The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-09

work. He called himself the slave of the slaves" and was their teacher, 1 apostle, physician and friend. He fed 1 them, taught them, and nursed them
 when attacked by loathsome diseases.
 However weary he might be, when ] news came of the arrival of a slave ship he was the first to greet them and to seek to comfort them after their long voyage in the holds of the terri ble slave vessels. It is said that be- fore his death in 1854 he had baptized over 10000 negro slaves.
 Cheer up! It may not be true. And even if true, it may be only a bless ing in disguise Admitting that it is
 an evil, it can probably be cured. And
 if it is incurable, worry won't help
 it. So cheer up!
 Such is a fragment of the philoso- phy fo Ralph Waldo Frine, author of The Winning of the Best" "'In Tune With the Infinite, "The Greatest Thing Ever Known, and other vol umes of inspiration to self-he1p. Born in the little town of Mo int Morris, H., forty-eeven years ago today, Sept. g, 1866 MT. Trine has gained a world wide audience, and his books have been translated into dozen different Ian guages.
 In his country home near New York, MT. Trine practices his gospel he preaches-a gospel of good cheer, op- timism, open air, exercise, and heaIthful com bfnation of manual and mental labor.
 MT. Trine graduated from Knox Col lege, in Illinois, and completed his education at Johns Hopkins Univer- ity in Baltimore. In his first life book" entitled What All the Worlds a-Seeking," published when the au- thor was thirty, he struck a popular chord, and his "In Tuna With the In- fiI1ita'' Ia bIiShnd hi ranHfatiOT1 a sane preacher of new gospel of sweetness and sanity and light. His life has always been consistent with his teachings, which cannot be said of many '+new thought leaders He is vegetarian, and humanitarian who has labored long for the preVen- ton of cruelty to animals.
 Corporation is the keynote of the Trine philosophy of life, and he has often quoted the Hindoo proverb, Help thou thy brothers boat across, and loo! thine own has reached the shore.' MT. Trine's optimism may be extreme, and his plea for brotherhood in vains yet his doctrines have served a high use in an age when success is spelled Success"
 Victor Fremont Lawson, who has achieved one of the greatest journalis- tic successes in America with his Chi cago Daily News, Is native son of the ''I WHIP city. He was born sixty three years ago to-day. After leaving school he took charge of an interest of his fathers estate in a printing es- tablishment. and from that, in 1878, graduated into the newspaper busi- ness by purchasing the Chicago Dailyt News. With his partner, Melville E. Stone, now manager of the Associated Press, he made the News the leading | afternoon paper in Chicago. TWenty-it five years ago he bought out the i'm terest of, MT. Stone and became sole proprietor. One of MT. Lawson's petI projects is the London bureau of the Daily News. The American in Lon i don feels a thrill of pleasure when he | sights the big golden sign reading l Chicago Daily News.'' which well 1 comes the visitor to the fine offices of | the paper in Trafalgar Square. Loung- l ing. writing and retiring rooms are provided for guests, and no other | newspaper provides so much | comfort and information for the vis- itor in the worlds metropolis.
 Rienzi Melville Johnston, former United States Senator from Texas and | proprietor of the Houston Post, was born si1ty-three years ago to-day in SandersVi1le, Ga. He was only 8 mere | boy when he joined the Confederate | army, and served two years. After leaving off his military uniform he en- tered newspaper work, and has ever since been engaged in journalism. As its president and editor, MT. Johnston i has made the Houston Post one of the best-known and most widely quoted papers in the Southwest.
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