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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
VOTERS COME AT $I0 APIECE IN
 BEAVER COUNTY
Alleged Ballot Debauchery in Keystone State is Subject
 of Inquiry

Beaver, Pa, Aug. 27.-Investigation of. alleged ballot debauchery and charges that $10 head was the pre- vailing price for voters in Beaver County, as alleged by the Citizens Committee, was begun, today, by Judge Robert s. Holt.
 Every saIoonkeeper in the county and many other voters have been .sdmInoned. State Insurance Com missioner Charles Johnson, of Nor ristown, Pa, treasurer of the Repub- lican state committee, also has been subpoenaed. It is charged he for warded $3,000 to be used in the April primaries.
 The county Republican chairman, B. H. Porter, United States Marshal for this district, says he spent $6,000. The Citizens Committee, in it's bill of particulars, declares much more was spent in a district where less than 5000 votes were cast in the primary. Porter is prepared to make a deter mined fight.
 The Republican state candidates are J. l.. Holmes and David w. Den- ton, for the legislature, and Joseph H. Thompson for the Senate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES

The Congressional Committee cannot go too far in probing the source of campaign funds The information shnuld be brought up to date. The reopfe. are interested in what was spent inf past elections. They are more interested in what is to be ex- pended in this election, and it's source. ~
 it costs money to conduct elections. Travelling expenses have to be paid. Literature must be distributed, and speakers must be compensated Head quarters are needed here and there, and there. are charges for meetings and the like. But money for these uses ought not be derived in large ssims from wealthy corporations, or their owners.
 If the necessary expense cannot be met in any other way, it should be a charge against the public treasury.
 Then the people will know what they are paying for what they get, which they do not know under a sys- >@y- - by, which governmental favors are sold by indirection.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
HOW TO FIGHT VICE

Physical Director Clarence A. Tay- Tor of the Boys club is conducting a crusade against gambling. He says that there are gambling places in Bridgeport. to which boys are admit eed If this is true it is a serious natter. That men should gamble may possibly be tolerated, at any rate 1t is. But that boys in the plastic and formative period should be broken in- n this destructive vice is intolerable. There is a way in which vice can he reached This newspaper has point el the method before. for the benefit ef other vice crusaders.
 It is ytp, bobtains the names of the owners of the buildings in which the illegal business is carried on, and to demand of the owners, on pain of Imprisonment that they cease leasing property for immoral purposes.
 Eech and every reformer has thie certain power to abate criminal nuis- ences in his hands. Yet none uses it. Which shows that the desire for a righteous change has not passed be- s-aRz the point Of many words.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
0lLISG "A SUCCESS


 The second oiling of the streets is in progress. It means that oil will soon be substituted for water in all streets. ., The benefits of oiling are great The dust is more completely laid The streets are more uniform Y free from mud q The present application ought to take the city through the November and early December winds, when, under the watering system, the dust flies freely.
 There should be. comparative free- dom for dust next March, before sprinkling begins, a time when it is especially desirable that disease germs should not be inhaled with every breath.
 0iling= is success. The people like fl and it must be continued. n
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
MYSTERY DEEPENS
 IN CURRAN CASE
Supposedly in Canada She is Found to Have Been
 in New York

New York. Aug. 27-That Miss Julia Curran, yictom of the mysterious Ho- tel Boulevard murder, was in New York within three days after she was supposed to have started to Canada in an an automobile and for a week before her death, was established to- day by a baggage check.
 The police found the claim check in the woman's handbag which she car ried into the hotel and at Grand Gen. tral Station they found a valise which Miss Curran deposited there August A. Detectives working on the case were at a loss to account for the wo- mans whereabouts during that week, for her sister, Mrs. John Kinnears, did not know she was here and all efforts to communicate with Mrs. William D. Smith, who employed Miss Curran as a companion. and with whom she was supposed to have gone to Canada, had failed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
FLYLESS WORLD IS PROMISE OF BAY
 STATE INVENTOR
EGG DEPOSITS OF PEST ARE EASILY DESTROYED IN
 GARBAGE CANS.

