of themselves.
 upon the electorate of the United States as they do to-day.
 Party names have still some hold upon the voters, but they retain but little of the attractive and repellent qualities which they possessed fifty, forty or even twenty years ago.
 When millions of voters abSented themselves from the polls as election statistics in recent years have disclos- ed they did so at state election, that refusal to vote was an expression of disapproval of party policies, party candidates, or of both.
 It was in itself a declaration of in- dependence as to party allegiance, and rendered those voters subject to be rightly classed as independents
 It is this increasing independent vote which will decide the election next November. which will give vic tory to one or the other of the several
 
 occupy during the next four years an exceptionally strong position in for mulating national policies through its holding of the balance of political power.
 To read the various interviews given out by well-known public men as to the candidates and the parties since the Baltimore convention is to be con- vinced of the potency of the indepan- dent vote in this country and how clearly political leaders recognize it's strength and it's power.
 Bitter partisanship has departed from political circles in the United States, and the people are finding their way to mass their forces to se- cure legislation and to have policies adopted which they approve of and desire. not by dividing into opposition camps, but by compelling the opposi- ton camps to move to them.