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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
WESTPORT
1snacial .fo rhe rarnar.1

Especial to The Efarn0T.0
.Westport Feb. 61Today was nag
Day for the Boy Scouts Each
member was out with number of
tags and the person tagged contrib
will be used for the purchasing of
flags and other supplies. It is un-
Nderstood that a neat sum was real
lied.
A meeting of the Current Events
Club was held this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. w. F. H Preston. Many
up-to-darte and interesting topics were
discussed, following which a. delightful
luncheon was served by the hostess.
Frank C. Huck has accepted a posi-
Stion aus Janitor of the Westport IL
brary.
John A Lees has been appointed
administrators the estate Of the late
Mary w. WATSON.
There will be a free lecture tomor-
hall. Representative C1itus H. King
of Fairfield will lecture in an interest
ing and entertaining manner on tfCu-
ban Life" Mr.. King has made sew
eral trips to Cuba and is well ac-
quainted with the habits of the people.
All should endeavor to be on hand to
hear his interesting speech
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ
Church, Bridgeport, will conduct the
Lenten services at the Church of the
Holy Trinity tomorrow evening.
Mrs. Leonard GauIt is spending the
week with friends in New Hamp-
shire
Miss Marie Lehn has accepted a po-
sition in the office of the Embalmers'
Supply Co.
A series of lectures is to be given
during the season of Lent at Christ
Church, the first of which will be held
tomorrow evening, when Rufus S..
Putney of Saugatuck will be the
speaker. Mr. Putney will take for
his subject MY Duty to Myself
Mr.. and Mrs. Ossie Linde have re-
turned to their home in Westport af-
ter spending the past few weeks with
friends In New York city.
A masquerade ball is being planned
by the members Of Lady Palmerton
held in National hall.
William j. Hart has returned to his
Waterbury home, after spending a few
days at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
e. Crossman in Greens Farms.
Work has been started ON new
garage for DR.. d. W. MacFarland-
Joseph Remlin has the contract.
to her home in Troy. N. z. after a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Edward C.
Nash.
Miss Hattie Bradley has left for
New York, where she expects to spend
a month with relatives.
Among those who attended the
meeting of the Westport Musical Club
which was held Monday evening at
the home of Colonel and Mrs. John
Partridge, were Mr.. and Mrs D. B.
Bradley, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur B.
Jelliffe, Mr. and Mrs. r. M. Salmon.
Mrs. Neil r. Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. w, Post, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Os-
borne, Mr.. and Mrs. W. Atwater, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Kenper, Miss Alice
Torey, Miss Natalie Mitchell, Miss
Helen Staples and Miss Edith Torey.
Mr.. and Mrs. john Fsanton have re-
turned from visit with out of town
relatives
Rev Kenneth Mackenzie has return
ed from a visit in New York city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
MONROE

Frank vo1kel who has been receiv-
ing treatment at the Griffin hospital
is back in town greatly improved in
health after a three weeks stays.
kitty, the faithful horse of Ezra B.
Meeker. was found dead In its stable
one morning recently. The owner was
not greatly surprised as it had been
failing for some time past.
Harmony Grange No. 90 will hold
evening. Feb. 13- Degree work will
shortly be in order for there is a large
class in waiting for the different de-
greeS. The membership then will be
"a the largest in its history.
Word has been received from New
Haven of the death of Edwin B. Wells
a former resident OF East Village,
also member OF Washington lodge
since 1866.
Miss Carrie M. French spent last
week with her sister, Mrs: Edwin G.
Shelton and attended the College
Whist on Tuesday evening.
Philip H. Jones who went to Chicago
three weeks ago is expected home this
week. He remained over Sunday in
Theodore v. Hubbel1 and wife Mrs
James Fair and daughter. Miss Ethel,
spent Sunday at the home Of Edwin
some sneak thief entered the yard
of Edward L. Hurd last Monday ev-
ening after he returned home from
Derby and stole groceries, to the
amount of So from his wagon:
daughter, born last Thursday.
There were IL marriages.; 9 births;
and 8 deaths in Monroe during the
The Board of Relief will meet on
Feb. 8, at Leavenworth hall, upper
The members of the East Village
entipes Tea party on Friday evening
Feb. Il.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
FAIRFIELD
fspecial to The Farner.)