Newton, Mass, Aug. PA practical, ly flyless world is promised by c. T. Switzler, of Newton, if all garbage pails are equipped with an oiled bag which he has invented to be placed within slop cans. The idea is not patentable, according to the inventor, but he mates flies so himself'' he is willing to let the world know about it.
 Boston health department officials and those of a dozen surrounding small cities and towns, together with an army of newspaper reporters and photographers gathered in a Back Bay alley today to watch the collection of garbage from cans fitted with the oiled bag two days ago. Switzler pointed out millions of egg deposits the eggs being dead" from oil fumes
 A dozen Newton householders at Switzler's suggestion, have used the bags in their cans all summer and they say flies are harder to find in their homes than a New York police man after murder
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
EXODUS
 FROM CAPITAL General Scramble Homeward of Legislators - Army of
 Clerks Out

Washington. Aug. 27-Thfs is. "exo- dus day" in Washington-a general scramble of officialdom vacationward. Outgoing trains were jammed with homegoing officials. cabinet heads, Senators and Representatives and de- partment officials, all released from cares by the adjournment of Congress. After Saturday, Washington will be comparatively deserted until Decem- Der 3, when Congress reconvenes. =
 Of the 200 Congressmen left here when Congress quit. practically all will be gone within few days. Most of them plan short vacations before plunging into the political campaign. Many are enlisted as spellbinders by the party political bureaus for the na- tional campaign
 At the capitol today big packing boxes were shipped-by government ''franks'-to practically every State. A small army of stenographers and clerks went job hunting. They have been employed as extra help in the Congressional office buildings
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
FIRST THINGS

Tie first man to propose the estab- lishment of 3 penny (two-cent) post, a postal money order system and post office savings banks was Sir Rowland Hill, who died in London thirty-three years ago today. The founder of the modern post office was born in 1795 His penny postage plan was suggested to the British Parliament in 1887, and went into effect in England in 1S40 In the same year his money order scheme was put into effect replac- ing an antiquated system that had been little used on account of expense. Stamped postage covers, another inno- vation suggested by. Hill. also came into use that year.
 The first ascent ever made in a bal loon filled with hydrogen gas was made at Paris, by NM Robert and Charles. 12S years ago today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
JUSTICE HARLAN'S SON
 TO ANSWER ROOSEVELT I

New York, Aug. 27.-It was an- nounced at the headquarters of. the Republican state committee, today, that John M. Harlan, son of Justice Harlan, has been assigned to answer Colonel Roosevelt on the latter's tour through New England, especially in Vermont. The program arranged for Harlan, it was stated, will permit him to speak in many instances in the same halls and in every town where the progressive presidential candidate talks. At the national committee headquarters, today, it was stated that all of the advices re- eeived from Vermont points to a de- cided Republican victory in next Tuesdays election for state officials.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
PLAYING SOLDIER.

A touching statement of the effect of "boy scout" enthusiasm on the mind of her son is contributed to The Times by the Hartford mother whose while "sky-larking' with another lad to whom he had handed his pistol, with orders to fire at him. Of course such a youth should not have been permitted to possess pistol, yet there was probably no way of pre- venting him from having the gun, and playing with 1t.
 It seems strange and peculiarly tragic thing that a mother who had set out with rare earnestness to turn her sons thoughts away from wAr- like subjects should have been bereav- ed as she has been. She certainly did her best to qualify her boy for mem- bership in the peace society
 It would have been to his advan- tage to have had some older male friend who could have instructed him in the care of a pistol and have in- stined into him caution in the use of it. It would do no harm to any youth to be well instructed in such matters.
 It would be a good thing of all boys small or big-could be prevented from playing soldier" There ought to be a complete Association of the idea of play from military ideas. For
 
 and most serious work in the world. There can properly be nothing anus ing about it. For the young recruits in foreign armies military training means steady application to study, to military drill, or physical exercise. There is no fun in it. When the instruction is carried out on these lines the young men do not imbibe a warlike spirit. Since 1870 neither Germany nor France has been really a warlike nation The sacrifices of life in that struggle of forty-two years ago left too deep scars on both of them The people of Great Britain have has less desire for war since their struggle with the Boers than they had before.
 Thorough military training makes for peace, but playing soldier" does not.
 Such organizations as the English ''boy scouts make for war, but not, p1oba bly,, for efficiency in war. In this country the boy scout movement is an exotic, and should be discour- aged unless wholly divested of its British character, in which case it would naturally have &e be called something besides "tn- boy scouts E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
On Second Thought
By JAY E. HOUSE

