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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

At Kirksville, pr. Still found fn- f1uential and unexpected support for his theories. Dr. William Smith, a famous Scotch physician and a grad uate of the medical school of Edfn- burgh University, was then traveIing in America. He heard of Dr. Still. z the "bonesetting fakir," and curios-5 ity led him to investigate the new school of healing The hard-headed Scotchman soon became an ardent dis ciple of Dr. Still.
 Osteopathy was first legally recog- nized in the State of Missouri, when in 1896 the legislature passed law gov erning osteopathic practice, which tt defined as: "A method of treating dis eases through adjustment of the body by scientific manipulation, recognising the value of air. water, light, heat. electricity, proper food and exercise and other physiological measures"
 The value of osteopathy' in many dis eases is now generally recognized by the medical profession, although the majority of doctors insist that some of the claims made for the system are extravagant and wild.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

method.
 But occasions arise where grea pressure is exerted upon members ot a representative body to induce then to take action contrary to public in terest. Against such action the ref erendum is an impregnable wall.
 Neither power will be often, used The very existence of the powers pre- vents the need of their frequent use.
 A legislative body which knows it's acts can be reviewed by the electorate is likely to consider what the cleo torate wants.
 Special interests will not suborn leg islative bodies. to obtain measures which can be and are. sure to be ve- toed by the votersA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
MR.. KENNEDY'S CANDIDACY

Attorney William Kennedy of Naug- atuck has announced his candidacy for the congressional nomination in han a distinguished record as 8 Dem oerats He was staunchly the adherent of progressive principles in the Balti- more convention. and followed the leadership Of Bryan, which resulted in the .nemination ssof Governor Wilson, and shs adoption tofs an honest and progressive platform. MT. Kennedy would make a strong candidate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

orthodox osteopaths look as thelr leader, was born in Jonesboro, Va, years ago today. lie was the son of Rev, Abram Still, Meth odlst circuit rider. The youth or the future founder of a new medlcal school was spent Tn northern MlSsouIt; ]; then a pioneer land where rough ana primitive conditions prevailed. Andy Stil early determined to become a doctor, and in furtherance of thls ambition he shot and cut to pieces scores of coons, wildcats and otner animals. in order that he might study their bones and inner workings. lie was M. D, when the civil war broke out, and he enlisted as surgeon in the Twenty-first Kansas cavalry. Lat CT he became post surgeon at the Shawnee reservation in Kansas. pr. Still might have continued a ortho- doy medical man except for a tragedy that deprived him of his two small daughters. Their death was due to spinal meningitis, and with the hope of finding a cure for that dread dis ease, and so save other parents from the sorrow be had suffered, he com. menced the study of the human spine. These investigations led Dr. Still to the discovery of these prin- ciples which he called osteopathy.
 When he began the practice of os- teopathy Dr. Still resided in Baldwin Kan, the seat of Baker University, a Methodist institution, and a center ot Methodism. The local doctors de- nounced the new system as dangerous and possibly fatal, and the local min isters joined in the cry. Osteopathy was declared to be a device of the devil, and it's inventor an agent of his Satanic majesty Dr. Still left Bald win and settled in Kirksville, Mo.
 where in the course of time he built up the big university which, now grad uates a. majority of osteopathic prac- titioners. The lightning bonesetter' Dr.. Still was called in his early days as an osteopath, and the fact that he clung to the pioneer clothing of hii youtn, including a coon-sktn cap and long boots, served in some quarters to Increase the prejudice against him
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
NOT A CANDIDATE BUT