Especial to The Farmer.)
Fairfield, Feb. 6-The members Of
the Ladies' Home Missionary Society
met this afternoon in the Congrega-
tfonal Church parlors. The meeting
was called at o'clock. Routine bus
mess was transacted after which a
social hour was enjoyed during winch
tea and cake were served.
Mrs. William Judd is confined to her
home where she is suffering from an
attack of the grip.
teachers meeting will be held at the
Sherman school. All the local schools
will close early on that day to enable
the teachers to attend.
Mrs George w. Polk has returned to
her home in Poughkeepsie, N. z, after
spending the past few days as the
guest of her father William Burr.
Mr.. and Mrs Clifford Banks and
daughter, Miss Marjorie. were recently
entertained by friends in Redding.
Edward Sanford of New York city
was a recent Visitor Of friends on
Miss Edna Hull of Bridgeport has
return ed to that city after a few days
visit at her home here.
place will lecture tomorrow evening
at the Westport town hall. Mr.. Kline
will speak OF his recent trip to Cuba
and will tell of the ways and manners
A number of local people attended
the marriage Of Burton p Merwfn or
ASpetbck, ana MISS E6rINa- IHOTT4Ss
which took place at ST. Peters Episeo-
pal Church in Milford, Tuesday.
Miss Jennie DlugQkinska. of the
Bridgeport hospital was the recent
guest of friends in EEul1s Farms.
MIR. and Mrs. J. Nelson Hutchinson
have been chosen to arrange the pro-
gram for the entertainment of the
Greenfield Country Club at their next
meeting, which will be held ON the
evening of Feb. IL.
Rev. Joel Ives of Hartford preached
"a. very effective sermon at the Fair
field Congregational Church, Sunday
morning
AT the recent meeting of the Fair
field school board it was voted that
no employment certificate be given to
any pupil not having, completed the
sixth grade studies. Tt was also
voted to have Supt. G. G. Bowman at
tend the Philadelphia convention, the
school board to pay half the expenses
of travel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alec Hull have return
ed from their honeymoon and will
start housekeeping in a newly fur
nished home ON Iranistan avenue,
Bridgeport.
Mrs. Matte Keyes is recovering
from her recent. attack of illness.
Miss Ruth Godfrey and Miss Mary
Godfrey Of Greenfield Hill have re-
turned from a visit with friends in
E1dSDOn
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
GREENFIELD HILL

Friends in this vicinity, have re-
solved cards announcing the marri-
age OF Miss Irene Sherwood Bradley,
r. John E Anderson They viii be
at home after March 1st at S68 Park
avenue, Bridgeport
Miss Cora Greger has recovered
from her recent serious illness with
.zcarlet fever
Mrs. william Judd is confined to
her home with an attack of the grip.
Misses Edith and Ethel MerwlD. and
Walter 1Terwin. attended the wedding
q their brother, Burton p. 1derW1n OF
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06

Charles Barlow of Port Chester, N
2, has been the recent guest of friends
in town.
A meeting of the Junior Epworth
League of the Methodist Church was
held last evening in the parlors.
Mrs. Francis Day has returned from
a. visit with relatives in New York.
1t is expected that the work on the
new trap house of the Westport Gun
Club will be completed and the place
will be ready for use Saturday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06

Have you got amy of those anti
tuberculosis Red Gross stamps?' a
young woman asked, as she entered a
drug store.
Yes. ma'am,'' replied the clerk.
Are they good?" she asked.
Yes
We'll. I should like about 10 cents
worth of them" The clerk gave them
TO her.
Could you tell me. now the pur-
chaser continued, where had better
put them on. I am a little afraid 7
have a touch of the disease Column
bus Dispaitch-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06

t"That man has given up hds expert
unents in the way Of perpetual mo
tion.''
Yes replied Senator Sorghum "5e
is now devoting his peculiar talents to
am entirely different line of research
He is trying to discover some method
of revising the tariff that will srnake
things cheaper to tIle consumer and
the producer. washing Star
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
First Aid to the Kidneys

Unless you are a physician or drug
gist you have no idea how much kid
ney trouble there is.
Elderly people suffer the most be-
cause they have neglected themselves
most.
The time to treat kidney trouble is
when it is first suspected, thus pre-
venting it, usually, from growing
more serious
The best first aid to the kidneys"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
DeFoRlrsr 70 SPEAK.