However, it must admitted that chin -whiskers arc artistic than the average rnans crUvuA
 It is comparatively easy to drum membership for lodge which taps al keg at every regular meeting
 There a number of cures for the dissatshed boy, permitting him with circus ! around. 5.s,
 A Missouri woman, now suing for divorce, looked husband for and then married him. The moral is that the minimum distance Tor 1naumon ial inspection trips should be increased
 There those who believe life can be prolonged O sun uncooked food. But, under the clfcun- stances, what would object?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
HAMILTON PLANS
 GREATEST OF ALL
 AERIAL THRILLERS
New Britain Birdman is Going to Loop the Loop in
 J Flight

New Britain, Aug. 27-Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator has ordered a new machine for exhibition. He plans to turn complete somersault in the air with it. He said he had been planning the feat for long time and desires to be the. first aviator to ac- complish it.
 He has tried out his machines but has found them too unwieldly to at tempt the loop thriller. He thinks the planes of his new machine will be capable of standing the strain. Ham ilton once was ready to attempt the feat, but because his wife and moth CT were present he put it off.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
SURVIVES s2.OOO VOLTS.
Adolph Hendrickson. a painter.

Adolph Hendrickson, a painter, who was at work on an iron pier carrying the feed wire for the electric system of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad, at Mount Vernon, suf- fered q, shock of 32,000 volts yesterday, when his brush came in contact with the feed wire, and, though he suffered severe oburnss about the head, neck, and shoulders, physicians at the Mount vernon hospital, to which he was car- riedT said he would recover.
 The force of the current which pa ss- ed through the painters body was so great that 1t fused the works of his sa~r@mam
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER.
(Boston Globe.)

Occasionally it becomes the duty of a practical editor to give to the very intelligent and impractical people who are always demanding an ideal news paper q very common sense reason why it will never be published
 And the reason is based on a few questions like these:
 Has anybody ever seen or heard of an ideal minister?
 Has anybody ever seen or heard of an ideal college president?
 Has anybody ever seen or heard of an ideal doctor?
 Has anybody ever seen or heard of an ideal banker?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
EMIL SEIDEL IS ON
 25,0OO MILE JOURNEY
Says Progressive Party Stands for Honesty on Platform Made
 of Stolen PIanks.

If the campaign tour of Emil Sci del. Socialist candidate for Vice Pres ident of the United States, followed the railroads and steamships that en- circle the earth. 1t would be long enough to girdle the globe.
 It is estimated that the distance to be covered by seidel will be between 25,o0e and s0,0oo miles. He has about
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
LAFOLLETTE AGAINST ROOSE'
 WELT
(New Haven Union.)

(NeW Haven OnlOnJ
 Robert M. LaFollette, United States Senator from Wisconsin, foremost Re- publican progressive in the. upper House of Congress, is against Theo- dore Roosevelt for a third term, be- cause, he says, Roosevelt while pres ident co-operated with the trusts In- stead of cooperating with him In ms fight against the trusts.
 "On the day that Theodore Roose- welt was made President Of the Unit ed States" declares La Toilette, there were 149 trusts and combina- tions in the United States. When he turned the government over to Wni. H. Taft there were 10,020 great trusts and combinations.
 When Theodore Roosevelt entered the White House the trusts and com binations had a capitalization of $3,- 784, ,000, ,O00. On the day that he turn ed the administration over to Taft it was $31,672,000,000 More than TO per cent. of it was Watered.
 T do not believe that the man who was President for seven years while the greaSest trust growth in this country occurred, at the very time of all times in the history of the Sher- man law hen it could have been made productive in destroying trust organization, that destroys competi- ton, and places the American people in the powers Of the combinations do not believe that the man who was President during that time is the man to find the way out now
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
WILSON'S ADVICE TO FARMERS.