lI1dI (1OAo 11A&ASo'( The Journal-Courier of New Haven publishes in it's issue of to-day an in- terview which one of it's reporters had with Judge John F.. Studley o1 New Haven, in reference to the judge candidacy for the Republican nomina- ton for governor. The report of the interview begins with an explicit state ment by Judge Studiey that he IS nol a candidate and twill not be a candl- dare for the nomination" But later in the interview the judge says:
 I am not a candidate, but if the par- tv should unite on me and 1t was a nomination of the party and not or factions, the honor would be too great for me or anyone else to refuse
 It will be seen from this that the judges position is perfectly consistent with the activity of Postmaster Gay lord. of Ansonia. for his nomination. Judge Studley is not a candidate, but the 7iudge's friend from Ansonia con- 1tinues to foster his boom and to assure people that the judges chances TOT the nomination are excellent. mere may be some significance in the fact that Judge Studley stated to the re- porter that he will not be a candidate for reelection to the judgeship of probate for the New Haven district The judge hopes that his clerk, Mir Gilson! will be candidate for the Republican nomination TOT Juuse ol nrobate Why does Judge <Studley de- sire to retire from the judgeship of pr obate if he does not intend to be candidate for the nomination for gov ernor? The question is reasonable one.
 The judges statement published in inc Journal Courier will keep the friends of Lieutenant-Governor Blake slee guessing They are not calcu- lated to relieve their anxiety nor to allay their fears.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges ].
THE POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.
Norwich Bulletin.)

(NOrWlcn Bullelln.)
 The postal savings bank system of. An1egica is old enough to have made an end of most of the objections made to it. and to prove that there was room for it-that it was a real neces- sity,
 There are at present 1000 new bank ing offices being established monthly which show an increase in depositors of 12,OO0 a year. There are 4e,ooo fourth-class money order offices to which the system will be extended.
 The deposits in the postal savings banks at the end of the first month amounted to $50, 0,252; in half year they had increased to $679, BIO. At the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912, these Repositories contained about $20, GOO, ,000.t Of course, that is not much compared with the deposits in the pos tai savings banks of other countries Tn Great Britain they amount to more than $500, coo, 900; in France to almost $500 000,0 GOO; in Italy to nearly that much HA number of countries have two. three and four times the present postal deposits of the United States. but, these systems have all been estab- lished for years. :
 Notwithstanding the success of these banks abroad there was great opposl- stion to them when it was proposed to introduce them here. on the ground that they would be injurious to the regular savings banks;s instead, It seems not to have materially inter fered with the deposits in regular sav- ings banks which have averaged about the same.
 i It is believed that in the end the system will benefit the regular savings banks, because it draws money out of hiding and extends the savings hab- it which will tend to swell the depos- it's in savings banks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
DIR. STILL, FOUNDER OF
 OSTEOPARTHY, S4 TODAY

Branded as a fakir and charlatan and denounced by the press, pulpit and the entire medical profession as a rogue and a rascal when he. first began to preach and practice his new method of healing, .Dr. Andrew Still, founder of osteopathy. has lived to see the day when his system has d recognized legal standing in nearly all of the States of the Union and in many other countries. Practitioners of osteopathy are now to be found in nearly every city of North America, and even in England, Germany and other lands.
 Andrew Taylor Still, to whom ali
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH

peepite all the attacks that have been made upon the referendum in Bridgeport, and it has. endured the combined assaults of The Farmers .ontempor aries, and of powerful poli- hcians ot thrives.
 Its vindication is complete in the message of Mayor Wilson, in which ne admits the principle that no chang S should be made in the organic law vt the municipality, and no permanent aebt created without the consent of the voters.
 Thus does the truth manifest in un- expected places. and the better way triumph over ignorance and unscrupu- lous4oppositien. :
 NO modern city can expect to do it's work in the most satisfactory way, unless the initiative and referendum are both among the instruments that the voters may occasionally use to ex- press their will.
 The initiative enables them to orig mate measures tIaat-taeir- servants nay notessRsHa aHIak6sssa6aa The referendum enables them to veto leg lslation that does not meet their ap- oroval.
 With these instrumentalities in op- sration ninety-nine and nine-tenths Der cent. of the work of government would be carried sen by the peoples 'epESsentatives- 7
 The initiative and referendum are for use in extraordinary emergencies Most governmental acts are satisfac- snrlly performed under the present
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
NORTH MAIN STREET

Whether or not highway shall be widened is not a question for property owners upon the street to determine. It is for the whole public. The pri- mary object for making a street wider is to make it more convenient for traffic. Those who live upon the street may frequently have no parti- cipation in the use of it, beyond the sidewalk, and those vehicles which bring goods to their own doors.
 Whenever + is planned to>widen a street it is customary and necessary to give a hearing for the property owners.
 This is because their property may be taken, or benefcially, or injurious ly affected. There can be no taking of private property for public pur- poses in this country without com pensation to the owner. This is the theory underlying such improvements as are contemplated or North avenue,
 The question involved there is this Wilt the public be benefited in ar adequate degree if the street is widF ened? This is the point the aldermen art l to determine.
 They should deal sincerely ana wisely with regard to all the fact' and the probable traffic necessities o. | the future.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
CONNECTICUTS PLAN
 FOR PAVED HIGHWAY
Springfield Union.