Alderman Robert G. DeE-orest will
tell the Mems Assembly of the First
M E. Church of the doingS of the
Common Council, at a meeting in the
parlors of the church at 8 o'clock to-
night There will be; an entertain
ment and refreshments
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
Weak StOTnachS
Systems Weakened BY Improper
Nourishment Through Weak
Stomachs Susceptible

SLOHAltI!IIs 5uSCepLdlB
to Disease
The lowered vitality resulting from
a weak stomach which fails to prop
erly digest food and repair the con-
stantIy wearing out tissues is unable
to properly cope with the attacks
from disease germs to which the hu-
man organism is always subjected.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06

WANT ADS. CENT a WORD.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
Duify's Pure
Malt WhiSkey

has proved to be the greatest aid in
restoring digestion to the weakened,
deTanEsd stomach known to science.
Many doctors rely upon it in cases Of
this kind because they have proved its
efficacy. You can regain health and
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06

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vice and valuable
illustrated medi-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

states judge of wide reputation and ex-
perfenee says this blind man is one Of
the greatest lawyers he ever has met.
Blindness is terrible affliction but
some men and women have been spurfed
TO higher achievements through the
handicaps it entails.
Brown was born in Dover. New Hamp-
shire, August q, 1856. He wasn't born
blind. Until he was eight years old he
had eyes as good as any boy. Then he
was strickened with one of those i'll
nesses to which chiioflood is heir and
the light OF day was shut out from him
for all time. The lot of blind boy is
a sad one He is cut Off from living
Not infrequently blindness makes the
young peevish, petulant and a burden
10 themselves aIfd to others There seems
TO be little opportunity for them There
is one compensation in blindness, how
ever II makes the ouner senses more
acute This sometimes opens the door
of promise to them. The brave and the
patient find the door.
Dung Brown always had deIre for
leafnlng. After he was striken blind his
relatives and friends read to him. He
listened intently Late at night, or when
the house was silent, he would strive
mad been read him. At first he could
only get few sentences complete, but
as the years went on his memory be-
came so highly developed that every
thing he heard was recorded as secure
ly as IL the words had been written and
put away in the safest of places.
Somehow he got a liking for the law
When the question of a career for him
came to be considered, he said he want
ed to be a lawyer. No business requires
more of the study of books, more re-
search than does the law. That didn't
matter to Brown. He went to a pre-
paratory school and from that entered
Harvard. In the school and In the uni
versity, he had some one to read to him.
Highly educated young men puzzled over
problems for hours, but the blind boy
who only had the lessons read to him
worked out in his mind every answer
in comparatively little time. When he
took the law course one of his friends
studied with him, reading up authorities
quoting, discussing, going through all
the time-worn practices of law students.
Brown was mighty good student.
They say at Harvard that they have
had few better When he was graduated,
he was admitted to the bar. and quickly
demonstrated that he had more than an
academic knowledge of Jurisprudence
After a few years he came to New York
and then United States district attorney,
Henry A. Wise, appointed him one of
his assistants.
No man who has ever held this office
in New York has had so many big and
important cases in his administration as
did Mr.. Wise. There were many cases
of internal revenue frauds, and there
also were lots of mining frauds, land
frauds, publication frauds, all sorts of
frauds that came within the Jurisdiction
of the district attorney, because the swim
dlers used the United States mails to
exploit their plans.
1t fell to Brown to prosecute many of
these swindlers and the record he made
has established his reputation as one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
BY LYMAN BEECHER STOWE
Secretary Association of Junior Republics