(New Haven Un1on.)
 When Governor Wilson spoke to the farmers of New. Jersey he did not tell them, in we'll rounded phrases, that they were "the creators of all nation. al wealth." that they were the "bui- Wark of the nations prosperity" that they were of ''the oldest and most honored of all professions or indus tries;'' or that lon the shoulders of the farmers rests the nations des- tiny"
 It would have been easy to talk to them in that vein, and such platitudes might have been pleasing to the farmers, although it is not likely that many of them would have relished hearing themselves praised, and all traditions of political speakers when addressing farmers. Governor Will son knows that farmers nowadays want to hear logic, rather than well sounding, empty words.
 He told them, accordingly that while they have been busy feeding the country they had neglected. an-
 other and very important part of their business, namely, that which they ought to attend to as members
 of the big firm of Uncle Sam & Co.
 As result of this neglect. MT. WIi- gon said, the other mem bers of the firm had assumed a controlling inter-
 est, and had forgotten all about the farmers, or had come to think of them merely as persons whose function it
 is to feed the rest of the country and incidentally help feed the trusts. The New Jersey governor then went
 on to tell the farmers just how the high tariff rates affected them. He told them that while the farmer does not produce any of the things that derive material benefit from the tariff, he consumes all of the things which, under the protective system are taxed.
 Does it matter nothing to the far mer that President Taft vetoed the tariff bill ?" MT. Wilson asked why, every Iploughshare; every tool and im- plement the farmer uses, to say noth- ing of the trust made harvester, is dearer because of the Payne-AIdrieh pays more for his trust made tool than the, Russian peasant pays. for | the same tootsyomade in the same factory out in Chicago. And yet they
 tell the confiding farmer that the tar l if is not a tax. The farmer pays more for, the clothes that goes into them, because of the Payne-Aldrich tax This tariff tax encourages the ! use of cheap substitutes and discour- ages wearers of clothing from de- ! manding all wool materials
 | Governor Wilson suggested to the farNaers that they break into their own house, and get more of the rent than is due them. He. will not get this rent if he continues to allow ] himself to be bluffed by the special interests that have taken possession, the governor said. He also told them he believed in the development of . postal express and the establishment of an agricultureal banking system, similar to the one now in successful operation in Germany.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
BADLY CUT LIP.

Patrick Harrity, four-year-old youngster. has badly cut lip today as the result of a fall yesterday while playing near his home, 1177 Pembroke street. The wound was dressed at the Emergency hospital by Dr. w. H. Curley.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

Suffield-During a thunderstorm in Agawarn, just across the Massa chu- seIts state line, late yesterday, 25 to bacco strippers were rendered uncon- scious when bolt of lightning struck the barn in which they were working.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
.Uhe B. M. Rran Unmpa1ty. EHfahltahRA 1H5I.
 1he Store closes at , OcAock cxcebt Sat1y-T1r
SALE OF DRESS GOODS REMNANTS

A great gathering embracing every kind of weave, and at very marked reductions.
 Coored Broadcloths. Dark brown, navy blue, wine, gray, and amethyst, beautiful quality formerly $2oo, 5o inches wide,
 SIPS yard. Mixed Suitings and Boucle Cloths dark grays tans and browns, formerly from $I.oo S2oo 5o inches wi de, 50 cts.
 These contain good patterns for misses and chi drens suits and for separate skirts. Wool ChaIlis, stripes, dots and bordered patterns, !, 50 and So cts. Enough for several days Colored Dress Goods Section
 LAWN SACQUEs, SPECIAL The last of the summer stock but good values. Tn white grounds, lowered with pink lavender or light blue, with lace insertion, ribbon bands and ties small sizes, were $I.75 $2oo, and $2.25
 at 50, 75 and $I.oo. Oriental Silk Kimonos, dark reds, Indian bue with palm leaves and geometrica1 designs in and amber very attractive
 $s.7s, $aos, $500, $6.oo and up
 Second floor. NEW AND FRAGRANT TALCUM Trentin, made by V. Rigaud, delicate and pleasant Tacum a5 cts package dantily put up. With each purchase of Trentini is given little flask of extract, welcome gift to the who likes choeic perfumes Toilet Section. en, 50 cts: Center Counter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