(0pTIuSfI0iQ tOnlOuJ
 Automobilists throughout New Eng land sylnpathize with the efforts be- ing made by Connecticut business men to get the next Legislature to appro- priate money to start a great system of paved state highways. There is. to be a convention in Bridgeport of dele gates from various automobile cl&bs and business organizations at which the project will be taken up. Reso- lutions favoring the system and urging that the state appropriate the money are likely to be adopted and an ear nest campaign in the interest of per feet roads will be begun.
 The Connecticut paved highway pro- gram is a large one. It calls for a highway 20 feet wide extending from the New York line at Port Chester to the Rhode Island line at Westerly, with a branch from New Haven through Wallingford, Meriden and Hartford to the Massachusetts line at Longmeadow or Agawan and anoth- CT from Danbury through Waterbury New Britain. Hartford and Willimantie to Norwich and New London. It ap- pears to have the backing of the auto mobile organizations, and there is nc question but that such system of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
TWO PLATFORMS

The platform of the Progressive party. how iA cntcsso. fsa0t 4h doubt. It wilt besfin- other lapguages very like the Progressive platform in Con neetieut, and very like the Democratic platform adopted in Baltimore.
 It will favor the peoples rule pro- erss1. which has for chief measures the initiative, referendum and recall. limitation of campaign expenditures and a limitation of objects for which money may be expended, direct pri- nnaries. popular election of United States Senators, and direct President iai preference primAriest
 It will favor conservation, lower tariffs. workmen's compensation and so on.
 IL will be as like the Baltimore platform as one pea is like another, with one exception.
 It will take the attitude in essence that the Sherman law is a dead let ter and will demand the legalization of the trusts, and the acceptance of business monopoly as a fact in the .ommerce of the United States. /
 This position is in large respects different from the Democratic posi- ton. Democrats assert that compe- tition is beneficial and that competi- ton may be maintained, or restored over large area. where it is now absent.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
SOURCE OF vICE-PREsIDENTs.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.)

Next to New York, Indiana has been the most popular source of vice-pres- idential nominees, since the war" The choice of Gov. Marshall by the Balti- more convention adds another to a long seaaes Of Hoosier candidates for the secoHd office in the land.
 Beginning in 1868 Indiana has fur nished major party candidates for vice-president II times. Thrice her candidates have been elected-Colfax. Hendricks and Fairbanks serving out their terms. Hendricks ran twice, be- ing defeated once.
 x It is curious to note that Ohio, which has never had a vice-president, was the birthplace of two of Indiana s three who reached that ofice:~ The two were Hendricks and Fairbanks. Indiana has had but one president Benjamin Harrison-and he was born in Ohio.
 Giving Ohio credit for every presi- dent born within the state she i1as furnished six of the eight elected to the White House beginning with 1869. To New York belong the other two Cleveland and Roosevelt3 Arthur, of course, waS& New Yorker, but he was not elected to the presidency.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
PRIEST INVITES ROOSEVELT. Colonel to Attend Father Curran's
 Jubilee in WiLkesbarre.

Wilkesbarre, Penn. Aug. 6-Co1onel Roosevelt will be here on Aug. g to at- tend the silver jubilee of the Rev. J. J. .Curran of the Holy Saviour church East End. Cardinal Gibbons and John Mitchell, the labor leader, will also be present.
 The Colonel and Father Curran have been war mfriends since the strike ot the miners in 1902 Father Curran was one of the party who called on President Roosevelt, and asked him tc interfere in the conflict and help .tc restore peace in the anthracite fields.
 Col. Roosevelt has promised that de spite his political engagements he will come here to celebrate the silver jubi- Ice of the priest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
THE LAWYER WHO AIDS CRIME.
 (Ha rtfOrd Post !