though not of age, we nevertheless feel
we have reached the point where we
could and should actively participate in
the government of our city.
I'VE respectfully call attention to the
fact that in time of war boys between
the ages of 16 and 81 are sent to the
front to fight for their country AND
are frequently as officers placed in po-
sitions of peculiar responsibility and
danger. Is it not self-evident that II
youths can thus honorably acquit them
selves in time of war, they could and
should assume the less dangerous and
onerous responsibilities of peace?
I'VE find in the annals of history
that from time immemorial youths of
our age have, when placed in posi-
tions of trust. acquitted themselves
creditably. Before the age of Fl
Alexander the Great was not only the
ruler of Macedon, but the dominant
power in all Greece; Charles James
Fox became member of the British
Parliament before he was of age, and
the younger Pitt became prime minis
ter of Great Britain when he had
scarcely passed his majority. In short.
there is abundant evidence both in
the past and the present that youth
can and viii rise to responsibility
when it is placed upon them.
Such being the case, we do hereby
resolve to organize ourselves into a
junior municipality in order that we
may at once actively serve our city as
junior citizens and thereby prepare
ourselves for more efficient citizen
ship as adults
I'VE hereby pledge ourselves to as
sist in the enforcement of all the laws
and ordinances of the city. particular
ly those directly relating to boys and
girls and their interests.
We further pledge ourselves that
when elected to any office in the junior
municipality we will give our fun and
faithful cooperation to the adult Of
ficial holding the corresponding office
in the city government and will dis
charge our duties solely with refer
ence to the welfare of the whole city.
IF given the duties and privileges
of junior citizenship, we pledge our
sacred honor to strive to be worthy of
the great trust placed upon us
The junior municipality is merely
the latest extension Of the, self gov
ernment movement fer boys and girls
which was first introduced into Amer
lea when William r. George founded
the Junior Republic at Freeville, N.
Y, in 1895. The only essential differ
ence between this country village and
any other in America is that this one
is inhabited by boys and girls under
Fl and the voting age is 16. The motto
of the community is Nothing without
Labor. Any citizen who refuses to
work - aFreated BY his fellow citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
Wealthy Tailor Novelist Writes Romance

inquiries. Do get the money back? Well,
almost if not quite. My first book, Queen,
But No Queen, which was a story of
Hucatan, did only moderately well, but
'Inez' went into four editions, and of
Detained by the King 700 copies were
scld on the day of publication"
Perhaps the queerest fact In connec-
ticn with Maltby's books is that they
are mostly written in the dark.
During my week-ends at Thorpe Bay"
said the author, ~ sleep only six hours
and devote the rest OF the time to plan
ming and writing my books. I do prac-
tieally all my preliminary writing be-
tween four and eight in the morning.
write exceptionally fast and have learned
to do it in the dark. A .scribbling pad
hangs from the head of my bed, and as
soon as | wake | begin work. I can't
always read what l write in this way,
but my wife can, and she copies 1t out
afterward.
1T was a pat on the head and few
words of announcement from Robert
Browning" Maltby went on. that more
than anything else led me to start writ
irg. The business, you must understand,
was started by my father in 1880, and
an ong his best customers We're Charles
Dickens, who lived close by in Devon
Shire Terrace, Browning, and Macready,
the actor. Dickens used to sit right on
the enc of that old counter there, and
play with a big black cat that we used
to have, and Browning was in and out
frequently One day he put his hand on
my head and said, This boy has a good
head. He ought to be a writer That
made a big impression on me, and as |
was passionately fond of history at school,
[ soon began to reproduce pages from his
tory in story form, but it was many years
before could arrange to do literary work
regularly.
Il know that my work is amateurish,"
Maltby went on, though the critics have
been extremely kind to me. If l wanted
to brag about anything, it would be the
showing / made as an athlete in my
young days, which was unique, think
At soulling ! never have been defeated
and beat Arthur Zimmerman at cycling
when he was in this country, and made
what fbelieve is a worlds record by win
Mig five running events from scratch
and getting second in sixth, all in one
afteinoon. That was in 1874, the events
which I won including one one-hundred
yards dash, one half mile and one mile
race. In all, took part in 1903 open handi-
caps, which believe is another record,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

the police officer, indicted for va
grancy by his fellow citizens, on the
grand jury, tried, sentenced and sent
to Jail for that offense by his fellow
citizen, the judge, where he is taken
in hand by his fellow citizen, the
keeper of the jail, and made to work
for the community without wages.
During this entire process no adult
has any hand in the matter
This situation was tersely summed M
by the republics young secretary of state
In speaking ON the work before a men s
club last winter He is the son of the
mayor of southern city. He said.
when first went to the George Junior
republic, they told me their motto was
Nothing without labor | didn't care
much about labor so | didn't labor Then
I was arrested, tried and convicted as a
vagrant and put into Jail and then 1
found my motto was, Labor without
Nothing .
The miniature republic was the out
growth OF fresh air camp. 1t started
as new kind of reformatory for poor
boys and poor girls whose conduct was
"a problem" Then similar boys from
well-to-do and even rich families were
admitted and for them a tuition fee was
charged, but they were obliged to sup
port themselves just like the poor boys.
Finally Daddy George came to the con-
clusion that there was SO much good in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
SAYS INDIAN RACE is
NOT TO BECOME EXTINCT