Has anybody ever seen or heard or an ideal lawyer?~
 Has anybody ever seen or heard of an ideal merchant? ;. We are decidedly of the opinion that a loud and emphatic mo- is the answer to each question.
 Why?
 Because the representatives or the calIings named all human, with the usual number of virtues and faults And editors, being human are in the same class. Therefore when the world is peopled by angels ana the newspapers are controlled oy archangels, we shall see the ldeai newspaper, and not until them.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
STATE BRIEFS.

can to promote those principles in practice"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

New Milford-A series of hail storms which passed over this section, late yesterday, damaged the tobacco crop between ESQ., ,000 and $f00,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

West, Haven-The local police have a valuable gold watch and suit of male attire safely locked in a safe seized in a raid Sunday morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

New Haven-No trace has been found of the burglar who entered the filling home here and was shot at oy g maid and it was thought hit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27

Suffield-An electrical storm here. last evening, killed COW and set three barns on fire which were de- stroyed with an $S,000 loss.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-19
DON'T plsAPPolNT THEM.

Nowhere in christendom will a little head be nllowed on christmas-eve night hut what will be cherished ia That little head the hope that when the awakening comes on Christmas morning there will have been yisi- tafion from Santa Claus.
 The hope that soothes the little child asleep may be a far-fetched one Ey- cry little child though childish hope is strong, isn't sure that the toyland god will visit him or her, but they cling to the hope just as the hero Tn the little story book encounters diff Realities and rebuffs, and then in the end from somewhere comes a good rich man or woman and blesses their dream with realization.
 To deliver baskets ot choice yiands into the homes of the poor, and to place beside the dinner plate on Christmas real dinner is to open q chapter Of christian brotherhood to the poor but that isn't all that lies in opportunity for Christmas cheer
 The Christmas stocking, whether it hangs from the gilded mantle of the  wealthy in the palace, or whether f suspends from a rough rail behind the rickety stove in the hoyel. is tht child's Christmas feature Pity the child too poor to awaken on the an niversary of the birth of a world $ Christ, and find no such welcome mes sage to impress that youthful mind with the story that came from the manager in Bethlehem.
 In Hot Springs there. is united movement to provide the poor with dinner on Christmas day, ana there is also movement to provide every lit tie child of the poor with stocking filled with just the creations Of d child's Christmas dream.
 The ladies of the Fortnightly Club have undertaken to provide the stock ings for the little children Of the poor to be distributed through the salya ton Army channel of distribution. ltI does not take much to fill the stock ing. One little pair of stockings to begin with, then some candy, and an orange, and an apple. and for the litte boy a horn or toy, and for the little girl doll.
 The price of a drink at the bar, lr 2 good cigar would provide one, and a 1 dollar would provide dozen Ths agencies of distribution cost nothing. | The aeencies of distribution. the good ladies, and the good men, get theE lions shars Of pay though. for they are brought in close touch with heai yelling with blessings the sincerity of which is seldom known in this sordid world. However the spirit of these hlesslngs will extend to every giver and fl is a privilege 10 be written among them
 scroll your name among those who want to buy . part of this Christmas blessing Cal Ms. Hafock, or Mrs N. C Thompson or Mrs. w. E. Mas sey. or Mrs. w Hughes, committee ladies for the santa Claus Stock ings and help them to help the little children of the poor to a bounteous Christmas stocking on Christmas morning. Remove one heart-ache oi l disappointment from little child On Christmas morning. and the blessing viii be yonrs in some form. and ten fold in ifs nature
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The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-19
OZARK HOTEL.

BIO ouachlta Ave. Phone 20os. RooMs-$2.oo AND UP PER WEEK. WITH eoARD-S7 to sio PER WEEK. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. Recently Re Modeled and Re- Furnished Onehalf block to two Bath Houars Two blocks from depots and postonIce. All outside rooms, steam heat.
 Call for Ozark Hotel carriaae at danot we make no charge.
 MRS. N. 3. BRENNER- Owner and Prop.