 How far can a criminal lawyer go in shielding crime and criminals for pay? The query occurs in the case of a New York lawyer who acted as a lgo-between for Police Lieutenant Becker in communicating with Gam bier Rose when the latter was in hid ing and who at Becker's instigation secretly procured an affidavit from Rose. This lawyer concealed his part in the conspiracy of silence and when interrogated by the district attorney concealed his Knowledge of the where abouts of a man accused of murder and refused to answer question un- til ordered to do so by the court. A lawyer is an officer of the court and his obligation is to assist, not cheat, Justice. This man was in possession of an important link of evidence for | the state and he would have conceal l ed it and let a murderer go free and | a great crime be unpunished. and his motive was mercenary. He was earn 1 ing fee Disbarment ought to fol- | low on the heels of the act.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
AUTOIST HELD ON CHARGE
 OF RECKLESS DRIVING

South Norwalk, Aug. 6.-Charged with reckless driving George Dunlap court today pending the outcome of injuries sustained by Robert Hennes- sy. whom Dunlap ran down with his automobile. Hennessy is in a local hospital with two broken legs and several fractured ribs and possibly other injuries.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

why do yoa want to found anoth- CT political organization?
 T have just found a new animal that would make a good party efn- blem and hate to waste the idea Washington Star.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
NEW YORK TROOPERS
 CAMP AT BROOKSIDE.

South Norwalk, Aug. 6.-Arrange- ments have been made for the camp ing of the First Cavalry, New York National Guard, on the Conner Farm at Brookside Saturday night. The toop, 300 in number; will reach the camp late Friday afternoon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

"I would not marry for wealth." said the sentimental girl.
 ''No," replied Miss Cayenne. "And yet so many who say that have no compunctions about keeping poor man hustling to pay alimony. Wash ingtcn Star.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

It is to regretted of course permit the fact that the great buffalo all been wiped out to interfere with your business
 To avoid argument it be conceded mat football is more brutal than prize fighting. But neither is brutal other Deducting the time he spends looking for match the average man lives about Is years.
 Another thing that makes a bride to have husband weekly wedding.
 If really want the ballot they should fol it. Broadly speaking can have anything for which she is willing to shed tears.
 Money talks but it's vocabulary limited. About al 1t say is ''good-bye.'
 Readers of the sporting will notice incident ally that the Washington ball club has abolished it's ref uge for the aged
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Col. Frank B. Adams, editor of the Mercantile & Financial Times of New York City is spending & few days in, this city in connection with an investigation into business condi- tions along the line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- Toad. The colonel formerly resided. in this city and for several summers has spent his vacation with Mrs. Adams at Belle Island.
 The Misses Anna and Helen Sanger of 49 Joseph street are spending two weeks in the Catsl1ifls. They are guests at the Heulett House, Heuiett's Landing, N, r.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

The old-fashioned lover who writes tender missives that conv1iise unfeel- ing jurors still exists.--C1evslmnd Piaim' Dealer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06

ideal household sett The ideaIho
 If man sure won't
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-06
On Second Thought
By JAY E. HOUSE.

of doutto a a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-16

you; don't you feel like a giantess
when you're with him?"
"Well," said Beatrice, sit came
to me like a flash that l wouldn't
give either one of them the salts
faction that 1 couldn't go, and
anyway a little man with loads of
money is better than no man at
all"
That's philosophical enough,
my dear, but don't get bad case
of glooms over it. If Charles is
so tickle and changeable in his af-
fections, it's better to know it now
than later
After Drusilla left, the words,
cts better to know it now" kept
ringing in Beatrice's ears. She
hated to face the truth that any
man could so lightly throw her
friendship aside after all his pro-
fessions of sincerity.
"Ill not have any ones sym
pathy," she determined. "At the
dance I'll be the gayest of all.
why, Beatrice" exclaimed her
friend a few days later, chow
much better you look than the
last time l saw you; you are fair
ly radiant. 1t must be your hat.
It's so becoming"
A faint color rose to Beatrice's
cheek. Don't blame it all on my
hat" she said; give me credit for
a portion of my good looks"
II just saw Halle and she fail
ed conDletely to appreciate Char
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-09-16