The American Indian, the original
American, will not disappear from this
continent for a great many years, GER
tainly not for century and more, in
my opinion remarked Gov. D. II.
johnson of the Chickasaw tribe of
oklahoma, at the Ebbitt says the
Washington Post. while it is true
that the pure blood Indians are de-
creasing In numbers, 1t will take a long
time for them to disappear entirely.
The pure-bloods are evidenclng an in
clination to marry more frequently
among themselves than for some time,
perhaps due to sentimental reasons. 1t
is not absorption, however, that Is caus-
Ing the decrease in the full bloods, but
rather the fact they are dying off more
rapidly than they are increasing, and
more rapidly than the mixed bloods.
The Chicasaw nation has about eO00
INDIANS, about one-fourth of whom |
should say are -bloods
The Chickasa*s, by the way, were
the only Indians of the FIVE civilized
tribes who persistently declined to
adopt the freedom into their tribe after
the Civil War. The Seminoles, Creeks
and Cherokees Immediately complied
with the government request that the
freedmen, or negroes in their tribes
should be adopted The Choctaws and
Chickasaws refused and were given two
years to reconsider. The Choctaws sub
sequently adopted the freedmen, but
limited their holdings to 40 acres. The
Chtckasaws never did recognise the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

DADDY" George, founder of the IA
mons George Junior republic at Free
vile. n. Y, has new scheme for MAX
ing American citizens-the junior mu-
nicipality. If the plan spreads in the
way it has already started there Will
be in every up to- date city a duly elect
ed boy mayor and complete set of city
officials in addition to the grown up
ones. Only the junior officials may
not all be boys for already, in the
first junior municipality, there are in
dications of a lively struggle on the
question of votes for girls
The junior municipality is no toy
it is organized for serious work. Each
junior official is to cooperate with the
corresponding adult officer in the en-
forcement of all laws and ordinances.
particularly those affecting boys and
girls and their intests. The new plan
is already launched in Ithaca, N Y.
where it has been officially adopted by
Mayor Reamer and the city council.
Another junior municipality has been
established by Mr.. George in Cortland,
N. Y, and Mayor Fagan of Jersey City
has enthusiastically asked that one ba
started there along modified lines
the idea to the larger cities.
At the meeting of the Ithaca COM
mon council. when the plan was adopt
ed, Mr.. George illustrated concrete
ly how it would work out in practice.
He did so by taking up some of the
matters which had just come. before
the meeting Young vandals had over
turned and defaced some grave stones
in one of the cemeteries. The police
had been unable to locate the culprits.
Mr.. George pointed out that boys could
best be Interested in the preservation
of order by being given sense of re-
sponsibility. A question had arisen as
to whether the trains at certain
railway crossing We're unduly obstruct-
ing traffic. No one knew just how many
trains passed this point in u given
time. There was no inspector nor
money to pay for one. The councilman
from the district was called upon but
he pleaded that he was too busy. Mr..
George suggested that there were
scores of boys in the district who had
the time and would be glad TO make
the count. Such a matter could be
turned over to his boy colleague by
the local councilman.
When the junior municipality was
started there gathered in the Ithaca
courthouse nearly a hundred boys and
girls, the mayor and other city off,
cials and Mr.. George. "A committed
was elected to prepare constitution
to bring before constitutional con-
vention to be held in the autumn. A.
the close of the meeting representa-
tive boys and girls signed the follow
ing:
PETITION FOR INDEPENDENCE."
"NVe the undersigned being the
youth of Ithaca, N. ", between the ages
of 16 and 21. do respectfully call to
the attention Of our elders that. al