no pleasure to go with a young
man who was constantly noticing
another girl. Why do you think
he asked her and then was so
rude?" .
Halle smiled.
Promise you'll never tell"
Eli never tell a soul"
"He was an unwilling victim,
Toward the end of the evening
Charlie came up to me saying,
Hope you enjoyed yourself.
"0h, immensely" Ireplied.
Doesn't your back ache from
dancing with that midget?' he
asked in niaddening syrnpath-
etc way.
Not Bit" I answered. Jesse
is splendid dancer.
Then you prefer that dwarfs
attentions to mine?p he excfaim-
ed in a jealous rage.
Just as much as you prefer
Halle to me, / replied.
"But l don't and never WILL"
he protested, looking at me ten
derby. II asked you for tonight,
not her.
"You asked me? How can you
deliberately say that when
heard you invite herr"
Then | laughed and laughed
until / could not laugh any more"
what was so ludicrous about
that ?" interrupted Drusil1a.
Until that moment l never
thought about it. He's cross
eyed, and when he looked at Hal
lie, in his own heart and soul he
The Virginia enterprise., 1912-08-02
6REA ! Pll1 sh0ll
Ariust Here Sunday Afternoon, viii 22
Cars, and Big Crowds II Attendance At
Performances Throughout Week.

The Great Patterson Shows arriv.
ed Sunday afternoon" in a train OF n
double length cars from Brandon,
Manitoba, where they exhibited last
week. They are located for this en-.
tire week at the circus lot on the
Oliver property. Fourteen attrac-
tions beside the free acts are car
ried. Three hundred and fifty peo-
pie are employed in the various de-
partmeuts and everything going to
make up first-class amusement
park, from a two-ring circus to the
humble vendor of hamburger sand.
wiches, is found on the grounds.
All of the shows equipment is new
clean and bright, and when the
lights were turned on Monday eve
ming the grounds resembled YER
liable fairyland. Mr.. Patterson's
people are the best dressed, most
courteous aggregation that has
ever visited Virginia, and the shows
are also different. In addition to
being genuinely entertaining and
worth the price of admission charg-
ed, and everything on the grounds
is absolutely clean. There is not
thing of suggestive nature, not
an attraction that ladies and child.
ren cannot visit with perfect pro.
priety. That Virginia's best people
appreciate entertainments of this
sort is evident from the packed
houses they have given the shows
throughout the week.
Tomorrow will be the closing day
of the carnival. A special matinee
will be given for ladies and child
rem in the afternoon, and at night
all the shows will be open until
11:3O. After closing, the shows will
be torn down, the train loaded and
put in readiness to leave tor Hib
bing at an early hour Sunday morn
ing.
The Virginia enterprise., 1912-08-02
SOUR GRAPES IN PUNCHES.

Mesaba Ore; The Hibbing base
ball team, accompanied by a fair
sized crowd Of rooters, went to Vir-
ginia last Sunday to play the team
Of that town game of baseball,
but from all accounts Umpire
Charles Mccormick, formerly
player on the Virginia team, did all
the playing-and it proved one
sided affair for his home town
boys. The game would have been
an excellent exhibition if the un-
pire's decisions had been any,
where near fair, as both teams were
putting up an exceptionally good
article of baseball. The score stood
to l in favor of Hibbing, up to
the last half of the eighth inning,
when the Virginians had two men on
bases, one at third and one at first,
and Anthony hit foul, which the
umpire declared a fair ball, scoring
one run. The Hibbing boys, TAX
ing exception to this decision by the
umpire, walked off the field and re-
fused to finish the game, thereby
forfeiting it to Virginia. Even some
of the Virginia fans were of the opin.
ion that the Hibbing tea mwas get.
ting a raw deal. 1t is stated that
the umpire allowed one of the Vir-
ginia players five strikes in order
that he might make hit, which he
did, and brought in the only earned
run for the Virginians. He would
even calltballs when the batter struck
at the ball, and showed conclusively
that he had it doped out beforehand
that the Virginia team was sched-
uled to win, no matter what turned
up.